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05/12/2025

Anyone who caught Roxanne de Bastion set at last Friday’s Hark gig Darlington Libraries why not treat yourself this and order a copy of her book as an early Christmas present 🥰🎄

28/11/2025

We have a beautiful evening for you tonight Darlington Libraries for Hark! The Sound of Stories: featuring Roxanne de Bastion and Frazer Lambert Still a few FREE tickets available on our website www.tracksdarlington.co.uk Have a listen to this lush interview with the remarkable Roxanne de Bastion chatting with BBC Tees legend Gary Philipson about 20mins in :-) See you tonight and don't forget it's BYOB https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lyds

Gary Philipson brings you great music, information and advice, and mid-morning updates.

21/11/2025

Gorgeous review for Roxanne de Bastion currently on tour supporting Howard Jones, we can't wait for her to come to Darlington next Friday to perform at Hark! The Sound of Stories: featuring Roxanne de Bastion and Frazer Lambert at Darlington Libraries

Book your FREE tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hark-the-sound-of-stories-feat-roxanne-de-bastion-tickets-1951561927259

Thank you to Bishop Line Community Rail Partnership and Community Rail Network for their support

Enjoy Darlington Love Darlington

06/11/2025

TONIGHT! We will be heading over to Boro for a celebration of one year of Sonic Futures Generator Our Sarah Wilson will be joining the panel of good souls from the NE music scene to chat about the future of our regions music scene. Why not join us :-)

04/11/2025

Grab your FREE tickets guys because this one will be busy!

Hark!The Sound Of Stories returns on Friday 28th November

We have the excellent Roxanne de Bastion and Frazer Lambert Music joining us for a beautiful night in our town's beautiful Darlington Libraries Stories of grief, love, loss and hope with family histories and memories shared.

Roxanne de Bastion
Creative tour-de-force and trailblazing independent musician and author Roxanne de Bastion will perform music from her album The Piano Player of Budapest, which accompanies the book by the same title. The Piano Player of Budapest is the story of Roxanne's grandfather, a renowned Hungarian musician who survived the holocaust. The album Stephen de Bastion's music back to life, beautifully re-imagined and curated by Roxanne, and was launched at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The book was published by Little Brown, to glowing reviews in the national press. We are very excited to have Roxanne bringing her talent to Darlington.

Frazer Lambert Music
De Bastion is supported by alt-folk soul artist Frazer Lambert. Frazer, from Stockton-on-Tees, crafted his songwriting skills over many years in the cafes of Amsterdam, before taking his music around the world and back home again. There’s always a story to be told. The latest chapter in Frazer’s music navigates grief, loss and the paths they cross. Called the ‘most calming’ vocalist in North-East England, Frazer’s songs are emotional and thought-provoking reflections on his own life experiences. Expect beautifully written original songs sung with love, passion and honesty.

Doors at 7.30pm, show begins 8pm.

FREE TO ATTEND - but seating is limited, so please book a ticket to assure your place!

Tickets here: www.tracksdarlington.co.uk

With thanks to Darlington Libraries, Bishop Line Community Rail Partnership and CrossCountry trains for their support.

Hark! The Sound of Stories: featuring Roxanne de Bastion and Frazer Lambert

22/10/2025

Morning! The good people over at Index Music are compiling a directory of music organisations, venues, producers, photographers, sound engineers, promotors, etc.

Take a look and add yourself on, it'll be a super useful resource for the regions creatives! :-) Find out more here 👇

'Index are currently building a free directory of North East music businesses, organisations and freelancers (including music-adjacent roles like photographers, graphic designers etc.). They want to make sure all roles and areas are well represented. You can add yourself for free here: https://indexmusic.co.uk/directory/

If you have any questions, the Index lasses are more than happy to have a chat ([email protected]).'

Creative Darlington Darlington For Culture - the official site Darlington Music The Forum Music Centre

Whether you're a venue, studio, freelancer, or part of a music organisation in the North East, this is your opportunity to join a growing music community in the region.

17/10/2025

Amazing to be at the Mercury Prize last night - we can't say enough about how important it is to see it move outside of London, and right here to the North East include and represent the talent we have in our region and move towards a more geographically fair music industry for the future.

Some stunning performances from nominees Pulp, Wolf Alice, Pa Salieu, Jacob Alon, FKA twigs and more, topped off with the pure poetry it was to see Sam Fender take the win on his home turf. Huge congrats to Sam on his Mercury winning album, and being a shining example of what it means to be from the North East.

Big thanks to Generator for inviting us, and for all their work on the fringe events which have turned the awards into a great programme of development and showcase opportunities. There's a real buzz in the local music scene at the moment, and we're excited to be a part of it and see what the future holds.

11/10/2025

All the musical goodness happening in Boro today with Twisterella Festival and Unconference happening! 🤩

10/10/2025

Great to attend the launch of the Mercury Prize Fringe Tyneside Cinema and hear YolanDa Brown OBE The BPI Generator and Amnesty International speak. Truely beautiful set from Hazel Lanterns On The Lake and lush to hear the Mini Mercury Choir singing Sam Fender Good to catch up with some of the NE music community too 🤩🥰 Excellent to see an event like this leaving London and coming to the North East 🤩 Rob Irish Francoise Harvey Sarah Wilson

04/10/2025

Thank you so much to everyone who braved the storm and came to last night's Hark! The Sound of Stories - safe to say it was absolutely worth it.

All-new songs from Faithful Johannes , conjuring up different facets of Durham history (and he played guitar!) had us bopping along. Then Mr Barry Hyde played a solo rendition of songs from his Miners Ballad album, complete with piano improvisation, to a you-could-hear-a-pin-drop audience. And not forgetting brilliant readings from Darlington Library 's own Lucy Kingsley and our favourite Bob Fischer

A new Hark favourite night, that. Big big thanks to the library and Bishop Line Community Rail Partnership and CrossCountry trains for making it possible, thanks to an amazing audience who stuck around to chat to the artists at the end and then went so far as to help us put the room back together! And an extra special thanks to Asa, who went above and beyond helping us out all evening when we were down a team member.