SIDETRACKS & DETOURS featuring PASS IT ON NEWS 11 1 2026

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS featuring PASS IT ON news NEW YEAR NEWS Sunday 11 1  2026 CONTENTS 1 The Office by Peter Pearson 2 Folk Music News from Sound Roots 3 Folk Music UK CHarts from Folk Expo 4…

January 4th 2026 Songwriters & Invisible Angels by Peter Pearson & Norman Warwick

SIDETRACKS AND DETOURS WISH A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS Norman Warwick: writer Sunday 4th January 2026 Part 1 of a new series Songwriters and Invisible Angels created and written by Peter Pearson & Norman…

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS 3 1 2026: Joe Ely, Raul Malo & Brian Wilson

SIDETRACKS AND DETOURS 3 / 1 / 2026 2025 stole away with Joe Ely & Raul Malo MAVERICKS AND MUSICIANS ALL My co-writing buddy in Sidetracks & Detours , Peter Pearson, and I have fallen into the habit of sharing any…
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SIDETRACKS & DETOURS: 7 / 12 / 25 classical, jazz, folk, rock, americana; songwriters & invisible angels

EDITORIAL: NORMAN WARWICK. Norman´s working life was spent in Rochdale,where he was a champion of the creative arts and creative arts community through his columns online, in print and on radio. Norman founded The Crew column in The…

PASS IT ON: canary islands to the uk

a sidetracks and detours publication 5th October 2025 written by  Norman Warwick CONTENTS Island Life by Norman Warwick ANTONIO CORUJO TEJERA: ARTIST ´turned music and dance into a life mission´. He…

NEW BOOK & OLD VALUES WITH LOS SABADENOS sidetracks & detours 27/7/2025

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS JULY 2025 contents collated and published by Norman Warwick 1 LOS SABADENOS:ANCIENT AND MODERN 2 NORTH AMERICANS WITH ROOTS IN LANZAROTE 3 FESTIVAL TIME AGAIN LOS…

Occasional Offerings: May 2025

SIDETRACKS & DETOURS May 2025 Contents story 1  Next guitar hero    Marcus Bonfanti Trio story 2  Crowmarsh Jazz   Groove Collective story 3  Jazz At Progress …

RED ELLEN:

RED ELLEN: People’s History Museum exhibition 9th Nov previewed by I love Manchester newsletter This November, the People’s History Museum (PHM)  is shining a spotlight on one of the North’s most indomitable figures,…
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS & MUTUAL PRAISE

When Liz and Dee realised that Larry and I would be neither deterred or detoured on our musical pilgrimage of a chat, they decided to hitch their wagons to our star, and made their own contributions. Dee talked Motown, in the shape of Diana Ross & The Supremes, while Liz, to my amazement spoke of Canadian artist Robin Thicke and his huge, but controversial hit with Blurred Lines.
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LIVE FOLK LORE MUSIC at Spanish Artisan Fair

have mentioned before on these pages that I find it remarkable that Lanzarote, its people and its government and its churches and its social services try, and succeed in doing so, to create a powerful unity of politics and religion and the arts and the artisans into almost every public event. I am sure that is what puts the smiles on the faces of those partaking and those in the audience.