Back2Black – review

Old Billingsgate, LondonIn Rio, this annual celebration of the links between Brazil's black culture and Africa is held in a grand disused railway station. In London, the Back2Black festival took over Old Billingsgate, the enormous one-time fish market, transformed with elaborate lighting, artwork, banners and a stage in the main hall, another in the vaults and a third outside by the river. With Brazil's former culture minister Gilberto Gil acting as host, this three-day festival (co-produced by...

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