SPEED OF THE SOUND OF LONELINESS By Norman Warwick It is more than forty years since John Prine’s self-titled debut album was released. That means I have been listening to his music for two thirds of my life and have never tired of it. He is high among the pantheon of (mostly American) singer-writers who […]
ENQUIRY INTO MAXIMUM ENSEMBLE The e mail read: ´Here are the responses of the five questions you asked for, from each member of the ensemble, with Melina’s in the attached PDF. I had already seen the other interviews you did with the Russian girls, Iya Zhmaeva and Natalija Nicolaeva who performed Souvenirs Romantica in the […]
SUNBIRD SINGS of good news from Kimmie Rhodes Not only have our Cabildo (government) seemed to handle the coronavirus situation over here pretty well but so, too, have the citizens of Lanzarote who have stayed away from the beaches and the countryside. With virtually no tourists left on the island and all the hotels and […]
LIKE TEENAGERS IN LOVE ! Romeo and Juliet come calling There’s a bit of history between me and Romeo, to be honest, as this youth has let me down on more than one occasion. Seventeen years ago, back in the UK when I was a fifty year old mature student, I was asked by a […]
ART, CULTURE & COMMERCE COLLABORATE The two days of Thursday 9th and Friday 10th April will include the first Lanzarote ´streaming festival´ of musicians, and will be called Lanzarotedescasafestival or Lanzarote From Home. The virtual events have been developed to give support and visibility to the musicians of Lanzarote through a format that has become […]
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 […]
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