Eska

Eska may refer to:

Camden Crawl

Camden Crawl was a music festival in Camden, London, which first appeared in 1995 and then was held annually from 2005 to 2014.

Overview

Rather than a single venue, Camden Crawl operated at multiple venues simultaneously, with different acts taking the stage at different venues. This format is sometimes referred to as a "microfestival", a type of event which Time Out's Guide to London 2012 described as "a cross between a pub crawl and a music festival" and noted that Camden Crawl had originated.Drowned in Sound magazine called Camden Crawl "[u]ndoubtedly the first festival of its kind in the UK". Venues which hosted the events included The Barfly, Camden Underworld, Dingwalls, Dublin Castle, Electric Ballroom, KOKO, and Proud Gallery.

Unlike genre-specific music festivals, Camden Crawl booked acts from a wide variety of musical styles, including dubstep, folk, indie, new wave, pop, post-punk, punk, rock, shoegaze, and techno. Performers who have participated in Camden Crawl include Adele, Disclosure, Florence + the Machine, Mumford & Sons, and Amy Winehouse. In addition to bands and solo musicians, performers in some years included art historians, comedians, poets, and people with unusual skills such as hula hooping. In some years, the combination of popular musicians and tiny venues led to long lines, fan frustration and the nickname "Camden Queue".

Eska (singer)

Eska Mtungwazi is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Life and career

Born in Zimbabwe, Mtungwazi moved to South London as a young child, and steadily built a reputation in the UK for her featured work with an eclectic range of established British artists and bands.

Following vocal credits on many independent releases throughout the 2000s, in 2013 she released her debut solo project titled Gatekeeper EP on her own Earthling Recordings label, which featured five original tracks and was co-produced by acclaimed producers Matthew Herbert and David Okumu. The EP attracted worldwide critical acclaim, including tastemaker Gilles Peterson, who called her "one of the most important singers in the UK right now", and Jamie Cullum, who declared the EP's title song to be "an unbelievable track that will be hard to beat in 2013". The title track from the EP was also selected by Peterson for his Brownswood Bubblers 10 compilation, which was released on Brownswood Recordings.