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A NIGHT AT THE THEATRE

Ailey said that one of America’s richest treasures was the African-American cultural heritage—“sometimes sorrowful, sometimes jubilant, but always hopeful.”
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PASS IT ON: Sideetracks And Detours Weekly Walkabout Sunday 16th July 2023

There came to the stage a rock band of the likes I have never seen before.  Guitarists, percussion and keyboards and back line choral ensemble. The Line up was of men and women, young and old, and there were two or three solo vocalists and a musical director on stage, too.
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build another shelf? LET´S DO IT

Let's Do It is essential reading for all music lovers
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REVEREND RICHARD COLES has books to write

“I’ve worked with prisoners who were coming to the end of sentences for terrible crimes. The kind of crimes for which there is no forgiveness, I think, but when you get to know people and you walk alongside people with that kind of history, you don’t have to go far back to see they were victims too before they were aggressors. Once you get that sort of picture of people it’s hard not to feel compassion… We must judge as we would wish to be judged, and that is with compassion.” Crime novels also express a reality—that life is all light and shade,

FROM BARROW- BOY TO THE BALLROOM

"You've heard the expression I could've danced for joy?" Len Goodman once wrote. "Well, I have and still do."

KNOPFLER KRONIKLES (part 10 concluding) One of The Boys In The Bands

British author and humorist Douglas Adams said about Knopfler, in his book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: "Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink."

POET with a capital P, politician with a small p

There remain some grainy, scratchy recordings of Frost reading his work, and there is an element of the tones of voice we would later associate perhaps with such books and filsm as Tales of Lake Woebegone. Nevertheless´I somehow associate Frost with Townes Van Zandt lines that ´we do what we do for the sake of the song. That inversion was there to serve the poem, not to show the poet.
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Sidetracks And Detours. PASS IT ON (volume 8) Weekend Walkabout

And remember if you would like to wriote an article about the arts in your area, just send as a Word Document in an attachment top a brief e mail giving a brief biogray, and attach a jpeg of self or appropriate for the article. As a not for profit organisation we cannot pay I´m afraid but everything published will be fully accredited. just e mail www.normanwarwick55@gmail.com
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DON´T LOSE THAT NUMBER

Those of us who admire her for undertaking eclectic challenges and for constantly seeking to advance her music think of her as an important writer and something of a musical chameleon. It would be true to say though that might not have fopund anything more commercial in her canon

THE (ROUND) TOWER OF SONG

The Round Tower label remains in many ways the kernel of the music collection on my computer. We have posted many items of news, previews, interviews and reviews, still available in our extensive archives, on the likes of America artists Katy Moffatt and Tom Pacheco, and English singer writers like  Gary Hall and Tom Pacheco.Finding this Hot Press interview with Clive Hudson reminds me that there are many more Round Tower artists still to bring to these pages and so we look forward to creating updates on the careers of Dolores Keane, Procul Harem, Barrowside, Reg Mueross, Peter Sarstedt, Andrew Hardin, Joe Brown, Tom Russell, Josie Kuhn (left), Albert Lee, Hogan´s Heroes, Sylvia Tyson, Steve Young, Susan Chawner and The Nelson Brothers.