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Sidetracks And Detours present PASS IT ON weekly walkabout 23 Sunday 22nd October 2023

my mind recently cast back to Sunday 15th October 1989 when John Stewart appeared with Hugh Moffatt as support at the Flying Picket in Liverpool-a gig which Geoff Davies promoted.
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PASS IT ON 21: weekly walkabout Sunday Supplement 8th October 2023

Moseley Folk And Arts Festival, that takes place annually in Moseley Park´s not-so-.secret hideaway. The event is a family-friendly festival exploring the very best of contemporary folk.
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THE BIRTH OF ROCK AND ROLL

The authors of The Birth of Rock And Roll are experts in their field, and I know from have reading  several works from their individual works, all written sublimely, and full of information and informed opinion and delivered in the captivating tones of men who clearly love their subject.
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The first host of I Love Manchester Annual Awards

I Love MCR is a platform that has championed the extraordinary people and organisations within our fair city for over a decade, and has built up enough reputation and credibility to create a meaningful ceremon
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ANONYMOUS GIG REVIEWS: part 4 of The Bloodliners Festival

John was great - the sound was crisp, clear and loud and he did six of the "Havana" songs and a good sprinkling of older and newer ones.  He used a twelve string Taylor and a Godin nylon strung [Acousticaster?].
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ALL THE SONGS A PRINCE CAN BRING YOU

this is the most in-depth exploration of Prince's songs ever written
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DAVID CROSBY: R.I.P.

Mr. Crosby was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two times, as a member of each group, was at the heart of the Laurel Canyon music scene in Los Angeles and was considered one of the founders of folk rock.

HIGH CEILINGS: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

tills and Nash, who had each dealt with all that in the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and the Hollies, respectively. They started singing together for the thrill of it, and they quickly realized that they harmonized with an uncommon purity that astonished their friends. That feeling of amazement carried over to the listening public when the trio released Crosby, Stills & Nash at the end of May 1969, thanks to songs including “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” “Long Time Gone” and “Helplessly Hoping.”

DOLLY AND THE IMAGINATION LIBRARY

Dolly Parton works 9 to 5? Don´t believe her. That´s just fiction. She works 24/ 7 / 365
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ARE WE THE BOOKS WE READ?

Running steadily through the book is Vivian Gornick's exchange of more than twenty years with Leonard, a gay man who is sophisticated about his own unhappiness, whose friendship has "shed more light on the mysterious nature of ordinary human relations than has any other intimacy" she has known.