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What would a wedding be without the singing or playing of some of the more popular wedding songs ever devised? Well, it would still be a wedding but it would be one that was sorely missing a popular element. Now, if you were asked to present a list of these top songs, would you be able to name all of them? If not there is no need to worry, the following is a list of some of the more popular songs that are frequently present when wedding bells chime:

The wedding should always start out with a song that themes the romantic nature of the event. This is where Tchaikovsky's "Waltz From Sleeping Beauty" is such an outstanding choice. The lyricism of this particular number significantly presents a tone that is bright and uplifting. And is that not what proper selections for a wedding song should embody?

Processional songs set the stage to the wedding and one of the best weddings songs to employ is the "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" as performed by Andy Williams. Actually, since this is an instrumental you could a number of recordings. While most may not be aware the theme derives from 1968's film adaptation of the play, most are familiar with its sound. And this is one of the most romantic themes ever crafted which makes it perfect for a wedding selection.

Rod Stewart's "Have I Told You Lately (That I Love You)" remains a perennial choice for the First Dance selection when the bride and groom take to the floor. Mostly everyone has heard of this song which is why it is among the most popular wedding songs commonly selected. It is also probably the most romantic song ever recorded which is certainly another plus associated with the song.

What would a Father/Daughter dance be without the playing of The Temptations "My Girl?" It would be a cliche to state that this song is an 'oldie but a goodie' but the cliché is most definitely true. "My Girl" has been a perennial father/daughter song because it is a tremendous recording that will bring sentimental tears to people's eyes and smiles to their faces.

Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" is sometimes considered sappy and, to a certain extent, this is true. However, it also makes for a perfect Mother/Son dance tune. This is a classic love song that has been playing on easy listening stations for decades. It is also a common choice among those looking for an excellent Mother and Son dance number.

Sister Sledge's version of "We Are Family" is a great selection for the Bridal Party dance because it adds a great sense of fun to the proceedings. It is also a nice departure from the more serious love tunes commonly employed at a wedding. No, this is not to say love tunes are a weak choice as much as it is to point out that upbeat friendly songs have their place as well.

Since the cutting of the cake is an unforgettable moment, would it not be appropriate that it is accompanied by Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable?" Some may think the song is a little bit too serious but it really is not. It is a bright and cheerful song that will certainly prove memorable.

The garter toss remains one of the more fun moments of a wedding. Would it not be appropriate to select a fun song to accompany it along the lines of "Legs" by ZZ Top? This is quickly becoming one of the more popular wedding songs of a newer generation that was raised on music videos and pop culture. It is also a fun song that most people will find a nice inclusion to the festivities.

And even the glory of a festive event such as a wedding must come to an end. This, of course, necessitates a last dance and among the absolute best inclusions for a song would be "Always and Forever" by Heatwave. This is a tremendous selection to play as the guests exit the banquet hall and it sets the perfect sentiment for the marriage. That is, it infers the marriage will be one of eternal love which is clearly an excellent sentiment to put forth.

Of course, there are many other selections that are considered to be among the most popular wedding songs. The ones listed herein are certainly among those people find to be most memorable. Including them into a wedding would certainly be a positive decision.

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A pop music critic takes on Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. First up: 'Das Rheingold'
Achim Freyer's staging of Wagner's opus is as much a pop experience as it is a classical one. Achim Freyer's staging of Wagner's opus is as much a pop experience as it is a classical one.

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Dido Life for Rent Pop Music CD Review

Life For Rent is the latest Pop CD released by the richly talented Dido who once again has delivered a brilliant collection of tracks. I’m confident Dido fans, and Pop fans alike will be pleased with this one.

It's a rare day indeed that I get a CD from an artist that I can truthfully say does not have a bad track in the bunch. I'm more than happy to announce that’s exactly what I must say about this one. There simply is NOT a bad one in the bunch. No fillers here at all, with each song standing tall on it's own.

Dido possesses the characteristic of being able to win you over with her talent alone. The kind of artist I really enjoy listening to.

Overall Life For Rent is excellent from beginning to end. One of those CDs that after a few listens the songs are just etched into your memory. A must have for the Pop fan. Really sensational from beginning to end.

While this entire CD is outstanding some of my favorites are track 3 - Life For Rent, track 9 - Do You Have A Little Time, and track 11 - See The Sun

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 - White Flag. What a nice track!

Life For Rent Release Notes:

Dido originally released Life For Rent on September 30, 2003 on the Arista Records label.

