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Wendy Rigg is planning a summer of festival fun – but what is it about nostalgic music that makes us feel so good?

Kalandra bring past and present into perfect harmony ...

‘I’ve never been a particularly esoteric person,’ Nicola Benedetti tells me as we sit down to talk following the press launch of her third Edinburgh Festival. And yet, as she explains the theme of thi

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As Wacken fast approaches, we find out how a small gathering in Germany evolved into one of the world’s biggest metal fests

MY PICK OF THE PROMS GEORGIA MANN ...