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A quick post to highlight a radio programme called The Folklorist, about Izzy Young, who was central to the Greenwich Village

The tension between city and countryside, capital and regions, centre and periphery is ancient and probably inevitable, because of the

‘Pete Seeger’s great work was not just singing the songs, but getting everybody else to sing them—getting his audience, us,

‘What is this shit?’ The opening words of Greil Marcus’ 1970 review of Bob Dylan’s Self Portrait have become a

Snap, crackle and pop The sky was all you could see from the music room’s high windows. Blue, grey, white,

Do you remember the first time you heard the true sound of your voice? Not the familiar sound inside your

Yesterday evening, Kaoru Bingham gave a piano recital at Ecclesall parish church, where Sheffield edges into the Pennines. There were

‘Hope today is a contraband passed from hand to hand and from story to story.’ John Berger, Bento’s Sketchbook, 2011

‘I had to get out of the country without permission, which means I have to cross my fingers when I

I got an email from a Dutch friend, partly in response to my post about waiting for feedback. Margreet wrote