The Petersens are an American bluegrass family band from Branson, Missouri, the authors of the popular songs “California,” and “It’s Over.” Since the group’s inception, they have been a regular feature on Country Music and Bluegrass television specials. The Petersen children grew up playing music together, but first heard bluegrass in 2003 at the Gettysburg […]
Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
“Make Me a Pallet on the Floor” (also “Make Me a Pallet on your Floor“, “Make Me a Pallet“, or “Pallet on the Floor“) is a blues/jazz/folk song. It is considered a standard. Jelly Roll Morton explained the title: “A pallet is something that – you get some quilts – in other words, it’s a […]
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. In 1935, Davis received his first trumpet as a gift from John Eubanks, a friend of his father. He took lessons from “the biggest influence on […]
Elise Trouw
Elise Trouw is a U.S. singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Newport Beach, California to parents Arie and Anne, Trouw moved to San Diego at an early age. At six, she learned to play the piano with the intent of being able to play “My Immortal” by Evanescence. At age ten, she started drum lessons […]
Musica Piccolino
Musica Piccolino is an innovative Japanese edutainment TV show which is designed to help children helps children to visualize and respond physically to musical sound by taking its basic mechanisms and weaving them into a story. It takes place within the imaginary world of Musicamundo, where Monstoro, a monster suffering from amnesia, performs music. The […]
The Accidental Death of An Anarchist
Today, a favourite of mine. In these days of fake news and conspiracy theories Dario Fo poses the questions: ‘Will society ever be free of corrupt and incompetent politicians, the fascists and their false flag view of the world?’ Today is Groundhog Day, a day of repetition if you have seen the movie, but also […]
Lio
Lio (born Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos) is a Luso-Belgian singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s. In her teens she was determined to become a singer, and she was encouraged by singer-songwriter Jacques Duvall (né Eric Verwilghem), a family friend. She took her stage […]