"was ""From This Moment On"" by Cole Porter, played by Ogden. On 10 January 2018, the BBC announced that the programme was to be discontinued after being on air for almost 50 years and the final programme was broadcast on 8 May 2018. The Organist Entertains The Organist Entertains was a long-running music programme broadcast on BBC Radio 2 presented by Nigel Ogden. The 30 minute programme focused on the organ in its many guises, and played recordings and live broadcasts of theatre organs, pipe organs and electronic organs around the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. The"
"later started his own business selling organs. From 1972, he started appearing on ""The Organist Entertains"", eventually taking over from Robin Richmond as presenter in March 1980. Ogden is also a composer and a touring musician, playing both theatre and church organs, and was the organist for the Channel 4 production of Denis Potter's ""Lipstick on Your Collar"". For his unique contribution to music, Ogden was awarded with a BASCA Gold Badge of merit on October 17th 2012. He has released a number of CDs. Nigel Ogden Nigel Ogden is an English theatre organist, known for presenting and performing on"
"with whom he often performs; together they founded the Dean & Chadlington Summer Music Festival in 2007. He made his first appearance at the Royal Albert Hall with the Philharmonia Orchestra performing Rodrigo's ""Concierto de Aranjuez"". Craig Ogden Craig Ogden is an Australian classical guitarist whose albums have topped the UK classical charts. He is Principal Lecturer in Guitar at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. Ogden began playing guitar at the age of seven, and graduated in music from the University of Western Australia. In 1990 he became UK-based, and has a Professional Performance Diploma from"
"worldwide TV and commercial broadcast. His use of electronic and sequenced drums and percussion has resulted in performances and recording sessions for many musicians. He released two albums with his band Spin Marvel. They performed at Cheltenham Jazz Festival in the UK with the line up featuring Nils-Petter Molvaer and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. He is a regular performer with NDR Big Band in Hamburg. He has been invited to perform with the ASKO Ensemble, BBC Big Band, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Philharmonic, Bergen Big Band, Britten Sinfonia, DR Big Band, Duisburg Philharmonic,"
"musical culture. Usually traditional sessions are based around acoustic instruments. In Scotland as in Ireland, the most popular instruments include acoustic guitar, fiddle, accordion, mandolin, pipes, whistle, and sometimes double bass. Because an acoustic guitar is relatively quiet, guitarists often experience difficulty being heard over louder instruments such as accordions and whistles. A small amplifier may be used to bring the guitar up to an audible level. However, there are a number of traditionalists who resent the use of guitar amplifiers at an otherwise acoustic session. Depending on the session, some beginning performers may use chord charts or sheet music"
"jazz, folk music, blues, country and western, reggae, classic rock, showtunes and biographies and documentaries on musical artists and genres. This specialist programming typically runs from 8pm to midnight. Radio 2 hosts both the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Big Band. ""Sounds of the Sixties"" remains a regular fixture on the Saturday schedule, as does Johnnie Walker's ""Sounds of the Seventies"" on a Sunday. On 5 October 2013, these two shows were joined by ""Sounds of the Eighties"", which was originally hosted by Sara Cox and broadcast on Friday between 10pm and midnight; in May 2018 Gary Davies took"
"The Band and The Basement Tapes""; co-author of ""Bluegrass Guitar: Know the Players, Play the Music""; and ""Gram Parsons – A Music Biography"". He has contributed reviews and feature articles to ""Mojo"","" Q"", ""The Guardian"" and appears every six weeks on BBC Radio 2 to discuss cultural changes on the ""Mark Radcliffe-Stuart Maconie Show"". Neil Robert Herd, in addition to his career as a musician, has performed as a comedian. He has also promoted many British comedy, film and music festivals. Kerenza Peacock has played fiddle with Adele on her recorded hits and also performed with Seasick Steve and Paul"
"objection to the removal of his remarks from the telecast, during which he had said, Kennedy has owned or played instruments by: Nigel Kennedy Nigel Kennedy (born 28 December 1956) is an English violinist and violist. He made his early career in the classical field, and has more recently performed in jazz, klezmer and other music genres. Kennedy's grandfather was Lauri Kennedy, principal cellist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and his grandmother was Dorothy Kennedy, a pianist. Lauri and Dorothy Kennedy were Australian, while their son, the cellist John Kennedy, was born in England. After graduating from the Royal Academy"
