Christine & The Queens and Arlo Parks head up BBC 6 Music Festival’s return to Manchester

Anna Marie de la Fuente Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival marks its 40th edition, running March 3-12, with a full-blown return to the in-person festival experience with a sidebar of only 10 titles available online.  “We’re celebrating the human connection and getting back into cinemas again,” says programming head Lauren Cohen who in her first year flying solo at the helm, is putting her personal stamp on the festival with female-centric topics dominating the Master Classes.  “It’s our 40th anniversary, which is such a milestone for us, we want it to be bigger and better than ever,” she continues. 

Arlo Parks has shared new single ‘Impurities’ from her forthcoming second album ‘My Soft Machine’ – listen to it below.The new track – which follows first single ‘Weightless’ shared back in January – is a gentle, soothing tribute to community.“It’s about being around people who make you feel like your inner ugliness and failures and mistakes don’t matter, who lift you up and make you laugh, who make you feel good and clean,” Parks said in a statement.The singer collaborated on production duties with Romil Hemnani from Brockhampton and Carter Lang, and was inspired by nights listening to The Beatles and SZA, along with her love for atmospheric music, according to a press release.Listen to ‘Impurities’ below.New album ‘My Soft Machine’ will arrive on May 26 via Transgressive Records. You can pre-order it here.The single arrives with a video directed by Jak Payne, which Parks wanted to “convey this atmospheric oscillation between solitude and companionship”.She continued: “I wanted to show how being around your people really does feel like coming home.

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Arlo Parks, Laurent Garnier, Honey Dijon, Franc Moody and Todd Terry and more will now join the previously announced The Chemical Brothers, Christine and the Queens, and Fatboy Slim.The festival, which takes place Thursday August 3 to Sunday August 6, 2023 at Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire has also added Joesef, GoGo Penguin and Flyte to the bill.Other previously announced acts include Sugababes and Confidence Man, alongside comedy, spoken word, film screens, Q&As, panels, dance performances and more.Speakers so far include the likes of Sara Pascoe, Elizabeth Day, Munroe Bergdorf and more. Check out the poster below to see the full line-up so far.Tickets for Wilderness 2023 are on sale here now.The stars are aligning, prepare for the wildest Wilderness yet! A glorious array of talent has just joined our transcendental Twelfth Season.

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The BBC Radio 6 Music Festival will be back next month. The event is set to return to Manchester – where the first edition took place in 2014 – and which is now set to be its permanent home.

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