“Get your kicks on Route 66”
– written by Bobby Troup, recorded by Nat King Cole, Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones

“66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership, from the desert’s slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the land and steal what little richness is there”
– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I got them 66 Highway blues”
– written by Woody Guthrie, also recorded by Pete Seeger

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else”
– Billy Connolly, Billy Connolly’s Route 66: The Big Yin on the Ultimate American Road Trip

“The sad truth is, John and I and the kids only took Route 66 once on our trips to Disneyland. Our family, like the rest of America, succumbed to the lure of faster highways, more direct routes, higher speed limits. We forgot about taking the slow way”
– Michael Zadoorian, novelist, The Leisure Seeker

“Get your motor running, head out on the highway, looking for adventure in whatever comes our way”
– Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild

“The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street”
– John Lasseter, director of Cars

“This highway, if you just think about it, is peppered with hope; it is peppered with tears”
– Angel Delgadio, co-founder of Arizona Route 66 Historical Association

“66 is the mother road, the road of flight.[81]”
– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Route 66, 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, opened in 1926

Let’s Dance

Two double bills at Bath

Posted in Let's Dance, The Art of Sound on 31 October, 2025.

BATH Theatre Royal hosts two double bills of opera and dance, featuring English Touring Opera and Rambert, from 3rd to 8th November, beginning on Monday 3rd with Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, an acclaimed production, directed by Robin Norton-Hale, which was awarded four star reviews in The Stage and The Times. In ancient Rome,…

Busk, Project Dance Company, Yeovil and touring

Posted in Let's Dance on 29 August, 2025.

DANCE is one of the oldest forms of story-telling, right back there with the ancient bards of legend – a simple but meaningful way to communicate feelings, tell tales and make connections. It is inherently musical, inviting us to share in the experience. Yeovil-born James Bamford, the inspirational young choreographer and director who founded…

Ballet returns to Minterne

Posted in Arts news, Let's Dance on 19 August, 2025.

ROYAL Ballet star Meaghan Grace Hinkis brings a dance gala to Dorset over the weekend of 13th and 14th September. The three performances in the grounds of Minterne House, north of Dorchester, are raising funds for the performing arts. Between 2020 and 2022, Meaghan Grace Hinkis, First Soloist with the Royal Ballet, staged three weekend…

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Let’s Dance

Two double bills at Bath

Busk, Project Dance Company, Yeovil and touring

Ballet returns to Minterne