So the livestreams are over for this year - thank you to everyone who joined in with today's Light in the Dark edition! (Still available on YouTube) What a year! What a pleasure discovering and developing the livestream format, and connecting with friends old and new there! Here's to many more in 2022 and beyond - watch this space...
Thanks to Laura Nyro - and all musicians, songwriters, composers - for the incredible gift of music we can listen to, join in with, and take to our hearts :) I've really enjoyed delving deeper into Laura's music, I hope you have too! We still have 5 days left of the LN Advent Calendar, and for today it's another cover (once you start looking, so many great musicians have covered her music): a cool reimagining of Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp sung by young genuine mega-talent Esperanza Spalding - enjoy!
Bonus extra (we're going to run out of days!) - rare interview with LN from 1994
A bonus cover, especially for Ruth ;)
https://youtu.be/a2uRrGobwZg
I just listened to all the Over to Yous for this month. What a great mix of contributions! Myles , love your poem, Marta exquisite singing, Carole's string quartet playing real good for free.... and Matti I really love that hat and your cool version of Silent Night. And lovely song from Ruth of course.
I so loved the choice of carols too on Livestream. thanks Phil!
Happy New Year when it comes everybody!!
Here’s to your part in the development of a new art form! And to connections! Esperanza loves her instrument. I think it was on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me that she was talking about it so candidly :) Wayne Shorter! On the radio tonight there was a midwinter concert with a soprano sax doing the vocal part on a jazzy Joni Mitchell cover. Cool.
One full year! Well done you! Thankyou :) I've enjoyed such a lot of new music. Thanks for not only steering me in different directions but explaining connections to the music and helping to make connections with people too . I know I wouldn't have found most of it on my own.
Esperanza Spalding another amazing talent !- I've got to check her out further !