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Dadvengers Podcast Episode 37 – Olugbenga Adelekan
Dadvengers Podcast Episode 37 – Olugbenga Adelekan
It’s the Dadvengers Podcast episode 37 – Olugbenga and Bethan Adelekan!
This week’s guest is a music producer and musician, who performs as a solo artist and as the bass player of the Mercury Music Prize Award-nominated band Metronomy. In 2021, his son underwent surgery for a brain tumour, and last year, they worked with some world renowned musicians to record a song, which they released to raise money for Brainstrust and the Brain Tumour Charity. We’re excited to welcome Olugbenga Adelekan to the podcast!
As a musician, Olugbenga does a lot of travelling! Despite this he was ready for parenthood, and his wife understood his work is an important part of his life, which he needed to continue when he became a dad. But that doesn’t mean it has all been easy…!
He was enjoying parenthood, and balancing that with his career, when life took a turn. His son, Ravi, was seven when he started to show some signs of hearing loss and facial weakness. Ravi saw a doctor who thought everything was OK. But soon after being referred to an ENT specialist they discovered that Ravi had a brain tumour. The tumour was benign, but the surgery to remove
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Ian Carter & Nicola Kearey to curate ‘Perspectives on Tradition’ Residencies
The English Folk Dance and Song Society has announced three ambitious new ‘Perspectives on Tradition’ cross-cultural creative residencies at Cecil Sharp House, the society’s North London home. Each of the residencies will look at notions of culture, tradition, song collecting, cross-pollination and fragmentation of music, working with Ian Carter and Nicola Kearey (Stick In The Wheel, From Here Records).
Nicola and Ian have invited Olugbenga Adelekan (Metronomy, Africa Express), Jon1st (DMC DJ Champion, Fly High Society) and Nabihah Iqbal (Ninja Tune, NTS) to experiment and collaborate with them on these residencies. Each artist will spend three days with Nicola and Ian, exploring the national collection of folk arts held in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, which is managed by the English Folk Dance and Song Society and held at Cecil Sharp House in London.
Katy Spicer, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, said: ‘English folk never has existed in a vacuum. And in our diverse 21st-century England it is more exciting than ever to engage in cross-cultural projects, exploring the traditions that bind
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The English Riviera (album)
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