Tag Archives: music

Paco Peña: Quimeras (review)

12 Dec

Dancers in Paco Pena's Quimeras

This review was originally written for  The Public Reviews Rating: ***1/2  The Public Reviews Rating:  World renowned Flamenco artist Paco Peña’s Quimeras receives a standing ovation at The Lowry for its story of a group of African migrants in Spain, trying to make a better life. However, it is the narrative which fails this display of [...]

Four for November

7 Nov

The Staves, photograph by Rebecca Miller

It’s dark too early now, isn’t it? Getting colder and colder and sometimes all you want to do in the evening or at the weekend is curl up and forget there’s a world outside. But there IS a world outside, and with masses and masses of things which deserve your attention in November. Here is [...]

Four for June

9 Jun

The Games

A quick round-up of four enjoyable shenanigans, in Manchester, in June. This month: an undiscovered Greek theatre classic, a showcase for new writing, an alternative to Heaton Park Stone Roses hysteria, and a year-long collaborative project supporting Teenage Cancer. If you’ve got suggestions of what to cover in Four for July leave a comment here, [...]

Four for May

29 Apr

A quick round-up of four enjoyable shenanigans, in Manchester, in May. Watch, listen, do! This month: new musical by local young people, Cuban art, a whole day of flash fiction, and knitting. Oh, and vampires… If you’ve got suggestions of what to cover in Four for June leave a comment here, or tweet me @elle_c_emm. [...]

Let’s go! Manchester Weekender: day one

15 Oct

Manchester Weekender 2011 logo

I was gutted when I read the plans for Creative Tourist’s Manchester Weekender 2011. (Bear with me!). So much great stuff and I was due to be 200 miles away from Manchester that weekend. But then the good folks at All Points North twisted my arm when they asked me to blog about some of [...]


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