CD Track List Follows:

1. White Flag 2. Stoned 3. Life For Rent 4. Mary's In India 5. See You When You're 40 6. Don't Leave Home 7. Who Makes You Feel 8. Sand In My Shoes 9. Do You Have A Little Time 10. This Land Is Mine 11. See The Sun

Personnel includes: Dido (vocals, programming); Adam Zimmon, Paul Herman (acoustic guitar); Rick Knowles (guitar, keyboards); Rusty Anderson, Dave Randall (guitar); Sister Bliss (piano, keyboards, programming); Mark Bates (harmonium, keyboards, percussion, programming); Aubrey Nunn (bass); Andy Treacy, Mako Sakamoto (drums); Carlos Paucar (percussion); P*Nut, Steve Sidelynk (programming); Pauline Taylor (background vocals).

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The Real World of Digital Music Production

The “diarrhea” of “an awful lot of” contemporary “pop, rap & rock” music (but not all!)

Do you know what happens when you live on a diet of processed entrees and fast food? When never a fresh fruit or vegetable passes your lips and your fiber count is measured in “mgs” instead of grams? You guessed it: that horrible “D” word. Also known in medical circles as IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) --

So what’s up with the computer spew of 75% of many contemporary popular artists? They, say the song is dead; well who killed it? Was it the independent label music movement? Certainly NOT! Was it rap, punk, or grunge or whatever? I'd say, could be. Was it Madonna who first put the crack in “The Wall” of song composing and instrument playing that earlier generations so carefully began brick by brick? I don’t know -- for you, but for me, it’s been a downhill ride since 1984.

I was one, well, that was at “the roots of rock” sort of speak (thanks to an older sister who took me to the Fillmore East in New York City at age 14) – I was naïve enough to ask about that “funny smelling smoke” and those funny looking cigarettes; I later thanked her, for I saw “Santana” live there when their second album (Black Magic Woman) hadn’t even hit the shelves.

I saw PINK FLOYD at that venue a year later when they were still called: The Pink Floyd and they had an opening act play before they came out (i.e. later when fame hit: Pink Floyd ALWAYS played alone because of their massive WALL of speakers and equipment.)

I saw bands in New York City that are now relics: Procol Harum, Jethro Tull’s first incarnation, YES, Bob Dylan WITH “The Band”!! – even Black Sabbath after their 1st LP; and, “Mott the Hoople” touring their FIRST LP. (Remember them? --an LP is an old vinyl record that was played on a turntable. YOU didn’t “use the turntable to scratch! – And they made crackling and popping sounds. LONG LIVE THE CD! And the mp3 too) But, I digress…

So where is this blog heading?

Today you can record and cut a CD in your bedroom. Then, (IF you have enough friends and a gig someplace – or JUST USE U-Tube) you can SELL CDs to YOUR FANS, if you can GET ENOUGH, you’ll even make money; MAYBE! It can all be done on your HOME Computer. And why, because YOU are a musician? “Frankly NOT my dear” as Gable used to say. (Gable who? say the younger readers?) It’s all virtual marketing after that…

In case you're still naïve as to how IT is done - that so many of today’s artists may not need to know almost anything about music, let alone, spend years playing an instrument or singing - and yet get on the “Virtual Airwaves” and even end up on the Today show spot, along with the “singing babies” that periodically appear on the internet sites and on “You-Tube”. Well it doesn’t even take “RC's” [read Record Companies] Perhaps just a shrewd “Boomer or GenX” Mom/Dad Manager)… Yep, it’s “Performance Now” and there’s very little music to worry those Artists about. The RC’s can still get their cut and have absolutely NO REASON to complain!!! - About the “Indie and Virtual Music artists” wrecking their profit.

THEY helped “build the beast” they fear everyday (and I hope it does eat their Creator like a type of “Cannibal Baby” gone wild).

