my mind recently cast back to Sunday 15th October 1989 when John Stewart appeared with Hugh Moffatt as support at the Flying Picket in Liverpool-a gig which Geoff Davies promoted.
: from his soft, folk-inflected debut, Closing Time in 1973, to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones in 1983.
My works can be found in private and corporate collections and I’m currently represented by “Los Colores de La Isla” in the Lanzarote Art Gallery and Lanzarote Airport Internacional Cesar Manriquez;
Willie. Nelson is a legend. In the end, fans can only say “thank you” for all the artist’s music. And here’s to record No. 75, whenever it’s set to come out and whatever it may be. In the meantime, we can jam to the tunes on Bluegrass.
In “All of My Memories,” Denver longed for home while out on the road. Amid a never-ending cycle of hotel rooms and long, endless highways, Denver dreams of more pastoral settings—the only place that seems fitting for the singer to be.
Schlitz explained that he feels his role is to be a bridge between the crowd’s favourite artists that may not be around to sing for them anymore—to act as a placeholder for that relationship.
The Adsubian Gallery is one of our favourite galleries even though at the moment it is an item in our bucket list, that we have marked to visit before we die. I think it is perhaps because everything about the venue that we have learned about on-line and from their newsletters suggest they are a kindred spirit of the The Touchstones Arts and Heritage Centre, where I used to work as a facilitator with my Just Poets educational group.
In this complete, entertaining, and singularly readable account, we come to understand the entire phase in music history that has become the mainstay of the twentieth and twenty-first century concert and operatic repertoire.
October is here, and so are English Folk Expo (EFEx) to remind us that Manchester Folk Festival is just around the corner! EFE are thrilled to offer another unforgettable celebration of folk music, and can’t wait to see you there.
This cool, unhurried movie, as it is described on the RogerEbert.com web site, is firmly anchored by a spectacularly modulated performance by Caillee Spaeney.. The 25-year-old plays 14 so damn well that the viewer almost doubts that she’ll be able to credibly age into a woman nearing 30. But she does, beautifully. As Elvis, Jacob Elordi towers over her; the contrast is an exaggeration from real-life but an effective one. This Elvis is soft-spoken, given to discomfiting bursts of anger as he comes to rely more and more on medications to boost energy and get to sleep; all the stuff that killed the man, in the end, is here in ostensibly more manageable form, but Coppola’s storytelling does convey its insidious creep. The movie enjoys getting into some of Presley’s early ‘60s idiosyncrasies; he goes through a Bible-study phase, reads the Autobiography of a Yogi, and even experiments with LSD with Priscilla. Coppola’s brief depiction of their trip is one of the more credible accounts of psychedelic experience in recent film. And all this time, even through movie-set affairs rumored and/or real, he keeps Priscilla chaste until after marriage. And then knocks her up immediately.
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