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FUNMI ONONAIYE: OMNIPRESENT

Funmi Ononaiye, the regal, omnipresent music connoisseur, who was an inspiring ray of light in his capacities as A&R director, event producer, artist manager, performing musician, and mentor to many people, died on December 18, 2023, at Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City.

sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON # 71 weekly supplement Sunday 13 10 2024

I have fond memories of the Castleton Literary and Scientific Society, and I am still amazed at the broad church of their ethos and of their congregation.
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BOOKS BY LARRY YASKIEL

I always made sure I was with artists when they were in the studio on the first day of making a record and was always trying to be with them on the first day of a tour, too, to make sure they had all they needed.
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A DANGLING CONVERSATION

It began with Larry telling me he had been watching a music documentary series on Sky Arts about how so many black musicians and writers were paid only a pittance for their catlogues, because of signing contracts that they didn´t realise were offering royalties that were less than one per cent of what recording companies were offering to white musicans.
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS & MUTUAL PRAISE

When Liz and Dee realised that Larry and I would be neither deterred or detoured on our musical pilgrimage of a chat, they decided to hitch their wagons to our star, and made their own contributions. Dee talked Motown, in the shape of Diana Ross & The Supremes, while Liz, to my amazement spoke of Canadian artist Robin Thicke and his huge, but controversial hit with Blurred Lines.
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TWO TOGETHER: Welch & Rawlings

And our taste is almost more than what you like. It’s what you dislike that is really important in a collaborator.

sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON # 70  weekly supplement 6th October 2024

live and recorded music, live jazz and jazz on the rafio, folk music, classical music, prickly pears and lanzartote space training and a weekly art exhibition, music festivals and Peter Pearson´s Americana series,...they are all here
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WHEN WAS NOW AND THEN?

photo book She is just such an artist. I grew up in the same generation as Linda Ronstadt did and I love her rock and roll and country-rock songs and in an early middle age I loved her harmonies with Emmylou and Dolly Parton on the Trio releases. Then there were a couple of soul classic singles with Aaron Neville before she moved into Spanish language recordings, stage musicals and Opera.
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LIVE FOLK LORE MUSIC at Spanish Artisan Fair

have mentioned before on these pages that I find it remarkable that Lanzarote, its people and its government and its churches and its social services try, and succeed in doing so, to create a powerful unity of politics and religion and the arts and the artisans into almost every public event. I am sure that is what puts the smiles on the faces of those partaking and those in the audience.