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BOOKS ON DEXYS

Dexys Midnight Runners did things differently. They were surly. They were serious. They were ambitious, but success had to come on their terms.
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OH, COME ON EILEEN

Nobody knew I was there and… I didn’t really dance, but I watched everyone else dance to it and that was good.”
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THE (MUSICAL) GENERATION GAME:

In 2004 the country legend, Loretta Lynn, paired up with Jack White (formerly of The White Stripes 9 top produce a joyful, inspiring album entitled Van Lear Rose.
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FIVE POINT FIX: 

The employment and unemployment of the arts is naturally disturbed by economics and governmental attitudes. I don´t for one minute the Conservatives disdain the arts and nor do I believe that Labour, even now, are fully aware of the benefits the arts cane off to population.
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FOLLOWING FESTIVALS

You can find out more details at the festival website:  MMFVT.org.   I promise you that this musical journey will be moving, exciting and enriching.
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HOUSE OF MUSIC

Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason is a former lecturer at Birmingham University and the mother of seven children. The third eldest, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, was BBC Young Musician 2016 and performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The siblings have performed at the 2018 BAFTA ceremony, Britain’s Got Talent, The Royal Variety Performance and at major concert halls around the world. 
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JIVE TALK FROM JAZZ JUNCTION

All music lovers should have a read of La Rocola Del Bar Rumba, Larry´s account of his previous life working in the recording industry in Germany and in England. He worked at a level that saw him become a key member of A & M records
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ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL

Powers meets the challenge that Mitchell issues at the end of her “California,” “Will you take me as I am? Will you?” She says, “I hope that I’ve transgressed—that’s what a self-made original like Mitchell would have wanted.” Powers does the dance, she twirls Mitchell in her very own loops within loops.