Saturday, December 31, 2011

Auld Lang Syne

It's a time of year when people all over the world join in singing Auld Lang Syne, a song Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote and adapted from an even older piece of music. Here's a fine version of it with Emily Smith taking the lead vocal, supported by Jamie McClennan and her own band members as well as members of the band Breabach. Smith, an award winning singer and songwriter, is from the area in the southwest of Scotland where Robert Burns made his home.




you may also wish to see
Music Road: Song for the weekend: Emily Smith: Glory Bound
Music Road: Emily Smith, Jamie McClennan, and Robert Burns
Music Road: eddi reader, willie stewart, and the search for haggis

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Monday, December 31, 2007

creative practice: new year's eve









good wishes at the changing of the year's time

best music of 2007

a reflective song to revisit

and another, reels this time

Irish music, Irish landscape

a book about the grace of friendship

music for winter

two for the road

giving thanks

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Sunday, December 30, 2007

music in images: a new year's conversation begins




Loads of album covers, stacks of original photographs of musicians, music, and of landscape, and a handful of press shots artists were kind enough to let me use: they are all here in this slide show. It's a widget from google/picasa that shows all the graphics on the site, I think in random order. I'll have more to say about looking back and looking forward over the year's time in music, and the year at Music Road (there's a best of 2007 list in a post below, for starters). This is one part of the conversation, which you are, of course, invited to join.

A note of thanks for all of you who have traveled along the music road this year. There are regular readers in Thailand, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Scotland, England, France, Spain, Italy, Argentina, Ireland, and Northern Ireland. We have recently had visitors from Russia, Latvia, Peru, and Mexico. In Canada, we've steady companions along the music road from Calgary, Lethbridge, St . John's, Halifax, Montreal, Edmonton, and Moncton, and recent visitors from St. Albert, Sudbury, Regina, Winnipeg, and Whitehorse. In the United States, we've regular readers in Sacramento, Austin, Cambridge, Reston, New York City, Livonia, Minneapolis, Nashville, Towson, Bloomington, and Santa Fe -- and this year, Santa Claus visited the music road more than once too, from his namesake town in Indiana. Thank you all

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