Posted on 09 December 2011. Tags: BBC, Band, Black Musicians, Black bands, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Drama, Jazz, Stephen Poliakoff

Dancing On The Edge is an explosive new drama series for BBC Two set in the early 1930s following a black jazz band in London during times of extraordinary change.
Written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Stephen Poliakoff (The Lost Prince, Shooting The Past), the five-part series follows the Louis Lester Band as they find fame amongst the parties and performances ...
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Posted on 05 May 2011. Tags: Black Musicians, Bournemouth Symphony, Composor, Croydon Conservatory Orchestra, Crystal Palace School of Music and Art, Rochester Choral Society, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, black composer, hiawathas Feast

Samuel Coleridge Taylor, not to be mistaken with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was, at the turn of the last Century one of Britain's most outstanding Composers. Samuel Coleridge Taylor, not to be mistaken with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the writer, is today almost completely forgotten. However, he was, at the turn of the Century one of Britain's ...
Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Education, Entertainment, Men, Music
Posted on 02 September 2010. Tags: Black Britain, Black British, Black Irish, Black Musicians, Black recording artists, Catholic, Donegal, Evon Brennan, Ghanaian, London, Nuns, Orphanage, Singers, UK

  Evon Brennan is a singer songwriter from Donegal in Ireland. Now living in London, Evon has firmly established herself on the live circuit. A unique voice...inspired by her many experiences. None more so than being Black and Irish and raised in a rural setting in Ireland. Her Mother was a Dublin girl.Her Father a ...
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