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OLIVIA MOORE discusses Indian Raga and Jazz Violin with Steve Bewick, who tells Norman Warwick

OLIVIA MOORE by Steve Bewick with Norman Warwick Indian Raga and Jazz Violin Olivia Moore Olivia Moore is a professional violinist based in Manchester, primarily dedicated to Jazz and Indian music. I broke away from western classical…
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WE ARE THE MUSIC MAKERS: exclusive interview with pianist Natalia Nicolaeva

´MY LIFE AND MY ART WERE BORN BY THE SEA´. Exclusive interview for all across the arts Russian pianist, Natalia Nicolaeva – March 2020 As I knew nothing at all about either Iya Zhmaeva or Natalia when my wife and I and two friends…
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IT´S THE WAY WE TELL ´EM Engendering Sex – By Michael Higgins

Engendering Sex – By Michael Higgins Dialect and Discrimination at Touchstones in Rochdale               Imagine the howls of protest that would ensue if a museum…

SEND THREE OR FOUR PENCE, WE ARE GOING TO A DANCE

SEND REINFORCEMENTS, WE´RE GOING TO ADVANCE the Insular Table of Culture Present at a recent meeting about publicity and arts communications here on Lanzarote was The Councillor of The Insular Table of Culture, Alberto Aguiar, and technical…

LISTEN TO STARS SPREADING RUMOURS

Whispers In The Wind Lanzarote has so little light pollution and so much silent, open countryside that we are afforded wonderful views of meteors and  falling stars all across the constellation and, almost on a nightly basis, are able…

a dinosaur goes into a library and says……

 DINOSAUR ROAMS ROCHDALE I lived in what was a hot-bed of hot bed of artistic creativity in the UK for sixty years of my life, and as an adult collaborated with other artists I much admired to produce works that were intended to be…
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CONCERTS AT THE CAMEL HOUSE

SLEEPING BEAUTY UNDER A MUCKHEAP Kirsty Wark How closely Lanzarote might resemble the desert island for which BBC Radio 4 castaway Sir Ernest Hall once selected his musical and literary preferences with Kirsty Walk is hard to say.…
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ARTS: BETWEEN COMMUNITY & DIVISION

ARTS: BETWEEN COMMUNITY & DIVISION The story turned about to be about a travelling production of a play called Trojan Horse that was playing at the time at Oldham Coliseum Theatre as part of a national tour. Two years ago the play had…
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WORDS FROM THE WRITER: LARRY YASKIEL an exclusive interview for Sidetracks And Detour

JUKE BOX JUDGE AND JURY Diligently undertaking the depth of research our readers demand of us, I googled Larry Yaskiel before conducting our interview with him, and unearthed an extensive on-line presence, though some of those entries that…
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DRAGONS, DRAMA & DRAWINGS

DRAGONS ROAM THE STREETS; THE RAT LOOKS ON a quick catch up The Year Of The Rat is the first sign in the Chinese zodiac cycle. According to the Chinese zodiac story, in the competition held by the Jade Emperor to decide the zodiac…