MAKING NEW FRIENDS THROUGH MUSIC A review. We tend to ignore the first minute of any phone calls from Maigret Marguerita as she is usually so excited we can´t follow a word she is saying, but after a while the story unfolded. She had seen a poster in Tias about a concert of piano and […]
Guitarras en Haria Festival Internacional; review There were no signs at 4.00 pm that this was yet the case, and with the gala concert not scheduled to start until 7.00 pm we had time to dip into Arietta for omelette and chips and a coffee. Later, queuing outside El Aljibe de Haria, we realised that […]
SEND REINFORCEMENTS, WE´RE GOING TO ADVANCE Present at a recent meeting about publicity and arts communications here on Lanzarote was The Councillor of The Insular Table of Culture, Alberto Aguiar, and technical and political representatives of the municipalities of Haría, Tinajo, Arrecife, Tías, Yaiza and San Bartolomé. all across the arts understand that details will […]
SPECIAL CONCERT WAS A FAMILY AFFAIR Murray McClachlan & family. A Camel House Concert BBC Music Magazine had already introduced to me the musician in glowing terms. “Murray McLachlan is a pianist with a virtuoso technique and a sure sense of line. His timing and phrasing are impeccable, and his tone, full but unforced in […]
EL ESTATUOSDES DEL ESTATUTO Y SE ENCUENTRA CONTRA LA TORMENTA Víctor Fernández Gopar a menudo celebraba la importancia de la sal para esta isla, escribiendo maravillosa poesía al respecto, y muchos de esos poemas han sido adaptados en canciones gloriosas por grupos de lore popular de Lanzarote. Hoy, se dio a conocer una estatua del […]
STATUE STANDS STILL AND DIGNIFIED AGAINST STORM Victor Fernandez Gopar often celebrated the importance of salt to this island, writing wonderful poetry about it, and many of those poems have been adapted into glorious songs by Lanzarote Folk Lore Groups. Today, there was an unveiling of a statue of the poet with the working name, […]
POET LAUREATE REACHES FOR LYRICISM Several poets laureate of modern history have released recordings of their work, and current holder of the post, Simon Armitage has now increased the number of their company. None previously, though, can ever have released an album described as providing ´ambient post-rock passages, jazz flourishes and atonal experimentalism´. Bob Dylan […]
Whispers In The Wind Lanzarote has so little light pollution and so much silent, open countryside that we are afforded wonderful views of meteors and falling stars all across the constellation and, almost on a nightly basis, are able to follow Tom Paxton´s advice to ´listen to stars spreading rumours.´ We seem able to hear […]
CONCERTS IN CAVES AND CONVENTS 36th Festival International Classic Music Canarias BEETHOVEN AT EASE, MUSICIANS AT PLAY Cuarteto de Cuerdo Ornati Inglesia de San Roque, Tinajo, January 11th 2020 As genuine lovers of chamber music and as a String Quartet, Cuarteto de Cuerda Ornati find themselves in the best space to express that love and […]
SINGING WITH THE CHOIR: Anne Rees We brought you a review recently of a performance by Lanzarote Gospel Choir (see archives) and mentioned an English lady in the choir, called Anne Rees who charmingly agreed to sit through one of our hugely interrogative, but always polite, interviews. Sidetracks and Detours are delighted to now include […]
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