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STORIES: I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU

she digs into the deep recesses of herself with the same emotional honesty that has come to define her music
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MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

The songs [on Love Will Be Reborn] are autobiographical in many ways
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SLAVE – A QUESTION OF FREEDOM

Slave – A Question of Freedom closed its run at The Lowry Theatre on Saturday October 12th. It told the hard-hitting true story of Mende Nazer, who explores her dark experience with modern-day slavery with the play beginning in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains during the mid-90s until moving to London in the 2000s.
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THE IKARO QUARTET play Coldplay

The Ikaro Quartet, are a string quartet from Tenerife dedicated to the dissemination of classical and modern music in all its breadth
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THE IKARO QUARTET are part of the popular / classical  Zeitgeist

The hundreds of incoming e mails that drop into the sidetracks & detours each week present a pretty much accurate picture of what is happening on the arts  We can trace back to one off or isolated events and explore their growth into new likes and trends.
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ONCE MARMITE, COLDPLAY ARE NOW CAVIAR

A BBC on line article says that nowadays it is strange to recall a time when Coldplay were not ubiquitous.
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NEW OWNERS PERPETUATE LEGACY

Sir Ernest Hall didn´t simply buy a property here on Lanzarote and retire quietly. He bought a somewhat neglected and ramshackle old-fashioned Camel House and turned into a beautiful home surrounded by newly landscaped land. He converted a room into a magnificent sunset-trap and musical auditorium, with a 180 degree vista of the sea.
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A CONCERT OF ANGELS AND DEMONS

Natalia played three of his sonatas, and these also carried Angels and Demons side by side, leaving the audience continually looking out for the demons and then being gathered back in by the angels, a theme Natalia´s style reflected throughout the rest of the evening.
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KRISTOFFERSON

Kris Kristofferson, who died Saturday at age 88 in Maui, Hawaii, had not one but two successful careers: the first as a country-music songwriter and the second as a movie actor.