Print Journalism: Work for Visiting Arts and British Council

In brief: I write on world music for various publications notably close to home The Scotsman (summers 2003/ 2004 during the Edinburgh International Festival working as one of their classical music critics). I have also written for The Herald, Scotland on Sunday, The Independent, The Guardian. The Telegraph, The Sunday Herald, El País (Madrid), The List (Scotland’s listings magazine)

I also write concert programme notes, CD liner notes and BBC Radio 3 Prom programme notes 2000, 2001, 2002

As a music writer and critic I have contributed chapters to first and second editions of ‘The Rough Guide to World Music’ Vols. I and II, The Rough Guide to Spain, The Rough Guide to Andalucia, The Rough Guide to Bolivia, The Insight Guide to Chile. I have written music features and worked as music critic for the key music magazine fRoots since the mid-1980s (today aka Christine Charter); and for world music magazine Songlines since the first edition in Summer 1999.

Journalism
1998 onwards BBC Freelance/NUJ Freelance Journalist.
Most recent work:
August 2004 reviewer for The Scotsman for Edinburgh International Festival, mostly of classical music.
Writing regular features, reviewing new CDs, concert reviews (including overnights) for
fRoots (most recent cover features Lhasa de Sela (April, 2004); Amparanoia, (May 2004) www.frootsmag.com
world music quarterly Songlines most recent feature about Lila Downs (Mexico, Summer 2004)
Also Gramophone, Classic CD

Visiting Arts and British Council
I have written reports for projects funded by Visiting Arts (major UK arts funder)

In 2003 I went to Sao Paolo, Brazil for the British Council to write about the Orquestra Scotland- Brasil, an international supergroup of musicians from Scotland and Brasil who were rehearsing together and giving performances (see article in fRoots, Dec-Jan 2003)