Donna Petch

Owner and creator of The North East and West HUB. Loves live music, science, sport and meeting new people!!! Find me on

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300 year old musical manuscript donated to Manchester

Pietro Paolo Bencini 18 century manuscript

An renowned musicologist has donated a score from the early 18th century, making it 300 years old, to an internationally important collection of Italian music at Manchester Central Library.  The score to Pietro Paolo Bencini’s “Li due volubili” – which has never been recorded and was for many years feared lost – was separated from …

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Issue 8: Top Social Media Posts of the week

I’d like to share with you my top social media posts this week which feature Google authorship, Social Media Rules and Selfies. 1. Google plus removes authorship photos If you have google plus and a blog you may have applied for google authorship. Your blog posts used to appear with a lovely photo of yourself and …

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Now Open: Manchester Fringe Festival

manchester fringe festival 2014

The greater manchester fringe festival returns for a further year and is entertaining us the WHOLE of July 2014. The festival will hold: live music comedy cabaret childrens events exhibitions and many more events…there is something for everyone! This years patrons are Tom Firth (writer), Shobna Gulati (actress), Arthur Bostrom (Actor) and Justin Moorhouse (comedian). …

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