Sat 17 Dec - Bird Spirits and Music 2

Bird Spirits and music. Second programme looking at songs and lore of bird spirits and the significance of birds in the Baltics and beyond. Raimonds Dale of Dudalnieki provides background and tunes from Latvia. Plus thoughts and sounds responding to the visibility and traditional symbolism of the robin at Wintertime. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.com

https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-17-dec-2022-bird-spirits-sounds-2/

Sat 10 Dec - Chris Haigh, violinist and author, on his fiddle education books

Chris Haigh from ‘The Fiddle Channel’ on Youtube talks about his history as a violin player and author writing fiddle books including eleven for Schott Music Publishers including ‘Discovering Rock Violin’, ‘French Fiddle Tunes’, ‘Exploring Klezmer Fiddle’ and ‘Exploring Country and Bluegrass Fiddle’.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-10-dec-2022-chris-haigh-fiddle-books/

Sat 3 Dec - Bird Spirits & Music

Bird spirits in Baltic mythology, Bollywood and beyond. Lintukoto is the paradise to which birds migrate in winter in Finnish mythology. Expressions of birdness in movie picturisations such as Lata Mangeshka's vocal performance in Sehra of Pankh Hote To Ud Aati Re.




https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-3-dec-2022-bird-spirits-and-music/

Sat 26 Nov - Snake Worship & Music

Exploring serpents and mythology. Snake divinities have inspired musical worship in different cultural traditions. The focus falls on Baltic myth and Bollywood storytelling in music with tunes written for the grass snakes of Latvia and the great Bollywood snake movies.




https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-26-nov-2022-snake-worship-and-music-1/