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Sculptor, JASON de CAIRES TAYLOR continues to inspire

I don´t believe that art can exist in isolation. Da Vinci´s Mona Lisa surely speaks in some way, even smiles in some way, to characters in crayon-drawings by five year olds, and the stone horses of The Rising Tide discuss the state of the world with all who ever stop to look at them, in different light and waterscape depending on the time of the day. The work itself surely engages in conversation, even if not in agreement, with the Another Place exhibition / installation placed on the Crosby coastline in the UK by Antony Gormley.
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day three of Sidetracks And Detours inaugural Here´s To The Ladies in-print Festival 2022. MARTHA WAINWRIGHT: Love Will Be Reborn

´If I leave my children to their own devices, someone will come back with a bloody nose´, she said, grimacing. ´They’re like me and my brother Rufus – we fought a lot, it was very scrappy. I think one of them really needs to hurt the other to learn the lesson´.
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Sidetracks And Detours. Here´s To The Ladies 2022, an inaugural in-print festival EMMYLOU HARRIS

In America, it was like the end of innocence, a terrible, horrifying thing. There was a blackness, a cloud over everyone. So when the Beatles came along with their great haircuts and joyful music, it was like the clouds parted, the sun came out and it was all right to be happy and feel innocence again.
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Sidetracks And Detours. Here´s To The Ladies 2022, an inaugural in-print festival DIANE WARREN:

“To me it’s like, ‘This is a great song, let’s get it on the radio!’ But it’s like, ‘Well, no, you have to build a story.’ Fuck that. If the Beatles or Prince existed now, I have no idea how that would have worked. They would have had to do TikTok campaigns and if that didn’t work, the label wouldn’t push their music. Who the fuck knows? But it still comes down to an undeniable song. I still believe that.”
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ELVIS COSTELLO, world-class song-writer

Elvis Costello said, "I'm not interested in extracting some dark secret. I'd rather hear about a bright secret, a deep love or a curiosity that might be otherwise obscured by fame. Spectacle With was a wonderful opportunity to talk in complete thoughts about music, movies, art or even vaudeville, then frame it with unique and illustrative performances."
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BEING LOST AS USUAL Jorge Da Rocha,

somehow the sounds he and the instrument made seemed to emerge from the dawn of time before stepping into the complexities, and simplicities, of contemporary music.
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PLAYING FOR BILL EVANS:

PLAYING FOR BILL EVANS: John Horler, Alec Dankworth, Ronnie Jones Jazz pianist still has today´s jazz men enthralled. says Norman Warwick It was in March of last year that we ran a feature on Jazz pianist Bill Evans, and now…

ELVIS, THE COSTELLO KID

I didn’t think I was a performer. I was almost certain that I was a songwriter!
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PANGEA

We also heard these extraordinary compositiions from Cupeiro himself, which were inserted with so much fun and vigour, whilst at the same time somehow stepping unobtrusively in to the itinerary of this wonderful journey back to the beginning of the relationship between Mankind and music.
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XMAS PRESENTS FROM CHRISTMAS PAST

The months between the New Year of 1871 and that of 1872 were lived against the backdrop of the Franco- Prussian War (July 1870 – to the Armistice of the following January of 1871) and the building of Royton’s first limited liability cotton spinning mill also of July 1871.