2023 – Page 6 – All Across the Arts

music, Mystique and MUSCLE SHOALS

The forceful music that rolled out of Muscle Shoals in the 1960s and 1970s shaped hits by everyone from Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones and Paul Simon. Christopher M. Reali's in-depth look at the fabled musical hotbed examines the events and factors that gave the Muscle Shoals sound such a potent cultural power. Many artists trekked to FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound in search of the sound of authentic southern Black music--and at times expressed shock at the mostly white studio musicians waiting to play it for them. Others hoped to draw on the hit-making production process that defined the scene. Reali also chronicles the overlooked history of Muscle Shoals's impact on country music and describes the region's recent transformation into a tourism destination.

Literary, Music, Performing Arts

HONOURS AND TRIBUTES for Nanci Griffith

A good compilation often works in more than one way – to the initiated, it offers new perspectives on familiar songs – to the uninitiated, it offers a way in to an artist through a more familiar third party. This collection does both and does both well and was released on 20TH September 2023.

education, entertainment, Performing Arts

‘DIDN’T YOU USED TO BE SOMEBODY?’

The sell-out audience [I am reliably informed could have sold out at least 4x] included people in recovery, supporters of people in recovery, recoverists [recovery + activist] as well as actors and media types.

culture and tradition, Literary, Music

CANARI FESTIVAL COMING TOGETHER

The first edition of Canari will focus on two islands: Lanzarote and La Graciosa. Between vineyards and volcanoes, we will enjoy unique experiences, concerts in natural landscapes and activities linked to heritage to get to know and enjoy the territory from a cultural and sustainable perspective

cinema, Music, Performing Arts

YOU´D BETTER GET IT WHILE YOU CAN

songs he acknowledges writers like Townes Van Zandt who, like Chip Taylor himself, seemed too good to be commercial (although that phrase surely doesn´t, (and nor should it), exist.

AATA, culture and tradition, Music

Sidetracks And Detours present PASS IT ON weekly walkabout 24: Sunday 29th October 2023

The bell has already struck a sound with me, perhaps because the lyrics tell the story about my son ringing in the new year on the church bells at St Peter's Church Langtoft East Yorkshire with my father! It was snowing, we'd been in the garden building a snowman and playing with sparklers! It was such a magical night!