Year: 2024

“Águas de Março“ (“Waters of March“) is a Brazilian song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim in 1972. Jobim wrote both the Portuguese and English lyrics. The lyrics, originally written in Portuguese, do not tell a story, but rather present a series of images that form a collage; nearly every line starts with “É…” (“It is…”). […]

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic band formed in Wirral, Merseyside, in 1978. The group consists of founding duo and principal songwriters Andy McCluskey (vocals, bass guitar) and Paul Humphreys (keyboards, vocals), along with Martin Cooper (keyboards, saxophone) and Stuart Kershaw (drums). Regarded as pioneers of electronic music, OMD combined an […]

Graham Nash is an English-American musician, singer and songwriter. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash. He was born in Blackpool, to where his mother had been evacuated from her hometown of Salford when World War II began. The […]

Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G major K525 is one of the most popular compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German title means “a little night music” which indicates a genre of entertainment music, which was traditionally performed in the evening and often outdoors. The “Kleine Nachtmusik” is, however, written for a chamber music […]

Bessie Smith was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the “Empress of the Blues”, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and […]

Minoru Muraoka was a Japanese shakuhachi player. He became well-known for using the shakuhachi to play jazz music, which was influential on popularizing the instrument in contemporary Japanese music. Minoru Muraoka was born in 1923 in Yamada, Japan. Muraoka learned from folk singer Tansui Kikuchi to play folk songs in the classical style of Nakao […]

Umefolk is one of the largest folk music festivals in Sweden, and is held every year in February. It is a festival for everyone that are interested in traditional music and dance; we create meeting places for old and young, amateurs and professionals, dancers and musicians. The festival has a wide program with concerts, dancing, […]

“All Right Now” is a song by English rock band Free, released on their third studio album, Fire and Water (1970). It was released by Island Records, a record label founded by Chris Blackwell. Released as the album’s second single, “All Right Now” peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and number four […]

Louis Thomas Hardin, known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his prolific work widely drew inspiration from jazz, clasical and Native Amercian music which he had become familiar with as a child. Due to an accident, Moondog was blind […]