Pamela Leavey » Music http://pamelaleavey.com Musings and Other Ramblings... Wed, 23 May 2012 13:41:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 R.I.P Donna Summer http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/05/17/r-i-p-donna-summer/ http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/05/17/r-i-p-donna-summer/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 01:37:44 +0000 Pamela Leavey http://pamelaleavey.com/?p=3592

Donna Summer was the Disco Diva… She had it all… the voice, the moves, the style:

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I Feel Love (1978), wasn’t one of her greatest hits, but it was always my favorite from Donna Summer…

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]]> http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/05/17/r-i-p-donna-summer/feed/ 0 Loreena McKennitt: Huron ‘Beltane’ Fire Dance (Live) http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/05/01/huron-beltane-fire-dance-live-loreena-mckennitt/ http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/05/01/huron-beltane-fire-dance-live-loreena-mckennitt/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 23:34:12 +0000 Pamela Leavey http://pamelaleavey.com/?p=3415

The festival of Beltane is celebrated on May 1 in the Celtic tradition. It is marked as the midpoint between spring and summer.  Starting the night before, fires were lit and it was a time of celebration, with dancing around the fire, invoking this as a time for renewing fertility and abundance, as crops were planted.

When I listen to Loreena McKennitt, I can envision the ancients dancing around the fire to music much like this:

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Enjoy…

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]]> http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/05/01/huron-beltane-fire-dance-live-loreena-mckennitt/feed/ 0 Loreena McKennitt: The Mummer’s Dance http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/04/18/loreena-mckennitt-mummers-dance/ http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/04/18/loreena-mckennitt-mummers-dance/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:21:35 +0000 Pamela Leavey http://pamelaleavey.com/?p=3413

Listening to Loreena while I was working today… One of my favorites:

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]]> http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/04/18/loreena-mckennitt-mummers-dance/feed/ 0 Bruce Springsteen: Shackled & Drawn (Live) http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/04/11/bruce-springsteen-shackled-drawn-live-4612-msg-madison-square-garden/ http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/04/11/bruce-springsteen-shackled-drawn-live-4612-msg-madison-square-garden/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:19:24 +0000 Pamela Leavey http://pamelaleavey.com/?p=3398

Awesome…

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Live at Madison Square Garden: Shackled & Drawn…

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Enjoy!

]]> http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/04/11/bruce-springsteen-shackled-drawn-live-4612-msg-madison-square-garden/feed/ 0 Good Friday Blues: John Lee Hooker & Carlos Santana – Chill Out http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/04/06/good-friday-blues-john-lee-hooker-carlos-santana-chill/ http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/04/06/good-friday-blues-john-lee-hooker-carlos-santana-chill/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:55:19 +0000 Pamela Leavey http://pamelaleavey.com/?p=3343

Peace and blessings…

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]]> http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/04/06/good-friday-blues-john-lee-hooker-carlos-santana-chill/feed/ 0 Springsteen: “American Skin (41 Shots)” Live in Tampa, FL http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/03/29/springsteen-american-skin-41-shots-live-tampa-fl/ http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/03/29/springsteen-american-skin-41-shots-live-tampa-fl/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:16:35 +0000 Pamela Leavey http://pamelaleavey.com/?p=3295

From his new Wrecking Ball tour, Springsteen is performing an updated version of “American Skin (41 Shots)”.  “This is for Trayvon,” Springsteen said last night in Philly…

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]]> http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/03/29/springsteen-american-skin-41-shots-live-tampa-fl/feed/ 0 Late Night Blues: Sonny Boy Williamson – Nine Below Zero http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/03/24/late-night-blues-sonny-boy-williamson/ http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/03/24/late-night-blues-sonny-boy-williamson/#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2012 03:00:37 +0000 Pamela Leavey http://pamelaleavey.com/?p=3239

Oh yeah… Play the Blues… Sonny Boy Williamson performs Nine Below Zero, live:

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Enjoy…

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It’s Blues time… John Lee Hooker blasting out his famous number Boom Boom on the BBC in the early & swinging sixties:

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Loreena McKennitt performs Down By The Sally Gardens:

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Happy St. Patricks Day!

]]> http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/03/17/loreena-mckennitt-sally-gardens-live/feed/ 0 Late Night Blues: Melody Gardot – Live Jazz à Juan 2010 http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/03/16/late-night-blues-melody-gardot-live-jazz-a-juan-2010/ http://pamelaleavey.com/2012/03/16/late-night-blues-melody-gardot-live-jazz-a-juan-2010/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:10:48 +0000 Pamela Leavey http://pamelaleavey.com/?p=3188

Feeling in a Melody Gardot sort of mood tonight… Melody performs “Your Heart is as Black as Night” and “Worrisome Heart” live at Jazz à Juan in 2010:

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Enjoy…

 

 

 

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