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Sidetracks & Detours present PASS IT ON 38 weekly walkabout Supplement 4 2 2024

Today we visit many geographical locations and genres of the arts, from poetry to Porstmouth and from Manchester to music.
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ONE HARE, ONE OWL;   Jenny Bray discusses new album with Steve Bewick

For his first serving of Hot Biscuits in 2024 radio presenter Steve Bewick (below left) laid on some fine fare. Amidst healthy portions of fine jazz Steve introduced the album by Jenny Bray, played some tracks off the album and spoke to Jenny about them. The interview made really good listening and Steve and Jenny have graciously allowed me to set the interview into print on our pages to share with our readers
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Sidetracks And Detours present PASS IT ON 36 weekend walkabout Supplement 21 1 2024

Critics pointed out that Cecil Sharp and his educated middle class folk music collecting coterie were really purloining the ‘music of the people’
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THE ESSENTIAL EWAN MacCOLL

MacColl collected hundreds of traditional folk songs, including the version of Scarborough Fair later popularised by Simon & Garfunkel, and released dozens of albums with A.L. Lloyd, Peggy Seeger and others, mostly of traditional folk songs.
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being GUIDED BY VOICES

I don't see it as a science because songs come very naturally to me, but I guess it could be. Sometimes I take a lot of time structuring a song and sometimes they feel pretty autobiographical. Sometimes a song can be somewhat of a study on a topic I'm interested in.

MANCHESTER BOOKED UP

In her memoir,  Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson locates the city of her birth with a laser-guided accuracy: “Manchester is in the south of the north of England,” she writes. “Its spirit has a contrariness … at once untamed and unmetropolitan; yet at the same time, connected and worldly.”
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San Antonio de Texas & Lanzarote, A BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY

Of course, that is covered in what looks to be a book that will enhance school and university and public libraries and household bookshelves, too, and will prove an important reference source for decades to come.
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PRIME PRINE LAND NOW BEARS HIS NAME AS A PARK

ohns widow Fiona Prine, accepted the honor on his behalf, which was presented by Country Music Hall of Fame member Brenda Lee (right) , while Cline’s daughter Julie Fudge will accepted the honor for her mother.
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KATE DAVIS:  Done Looking Back

For the first time, she feels like she has a better sense of what she wants, sonically, and had more control of what the final arc of the record was going to look like.
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SOUND ROOTS sounds right

Whilst there are limits to what a single organisation can do, what English Folk Expo, now Sound Roots, delivers is impressive. They have continually responded to what artists need in changing circumstances. The reality perhaps doesn’t match the expressed aspiration every time – as with diverse and non-English cultures in the festival – and there is an overemphasis on support for artists to work abroad. Still, a whole layer of folk artists and industry people have benefitted in multiple ways from their work