Blue Dog Coalition

Into The Great Wide Open Imagine big hills,Hollywood sign, living alone at 18 and going on stage to sing! Eddie in “Into the great wide open” moved to Hollywood. Eddie just graduated high school and moved to Hollywood to pursue is dreams and find a girl. Eddie first got a job and a tattoo and he’s going for his shot to be famous. In the narrative poem “ Into the Great Wide Open” by Tom Petty tells a story of the life of a rising rock star using a shifting tone and is told in a realistic nature.…

The concert that I attended was Sac State Jazz Combo with the guest artist “The Kandinsky Effect”, on Tuesday October 13, 2015 at 8:00 pm. in the Capistrano Concert Hall. At the beginning of the concert the Sacramento State Jazz combo played a couple songs. In this group there were many performers with different instruments: Domenic Dalpez (baritone saxophone) , Jesse Crosson (trombone) , Aaron Smith (trumpet) , Randy Sandoli (piano) , Molly Redfield (bass) , Devan Kortan (guitar) , and Cameron…

Very few famous performers nowadays can integrate showmanship with their music. In the 70’s a musical group by the name of Parliament took the music world by storm with their out of this world appearance and their own rendition of Funk music. Parliament was one of the key pieces in the development of funk music and modern music as well. They created what we know as P-Funk today that was a key element of the foundation of Hip-Hop. For my concert report I analyzed Parliament’s 1976 The MotherShip…

Bunny Briggs always said that he was born dancing and “When [he] finally faced the world [his] legs were kickin’. Bunny was a prodigy who performed all over Harlem then on Television and Broadway. He started dancing after seeing his aunt perform with Bill Robinson. He was able to reproduce the steps that Robinson had performed with ease. Bunny said he “couldn't believe how graceful [Robinson] was, and how calm. To move like that and smile. That's when [Bunny] decided.” He began performing with…

It is the celebration of the unique traditional culture and the heritage of New Orleans and Louisiana both country. The festival has 12 different stages of different lovable music like- jazz, rock, folk, gospel, Latin, funk, R&B, African, blues, Caribbean, Cajun, and many more music types. This jazz Fest is usually held at the ‘Fair Grounds Race Course’, New Orleans. In this Heritage celebration, all the music artists from New Orleans and Louisiana join. Some other internationally renowned…

When Colden “Cole” Rainey Swindell was young, he never dreamed of being a famous country artist. He wanted to play sports. As he grew older, he attended Georgia Southern University. He majored in marketing. At a party one night, someone was playing a guitar and Cole decided to sing. His friend said, “You are very good at singing.” He took it seriously and he decided to start his music career by selling merchandise for his friend Luke Bryan. He was influenced by Bryan and moved to…

In the making of country music three young men, all of them twelve years of age, named Hank, Merle, and Johnny. Everyone said they were born crying loud, strong, and in a blues kind of tune. One day the boys met under a great big cedar tree. Ask Hank started moaning the blues Merle and Johnny chimed in singing in their smooth as molasses voices. As they got further into the song they saw the tree starting to twist and form into three weird shapes. The boys, scared to the point that their knees…

1990s music In the nineteen nineties there were several popular types of music but the most well known was the grunge genre because of one man that changed music forever. His band known as ‘Nirvana’ has influenced many ,especially one of its very own band members Dave Grohl. Who later went to pursue his love music in the band ‘Foo Fighters’. The legacy of Nirvana has lasted for more than 20 years and will continue to be remembered by the lovers of nineties music forever. Nirvana was founded…

Music has influenced many societies over the yea, including the civilisation humans. Music is a method of self-expression, inspiration, give voice to the voiceless.it a tool that uses to communicate, as seen through how ancient aboriginal cultures around the world have always used music to tell stories and express their history, culture and themselves as people. so music is always there no matter what, it is something that I personal have had the fortune in understanding; how it functions and…

Iconic vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson [1941-2016] was honored in a musical celebration colored by great performances of dearest fellows from different generations. In addition to an incredible instrumentalist, Hutcherson was a master composer who left an indelible mark over the course of a rich five-decade career. Classic records like Dialogue, Components, Oblique, and Cirrus will be forever in my heart. At the time we arrived at the packed St. Peter’s Church, vibraphonist Joe Locke was reading…