First Night Of The Proms 2020 EVOLUTION, REVOLUTION & TRADITION By Norman Warwick I think Katie Derhem and her guests, the composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Stephen Fry, struck just the right tone. Ayanna Witter-Johnson is a British composer, singer, songwriter and cellist. Her notable performances include opening for the MOBO Awards “Pre-Show” in 2016, and […]
THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC By Norman Warwick, a man who ´can´t dance can!´ It was by Catherine Wilkes, a member of a generation considerably younger than my own, that I was introduced to the music of Mumford & Sons at a party she threw for staff and management of the Rochdale based revenue funded […]
MICHAEL ROSEN writing on the road to recovery by Norman Warwick Following forty seven days in intensive care he returned home in June, earlier this summer. He says it them took him only two or three days to write Rigotoni The Pasta Cat, which is the latest in a comic fiction series illustrated by Tony […]
BOOK A PLACE ON THE SHELVES By Norman Warwick It is only a few short weeks ago that I wrote on these pages of so many book shop owners worrying about when they might be able to re-open and what kind of support they could expect from publishers and the general public when doing so. […]
PRISONERS OF HISTORY by Keith Lowe William Collins £20 as perceived by Norman Warwick Keith Lowe, already an award-winning author of books on WWII, has seen monuments around the world taken down in political protest and subsequently has begun to wonder how monuments built to commemorate WWII might look today to younger generations. Focusing on […]
MARGO PRICE KNOWS HER WORTH By Norman Warwick Now four years in the music spotlight, Margo Price (left) is not sure how to summarise the whole experience. ´I´ve been frustrated,´ Margo admits, speaking to Esquire magazine, via Zoom, about her experience with the mainstream country music establishment. ´She speaks of the racism, the sexism, the […]
HEAR THE VOICE OF THE BARD by Michael Higgins There is something unreal about life and living it. There is nothing more real than experiencing life’s joys and imaginings. But nothing is more unreal than its despair and misunderstandings. Language is both a guide and a deceiver. At the age of eight I had a […]
Words from the writer, Jose Ramon Navas on WRITING OUR TIMES by Norman Warwick ´It is hard for writers to fiction writers to compete with reality´. So says Jose Ramon Navas, a Canarian writer currently living on Lanzarote. I´m pretty sure any reader would agree him with him, considering the ´real stories´ we have had […]
JULIAN BREAM WAS THE SOUND OF MY SCHOOL DAYS. By Norman Warwick Today´s cover photograph above, by Rahav Segev for The New York Times, shows legendary guitarist Julian Bream performing at Alice Tully Hall in New York in 1997. He made his American debut in 1958 at Town Hall in Manhattan. Allan Kozin, (with additional […]
WHAT A YEAR FOR WRITING WOMEN by Norman Warwick There were nine women named in the ten nominated writers in the 8th Annual Playa Blanca Short Story Competition, announced at The Castilla del Aguila Cultural Association. The ´awards ceremony´ was held in Playa Blanca municipal library. Present at the event was the Councillor For Culture […]
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 7 / 12 / 25 classical, jazz, folk, rock, americana; songwriters & invisible angels7th December 2025 - 7:00 am
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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