The tour, scheduled to begin September 21, currently lists 17 dates with additional shows to be announced. The Musical Director is Joey Curatolo.
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Friday, 7 June 2019
ROCK STARS SET BEATLES WHITE ALBUM TRIBUTE TOUR
One year after the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ self-titled double album (aka The White Album), several classic rock greats have announced a tour to celebrate the landmark LP. Tour 2019 – A Tribute to the Beatles’ White Album features Todd Rundgren, Micky Dolenz, Christopher Cross, Joey Molland of Badfinger and Jason Scheff of Chicago.
The tour, scheduled to begin September 21, currently lists 17 dates with additional shows to be announced. The Musical Director is Joey Curatolo.
The tour, scheduled to begin September 21, currently lists 17 dates with additional shows to be announced. The Musical Director is Joey Curatolo.
Tuesday, 4 June 2019
PAUL MCCARTNEY PRAISES NOVA SCOTIA TEEN'S Mi'kmaq COVER OF 'BLACKBIRD'
A Nova Scotia teen who has drawn global attention for her Mi'kmaq rendition of The Beatles' classic song "Blackbird" can now add Paul McCartney to her growing list of fans.
In concert footage published Sunday on Twitter by the United Nations' human settlements and youth branch, the former Beatle praises Emma Stevens' recording and encourages his fans to look it up online.
"There's an incredible version a Canadian girl has done, you can see it on YouTube. It's in her native language," McCartney told fans at the unspecified venue."It's really cool. Check it out," he said a moment later.
McCartney is the writer and original performer of "Blackbird," which first appeared on The Beatles' self-titled 1968 album, known as the White Album. The 76-year-old did not publicly respond to a tweet from UN-Habitat Youth proposing a duet with Stevens when his current tour comes to Vancouver on July 6.
Stevens and her classmates at Allison Bernard Memorial High School in Eskasoni, Cape Breton, recorded the song to highlight the United Nations' International Year of Indigenous Languages, which seeks to raise awareness of threats to Indigenous languages across the world. As of Monday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than 420,000 times since it was uploaded to YouTube on April 25.
Stevens also spoke and performed last week at a UN-Habitat Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, where she highlighted the red dress movement, which seeks to highlight the plight of missing and murdered Indigenous girls and women in Canada.
In concert footage published Sunday on Twitter by the United Nations' human settlements and youth branch, the former Beatle praises Emma Stevens' recording and encourages his fans to look it up online.
McCartney is the writer and original performer of "Blackbird," which first appeared on The Beatles' self-titled 1968 album, known as the White Album. The 76-year-old did not publicly respond to a tweet from UN-Habitat Youth proposing a duet with Stevens when his current tour comes to Vancouver on July 6.
Stevens and her classmates at Allison Bernard Memorial High School in Eskasoni, Cape Breton, recorded the song to highlight the United Nations' International Year of Indigenous Languages, which seeks to raise awareness of threats to Indigenous languages across the world. As of Monday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than 420,000 times since it was uploaded to YouTube on April 25.
Stevens also spoke and performed last week at a UN-Habitat Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, where she highlighted the red dress movement, which seeks to highlight the plight of missing and murdered Indigenous girls and women in Canada.
Monday, 3 June 2019
"IMAGINE" AND "THE END" : LAST SONGS BROADCAST ON WPLJ/95.5 FM
After 48 years, radio station WPLJ/95.5 FM entered radio silence Friday.
The last song broadcast from the top of Madison Square Garden was John Lennon’s “Imagine,” released in 1971, the same year the station went on the air.
DJ Mike Allan also spun a WPLJ tribute song by Hall and Oates, and — just before the stroke of the station’s 7 p.m. demise — a fitting snippet from the Beatles’ “The End”: “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
The station was one of six purchased for $103 million by the Educational Media Foundation, a religious-programming group.
It was fitting for John Lennon to serenade WPLJ’s end.
The station mourned Lennon’s Dec. 8, 1980, murder with days of round-the-clock Beatles music, followed by 15 minutes of silence, as requested by his widow, Yoko Ono.
At 7 p.m., the station joined the K-LOVE network, and will now broadcast Christian contemporary music.
The last song broadcast from the top of Madison Square Garden was John Lennon’s “Imagine,” released in 1971, the same year the station went on the air.
DJ Mike Allan also spun a WPLJ tribute song by Hall and Oates, and — just before the stroke of the station’s 7 p.m. demise — a fitting snippet from the Beatles’ “The End”: “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
The station was one of six purchased for $103 million by the Educational Media Foundation, a religious-programming group.
It was fitting for John Lennon to serenade WPLJ’s end.
The station mourned Lennon’s Dec. 8, 1980, murder with days of round-the-clock Beatles music, followed by 15 minutes of silence, as requested by his widow, Yoko Ono.
At 7 p.m., the station joined the K-LOVE network, and will now broadcast Christian contemporary music.
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