The North East Magazine
‘The Bees’ from Barbara Nesbitt is her second album offering and demonstrates and reveals a maturing artist as a songwriter and performer of some quality. In a handsome mixture of country, folk and rock Barbara writes 12 of the thirteen tracks. She also covers very confidently “Like Strangers” by Boudleaux Bryant made famous by “The [...]
Written by J.B. Priestley, ‘Time and the Conways’ plays at the People’s Theatre from tomorrow evening (Oct 30th) through until Saturday November 3rd. Priestley was one of England’s finest writers scoring great success in the Forties and Fifties with his novels, travel writing and plays. Somewhat old fashioned in image as a professional man of [...]
If you have had the pleasure of experiencing the Wine, Women and Song shows with Gretchen Peters, Suzy Bogguss and Matraca Berg, then you may relate to the fact that Matraca is the ‘quiet ‘one. She’ll also be the first to admit that before she comes on stage for a performance she gets ‘butterflies’. To [...]
Many years ago in the halycon days of the Peterborough Country Music Festival I had the pleasure of seeing a fairly new artist at the time called Nanci Griffith. Nanci was new to hard core British country music audiences and it was not perhaps until the release of her album ‘Lone Star State of Mind’ [...]
Euvue reviewer Angela Foster was at the opening night of ‘Stomp’ at Sunderland Empire last night Sheer brilliant enthusiasm with beat and counter rhythms drove this show to an outstanding climax. It ran non stop for just over an hour and a half with the team of eight artists made up of six males and [...]
On this weeks American Connection you have the chance to win a double CD of unreleased songs from the legendary Jim Reeves along with a brand new single release from chart topping Toby Keith by trying to ‘Beat The Bugle ‘in a new online competition. There’s also our new feature called ‘On This Day’ taking [...]
Sadly, we come to the final part of my chat with country artists Suzy Bogguss, Gretchen Peters and Matraca Berg who were on their 2009 British leg of the ‘Wine Women and Song’ tour. It was a great pleasure for me…I hope you enjoyed their words and music as much as I did over the [...]
Today we carry on with part four of my chat with country artists Suzy Bogguss, Gretchen Peters and Matraca Berg who were on their 2009 British leg of the ‘Wine Women and Song’ tour. It was a great pleasure for me…I hope you enjoy their words and music as much as I did. We’ve split [...]