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A SONG IN THE HEAD

Then there was a glimmer of light when a friend, opera singer Andrew Staples, during a visit to her bedside noticed she seemed to be tapping her toes in time to the music of Brahms.

JOHN GRAEME LIVINGSTONE: more than words

raeme Livingstone’s music is about more than words on paper. Rather it is a piece of the heart of the man, and the best way to understand what makes him special is to catch him in concert

LENDANEAR UNDER THE COVERS

Colin hits big notes as a performance and recording artist, but it is in the moments when he ´loses´ himself in a song and his voice sails downstream to faraway places that I most love his singing.
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JOINING UP FOR JAZZ by Gary Heywood-Everett

I’ve never lost that initial interest nor the sense of excitement in improvised music from around the world in all its forms.

HAL KETCHUM singer-songwriter

We all have stories, we all have heartache, and we all have sadness and we all have joy. Golden moments.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, NEW MUSIC, NEW FRIENDS

Even when they lost some of the greatest among them, like Kenny Rogers, John Prine, and Charley Pride, (commemorations by Sidetracks & Detours remain available in our archives) country musicians found the strength to stay engaged with fans (if only through live streams and zooms etc), fight for much-needed social change and share some truly stellar records in the process.

A TENOR FOR THE TURN OF 2020

This concert had given hope that 2021, post-vaccines, and with tourists returning might prove a better year for the arts than has been this one so we wish all our arts-loving readers a happy, hopeful and healthy New Year.
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LEARNING GUITAR ON MOTHER´S UKELELE

if you knew three chords, you could play a lot of the songs you heard on the radio. And if you knew four chords, you could pretty much rule the world !´
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CAPITAL P,… FOR PRIDE, CHARLEY

lovely voice and obvious ear for a great song always ensured that he was always great value
There are plenty of You Tube clips and such of the wonderfully poignant, evocative and ´distant´ little track that is Border Radio,