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Music review: Last Night of the Proms

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 17 Apr 2016
With this formality over, contralto Liane Keegan sang Elgar's Sea Pictures song cycle, thereby hitting the Mother Country note early. . Davis and his forces gave the singer every consideration, the opening Sea Slumber-Song well achieved; in the more active Sabbath Morning at Sea and the concluding The Swimmer, Keegan was occasionally swamped in full-orchestra passages....

Review: John Carney's Terrific And Joyous Musical 'Sing Street'

Edit Indiewire 11 Apr 2016
Even the first song they write, a fairly goofy novelty number called “Riddle of the Model,” has an unusually complex structure for something that a bunch of working-class Irish teens would have worked up in an afternoon in 1985 ... Still, as with “Once” and “Begin Again,” Carney makes great use of real locations, showing these boys singing their songs in cramped rooms, school auditoriums, back alleys and by the sea....

See Sturgill Simpson Reinvent Nirvana's 'In Bloom' in Stunning Video

Edit Rollingstone 24 Mar 2016
While that idea may be implied in Kurt Cobain's original, it's a distinction made all the more poignant by the fact that Simpson recorded the song and his new album A Sailor's Guide to Earth especially for his young son.  ... While a dagger-toothed, hairy monster swirls below, a young man (with a cannon barrel where his head should be) tentatively tries to navigate a rowboat across this troubled sea....

Music review: Iggy Pop, Loretta Lynn and Primal Scream find ways to matter

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 24 Mar 2016
American Valhalla has plinking keyboards and octave-leaping bass echoing China Girl, a song he co-wrote with Bowie ... Full Circle opens with her being asked "Do you remember the first song you ever wrote?" She mishears it as "the first song you ever heard" but then goes on to describe Whispering Sea, a song that was on the B-side of her first single in 1960....

7 Mages - Napoleon Games talks us through its musical old-school turn-based RPG

Edit Pocket Gamer 17 Mar 2016
7 Mages (out now on iOS and Android) is one of those rare things - a massive, in-depth tactical turn based game with more than 30 hours of gameplay that actually tries to do something different. The big twist here, alongside an old-school sensibility and 14 unique environments, is a focus on musical magic ... You can speed up fights, part the seas, and the songs stack, meaning you can warp the battle in a multitude of different ways....

Sing Along to 'In the Altogether'

Edit Huffington Post 05 Feb 2016
The indie-alt folk-pop duo that writes, records, sings and performs together under the mysterious guise known as The Sea The Sea (check your ancient history) seem so intertwined with the lush sounds and blended vocals they create that it would take a crowbar to pry them apart ... 26 release of The Sea The Sea's pretty perfect EP, In the Altogether ... The Sea The Sea's Chuck E ... A Q&A; WITH THE SEA THE SEA ... The Sea The Sea ... The Sea The Sea....

Mardi Gras Galveston 2016 kicks off with parades, concerts

Edit The Examiner 31 Jan 2016
Mardi Gras 2016 kicked off in Galveston, Texas on Friday, January 29 and continued through Sunday, January 31 with concerts, parades, and the usual celebrations ... The pirate music group from the Dallas/Fort Worth area performed Celtic, sea songs and shanties for a mixture of music and comedic antics ... in downtown Galveston ... ....

The Mabinogion: Wales' monsters and mythical beasts

Edit BBC News 29 Dec 2015
"I know where you are going," a woman tells heroic Peredur as he journeys through mythical Wales, "you are going to fight the (lake) monster." ... 'Full of spirits' ... "We don't like to think there is no meaning to life," she said ... "But we don't like that ... The Mabinogion's most spiritual of creatures, the Birds of Rhiannon, can "wake the dead and lull the living to sleep", appearing far away at sea while their song sounds very near ... ....

Closed Circuits

Edit The Quietus 04 Dec 2015
Over nothing more than a sparse and simple beat gently swaying like a ship over calm waters, Chris Page (aka Closed Circuits) breathily groans a forlorn song of memories drifting away across the sea. "Songs would wash away beneath/Drifting on the undertow/Far away from you and me." ... The song ends with Page's woeful refrain, "sometimes I forget"....

Newfoundland and Labrador folk legend Ron Hynes dies

Edit Toronto Sun 20 Nov 2015
-- Acclaimed singer-songwriter Ron Hynes, Newfoundland and Labrador's "man of a thousand songs," died Thursday after a brief battle with cancer ... But he is perhaps best known for his song "Sonny's Dream," a lament about a mother losing her son to the sea. The song, written in 1976, has been covered by other artists so many times that it has become a late-night anthem in many corners of the globe....

The Elders return to headline ‘An Irish Night at The Stanley’ (Greater Utica Chamber of ...

Edit Public Technologies 20 Nov 2015
Their song 'One Sunday Morning' was featured on the 2003 Colleen Records compilation CD 'Songs of Irish Freedom Vol ... The Blarney Rebel Band is group of musicians from the Celtic hotbed of Central New York performing all types of traditional Irish music, from rollicking pub songs to traditional folk fare, from rousing sea songs to moving ballads, from stirring rebel songs to hand-clapping jigs and reels....

Galway's rising star is bound for Junior Eurovision Glory. (TG4 - Teilifís na Gaeilge)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Nov 2015
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 winner announced ... She will be singing 'Réalta na Mara', translation 'Star of the Sea', a song which she co-wrote and composed with Niall Mooney, Jonas Gladnikoff & Brendan McCarthy ... THE SONG. ... This is an epic song about travelling home from sea, in the midst of the gales of the ocean not knowing if you will make it, hoping you have luck on your side and being guided by the 'Star of the Sea'....

Leith singer tracks down lion tamer ancestor in Inverness

Edit BBC News 27 Oct 2015
Owens' research of his family tree influenced the writing of Dora, a track on his Nashville-recorded album Into the Sea. The song is about his grandmother, Dora Salvona Owens, who grew up in a circus that Salvona started in Scotland ... Owens' lyrics of the song include the lines ... "I'm delighted they want to use it and my song Dora - which started the search - in their own presentations." ... And maybe there's another song in that." ... Features ... ....
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