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Post by Leni on Dec 7, 2011 18:03:42 GMT -5
I am a country fan too!
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Post by Musicfreak on Dec 7, 2011 19:02:32 GMT -5
YAY!
Yes, I've seen Carrie Underwood in concert, last year as a matter of fact, that was the Play On tour. And I saw Shania Twain in 2002 I think, her Up! tour. Have you been to any concerts?
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Post by beadmeup on Dec 8, 2011 0:39:10 GMT -5
YAY! Yes, I've seen Carrie Underwood in concert, last year as a matter of fact, that was the Play On tour. And I saw Shania Twain in 2002 I think, her Up! tour. Have you been to any concerts? Yes, I've seen Brooks and Dunn-5 times (sorry to see them break up, but maybe they are getting 'too old' for the type of music they made popular); Reba-4 times; Tim McGraw; Martina McBride; Garth Brooks and Faith Hill. I would have loved seeing Carrie Underwood when she was in town, but had a family commitment that I had to follow through on. Looking forward to seeing who might be here in concert this coming summer! We have some great outdoor venues. |
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Post by Musicfreak on Dec 8, 2011 14:13:28 GMT -5
Cool beans! My dad has seen Tim McGraw & Faith Hill twice I think. He LOVED it, said they were awesome live. Well, Carrie's supposed to be coming out with a new album in 2012 (I'm impatiently waiting) and she said she'll be "touring like a mad woman in 2012" so maybe you'll get your chance to see her live!  I know if she comes to town again, I won't be missing it! She was incredible! |
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Post by booklover on Dec 8, 2011 21:46:24 GMT -5
MUSIC - YES - Just me and my iPod!!! I love country music - new country and older country - but not the real 'twangy' stuff. I also love the 'oldies' - 50's, 60's and early 70's music. There's a radio station here that plays stuff from that time frame all the time. And I hate to admit it, but at Christmas time, I enjoy listening to Dean Martin and Bing Crosby - reminds me of Christmas music my parents played and enjoyed for many years! I'm listening to Christmas music as I'm typing. My favorites: Michael Ball -- Christmas The Irish Tenors -- their Christmas albums John Denver & The Muppets -- A Christmas together And one that I burned with a whole bunch of older Christmas music -- Julie Andrews, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, etc. |
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Post by beadmeup on Dec 9, 2011 0:14:48 GMT -5
MUSIC - YES - Just me and my iPod!!! I love country music - new country and older country - but not the real 'twangy' stuff. I also love the 'oldies' - 50's, 60's and early 70's music. There's a radio station here that plays stuff from that time frame all the time. And I hate to admit it, but at Christmas time, I enjoy listening to Dean Martin and Bing Crosby - reminds me of Christmas music my parents played and enjoyed for many years! I'm listening to Christmas music as I'm typing. My favorites: Michael Ball -- Christmas The Irish Tenors -- their Christmas albums John Denver & The Muppets -- A Christmas together And one that I burned with a whole bunch of older Christmas music -- Julie Andrews, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, etc. John Denver and the Muppets - I LOVE that one!! |
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Post by ljgibblet on Dec 9, 2011 3:23:34 GMT -5
Wow such a huge variety in tastes.....I love music from the eighties and some from the nineties....
MF you ain't alone in liking country music I love Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw & yes Dolly Parton Kenny Rogers is up there too......
Michael Jackson & Madonna (early years)
Love my disco era Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, Gloria Esteban, Gloria Gaynor, Celine Dion.......I could go on but I think you all get it......
Music from the 50's & 60's is up there with all the rest that I love.....
Bon Jovi is one of my all time favourite bands....
I don't like heavy metal....
There is so much more but can't think right now..
Oooops I definitely forgot one I know I will shock some of you but yes growing up I used to sing along to all the ABBA songs...whats not to love.....  . Oh, wow, my sister loved ABBA, so much so that I know every song even though I don't own any of their albums  . She played them nonstop back in the day . |
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Post by sweetlikemeli on Dec 19, 2011 16:42:42 GMT -5
Wow such a huge variety in tastes.....I love music from the eighties and some from the nineties....
MF you ain't alone in liking country music I love Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw & yes Dolly Parton Kenny Rogers is up there too......
Michael Jackson & Madonna (early years)
Love my disco era Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, Gloria Esteban, Gloria Gaynor, Celine Dion.......I could go on but I think you all get it......
Music from the 50's & 60's is up there with all the rest that I love.....
Bon Jovi is one of my all time favourite bands....
I don't like heavy metal....
There is so much more but can't think right now..
Oooops I definitely forgot one I know I will shock some of you but yes growing up I used to sing along to all the ABBA songs...whats not to love..... . Oh, wow, my sister loved ABBA, so much so that I know every song even though I don't own any of their albums . She played them nonstop back in the day . |
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Post by margarine on Dec 19, 2011 17:20:03 GMT -5
Also permanent ABBA fan. Got an LP and my turntable don't work, one inadequate cassette. Gotta remember to do something about that sometime...
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Post by margarine on Dec 31, 2011 19:40:45 GMT -5
Folks, if you're not listening to A Prairie Home Companion on NPR (National Public Radio) right now, you've got about half an hour to tune in. Otherwise tomorrow or whenever, listen online. If you're not familiar with PHC, it's Garrison Keillor's show (you know, "the news from Lake Wobegon"?), a mix of music and humor that defies classification, and always good, mostly great. Tonight they're in Honolulu and the guest musicians are Hawaiian guitarists and a ukelele virtuoso and you won't believe your ears, the music is so good. I've never heard anything like it, I don't usually cotton to Hawaiian music. Kicking myself that I forgot what time it was and missed the first half of the show, but I'll catch it tomorrow morning when our station repeats it. You guys outside the country, check it out on the website: prairiehome.publicradio.org/ |
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Post by margarine on Jan 8, 2012 11:08:58 GMT -5
This is from NPR again, this time from today's Weekend Edition Sunday. Another reason to see The Descendants. (I haven't yet.) It mentions Jeff Peterson, who was one of the artists on last week's Prairie Home Companion, that I posted about.
