Soooo due to popular demand i had to take a shot at the rest of the song! As i predicted it doesn’t sound anywhere near perfect because i’m missing some notes because of the 2 octaves restriction. And the laggy redstone is messing some chords up! There’s two parts of the song i had to lower an octave to get it to fit. But with that said i hope you can still enjoy it! 
The total Project took me about 5-6 hours to complete. And here’s a download link for the map: www.2shared.com PS: The cake is NOT a lie!
11.WilliamBell.SMA.45thSFF.WDC.3July2011
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Independence Weekend . 45th Annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival . National Mall . Washington DC . Sunday afternoon, 3 July 2011 . Elvert Barnes Photography
Rhythm and Blues: Tell It Like It Is Program
www.festival.si.edu/2011/RhythmBlues/
Folks Dancing to William Bell & the Stax Music Academy (SMA)
Motor City Stage
12 noon – 1 pm
Watch short video clip of folks dancing at Vimeo at vimeo.com/26036366
Visit Stax Music Academy (SMA) at www.staxmusicacademy.org/
Visit Smithsonain Folklife Festival at www.festival.si.edu/
Visit Elvert Barnes 45th Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2011 docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/45thSmithsonianFolklifeFestival2011
Music video by Enrique Iglesias performing Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You). (C) 2011 Universal International Music BV Video views before re-upload: 25000000 Get the track on iTunes at: www.itunes.com
Sierre Blues Festival
Image by Christophe Losberger (sitatof)
Sierre Blues Festival, Sierre, 27.8.2011
(c) Christophe Losberger 2011
The Online Musical Presents: ‘Pokemon: The Musical’ — the unauthorized, true story of the life and times of Ash Ketchum and friends. Plus singing. Plus puberty confusion. Lyrics & Directed by Jeff Luppino-Esposito Music by Matt Savarese For your sing-along pleasure: LYRICS to Pokemon: The Musical available at: pokemonmusical.com For your permanent sing-along pleasure: MP3 to Pokemon: The Musical available at: theonlinemusical.bandcamp.com (first 200 free, you set the price after!) CREATIVE TEAM Director: Jeff Luppino-Esposito Music Director: Matt Savarese Production Manager & Costume Designer: Anna McGrady Assistant Director: Ryan Campbell Costume Assistants: Anne Donnelly, Emma Volpe Sound: Matt Savarese, Ryan Campbell Stage Manager: Anne Donnelly Set Designers: Kelsey Petrie, Anna McGrady Social Media Manager: Stelios Phili Social Media Assistant: Emma Volpe Random Tech: Adam Campbell, Anna McGrady CAST Ash Ketchum: Paul Truitt Professor Oak: Tyler Frankenberg Brock: Sam Reeder Misty: Sylvia Kates Gary/Dickface: John Lehmann Pikachu: Erin McDonald James: Ryan Campbell Jessie: Claire McKercher Meowth: Jason Carpenter Eevee: Matt Savarese Nurse Joy/Officer Jenny: Anna “Babs” Schneider Squirtle/Dugrtrio/Magikarp: Corbin Puryear Bulbasaur/Dugtrio: Adam Smith Charmander/Dugtrio: Daniel Prillaman Charizard: Ryan Richardson Ash’s Mom: Caitlin Morton From www.TheOnlineMusical.com you will find the blog page where you can follow our process, let us know what you think about our …
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Question by GlooBoy: 3 Day Music Festivals. When Where??? No More LiveStock?
I used to live in NW Connecticut an seen two Woodstocks (94&99) Let us pray they’ll have another one or two of those.
Move to S. Florida in 2000 and have been going to this 3 day party in the woods festival called LiveStock, up in/near ZypherHills, every year since I’ve been here. Well, they cancelled LiveStock calling it the End of a Error. Now we have no more rock festivals to go to. Money and travel are no object, can and will travel the continantal U.S. for the “right” party.
Tell me the best festivals that are coming up in the next year, and why you enjoyed not so much the music(rock, blues, jazz, country, don’t matter), but the ‘vibe’ and ‘energy” the last time you went.
Best answer:
Answer by Chris R
Go Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany. Three days of international metal. Let your head bang freely.
What do you think? Answer below!
Lauren Hill
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Lauryn Hill Biography
Source: www.lauryn-hill.com/history.html
BORN: May 26, 1975
"Hey, it’s my album! Who else can tell my story better than me?" says Lauryn Hill, chanteuse, rapper, songwriter, actress, activist and mother. She’s talking about The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (RuffHouse/Columbia), her solo debut album and one of the most hotly-anticipated records of 1998.
Produced by Lauryn herself, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is a deeply personal album, running the gamut from affairs of the heart to socio-political issues, set against a sonic backdrop displaying the remarkable talent of this young native of South Orange, New Jersey. The title, according to Hill, shouldn’t be taken too literally. The doe-eyed 23-year old, who completed her freshman year at Columbia University, explains: "… the concept of ‘Miseducation" is not really miseducation at all. To me, it’s more or less switching the terminology… it’s really about the things that you’ve learned outside of school, outside of what society deems appropriate and mandatory. I have a lot of respect for academia… But there was a lot that I had to learn * life lessons * that wasn’t part of any scholastic curriculum. It’s really our passage into adulthood when we leave that place of idealism and naivete."
