RECEIVING RAVE REVIEWS

And in Pál Banda he had an ideal vehicle for these ever-thrilling compositions. They thrive on their own mystery. Come December, it may or may not be deemed necessary to compile a short list of Events of the Year. This is the third candidate for it already. Such things should not be reduced to the tawdry level of a league table and last year I didn’t pick an outright winner but some things are somehow ‘better’ than some other things and sometimes, in some way, that is in some part, the point.

all across the arts TO NEW HORIZONS

Steve Cooke has done a superb job of maintaining the all across the arts page. Over the last seven years he has surrounded himself with, and has enjoyed the support of, the great and the good of the Rochdale arts scene, with its revenue funded arts organisations, independent artists, theatres, galleries and pub venues. Poets Seamus Kelly and Eileen Earnshaw were regular contributors to his pages and he carried news from local groups like Touchstones cwg, Weaving Words,  Langley Writers and followed the nomadic wanderings of Those Bard From The Baum to the Flying Horse and beyond, and Mr. Cooke maintained a synergy with Steve Bewick jazz radio presenter of Hot Biscuits.
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BOTTLEGGING WITH BOB

There is one biography that some say tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs .

MUSIC IN PORTSMOUTH

Event listings, news, reviews, features and comment from the classical music scene in and around Portsmouth – including Fareham, Havant, Petersfield, Chichester, Bognor Regis, Midhurst and Petworth are all collated on a wonderful web called Music in Portsmouth, which was brought to my attention by our roving ´bobbies on the beat´ in the uk, DCI Sidetracks and Superintendent Sidetracks

ENGLISH FOLK EXPO: Charting Success

Other entries in the March chart are 'Flowers' (Reveal) by respected songwriter Boo Hewerdine at no. 16, Fairport Convention is new at 22 with 'Full House For Sale' (Matty Grooves), 'Dusk Moon' new at no. 23 by Scottish four piece Rura, guitarist Ben Walker's 'Banish Air From Air' (Folkroom) at 24, 'Petrichor' (The Lost Trades) by vocal harmony trio The Lost Trades at 31, with the last new entry this month being Salt House at number 37 with 'Riverwoods'.

ENGLISH FOLK EXPO (EFE) ANNOUNCE

This year, moving into Manchester's Northern Quarter, English Folk Expo expands it's artists' programme, makes it easier for industry to attend as delegates with direct registration through it's website here, broadens it's partnership showcase programme and provides artists with more reasons to join us for the whole weekend through collaboration with Un-Convention which will provide daytime career development training and networking for artists. Meanwhile EFE have announced the first wave of artists performing at English Folk Expo and Manchester Folk Festival.
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DIGGING A HOLE FOR ONE´S SELF

Kilometric queues in Timanfaya, the clogged Cave and cars parked on the road to Los Jameos, the tourist image of Lanzarote at Easter.

FINALE: STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Norman Warwick reads a A WEST-SIDE STORY OF SONDHEIM An intimate portrait of a genius: the late Stephen Sondheim, is a series of illuminating and deeply personal interviews from the last years of his life that show the composer-lyricist…

DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF A POET

In his third volume of sonnets, James Nash examines urban and seaside environments in a Yorkshire he has known through fifty years living in the North. His sonnets soar over the land – from Leeds, a predominantly Victorian city, to the Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, walking and cycling into the natural world with a pen and paper never far from his hand.

High Quality Fragments on Dylan´s seventeenth bootleg.

have never been able to afford a live show, as: the investment required with no guarantee of which Dylan might turn up, and what interpretation of his own work he might choose to deliver was a risk I wouldn´t take even in the days before these a-changing times in which we are urged to gamble responsibly.