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ANY FRIEND OF JAZZ IS A BUDDY OF MINE

With no formal training, Charles Buddy Bolden created a unique improvising style with his horn. Essentially, he paved the way for jazz by arranging rural blues, spirituals and ragtime music for brass instruments.

IT ALL ´LEEDS´ TO FAIR TRADE

I believe traditional skill sets can add great value to the growth of sustainable long term businesses in fashion and textiles, while having a direct positive impact on economic development and poverty reduction of communities across the world

LANZAROTE STEPS BACK TO THE FUTURE

We are going to focus on making the best of our destination known to tour operators in order to attract and support the re-activation of one of our essential and most beloved markets for us, such as the mainland,´

MUSIC OFFERS SHELTER FROM THE STORM

His third offering, reflective of the twentieth century, took us to areas such as Cadiz in his own Sailor´s Dream and Barcelona with his Sunset In The Park of Guell and he played a Tribute to Lorca with another of hios own works, Cordoba: Far Away And Alone.

HIS ´N´ HERS JAZZ AS ARTS COME BACK

It has been almost ten years since four particular string virtuosos last performed together but Yo-Yo Ma on cello, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Edgar Meyer on bass, and Chris Thile on mandolin, are coming back together for the long-awaited Goat Rodeo reunion.

Day 5 concluding our inaugural annual Sidetracks And Detours not literally a JoinedUpReadingAndWriting Literary Festival: GUILTY, OR NOT GUILTY?

´If we are not sometimes baffled and amazed and undone by the world around us, rendered speechless and stunned, perhaps we are not paying close enough attention.´

day 4 of 5 of Sidetracks And Detours inaugural annual not literally a JoinedUpReadingAndWriting Literary Festival A TRIAL BEGINS

We are here today to defend writers, condemned by an uncaring world as workshy dreamers.

day 2 of 5 of Sidetracks & Detours inaugural annual not literally JoinedUpReadingAndWriting Festival STAY WRITE WHERE YOU ARE

I am confident that these innovative and imaginative works will inspire creativity and hope

day 2 of 5 of our inaugural annual not literally a literary festival of JoinedUpReadingAndWriting. READING AND WRITING A NOT SO STILL LIFE

I wanted the novel to reflect a gradual realisation … I’m now writing a novel set in 1979. I need to be on solid ground. The present is like quicksand´.