"photographer Ralph Talmont's photographs. Nigel Gavin has recorded three solo albums. Music for Flem volume II, Thrum in 2003 and Visitation in 2007. Nigel started out as a bass player and is best known as a guitarist but should probably be described as a stringed instrument player. His signature instrument is a 7-string acoustic guitar, made by New Zealand luthier Laurie Williams. His favourite electric guitars are a Fender Telecaster and an Ibanez 7-string, both of which he uses with a variety of effects. He also plays a Yamaha 6-string steel string acoustic, acoustic and electric mandolins, a banjo and"
"February 2017. Beggs' primary instruments are Chapman Stick and bass guitar. He has also significantly modified a Chapman Stick to a fully MIDI-capable instrument triggering MIDI from both bass and melody strings. He has named this the ""Virtual Stick"". With Steve Hackett With Steven Wilson With Lonely Robot (i.e. John Mitchell) With The Mute Gods Nick Beggs Nicholas Beggs (born 15 December 1961) is an English musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the chapman stick; he is a member of The Mute Gods and Kajagoogoo, formerly also a part of Iona and Ellis, Beggs, & Howard and plays"
"on bouzouki, mandolin, guitar, keyboards, percussion and vocals. They have played main stages at the Acoustic Festival of Great Britain, Shrewsbury Folk Festival,Broadstairs Folk Week, Fylde Folk Festival, and Warwick Folk Festival. Their music has appeared on BBC Radio 2's ""Mike Harding Show"" and the local BBC Radio stations BBC Radio Merseyside BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Wales. Artists in Elbow Jane are Kevin Byrne – vocals, piano and guitars, Chris Chesters – bass guitar, Colin Burgess – drums and percussion, Joseph Topping – vocals, mandolin, mandola and guitars, Richard Woods – vocals, guitars, mandolin and dulcimer. They have"
"Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB) is a musical ensemble featuring ukuleles in different registers. They play and sing music from a variety of musical genres, all on the ukulele. Founded in 1985, the orchestra has since performed in many venues worldwide, including New York's Carnegie Hall (2009, 2012), the Sydney Opera House (2012), London's Royal Albert Hall (2008, 2012) and Glastonbury Festival. TV appearances have included: Jools Holland's Hootenanny, BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms, ""Blue Peter"", ""The Slammer"", ""Richard & Judy"", ""This Morning"" and ""Skins"". The band was formed ""to challenge people’s expectations"
"Radio 2 show. An appearance at the London Bluesfest in 2013 resulted in an album release (April 2014) entitled ""Man & Guitar"" recorded by the BBC and released by Nugene Records. In a twist to his career, he played for several years with France's Orchestre National de Jazz in a program of Billie Holiday songs entitled Broadway in Satin. Backed by a 12-piece orchestra of young hand-picked musicians and accompanied by the French singer Karen Lanaud, Siegal performed Broadway in Satin at festivals across France and South America and East Africa. Ian Siegal featuring the Mississippi Mudbloods Ian Siegal Ian"
"he won the Medal for a string quartet, (""Mechanism"") – this piece was later featured in S4C's television series (""The Composers""). has also been performed by the Duke Quartet at the 1998 Bath International Music Festival and the 1999 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Puw's oboe concerto was commissioned by BBC NOW and was premiered by them at , Brecon, on 27 April 2006, with the orchestra's principal oboist (David Cowley) as the soloist. It takes its inspiration from different qualities of the human voice, including stutters and chatterboxes. Puw has said that ""The second movement is inspired by talkative people"
"of the whole Baroque era in terms of phrasing, colour and the difference in keys and certain notes of the scale, which you lose on a modern instrument such as the piccolo trumpet. I play various different makes but my favourite is by Egger of Switzerland."" She is a Visiting Professor of Trumpet at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 2014, she returned to BBC Young Musician of the Year as a presenter of the category finals and semi-final of the competition alongside Miloš Karadaglić. In 2016 she co-presented BBC Young Musician with Clemency Burton-Hill. She gave the"
"shown on BBC Two. The John Wilson Orchestra has now appeared in every Proms season since 2009, with a semi-staged version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ""Oklahoma!"" being the 2017 Prom. In recent years, Wilson has focused on conducting orchestras and operas, beginning the latter with a series of performances of Ruddigore for Opera North in early 2010. He has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, notably for the UK premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Håkan, a concerto for trumpet and orchestra. He has also conducted the Philharmonia, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, CBSO, and regularly"
"keyed didgeridoo he currently uses in 1990, using the machine tools at the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University. It is made from ""wengé"" (an African hardwood) with brass hardware. It has eight keys, which allows for the playing of nine different pitches. He unveiled it publicly for the first time on the British national television program called ""Tomorrow's World"". The instrument may be heard on several Dr. Didg tracks, most notably ""Sub Aqua,"" on the 2002 CD ""Dust Devils"", as well as ""Sun Tan,"" on the 1994 CD ""Out of the Woods"". In 1988 he formed the core of Outback"
