INALA: A ZULU BALLET By Norman Warwick The a capella group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, were first put together by Joseph Shabalala in the early nineteen sixties and won the love of their national audience, before sharing with Paul Simon an increased global recognition after being invited by him to work on his nineteen eighties Graceland […]
THE SONGSMITHS: a crowd-funded success By Norman Warwick We have reported on these pages, in the past, one or two spectacularly successful crowd-funding initiatives. Some of these appeals really do deliver vibrant outcomes, leaving a lasting legacy. The album that came about for two musicians, Pablo and Humberto, widely known through the Canary Islands and […]
STORIES WRITTEN FROM THE ART a compare and contrast by Norman Warwick When we recently published Eileen´Earnshaw´s article about her ´virtual´ creative writing workshop delivered from the UK recently we had no idea that a similar event had been undertaken here on the island of Lanzarote. We have since learned, though, that a competition organized […]
A THOUSAND TIDES TO ANOTHER PLACE A Personal View of Laurence Edwards’ ‘A Thousand Tides’ and Antony Gormley’s ‘Another Place’: By Andrew Moorhouse The human body. From swaddled birth to shrouded death. Flesh and blood. Growth, maturity, decline and decay. ´How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and […]
A BROADCAST FROM FRIENDS IN BERLIN Natalija Nikolayeva (left) has been a good friend of this Sidetracks and Detours blog since we reviewed a concert of Romantic Souvenirs she played in Tias earlier this year with her musical partner, violinist Iya Myaeva. The performance was reviewed on these pages and on Lanzarote Information on-line and […]
ARTS RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE By Norman Warwick Live performances would have been the natural culmination of the second edition of the Festival de Teatro Escolar de Lanzarote, an initiative promoted by the area of Culture of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the company Cuerpo Teatro, who have agreed on this solution to the closure […]
RIDICULE IS NOTHING TO BE SCARED OF By Norman Warwick and Steve Bewick He was simply a dandy, showing us he was handsome, but with his painted face and a ribbon in his perma-waved hair he was inviting merciless teasing. Nevertheless, he kept reminding us that ´ridicule is nothing to be scared of.´ Musicians and […]
THEATRE SCHOOL SHOWCASED ON LINE Live performances would have been the natural culmination of the second edition of the Festival de Teatro Escolar de Lanzarote, an initiative promoted by the area of Culture of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the company Cuerpo Teatro, who have agreed on this solution to the closure of scenic spaces […]
Steve Bewick presents A VIRTUALLY REAL FESTIVAL Reviewed by Norman Warwick ´I´ve got so many treats in store, I´m gonna leave you beggin´ for more´ would have sounded enticing even on a poster for the Ribble Jazz And Blues Festival that should have taken place in the UK over the May Bank Holiday, but when […]
Norman Warwick looks at LINES FROM THE LOCKDOWN collated by Eileen Earnshaw Writing on our sister all across the arts page in The Rochdale Observer of Wednesday 13th May, Eileen Earnshaw, (seen far left with Shirley Anne Kennedy) a colleague of mine when I lived and worked in the UK, said that the lockdown has […]
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 7 / 12 / 25 classical, jazz, folk, rock, americana; songwriters & invisible angels7th December 2025 - 7:00 am
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