- So. I don’t know if you heard…but Andi and I have brought Estella’s Revenge back from the dead and gave her a new name, and a new purpose. The Estella Society will launch in a few weeks and we need your help! Visit our first post for more info, put on your thinking caps, and help us make TES as amazing as it can be.
- Our (Andi and my) readalong of North and South has pretty much started. I know people who are already reading! Our first discussion isn’t until August 6th, so you have time to join in. In fact, here is the schedule again:
Go to the official sign up post to join in, if you haven’t already. There will be prizes! Pretty great ones too, so don’t miss out!
- You guys, I have been a music listening fiend lately! Let me apologize now; I tried, but I couldn’t leave one of these songs out! I discovered quite a few things I want to share with you! I really REALLY got around on Pandora last week. At one point I was even listening to bluegrass and blues. I don’t know what’s come over me! Well, yes I do. I have a co-worker who always has this 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s Top 40 station playing. If I hear Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones or I Wear My Sunglasses At Night by whoever that was, I may just scream. I listen to Pandora to keep my sanity.
Speaking of bluegrass/country-ish-ness, I discovered The Wailin’ Jennys and I’m really taken with their sound. Who’da thunk.
My weekly dose of The Civil Wars for you:
This is old. I know this. However, I JUST discovered it and I can’t get enough of it. I’m thinking I need to listen to more Sara Bareilles. Her voice is so beautiful.
I found this on my new blues channel. Lawd.
And this? This just blows my mind.
Returning to this Classical Crossover I’ve been listening to SO MUCH, here are a few more bands to peruse:
Oh my gosh, this is a lot of fun:
Unsurprisingly, I like Coldplay better when played by a string quartet…
This is for Jill: David Garrett, the beautiful German violinist.
At the suggestion from a commenter, I created my own Classical Crossover YouTube Playlist. Here it is if you want to check it out. I expect I’ll be adding lots of videos to it. I’m also seriously entertaining the idea of just making a music day here, maybe twice a month. With the addition of Estella to my to do list now, it would be nice to have a day to post about music adventures. Would you like to share in this journey with me?
I'm SO excited about this new Estella Society that you and Andi are doing
And I so love the idea of you doing music posts regularly! Oh..and I'd totally join along on the N&S reading if I wasn't so deathly afeared of classics :p
Ooh, I love The Wailin' Jennys and The Civil Wars, too. I'm a bit of bluegrass fanatic–I'm pretty sure I would leave my husband for Chris Thile if he would play mandolin for me everyday. Trampled by Turtles are really good too, and Sarah Jarosz (again with the mandolin…)
Holy cow, you have really blossomed on the music front!!