Entries by Norman Warwick

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS Sunday 19th July 2026: WORKING IN A COAL MINE or a car repair shop with LEE DORSEY + PARRANDA JANUBIO celebrate 40th anniversary of music, + the closing football games of The World Cup

LEE DORSEY working in a coal mine and Norman Warwick decided to Lendanear No singer in the Big Easy had a more easy-going manner than Lee Dorsey (right).. The rhythms behind him could be wickedly syncopated (they usually were), and Dorsey would still sound unruffled, unhurried, as if it were a sunny afternoon and he had nothing better to […]

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SIDETRACKS & DETOURS Sunday 12th July 2026: Lendanear to Duo Bravo in an exclusive interview + we seek the truth about diversity + Manchester UK Folk Festival + UK folk music album charts

LENDANEAR TO DUO BRAVO down sidetracks & detours with Norman Warwick sidetracks & detours first came across Duo Bravo on May 13th 2026, when my wife, Dee, and I stepped into The Tourist Information Office in the Timple Museum in Teguise. We enquired about any forthcoming concerts and the kind and lovely lady behind the […]

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SIDETRACKS AND DETOURS Sunday 5th July 2026: Coal Mines & cobbled streets & Lava Tunnels featuring The Radio Ballads Of The Miners´Strike BBC Radio John Tams, Barry Coope, Sally Ward, Rube Leonard, Julie Matthews, Jez Lowe, Ray Hearne, + Lendanear to Rochdale, Town Of Culture (?) + Lendanear to sounds from the centre of a volcano

Chris Maume, in his review of the programme for The Independent reminded us that On the Home Service in the Fifties and Sixties, Ewan MacColl (left) and Charles Parker put together a series of “Radio Ballads” in which different communities were portrayed through interviews and the songs inspired by them. Over the past few years […]

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SIDETRACKS & DETOURS 28th June 2026: Revival: In Search Of Where Truth Lies + We LENDANEAR To Applause for The Good That People Do

sidetracks & detours IN SEARCH OF WHERE TRUTH LIES by Norman Warwick Some Americana singer-songwriters are occasionally unreliable narrators and some seem to always be unreliable narrators. Americana is not, of course, the only genre to hold such writers in their format and nor is song-writing the only art form in which fans and creators […]

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SIDETRACKS & DETOURS 21st June 2026: Town Of Culture Excedes All Expectations and awards its ´creatives´ + news, interviws, previews and reviews of Jason Isbel and the 400 Unit + review of ACATIFE IN LAS BRENAS

Rochdale, Town Of Culture EXCEDED ALL EXPECTATIONS by Steve Cooke Our coverr picture today is also included at the top of this article shows Rochdale Town Hall packed the town´s elite creatives. We decided to do this justto support Steve Cooke, because his pride in the town is evident in the way he himslef, mentors, […]

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SIDETRACKS & DETOURS 14th June 2026. Classical Music In Portsmouth profile ALEXANDRA PEEL, violinist and Jazz in Reading preview THE BLACKHAWKE QUINTET

MUSIC IN PORTSMOUTH ALEXANDRA PEEL, VIOLINIST previews a concert with the Havant Symphony Orchestra, and updates her profile shared by Norman Warwick Alexandra Peel recently (right) played Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy with the Havant Symphony Orchestra in its Echoes of the Isles concert on 28 February 2026 in Warblington School. Before the concert she gave an interview to Music […]

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SIDETRACKS & DETOURS 7th June 2026, A Town With A Feel-Good Factor invites you to tell your story oin the radio + UK folk music charts

Rochdale Feel Good Festival headliners Preview: Steve Cooke Rochdale Feel Good Festival Summer 2026 has legendary singer-songwriter Gabrielle (below) topping the bill on Saturday, August 8.  The two-time BRIT award winner and pop-soul star will be performing on the main stage at Rochdale Town Hall Square this summer, along with indie rock chart toppers Ash, Starsailor […]

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SIETRACKS & DETOURS 31st May 2026: Choosin´ Texas, Country, Americana or The Boys Of Dungeon Lane + coming a cropper on the way to a concert

DANDELION. new album release by ELLA LANGLEY Choosin Texas, Country or Americana review by Norman Warwick The TikTok publicity surge most certainly helped the song labelled by Paste as ´belonging to the sturdy, confident earworm, country music´s post-pandemic imperial phrase,´ to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in Valentine Day week in February, […]

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SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: May 24th 2026, songwriter Malcolm Holcombe by Peter Pearson + poets and Rochdale rhyme + Rochdale Music Society Concert Review + DUO BRAVO

DUO BRAVO Convento de Santo Domingo, Teguise 22/5/2026 NOTAS AL VIENTO (NOTES ON THE WIND) review by Norman Warwick I can remember what it felt like the first time I stood on stage in such a cavernous hall. My partner, Colin Lever, and I called our duo, Lendanear, because we wrote our own songs and […]

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SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 17th May 2026, introducing Sophie Rose Music; + r.i.p. Chip Taylor + serendipity with Duo Bravo + classical piano by Natalia Nikolaeva

INTRODUCING SOPHIE ROSE MUSIC AN ARTIST´S NEWSLETTE sharted by Norman Warwick Sophie Rose (left) is a writer, a producer, a singer, a friend, a daughter, an avid reader, an amateur chef, and more, but what Sophie is to her core is an artist. She takes her life experiences and transforms them into music and lyrics […]

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