David Hughes is an Isle of Wight musician not very keen into self-promotion. This is a shame, as his soothing and sometimes witty Blues would certainly be enjoyed by a large audience. David plays in all sorts of gigs across the IOW, but he tends to be seen more often at events run by Amnesty […]
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Marku Ribas: a farewell
April 7, 2013 
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Marku Ribas was an artist whose work deserved much more attention than it got. Throughout his career, he gave his public the gift and joy of risk taking creativity. The multi-talented and free spirited Ribas, was the artist who officiated the “polirritmia”, a technique of producing sounds with his own body. His performances were […]
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March 6, 2013 0 Comments
The “Lavadeiras de Almera” is a group of women who have spent their lives making a living from washing their community’s laundry at the margins of the mythical Jequitinhonha River, in Brazil. Their names are: Adélia Barbosa da Silva, Ana Isabel da Conceição, Emília Maria de Jesus, Juracy Lima da Silva, Mirian Fernandes Pessoa, Santa […]
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