HEART AND MIND AND FINGERTIPS by Graham Marshall l Rochdale Music Society LUKA OKROS pianoforte Heywood Civic Centre 2020 review This was the third in what is proving to be a musically most rewarding 40th Anniversary Concert Series promoted by the Rochdale MUSIC Society. The young Georgian pianist, Luka Okros, brought his Eurasian take on […]
MUSIC FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES A Meeting Of Timples, Teatro Tias, January 2020 review The annual La Canderlaria and San Blas religious festival in Tias always presents a plethora of arts that showcase the town and its artists and their guests during a week of events for all the family. The festival also […]
SONGS OF PRAISE GOSPEL STYLE ! Lanzarote Gospel Choir, Teatro Tias, January 2020 review My wife and I had spent the previous hour in a wonderful new restaurant Arreyate un Millo, just around the corner from Teatro Tias, extolling the virtues, to our friends Margaret and Iain, of The Lanzarote Gospel Choir we were about […]
DINOSAUR ROAMS ROCHDALE I lived in what was a hot-bed of hot bed of artistic creativity in the UK for sixty years of my life, and as an adult collaborated with other artists I much admired to produce works that were intended to be both entertaining and educational. Several of those I worked with are […]
SLEEPING BEAUTY UNDER A MUCKHEAP How closely Lanzarote might resemble the desert island for which BBC Radio 4 castaway Sir Ernest Hall once selected his musical and literary preferences with Kirsty Walk is hard to say. Certainly, he brought music with him to this island when he bought and renovated his home here in Macher. […]
ARTS: BETWEEN COMMUNITY & DIVISION The story turned about to be about a travelling production of a play called Trojan Horse that was playing at the time at Oldham Coliseum Theatre as part of a national tour. Two years ago the play had won the Amnesty International Freedom Of Expression award for its story of […]
JUKE BOX JUDGE AND JURY Diligently undertaking the depth of research our readers demand of us, I googled Larry Yaskiel before conducting our interview with him, and unearthed an extensive on-line presence, though some of those entries that come up first on the page are my own previous articles about him published on Lanzarote Information […]
LA ROCOLA del BAR RUMBA Book launch by Larry Yaskiel – Cic El Almacen We had convened in the wonderful artsy gallery and buzzing pub and restaurant that is Cic El Almacen, in Arrecife, on Lanzarote. This was to officially announce the publication of Larry Yaskiel´s second book in less than eighteen months: (following a […]
DRAGONS ROAM THE STREETS; THE RAT LOOKS ON a quick catch up The Year Of The Rat is the first sign in the Chinese zodiac cycle. According to the Chinese zodiac story, in the competition held by the Jade Emperor to decide the zodiac animals, the quick-witted rat asked the diligent ox to take him […]
STREET SCENE by Kurt Weill: Opera North Grand Theatre, Leeds, January 18th 2020 The synopsis for the Opera North production of Street Scenes, which opened at ´The Grand Theatre,´ Leeds on Saturday 18th January 2020, of one of Kurt Weill´s lesser known musicals, was atmospheric and dramatic. ´On a stiflingly hot summer´s day and night in […]
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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