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MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

The songs [on Love Will Be Reborn] are autobiographical in many ways
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BAND BOOKS: DIFFERENT STORIES

I have selected two books, each written or co-written by two members of The Band, Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson respectively.
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When Canadian musicians started a revolution SOUTH OF THE BORDER

I look back to when I was one and twenty, as A E Housman would have had it, and feel sure I was in my salad days. I had fallen in love with a generation of songwriters and was enjoying the folksy, pastoral music that was a gentler sibling of rock. We had a stereophonic recording player that was like a piece of furniture and it had a sliding door over the turntable and I often tried to squeeze my head into the cabinet so that I could hear, even better, the fierce emotions wrapped in such laid back and softly sung arrangements. When I married and had a home of our own I was enjoying listening to how this generation of Canadian songwriters began to influence the writers who would forge what we now call Americana.
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SLAVE – A QUESTION OF FREEDOM

Slave – A Question of Freedom closed its run at The Lowry Theatre on Saturday October 12th. It told the hard-hitting true story of Mende Nazer, who explores her dark experience with modern-day slavery with the play beginning in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains during the mid-90s until moving to London in the 2000s.
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THE UNIVERSE IN THE WORD

a poetry reading event organised by the hard-working arts enthusiast Mercedes Minguela
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THE IKARO QUARTET play Coldplay

The Ikaro Quartet, are a string quartet from Tenerife dedicated to the dissemination of classical and modern music in all its breadth
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THE IKARO QUARTET are part of the popular / classical  Zeitgeist

The hundreds of incoming e mails that drop into the sidetracks & detours each week present a pretty much accurate picture of what is happening on the arts  We can trace back to one off or isolated events and explore their growth into new likes and trends.
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NEW OWNERS PERPETUATE LEGACY

Sir Ernest Hall didn´t simply buy a property here on Lanzarote and retire quietly. He bought a somewhat neglected and ramshackle old-fashioned Camel House and turned into a beautiful home surrounded by newly landscaped land. He converted a room into a magnificent sunset-trap and musical auditorium, with a 180 degree vista of the sea.