And "they" profit everyday by the existence of a youth-culture fueled “Music” industry who’s “Heart & Soul” is made up of the “clinking, clacking, metallic empty banging” of a musical palette of sounds that is “as Soul-LESS” as the heart of the “King Beast” himself (you know that Devil “Sam” who is lurking behind everybody’s dream of a “musical-career "Garden of Eden") –

As for those “Singing Babies” and “Parading Sex-Toy Imagery of “Twelve-year+ something” girly-woman - parading across the video screens of Virtual and TV America (every so often) THEY, and those nice Boomer+ parents, are just hoping a couple will spell “C.A.S.H.” BIG TIME! - This is of course, once their product “Goes Viral…”

And so many of u“You-tubers,” (particularly) the older viewers will be “fooled-again” – having, (in anemic mental-lapses) forgotten the “Anthem of YOUR Youth: “We Won’t Be Fooled Again” (Who?); and, all those “smashing guitars” instead of “Smashing ‘those damn’ Pumpkins” (now Geriatric!)…

All BECAUSE “U” don’t have the “dog-damn” SOFTWARE that I just have to throw in the garbage! (I made a resolve NOT to swear lately, I don’t want to break my will just yet) – nothing against “dog’s really! – Though I am sort-of “one of those cat-guys”…Please don’t message my email, I LOVE animals with four-legs and some with two. (It’s spiders and insects with multiple legs that have been giving me the creeps lately, but then I live in a “real FOREST”…

It came in MARCH: The last “music equipment purchase I knew I was going to be able to make for quite sometime unless, - MY CD goes “Viral” - (highly unlikely as I don’t own a Video camera or even a digital camera) It will be tough to get on YOU-Tube or even MySpace Music with my “old-fashioned music-making way” (and so MUCH profitless Work – not to mention that! – Unpaid labor, hardly worth it) - but that’s aside the point:

In March (as I said), I bought a $100 desktop “plastic” 2-octave Midi Controller” keyboard with my last savings, (2 octaves means that it only has 25 black & white piano-looking keys) and along with that came (from this decptive “kraut” company) the: “Virtual Music Starter Desktop Composing Package” (a VMSDCP (!)) complete with 50 of the “Latest” Digital Virtual Sounds and Samples (your DVSS's!) that I thought my music was lacking(?!) – Or perhaps, I had a series of “faithless” self-doubts and collapse of my initial musical resolve formed so long ago in those many long hours and days behind “My Old Black & White”…But again, I digress:

So although the keyboard will be minimally useful at my computer desktop for editing and notation work, those wonderfully and cleverly named (and they really are!) modern sound samples have yet to be able to even be tested out with this “rat-like” maze of a software package! “They” (the Kraut Company) sent me for my $100 apparently a bunch of “demo-software” that ‘They” never even paid for – unfortunately you can’t do much with it! - If only after loading the .dll files I could hear the damn things on a reliable basis. But yes, I do like the names: i.e. Delay Lama, B-Assault, AManalogWar, etc – endlessly creative really!

So when I finally got a few to sound after much frustration the musical use was questionable, (for me I mean); unless you are purposely avoiding any musical references. But most of all, there was this “ambience of artificiality about them all” – This is the “so called musical world” we are abandoning our youth to, (I philosophically reflected, as I endlessly clicked and re-clicked the samples with my mouse trying to get them to sound). “This is a world where a real guitar or piano is mostly a “prop” –

Somehow every sound seemed to me the equivalent of “those frozen-processed entrees” Once in a while, a nice touch to a busy life and schedule; eat them regularly and “disease” is sure to get deeply-rooted with time.

OK so I’m not too fond of today’s musical sound palette, but it’s not just that:

The “composing software and the music software” that is the foundation of so much of the rock and pop that even comes out of the big studios today is not something that “miffs me” (believe me, I AM NOT that “old fashioned” I just like old 40’s movies). I understand it only too well; way back in the 1980’s when many of today’s young artists where still their “daddy’s sperm” beginning that long swim up their “mother’s canal”, I spent untold hours hunched over then “modern synthesizers” creating such effects and sounds; BUT by myself, with only the good old tech manual and use of dials, filters, oscillators… and so forth.

Today’s gig>>> You no longer compose music (especially from “your musical soul”) you download and merge the “pre-found” clips and beats included in the package. A “Soulless” and “Joyless” process in my opinion BUT not necessarily an instant, easy one. The “Result”? Everything you create has this “virtual stamp” on it and sounds like every other “voice in the box.” True, you shape it but hardly worth the learning curve to me.

As (the) PINK FLOYD predicted way back in '74 with their song: “Welcome to the Machine” ) from the album: “Wish You Were Here” the machine is now as a voice and its soul is in the “box” even if you try to musically think “outside the box”…And believe me: I loved MY PINK FLOYD… and English bands in particular. Their foresight is now come to pass (meaning: it is now true in reality what was fantasy in their lyrics)…“Welcome to the Digital Soul”>>>

So from the “soul-less” world of contemporary modern desktop composing, I now fondly bid you adieu… I and “my lonely soul” like a musical Henry Thoreau at some far-away “Walden Pond” on a frontier far from the “modern world” return to my “Digital Piano” that at least has 88 “real-action” keys and perhaps later tonight to “My Old Black & White” (still resting peacefully in my kitchen foyer). I played the theme to my song: My Old Black & White on it the other day, she sounded pretty good considering “she” hasn’t been tuned since my then 86-year-old piano tuner died (I think in 2002).

