
ARTS AND POLITICS: THE ODD COUPLE
ARTS AND
POLITICS: THE ODD COUPLE
With
the UK holding an election in December that, even if the parties each try to
address social issues, will inevitably be about Brexit and November 10th the
date of a general election being held in Spain…

ARTS, CULTURE, CUSTOM & CHURCH
CHESTNUTS AND OLD SPANISH CUSTOMS
All Saints Day in Spain (Todos
Los Santos) takes place on November 1st. It is a very important national public
holiday throughout Spain, when people, from all over the country, return to
their town or village…

SEEKING A PLACE IN THE CHOIR
SING MISS MELODY, SING
A recent enquiry led us down new
Sidetracks and Detours and gave us this idea for this new post. It also took me
hurtling back in time all across the arts
to the days when afternoons in Manchester city centre were…

TO
THE BEGINNING AND BACK AGAIN
How
does one write the Divine?
St
John the Divine may have shown us the way in the fourth Gospel with his
timeless phrase ‘In the beginning was the Word’ but how do we write the word in
a world of…

TRONDHEIM VOICES CALLING OCCUPANTS
A MOMENT IN A
UNIVERSE
They
will soon have been in existence for twenty years and in that time have become
widely famed as a vocal group delivering improvised performances in the jazz
genre. The Norwegian group, Trondheim Voices, were formed…

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: with VERONIKA SHOOT, classical pianist
VERONICA
SHOOT, CONCERT PIANIST
She
was, when only six years old, predicted by Lord Yehudi Menuhin as ´destined to
become a great pianist´ and Veronika Shoot is now identified by distinguished
musicians and audiences alike as ´one of…

BRIGHT NEW DAWN FOR OLD MUSIC
BRIGHT NEW DAWN FOR OLD MUSIC
In 2019 The Rochdale Music Society (RMS) is celebrating forty years of promoting great music performances by excellent artists.
Graham Marshallmusician composerwriter
all across the arts regularly receives…

DIALECT DETOURS AND SPOKEN STORIES by Michael Higgins
POEMS &
STORIES: STANDARD & DIALECT
By Michael
Higgins & Norman Warwick
Michael Higgins tells of the reading and
recording of The Queen Of The Well: a children´s talking-book.
an audio bookand a puppet show
In
September…

ROCHDALE LITERATURE & IDEAS FESTIVAL 2019
LITERATURE AND
IDEAS IN ROCHDALE
The
title of the festival reflects the wishes of the benefactors who, a few years
ago, left a significant bequest to the borough library services. It also
reflects the fact that history reminds that at least…

UNFORGETTABLE FESTIVALS
FESTIVALS I HAVE KNOWN AND LOVED
I
felt enormously privileged to serve as host of The Annual Literature and Ideas
Festival in my home town of Rochdale during the first four years of the
festival before I ´retired´ over here to Lanzarote.…