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 [...]
Blind singer Diane Schuur has made nineteen albums in a career in which her voice has become a byword for polish and poise in the jazz idiom. Possessed of a voice of great intimacy and range she has repeatedly made her own jazz standards over more than thirty years.A fact recognized with her two Grammy [...]
On this weeks show I’ll be launching a new competition where you can win tickets to see Mary Chapin Carpenter and Tift Merrit in concert at the Sage Gateshead. Our Album of the Week comes as a double CD release from Jamey Johnson and our ‘Remember This’ track takes us back to the sixties. ‘On [...]
When it comes to entertainment the North East has always held its head high with entertainers who have firmly established themselves in a world market, be it stage, screen or music. There are too many to mention here but as a taster there’s the recent success of Joe McElderry, Alan Price, Alan Armstrong, Jimmy Nail, [...]
WHEN IT COMES to appreciation of guitar players names like Chet Atkins, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Hendrix and a whole lot more besides rush through your mind. When it comes to guitar players from the country music circuit apart from the already mentioned Chet Atkins, there’s Jerry Reed, Scotty Moore, James Burton and British [...]