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PLACE POETS IN POSITION TO HELP US: Write Out Loud

With the public’s help Write Out Loud wants to be equipped to enable, champion, inspire, and connect poets – and organisations and schools - no matter what happens during the pandemic, and continue that once it’s over.´
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LINDA RONDSTADT: and the mocking birds.

Look at the list of songwriters Linda Ronstadt has covered, and how much respect she has paid to their material. Then look again at the song titles just to remind yourself of her impeccable taste.
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BARON WOLMAN: archive will endure and inspire

I go forward with a huge amount of gratitude for the many blessings bestowed upon me (family, friends, travels and more), with no regrets but with appreciation for how my photographs—my life’s work—have been received.
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EVITA revised, re-shaped, reformed

What a production this was, though, by a small provincial theatre company here on Lanzarote.
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A SONG IN THE HEAD

Then there was a glimmer of light when a friend, opera singer Andrew Staples, during a visit to her bedside noticed she seemed to be tapping her toes in time to the music of Brahms.
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THE LAST MAN, READING by Michael Higgins

Plague here brings eventually depopulation, migration and a total standstill of commerce, a little like our current situation but whereas governments in our day have instigated restrictions on gatherings and conducting trade, in Mary’s late 21st century commerce eventually dies through the steady tide of the plague itself.
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MIME, MIMICRY AND MUSIC by Michael Higgins

no English traditional dancing team had the same Romantic clout, or visible presence, as the black-faced, skirt wearing, clog dancing ‘Coco Nut Dancers’ of Bacup in Lancashire just to the north of Rochdale.
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JOINING UP FOR JAZZ by Gary Heywood-Everett

I’ve never lost that initial interest nor the sense of excitement in improvised music from around the world in all its forms.

THE ARTS ARE STEPPING OUT AGAIN

So , let us all step out whenever we can or are allowed to (literally and figuratively) support the arts, and find our comfort and solace in doing so,
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LEARNING GUITAR ON MOTHER´S UKELELE

if you knew three chords, you could play a lot of the songs you heard on the radio. And if you knew four chords, you could pretty much rule the world !´