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Introducing Who I am Qualifications, Career History and What I Do Now! Journalism: Print and broadcast; work for visiting arts and British Council Broadcast Journalism Writing, editing; academic productions Exhibition curating; TV research, production and script work; conference organisation Academic work: lecturing; teaching;teaching; national and international conference papers CD compilations, tour management, Djing;AND things I like to do when not working SPIRITUAL LIFE MUSICIANS I HAVE INTERVIEWED SINCE 1973 REFEREES & LINKS
THE PERUVIAN ALPACA HAT
[I was given this very warm hat by blind Peruvian harpist Don Antonio Sulca who came with his three sons to tour the UK in the 1980s (their first time out of Cusco, see publications) for Arts Worldwide. I was their interpreter and tour manager]

Exhibition Curating; TV Research, Production and Script Work; Conference Organisation

2010-2011: Member IASPM Conference programme team for IASPM 2011 17th biennial conference Grahamstown, South Africa, Monday 17th June until Friday 1 July 2010

August 2010 conference organisation IASPM Chair for IASPM South Africa 2011

August 2009 ‘Singing the Alhambra’: Spanish Culture and Flamenco, National Gallery of Scotland talk to complement 'Spain' Exhibition

August 2009 National Gallery of Scotland Talk on Flamenco to complement Spain Exhibition

January-February 2003 Script for interactive commentary and linked web pages for two one hour BBC 4 TV programmes of Celtic Connections Festival Glasgow involving full one hour scripts, plus biographies of musicians, information about instruments, quiz. The programmes also went out on cable.

Exhibition 2001
On November 2001 I curated the ‘Santería: Rhythm of the Saints’ an exhibition of Cuban sculpture for Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. This was the major exhibition of the Si Cuba! Festival artistic programme (46 papier-mache-sculptures of Cuban Orishas and Saints of the popular Santería Religion made by Cuban artist Filiberto Mora). I gave several public lectures on the music of the Santería religion and organised, assisted and translated for museum, school and community workshops.

Conference organisation
Since 1983 I have organised music conferences: as convenor, programme committee member at University of Liverpool (1999); Amsterdam (1998); Ghana (1987); Oxford (1987); Canada (1985, 83).

1999 Day conference 'Committed Song in Latin America: A Tribute to Robert Pring-Mill'; IPM, University of Liverpool.
1998 Convenor The Performing Arts in Latin America in Performance, 46th International Conference of Americanists, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1987 Programme Committee 4th IASPM Conference Ghana.
1987 Programme Organiser IASPM U.K. Conference, Oxford.
1985 Programme Committee 3rd IASPM Conference Canada.
1983 Convenor IASPM International project presented Canada.




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