Music Road - Details

Listing ID: 918

Title: Music Road

Description: Folk, roots, country, and Celtic music from many different neighbourhoods, and sometimes, from behind the scenes.

Category: Entertainment : Music

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listed on: June 08, 2008 08:13:58 AM

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music and focus - Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:02:00 +0000

Focusing on a song or a tune, whether you are the one playing and singing or the one doing the listening, is a way to relax, and to create. That may seem a contradiction, at first. Whichever side of that circumstance you are on at any given time, though, it can be a doorway in to deep source of peace and refreshment. photographs from Glasgow, Scotland, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, copyright Kerry Dexter Music to go along with these ideas Music Road: national drum month: bodhran Music Road: Scotland on the harp: Corrina Hewat Music Road: Carrie Newcomer: Before& After you may also wish to see Delicious Baby'sPhoto Friday,where travelers offer new insights to the world each Friday this week, be sure to check out the one with peanut butter and jelly included -- two things which also help with focus.

road trip travels: missouri moon - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:00:00 +0000

This summer, and beyond, we're taking you along on The Great American Road Trip. I’m partnering up withA Traveler’s Libraryto add musical ideas to the book and film suggestions for journeys through the regions of the United States the Library is discovering for you. Recently, the Road Trip traveled through Missouri. There you met Rhonda Vincent, who grew up there playing in her family's band, and has gone on to make an award winning career on her own as a bluegrass artist. Here she is, first surviving a broken guitar string, then singing the song Missouri Moon. Look for Great American Road Trip posts on Wednesdays at A Traveler's Library and here at Music Road. Also read over at the Library for information on travels to France and other adveneures, and here at Music Road for journeys real and virtual to Ireland, Scotland, Cape Breton, and other places. For more about the road trip (and a look at some great road songs) seeGreat American Road Trip: Music begins you may also wish to see Music Road: Road Trip Music: Arkansas and Missouri Music Road: Irish music, Irish landscape Music Road: Dual: Julie Fowlis& Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh

Highlands history in song - Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:50:00 +0000

The Rise and Fall o' Charlie Alan Reid and Rob van Sante You might perhaps know the Skye Boat Song, which is sometimes used as a lullabye, or perhaps you've heard the rousing and wtty song by Robert Burns, Charlie Is My Darlin’. There’s more to the story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart than that, though, in both song and history. It’s a history intimately connected withScotland,as the Rising of 1745, when Bonnie Prince Charlie, as he was known, hoped to lead a revolution to bring the British Crown back to the house of Stuart, began and in many ways ended in the Scottish Highlands. Alan Reid of the Battlefield Band and his frequent duo partner Rob van Sante have gathered songs, written songs, and gathered friends together to play and sing them to tell the story of the prince, from rising to remembrance. It makes for a cohesive whole and good listening, whether you know anything about Charles Stuart, Johnny Cope, Preston Pans, or Culloden or not. If yuo're not up on this part of history, the liner notes will fill you in a bit on the trajectory of the story, and the provenance of the music, as well. A few of the songs, mostly those in Scottish Gaelic, are from Charlie’s time, and there are two Robert Burns songs, from not that long after. Several of the pieces come from the nineteenth century, a time when Charlie's life and quest were often quite romanticized, and Alan Reid has written four of the fourteen pieces included here. The collection opens with Sound of the Pibroch, marking the highland pipes which called the clans from glen to glen to join in the rising, and ends with Will Ye No’ Come Back Again, a song which today is still sung often at the end of gatherings to wish friends a speedy return. Between there are songs in Gaelic, songs welcoming the prince, songs celebrating victories in battle, songs questioning the future of the prince and his cause, and songs looking back and, as Reid puts it in the liner notes “beginning the long process of romanticizing the life and creating the myth” of Bonnie Prince Charlie. It’s a thoughtful collection balanced both musically, and you might say, philosophically. Reid and van Sante are joined by several gifted Scottish musicians, including rising Gaelic singer Maeve MacKinnon, cellist and singer Wendy Weatherby, fiddler Alistair White, Susan Miller on whistle and flute, Mike Katz on the pipes and Ian Fairbairn on fiddle. you may also wish to see Music Road: Eddi Reader sings more of the songs of Robert Burns Music Road: Julie Fowlis: Uam back to school savings from Amazon