Podcast feedJazz Legend, Frank Holder talks with Wayne Boucaud
Wayne Boucaud talks to the legendary Frank Holder, who traces the history of his development as a Jazz musician. Now almost 90 years old and still full of musical ambitions, Frank left Georgetown Guyana as a teenager to join the Royal Air Force. Having entertained troops in the War, he got demobbed in the UK where he found an audience for his playing. By the 1950s, he was playing warm up for the likes of Nat King Cole. He has played alongside Johnny Ray, Eatha Kitt, Johnny Dankworth, Lena Horne, Dudley Moore and Cleo Lane, whose singing he finds hard to equal in today’s artists. He recalls that racism meant band members on tour had to ask the audience for help with accommodation. He worked with guitarist, Shane Hill on the album ‘Interpretations’, which includes a selection from each decade and covers the late local artist, Amy Winehouse.
Interview by: Wayne Boucaud
Editing: Wayne Boucaud
Additional editing: Marian Larragy
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What's on in Camden Saturday 21st - Saturday 28th
This week in what’s on in Camden the team bring you some fun thing to do and see during the next seven days.
Highlights include: art, music, dance, entertainment, poetry, comedy and a community event for Camden residents.
Edited by Darryl McKay
Researched by Darryl McKay, Laurie Bolger, Jayson Mansaray and Denise O’Connor
Read by Laurie Bolger, Lucy Waterhouse, Cina Aissa, Marian Larragy, Darryl McKay, Jayson Mansaray, Denise O’Connor and Ann Carroll
- Delilah, Dynamite and Liam Bailey at Koko
- The Camden Comedy Showcase at the Etcetera Theatre
- A meeting of lines exhibition at Lauderdale house
- Professor Vanessa Wonder show at the Roundhouse
- Home swap workshop at Camden Library
- Dwele at the Camden Jazz Café
- The Lost objects of Childhood at Freud Museum
- Express excess at the Enterprise
- The word house at The Gallery Café
- Connect with Sadler’s Wells
- The Palestine film festival at The Barbican
- Back to Camden Community Radio
- follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter
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What's on Sat 25th Feb - Sat 3rd March
This week we have music news of Joyce Simms at Jazz cafe & Devin at Koko; Poetry includes Bang said the gun at Hotel Elephant and Camden Poetry Series – Trinity United Reform Church; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is film choice; stage selection is The Soho with Adam Riches; Comedy calls with United Comedy at the Etcetera Theatre; The Britsh Thyroid Association.
Presented by: Darryl McKay
Read by: Cina Aissa, Laurie Bolger & Darryl McKay
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Whats on Week Beginning: Sunday 13th November 2011
‘Tweeting to Topple Tyranny’ and the implication for IT companies is examined at UCL; The Nitty Gritty Sessions continue at the Constitution on Sunday afternoon; LGBT GFEST readings from Paradise Press authors at Gays’ the Word Bookshop in Marchmont Street; Melbourne Director’s Choice Award Winner, Hannah Gadsby, Mrs Chuckles, is at the Soho Theatre; Irish Travellers Movement, post Dale Farm national conference is at the Resource Centre; ‘Cables From Kabul’ author, Sherard Cowper-Coles will be at Asia House asking whether enough has been done to secure the strategic goal of stabilising Afghanistan and the Speakeasy Jazzmen play for FREE at the Irish Centre in Camden Square. Africa V Asia UK Comedy Tour at the Shaw Theatre; ‘A Walk On Part, The Fall of New Labour’ opens at the Soho Theatre; Lucy Waterhouse selects the pick of Classical Music in Camden this Week
Read by: Amy Solomon, DJ Rudeboy P Tosh, Marian Larragy, Vicki Battison, Nabil Abdul Rashid & Lucy Waterhouse.
Recorded by: Vicki Battison
Script and Editing: Marian Larragy
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Peter 'Tosh' and Martin Lim
Martin and Tosh experiment with improvisation live in Camden Community Radio studio….. Click below to leave comments.
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