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…