"by Fiona Monbet) and has worked with Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, and Sigur Rós. He is scheduled to play at the Wigmore Hall in January 2016. Thomas Gould (violinist) Thomas Gould (born 1983) is a British violinist and the leader of Aurora Orchestra and associate leader of Britten Sinfonia. Gould is best known for his playing of the classical music repertoire although he also plays a six-string electric violin and has performed jazz at Ronnie Scott's. He has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Centre and Royal Festival Hall in London, as well as Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Arena, Symphony Hall,"
"Positive in Swindon and works with the charity Liver4Life to raise awareness of hepatitis C. In February 2012 he joined the Simon Townshend band for the 'Secret Weapon' UK tour in support of the album ""Looking Out, Looking In"". He is a Freemason and is a member of Westminster City School Lodge no. 4305 Phil Spalding Philip Spalding (born 19 November 1957, London, England) is an English bass player. He is best known as a session musician and player of Fender Precision Bass guitars. He has played and appeared with performing artists such as Mick Jagger, Seal, Orchestral Manoeuvres in"
"April 2016, Charles presents the House Party on Saturday nights on BBC Radio 2, with the show airing between 10pm and midnight. Charles has been involved in the music industry through much of his career. His bands have included ""Watt 4"" (1980), in which he played keyboards and sang, ""Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars"" (1989), ""The Sons of Gordon Gekko"" (1989), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes and ""The Eye"" (2000–02), with whom he recorded the rock album ""Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival"". Charles plays guitar and piano. In 1987, Charles provided the"
"player. In 1983 Wiggins invented a keyed version of the didgeridoo, which allows it to be played melodically somewhat in the manner of an ophicleide, a keyed brass instrument which Wiggins was able to try at the Bate Collection, a musical instrument museum at Oxford University's Faculty of Music in St Aldate's, Oxford. The first prototype was made out of a cardboard wrapping paper tube and had first only one, then four valves, allowing the instrument to play a total of five distinct pitches. He used it in only one concert, after which it fell apart. He then made the"
"musician Paul Sartin plays the oboe in several English folk bands including Faustus and Bellowhead. Welsh bagpipe player and bagpipe maker Jonathan Shorland plays a 'rustic oboe' similar to the Breton 'piston' with the bands Primeaval and Juice. He formerly played with Fernhill, who play traditional Welsh music. The popular traditional music of Brittany boasts a significant professional class of musicians playing increasingly sophisticated double reed instruments, supported by professional instrument makers, reed manufacturers and the educational system. The Breton 'piston' oboe and bombard have expanded from traditional roles into genres as diverse as jazz, rock, and classical music. The"
"Chasse-Marée/Armen - 1995. There are principally two types of music at these festivals: music sung a cappella (kan ha diskan, ...), accompanied with music or purely instrumental. Before the invention of microphones and amplified instruments, the instruments that were most often used were the bombarde (a sort of oboe or shawm) and the Breton bagpipes (binioù kozh), due to their high volume. Also popular was the diatonic accordion, the clarinet, and occasionally the violin and the hurdy-gurdy. After the Second World War, the Scottish bagpipes (binioù bras) also became common in Brittany thanks to bagadoù (pipe bands) and thus often"
"Kaiser Chiefs and Bloc Party amongst others) and features violin by Noah and the Whale's Tom 'Fiddle' Hobden. Songs from the album have received substantial radio airplay on BBC 6Music, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 and XFM. With live sessions on 6Music's Marc Riley and George Lamb shows as well as John Kennedy's XFM show. The band have also performed on the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury Festival 2010, SXSW music festival in Austin Texas, and as part of The Roundhouse Emerging Proms events in London. Broadcast 2000 Broadcast 2000 is an acoustic indie-folk band based in the UK,"
"in December 2017, having programmed the majority of the 2018 Festival, and has handed over the reins to trumpeter Alison Balsom. He is now heading up the artistic planning at BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and is the classical programmer for St George's, Bristol. In April 2017, Quarto Books published The School of Music, a children’s book he co-wrote with his wife Rachel, and illustrated by Daniel Frost. The English language edition will be followed in 2018 by translations available in Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, Korea and Russia. Bowen is also a music journalist and commentator who regularly"
