The Duke of Sussex has sparked hilarity by recreating one of Alison Hammond's iconic moments from the Great British Bake Off, as he made a surprise appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on ...

Like Sarah Willis, Alison Balsom is another instrumentalist forging a highly successful career in a male-dominated field. Her EMI releases up to now have included arrangements and transcriptions; here ...

An early participant in the eccentric collection of artists known as Fluxus, she was perhaps best known for pieces centered on a humble tuna sandwich and a giant salad. The artist Alison Knowles in ...

Steve Martin and Alison Brown appeared on The Tonight Show to showcase their instrumental bluegrass track “Let’s Get Out of Here.” Martin and Brown performed the rousing song on banjo with the help of ...

Critic Lloyd Schwartz tells a story about Lezhneva, a Russian singer he "discovered" a few months ago — without realizing he already owned a 2015 recording of her rendition of Handel's early oratorio.

The PC candidate for Carbonear-Trinity-Bay de Verde district, Riley Balsom, is making health care and public safety his priorities this campaign. The Shoreline interviewed Balsom on six topics it has ...

A tall and exceptionally striking Valkyrie of a blonde, Alison Balsom (b 1978) is the polar antithesis of a hard-drinking, slightly tubby, very male trumpeter from central casting. For the photoshoots ...

Award winning trumpeter recently returned to her brass banding roots as she prepared for her final concert appearance at the Last Night of the Proms. Royston Band welcomed back their most famous ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen’s magnum opus. And this weekend at the annual Last Night of the Proms, Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor were joined by ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This year’s Last Night of the Proms featured the usual array of Union flags amid the audience in the Royal ...

The 60-year-old made his Proms debut in a performance of Leroy Anderson’s The Typewriter at the Royal Albert Hall. Bill Bailey backstage at the Royal Albert Hall, London, at the Last Night of the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...