VERSES, VOLCANOES AND WIND: exclusive interview with poet Mercedes Minguela

the poem always helps the poet to know himself every day a little more and his readers probably too.

VERSOS, VOLCANES Y VIENTO

Porque la poesía es belleza que humaniza el mundo y me hace parar y mirar hacia dentro. Por ello cada día disfruto mucho más leyendo y escribiendo poesía
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WE NEED OUR AUTHORS AND POETS

It is imperative that we support our authors and poets - many of whom are under direct or indirect threat from extremist states, groups, and individuals - a recent example being the assault on Salman Rushdie

MOON TO GOLD with Karla Harris

And so Karla and her musicians simply delivered these songs as if brand new and in doing so made them all sound contemporary again
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LET THE MUSIC PLAY ON

“In Yaiza we have a program of artistic performances to promote culture and also to revitalize shopping and tourist areas and thus help boost commerce. Now we have had the opportunity and the confidence of the Sunset Canarias Festival and here we have been able to please our people and the people of Lanzarote”, .Sunset Festival is a commitment of the Government Of The Canary Islands And The Federation Of Hotel and Tourism Entrepreneurs of Las Palmas with the support of the Yaiza City Council. 

JAZZ NUDGES INTO NOVEMBER 2022

I can tell you now that I have found a new love in music, and that´s pretty damned exciting at seventy years. What a voice, what superb accompaniment and recording values, what a play-list, in short, what an album. Listen out ofr Moopn To Gold by Karla Harris and the Joe Alterman Trio

MUSICIANS, FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS: John Prine and Elvis Costello

Our taste in music, looking back now, was probably quite similar, and as I say the last time we met was coincidentally at the same gig. During the interval Andrew and I (with his mate joining in) struck a conversation / debate / argument (delete as you think appropriate) about the relative merits of American and British contemporary song-writers. As many readers will know, music to me is all-things Americana but Andrew Moorhouse is a man of the world, with his love of music reaching out around the world with British writing at its core. I was getting a nit more hot under the collar as the ´chat´ developed but I do remember that in his calm and moderate manner Andrew just smiled beatifically, and cited Elvis Costell as the model musician.

With John Prine song-writing is A WALK IN THE PARK

Miranda Lambert had a hit with John Prine´s That´s The Way The World Goes Round, or what had long become otherwise known as the happy enchilada song for reasons that Terry Wogan would have appreciated with his love of mondagreens.

MUSIC UNTIL ETERNITY PASSES AWAY

Some reviewer I am. I don´t know where to begin to describe tonight´s incredible concert other than waffle on, as above, in the hope the words will fall to the floor and rearrange themselves, Countdown fashion, into something that makes a vague sense.