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 […]
Mozart – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
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
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
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 24
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
“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 […]
Moondog
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 […]
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor is an English singer and songwriter. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the indie rock band Theaudience. The band released four singles, including the UK Top 40 hits “I Know Enough (I Don’t Get Enough)” and “A Pessimist is Never Disappointed”, and one self-titled album […]
The Great Society
The Great Society was a 1960s San Francisco rock band that existed from 1965 to 1966, and was closely associated with the burgeoning Bay Area acid rock scene. Best known as the original group of model-turned-singer Grace Slick, the initial lineup of the band also featured her then-husband Jerry Slick on drums, his brother Darby […]
Laurie Johnson
Laurie Johnson, who died in January 2024, was an English composer and bandleader who wrote scores for dozens of film and television series. He studied at the Royal College of Music, where his tutors included Herbery Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He spent four years in the Coldstream Guards (playing French horn) before moving to […]