Tag: Music
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For the record, I have indeed seen this
16-year-old boy in Quebec channels Elvis. As a fangirl of both Elvis AND Quebec music, this is Highly Relevant to My Interests!
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A little STOMPY for your Friday!
When I commit acts of musical fandom, I learn tunes (and have a tendency to pester fiddle and flute players). When Dara commits acts of musical fandom, major cities are leveled and the Cascadia Mecha Militia is deployed! Ladies and gentlemen, mesdames et messieurs, I give you my belovedest supervillain’s latest composition: Kaiju Meat, her…
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Musical adventures at Folklife!
Those of you local to the Seattle area know that Memorial Day weekend is Folklife, and and I being well, us, of course we’re hitting the festival as much as possible this weekend! Yesterday’s adventures started off with an Irish session, apparently the first one at Folklife in four years, and which turned out to…
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New music picoreview roundup #1
This being the first of a flurry of mini-reviews of all the various albums I’ve picked up lately! “Come What May”, by Ad Vielle Que Pourra: Mostly instrumental, but with a lot of hurdy-gurdy goodness. The hurdy-gurdy here isn’t nearly at the powerhouse level that Le Vent du Nord delivers, but that’s not a bad…
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A bit of musical squee!
And now, several moments of musical squee from last night! In a move that should surprise absolutely NOBODY who pays attention to what I post for more than five minutes running, a little part of my brain demanded last night, “YOU NEED TO FIGURE OUT THE CHORDS TO VIVE L’AMOUR NOW.” Because y’all knew this…
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Wow! New Julia Ecklar album!
Just to demonstrate to you all that every so often I do in fact listen to other forms of music besides “Great Big Sea” and “everybody in Quebecois trad”, I share with you the news that Julia Ecklar is finally releasing a new album! And it’s available for pre-order now! For those of you unfamiliar…
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One week and counting down to the Great Canadian Adventure!
PEOPLE OF ATLANTIC CANADA AND QUEBEC! There are but seven scant days until and I will be among you for two weeks of hanging out, meeting up with people, and general musical awesomeness! We are looking very, very forward to meeting up with , with fellow Le Vent du Nord fan Susan, with hopefully (HEY…
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Let me sing for you the songs of my people
I’ve mentioned before that something I ardently respond to in both Quebecois and Newfoundland trad music is how many of the bands and singers I’m following have learned their music from their parents, who learned it from their parents, etc. I.e., they grew up with this music, and it was woven into their lives so…
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Reminder to Jamming group: Jam is ON on Sunday
For those of you on my jamming group’s mailing list, if you haven’t already seen the reminder I sent earlier this week, don’t forget that we are JAMMING on Sunday at the Murkworks! Be there or miss out on seeing my shiny new guitar. Not to mention nomming of tasty, tasty pie! Please sing out…
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That promised post about stuff besides books
So yeah, I’ve actually been doing things besides purchasing books lately, I swear! The Great Enshrinkening of Anna proceeds apace, even if not quite as quickly as initially planned. As I enthused on Twitter and Facebook this morning, I hit 164 pounds today! Which is well and easily the lightest I’ve been in five years,…