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we are the music makers: MARGO PRICE KNOWS HER WORTH

MARGO PRICE KNOWS HER WORTH By Norman Warwick Now four years in the music spotlight, Margo Price (left) is not sure how to summarise the whole experience. ´I´ve been frustrated,´ Margo admits, speaking to Esquire magazine, via…
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JULIAN BREAM WAS THE SOUND OF MY SCHOOL DAYS.

JULIAN BREAM WAS THE SOUND OF MY SCHOOL DAYS. By Norman Warwick Today´s cover photograph above, by Rahav Segev for The New York Times, shows legendary guitarist Julian Bream  performing at Alice Tully Hall in New York in 1997. He made…
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A DIFFERENT REALITY THESE DAYS

new album and live concert from Antonio Lizana A DIFFERENT REALITY THESE DAYS by Norman Warwick Antonio Lizanaphotograph by Ana Solins Even more interesting than all the rest of his accomplishments, at least to us here at the Sidetracks…
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NOCHE LIRICA CON GALDOS

NOCHE LIRICA CON GALDOS Judith Pezoa (Soprano) & Gonzales Manzanares (piano) Casa Ajei, San Bartolome By Norman Warwick We were met by Civil Protection officers who politely welcomed us at the front entrance. They asked us to…
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MUSIC FOR THE SUNSHINE DAYS

MUSIC FOR THE SUNSHINE DAYS a virtual radio selection for summer by Steve Bewick & Norman Warwick No sooner had I first published this article below than one of our regular contributors, Graham Marshall pressed our info@ button…
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We Are The Music Makers; John Ellis considers EVOLUTION AFTER LOCKDOWN

EVOLUTION AFTER  LOCKDOWN Steve Bewick talks to John Ellis as Norm listens in john Ellis Several years ago, Steve Bewick, my co-radio presenter and I interviewed  musician and record producer John Ellis, who was a name I…
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KIRSTY CROSSES MUSICAL BRIDGES

KIRSTY CROSSES MUSICAL BRIDGES By Norman Warwick Kirsty Almedia, and her band The Troubadours, played a selection of Winter Songs one evening, a few years ago, that warmed the hearts of a large audience that had turned out on the…
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BURLY CHASSIS BREAKS A SHOE

BURLY CHASSIS BREAKS A SHOE By Norman Warwick According to https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/ Dame Shirley Bassey is releasing her first new album in more than five years, to celebrate her 70-year career in showbiz. The album is being…
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We are the music makers: BILL MORRISSEY, a novel in three verses and a chorus

BILL MORRISSEY, a novel in three verses and a chorus By Norman Warwick Bill Morrissey: photograph by Hervé Oudet Unless you have bought any of his dozen or so albums you probably won´t have heard of Bill Morrissey. I thought for…

BEWARE A GEEK BEARING GIFTS

BEWARE A GEEK BEARING GIFTS By Norman Warwick Pete Benbow Over the last four decades or so I collected about fifty albums by two particular singer-writers, John Stewart and Townes Van Zandt. It has all been the fault  of Pete Benbow,…