Sebastiao Tapajos is a guitarist from Brazil who played frequently in Germany too. I am sure that I have attended one of his concerts in the 70s in Freiburg. An interesting fact that I have found in a blog about Sebastiao Tapajos is that he played a concert as a repetition of one of his […]
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One year ago the guitarist Bill Frisell has recorded a one hour concert with the NPR. I had written about this in my German blog www.gezupftes.de, but I have just found that I did not make an English version for this blog. Now I have just found a new Tiny Desk Concert with three Beatles
Two days ago I have discovered the following concert on the CBC concert on demand site. This is a niceconcert to lead you to the coming christmas holidays: Christmas Dinner with Dala Darlings of the Canadian music scene, these JUNO nominees have released five albums and toured extensively across North America for the better part
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It is just one week that the new CD by the Norwegian Women Quartet Katzenjammer has been published in Germany. Since I have discovered Katzenjammer two years ago this quartet – four women from Norway – has made a big development. They have toured through Germany and Europe and played at many festivals. Their song
Some great video clips from a recent concert with Oliver Waitze, Marijke and Michiel Wiesenekker and special guest Tim Connell: WOW, what a wonderful evening with great musicians and a wild audiance!! The concert was on 13th July at the New Acoustic Gallery (www.n-a-g.net) in Germany. The whole concert was also filmed. Watch out for
Basia Bulat – a Canadian singer/songwriter plays some very special instruments: the autoharp, ukulele, charango and the very special pianoette – a fretless zither from the beginning of the 20th century. I have discovered Basia Bulat from some free concerts on the NPR site and a short feature about her autoharp playing. But the most
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Some time ago I have found a video with five mandolins playing together, probably when I searched for videos with Mike Marshall who was one of the five mandolin players. Now I have found that there are four videos from this special performance, I have collected all 4 in my playlist. In the 3rd and
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Some days ago I found a concert by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet on the CBC Concerts on Demand website. David Kanengiser has created a great piece for one actor and guitar quartet based on the novel Don Quixote by Cervantes. The actor Phil Proctor recites the story in a fascination way, I have never
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Today I am listening to some great African music. The CBC has added a concert by the group Okavango to its list of free concerts on demand. For Okavango seven musician from different part of Africa have joined together – musicians who normally would not play together. Okavango has created a great mixture of African
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The Canadian musician Jayme Stone has travelled to Mali to research the history and origins of the banjo in Africa. There he met Mansa Sissoko, a “griot” and storyteller. In this concert of the CBC you can hear both musicians together – creating something new from two different cultures. Jayme Stone / Mansa Sissoko at
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