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…