Peter Culshaw

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Peter is a music and arts broadcaster and has written for the Observer, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Songlines, among others in the UK and internationally. He has written a recently published book Clandestino: In Search Of Manu Chao published by Serpent's Tail and has produced and compiled numerous CDs. He was a founding Director of theartsdesk, and is co-editor of the New Music section.

Articles By Peter Culshaw

theartsdesk in Fes - world music central Friday, 06 June 2025 Read more...	theartsdesk Radio Show 36 - legendary producer Joe Boyd discusses his recent book on global music Wednesday, 05 February 2025 Read more...
Medicine Festival review - sound and music healing in the depths of Berkshire Friday, 23 August 2024 Read more...	Medicine Festival review - the new New Age gathers in leafy Berkshire Wednesday, 30 August 2023 Read more...
theartsdesk Radio Show 35 - with writer/composer Amit Chaudhuri Saturday, 12 August 2023 Read more...	'The music business was created for people like me who are not criminal enough to go to jail, and not mad enough to go to the nuthouse'. Sinéad O'Connor, 1966-2023 Friday, 28 July 2023 Read more...
Park Jiha, Stone Nest, K-Music - timeless evocative East-West soundscapes Tuesday, 29 November 2022 Read more...	theartsdesk Radio Show 34 - with post-punk visionary Lu Edmonds Tuesday, 29 November 2022 Read more...
Frida Kahlo Through Indian Classical Music, Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall review - a strangely effective meeting of cultures Tuesday, 19 July 2022 Read more...	theartsdesk Radio Show 33: Ukraine special - musicians and artists direct from Ukraine, with co-host Anastasia Piliavsky Tuesday, 10 May 2022 Read more...
theartsdesk Radio Show 32: a conversation with Matt Johnson of The The Saturday, 06 November 2021 Read more...	theartsdesk Radio Show 31 - special guest: TV soundtrack maestro Dominik Scherrer Wednesday, 26 May 2021 Read more...
London Bulgarian Choir, Kings Place review - dark Slavic tales in waves of sound Tuesday, 25 May 2021 Read more...	GogolFest:Dream review - the best music festival of the summer? Thursday, 17 September 2020 Read more...
theartsdesk Radio Show 30 - podcast on Malcolm McLaren with Paul Gorman, his biographer Saturday, 22 August 2020 Read more...	theartsdesk Radio Show 29 - Morricone, Moroccan psychedelia and Sudanese techno Saturday, 11 July 2020 Read more...

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Peter Culshaw

Articles By Peter Culshaw

theartsdesk in Fes - world music central

theartsdesk Radio Show 36 - legendary producer Joe Boyd discusses his recent book on global music

Medicine Festival review - sound and music healing in the depths of Berkshire

Medicine Festival review - the new New Age gathers in leafy Berkshire

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'The music business was created for people like me who are not criminal enough to go to jail, and not mad enough to go to the nuthouse'. Sinéad O'Connor, 1966-2023

Park Jiha, Stone Nest, K-Music - timeless evocative East-West soundscapes

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