COWBOY CELTIC: DAVID WILKIE

In addition to his three Cowboy Celtic CDs and his three Great Western Orchestra CDs, Wilkie has two solo albums to his credit and an acclaimed release with the Cold Club (an off-the-wall group that also includes renowned blues guitarist Amos Garrett, jazz violinist Karl Roth and Chilean guitar wizard Oscar Lopez).

DAVID WILKIE: The Mandolin Man

David Wilkie seemed to me an amazingly versatile talent,

LOST IN JAZZ: ghosts in the music

She spoke once in a song of ´ghosts in the music, … the soul of America´s Pride.´ It is a slightly angry, provocative song and the delivery by her is sublime on her Once In A Very Blue Moon album

TWO BECOME THREE

After seventy minutes of weaving the strings of three instruments into a rich jazz texture, they at the finale, added another ´string´ to their bow with Infante crooning wordlessly, but tunefully, soothingly and beautifully in a happy and carefree scatting sound of the Louis Armstrong era.

LOVE OF LORCA

To hear musicians and vocalists work like this, pushing to unpick and re-stitch live on stage that which has been rehearsed to within an inch of its life. is to witness those on the flying trapeze working without a net.
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THE NOMINATIONS ARE ….. a preview of The Canary Islands Music Awards 2021

these awards are convened in order to celebrate, promote and disseminate the creative processes, artists, musical works and professional management of the music sector in the Canary Islands.
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recalling OLD FRIENDS & FAMILIAR PLACES

plans are in place to restore two windmills located in the Salinas de Janubio, in the municipality of Yaiza, here on Lanzarote. The windmills are the symbol of the history behind this spectacular installation from the Lanzarote sugar mill.

JAZZ MUSICIANS PLAYING VIOLINS and UK jazz news

jazz violin means, “I dare you.” Just remember, we are jazz musicians who play violin, not violinists who play jazz.´
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IN GOOD COMPANY CROSSING STATE LINES

ever since my primary school my preferred method of learning has been listening to music. I lived only five miles from Bury but at the time I learned that the clay in Georgia USA is bright red, long before I learned that the my home town´s puddings were black !
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RHYTHM & LANGUAGE, JAZZ & FLAMENCO

This had been a musical journey that had taken us from tradition, through improvisation, to modernity.