A unique arrangement between the New Jersey-raised musician, known to fans as "the Boss", and the director Gurinder Chadha, creator of the 2002 box-office hit Bend It Like Beckham, will see a selection of the singer's early tracks playing a key part in her new comedy, Blinded by the Light.
This in spite of the band being hailed in some quarters as the solitary, doughty representatives of good old indie on the BBC Sound of 2016 longlist, the only exemplars of the stuff that once constituted the weekly music press's lifeblood, amid a selection of rappers, singer-songwriters and mainstream pop R&B.
The hint of daffiness that permeates The Muir blossoms into lunacy in A Wooden Tree, an interpretive dance to a selection of Scottish singer-songwriter Ivor Cutler's peculiar gems, taken mainly from his popular radio programmes of the 1950's onward.
It presents excerpts from new operas, performed by the company's full orchestra and a selection of its talented singers.
The Summer stage down by the south entrance had a selection of pretty dull singer-songwriters.
They were also chosen to create a "pretty silly, goofy selection of singers" that would appeal to "a broad spectrum of people from different generations".
Williams has been hailed for her haunting quality and her fragility, traits only too apparent in these 14 cover versions from an impeccable selection of singer-songwriters.
Scored with a selection of cuts from the Scottish singer-songwriter Alexi Murdoch, thankfully the film is anchored by two solid performances from its leads.
In the numinous setting of the Church of St . Mary theVirgin, the New York Virtuoso Singers present a selection of Musgrave's vocal and dramatic works from the past five decades.
In an experiment in "moving to something more authentic", Keita and Manfila recorded this acoustic set with help from pianist Kemo Kouyate, a trumpet player from Les Ambassadeurs, and a selection of kora and balafon players and singers.
Aug. 17 at 8: A clutch of the composer's salon pieces are a prelude to more substantial offerings by such contemporaries as the seductive Fauré ("La Bonne Chanson," an expansive Paul Verlaine cycle) and the fascinating Bridge (the Piano Quintet in D Minor) as well as a selection of songs; the performers include the singers Sasha Cooke and William Ferguson and the pianist Jeremy Denk.
