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THESE I LOVE at the Octagon, Bolton 2024

Returning to her Lancashire roots, These I Love, is a beautiful journey of discovery - a hymn to Julie’s own working-class childhood in Accrington, to her wonderful dad, and to the healing power of daftness.
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BRIEF ENCOUNTER

Congratulations to The Royal Exchange for putting on a great production of Brief Encounter
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A VOICE HELD IN HIGH REGARD

Jacob J Orlinski became a master of falsetto almost by chance, due to a draw in a choir in which he sang as a teenager. Today, the Polish vocalist is a leading countertenor who triumphs beyond the stage. 
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Sidetracks & Detours present PASS IT ON 42 Sunday Supplement 3 3 2024

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.
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DEAD GRATEFUL TO GRATEFUL DEAD

Matt Michell, one of the finest among many excellent writers at the Paste on-line site finally accepted the challenge of listing ´the best 20 tracks by the Grateful Dead (left) but prefaced his list by asking  ´
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THE ATLANTIC MUSEUM RE-OPENED

His art objects are therefore positive examples of nature conservation. His works contribute to improving environmental awareness and at the same time offer the opportunity to admire the natural beauty of the fascinating underwater world.
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INSTRUMENTS THAT STICK THEIR NECK OUT

The Theorbo is related to the liuto attiorbato, the French théorbe des pièces, the archlute, the German baroque lute, and the angélique (or angelica).
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WOMEN WRITERS:

This Woman's Work also features writing on the experimentalists, women who blended music and activism
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MUSICAL FOLKLORE IN TIME AND SPACE

The programme celebrated the joy of creating the new to meet a need. the joy of creativity and that moment when we realise somehow creat something new
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LONG LOST COUSIN WILCO

Norman Warwick hears of a LONG LOST COUSIN WILCO  “Depending on how you look at it, the connection to The Bear was an unfortunate—or fortunate—coincidence,” singer-writer Jeff Tweedy (left) recently told Paste on line…