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A group to share great music with others of any type from around the world, and of any language, and taste. Everyone is welcome to join! Just keep in mind that there are other music groups in which you can post well known artists and songs which are in the mainstream US/UK music.. Read more

A group to share great music with others of any type from around the world, and of any language, and taste. Everyone is welcome to join! Just keep in mind that there are other music groups in which you can post well known artists and songs which are in the mainstream US/UK music.. Read more

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World Music
Mar 23, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
Tonight It’s a trip down to New Zealand with Māori actor/singer Stan Walker who is performing this song which he describes as a love letter to Tuhoetanga, and his heritage. Māori Ki Ti Ao…
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World Music
Mar 21, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish began their eighth world tour - titled “Human://: Nature: World Tour” - in early 2021 but due to Covid interruption only ended it in July 2023. This live footage captured during the tour features them ...
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World Music
Mar 20, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
RUNRIG were probably the best Celtic Rock band ever…the Scottish band was formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973 and their genre was folk rock. In 1998 they recruited Canadian singer Bruce Guthro as lead singer and he remained with them until the band...
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World Music
Mar 19, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
The Piano Guys…although I think it’s a misnomer to call themselves that as one plays the cello, but anyway I do like their interpretation of both classical and pop & rock music. Here they perform a mixup of both pop and classical combining ...
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World Music
Mar 18, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
What’s better than listening to the great voices of Carmen McRae or Sarah Vaughan, two legendary American jazz & blues singers of the 20th century? Well the answer is listening to both of them performing together - Body and Soul, live 1977… ...
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World Music
Mar 17, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
On St Patrick’s Day, I’m posting probably my favourite traditional Irish song, but there are many favourites. Carrickfergus is certainly up there with the best and it had often puzzled me that the song mentions both the title town which is in ...
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World Music
Mar 16, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
It’s St Patrick’s weekend with 17th March tomorrow being St Patrick’s Day, and this afternoon Dublin’s Aviva Stadium is the venue for the showdown between Ireland v Scotland in the final round of matches the Six Nations Rugby Union ...
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World Music
Mar 15, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
Today it’s very easy to see that Spring is well and truly underway with daffodils, tulips and hyacinths blooming and new green shoots and leaves budding everywhere. I thought to celebrate earth’s seasonal renewal we’d listen to Spring from ...
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World Music
Mar 14, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
I posted La Solitudine by Laura Pausini as my bedtime post in the Music group last night, I absolutely adore her voice especially when she sings in her native Italian. So for that very same reason I’m posting this one here today - In Assenza Di...
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World Music
Mar 13, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
Today I’m only posting songs I really love and which make me feel happy as it’s my birthday…I love this song from Morten Harket which is a tribute to Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Hofseth - The Boy From Port Manteau…
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World Music
Mar 12, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
Antonio Carlos Brasiliero de Almeida Jobim…also known as Tom Jobim for simplicity (and who could blame him for shortening that mouthful) was a legendary figure in the music of 20th century Brazil. He was a composer, pianist, guitarist, ...
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World Music
Mar 11, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
My bedtime post tonight is one of the best live performances of a-ha’s 1987 hit song Manhattan Skyline, performed in March 2001 in Oslo, less than six months before 9/11 when sadly Manhattan’s skyline was destined to be changed forever… ...
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World Music
Mar 11, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
I’ve always been rather keen on a good sea shanty by a group of strong male singers, and I found an American 5-man a capella group from Minnesota called Home Free. They apparently tour the USA performing up to 200 concerts a year, and here they ...
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World Music
Mar 10, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
Today it’s Mother’s Day in the U.K. so for mothers everywhere I’m posting this song by international quartet Il Divo, live in Barcelona a few years ago. - Mama … Sadly they lost Spanish baritone Carlos Marin to Covid in ...
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World Music
Mar 9, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
Roger posted a couple of concerts from Athens a day or two ago and it got me looking into traditional Greek regional music and I found this one from Crete by Antonis Martsakis titled - O Syrtos Tou Koroni (O Meraklis) in English it translates to ...
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World Music
Mar 8, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
On International Women’s Day…it has to be something from my favourite soprano Sissel Kyrkjebo…she’s not just a Norwegian superstar but an International one, however I’ve chosen to hear her sing the well known O Holy Night in her native ...
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World Music
Mar 7, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
I posted something from one third of a-ha yesterday, today I’m posting something from a different one third…from Pal Waaktaar and his other band Savoy which he formed with his American wife Lauren Savoy and Norwegian musician Frode Unneland in ...
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World Music
Mar 6, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
It’s no secret that I love the voice of Morten Harket whose vocals make the music of Norwegian rock/pop band a-ha so instantly recognisable, but of course Morten has a solo career in parallel to the band, as does his two bandmates, Magne & Pal. ...
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World Music
Mar 5, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
I do rather like the Latin American beat of many songs which have the bossanova and other dance rhythms. Singing them there are many very good artists whom we never get to hear from South and Central America. Today I’m posting a singer called Ana...
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World Music
Mar 1, 2024Mar 2024

Posted by Marionville
I’m off to visit my family in Leicestershire in the heart of England this weekend so I’ll leave you with this English Folksong which is based on the Rudyard Kipling poem “A Tree Song” set to music by Peter Bellamy. Oak and Ash and Thorn - ...
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World Music
Feb 29, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
There are many highly successful Latin American singers who we never really get to hear much about unless they manage to break into the mainstream Anglophone/US music market. One of them is Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri, Mexican singer and record ...
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World Music
Feb 27, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Bix Beiderbecke is a legendary figure in jazz circles, an early pioneer of Amercan jazz. along with other jazz soloists Louis Armstrong & Muggsy Spanier he helped to popularise the idiom in the 1920s. He was born in Iowa in 1903 and taught himself ...
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World Music
Feb 26, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Another visit to Norway…but via Egypt through Morten Harket’s third solo English album (he also released 2 in his native Norwegian ) - Letter From Egypt - released in 2008 during a break in his schedule touring and recording with a-ha. This ...
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World Music
Feb 25, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
French composer Georges Bizet wrote the opera Les Pecheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers) in 1863 and the duet “au fond du temple saint” has ever since been a favourite with music lovers. There are many notable versions to choose from over the ...
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World Music
Feb 24, 2024Feb 2024

Posted by Marionville
Frederic Chopin’s Etude opus 25 1 is commonly known as Aeolian Harp and alternatively The Shepherd Boy. It was German composer and music critic Robert Schumann who coined the first title because the rapidly played notes reminded him of the wind ...
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