Walk into any early childhood environment and the sounds of singing, clapping and joyful music will be heard. The quality of the music activities and instruments offered to young children does matter. While some young children enjoy and excel in…

For fifty years Rogers has been entertaining listeners with his own style of singing, and this collection is a tribute to his longevity in the business. Duets Kenny Rogers recorded many duets during his career. With partner Dolly Parton they…

Abbey Road The Beatles in London Walk is actually two walks. The first takes fab four fans to Abbey Road, starting at the St John’s Wood underground station (both Beatles walks start and end at London underground stations.) From the…

Several successful rock bands joined the rapidly growing world of rock music in the mid 1960s. In this period, rock musicians broke the norms and introduced new possibilities. Among several popular bands of this period, one can name The Kinks,…

England’s earliest musicians were most likely Druids, pre-Celtic “wise men” or sorcerers of Britain, mentioned by Caesar. The priestly order of the Druids practiced magic and, according to historians of the day, savage human sacrifice. Meeting in groves of trees,…

Born Steven Demetre Georgiou in 1948, the singer and songwriter now known as Yusuf first came to fame as Cat Stevens in 1966 after signing a contract with Decca Records. His first song was a minor hit “I Love My…

Everything works. The song’s music and lyrics are terrific, the performance is exactly right, and the production is neither too little nor too much. “All Along the Watchtower” Bob Dylan of course wrote “Watchtower,” and his version has a dark…

During the Jazz Age, jazz music became associated with the seedy underbellies of major cities. It was seen by mainstream Americans as immoral and was relegated to speakeasies and other questionable establishments. After the Prohibition Era came to a close,…

Onika Maraj, publicly known as Nicki Minaj, is a native of Jamaica Queens, New York. Although she initially aspired to be a singer and actress, Minaj began writing rap lyrics over seven years ago and is now currently signed with…

Together for just two years and barely out of music school, Empirical has already won several awards and played at the JVC Jazz Festival Newport. Some critics consider them one of the most exciting jazz combos to come out of…