Today we are really travelling back in time. Looking through YouTube you will find that many modern groups will cover songs orginally made famous by the Andrews Sisters, so today we shall celebrate the originals. The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie woogie eras. The group consisted […]
fripSide
fripSide is a Japanese pop and trance duo originally formed by composer Satoshi Yaginuma (Sat) and singer Nao in February 2002. In a 2008 interview, Satoshi said that he was a fan of TM Network and its member Tetsuya Komuro in his elementary and junior high school days and began to produce his music at […]
NiNi Music
Nini grew up in Taichung, Taiwan and has played and studied Chinese Traditional Folk instruments for over 20 years beginning at the age of 4. She has toured Europe, the USA, Canada, China, Japan, and all of her home island playing in orchestral as well as rock settings. Nini is now on a journey to […]
Stringspace
Stringspace from Australia, are an interesting attempt to combine a string orchestra and a jazz band, although they can and do operate separately. They were established in 2003 by musician Lucie Miller. Her interest and mission are to provide extremely high quality & vibrant musicians for events. Lucie is from a family of third-generation professional […]
Cab Calloway
Cabell “Cab” Calloway III was an American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor. In 1927, Calloway joined his older sister, Blanche Calloway, on tour for the popular black musical revue Plantation Days. Calloway spent most of his nights at Chicago’s Dreamland Café, Sunset Cafe, and Club Berlin, performing as a singer, drummer, and master of […]
London 2
A second visit to London for another selection of songs. “London Boys” is a song by English glam rock act T. Rex. It was released a single in 1976 by record label T. Rex Wax Co. The track was not released on an album, but was originally intended to feature in Bolan’s aborted rock operas […]
London 1
London is the capital and largest city of England. London is an ancient name, already attested in the first century AD, usually in the Latinised form Londinium; for example, handwritten Roman tablets recovered in the city originating from AD 65/70–80 include the word Londinio (‘in London’). As one of the world’s major global cities, London […]
Ebony Buckle
Moving on from one of our previous themes – colours, to an artist who featured on ‘Silver’ and who co-incidentally is named after a colour herself, we find ourselves in the company of Ebony Buckle. She is a London-based singer/songwriter, originally from her tropical seaside home of Townsville, Australia. Writing and performing with her husband, […]
Dublin
Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. Dublin is a centre for education, arts and culture, administration, and industry. As of […]
Belfast
Belfast from the Irish: Béal Feirste, meaning ‘mouth of the sand-bank ford’ is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 10th-largest primary urban area in the UK and the second-largest city in Ireland. It has been the subject for […]