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From working on her second full-length under her Mantua project, to performing at a Cork care home for Cork Midsummer Festival, to reinterpreting a ...
Rick Laird, bassist at the forefront of fusion, dies at 80 The Inner Mounting Flame (1971). by Giovanni Russonello (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Rick Laird, a bassist who played a central role in the jazz-rock fusion boom as a founding member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, then retired from music to pursue a career in photography, died on July 4 in New City, New York. He was 80. His daughter, Sophie Rose Laird, said the cause was lung cancer. Guitarist John McLaughlin called Laird in 1971 with an invitation to join a group he was forming with the goal of uniting the jazz-rock aesthetic which McL...
2 More Categories Interchangeable lens cameras offer a lot more creative flexibility and control than smartphones and point-and-shoots. Buying a camera with swappable lenses lets you change your angle of view, and take advantage of speciality optics for macro and fish-eye shots. You do need to make sure you're getting the right type of lens for your camera. We're covering lenses for the Micro Four Thirds system in this guide. It's the oldest modern mirrorless system, and one that's supported by multiple camera and lens makers. The First in Mirrorless Micro Four Thirds cameras first went on ...
Looking ahead - Cork musicians talk about their hopes for 2021 With a year of challenges, opportunities, and rebuilding ahead for music in Cork city, Cork's musicians, promoters, venue heads and journalists talk with Mike McGrath-Bryan about their hopes for the near future. Elaine Malone: I can't wait to be in a room again hearing my friends play. Picture: Bríd O'Donovan. STEVIE G (DJ, radio host, promoter, columnist, producer) I hope we get physical gigs back, and I can't wait to DJ to actual people again. I hope more of our artists manage to get recorded too, as i think Cork is a litt...
channel for the latest stories and updates. In the last Dewan Rakyat sitting in December 2020, Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan suggested that halving tobacco taxes to curb the black market as 64% of cigarettes sold in the country were illegal sticks, while only 36% were taxed, legal cigarettes. The Pontian MP and former deputy finance minister proposed this be carried out in a two-year pilot programme to allow tobacco companies to sell legal cigarettes at RM8 per pack, which is closer to the price of a pack of illicit cigarettes in a bid to address a RM5 billion annual loss in tobacco tax revenue.