Concert for Billie 2012

> Iain Matthews performs ‘Woodstock’ with Egbert Derix at the sixth annual Concert For Billie. The concert is the annual prize-giving concert for Billie’s Violin Trust, a charity that donates musical instruments and tuition to the schoolchildren of Featherstone. The charity is in memory of Ian Clayton’s daughter, Billie Holiday Clayton. For more details on [...]

Hendrix in Ilkley

. In his book Bringing It All Back Home, Ian Clayton talks about the night Jimi Hendrix played Ilkley and how afterwards, a woman bumped into Hendrix in the queue for fish and chips at the original Harry Ramsden’s in Guisley. Last week at The Cat Club (a long playing record club, similar to a [...]

Stories From A World of Music

Route have teamed up with Musicport to produce a book of stories collected over the festival weekend. At any festival gathering, people get together to share stories and music related experiences. This year, a team of writers will be on hand to capture and celebrate these stories that demonstrate the rich link between music and [...]

Concert for Billie 2011

Last Friday saw the fifth annual Concert for Billie, which was once again a heart-warming mix of school choirs and impromptu bands, junior jazz, professional musicians, special guests, a raffle and presentations of new musical instruments to nine competition-winning schoolchildren Amongst the special performances this year was harpist Fiona-Katie Roberts who premiered her self-composed ‘Billie’s [...]

Indispensable advice to deal with anything

A review of Ian Clayton’s Bringing It All Back Home by Gary McMahon

Bright Lights, Big City

Ian Clayton and Friends perform a medley of Jimmy Reed songs on the occasion of Ian’s fiftieth birthday party.