The Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major (K.191) is a piece written in 1774 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is the most often performed and studied piece in the entire bassoon repertoire. Nearly all professional bassoonists will perform the piece at some stage in their career, and it is probably the most commonly requested piece in […]
ABC
ABC are an English pop band formed in Sheffield in 1980. Their classic line-up consisted of lead vocalist Martin Fry, guitarist and keyboardist Mark White, saxophonist Stephen Singleton, and drummer David Palmer. ABC has its roots in Vice Versa, a Sheffield band formed in 1977 by synthesizer players SIngleton and White. Martin Fry, who wrote […]
Shepherd’s Reign
Shepherd’s Reign, hail from South Auckland and describe themselves as a five-piece Polynesian metal band that fuses the Samoan language and culture with metal.”The more elements you can draw from, the better,” guitarist Oliver Leupolu told Nesia Daily. “Fili [lead singer Filiva’a James] likes bringing in his Backstreet Boys chops… it’s not obvious, but those little […]
Brahms – Hungarian Dances
The Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms, are a set of 21 lively dance tunes based mostly on Hungarian themes, completed in 1879. They vary from about a minute to five minutes in length. They are among Brahms’s most popular works and were the most profitable for him. Each dance has been arranged for a wide […]
Hetty & the Jazzato Band
Hetty Loxston, a classical and jazz-trained singer from London formed Hetty and the Jazzato Band at the end of 2015 with clarinettist, and childhood friend Charlotte Jolly, and three Italian musicians Fabrizio Bonacci, Riccardo Castellani and Alessandro Cimaschi, upon moving back to London after a period of living in Bologna and Rome for five years. […]
Jose Feliciano
José Feliciano was born in September 1945, in Lares, Puerto Rico, the fourth child of eleven sons. He was born blind as a result of congenital glaucoma. Feliciano’s knack for music became apparent when at age seven, he taught himself to play the accordian. About two years later, when he was nine years old, his […]
Tinariwen
Tinariwen (meaning “desert”) is a collective of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region of northern Mali. The group was founded by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib; he and bandmates Alhassane Ag Touhami and Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni have all been present since 1979. Tinariwen first started to gain a following outside the Sahara region in 2001 with the […]