Picture This Playlist 126: Canada! Oh Canada!

Canada! Oh Canada! originally aired on the best commercial free radio in Southern New England, WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM (also streaming at wriu.org), on Sunday, April 26, from 6 to 8 PM. You bet we sang hosannas to our neighbors to the North through movie and television scores and songs, which is the way we usually roll it at Picture This. Join me, your host Wayne Cresser, on Sunday May 3, when we tune into film music from the weird and wonderfully creative 1970s.

DAI’S BEST LIVE MUSIC EVENTS 2024

A few weeks after Molly Tuttle took home a Grammy for her Crooked Tree album, she and her band Golden Highway visited the new Groton Hill Music Center, which is as awesome a music venue as you will find. Read the rest and More! More! More! at the Mischief Time Blog!

Publishing News: The Book of Norman

"A comedic universe awaits in the stories of Wayne Cresser’s The Book of Norman, a landscape that revolves around his Everyman protagonist, Norman Winters, suffering the relatable slings and arrows prevalent in a world of prevaricators, weirdos, and bullies so you don’t have to." Now available at Amazon, Barnes. Lulu amd Kobo.

The Hobbledehoy’s 11 GREAT IRISH SONGS FROM FILMS

-by Dai Bando (originally published in The Hobbledehoy): https://thehobbledehoy.com/) - The Voice Squad "The Parting Glass" (from Waking Ned Devine 1999)  The Hothouse Flowers front man Liam Ó Maonlaí (surname pronounced O’-man-lee) performs this in 1999’s Waking Ned Devine but I prefer the recording sung acapella by The Voice Squad. Said music critic Rick Anderson, "The Voice Squad represent the melding of two related but... Continue Reading →

The Return of Dai Bando: Music Room #5

On the track "Rubylove" (Cat's nod to his Greek heritage) he features traditional bouzouki and sings a verse in his Cypress-born father's native language. And thank god for Greeks: lamb souvlaki, dark olives, John Cassavettes' movies, Platonic relationships, Nana Mouskouri and Cat Stevens.

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