Six degrees of separation from bassoonist buffoon Kara LaMoure

Kara LaMoure is scheduled to perform at the Fringe Club on Thursday with her all-female group, The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet. Their comedic covers incorporate whoopie-cushions and kazoos, and have become a social media sensation; the band's YouTube channel has had over one million hits. Formed in 2008, when its members were undergraduates at a New York music conservatory, the group shot to fame in 2010 with a viral video titled Lady Gaga Saga …

Despite his love for committing naked women to canvas, the early Renaissance master never committed to one in real life; in fact, Botticelli said the idea of getting married gave him nightmares. He was rumoured, however, to have had a life-long affection for Simonetta Vespucci, who modelled for The Birth of Venus and was a married noblewoman. Botticelli asked to be buried at her feet when he died. As well as being the portraitist of his wealthy patron, Lorenzo de Medici, Botticelli was an illustrator of Dante's Inferno; more than 400 years after the artist's death, these drawings inspired fashion designer Masha Ma …

Such is the cultural clout of the English model and daughter of Rolling Stones' singer Mick Jagger that in 2010 The Guardian newspaper reported that her signature gapped-tooth smile had led to a rise in models having brackets inserted between their front teeth. In 2012, Jagger and her pearly whites took part in a celebration of British fashion at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics; also involved in the festivities was musician Howard Shore …