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Article: Stars give scene a lift.(News)
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- Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2004
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The sad and hopefully only temporary demise of Newcastle Opera House leaves a vacuum in the roots/blues scene.
Several attractive shows have been lost to the region. Nevertheless, there are still some excellent international visitors to augment the thriving and expanding local scene.
On Sunday, for instance, there are two interesting Americana artists ( Ramsey Midwood and Randy Weeks ( at the Cluny, in Byker, Newcastle.
Ramsey Midwood has a bluesman's itinerant background and Time Out's reviewer called his music rambling, roughhewn and bluesy but ...