sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON 59 weekly supplement Sunday 30 6 2024

If football coach Gareth Southgate is serious about improving England’s fading fortunes in the Euro ’24 competition, he would do well to check out the Gaz Hughes Trio. It’s performance at the Progress Theatre on Friday 21 June, part of a 50-date ‘Nuclear Bebopalypse’ tour of the UK, had everything that was missing from England’s inept display against Denmark – perfect balance, poise, purpose, exciting changes in pace, the light and shade of emotional expression and oodles of energetic creative spirit.  Above all, it was hugely entertaining.
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DUO CANTELINA:

Standing in, recently, at truly short notice, Duo Cantelina wowed the audience at St Mary in the Baum with their professionalism and vibrant beauty of sound. Their scintillating Spanish colours brightened the day.

sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON 58 weekly supplement Sunday 23 6 2024

On Lanzarote they call it the Ghost Hotel. It can be seen from a distance only in a certain light, and if you are driving along the LZ 2 near Playa Blanca it can be seen some days and others not, and even then only as a mirage-like object in the distance.

sidetracks & detours present PASS IT ON 56 weekly supplement Sunday 9 6 2024

Today we take a walk through a city of floating sounds and look forward to live jazz from Sarah Dowling & the RNCM Band

Sidetracks & Detours present PASS IT ON 55 weekly walkabout Sunday 2 6 24

This week we have heard news from Karla Harris, in a modern format newsletter. She is our favourite jazz artist here in the office and the album she released a year or so ago now is still prominent on our playlists. When you read her news, you will realise that Karla is continuing to enjoy some high profile good publicity and we thank her for sharing it.and allowing us to PASS IT ON

Sidetracks & Detours present PASS IT ON 54 Sunday Supplement 26 5 2024

Today on our travels we heard our much-revered historian, Michael Higgins questioning what constitutes too many pooets. We also visited what the artist Claudie calls her Gallery At Home and then found a pile of information about the work, in films and books and activism or Isobella Rossellini. We also bring you two items music of overheard Jazz In Reading. Even after Mr. Kipling´s exceedingly good cake the jazz had us hungering for more, and our jazz columnist and broadcaster, Steve Bewick baked us some of his jazz Hot Biscuits- We also found you a review of a classical duo at Chichester Cathedral znd, with a reader´s perspective our Americana correspondent Peter Pearson. Of course we bring our usual closing piece of Island Insight delivered by Canary Detect.

Sidetracks & Detours present PASS IT ON  49 Sunday Supplement 21 4 2024

If you hold music festivals of whatever genre in your locality, whether in the UK or other countries around the world, why not let our editor here at PASS IT ON and we will share your information with our readers around the world.

Sidetracks & Detours present PASS IT ON 48 walkabout Supplement 14 4 2024

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