My old black and white, Greets me with silence, every night.
And whenever I walk through that door;
She’s been my friend now since ‘74
She’s still my old black & white
And though her keys no longer shine so bright,
She’s kept me company (through) many a lonely night.
She’s still my old black & white

I posed for the above picture the day of a concert I played for over 35 people in a log cabin, called “The Music Shed” in Cummington, Mass., A nice open-air mountain town of New England.

I was 30 then and I remember it as passing as briefly as a “summer day” in New England. The last year my body would be unmarred by “the needles of dialysis” and the ensuing struggle of the next twenty years of poverty and struggle to keep myself faithful to my chosen goal and commitment: to learn to play a REAL PIANO. I thought it was just the beginning of long and fruitful career doing this; but I hadn’t seen my latest blood reports….

It was a glorious June Day in the New England mountains and I played a grand piano, very well indeed…

My bio is where you can read more about my music and find links to listen and purchase my CDs: August Ocean Overture, and In Memory Only

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Michael Guy (a.k.a. Michael Guy L'ecluse) is a composer, pianist and author. He has 33 years experience in keyboard, music composition and education. He was a music theory major in college. He's also an author of a novel, "The Last Renaissance Man" and a song lyric booklet entitled "Across the Sea of Madness." He has a homepage with his recent writings and poetry posted at AuthorsDen.com. His books and CDs are available there. After much time in the underground world of music composition, in 2007 he's finally released his debut CD, AUGUST OCEAN OVERTURE, on his own label JzCDz. It's an eclectic mix of NewAge, Jazz/Blues and classical Americana pieces. It's currently available on iTunes, Amazon and other digital distribution outlets like PayPlay.
He spent much time in New York City in the 1980's working in music publishing. Since 1990 when he returned to Florida for a kidney transplant, he has been semi-retired and working in recording, music composition and writing.
He will be releasing his second CD of original compositions in late 2008 entitled, IN MEMORY ONLY, as a memorial for his recently deceased parents.
You can learn about me and my music at:

http://augustoceanoverture.blogspot.com/

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?id=66063

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The utility of the kids website for the betterment of your kids

In case of the working parents when both mom and dad of a kid is out for their job it becomes quite hard for their kids to spend the whole day alone. Sometimes the parents employ some governess to take care of their child at home. But the fact is that the children often gets bored with their governess and thus misses their parents a lot. But in the modern day context it is not quite possible for the parents to be always at home to take care of their children. The demands of the modern day dynamic lifestyle creates several such problems. To cope up with these problems the parents are always in search of some better alternative. In that case the kids websites can be of a great help to manage such situations. The idea is that when you need to go out for your job you can keep your kid in the custody of the governess or the babysitter and to provide some entertainment along with education you can let them log in some kids website so that they can enjoy the time.

These kids websites provides a helpful hand in keeping the kids engaged as well as providing some knowledge to them. You should not be in the misconception that these websites would spoil your child by providing lots of online games and free games. One thing that should be clearly noted that games are not always meant to spoil the kids. Rather they can be sometimes of great help when the educational features are introduced in them. There are many kids website available on the internet which provides educational games. These websites use several educational elements in their games which helps the kids in their learning.

Even there are some kids websites which helps the children to improve their special skills. As for example if you want your kid to be a singer or a rock or pop star when they grow up you can easily increase their interest in music with the help of these kids websites. There are some kids which are mainly concerned with music along with providing other educational elements in their website.

If we take the example of kidzter it can be said that this is a very interesting website for the kids. This website focuses on a band named Rockabyes. This is a band for the kids. Where your kids can learn a lot of things along with improving their interest in music. The characters of the band like Floyd Fox, Crystal Canary, Bartholomew Littlebear and Sean Seal. All these cartoon characters combined to be a music band for the kids and thus along with providing some great music for the kids they also acts as a great inspiration for the kids towards music. Not only that there are also educational items and several online games and other free games in this site. Therefore this type of websites can be of great help for the kids and where thy would find lots of interest and entertainment. Thus while choosing a better website for your kids you should keep in mind the fact that your kid should find interest in the site that you choose for him or her and then only you can get the maximum benefits out of these websites.

