Category Archives: Music

The Rhythm, The City, 7pm

The Rhythm, The City, 7pm from Tom Chimiak on Vimeo. This film opens WILDsound’s SHORT Toronto Film Festival on Saturday 25th August 2012!

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Event Review THE Manchester DAY Parade 10th June 2012 | Trifter

EVENT REVIEW THE MANCHESTER DAY PARADE 10TH JUNE 2012 This was the third annual Manchester Day Parade festival, though the first I have seen, and bore the subtitle The Sky’s The Limit, and a theme of celebrating heroic achievements. It … Continue reading

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David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence

If you are in Manchester then come along to MSS’s Beginner’s class tonight to help build your own creativity! More info at the web site!

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The Rhythm, The City, 7pm

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MSS at Sacred Trinity Church, on the corner of Chapel Street and Blackfriars Road by the traffic lights, in Salford (just down from Deansgate if you’re coming from Piccadilly) at 7p.m. tonight!

Come down and join to be part of our troupe in The Manchester Day Parade on June 10th.

More info and videos of what we did last year at http://www.sambaman.org.uk

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Originally posted on Victim of the Fury:
Here I was in Sao Paulo yesterday doing the work that most romanticize, some demonize, and the reality of which few would recognize.  I was in a taxi returning from a failed quest…

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Seu Jorge

Originally posted on Current Obsessions:
Probably kicked off by viewing of the Moonrise Kingdom Trailer, and the immediate readings of various interviews with Wes Anderson afterwards, I began listening to Seu Jorge. I started with his work in the Life…

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Cabaret for Cancer

We are playing around 6p.m.! From the Royal Exchange’s own site: IMOGEN STUBBS & JANE HORROCKS head starry line up for charity event A host of stars – including Coronation Street favourites Sally Dynevor and Anthony Cotton plus Jane Horrocks, … Continue reading

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Tropicália: Brazilian Music and Culture of the 1960s | Latin American Library at Tulane University

Tropicália: Brazilian Music and Culture of the 1960s | Latin American Library at Tulane University.

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Originally posted on Lyrical Brazil:
Lyrics from “Panis et Circenses” (Bread and Circus) by  Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso with Os Mutantes; arrangement and sound by Rogério Duprat Album:  Tropicalia: ou Panis et Circensis (1968) & Os Mutantes (1968) — I wanted to sing my song, illuminated by…

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