Day three of the inaugural Sidetracks And Detours Bluegrass Music in text Festival 2022 THE SOUNDS OF BLUEGRASS HISTORY + plus + important jazz UK news

Some musicians play a little behind the beat.´They may do it by choice or they may not know they’re doing it, but I can’t sing with those musicians. I just can’t. For me to sing, I’ve got to have four other guys who play right smash on top of the beat. It doesn’t matter if the song is slow or fast, as long as they’re right on top of it. As soon as it starts to drag, I can’t live with it´.

Day two of our inaugural Sidetracks & Detours Anuual Bluegrass in text Festival 2022, showing us BLUEGRASS FESTIVALS ON EVERY HORIZON

Some bluegrass festivals are held far from large cities, in beautiful natural surroundings.

day one Sidetracks And Detours inaugural Bluegrass music in text Festival 2022 opened by ONE-TIME FOURTH BEST BANJO PLAYER … in Rochdale

I’ve played bongo drums in the Raffles Hotel Bar in Singapore at one a.m. and I’ve played “This Little Light of Mine” with a bunch of fundamentalist Christians, even though I’m a heathen non-believer.

SID CALDERBANK SINGS & CHATS COTTON

Sid imitated the clacking looms with a rhyming ditty on the world of cotton in which he accompanied by the clacking with his own 'bones' or 'rickers' as we used to call them. This was a piece he had created as a voice over for performance by The About Time Dance Company Of Lancaster.
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STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE

"I grew up in Crimea but I also had a Ukrainian passport and now my heart is divided, my friends and family are Ukrainians and Russians, too. It's a disaster,"
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Joy France WRITING ON THE WILD SIDE

Joy France regularly participates in rap battles in which opposing poets have ´cross words´ with each other, attempting to deliver an entertaining an exciting experience for the audience. She is now the resident poet at Affleck´s Palace in Manchester´s Northern Quarter
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APPLIED ARTS contribute to our well-being

Many, who at a younger age had participated in such pastimes - maybe playing a musical instrument, painting or sketching - report how much they enjoy reconnecting with their creativity which had gradually been displaced by scientific learning as they progressed though the educational system.
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POURING OPPROBRIUM ON PUTIN

To be honest I find it hard to write about the invasion of Ukrainein any accessible way and I envy Robin Parker his quick wit, lightness of touch and gift of the gab.
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Exclusive interview for Sidetracks And Detours: delivering APPLIED ARTS with Jeff Sleeman

I think my focus at the moment is on the library film, which is called Between The Lines and rolling that out on tour sometime in the summer.

INDIANA JONES ON HIS LAST CRUSADE

There is a street along to the church in Haria town centre that is, in December, a little piece of heaven in a world that feels at the moment like it is taking us to hell in a hand-cart. The trees are tastefully draped in single colour lighting (left) and the church is floodlit. Either side of dusk there are two or three welcoming restaurants, street markets stalls serving mulled wine and such, and couple and families, tourists and locals taking a gentle evening stroll.