I go forward with a huge amount of gratitude for the many blessings bestowed upon me (family, friends, travels and more), with no regrets but with appreciation for how my photographs—my life’s work—have been received.
you can either just tap your foot and think that it’s a nice, sweet little song, or see that there’s a bit more darkness and depth to it, if you really want to go there.
British radio presenter, music writer and author Spencer Leigh wrote in the Independent newspaper: ´The psychedelia of 1966 held no interest for Gerry, and he was far too down to earth to follow The Beatles to Bangor to see the Maharishi.”
What a production this was, though, by a small provincial theatre company here on Lanzarote.
Then there was a glimmer of light when a friend, opera singer Andrew Staples, during a visit to her bedside noticed she seemed to be tapping her toes in time to the music of Brahms.
raeme Livingstone’s music is about more than words on paper. Rather it is a piece of the heart of the man, and the best way to understand what makes him special is to catch him in concert
Plague here brings eventually depopulation, migration and a total standstill of commerce, a little like our current situation but whereas governments in our day have instigated restrictions on gatherings and conducting trade, in Mary’s late 21st century commerce eventually dies through the steady tide of the plague itself.
Colin hits big notes as a performance and recording artist, but it is in the moments when he ´loses´ himself in a song and his voice sails downstream to faraway places that I most love his singing.
no English traditional dancing team had the same Romantic clout, or visible presence, as the black-faced, skirt wearing, clog dancing ‘Coco Nut Dancers’ of Bacup in Lancashire just to the north of Rochdale.
I’ve never lost that initial interest nor the sense of excitement in improvised music from around the world in all its forms.
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 7 / 12 / 25 classical, jazz, folk, rock, americana; songwriters & invisible angels7th December 2025 - 7:00 am
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS Pass It On 2/11/2025 Jenny Bray, Nash and Asher, Opus 222nd November 2025 - 7:00 am
A LITTLE BUNDLE OF SUMMER. sidetracks & detours 3rd September 2025 featuring Jazz Artist, Jenny Bray. Broadcaster and writer, Steve Bewick, Expo Folk and Sound Roots3rd September 2025 - 7:00 am