I LOVE CONCERTS!

Hey there bloggers,

I had such a bussy week, not only due to the homework I had to make but also due to the concerts I've been too.

Thursday I went with my father and a friend of his to a jazz jam session at Café Dudok in Hilversum. The atmoshpere was great, really amazing, and the music was good! It is every two week, for now, until Christmas. So please come, have a drink and play along or just have a listen (like me)!
Jazz Hilversum, Café Dudok, every other week on Thursday.

The following day I went to the coolest concert I've ever been to! I went to see Green Day, my favorite punk/rock band, in Ahoy Rotterdam with a friend. AAAAAH, even two days after it I am still exited! The concert started at 20.10 and we arrived only 10 minutes before due to the traffic around Rotterdam. The scenery was very nice and they had a lot of fireworks. But mostly the humor and the fantastic music made that night a night to remeber for me. My friend and I just couldn't stop singing and jumping, laughing during the whole thing. Wauw, I never expected it to be so good! During the concert I had been waiting to hear my favorite song: When September Ends, but they did not play it! After two encores Billy Joe Armstrong finally played it aucoustic on his own in the middle of the stage. That was the best moment of the concert. That is what I meant with songs that bring memories back, When September Ends always remebers me of my friends in Italy, we used to sing it together.

Well guys, see you next time!

xoxo,

Stella

Great songs

Hello bloggers!

The last two weeks during music class we have been playing the song; funkytown. I enjoyed doing this, even though it did not sound perfect yet! When I told my mother about the song, she was very enthousiastic. That song was played all over the world in the disco's when she was young and it reminded her of these old times. I find it so cool that there are songs which remind you of things of you really love to listen to. Of course I also have a couple of songs I really can't stop listening to, for example Here Is Everything of Chiara Civello, an Italian singer. Her music makes me feel happy and think the fantastic summers I always have with my family and friends in Italy. But I don't think that songs always have to make you feel happy, Jeff Buckley is an artist who can make me cry. Last Goodbye, Grace and Halleluja are absolutly my favorites. Another Italian artist who's music I appreciate is Tiziano Ferro, his most beautiful song is Non Me Lo So Spiegare.

It was a few years ago that I discovered Jamie Cullum, the music he makes it according to my opinion, the best combination between pop and jazz. The song All at Sea is another song which intriguets me, the composition just before the chorus gives me a feeling I can't describe, that good is it. There is still one artists I didn't mention. She is called Anais Mitchell and isn't famous at all. When my father brought her cd home he already knew I would love it. Her voice has a exceptional sound, but what I love the most are the lyrics of her songs. It are protest songs which come from very deep. They make me think and want to hear them over and over.

Here are the links to the songs I mentioned in this message; enjoy!

Orion - Anais Mitchell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EExtKyvOhC8&feature=related

Here is everything - Chiara Civello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhCX1GuzHmA&feature=PlayList&p=4EF4EFFEAB50A22B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=27

All at Sea -Jamie Cullum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUscn6VPfXc

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AratTMGrHaQ

Grace - Jeff Buckley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siNsgbIWhAQ

Non Me Lo So Spiegare - Tiziano Ferro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIZo65qUNTU


xxx Stella

PS: I am very curiouse about what you think about them.