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At least, the cheese came home with me. Wensleydale, natch, with cranberries. It has a small yet special role to play in Alicia's Gift ...

Viv and muggins, delivering What's it like to perform at the Wigmore Hall? I doubt I'd ever have found out if I'd kept on wi...

It's a busy little patch, this, so here's what's coming up. • On Saturday afternoon, 20 Feb, V iv and I are performing ALICIA&...

Across the road from Hampton Court Palace, down a little gravel side-street, you'll find the beautiful mansion known as Hampton Court ...

I have a busy week ahead! Please come and join in if you can make it to any of these. One, of course, only involves your kitchen radio. TU...

A tastefully sepia adaptation of Alicia's Gift 's cover Thrilling stuff for me and my wonderful pianist colleague Viv McLean: we...

I can't quite get my head around this one, but Peter Donohoe has invited me to his festival in Fishguard to give a performance of the Al...

Scotland has decided to stay after all, which is nice. Above, a picture of me and Murray McLachlan finishing the Alicia's Gift conce...

Hello, it's September. How did that happen?! Here are a few things I'm doing this month: do come along if you're in the vicini...

Viv and I are giving the first performance of our new coffee-concert version of the ALICIA'S GIFT show at the Buxton Festival, Pavilion ...

The lovely Melanie Spanswick has uploaded to her Classical Piano and Music Education Blog a filmed interview with me for her Music Talk seri...

Or...an afternoon at St Mary's, Perivale.  We used to hear a fair bit about the concept of a "sacred space": a place that ...

Tonight: we are delighted that Alicia's Gift: The Concert of the Novel will be presented by the Kensington & Chelsea Music Society ...

I've been having some fun with the connections between Gypsy music and classical, with the help of such individuals as Jascha Heifetz, G...

JDCMB readers are warmly invited to a drinks party on Friday at Houben's Bookshop, 2 Church Court, Richmond (about 5 mins from Richmond ...

Here is my Alicia's Gift Concert partner, Viv McLean, playing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue , which will feature in our programme i...

Here are some dates for your diaries, fresh from my writing desk: a brand-new words&music concert, a brand-new play, more HUNGARIAN DANC...