ROSS TO REIGN AT GLASTONBURY

there’s still an inordinate deal of pleasure to be taken in music that wants to sweep you up and revel in sonic bliss, whether you’ve emerged from a still-lingering pandemic or not.

ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL

I will make no further comment other than to say that my son, who´s favourite song this was, used to drive his mum´s Micra Nissan as if was really a Hot Rod Lincoln.

ABBA dABBA doo, they´re back !!

ABBA dABBA doo, they´re back !! but Norman Warwick is still not in step Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich In my teenage days I hung with The Hollies and Herman´s Hermits, and Dave Dee and his gang but my chronologically-challenged…

LILLY, DAUGHTER OF JOHN

The name Hiatt has been noted on several tracks on my own playlists for the past several decades now, of course. This, though, was noted as Hiatt, John but I now look forward to adding Lilly to the lists as well, in the same Buffalo River Home that houses a gorgeous Perfectly Good Guitar among her father´s contributions-
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ON GOD´S GREAT DANCE FLOOR

an entertainer beyond compare, an archive of a golden era, an immeasurable talent´,

CONCERT SERIES RESUMES IN ROCHDALE

Rochdale Music Society continue to provide the Borough with a wide range of musical experiences to enrich the lives of its inhabitants, This continues the tradition of excellence in music-making that is a hallmark of the mark of a co-operative life style long associated with the home of the co-operative movement, by inviting promising newcomers to appear with seasoned professionals.

WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN ?

The music we love is being well cared for. The baton has been passed and there is every reason to think the circle can remain unbroken in the safe hands of a new generation of female singer-writer musicians.

Christian Sands, jazz pianist, says BE WATER

Empty your mind. Be formless. Shapeless. Like water ... Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend

NANCI GRIFFITH: …. across the great divide by Norman Warwick

With Townes Van Zandt, John Stewart, Guy Clark and John Prine and more recently John Moloney of The Chieftains having already left us, and Nanci now joining them we are left to wonder who might be among the generation to succeed them. She really was one of those artists who come along just once, in a very blue moon.

THE DEATH OF A TRUE CHIEFTAIN

´It was proof of Moloney’s abiding faith that folk music forms from around the world are united by the need of farmers to mark the changing seasons, to mourn deaths and wars, to celebrate harvests and weddings.