Just in: Gateshead goes for outreach queen

Just in: Gateshead goes for outreach queen

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norman lebrecht

December 15, 2014

The Sage in Gateshead tonight named its next managing director.

She is Abigail Pogson, head of Spitalfields Music in the east of London and a champion of that Arts Council mantra Learning & Participation.

She ticks the right boxes. Gateshead, in the northeast of England, needs to diversify its audience by age and origin alike.

abigail pogson

Comments

  • Dennis Marks says:

    An excellent choice. Just hope and pray that Gateshead is left with any money by the vicious Communities and Local Government department

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