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New Kids on the Block Tickets- All Grown Up

The '80s are back with the re-emergence of The New Kids on the Block, only this time the boys are all grown up. Fans in San Diego blasted back to the era of tight spandex, neon headbands and cheesy workout videos when the popular group performed at Cox Arena recently. There was the same energy and hyper dance moves first introduced years past, and there were the familiar admiring screams from the ladies as soon as N.K.O.T.B. took the stage. Their hiatus may have seemed like ages, but the New Kids' comeback has been one of the most anticipated in the music industry. For more information on their upcoming performance schedule, check out http://www.stubhub.com/new-kids-on-the-block-tickets.

Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood are back. Certainly no longer the "new kids," they have matured and have a much more polished and sophisticated style. They are no longer the poster-boys for adolescent teenage girls, but have also become the new hot crushes for 30 year olds, who initially grew up cutting out magazine photographs of the boys and pinning them to their bedroom walls.

The New Kids on the Block were revolutionary in that they pioneered the way for follow-up boy bands like the Backstreet Boys, Take That and *NSYNC. The phenomenon lasted through the late 1990s, although it started tapering off as most band members wanted to pursue solo careers. N.K.O.T.B., however, might be starting a new trend again: reunion tours of prominent boy bands, perhaps? Check out the not-so-new kids by obtaining a pair of New Kids on the Block tickets. Don't forget to invite all of your girlfriends along to see this magnetic pop group and sing along to their greatest hits.

The New Kids released their self-titled debut album in April 1986. What emerged from the record was a surge of bubble-gum pop music that would come to define the decade. Initially the album was a flop, but nothing seemed to discourage the determined boys, who believed they were well on their way to becoming famous musicians. They were right. Their second album, Hangin' Tough, although it got off to a slow start, eventually produced some singles that listeners took note of. Their second single, in particular, "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" took off and became a favorite on the radio and on MTV. Their next single, "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)," reached the coveted number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in June 1989, forecasting future successes for the emerging boy band.

They continued to dazzle their devoted fans with the album Step by Step and remained on the tour circuit, launching an extravagant concert tour in 1990 called The Magic Summer Tour. In what seemed like no time at all, they went from being virtually unheard of to some of the highest paid musicians "on the block."

Their popularity waned in the mid-1990s, and they stopped producing records for more than a decade...until now. September 2008 saw the release of The Block, signaling N.K.O.T.B's return to the neighborhood.

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Getting High on Music — Song Lyrics About Drugs

Drugs were a part of music culture long before rock and roll was even an embryo.  But as that embryo began growing up and experimenting with drugs, it began writing music and lyrics about them, and became closely associated with them in the public’s mind.  Sex, drugs and rock and roll—weren’t they what a musician’s life was all about?  Some rockers didn’t mince words when they wrote about drugs, while others left their lyrics open to interpretation.  Here’s a sampling of songs with lyrics describing the seductive—and destructive—power of drugs:

“Cocaine” by Eric Clapton

An obvious lyric, right?  Not quite.  Originally written and recorded by J.J. Cale in 1975, the song was hugely popularized by Eric Clapton’s cover version.  But Clapton stresses that the lyrics, “If you wanna get down, down on the ground,” are very anti-cocaine and describe its ravages.  To emphasize that point, Clapton later added the lyrics, “that dirty cocaine,” during his concerts.

“White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane

This song’s music sounds trippy.  Its lyrics sound trippy.  Its vocals sound trippy.  And for a good reason:  it’s about LSD.  A Jefferson Airplane classic, its psychedelic lyrics and music were written by singer Grace Slick.  The song equates an acid trip to the hallucinatory imagery of author Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass.”  When Slick sings the lyrics, “Feed your head,” she’s not exactly encouraging listeners to go to the library.

“Dancing on Glass” by Motley Crue

When it comes to drugs, Motley Crue—particularly bassist and recovering heroin addict, Nikki Sixx—aren’t shy about writing lyrics about them, or admitting they used them.  Sixx’s lyrics, “Valentine’s in London, found me in the trash,” refer to an incident in which he immediately OD’d after allowing a seedy London drug dealer to shoot him up.  The panicked dealer thought Sixx was dead, and threw him into a dumpster.  Sixx miraculously revived on Valentine’s Day, surrounded by trash.  Not exactly the same as receiving flowers and candy.

