The North East Magazine
Legendary American singer songwriter Emmylou Harris is always welcome to these shores and in particular to our very own The Sage Gateshead. Emmylou who has worked with Bob Dylan (the Desire album) and Gram Parsons on the magnificent “Love Hurts” has in recent years become a songwriter and song interpreter of great acclaim with Daniel [...]
Produced and directed by Jim Brown this time Time Life DVD entitled ‘American Troubadour” is available at all good CD/DVD stores. “American Pie”, “Vincent”, “And I Love You So” are three songs that will live forever. Their author and singular performer Don McLean the American singer songwriter is the subject of this slow burning but [...]
The SummerTyne Americana Festival held each year at The Sage Gateshead takes place this year from July 19th to 21st. Over the years it has become the prestigious event for musical appreciators with an across the board mix of musical genres with a nucleus of country flavourings. This year the indoor events kick off with [...]
Gateshead International Festival of Theatre 2013 takes place at various locations from Thursday (May 2nd) through to Sunday 5th May. The GIFT initative was established to provide a platform for work not normally featured in the region and for new theatre makers in the North East. Now in it’s third year the festival features [...]
Sue Moffitt is a highly regarded and in demand North East artist whose lovely dairy cow “portraits” have become iconic works of art here in the North East. Meet one of Sue’s bovine friends as realized by her in this charming painting. Over the years Sue a Northumbrian-born dairy-farmers daughter has been featured on [...]
Bill Anderson -The Definitive Collection is sure to put a smile on the face of our very own comedy legend Ken Dodd OBE. ‘Doddy’ is a great fan and had chart success with cover versions of Bill’s songs…or was it the other way round according to ’Doddy’. Songs like ‘Happiness’, ‘Still’ and ’8 x 10″ [...]
Going as strong as ever in its 176th year, Newcastle Theatre Royal has announced a dazzling line-up of new shows for Summer / Autumn 2013. The new programme features some great new shows and old favourites, but always the best combination of dance, drama, musicals, comedy and opera of any venue in the North. Critically acclaimed [...]
Tim McGraw’s Two Lanes Of Freedom was released a couple of weeks ago to coincide with his first visit to the UK. Although he had never performed here before he did enjoy a number one record called ‘Over and Over’ with Nelly in 2005 and has had successful nationwide airplays with the song ‘Me and [...]