Entries by Norman Warwick

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sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON 60 weekend supplement Sunday 7 7 2024

Hello, and welcome to another bursting at the covers edition  of PASS IT ON 60, our weeklySundaySupplement of all  the stories, listing and news article we couldn´t squeeze into our daily posts to Sidetracks and Detorus last week. Today´s collection therefore includes a piece by our Festival following correspondent and stories of festivals, gigs and recordings as reported by the I Love Manchester newsletter. Jim Wade and Trevor bannister from jazz In Reading between them preview and review the jazz scene in that part of the UK, and Steve Bewick delivers his weekly recipe for Hot Biscuits, as served his mixcloud jazz programme. Graham marshall reports form The Rochdale Music Society  and Peter Pearson proudly proclaims Ï was There´as he reports a fondly remembered Edale Blugrass Festival. Norman Warwick closes procedings with a further Island Insight, as he introduces a very popular singer and live performer on Lanzarote.

sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON 59 weekly supplement Sunday 30 6 2024

If football coach Gareth Southgate is serious about improving England’s fading fortunes in the Euro ’24 competition, he would do well to check out the Gaz Hughes Trio. It’s performance at the Progress Theatre on Friday 21 June, part of a 50-date ‘Nuclear Bebopalypse’ tour of the UK, had everything that was missing from England’s inept display against Denmark – perfect balance, poise, purpose, exciting changes in pace, the light and shade of emotional expression and oodles of energetic creative spirit.  Above all, it was hugely entertaining.