THE BAUM, BALLADS AND A BIT OF BORIS by Michael Higgins My Boris love song was given its first sounding at The Baum in Rochdale on Sunday (see photograph above). Some might feel there is often too much anti Boris work read out at these events – and too much one-sided politics altogether, so I […]
MUSICIANS IN TRANSCIENCE On reading my latest e mail from Graham Marshall I was also reminded of not only how many classical musicians have enjoyed opportunities early in their careers through Rochdale Music Society, but also how many have since moved in new and exciting directions. For instance, I recalled one particular article had sent […]
INTO THE NEW YEAR WITH NEW IDEAS In its first four years of existence, when serving the arts scene in the Rochdale area of the UK, all across the arts grew from providing one page per week to The Heywood Advertiser to two pages per week. The organisation grew further by then providing two pages […]
MORE THAN TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS It all started for us on Friday December 6th with an event that is all-inclusive and is always elegant, cheerful and bright. The Princessa Yaiza Hotel has been inaugurating a Christmas lights display for several years and by now they have them running like clockwork, even if it is […]
Review of concert by SERGIO DE JESUS, Teatro de Tias, ´five bums at the bar´ interview after the concert. Since emigrating to Lanzarote four years ago we have marvelled at the art works and humanity of the late Cesar Manrique. We have fallen in love, too, with flamenco and the fado music from Portugal, and […]
GOSPEL, PERCUSSION, CLASSICAL, CHORAL AND STARRY SKIES Latonius & The Faith Theory in Arrecife La Tempestad in Arrecife Mijail Saprychev, classical pianist at El Grifo Miguel Aguearralde, book launch, in Arrecife The Alborada Ladies Choir Vocal Siete + support in Haria What made Milwaukee famous will not be lost on Rod Stewart fans but the […]
Track listings Wild Billy´s Circus Song by Bruce Springsteen Man On The Flying Trapeze by Dick Powell Circus Girl by Gretchen Peters The Wall Of Death by Richard Thompson Cathy´s Clown by The Everly Brothers The Tears Of A Clown by Smokey Robinson Death of a Clown by Dave Davies Nelly The Elephant by Mandy […]
FROM MR. KITE TO CIRCUBA Elegant tents were pegged on the Rambla Medular in Arrecife with posters plastered all over the city centre announcing that, for almost a month, Cuba´s National Circus was in town. Whatever the old romantic tales might have us believe, becoming a circus artist is not as simple as running away […]
PERHAPS THEY´LL LISTEN NOW ? Forty years ago we were just a pair of collaborative songwriters amongst several others at our local folk clubs. Among those we hugely admired but who, like us, had careers and families to protect and so never quite chased music hard enough, were people like Ged Morgan and Bob Ashworth […]
Festival Internacional de Musica de Canarias The 36th yearly edition of Festival Internacional de Musica de Canarias (FIMC) will be here on the islands of Lanzarote and La Graciosa as early as January and February to offer six of the concerts scheduled. That means we will be treated to four glorious concerts, two of which […]
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 7 / 12 / 25 classical, jazz, folk, rock, americana; songwriters & invisible angels7th December 2025 - 7:00 am
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS Pass It On 2/11/2025 Jenny Bray, Nash and Asher, Opus 222nd November 2025 - 7:00 am
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