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Brighton World Sacred Music Festival - 11 Sept to 17 October 2010
RadioReverb is a Friend of Brighton-based World Sacred Music who promote inspirational music from spiritual traditions around the globe. It is the only organisation of its kind in the UK. Their mission is "to promote understanding across boundaries of religion, ethnicity, language and nation by providing opportunities to experience moments of genuine transformation through sacred music and arts". This year's festival; Divine Voices, showcases the extraordinary power of our vocal chords to invoke wonder, awe and mysticism. It focuses on music from the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths, plus a brand new composition and performances in stunning and unusual venues. The series launches on 11 September with the soaring devotional music of Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali from Pakistan - pictured here
Shut Up and Listen
An afternoon of music and film will raise money for a learning disability arts organisation. The Brighton-based charity Carousel will benefit from the event at Jubilee Square on Saturday, 18 September from noon to 5pm. It will be hosted by DJs from Carousel’s Shut Up and Listen show, broadcast monthly on Radio Reverb, 97.2FM. Carousel will feature on the BBC Lifeline Appeal on 26 September. Read more
Brighton Music Awards
2010 sees Brighton getting it's own Brits, with the introduction of the Brighton Music Awards, celebrating the best of the City's emerging talent. Founded as a 'not for profit' initiative, there are several Award Categories, including Band of the Year, Best Solo Artist, Best Brighton Live Act, Best Song, Best Club Night of the Year, Best Music MySpace/Website, Best Music Artwork, Best Music Video and the Juice Listeners Award. All artists reside in the BN postcode area. Each vote costs just 50p which goes to the Teenage Cancer Trust with additional net profits from the award events themselves going to other designated beneficiaries
A media launch event will take place on 9th September 2010 at the Terraces Bar and Grill, Marine Parade Brighton. This is a free guest list entry only event; please contact mark@brightonmusicawards.com to reserve places. The winners will be announced at the BMA event itself, scheduled at the Brighton Centre on 16th November. The scheme has the support of RadioReverb
Refugee Radio Party
5th October 2010 - 8 PM - Downstairs at Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, BN1 1UN - £6. Moroccan desert blues from Planet Gnawa. With support from Senegalese fusion kings Bakk Lamp Fall. Also starring the Refugee Radio Orchestra, Brighton's own refugee and asylum seeker supergroup.
Fresh from a triumphant performance at the seafront bandstand, local charity Refugee Radio proudly present a night of live bands and DJs who have come from around the world to make Brighton their home. Planet Gnawa are led by the master Moroccan musician, Maalem Simo Lagnawi, and a team of young musicians fusing traditional desert instruments with electric blues. Bakk Lamp Fall play a fusion of beats and melodies from Senegal that would make a statue dance. The Refugee Radio Orchestra are a Starship Enterprise-style band of refugees, asylum seekers and local musicians who have been formed to show how we can all get together and get along with a shared love of music. They play a mixture of Iranian and Kurdish melodies with modern reggae and hiphop. No politics. No speeches. Just the best in live performance and fusion that Brighton has to offer. Refugee Radio is a Brighton-based charity working to promote better community relations. It hosts a radio show every Sunday at 8PM on RadioReverb97.2FM. It works to combat discrimination and social exclusion by giving newcomers to the city the chance to tell their own story and share their music with their new community.
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Community Information for Brighton and Hove
This is your community radio station. Contact us at studio(at)radioreverb.com if you would like to publicise any community news, information, events or activities, or if you would like to tell people about these things yourself, on a show. Or if you would like to find out more about community radio in Brighton and Hove
Come rain or shine - Reverb's ready to have a good time!...
Brighton Carnival Showcase was on Sunday the 25th July 2010 on Madeira Drive from 1pm to 6pm ! FREE !!
There were great live performances, music, dance and festivities! Carribean and festive food and drink on offer and a great atmosphere!
Shut Up and Listen!
This is Carousel’s new radio show. It's the only place on the radio to hear music exclusively made by artists with a learning disability. Shut Up and Listen! is programmed and presented by a committee of learning disabled artists. The show wants to celebrate and promote learning disabled music to a wider audience.
Hear the show on RadioReverb on Thursdays at 8pm and 2am on Wednesdays. The Carousel Project first appeared twice on another RadioReverb show. Now they're making their own show. Why not have a go at being on the radio on RadioReverb - who knows, you too could then make your own programme
SOUNDWAVES FESTIVAL 16-18 July in Brighton
Soundwaves Festival was no ordinary music festival. Taking over Brighton for three days, the public had the chance to dip, or dive, into an alternative world of cutting-edge new-music, sound-art, and participatory experiences that might intrigue and inspire! For those not yet acquainted with the strange and captivating world of new-music, then the line-up for 2010 was a perfect introduction to the UK’s most admired sound experimentalists, visual artists, and musical pioneers. But for those that are familiar with artists such as Micachu, Mikhail Karikis, the London Sinfonietta and Apartment House, then it was right up their streets! See arts.brighton.ac.uk/soundwaves
RadioReverb was at Paddle Round the Pier
Saturday and Sunday 3 & 4 July at Hove Lawns
People from RadioReverb were at this big charity water based sports and music festival, on Sunday afternoon, just next to the music big top tent, at the West end of the site on the lawns. A jolly good time was had by all
TUNE IN & TURN ON
Three years on, Brighton’s Radio Reverb is an outlet for all that is exciting and new
(Picture is Brighton band Sparrow at our birthday bash)
Once upon a time there was just the BBC. That was all there was on the airwaves, a strictly government controlled medium that has only been gradually loosened up in the last few years, starting with the advent of commercial radio, and now community radio; small-scale, not-for-profit stations operated for the good of members of the public, or of particular communities, and in order to deliver social gain.
Radio Reverb was one of the first tranche of licenses granted in 2007, and on 26 March the station officially celebrated its third birthday as a full-time station operating with an FM licence. One of the station’s directors, Andrew Mailing, says, “It’s there for everybody and an asset to the community. We don’t carry advertising and you’ll hear great and interesting things that you might not hear anywhere else.”
From its very beginning there have been two dominant content strands; spoken word and music. Not suprisingly, being based in one of the most creative places on Earth, Radio Reverb has been a bastion for alternative music, covering all bases from nu-folk to jazz, with many shows fronted by deeply knowledgable presenters such as the folk-based Simple Folk, the alt-country Songs From The Ark, soul music via Digging Deeper, and the experimental ambience of Chillibeat Science.
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Reverb at the Newest Festival on the South Coast!
Radio Reverb went to Meadowlands over the weekend of 28-30 May, taking in the sights and sounds of the newest festival along the south coast. It's practically a Brighton festival, with lots of quality Brighton acts, DJs and entertainers including Sweet Sweet Lies, Kalakuta Millioniares, Tomas Hiltz, Los Albertos, The Perils, Tru Thoughts DJs, Doll & The Kicks, The Resonators, Mountain Firework Company and Transformer.
We were excited about the location too, the beautiful Glynde Place, just a few miles past Lewes on the A27. Listen out for reporting from the festival
Radio Reverb was Official Media Partner for Brighton Fringe Festival 2010
The Fringe Festival was as amazing as it was diverse, an absolute feast of acts, events and happenings
New Shows On The Air!
Reverb continues to build on it's reputation for delivering new and exciting shows straight from the community it serves. In the coming months you'll hear a diverse range of new shows that only Brighton's community radio station can serve up.
It's why Radio Reverb is the natural choice for your listening pleasure!