This is a tribute to Otava Yo, a Russian folk group from St. Petersburg, that I came across in February 2020 due to a suggested video to watch. If you had told me several years ago that I would find myself listening to Russian Folk Music which included bagpipes, I […]
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There are a lot of Pink Floyd cover bands from all around the world, a lot of them fairly good and some of them truly excellent. But you, like me, probably wouldn’t expect to find a really good cover act that came from Mongolia would you? When Covid-19 started to […]
If you enjoy listening to Celtic Rock music, or even if you aren’t familiar with this genre of music, I hope you enjoy this video which I found today. I pretty much stumbled across Russian Folk Group “Otava Yo” last weekend on You Tube and I am completely hooked on […]
I was browsing YouTube over the weekend, searching for videos of music from my university days, and it made me ponder Did we REALLY listen to this? My browsing old songs from YouTube was triggered when someone purchased a CD from one of my Amazon links the other day. Since […]
You may be wondering what the connection is between the television series “Call The Midwife”, the late folk singer Fred Wedlock, and “Ode To A Nightingale” by John Keats. My wife and I were watching a television series called Call The Midwife over the weekend. It aired in the UK […]
Sad Songs: why do we love them? I think we all have our favourite sad songs – songs that we turn to when we’re miserable and songs that make us even more miserable – but we can’t stop ourselves. It might be a chance playing on the radio, a snippet […]
Going to see an artist whose music you love performed live on stage is always something to look forward to, and usually an event to be remembered, but some rock concerts are more memorable than others. Is it just the music that made these concerts so memorable, or is there something else that enhanced the whole experience and turned it into an evening to be remembered forever.
Debbie had to go out shopping with her daughter this morning, so I was alone in the house with some paperwork to do. It was awfully quiet, and as we bought a new DVD player yesterday and I can now play my Region 1 DVD’s from the USA, I thought […]