a graceful glide with ORQUESTA de CAMARA de PARIS

What I remembered on the way home was how quickly the music escaped; as quickly as I became used to one particular ´riff´ it was replaced quickly by another that then seemed to disappear ion the same. Then as I smiled at what I was thinking to be a brand new refrain, it became thrillingly familiar for a few bars and drifted off into the ether again.

BARRY CRYER WAS COMEDY GOLD

Baz was just the loveliest guy: funny and generous. Barry (left) had worked with everybody and everybody he worked with liked him. I shall miss his happy company so much, and his regular phone calls – he gave you a gem of a joke with each one.’

AN ISLAND REMEMBERS

My column here at Lanzarote Information and my own daily blog at Sidetracks And Detours are each English Language publications. At Lanzarote Information I aim my writing at new English residents and visitors to Lanzarote by reporting, usually through offering news, interviews, previews and reviews, on the island´s arts offer. Sidetracks And Detours looks at the global arts scene and particularly at singer songwriters but Lanzarote arts events are also included.

FOLLOW FEBRUARY ARTS IN 2022

arts events for the Spring from The UK and The Canary Isdlands
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PANGEA

We also heard these extraordinary compositiions from Cupeiro himself, which were inserted with so much fun and vigour, whilst at the same time somehow stepping unobtrusively in to the itinerary of this wonderful journey back to the beginning of the relationship between Mankind and music.

KEB MO at home with all music

You have that. You have the Black Panthers, you have Malcolm X, you have Martin Luther King and any number of ministers from the Civil Rights Movement and those things. And then later on comes Maya Angelou (left). a poet with such eloquence, who talks about all those things. Her cohorts, people like Oprah Winfrey and people like that who bring it about with a gentle touch. Unapologetically.

STILL ROCKING all over the world:

Speaking for myself, I always have loved CCR music, with Lodi (a B side, for God´s sake) being one of the finest narrative songs I know and Fogerty´s solo offerings have always shared excellent production values.

JAMES TALLEY: names fall out in conversation

James Talley took me back to another time and place by introducing me to W. Lee O´Daniel And The Light Crust Doughboys, in a song I referenced, along with the aforementioned by Chip Taylor in my serialised book of the time, called Names Fall Out In Conversations, based on songs written by artists to commend other artists-

L’ART CAPTURE DES MOMENTS DE SCIENCE (French version)

Absolument, tous les ans, je réalise des ateliers avec des écoles.

ART CAPTURES MOMENTS OF SCIENCE

Science seeks to solve our fear of the unknown, to reduce the assumptions we make about the world. Art is a discipline where everything is possible! Our only brake is our imagination but in itself art is infinite where science is finite