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ART BEAT CLIMBING BACK TO NORMAL?

As ´new´ residents on Lanzarote, having retired here from the UK five years ago, we have seen just as clearly, and have been saddened just as severely as the indigenous friends we have made here by the devastation and continuing setbacks that covid19 has caused.
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´MUSICAL SIDETRACKS & DETOURS´ 2020

our passion for music had us compiling some ´virtual´ sets of our own, so that however we categorised our music there would be a perfect boxed set to play through on any given day.
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MOMENTS CONVERTED INTO GEOMETRY

She speaks of, and her works reflect, a feeling of being carried away in the very act of creativity.
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TEACH TODAY´S CHILDREN WELL

´Beyond the intrinsic value of studying music for its own sake, there is a plethora of evidence that studying music builds cultural knowledge, creative skills and improves children’s health, well-being and wider educational attainment.´
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A PRESENT TO THE FUTURE FROM THE PAST

Our selection of songs here is, in some ways. all about keeping right on to the end of the road,

WHEN BOBBY BALL TWANGED HIS BRACES

There was something more though. he had expressive eyes that could seem shifty, observant, mischievous, guilty, angry and full of friendship and compassion and humour.

BEFORE THE TOURISTS CAME

independent publications, related to photography, history, art literature and design
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SIDETRACKS & DETOURS 250th EDITION AWARD: best musical event 2020

it is a song that juxtaposes a ´serious´ lyric against a deceptively lightweight musical arrangement without denigrating either element and giving the song an attitude all of its own and enabling its reputation and influence to grow.
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MUSIC ON SLOW RETURN TO NORMALITY

music journeys on many light years of travel
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LANZAROTE BROUGHT TO BOOK

LANZAROTE BROUGHT TO BOOK by Norman Warwick I wonder if any readers of Sidetracks & Detours have a shelf on their bookcases dedicated to works referring to Lanzarote. Surely some of you who have visited and fallen in love with the…