TINY TOMMY TROTTER AND THE MOUNTAIN OF DEBT

His name is Tiny Tommy Trotter and he is my new Bolton Wanderers FC mascot sitting here on my all across the arts desk as I write this issue of Sidetracks and Detours. He is the first guy I speak to each morning and we usually end up bemoaning…

ART AND SCIENCE UNITE

The worlds of arts and of medicine do not overlap very often, despite recent interesting developments in the UK such as the Poetry On Prescription scheme and Clinical Commissioning Groups having some monies in their budget available for buying…

MORE THAN OPERA

The director of the island´s music academy has recently delivered the first opera fully produced on the island, with students, staff and volunteers coming together to perform to more than 500 people at the El Salinero Teatro in the island´s capital…

OFFER OF OPERA FOR ALL by Norman Warwick

According to The Mail On Sunday (11th August 2019) millions of us now listen in to podcasts. So well developed, now, is the podcast industry that the newspaper, in an article by Rob Waugh, included several pages discussing the current 100 podcasts…

HOLD THAT POSE

Track listings Kodachrome                                  by Paul Simon Borders    …

AUTHORS AND BOOKS FILED UNDER ´SONG´

Track Listings Catcher In The Rye                by Sammy Walker Five Get Over Excited            by The Beautiful South For Whom The Bell Tolls     …

THEY CALL IT JAZZ

It wasn´t that long ago that jazz was thought of as a musical genre that was only heard in hotel lifts or being sung by a lounge lizard in some pretentious cocktail bar or being played by a part time pianist in that posh coffee shop down in…

LARRY YASKIEL LAUNCHES LATEST BOOK

The British Connection To Lanzarote And The Canaries” Natura Palace Hotel, Playa Blanca     2019 Winston Churchill, Francis Drake, Horatio Nelson, William Shakespeare, Agatha Christie and The Beatles might not seem…

CESAR’S SONG WILL BE SUNG EVER ON:- 100 Years: Lanzarote And Manrique, Arrecife, week two

On the afternoon of Sunday 28th April the 100 Years: Lanzarote and Ceasar began its second week with a change from the rock attitude that had closed the first week. We were introduced, instead, to the stronghold of traditional music of the…
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THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO

Oh yeh, really, it was like a Royal Wedding. We even had to go to the palace to pick up our invitations to the reception. Well, ok, not the palace but to that big, posh building in the middle of the capital. That CIEM or whatever it is, you…