Green is the colour between blue and yellow on the visible spectrum. In subtractive colour systems, used in painting and colour printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan; in the RGB colour mode, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colours, along with red and […]
Yellow
Yellow is the colour between orange and green on the visible spectrum. It is a primary colour in subtractive colour systems, used in painting or colour printing. In the RGB colour model, used to create colours on television and computer screens, yellow is a secondary colour made by combining red and green at equal intensity. […]
Red
Today we are beginning a series of posts highlighting colours, starting appropriately with Red the first colour in the rainbow. However our explorations will enivitably go far beyond the rainbow itself but perhaps not to the extent of Jospeh’s Coat of Many Colours. Red is the colour at the long wavelength end of the visible […]
Ruth Fazal
Born in England, Ruth Fazal began her musical studies on the piano and the violin, attending Dartington College for the Arts, before going on to graduate from the Guildhall School of Music in London. Further studies on the violin took Ruth to Paris, France. Since emigrating to Canada, and living in Toronto, Ruth has performed […]
The Songs of Marie Lloyd
In today’s blog I want to celebrate Marie Lloyd the ‘Queen of the Music Hall, sadly there is no footage of her actually performing on the stage, although some recording of her singing do exist. Her daughter Marie Lloyd Jr. did give performances in which she impersonated her mother so I have included these as […]
Japanese Breakfast
Japanese Breakfast is an indie rock band headed by Korean-American musician, director, and author Michelle Zauner. Around 2005, Zauner first played under the moniker Little Girl, Big Spoon. As a student at Bryn Mawr College, Zauner fronted Post Post, an indie pop band with other students from Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. She waited tables […]
Boz Scaggs
William Royce “Boz“ Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Scaggs was born in Canton, Ohio, the eldest child of a traveling salesman. Their family moved to McAlester, Oklahoma, then to Piano, Texas (at that time a farm town), just north of Dallas. He attended a Dallas private school, St. Mark’s School of Texas, […]
The Ting Tings
The Ting Tings are an English Indie pop duo from Salford formed in 2007. The band consists of Katie White (vocals, guitar, bass drums, bass guitar, cowbells) and Jules De Martino (drums, lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, vocals). White was a barmaid at the Mill while De Martino produced tracks for various artists therein. The […]
Atarashii Gakko!
Atarashii Gakkou no Leaders (internationally known as Atarashii Gakkou) are a dance and vocal performance group formed in 2015. Impactful, eclectic, and charmingly chaotic, ATARASHII GAKKO! are a group that’s difficult to categorise. The four-member group is composed of Miayu, Rin, Suzuka, and Kanon. Donning their iconic school uniforms, ATARASHll GAKKO!’s name aptly translates to […]
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” is an African-American spiritual song and one of the best-known Christian hymns. Originating in early oral and musical African-American traditions, it was composed by Wallis Wilis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory in what is now Choctaw County, near the County seat of Hugo, Oklahoma sometime after 1865. He […]