CULTAVERDE is the ‘show-ALL-the-talent’ eve at the CITAVERDE College, where I’m a teacher. The year is added because it was such a success we’ve already decided to make it an annual event. We had invited all students and colleagues to participate and show their art. There was an audition to make sure we only had [...]
Category Archives: Music
Dec
30
2012
Born Free in Salisbury
It was a lovely evening in November. The sky looked beautiful in purple by the time I walked out of the restaurant and onto the City Hall in Salisbury, for the Born Free gig Brian and Kerry were doing. It would be their second last night. I was only going to see this one, although [...]
Dec
29
2012
Stonehenge and Salisbury
Brian May and Kerry Ellis announced a few tour dates to raise awareness of the Born Free foundation and I quickly concluded I could do with a little break like this. So I checked which of their dates happened at a weekend, followed by looking up where exactly Salisbury is. At this point I didn’t [...]
Aug
16
2012
Gigging
“In my opinion it’s not Queen without Paul Rodgers”, someone jokingly said to me, obviously referring to the naysayers who said this about Freddie when Queen toured with Paul. This time they would do a few gigs with Adam Lambert, just because it worked so well. Now I have to confess I had only vaguely [...]
Feb
02
2011
Picture of the Month
Inspired by ‘Astronomy Picture Of the Day’, ‘Astron Jive Daily Image’ and the ‘Object of the Day’ on the Galaxy Zoo forum, I just made up this title. Although ‘Picture of the Year’ would probably fit better, as I don’t have plans for posting pictures under this title on a monthly basis. ‘Picture of the [...]