The Lost Generation

As Northern Ireland approaches its centenary in 2021, Stephen Walker meets some of the men and women who are as old as the state of Northern Ireland itself. In this heartwarming programme, Stephen encounters four women and one man born in 1921: Aileen Pollock, Martin Charters, Isobel Lavery, Eileen Sweeney and Mairead Liddy. Through conversations with them, he discovers how they all witnessed great social, economic and political change over the decades.

Historical brewing traditions and techniques have been passed generation to generation on farms throughout remote areas of northern Europe. With these traditions facing near extinction, author Lars Marius Garshol set out to explore and document the lost art of brewing using traditional local methods. Equal parts history, cultural anthropology, social science, and travelogue, this book describes brewing and fermentation techniques that are vastly different from modern craft brewing and preserves them for posterity and exploration. Expect to see today's craft brewers innovate and experiment with their own practices as old traditions reveal new life and creativity.

When you think about events in a generation it usually reflects the environment surrounding itself, even if the name dennotes something unrefined and unused. This band has promise and doesn't waste a single moment to wallow in its proverbial status as an unrecognizable and or lost generation. The fact is that all these gentlemen hail from a country, Italy, not known as being a jazz powerhouse; they overcome a large uphill battle and in my opinion are at the top of the hill with a select few in this so called wasted gereration. This music perfectly demonstrates what the energy and sound of the time is. You will get a glimpse in this hour long performance at genius level that will most certainly will not have been a waste.

Greenleaf Music is proud to announce the January 31, 2025 release of Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores, a wide-ranging, expansive new project celebrating the legacy of one of the great, original voices in contemporary jazz, Kenny Wheeler. Released to coincide with the publication of Wheeler’s highly anticipated biography on Equinox Publications, Some Days Are Better explores an undiscovered treasure of rarely-heard works by the iconic composer from a crucial and largely unknown period in his musical emergence. A transatlantic occasion, this project combines features the Royal Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra from the UK and University of Miami’s Frost Jazz Orchestra, and is augmented by a host of Wheeler fans, devotees and past colleagues such as Shelly Berg, Etienne Charles, James Copus, John Daversa, Ingrid Jensen, Brian Lynch, Evan Parket, Chris Potter, Nick Smart and Norma Winstone.