May 19th, 2012 → 7:09 am @ chedicorn
THE hills are alive with the sound of music – and hopefully the sounds of coins in jam jars.Alnwick Stage Musical Society is performing The Sound of Music at Alnwick Playhouse this week.The group, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, is letting the Jam Jar Army hold a raffle as well as donating programme sales to the campaign at its Saturday matinee performance.The winner of the .. more …
May 19th, 2012 → 6:28 am @ chedicorn
Whither pop music? Now there’s a gnarly question. There are now so many genres and sub-categories that a person can be entirely up to date on one area and blind to another. Some might say that means being blissfully unaware.It’s the teen-oriented stuff that sucks up all the attention. The material that is so much part of American Ido l, The X Factor and, often, the music that’s .. more …
May 19th, 2012 → 6:12 am @ chedicorn
This September the Southbank Centre is hosting London’s ninth African Music Festival celebrating musicians from across the country. The other day I made a note of this year’s artists and headed down to Deptford High Street to see if such a worthy celebration of African culture has caught the local community’s imagination.It’s a Saturday and the High Street is its usual mash up of African, .. more …
May 19th, 2012 → 5:18 am @ chedicorn
The hits that made Michael Jackson the “King of Pop” are now available as apart of our instrumental series! These arrangements are completely compatible with each other and can be played together or as solos. Each book contains a carefully edited part that is appropriate for the Level 2-3 player, as well as a fully orchestrated accompaniment CD. Titles: Beat It; Billie Jean; Black or White; Don’t Stop; Human Nature; I Just Can’t Stop Loving You; The Way You Make Me Feel; She’s Out of My Life; Will You Be There (Theme from Free Willy); Man in the Mirror; Thriller & You Are Not Alone.
May 19th, 2012 → 5:16 am @ chedicorn
After two months of seemingly nonstop music festivals, Prague is gearing up for the summer’s grand finale: the State Opera House’s wildly popular Verdi Festival , which opens on Aug. 18.Following a tradition that began in 1993, the opera house (Legerova 75; www.opera.cz/en ) will devote the last two weeks of the month to the famed 19th-century Italian composer’s large cache of work. The .. more …
May 19th, 2012 → 5:09 am @ chedicorn
Actually, Dixieland is the designation for the United States. Jazz was finally called Dixieland jazz because this jazz used more simple instruments. This jazz was also identical with the Americans at the time. Some researchers said that this jazz did not use drums as a regulator of the rhythm of music, but rather used a kind of jagged wood, such as laundry equipment plus a few brass-section, such .. more …
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Henry Barbe taped up broken down cardboard boxes onto his basement windows, an attempt to muffle the noise his band, Justified True Belief, makes when practicing for Ram Jam, a battle of the bands hosted for the past few years by Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School.On a recent Wednesday, the band ran through a number of original tunes written by these high schoolers, including a cover of the .. more …
May 19th, 2012 → 3:07 am @ chedicorn
With hits such as “Walk the Line,” “Get Rhythm” and “Folsom Prison Blues,” Cash undoubtedly had a sound and style that was all his own. But what if you took Cash songs then sang it like the Andrews Sisters or in stride-jazz style?That kind of experimentation makes The Music of Johnny Cash a must-see show.The Music of Johnny Cash will be at the Polk Theatre on Friday night. This show debuted in .. more …