Archive for category: AATA

One day last week, when I had been reading a piece about how The Grateful Dead are inspiring rock musicians today, I received an e mail from an old friend. Steve Bewick is a radio presenter of a weekly jazz programme, Hot Biscuits, in the UK. He often carries news we send him of live music events here on the island and as a regular visitor to us knows that we enjoy a plethora of live classical music events here. His e mail included a link to a podcast speaking about how the music of Bach, even today, still influences the current jazz scene.

Steve Cooke makes an impassioned commendation of the benefits of allowing creative arts to help people find their way to integrate with the wider community. At the time that Steve makes his well-considered case, with plenty of relevant examples, the funding to the arts in general in the UK has been severely cut.

Roger Trend writes the complex in a simple enough manner to make any floating reader want to study geology and visit these mountains that changed the nature of our island around four hundred years ago.