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Neil said:
That's funny, I've been on a Loreena Mckinnett kick as well. My favorite songs are All Souls Night and Mummer's Dance. I even got the urge to try and sing them and recorded myself doing it.
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Been listening to more of Loreena McKennitt as well since around the time I saw her in concert last week. Definitely have a growing appreciation for her music after seeing her live (wasn't that familiar with her work prior to this). Enjoyed her storytelling..in between songs she would share the stories behind them, some of which had to do with her travels and her discoveries regarding the history of the Celts.

There was an instrumental piece I especially liked and then another song towards the end...now if I just knew her music better, I could share it here! Going to try and locate the setlist.
 
Avala said:
Marina9 said:
Andre' said:
Avala said:
Loreena McKennitt - La Serenissima

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NULMJQFLaFw
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Thank you Avala, very beautiful music, no comments honestly. I've also listened to another of her songs, Snow for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NULMJQFLaFw

it amazed me what a beautiful voice she has, will look further for her songs...
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Thanks Avala! I really enjoy Loreena's music, her voice is super calming, another song i enjoy from her is Lady of Shallot :)

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Yes, her music really can transport you to some 'other world' :)
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Avala, thank you for sharing Loreena's music. She reminds me of Judy Collins born May 1, 1939 and still going. I guess I am just reminiscing. Here is a song I found she sang in 2002 at 63 years of age:

 
Parker Millsap.
A young artist that is blowing my socks off. From research, he writes most of his own lyrics. He learned to sing in the Pentecostal church. Seems to me he's seen through the meme. The link is a live performance. It's a good intro IMO to Parker as an artist. (He's got a deeper/more intellectual side as in Hades's Plea is based on mythology. Check out his only (to date) music video Truck Stop Gospel, he speaks of the song very diplomatically in the link below. It doesn't look live, but hopefully 'yall will cut and paste.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYSb4lLaZiU

PS: For all subtle word lovers.
 
Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms".

Live version:

 
Gaby said:
Very true! Where is the love?!
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SOTT's theme song, I'd say! And just imagine people in the end looking up the sky at meteor/comet fragments falls.

Thanks for sharing, Gaby. :flowers:
 
Here's someone (known but not exceedingly well known) in the classical music world. She's greater (in my opinion) than many of the so called greats on the piano. Maria Tipo. You decide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUFitMo6yHA

FWIW.
 
Tristan said:
COETUS con SÍLVIA PÉREZ CRUZ - El gallo rojo# (The Red Rooster)


Thrilling voice and song OSIT
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To put it into context:
This song alludes to the anti-fascist struggle and This was a battle hymn comparable to The International or the libertarian International hymn To the barricades. The title refers to a cockfight, one red and one black: "They were found in the sand / two roosters facing / the black rooster was great / but the red was brave.". The symbolism is elementary: the black, large and cowardly, rooster represents fascism, the opprobrious dictatorship, while red, small but brave rooster embodies the struggle against Franco. At the end the red rooster speaks and makes him a warning to the black rooster: "black cock, black cock / black rooster, be warned: / a red rooster does not surrender / than when he is already dead."


Silvia Pérez Cruz first understood the story in the song when she was part of a concert honoring the remaining veterans of the International Brigades who fought against Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. Cruz told NPR that she saw tears in the veterans' eyes when they sang the song in their own language. She said, "These people have lived through so much. It's good that I can sing and help them remember."As journalist Betto Arcos concluded, this example illustrates how Cruz comes to understand the stories in the songs she sings.
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~ From Wikipedia
 
Here Paco de Lucìa making a great performance in Aranjuez concert.Enjoy the Spanish guitar and the beautiful sounds from the orchestra.

https://youtu.be/e9RS4biqyAc
 
Andres Segovia Capricho Diabolico, Op.85

Andrés Segovia was born on February 21, 1893 in Linares, Spain. Almost entirely self-taught, he made his debut in Granada in 1909 and by the 1920s was touring internationally; he continued to perform into his 90s. He was the most important force in making the guitar a concert instrument. Segovia died in 1987. Almost entirely self-taught, he made his debut in Grenada in 1909 and by the 1920s was touring internationally; he continued to perform into his 90s. He was by far the most important force in making the guitar a concert instrument. He commissioned works by Manuel de Falla, Albert Roussel, and Heitor Villa-Lobos, and he arranged music ranging from the Renaissance to the 19th century for solo guitar.
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