You ought to listen to the show for the music samples, one of which is so beautiful you'll want to break down and cry. www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=144804932&m=144862997 (If that doesn't work as a direct-play link, just go to the web page: tinyurl.com/6mmyfzg)As the Oscar race heats up, one contender has already won over fans in Hawaii, where the movie was filmed. And not just for its story of a family grappling with death and infidelity — but also for its soundtrack. The Descendants has no orchestral score. Instead, director Alexander Payne chose to fill his movie exclusively with music by Hawaii artists — much of it from existing recordings. Payne didn't know much about the music when he started the project. Then he discovered one of the giants of Hawaiian music, Gabby Pahinui. "And when I started listening to Gabby, I just fell in love," Payne says. "So much so that I considered for awhile trying to score the whole film with his music. And I wound up not doing that because there are so many other Hawaiian artists to show and discover. But his remains the anchoring voice in the film." Pahinui is known as the "Father of Modern Slack Key Guitar." In Hawaii, that style is called Ki`ho`alu, which means "loosen the key," which refers to its open tunings. Pahinui grew up poor in Honolulu. His first instrument was bass, and he taught himself to play guitar listening to jazz on the radio. The first guitarist to really catch his ear, according to the bio on his website, was the pioneer of electric jazz guitar, Charlie Christian. In 1975, Pahinui's breezy acoustic fingerpicking and striking falsetto reached a wider audience on the mainland thanks to a collaboration with Ry Cooder. Pahinui's music still resonates with listeners like Payne. "He had somehow, in his way of playing the guitar, in his arrangements — certainly in his voice — a way of hooking you in, really of seducing you, of seducing the listener with his unique seemingly carefree soulfulness," says Payne. Pahinui was at the forefront of the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance of the '70s. Thousands turned out to watch him perform, backed by his four sons. Both Martin and Cyril Pahinui were overwhelmed to hear their father's music open The Descendants. "I was blown away," Martin laughs. "I was so proud of him." "Just to hear the [opening] music track, I tell you, I cried," says Cyril. "That was amazing — to hear the music that I helped my dad record." Gabby Pahinui died in 1980. Among the six Pahinui songs featured in The Descendants, four were produced by Steve Siegfried of Panini Records. Siegfried says that at one time, Pahinui was the most influential artist in Hawaii He's glad Pahinui's music will now reach an even wider audience. "He represented a true Hawaiian lifestyle, and a Hawaiian that pursued a musical career," says Siegfried. "Gabby never made a lot of money in his life. And he never did it for the money. He did it for the love of the music." And, Siegfried says, it's music you don't hear in Hollywood's version of Hawaii. "I think this is a great thing for the artists that are on the soundtrack, to be able to get out to this bigger audience of people that are looking for something authentic," he says. "This is real authentic — the music, it doesn't get more real than this." The soundtrack includes recordings by the late Raymond Kane and Sonny Chillingworth, as well as such younger players as slack key guitarist Keola Beamer. But Beamer was hesitant to contribute to the project at first. "Hawaii has really been poorly portrayed in the past," he says. "It's been portrayed very stereotypically — a lot of surface stuff. You know, sunlight and pretty girls in bikinis — comedy-lite kind of stuff. I think this is one of best movies to come out of Hawaii, if not the best. I felt proud, you know, as a Hawaiian human being, and that doesn't happen often with Hawaiians in Hollywood." Beamer and another slack key guitarist, Jeff Peterson, were the only artists director Alexander Payne asked to record specifically for the soundtrack. "At first I was a little nervous," says Peterson. "I was thinking, 'Wow, I have to go to the studio, and write two pieces on the spot. How's this gonna go?' As soon as I got there, [Payne] had the warmest most positive outlook. And his support was incredible. But what really moved me was how much he cared about the music. He knew the music. He had really spent time getting it deep into his soul. And so when he explained to me what he wanted, I knew exactly how to express it. I found a tuning that would work, and just played from the heart." The soundtrack showcases a wide variety of Hawaii artists, from the '30s to today. But because it's not a full, new score composed for the film, it's not eligible for an Oscar. The Descendants' music supervisor, Dondi Bastone, says he and Payne plan to submit the CD next year for a Grammy — for best soundtrack compilation. "You know, we had fantasized early on that this film would perhaps do for Hawaiian music what Oh Brother Where Art Thou did for bluegrass," Bastone says. "And it's really gratifying that the music is resonating that way now." That's good news, especially considering that this year, the Grammys eliminated the stand-alone Hawaiian music category.
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Post by sunnyirish08 on Jun 23, 2012 2:43:12 GMT -5
going to see westlife tonight. there last gig before they split. gonna be emotional  |
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Post by gbird on Jun 27, 2012 4:37:01 GMT -5
going to see westlife tonight. there last gig before they split. gonna be emotional I bet it was amazing and very emoational |
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Post by sunnyirish08 on Jun 27, 2012 7:00:29 GMT -5
it was emotional. just very glad i was in one of the many cinemas around europe that did a live stream, instead of a cold wet croke park in dublin. it only hit me that i won't ever be going to another westlife concert (unless they reunite in the future) ever again. end of an era for me considering i've been to 6 concerts and have the albums and been following them since i was 14.
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Post by gbird on Jun 27, 2012 7:11:12 GMT -5
You are right end of an era, good luck to them in whatever they go on to do .
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I know if she comes to town again, I won't be missing it! She was incredible! 
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