Rodney Claxton has been selling his iconic birdhouses at Oxford’s Double Decker Festival for about 14 years, and he has missed the past two years more than he cares to admit. On April 22, after being ...

A TEENAGE music sensation is to enter the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. Simon Minshall, aged 13, qualified to compete after passing his grade eight exam on the bass trombone with ...

Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews blew away an Elmwood Park crowd last summer, in a double-bill with Gov’t Mule. The R&B/jazz cat from New Orleans is returning this summer, with reggae scion Ziggy Marley ...