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Bufford’s revue deftly mingles anthems and anecdotes. She also plays with genre expectations, and turns a few old songs inside-out so you’ll hear them in a new way. She notes that, “The proof of a good song is you can bend it and it still won’t break.”
Bufford kicks off Act I with “Everything Old is New Again,” (1974) and dials the clock back to the dawn of the 20th century to prove how flexible the old songs can be. She dusts off chestnuts like “Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey?” (1902) and traces the drunkard’s walk of its origin.
Grammy-nominated quartet with Seattle ties has the sound of angels
The four women aren’t just singers, but educators and composers who came together online to create their distinctive sound.
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The new Seattle-Los Angeles vocal group säje is nominated for a Grammy this year. From left: Amanda Taylor, Sara Gazarek, Johnaye Kendrick and Erin Bentlage. (Lauren Desberg)
The music floats and sweeps and whirls. It is what angels might sound like, if angels gathered to harmonize on the wind. It emanates delicacy and power, with ethereal layers of tones and timbres.
That’s what it is like for me, listening to “Desert Song” by rising female vocal quartet säje. No wonder the dazzling track won the Seattle-Los Angeles group a coveted nomination for a 2021 Grammy Award for best arrangement of instruments and vocals. The group will get its first national exposure performing the track at the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony (a preshow before the main event,
As a child, silent nights were rare at my home in Churchtown in Dublin over Christmas. My mother Maureen was a singer in the Royalettes and the Rockettes at the Theatre Royal on Hawkins Street in Dublin during the late 1940s and 1950s.
So, in between popping the turkey in the oven, helping us children write our letters to Santa and decorating the tree, she would sing around the house.
Judy Garland s Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, from the movie Meet Me in St Louis was a particular favourite of hers - and ours.
She would insist my little sister Marina and I dance around the tree, to Brenda Lee s Rockin Around The Christmas Tree. It was non-negotiable. And why would you want to negotiate? Our Yuletide was a time of visions of silver bells ringing and sugar plums dancing in our imaginations and, for me, great music.