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The last time Democrats had both chambers of Congress and the White House, Barack Obama had overcome the odds and had been elected the first Black president.
When Congressman Peter DeFazio recalls those two years of Democratic Party control, he says Obama made a mistake in economic recovery after listening “to that jerk Larry Summers” when pushing for the Troubled Assets Relief Package (TARP) legislation during the Great Recession, which resulted tax cuts too small to notice and minimal job creation.
Summers was President Bill Clinton’s treasury secretary, and during Obama’s first year served as the director of the National Economic Council.
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Keith Bruce FOR all the diversity in music-making that has been showcased at concerts in Celtic Connections over the years, there can have been few programmes covering as much territory as this online showcase for four very different acts at the top of their game. In fact the latter two would perhaps sit more obviously in Glasgow Jazz Festival, although the traditional music ingredients in the compositions of pianist Fergus McCreadie are utterly crucial. He was previewing tracks from his upcoming new album Cairn, released at the end of the month. There may be a new minimalism at work here, but when McCreadie introduces a “simple tune”, that signals his intention to take a riff or melodic idea into previously uncharted waters, courtesy of prodigious technique. The exciting variations he explored around the continuous thumbed pulse of Cross Flatlands could be no-one else, while the soaring Cliffside was as picturesque from its opening chords as the new music fiddl
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A NUMBER of local artists have had new work commissioned as part of a Shetland Arts project called
Refresh Now.
The arts agency had sought ideas from artists based in Shetland, or with strong links to the isles, that would âexplore inventive methods and non-traditional and digital media to the challenges in creating performanceâ.
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The works will be presented throughout April, in line with current public health guidance.
Composer and musician Catriona MacDonald and film maker Shona Main will collaborate on a new musical composition and film for the project.
The work will emerge from each artist’s impressions of two houses in Unst central to the story of Jessie Saxby, a Shetland born writer, and her relationship to her daughter who died at a young age.
Celtic Connections is going online a week today - for a 19 day festival By Louise Glen
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Updated: 10:19, 08 January 2021
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The Celtic Connections online festival will begin one week today.
Across 19 days, the festival will present over 30 online performances between Friday January 15 and Tuesday February 2 2021.
St Lukes. Picture: Gaelle Beri
World class concerts will be available to view online with some of the biggest names on the Scottish music scene and beyond appearing on screens across the world as part of the winter festival.