I am particularly looking forward to reading the an encyclopeadic work edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith. The volume is designed for school classrooms, and having worked as a peripatetic creative writing facilitator in both primary and secondary education in the UK and The Canary islands for almost thirty years, I keep a close eye on the literary and creative content on the literature curricula.
The music we love is being well cared for. The baton has been passed and there is every reason to think the circle can remain unbroken in the safe hands of a new generation of female singer-writer musicians.
Empty your mind. Be formless. Shapeless. Like water … Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend
I am going back to short form poetry. I am going back to haikus, tankas, shadormas and triolets.
When Rob Adams´ excellent listings service of that name knocked on my e mail door on Halloween Night demanding ´trick or treat.´ I said I would treat them by putting their listings at the top of our diary dates. In return they allowed me to share with our readers this treat of a wonderful collection of forthcoming jazz events
With Townes Van Zandt, John Stewart, Guy Clark and John Prine and more recently John Moloney of The Chieftains having already left us, and Nanci now joining them we are left to wonder who might be among the generation to succeed them. She really was one of those artists who come along just once, in a very blue moon.
´It was proof of Moloney’s abiding faith that folk music forms from around the world are united by the need of farmers to mark the changing seasons, to mourn deaths and wars, to celebrate harvests and weddings.
Fresh Grass Foundation administer the Steve Martin Banjo Prize, a prestigious award founded by Steve Martin (actor/comedian) that recognizes an individual or group for outstanding accomplishment in banjo;
The audience stayed on the feet applauding until the entire team of dancers came out to take their deserved ovation, and it should be said, too, that the choreography and lighting and recorded musical accompaniments were also of the very highest order.
This crazy and daring mix has made Cristian and his music well accepted not only by both the media and the public, but also by his industry colleagues.
