The director of the island´s music academy has recently delivered the first opera fully produced on the island, with students, staff and volunteers coming together to perform to more than 500 people at the El Salinero Teatro in the island´s capital city of Arrecife. And only last week Dee and I saw a live performance […]
According to The Mail On Sunday (11th August 2019) millions of us now listen in to podcasts. So well developed, now, is the podcast industry that the newspaper, in an article by Rob Waugh, included several pages discussing the current 100 podcasts most listened to. These specialist podcasts cover not only comedy, literature, film, tv, […]
Track listings Kodachrome by Paul Simon Borders by Just Poets Flash Bang Wallop by Tommy Steele Photographs And Memories by Jim Croce Two Thousand Feet by Lendanear The Boy In The Photograph by The Stereophonics Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday My Favourite Picture of You by Guy Clark Photograph […]
Track Listings Catcher In The Rye by Sammy Walker Five Get Over Excited by The Beautiful South For Whom The Bell Tolls by The Bee Gees Hemingway´s Whiskey by Kenny Chesney Islands In The Stream by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton Lady Writer by Dire Straits My Autobiography by Janis Ian New Biography by […]
It wasn´t that long ago that jazz was thought of as a musical genre that was only heard in hotel lifts or being sung by a lounge lizard in some pretentious cocktail bar or being played by a part time pianist in that posh coffee shop down in the shopping precinct. I have paraphrased the […]
The British Connection To Lanzarote And The Canaries” Natura Palace Hotel, Playa Blanca 2019 Winston Churchill, Francis Drake, Horatio Nelson, William Shakespeare, Agatha Christie and The Beatles might not seem to have anything in common other than their fame. However, a new book, called The British Connection To Lanzarote And The Canaries, suggests these names […]
On the afternoon of Sunday 28th April the 100 Years: Lanzarote and Ceasar began its second week with a change from the rock attitude that had closed the first week. We were introduced, instead, to the stronghold of traditional music of the Canarian folklore, with beautiful sounds crafted by the hands of the timplistas, Toñin […]
Oh yeh, really, it was like a Royal Wedding. We even had to go to the palace to pick up our invitations to the reception. Well, ok, not the palace but to that big, posh building in the middle of the capital. That CIEM or whatever it is, you know the one with white metal […]
A year or two ago Rochdale’s 40 kilometres of tow paths, cycle tracks and walkways were celebrated in a poetry anthology that brought together eight locally well known poets. Plaques and signs were placed along the routes to be read and enjoyed by those who love these trails through some of the most beautiful of […]
Many creative writers, honing their craft with one or more of Rochdale’s writing groups, will at some time have to consider whether they need to be represented by a literary agent. These days some publishing houses will only accept manuscripts from an agent, even if the manuscript is by an as yet unpublished writer. Today, […]
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