SIDETRACKS AND DETOURS, Sunday 27th September 2026: DAVID ALAN COE, blues, country, cowboy singer writer, dies at 86 + DUO BRAVO and the songs they sing + JAZZ iN READING

DUO BRAVO IN CONCERT ALMA IN CONCERT REPERTOIRE I had so enjoyed the concert that I couln´t wait to put something about it into print,….not next week, but now, the morning after the who. I sent n e mail over to Fran, to ask…

SIDETRACKS AND DETOURS, Sunday 20th September, 2026, Duo Bravo + UK reviews Waiting For Godot at The Octagon, Bolton t & Soprano And Mezzo ( music at lunchtime, Toad Lane Concert).

JUST FOLLOW YOUR ART TO ISLANDLIFE DUO BRAVO  THEIR VERY OWN X FACTOR The "X factor" refers to a special, intangible, and indescribable quality that distinguishes a person or thing from others and makes it stand out in…

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: Sunday 13th September 2026, Songs Legitimised On Line + They´ve All Come To Look For Americana by Peter Pearson, + Guy Clark´s Old Number One Album Revisited reviewed by Norman Warwick + Five Way Split Jazz preview by Jim Wade of Jazz in Reading + UK folk music news from English Expo

LIVE RECORDINGS OF THOUSANDS OF SONGS LEGITIMISED ON LINE as Norman Warwick dreams on Aadam Jacobs (left) surreptitiously recorded his first live concert in 1984, though he doesn’t remember whose concert it was. It’s hard…

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 6th September 2026 featuring Duo Bravo + Cruising The Canary Islands

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS DUO BRAVO: ´PURE MUSICAL CONNECTION´ an exclusive interview for sidetracks & detours Very rarely, but occasionally, a new ensemble emerges out of the network, and makes a huge impact and become the name…

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS, Sunday 30th August 2026: Too Darn Hot jazz review, from Lanzarote.

The Atlantic Jazz Lab Orchestra returned to Lanzarote on Sunday May 10th to present Too Darn Hot!, their new album recorded in La Gomera and released on the Dutch label Télès Jazz Records. Their performance paid tribute to the great…

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS, Sunday 23rd August 2026, includes UK folk album charts and news. + we remember when Guy Clark told us that BUDDY MONDLOCK IS A SONGWRITER

SOUND ROOTS AND ENGLISH FOLK EXPO Sharing their news of awards, charts, gigs and festivals, Norman Warwick invites sidetracks & detours readers to PASS IT ON August, die she must, as the harmonious voices of Paul & Arties…

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS, Sunday 16th August 2026, including R:I:P Jimmy Cricket + the film MICHAEL that allows art to be enjoyed for art´s sake + new name for old street

ON LOSING A WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING JIMMY CRICKET: a personal tribute by Steve Cooke from all across the arts. Laughter, having its evolutionary roots in creating social bonds that help individual and group survival, is a powerful tool…

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS Sunday 9th August 2026: Town Poet Laureate Sammy Weaver looks back on her year of laureatship and Rochdale shapes its future.

all across the arts news, previews & reviews published by Steve Cooke and passed on by sidetracks & detours THE TIMES THEY…

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS 2nd August 2026: Songwriters & Invisible Angels, Chapter 3 by Peter Pearson & Norman Warwick featuring Kate Wolf and Julie Mathews & Christine While + another annual festival in our Island Life

Songwriters Chapter 3 part 1 KATE WOLF - AN UNFINISHED LIFE by Peter Pearson When Kate Wolf succumbed to leukemia in 1986, at the age of 44, her star was on the rise. The previous year she…

SIDETRACKS AND DETOURS 26th July 2026: Jazz and classical musician Winton Marsalis explores themes of unity and social progress + Karla Harris announces high profile shows + Duo Bravo have a new date at Famara, and friends in the Uk share news from alla cross the arts.

WYNTON MARSALIS LETS JAZZ JOINS US TOGETHER by Norman Warwick It would have been around twenty five years ago, when Steve Cooke (left) was partnering me in presenting two articles a week that took readers of the Rochdale Observer,…