by phoeberees | Dec 7, 2020 | Blog
Good Morning, Later on this week is International Human Rights Day. To coincide with this and for my 5th week of videos, I would like to share the song ‘Victor Jara’. I first heard it sung beautifully in a folk club a couple of years ago (either Frodsham or The...
by phoeberees | Nov 30, 2020 | Blog
Good Morning, I’m very pleased to share this song with you for week 4 of my Winter 2020 project. It is something a little different, with the story hailing from the mentioned country and state rather than the music itself. The arrangement is a lot more technical and...
by phoeberees | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog
This week… España, or to be more precise – Galicia I hope you enjoy these tunes! Px A Bruxa (The Witch) is a Galician waltz composed by Anton Seoane from the band Milladoiro. The second tune is a Muiñeira, a type of traditional dance and musical genre of Galicia...
by phoeberees | Nov 15, 2020 | Blog
This week, for the second video of my Winter 2020 project, I am celebrating Norway with a Halling. A Halling is a lively Norwegian folk dance in which the man aims to ‘demonstrate vigour and virility by performing difficult leaps, kicks, and other acrobatic stunts’....
by phoeberees | Nov 8, 2020 | Blog
A lively start to my little Winter 2020 project! This track belongs to a country which has been in the news a LOT in recent weeks, resulting in an extremely tense climax last Friday. For all of the terrible division and political unrest present at the moment, America...
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