Lauryn’s eagerly-anticipated solo opus has been a long time coming. Critics, who were first privy to Hill’s mellifluous, sometimes gritty alto on the Fugees’ 1993 debut, Blunted on Reality, suggested she break free of the constraints of the group and go solo. The critics obviously missed the point. Undaunted, Hill stuck to her principles, which included fierce loyalty to the group, and went on to co-write, co-produce and serve as featured performer on the Fugees’ sophomore offering, The Score. The rest, so the adage goes, is history. The album went on to rack up sales of over 17 million units, making the Fugees the biggest-selling rap group of all time.
With fellow cohorts, Prakazrel "Pras" Michel and Wyclef Jean, Lauryn also garnered two 1996 Grammy awards: Best Rap Album for The Score and Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for Lauryn’s poignant cover of the Roberta Flack classic "Killing Me Softly." That single became the hip-hop anthem of 1996 and firmly insuring the Fugees’ success in the upper echelons of pop music’s colorful history.
The young woman — who Public Enemy’s Chuck D admiringly describes as "sunlight" and a "Bob Marley (of the) 21st Century," has documented her glorious, multi-faceted life on record. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill — like its author/protagonist — is confrontational, strong, forthright, and intelligent, while retaining a delicate, sensitive balance. This young auteur steps fearlessly into the musical arena, dealing with subjects that are close to her heart. At times, her humor is wry and candid and her pain and anger startling, but she is never bitter. She has been galvanized by her life experiences.
"I’m close to all of them," she says, almost maternally, about her songs. "Every time I got hurt, every time I was disappointed, every time I learned, I just wrote a song," she explains, "but the song that touches me the most is the one about my son." "Joy of My World is in Zion" is for those "…who may have thought I was all that, but here is some of the pain I was going through. Here’s my human side… It was very strange to me how this became an issue * this decision of mine. But what began as something dark became the brightest and most important thing to me."
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill forays into hip-hop territory with cuts like "Doo Wop" and the Jamaican-tinged grooves of "Lost Ones." Throughout the album, Hill’s delicious vocals engage and captivate. Musically, she brings a warmth and sensitivity to the sound of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and displays her wide knowledge of the workings of the studio as producer on this stunning debut. She is undaunted by the fact that this area of recording is considered mainly male territory. "Men have a hard time taking direction from women, but when you pay somebody, you pay them to get it right, " she says. "I think that women will be called ‘bitches’ and ‘hard to work with’ if they ask for and get what they want. So I don’t pay attention to that at all. Music is so important to me and how I come across in music is so important. I’m a perfectionist. If I have to do it a hundred times, I’ll do it a hundred times!"
And though men’s attitudes towards women in the industry riles her, she forges ahead. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is evidence of her self-assured attitude as a well-rounded artist and studio technician. Her skills as a prolific songwriter have led to her writing songs for various artists. She wrote and produced "On That Day" for gospel artist CeCe Winans, and, in addition to writing the smash hit title cut for Aretha Franklin’s current album, A Rose is Still a Rose, Lauryn also directed song’s accompanying video. She has proven herself to be a versatile performer and producer.
Her immense talent transcends gender-specific constraints. "Men like it when you sing to them. But step out and try and control things and there are doubts. This is a very sexist industry," she opines. "They’ll never throw the genius title to a sister. They’ll just call her ‘diva’ and think it’s a compliment. It’s like our flair and vanity are put before our musical and intellectual contributions."
Having spent her much of her formative years in the nation’s spotlight, first as an actress (she appeared in a recurring role in "As the World Turns" and was featured in "Sister Act II: Back In the Habit") and now as a multi-platinum artist who still finds time for charitable causes (she is the founder of non-profit organization, The Refugee Camp Youth Project, whose manifesto is based on giving back to the community and improving the quality of life for inner-city children), Lauryn Hill has very much come into her own and The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the musical proof. As Lauryn Hill, the hip-hop groundbreaking genius, puts it, "I want my music to touch real people. I’m still trying to figure myself out, like most people…. because I’m still living and learning…"
www.coreybarksdale.com www.coreybarksdale.com New Orleans (pronounced /nuːˈɔliənz, nuːˈɔlənz/ locally and often pronounced /nuːɔrˈliːnz/ in most other US dialects French: La Nouvelle-Orléans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state. New Orleans is located in southeastern Louisiana, straddling the Mississippi River. It is coextensive with Orleans Parish, meaning that the boundaries of the city and the parish are the same. It is bounded by the parishes of St. Tammany (north), St. Bernard (east), Plaquemines (south), and Jefferson (south and west). Lake Pontchartrain, part of which is included in the city limits, lies to the north, and Lake Borgne lies to the east. The city is named after Philippe II, Duc d’Orléans, Regent of France, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. It is well known for its multicultural and multilingual heritage, cuisine, architecture, music (particularly as the birthplace of jazz), and its annual Mardi Gras and other celebrations and festivals. The city is often referred to as the “most unique” city in America La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded May 7, 1718, by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of France at the time; his title came from …
Music video by Nirvana performing All Apologies. (C) 1993 Geffen Records
