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Jan 31, 2024 · Sarah Collins, from Harrogate in North Yorkshire, was nominated by her husband to star on the BBC TV show after she recovered from a brain tumour.
Jan 9, 2024 · Talented Harrogate singer Sarah Collins’s brilliant videos went viral, and soon clocked up well over a million views on her Youtube channel. (Picture contributed) This special singer has been performing in bands in and around Harrogate for a long time but rose to prominence after fighting back from cancer.
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American pop star LeAnn Rimes surprised a cancer survivor by joining her for a duet on Michael McIntyre's Big Show. Sarah Collins, from Harrogate in North Yorkshire, was nominated by her husband ...
- Barbara Allen, by Jo Stafford
- My Father, Chuck Collins
- Antonia Brico, Music Teacher
- Denver’s Folk Scene
- Fern Lake, The Rocky Mountains
- Flannery O’Connor – The Habit of Being
I’d been playing the piano since I was five, and by the time I was 15 I was memorising Rachmaninov concertos. But Barbara Allen, recorded by Jo Stafford, turned me towards the music that was becoming the rebirth of folk music in the US. I knew Stafford’s voice very well – her My Funny Valentine was one of our favourites. She was such a magnificent ...
I drank for 23 years, and in that time I was able to forge a career that has gone on to this day, like the Energizer bunny. I was pretty much the pure definition of an alcoholic – I didn’t do many drugs, I always thought they interfered with my drinking – and I was a successful, working alcoholic. It came to an end in 1978 – I was terribly sick, an...
Brico was the first female conductor to conduct major symphonies, starting in the Berlin Philharmonic when she was 27, and later becoming the first woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic. She was a pioneer – and here she was in Denver. I walked into Brico’s studio, and she listened to me play and said: “I don’t know – the technique is pretty ba...
At the Denver Folklore Center, I would go and sit around with these long-haired hippies and listen to their versions of Barbara Allen. It was run by this very interesting man named Lingo the Drifter, who had come to Denver from Chicago with his guitar. He was an eccentric like my father – multifaceted, with a literary education – and they talked, s...
When I was 18, my teenage sweetheart Peter Taylor and I hooked up. We went up to Estes Park, and lived for a couple of weeks in a cabin owned by my godfather Holden Bowler – whose name was taken by JD Salinger for Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye after they got friendly on a ship – and we were ecstatic to get a job running a lodge in the Rock...
I was enthralled with Flannery O’Connor: her struggle and how she continued in the face of her physical adversity with lupus. And I was just overwhelmed with this book: mostly letters, which tell us what she was doing every day, how she communicated with her editor, how she spent time feeding the chickens. It talked about the organisation of though...
Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, she is known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, country, show tunes, pop music, rock and roll and standards), for her social ...
Feb 7, 2015 · Sarah Collins with fiance Tom Durance, son Freddie, 8 and two-year-old Lily In the months after her surgery Sarah developed epilepsy and has to take medication three times a day. She said: “I live on a country lane, I was too scared to take Lily out for walk in the push chair incase I had a seizure.”
Apr 11, 2018 · That was the death of Ms. Collins’s son, Clark C. Taylor (his father was Ms. Collins’s first husband), who committed suicide in 1992. “And we got through that,” Ms. Collins said.
