As we head backwards one or more steps for every step taken forward, we’ve got some of the same issues we’ve always got with the Oscars. For every excellent nomination, every interesting piece of recognition, there’s the predictable nonsense that conned its way in.
With a growing reputation for the courage, vitality and intensity of its performances the Marmen Quartet (left) is fast establishing itself as one of the most impressive and engaging new talents in the chamber music arena.
this is a book about listening closely to stories and songs, about leaving home in order to find home,
fifteen years after the event I learned of a concert that had taken place in 2007. I caught Wynton and Willie, jazz and Americana sharing music, nad it has taken the shades from my eyes-
A capital city in name, Arrecife would be a town in the UK, being about the same surface area and population as Rochdale where I sued to live. And yet this felt like a world class performance by skilled players to a knowledgeable and appreciative audience. Credit to all concerned.
Their standing ovations were truly deserved but I would also like to think the ovations were also showing gratitude to the Annual Canary Islands Festival Of International Classical Music, that this year, as in the 38 that preceded it, offered us musical excellence, entertainment, education and energy.
Back in my days on the folk circuit some forty years ago there was a vast no-man´s land and some intense suspicion between traditions and contemporary folk music, much as there once was (still is?) in Jazz. UK Folk has found an arbitrator and revivalist in the English Folk Expo organisation and Jazz fans can settle their differences over Steve Bewick´s weekly eclectic mix cloud jazz presentation of Hot Biscuits.
this landmark publication tells the story of an influential jazz institution and commemorates Blue Note’s momentous contribution to modern music and style
‘¡Oh, Norman,.. Tienes razón de nuevo. Ya he decidido en qué quiero gastar mi dinero”, dijo emocionada. Ï nos llevará a mí y a Mama a la Convención de la Comic Con en Londres casi al mismo tiempo que Barcelona y Coldplay.
Between early March and 1st October 2023, Coldplay will perform 47 gigs across Europe and over to the venues like The Rose Bowl in the States all at big stadium venues offering attendance figures like the fifty thousand I mentioned earlier and could earn the band up to 105,750000 or to bring it down to earth, over 100million euroes.
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 7 / 12 / 25 classical, jazz, folk, rock, americana; songwriters & invisible angels7th December 2025 - 7:00 am
SIDETRACKS & DETOURS Pass It On 2/11/2025 Jenny Bray, Nash and Asher, Opus 222nd November 2025 - 7:00 am
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