BOTTLEGGING WITH BOB
There is one biography that some say tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs .
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Entries by Norman Warwick
MUSIC IN PORTSMOUTH
Event listings, news, reviews, features and comment from the classical music scene in and around Portsmouth – including Fareham, Havant, Petersfield, Chichester, Bognor Regis, Midhurst and Petworth are all collated on a wonderful web called Music in Portsmouth, which was brought to my attention by our roving ´bobbies on the beat´ in the uk, DCI Sidetracks and Superintendent Sidetracks
ENGLISH FOLK EXPO: Charting Success
Other entries in the March chart are ‘Flowers’ (Reveal) by respected songwriter Boo Hewerdine at no. 16, Fairport Convention is new at 22 with ‘Full House For Sale’ (Matty Grooves), ‘Dusk Moon’ new at no. 23 by Scottish four piece Rura, guitarist Ben Walker’s ‘Banish Air From Air’ (Folkroom) at 24, ‘Petrichor’ (The Lost Trades) by vocal harmony trio The Lost Trades at 31, with the last new entry this month being Salt House at number 37 with ‘Riverwoods’.
ENGLISH FOLK EXPO (EFE) ANNOUNCE
This year, moving into Manchester’s Northern Quarter, English Folk Expo expands it’s artists’ programme, makes it easier for industry to attend as delegates with direct registration through it’s website here, broadens it’s partnership showcase programme and provides artists with more reasons to join us for the whole weekend through collaboration with Un-Convention which will provide daytime career development training and networking for artists.
Meanwhile EFE have announced the first wave of artists performing at English Folk Expo and Manchester Folk Festival.
DIGGING A HOLE FOR ONE´S SELF
Kilometric queues in Timanfaya, the clogged Cave and cars parked on the road to Los Jameos, the tourist image of Lanzarote at Easter.
FINALE: STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Norman Warwick reads a A WEST-SIDE STORY OF SONDHEIM An intimate portrait of a genius: the late Stephen Sondheim, is a series of illuminating and deeply personal interviews from the last years of his life that show the composer-lyricist as he has likely never been seen before. In 2017, New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max began working […]
DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF A POET
In his third volume of sonnets, James Nash examines urban and seaside environments in a Yorkshire he has known through fifty years living in the North. His sonnets soar over the land – from Leeds, a predominantly Victorian city, to the Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, walking and cycling into the natural world with a pen and paper never far from his hand.
High Quality Fragments on Dylan´s seventeenth bootleg.
have never been able to afford a live show, as: the investment required with no guarantee of which Dylan might turn up, and what interpretation of his own work he might choose to deliver was a risk I wouldn´t take even in the days before these a-changing times in which we are urged to gamble responsibly.
GOOD VIBE IN ROCHDALE
Performing and releasing music under the name Magpahi, Alison Cooper has toured UK and Europe and has numerous releases via Twisted Nerve, Bird Records, Finders Keepers Records, Folklore Tapes and A Year In The Country. As a visual artist she also works in a variety of mediums including photography, printmaking, animation, textiles and has a foundation course in herbal medicine.
JAZZ FOUND NOT GUILTY
A jazz renaissance has blossomed because many of the genre’s most gifted artists have rejected both the neo-liberal hyper-traditionalists and Bolshevik hyper-experimentalists. This has freed them to embrace both melody and dissonance, both history and innovation, both great chops and tremendous feeling. Call them the jazz progressives, seeking to build coalitions rather than divide, more eager to improve the average citizen’s standard of listening than to maintain musicological purity.
