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 […]
PLAY IT ON PICASSO´S MANDOLIN Guy Clark´s Boats To Build album itself, when first released in 1982, caused me a great deal of confusion. I had always loved Guy´s songs of dust trails and freeways and of crazy characters and their complicated relationships but this album took me in directions I wasn´t then ready to […]
´MY LIFE AND MY ART WERE BORN BY THE SEA´. Exclusive interview for all across the arts Russian pianist, Natalia Nicolaeva – March 2020 As I knew nothing at all about either Iya Zhmaeva or Natalia when my wife and I and two friends stumbled into into a small concert room in Tias on an […]
SWAN LAKE AT THE LOWRY UNTIL 7TH MARCH I was working with SpiralDance a few years ago, as creative writing facilitator on a project with disaffected and disengaged children in what was then a deprived area of Rochdale MBC. It had been a funded project and somehow we had some money left over at the […]
SMALL BOY TALL WHERE RAP MEETS JAZZ We had a couple of computer screens, carrying adverts, news, programme reminders and, often, calls to prayer, as well as two microphones and our own downloaded playlists. We presented from a tiny back street studio in Deeplish in Rochdale to a mainly Muslim audience. It was a surprise […]
Engendering Sex – By Michael Higgins Dialect and Discrimination at Touchstones in Rochdale Imagine the howls of protest that would ensue if a museum or art gallery announced they were excluding girls from an artistic survey of changing patterns of language or ‘dialect’ in any town in Britain. Imagine if the reason for it was […]
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