VIRTUAL CONCERTS AND COMMUNIQUÉS We enjoyed a recent ´virtual´ performance by the Tonin Corujo Quartet, (left) a well-known act on Lanzarote who regularly play at the Gran Hotel in Arrecife. Cleverly edited against a backdrop of Jameos Del Augua´s wonderful concert arena in the underground caves, each of the band members seemed to be contributing […]
SMALL GOSPEL CHOIR SOUNDING LIKE 606 Sunday Lunch at the 606 Jazz Club London By Steve Bewick We had high hopes for our Sunday lunch concert at one of London’s prestigious jazz clubs: The 606 Jazz Club, Lott Street, Chelsea, England. We had a booking for an in-house eight piece Gospel ensemble going by the […]
WHAT´S THAT COMING OVER THE HILL? IS IT A MONSTER? An e mail from radio presenter, Aileen Hendry, received last week, pretty well summed up how the lockdown is affecting us all and reminded us of what role she can play, as a dj, in keeping us informed and our spirits up via the radio. […]
THE ART OF SURVIVAL Artist, Sandra Kinghorn, talks to Norman Warwick The colourful, ceramic tiling that creates an image of a totem pole beneath the symbol of the head of a Native American Indian chief, stands fixed to an outside wall of the house and is perhaps the clearest signal that here lives an artist. […]
COME MEET THE BAND with Norman Warwick Since retiring here to Lanzarote we have heard Baroque Orchestras, string quartets, and Camerata ensembles from Russia, Holland, Germany and various other countries and have enjoyed the island´s own Lanzarote Ensemble Orchestra, that played in London a year or so ago. We have even heard orchestras playing in […]
KEEPING ART ALIVE AGAINST VIRUS By Steve Bewick An old issue is coming more to the forefront of my mind. How can I best market my program? I need administrative support to research how to better target my audience. Currently I attempt to do so through musicians on their Facebook pages. Vibe, a local music project […]
Steve Bewick speaks to artist Buli Corby NOT A MAINSTREAM PERSON Whilst mentoring me, and many others, in her arts group Buli Corby has frequently mentioned her time as a scientist and how this has influenced her art work. I had to ask Buli how this had come about. Was she always an artist, I […]
César Manrique; Rojo, Negro, Blanco. Teatro Tias, March 2020 Review. On the evening Friday of 6th March 2020 we had decided that over this weekend, we would visit the first two of several performance we had previewed in a short list of ´Treats In Tias´ that were to be delivered over the coming month. The […]
OLIVIA MOORE by Steve Bewick with Norman Warwick Indian Raga and Jazz Violin Olivia Moore is a professional violinist based in Manchester, primarily dedicated to Jazz and Indian music. I broke away from western classical music at the age of twenty to explore these art forms as well as cuban music and flamenco. She is […]
ENSEMBLES OF EXCELLENCE Maximum Ensemble maestros del minimalismo Salon Indieras, Tias, March 2020 Review by Norman Warwick We turned up to collect our reserved tickets at the desk in in Salon Indieras in Tias to see Maximum Ensemble, who carry the somewhat grand sobriquet of ´maestros del minimalismo.´ The advertising posters had been showing four […]
