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WHAT IS GOOD ART? WHAT GOOD IS ART?

Of course, it is not only poetry that academics might have us measure to within an inch of its life.
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we celebrate our 500th Sidetracks and Detours post with TWO GUN TEX FROM TEXAS

Watch With Mother was the catch all title of five separate programmes, shown as one per day on the BBC for pre-school children throughout the week.

CONCERT SERIES RESUMES IN ROCHDALE

Rochdale Music Society continue to provide the Borough with a wide range of musical experiences to enrich the lives of its inhabitants, This continues the tradition of excellence in music-making that is a hallmark of the mark of a co-operative life style long associated with the home of the co-operative movement, by inviting promising newcomers to appear with seasoned professionals.

NATIVE AMERICAN WRITING & GOODREADS

I am particularly looking forward to reading the an encyclopeadic work edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith. The volume is designed for school classrooms, and having worked as a peripatetic creative writing facilitator in both primary and secondary education in the UK and The Canary islands for almost thirty years, I keep a close eye on the literary and creative content on the literature curricula.

WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN ?

The music we love is being well cared for. The baton has been passed and there is every reason to think the circle can remain unbroken in the safe hands of a new generation of female singer-writer musicians.

Christian Sands, jazz pianist, says BE WATER

Empty your mind. Be formless. Shapeless. Like water ... Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend

POETRY FORMS and #NaPoWriMo from The Vixen Of Verse

I am going back to short form poetry. I am going back to haikus, tankas, shadormas and triolets.

NOVEMBER NEWS from sidetracks & detours

When Rob Adams´ excellent listings service of that name knocked on my e mail door on Halloween Night demanding ´trick or treat.´ I said I would treat them by putting their listings at the top of our diary dates. In return they allowed me to share with our readers this treat of a wonderful collection of forthcoming jazz events

NANCI GRIFFITH: …. across the great divide by Norman Warwick

With Townes Van Zandt, John Stewart, Guy Clark and John Prine and more recently John Moloney of The Chieftains having already left us, and Nanci now joining them we are left to wonder who might be among the generation to succeed them. She really was one of those artists who come along just once, in a very blue moon.

THE DEATH OF A TRUE CHIEFTAIN

´It was proof of Moloney’s abiding faith that folk music forms from around the world are united by the need of farmers to mark the changing seasons, to mourn deaths and wars, to celebrate harvests and weddings.