Music - Hackney Citizen

Curve Garden friendship brings a lost 1963 song to life

Rediscovered while tidying the house after his wife’s death, Justin Lewis's track reached a singer championed by Elton John

Author: Ellie Waterhouse

Curve Garden friendship brings a lost 1963 song to life

Cometh the Hour, cometh the folk: Ninebarrow to play Hackney concert

Folk twosome Ninebarrow will soon be back on the road, and met with East End Review ahead of their upcoming Hackney gig

Author: Hackney Citizen

Cometh the Hour, cometh the folk: Ninebarrow to play Hackney concert

'My first poem was about getting stabbed' – rapper Dan Whitlam talks vulnerability and youth as he launches new project

Whitlam released his first full-length album, ‘Strangers (Again)’, before a packed-out crowd at Rough Trade East last week

Author: Sam Foxell

'My first poem was about getting stabbed' – rapper Dan Whitlam talks vulnerability and youth as he launches new project

‘It opens my life up’ - the Hackney café healing a community through song

The Stoke Newington social enterprise aims to alleviate the challenges created by the cost of living crisis, all while building community through food and music

Author: Gabriel Stewart

‘It opens my life up’ - the Hackney café healing a community through song

Pas de Chats? How Hackney’s unsung Arkestra inspired a mural for the ages

Chats Palace Arkestra wanted an artistic experiment for the community, and four decades on, they got more than they bargained for

Author: Max Finkel

Pas de Chats? How Hackney’s unsung Arkestra inspired a mural for the ages

Fundraiser launched to help pay funeral costs of 'amazing' Hackney musician

Adrian Owusu, member of local band The Heliocentrics, died in July

Author: Hackney Citizen

Fundraiser launched to help pay funeral costs of 'amazing' Hackney musician

Inside a record store’s fight for survival in Hackney

Recycle Vinyl's owner came to Dalston with dreams of a multi-use record shop and dance space - the reality has been harsh

Author: Hackney Citizen

Inside a record store’s fight for survival in Hackney

Hackney music venues given acoustic upgrades in pioneering audio-inclusivity project

Paper Dress Vintage, SJQ and Vortex are now kitted out to host people who are sensitive to noise

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney music venues given acoustic upgrades in pioneering audio-inclusivity project

Moth Club campaigners in dark over plans for neighbouring block - as 20,000 sign petition

Manager of popular venue fears flats next door could 'jeopardise' its future

Author: Hackney Citizen

Moth Club campaigners in dark over plans for neighbouring block - as 20,000 sign petition

V&A East teases opening of David Bowie Centre - featuring an archive of more than 90,000 objects

Visitors will be able to peruse the items and guest-curated displays when the Centre opens in September

Author: Hackney Citizen

V&A East teases opening of David Bowie Centre - featuring an archive of more than 90,000 objects

‘In this life, you have to help yourself’: Janette Collins MBE on 25 years of The Crib

The famous youth club's founder sits down with the Citizen to mark a quarter of a century since it all began

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘In this life, you have to help yourself’: Janette Collins MBE on 25 years of The Crib

‘So exciting’: Hackney schoolboy plays organ for 2,000 people at St Paul’s Cathedral

Peter Maku, 14, says he is ‘very proud’ after playing a Bach composition on the venue’s famous instrument

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘So exciting’: Hackney schoolboy plays organ for 2,000 people at St Paul’s Cathedral