"Friday Night Is Music Night Friday Night is Music Night is a long-running live BBC radio concert programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra, broadcast most Fridays on BBC Radio 2 at 8pm. It is the world's longest-running live orchestral music radio programme. The programme features many types of music from classical music, light music, film music, theatre music, songs from the musicals, opera and operetta. It is also notable for its arrangements of popular standards swing, jazz, and folksongs. One of its biggest appeals is its unpredictable playlist, which is left unrevealed until broadcast. The programme usually features guest artists"
"The principal Welsh festival of music and poetry is the annual ""National Eisteddfod"". The ""Llangollen International Eisteddfod"" echoes the National Eisteddfod but provides an opportunity for the singers and musicians of the world to perform. Traditional music and dance in Wales is supported by a myriad of societies. The Welsh Folk Song Society has published a number of collections of songs and tunes. Traditional instruments of Wales include ""telyn deires"" (triple harp), fiddle, crwth, ""pibgorn"" (hornpipe) and other instruments. The Cerdd Dant Society promotes its specific singing art primarily through an annual one-day festival. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales"
"M. Wallace Award. She was runner-up in the BBC Two programme ""Classical Star"" for her performance of the Hummel Bassoon Concerto with the City of London Sinfonia at LSO St Luke's. On 5 August 2009 she performed the Mozart Bassoon Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic at the BBC Proms. Karen Geoghegan Karen Geoghegan is a Scottish bassoonist. She appeared on the 2007 BBC Two reality show, ""Classical Star"". She was spotted on the show by the managing director of Chandos Records, Ralph Couzens and she has gone on to record three albums with the independent label. Geoghegan began studying the"
"there are also multiple jigs and pieces, in addition to air and march compositions. Of the more traditional Celtic instruments used on ""Otherworld"", several of the specific models used were promoted by the band in the liner notes. Fiddle player Seán Smyth played fiddle and viola created by Mick de Hoog and a low F whistle created by Mike Grunter, whose low whistles and flutes were also used by Kevin Crawford on the album, in addition to Alfonso bodhrans. Stylistically, however, ""Otherworld"" is characterised by experimenting whilst at the same time staying true to traditional music, featuring a ""front line"
"Nigel Collins (musician) Nigel Collins is a New Zealand musician, actor & playwright. A long time collaborator of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords, he appears in their live shows as a string section of one, 'The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra' playing cello, and also bass, keyboards, percussion, drums and singing backing vocals. He's featured in tours of North America, the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand from 2001 to 2018. He was a founding member of the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra (also featuring Bret McKenzie), recording and touring with the band in New Zealand, the"
"released eight albums in his own name, and has a long lasting cooperation with Terje Isungset like in the bands Isglem and trio «Utla» where also fiddle player Håkon Høgemo contributed, resulting in many record releases. begge har resultert i flere utgivelser on his own label. He has also released two albums cooperating with the poet Jon Fosse. Around 2000 he started experimenting with the old Norwegian instrument bukkehorn or Billy Goat Horn. He is currently the main instrumentalist playing the instrument in the world. Seglem has toured extensively with ""Rikskonsertene"" and ""Den norske jazzscene"". In 2013 he also toured"
"drummer Daryl Hogan and keyboardist Danielle Egan. In early 2016 the band lineup grew to include Shane Fitzgerald on guitar and Philly Brett on bass guitar. All the members of the band come from County Tipperary in the Irish midlands. In 2015 the band featured on national broadcaster RTÉ Lyric FM's show ""Nova,"" presented by Bernard Clarke and discussed experimental methods of making music adopted for the album, including removing the chimes from a grandfather clock to be played as a musical instrument and salvaging an old, almost rotten piano from a derelict barn in the Irish countryside []. In"
"programmes resident musical artists. Friday Night Is Music Night Friday Night is Music Night is a long-running live BBC radio concert programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra, broadcast most Fridays on BBC Radio 2 at 8pm. It is the world's longest-running live orchestral music radio programme. The programme features many types of music from classical music, light music, film music, theatre music, songs from the musicals, opera and operetta. It is also notable for its arrangements of popular standards swing, jazz, and folksongs. One of its biggest appeals is its unpredictable playlist, which is left unrevealed until broadcast. The programme"