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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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Posts Tagged "BBC" By Marionville (2324) Posts by members only

World Music
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Posted by Marionville
Follow-up from yesterday as promised…the Irish-Scottish Celtic musical connections to Galicia in Northwest Spain…a video from BBC Alba series in 2018 made in Gaelic with English subtitles …
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World Music
Sep 30Sep 30

Posted by Marionville
Northern Irish folksinger/ songwriter Paul Brady took an old tradional song, thought to be Irish in origin, although other regions of the British Isles could and do lay claim to it, and he indisputably made it his own. Is it anti-British, or ...
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World Music
Aug 11Aug 11

Posted by Marionville
A few years ago the BBC made a documentary about the internationally renowned Greek mega-star, singer Nana Mouskouri who sang in a dozen different languages in a most beautiful and distinctive voice and whom during the span of her career from the ...
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World Music
Jul 5Jul 5

Posted by Marionville
Hi all, I just got back from my holiday cruising the Scottish Isles and Norwegian fjords last night…our last port of call before Liverpool & Belfast was Lerwick, capital of The Shetland Isles. I thought therefore that this from Scottish composer ...
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World Music
Feb 7Feb 7

Posted by Marionville
I thought I’d share with you this new exciting English all girl Indie Rock Band who have recently been crowned the BBC Sound of 2024 and have guested in the last few weeks on high profile late night shows on both sides of the Atlantic with their ...
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World Music
Jan 29Jan 29

Posted by Marionville
I posted about Robert Burns a few days ago on his birthday which is widely celebrated by Scots the world over each year on the 25th January. This was the highlight of this year’s celebrations as far as I’m concerned…a really beautiful ...
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World Music
Jan 6Jan 6

Posted by Marionville
Dance To Your Daddy…is a well known folk song from the Northumberland coast In the northeast of England…popularised in the 1970s when it was used as the theme from a BBC drama series When The Boat Comes In, in an arrangement by the composer David...
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World Music
Nov 2, 2023Nov 2023

Posted by Marionville
Today I’m following up on our Celtic connections in Continental Europe which I posted about two days ago. It’s another episode of “Port” the BBC Alba series, this time our two Gaelic language singer/musicians from Scotland & Ireland have ...
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World Music
Oct 31, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by Marionville
A few times in the past I’ve posted Celtic music from outside of Scotland & Ireland, from Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, Galicia etc…all around the westernmost fringes of Europe in fact, and even from the Eastern seaboard of North America where ...
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World Music
Aug 14, 2023Aug 2023

Posted by Marionville
Two of the current major stars of the Classical Music circuit..who are actually partners in real life are Chinese pianist Yuja Wang and Finnish conductor Klaus Makela. They performed together with BBC Symphony Orchestra last week at the BBC Proms,...
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May 22, 2023May 2023

Posted by rogerbenham
BBC Proms 2010 - Sondheim at 80 - Send In The Clowns from A Little Night Music
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World Music
May 20, 2023May 2023

Posted by Marionville
Anuna is an Irish choral ensemble who perform a hauntingly beautiful mixture of ancient Celtic music and contemporary Irish songs. They were founded by Irish composer Michael McGlynn in 1987 under the Irish Gaelic name An Uaithne which was ...
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World Music
May 2, 2023May 2023

Posted by Marionville
In the true sense of an International artist, in the 1960s Puerto Rican singer/songwriter Jose Feliciano became a best selling artist around the world. One of his biggest hits in 1968 was a cover of the Doors hit Light My Fire…here performed ...
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World Music
Apr 14, 2023Apr 2023

Posted by Marionville
My brother lives in Norwich…and on a visit a few years ago we went to Great Yarmouth on the Norfolk coast and visited “The Herring Museum”…a fascinating place dedicated to the history of the herring industry which was hugely important ...
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World Music
Mar 31, 2023Mar 2023

Posted by Marionville
In a few weeks time my choir will be performing the first of four concerts in and around Northern Ireland and over the border in Donegal in the Irish Republic. We’re busy rehearsing at the moment and had a great practice last night. The ...
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World Music
Oct 12, 2022Oct 2022

Posted by rogerbenham
Planet Drum
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World Music
Sep 13, 2022Sep 2022

Posted by Marionville
At the present when we British are performing in full view of the entire world, what we do best, the wall to wall pageantry displayed in the rituals and customs of the accession of King Charles III to the throne after the death of his mother Queen ...
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World Music
Mar 5, 2022Mar 2022

Posted by Ray13
Dance of the Knights by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev - 1891-1953. Performed here by the London Symphony Orchestra in Nov. 2008. Won Best Orchestral Performance at the BBC Music Magazine Awards in 2011.
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World Music
Feb 3, 2022Feb 2022

Posted by Marionville
I think I may have mentioned before that I really like some English Folk songs and enjoy singing them when we occasionally include them in our choir’s programme. One of my favourite tunes amongst them is the old Greensleeves which dates back to ...
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World Music
Dec 21, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by Marionville
Since it’s that time of year…here’s Andrea Bocelli singing Oh Holy Night - or Cantique de Noel, in French last year in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London for BBC TV’s “Songs of Praise”. It is of course one of the best known Christmas songs ...
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World Music
Dec 19, 2021Dec 2021

Posted by Marionville
I’ve been watching a TV series from Finland on Netflix and it’s got me thinking about music from there. I’ve already posted a Poets Of The Fall song in the Music Fans group, so here’s another great Finnish band I like …Nightwish. - ...
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World Music
Jul 31, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by Marionville
As today I’m going to meet up for an informal open air sing-song and lunch (the first time together since March 2020), with my Choir …I’m posting this which a small group of choir members performed as part of a local Northern Irish history ...
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World Music
May 8, 2021May 2021

Posted by Marionville
When The Boat Comes In...... One of my grandfathers was from Gateshead in the northeast of England, which is on the southern side of the river Tyne opposite Newcastle on the northern bank, and connected by the Tyne Bridge. He had a very strong ...
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World Music
Apr 20, 2021Apr 2021

Posted by Marionville
Yesterday it was announced that Egyptian Soprano Fatma Said has been awarded BBC Music Magazine’s newcomer of the year award for her album El Nour...brava to her, and bravo to the BBC for their good taste! Here she is singing with the Berlin Music...
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World Music
Mar 10, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by Marionville
Today I’m taking you on a tour of the South Pacific Islands with video footage from BBC Documentary “South Pacific - Ocean of Volcanoes and Strange Islands”. The music accompanying it is by two composers from the diametrically opposite point ...
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