Quiet Days

Britain's greatest folk-rock singer Sandy Denny died on this day April 21st in 1978 aged only 31. Her daughter Georgia Rose Lucas has ju...

Patrick Kavanagh died on this day November 30 th in 1967. He was one of the finest Irish poets and a novelist. Arguably second only to W.B...

Sebastian Sawe becomes the first man ever to run a marathon in under two hours.

Thursday: It was sunny today, but a bit chilly. I managed to have a little trip outside Westbury for the first time in months. Me and a frie...

It is another dark, windy and rainy day here. I won’t be going out today. I am listening to a CD called Folksongs & Ballads by Tia Blake...

Van Morrison will be celebrating his 78 th birthday in a few days’ time, but the Celtic soul brother is showing no sign of slowing down. Va...

I was listening to Anne Briggs recently because it was her birthday a couple of weeks ago. She is one of my favourite singers, but I only ha...

I have been a Cat Stevens fan since the 1960s, but it was in the early to mid-1970s that he became one of my favourite singer-songwriters w...

It had been eight months since me and my niece Lee saw Van one sunny summer’s evening at Westonbirt Arboretum, and now the long dark Winter ...

Three Chords & The Truth is the fifth album Van Morrison has released since the excellent Keep Me Singing in 2016 and in many ways t...