Two Kinds of Music....................

A photographic exhibition of jazz, folk and African musicians chosen from the
archive of music photographer Rik Walton.
Commissioned to document the Newcastle Jazz Festival by the Council, Rik had
access to an extraordinary range of outstanding players, from the late, great
George Melly to Abdullah Ibrahim, from Andy Shepperd to Don Weller. For
more than a decade Folkworks asked him to photograph countless concerts,
education and training events, resulting in an extensive collection of images of
traditional and folk musicians, some famous, some unknown. An organiser of
the Harambe Africa! Festival in the ‘80s, Rik received a Northern Arts grant for
an exhibition about life in Zimbabwe. He has gone on to work in Ghana, Senegal,
Zambia, Mozambique and Lesotho. Presenting a radio programme gave him the
opportunity to interview and photograph such notable figures as Pete Seeger and
John Martyn. Other images are simply the result of his personal passion for music,
and making sure he was in the right place at the right time.