‘In love with all good music’ – the phrase sounds like a throw-away Instagram caption until you spend a Friday night in Strait Street and realise it is Valletta’s unofficial motto. From the brassy blast of a local fanfare marching into the City Gate to the sub-bass thump of a Gozo farmhouse rave, Malta’s love…
Valletta’s Grand Harbour crackled with more than early-autumn heat yesterday morning; it fizzed with anticipation as Prime Minister Robert Abela stepped onto the Upper Barrakka balcony to mark “Malta Day” − a new national observance decreed for 10 September. Flanked by the scarlet-uniformed Malta Philharmonic brass, he unveiled three headline announcements that will ripple through…
Mid-September in Malta has always felt like the hinge of the year: the sea is still warm enough for a sunset dip at Għajn Tuffieħa, the vineyards of Gozo are heavy with the season’s first Ġellewża grapes, and village band clubs are polishing their brass for the last festa of the summer. Between 8 and…
On a sticky August night in Valletta, the bronze doors of the Manoel Theatre creak open and the crowd that spills onto Strait Street is humming the same chorus: “Għanja ta’ l-Arġent”, but not the 1970s original by Enzo Gusman. Tonight it’s Nadine Axisa’s stripped-down jazz trio version, slowed to a crawl, her voice brushing…
