“Make Me a Pallet on the Floor” (also “Make Me a Pallet on your Floor“, “Make Me a Pallet“, or “Pallet on the Floor“) is a blues/jazz/folk song. It is considered a standard. Jelly Roll Morton explained the title: “A pallet is something that – you get some quilts – in other words, it’s a […]
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. In 1935, Davis received his first trumpet as a gift from John Eubanks, a friend of his father. He took lessons from “the biggest influence on […]
Elise Trouw
Elise Trouw is a U.S. singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Newport Beach, California to parents Arie and Anne, Trouw moved to San Diego at an early age. At six, she learned to play the piano with the intent of being able to play “My Immortal” by Evanescence. At age ten, she started drum lessons […]
Musica Piccolino
Musica Piccolino is an innovative Japanese edutainment TV show which is designed to help children helps children to visualize and respond physically to musical sound by taking its basic mechanisms and weaving them into a story. It takes place within the imaginary world of Musicamundo, where Monstoro, a monster suffering from amnesia, performs music. The […]
The Accidental Death of An Anarchist
Today, a favourite of mine. In these days of fake news and conspiracy theories Dario Fo poses the questions: ‘Will society ever be free of corrupt and incompetent politicians, the fascists and their false flag view of the world?’ Today is Groundhog Day, a day of repetition if you have seen the movie, but also […]
Lio
Lio (born Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos) is a Luso-Belgian singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s. In her teens she was determined to become a singer, and she was encouraged by singer-songwriter Jacques Duvall (né Eric Verwilghem), a family friend. She took her stage […]
‘The Sermon’
The sermon is a strange beast, being as it is, a monologue during which the preacher traditionally stands six feet above contradiction. As such it has become the vehicle of much comic parody. As so I thought for this Sunday I would share with you the best of these parodies because as preachers we need […]
Breabach
Breabach are; Megan Henderson (Fiddle, Vocals, Step Dance), James Lindsay (Double Bass, Vocals), Calum MacCrimmon (Bagpipes, Whistle, Bouzouki, Vocals), Conal McDonagh (Bagpipes, Whistle, Vocals) and Ewan Robertson (Guitar, Vocals, Cajon). Acknowledging and respecting the origins of both the music they play and the roots of the band whilst embracing the future with new ideas, energy […]
Happy
Another in our occasional post exploring a well known song in all its versions – however bizarre. “Happy” is a song written, produced, and performed by American singer Pharrell Williams, released as the first and only single from the soundtrack album for the film “Despicable Me 2” (2013). The song was first released on November […]
Akeboshi
Today, i review one of David’s favourites Akeboshi. Yoshio Akeboshi (明星嘉男, Akeboshi Yoshio), more commonly known as Akeboshi, is a Japanese folk singer singer. He is mainly known for the song Wind, used as an ending theme for the first season of the anime Naruto. His surname means “bright star,” while his given name means […]