Brendan Kavanagh – Mums, Kids, & Boogie Woogie
An evening pause: I guarantee this will bring a smile to your face.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Tag: music
Rhiannon Giddens – Wayfaring Stranger
An evening pause: My brother Jon sent this to me today as a birthday present. I like it so much that I decided to reschedule my pauses to air it tonight.
Grace Thomas – Electro Swing Dance Freestyle
An evening pause: The song is Lost in the Rhythm, performed by Octavia Rose.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Hillary Klug – Cotton Eyed Joe
An evening pause: Stay with it, it gets better and better, as she triples herself in the second half.
Hat tip Sherman LaViolette.
Gary Numan – Cars
An evening pause: From 1979, in every way possible.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Sade – Your Love Is King
An evening pause: Performed live 2011.
Hat tip Cotour.
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring
An evening pause: Performed by Perspectives Ensemble using the original 1944 orchestration.
Hat tip Diane Wilson, who admits that “it’s long-ish, but this is a superb performance of purely American experience set to music.” I agree. You will be refreshed and enlightened by it.
The Pretenders – Brass In Pocket
An evening pause: Performed live in London 2009.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman
An evening pause: Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Sleepy Man Banjo Boys – Three bluegrass songs
An evening pause: From left to right that Robbie (14), Jonny (10), and Tommy (15) Mizzone, brothers from New Jersey.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Silent Monks Sing the Hallelujah Chorus
An evening pause: There is something both inspired and silly about this performance by this South Kitsap High School vocal group in Port Orchard, Washington.
Hat tip Martin Kaselis.
Jonah Ho – Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar, who writes, “I finally figured what’s wrong with my playing – I need to get a pair of jammies like his.”
To me, this illustrates the awesomeness possible from each person, especially the young, who don’t yet know they can’t do it, and so they do.