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Last modified on Wed 28 Apr 2021 05.05 EDT Ashley Monroe I started writing songs after my father died when I was 13. I used music to release the sadness that was flooding my heart and held on to my guitar like it was a float in an ocean. As an artist, I’ve always wanted to provoke chills, because to me that means I’ve connected with the spirit that’s giving me the music. I’ve become known as a purveyor of sad songs, but this album is different. Life and motherhood have changed me. I’ve realised that so many things I used to lose sleep about don’t really matter. M...

April 8, 2021 Keep Moving On! That has been the mantra of everyone over the past year. The opera/musical theatre students, under the direction of Dr. Julie Anne Wieck and assisted by collaborative pianist, Elena Panchenko, have been rehearsing remotely all semester on a wonderful array of music by the Broadway genius, Stephen Sondheim. Songs from many of his hit musicals have been rehearsed via Zoom and then recorded by each singer individually to be combined by cast member Bryce Weber, a composition graduate student in the program. The cast also includes a vocal performance graduate student,...

Share In the book, he wrote: 'If I am out shopping and hear music playing in a store, I start to dance. If I want to sing, I sing. I read books and get excited about new ideas. I enjoy myself. I don’t think about the way I am supposed to act at my age — or at any age.'  Similarly, in his 2011 autobiography, My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business, he advised fans to travel, be curious, eat light and to enjoy a dessert each night.   Healthy: The five-time Emmy winner, known for his performances in Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as well as The Dick Van Dyke Show, admitted he...

This tribute to the sassy wisdom of Foxes’ grandmother is clearly a labour of love so it would be uncouth to try to start some beef. But surely St Winifred’s School Choir will feel their 40-year reign as champions of pensioner-themed pop is under attack? Especially because the uplifting piano ascent of Kathleen’s chorus trumps the cloying strains of There’s No One Quite Like Grandma. Tom Odell Monster v.2 One weird side-effect from the head-wrecking stresses of 2020: all those fresh-faced young male troubadours peddling melodramatic plod-rock now have some legitimate existential angst...

Why Dick Van Dyke was the true marvel of WandaVision The 95-year-old's pursuit of perfection has made him a living legend – and cost him dearly, Now he's an unsung hero of the Marvel Universe Dick Van Dyke, circa 1960 Credit: Getty “If someone from the UK sees me, they are on me like a pack of wolves,” joked Dick Van Dyke, who always accepted the mockery over his role in Mary Poppins with good grace, admitting he’d delivered “the most atrocious Cockney accent in the history of cinema”. Even so, the man who played Bert the chimney sweep remains indubitably popular.