THE EVERLY BROTHERS: Their Influence Is Indelible

Quite aside from the Beatles, the Everly Brothers were feted by everyone from the Rolling Stones – Keith Richards hailed Don as “one of the best rhythm guitar players I’ve ever heard” and called their voices “almost mystical” – to the Beach Boys.
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DYLAN FACING DAYS IN THE DOCK?

as if the Bob Dylan songbook really is the book of Revelation

CAMERISTI CROMATICI

The quartet delivered this to close the show, and it was a perfect, joyous selection. So much so, that within seconds of the closing the audience were on their feet in a standing ovation, in demand of an encore. The musicians genuinely seemed as pleased for the composers and their music as they were for themselves, but be in no doubt that this ovation was paying a tribute to the musicians.
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MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL; open

this is a working church and it is teeming with life. Come along to the host of brilliant events that we run here at Manchester Cathedral every year and help us to protect this very special place for another 600 years.
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a murmur of memories to come, carried on BEESWING

he sees John Lennon “wandering around, looking every inch an impersonation of himself, with his moustache, NHS spectacles and Afghan jacket”.
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IN LIGHT OF A VERY BLUE MOON

moon river wider than miles to go before he sleeps and he has promises to keep to bring to deliver to break into moon dust that would be some kind of proof but there ain’t no man in the moon
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BOOK SPEAKS TRUE ON JAZZ SOPHISTRY

´His long, prolific career may have been characterized by dramatic highs and lows, but the final fifteen years of his life were marked by one success after another – a righteous homecoming, worldwide recognition, prestigious awards, and even an Oscar nomination.

NEWPORT: where Dylan plugged in and the world blew a fuse

The history of jazz can be told as the story of Black dance music reinterpreted via improvisation and harmonic substitution. But if that dance music is propelled by a machine rather than an instrument, how can jazz adjust?

NEWPORT: folk-on festival finger-picking a way back

The concensus among many writers on-line who attended the event seems to be that the Sunday highlight was an evening of black female artists curated by singer, songwriter, poet and activist Allison Russell

A HAPPY BIRTHDAY PARTY for Richard Thompson

We’d already enjoyed the concert of a lifetime as the final half-hour approached and still, this event had more aces up its sleeve.