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Tag Archives: music
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Like music? You have to LOVE these guys. The Two Cellos. Check this out:
6 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT ELVIS PRESLEY
So how much do you know about Elvis Presley? Here’s six lesser known facts about the king of rock n’ roll. 1. The founder of the Presley family in America was Johannes Valentin Bressler, who was born in the village … Continue reading
IF THIS DOESN’T BRING TEARS TO YOUR EYES, YOU’RE MADE OF ROCK
We all need to play the music that we hear inside. To do that, some of us have greater mountains to climb than others. For the Landfill Harmonic, it’s a mountain of trash. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-pAioZNZ8&w=560&h=315]
WHAT PRICE TALENT?
THE SITUATION Washington DC, at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. People rushed past on their way to work. After about 3 minutes, … Continue reading
IS THIS 3 YEAR OLD THE BEST CAROL SINGER IN THE WORLD?
Kids. They always steal the show. Check out this toddler - amazing. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b21KKJ6pGd0&w=560&h=315] It was taken in the main square in Krakow, Poland. The kid is basically singing gibberish - but you’d have to say she’s singing better than … Continue reading
KEN LEE - THE SECOND MOST POPULAR MAN ON THE INTERNET
Let me be straight from the get-go; I am no fan of Mariah Carey. I was horrified when she took to Nilsson’s seventies ballad ‘Without You’ and butchered it, in my opinion, with her vocal calisthenics. But now there’s a … Continue reading
SHUNDAY MASH - TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE ART
This week - one of the funniest videos I have ever seen. If you are at all familiar with that over-the-top 1980’s anthem TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART, then you have to see this. The link’s at the end of … Continue reading
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY
While I was at the Bellingen Festival one of the audience asked a panel member, writer Arnold Zable, what he thought was the difference between an ordinary person and an extraordinary one. ‘How you look at them,’ he said. Patrick … Continue reading