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BBC News
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Jade to headline BBC Proms' return to Gateshead at Glasshouse
Pop star Jade has been announced as one of the headline acts when the BBC Proms returns to Gateshead this South Shields-born singer, who found fame as part of Little Mix, will be at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music on Friday 25 been named Best Pop Act at this year's Brit Awards, the 32-year-old will be performing songs from her upcoming solo album alongside the Royal Northern Sinfonia with the concert broadcast live on BBC costing between £8 and £62.50 will go on sale at midday with organisers describing it as "a proper homecoming moment". The Proms event will run until Sunday 27 July with the Glasshouse line-up also featuring singer-songwriter Angeline Morrison, guitarist Sean Shibe and a CBeebies Wildlife Jamboree. The Glasshouse said the Proms would be "a weekend of world-class music" featuring "classical heavyweights to joyful family concerts, late-night jazz to inspiring folk and ground-breaking collaborations".Jazz saxophonist, hip-hop artist, curator and presenter Soweto Kinch will get the Proms under way as it visits Sunderland for the first will be performing at the city's Fire Station arts venue on Thursday 24 July. Follow BBC North East on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
Spectator
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Why can't the BBC Proms stick to classical music?
Welcome to this year's BBC Proms, the self-styled 'World's Greatest Classical Music Festival', whose programme was revealed today. Every year I write about how even The Proms, which bills itself unambiguously as a festival of classical music, can't bring itself to be just that: a festival of classical music. And every year it gets worse, with the idea of 'inclusion' so pervasive that music which has as much to do with a classical music festival as my pet cat would have at Crufts taking over ever more evenings. This year's schedule is the final straw. On day two, the Proms presents 'The Great American Songbook and Beyond' with Samara Joy, which is followed by 'Round Midnight' with 'hip hop artist Soweto Kinch'. That's followed a few nights later by Angeline Morrison singing folk songs from her album 'The Sorrow Songs', and then Arooj Aftab and Ibrahim Maalouf with their 'captivating, eclectic melting-pot of influences from jazz, folk, pop, blues and South Asian' and 'Middle Eastern melodies…jazz, Latin jazz, and African rhythms' respectively. There's an evening of Soul Revolution, which will 'trace a path from spirituals through gospel to soul, revealing the role of these genres in supporting the Civil Rights movement.
