{"id":2781,"date":"2018-03-23T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2018-03-23T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T15:28:33","slug":"smfa-associate-lecturer-in-music-anna-neale-widdisons-new-album-wide-sky-out-friday-23rd-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2018\/03\/23\/smfa-associate-lecturer-in-music-anna-neale-widdisons-new-album-wide-sky-out-friday-23rd-march\/","title":{"rendered":"SMFA Associate Lecturer in Music, Anna Neale Widdison\u2019s new album Wide Sky out FRIDAY 23rd March"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wide Sky. Anna Neale-Widdison, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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SMFA music lecturer Anna Neale-Widdison has released a new album Wide Sky<\/em>,\u00a0which is available on all the usual music platforms such as Spotify and\u00a0iTunes. Anna Neale is a multi-talented singer\/songwriter, composer, session vocalist and voice-over artist. She\u2019s worked professionally in the music industry for over a decade. In that time she has toured the world, and has showcased at major music conferences across the globe and released two albums and two EP’s to critical acclaim.<\/p>\n

Inspired by personal experience, tumultuous current a\ufb00airs, and views surrounding her home, Wide Sky<\/em> fuses modern pop with Arabic music, and continues the world music theme of her previous album River Man to ask the question, \u201cWhere is humanity going?\u201d<\/p>\n

Dan Chisholm, BBC Broadcaster, commented: \u00a0“It reminds me how I felt the very \ufb01rst time I heard Dark Side of the Moon<\/em> by Pink Floyd. Like then, I feel this is a very special piece of work. Many congratulations.”<\/p>\n

Featuring performances by a talented array of Syrian musicians and vocalists from the English National Opera (ENO), Wide Sky was co-produced with Jez Larder at Skyline Studios, who has previously worked with David Bowie, Estelle, The Damned, and Amy Macdonald.<\/p>\n

Anna\u2019s previous album River Man<\/em> was voted by R2 (Rock’n’Reel) magazine as one of their top albums of 2012.<\/p>\n

Anna\u2019s showcase appearances include Brighton’s Great Escape Festival in 2010; the world renowned Canadian Music Week festival in 2009 in Toronto; the sell-out BPI showcase as part of Canada\u2019s NXNE festival in 2006 (where she was the highest rated solo artist); and the NEMO Music Festival in Boston USA in 2005. After her Boston performance Anna\u2019s track \u201cAll For Nothing\u201d topped the NEMO Starbucks download charts across New England.<\/p>\n

As well as her composing and performing credits, Anna has lectured at the University of Cambridge, The British Museum, BIMM (Brighton & London), Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Hertfordshire. She is also a member of the Oxford Brookes\u2019s music industry board.\u00a0 Her research interests include songwriting and the music of Ancient Greece.<\/p>\n

More info here:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.annaneale.net<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n

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See also:\u00a0https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/news.html?view=2682<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  SMFA music lecturer Anna Neale-Widdison has released a new album Wide Sky,\u00a0which is available on all the usual music platforms such as Spotify and\u00a0iTunes. Anna Neale is a multi-talented singer\/songwriter, composer, session vocalist and voice-over artist. She\u2019s worked professionally in the music industry for over a decade. In that time she has toured the … Continue reading SMFA Associate Lecturer in Music, Anna Neale Widdison\u2019s new album Wide Sky out FRIDAY 23rd March<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1252,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}