Grace Thomas – Electro Swing Dance Freestyle
An evening pause: The song is Lost in the Rhythm, performed by Octavia Rose.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Tag: music
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.
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
An evening pause: Performed live 1985 in Japan. Stay with it. They just don’t want this performance to end.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
George Harrison tribute – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
An evening pause: Performed live in 2004 by Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others.
Hat tip Cotour.
Stan Hershonik – Making of an Aeolian Harp
A evening pause: Another demonstration of the amazing ability of humans to improvise new things using the most unexpected materials.
I must say however that the sound produced would be exactly what I’d expect to hear upon entering a haunted house.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Mike Oldfield – In the beginning & Let there be light
An evening pause: A nice way to start the new year. And yes, that is Bill Anders’ voice, recorded during the Christmas Eve broadcast from Apollo 8 in 1968 in orbit around the Moon.
John Hess – Auld Lang Syne
An evening pause: The new year beckons and the trumpets blow.
Catalina Vicens – Rondeau
An evening pause: The instrument is a medieval portative organ. The music is not medieval but was written in 2014 by American composer Carson Cooman.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
Jennifer Nettles – O Holy Night/Hallelujah
An evening pause: For my Christian readers, from a secular Jew, in good will.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
U.S. Army Band – Bluegrass Christmas Medley
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You
An evening pause: I hope we all get our own equivalent of what she wants.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
The Starbugs – Mr Tambourine Man
An evening pause: Sung by Jessie Hillel, Sarah Whitaker, Roisin Anderson, Ben Anderson, Rebecca Jenkins. From the youtube page: “We have re-pitched this captivating selection of favourites to suit children’s voices.”
Truly one of Bob Dylan’s most beautiful and poetic songs.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.