by Tony Bell | Sep 7, 2019 | Music, Live Entertainment
The NMG Awards, in case you don’t know, are the New Music Generator Awards which celebrate music in the East of England. This year was Grapevine Magazine’s first involvement with the awards where they sponsored the ‘Indie’ category – with no fewer that sixteen acts...
by Tony Bell | Jul 2, 2014 | Music
“She’ll be the girl who sings for her supper” The lights dimmed and a disembodied voice said simply: “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, from New York, Ms Suzanne Vega”. It was an aptly simple introduction for this diminutive and...
by Tony Bell | Jun 17, 2014 | Music
Ahead of her forthcoming summer gigs in the UK, I had a chat with Suzanne Vega in New York. It has been seven years since Vega released any new work so we talked about the new album, American humour, and why she has a soft spot for the London School of Economics. So,...
by Tony Bell | Jun 9, 2014 | Music, Live Entertainment
Legend has it that every August people would gather around the tiny hamlet of Eastfolk to trade wares and stories. It was part harvest festival, part reunion for the thatcher’s, herdsmen, brewers and story tellers. People would meet here, between the lands of the folk...
by Tony Bell | Sep 24, 2013 | Music
Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw, better known by her stage name Caro Emerald, is a relative newcomer on the music scene having first become a sensation on Dutch TV in 2008. Along with her eight piece band she performed at the Ipswich Regent on Monday 23rd September...
