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Sidetracks And Detours present PASS IT ON 45 Sunday supplement 24th March 2024

Thanks for turning to us in your search for arts- related news, previews, profiles, interviews and reviews. Today we look at how artists seek the right art space in which to create, We  preview an Easter Production of Jungle Book taking place close to such an art space in the UK. We also bing live jazz lkistings and news of Jazz on Air.
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BOOKS ABOUT TEXAN SONG-WRITERS

he on-line site and newsletter, Texas Monthly, however, reminds us that many Texan songwriters are subjected to the same scrutiny as Townes, each of them, perhaps for different reasons
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TOWNES VAN ZANDT: man, myth and memories

I have a vivid personal memory of an occasion when I was working as a freelance journalist alongside the independent and excellent Stampede Promotions, a small two man operation that pledged the best-but-overlooked American singer-writers to the UK on small tours of some perhaps unlikely places.
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SARAH JAROSZ, welcoming the future

There’s something in the way she uses her voice that is profoundly captivating—there’s a directness that conveys the nuance and clarity of her stories to the listener as though you are the only two people in the room
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NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

The nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2024 were announced recently.

Sidetracks And Detours Present PASS IT ON 44 weekly walkabout Supplement 17 3 2024

Steve Cooke makes an impassioned commendation of the benefits of allowing creative arts to help people find their way to integrate with the wider community. At the time that Steve makes his well-considered case, with plenty of relevant examples, the funding to the arts in general in the UK has been severely cut.
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GUITARS GONE ELECTRIC

 The Electric Guitar covers the careers and influence of guitar heroes such as Buddy Holly and Jimi Hendrix,
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ROCK TO JAZZ OVER GUITAR BRIDGE

ROCK TO JAZZ OVER GUITAR BRIDGE with Norman Warwick The broadest bridge between the jazz and rock worlds is the guitar. Surely, very few of us would argue with the above assestion by Geoffrey Himes,  The Old Curmedgeon at Paste On-line…
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THESE I LOVE at the Octagon, Bolton 2024

Returning to her Lancashire roots, These I Love, is a beautiful journey of discovery - a hymn to Julie’s own working-class childhood in Accrington, to her wonderful dad, and to the healing power of daftness.