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Mark Hayhurst

Articles By Mark Hayhurst

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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

EFG London Jazz Festival round-up review - youth, age, and t...

Jazz music crosses, mixes and unites generations, and the 10 concerts I’ve seen at this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival (out of more than 300 in...

First Person: singer-songwriter Sam Amidon on working in Din...

Walking in the morning from my Airbnb along the road in West Kerry...

EFG London Jazz Festival 2024 round-up review - from Korean...

November can be a month to hunker down for the onset of winter and its weather, and where better to do that than in one of the myriad venues...

All's Well That Ends Well, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse revi...

"All’s well that ends well". Sounds like the kind of phrase a guilty parent says to a disappointed child after they’ve been caught...

Album: Alice Ivy - Do What Makes You Happy

What’s to be said about an album that’s half well-executed body-moving,...

Music Reissues Weekly: Stefan Gnyś - Horizoning

For most of Canada’s listening public, their country-man Stefan Gnyś – pronounced G'neesh – wasn’t a concern. The 300 copies of his 1969 single...

Wicked review - overly busy if beautifully sung cliffhanger

"No one mourns the wicked," we're told during the immediately arresting beginning to Wicked, which concludes two hours 40 minutes later...

Akram Khan, GIGENIS, Sadler’s Wells review - now 50, Khan re...

London-born Akram Khan has come a long way in a 35-year career. He performed as a young teen in Peter Brook’s production of The ...