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Boisdale Xerjoff Music Awards 2024
On 18 September, the 12th Boisdale Music Awards lit up Canary Wharf with a dazzling celebration of music legends. Hosted by Jools Holland and YolanDa Brown, highlights included Kathy Sledge’s “We Are Family” finale and a six-handed piano set. Winners ranged from Jazzie B to Fun Lovin’ Criminals and Fat Tony.
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- Music

Santa Rita Boisdale Cigar Smoker of the Year 2024
On 2 December, Boisdale of Canary Wharf hosted the sold-out Santa Rita Cigar Smoker of the Year 2024, uniting stars, diplomats and cigar lovers for a black-tie evening of fine cigars, dinner and Edith Piaf-inspired music. Awards, £55K raised for charity and iconic guests made it a night to remember.
- Events
- Cigars

Where Rugby Meets Refinement:
Keith Prowse Hospitality Now On Sale
- Features
- Passions

Britannia Rules the Stage
By Richard Darbourne
The post-pandemic resurgence of British theatreland is cheered-on from the stalls by Richard Darbourne
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Jools Holland's Boogie Woogie & Blues Spectacular 2025
What a night at Boisdale Canary Wharf!
- Events
- Music

Shooting Chefs!
The best Chefs, Rivalry, Skill and Haggis Boules Take Centre Stage!
- Events

The French Connection
By Jane Anson
Jane Anson explains how the British thirst for French wine gave Bordeaux’s economy its edge
- Food & Drink

If You go Down to the Woods
By Genevieve Verdigel
Genevieve Verdigel reclaims foraging from the look-at-me New Agers and hipsters
- Food & Drink

Putting the 'Full' back into English
By Bill Knott
Bill Knott extols the virtues of the most important meal of the day
- Food & Drink

We’ve Never Had It So Good
By Michel Roux
Michel Roux says the British food landscape is unrecognisable from the early days of his family business
- Food & Drink

The Avant Gardiste
By Jock McFadyen
Jock McFadyen looks at the life Walter Sickert, the German-born, British painter and printmaker
- Features

Our Screen Savers
By Jonathan Sothcott
Producer and author, Jonathan Sothcott finds the British film industry in rude health
- Features

The Music That Defined Me: Omar Lye-Fook
By OMAR LYE-FOOK: SINGER, SONGWRITER, AND ACTOR
The singer songwriter and actor names the albums by British singers and bands that inspired and influenced his career
- Music

The Music That Defined Me: Kathy Sledge
By KATHY SLEDGE: SINGER, SONGWRITER, AND PRODUCER,
The singer, songwriter and producer names the albums by British singers and bands that inspired and influenced her career
- Music

The Music That Defined Me: Carroll Thompson
By CARROLL THOMPSON: LOVERS ROCK SINGER
The singer names the albums by British singers and bands that inspired and influenced her career
- Music

The Music That Defined Me: Luciano Messenjah
By LUCIANO MESSENJAH: ROOTS REGGAE SINGER
The roots reggae singer names the albums by British singers and bands that inspired and influenced his career
- Music

The Music That Defined Me: August Darnell
By The lead singer of Kid Creole and the Coconuts
Boisdale Life asks leading recording artists to name the albums by British singers or bands that have inspired them and influenced their careers
- Music

The Music That Defined Me: Simon Bartholomew
By SIMON BARTHOLOMEW: FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES
The founding member of The Brand New Heavies names the albums by British singers and bands that inspired and influenced his career
- Music

The Music That Defined Me: Simon Le Bon
By SIMON LE BON: LEAD VOCALIST AND LYRICIST OF DURAN DURAN
The Duran Duran front man names the albums by British singers and bands that inspired and influenced his career
- Music

The Music That Defined Me: Emeli Sandé
By EMELI SANDÉ: SINGER AND SONGWRITER
The soul and R&B vocalist names the albums by British singers and bands that inspired and influenced her career
- Music

A Jolly Fine Musical Tradition
By Joe Jackson
Pianist-singer-songwriter, Joe Jackson on the wit and whimsy of Music Hall
- Music

Hard Rock, Soft Power: Nobody Does It Better
By Jonathan Wingate
Jonathan Wingate on how Britain cornered the popular music market
- Music

The Greatest Scot of All
By Nikolai Tolstoy
Historian and avowed monarchist, Nikolai Tolstoy extols the virtues of his hero, King Robert the Bruce

Winston Churchill: Destiny’s Child
By Bruce Anderson
Bruce Anderson looks at Winston Churchill’s tussles with failure and adversity on the path to immortality
- Features