“Mr. Brownstone” by Guns N’ Roses

Guns N’ Roses is another band whose members used their bodies as chemistry labs, and lived to write lyrics and music about it.  In the song lyrics, “We’ve been dancing with Mr. Brownstone,” “brownstone” is slang for heroin.  According to guitarist Slash, he and co-guitarist Izzy Straddlin came up with the lyrics while they were complaining about being heroin addicts, and scribbled the words on a grocery bag.  He said the lyrics described a typical day in the two guitarists’ lives, at the time.

“The Needle and the Damage Done” by Neil Young

The sorrowfully sung lyrics of this classic made it a renowned anti-heroin song.  The lyrics, “I’ve seen the needle and the damage done...every junkie’s like a settin’ sun,” were about the heroin use of Young’s guitarist, Danny Whitten, who overdosed several months after the song’s release.  Young’s comment about the song lyrics was, “I am not a preacher, but drugs killed a lot of great men.”

Who knows how many amazing unsung songs and lyrics those men still had in them?

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Top 5 London Musicals For A Girls' Night Out

Leave the men at home and enjoy a fantastic girls' night out at a West End musical. With so many shows to choose from, there are lots of ways to indulge your guilty pleasures... We've selected the best London musicals that are guaranteed to have you and your friends dancing in your seats!

London's West End offers a multitude of fantastic shows, perfect for a girl's night out, here's our guide to the top five.

Legally Blonde

Based on the glittering film of the same name, Legally Blonde The Musical at London's Savoy Theatre is feel-good, fun and fabulous. A sassy Sheridan Smith takes on the role of social butterfly and homecoming queen Elle Woods who enrols at Harvard Law School after her boyfriend (Duncan James from chart-topping band Blue) dumps her for someone more 'serious'. Just like the original, award-winning Broadway show, this West End production offers a sparkly line-up of great singing, dancing and (of course) lots of pink!

Mamma Mia!

Packed with all your favourite ABBA hits, from Dancing Queen to Souper Trouper, Mamma Mia! at London's Prince of Wales Theatre is the ultimate feel-good show. If you've seen the film, you'll know the story already: a mother, daughter, 3 possible dads. Set on Greek island paradise, the enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship unfolds to the unmistakable soundtrack of ABBA's classic songs. With music that good, you can't go wrong!

Dirty Dancing

Make a date to see Dirty Dancing at London's Aldwych Theatre and prepare to have the time of your lives. This stage production of the much-loved film starring Patrick Swayze revives the classic story of Baby and Johnny as they defy the odds to follow their hearts and feet. See all your favourite moments and songs right before your eyes. And because you're among friends, there's no spoilsport guy to roll his eyes when you swoon at the famous lift!

Grease

The unforgettable songs, the flamboyant clothes, the drama, the romance... it's no wonder Grease remains the most popular musical around. Gather your 'pink ladies' and join Sandy, Danny and the gang at London's Piccadilly Theatre as they belt out all your favourite hits, including You're The One That I Want, Hopelessly Devoted To You and Greased Lightnin'. Currently reprising the famous film roles played by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are bright young things Noel Sullivan (formerly if pop band Hear'say star) and Siobhan Dillon, from BBC talent show How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?

Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical

The original TV heartthrob and star of stage and screen Jason Donovan sizzles in the lead role of Priscilla Queen of the Desert at London's Palace Theatre. Based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name, Priscilla Queen of the Desert has it all, outrageous costumes, dance-floor classics and wild adventures. Now you can enter the world of Tick (Jason Donovan), Bernadette (Tony Sheldon) and Adam (Oliver Thornton), the glamorous Sydney-based performing trio, as they take their show into the Australian outback onboard a battered old bus nicknamed Priscilla.

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Get to Know the Different Types of Spanish Music

Spanish music has become increasingly popular due to the hit-makers of pop superstars Shakira and J-Lo. Did you know that there are many different types of Spanish music? Every Spanish-speaking country has its own version of what Spanish music is, and it differs greatly from culture to culture.

Salsa is a type of Spanish music that is featured prominently in Cuban and Puerto Rican communities. Salsa is a fast moving style of dance that is popular in all of the clubs these days. It is popular because the dance moves do not require a lot of space, so more people can be squeezed in to enjoy this music on a dance floor. Salsa music is a combination of African rhythms with Spanish beats.

Tango music and dance is known for its dramatic flair. You probably already have a picture in your head of a woman dancing with a rose held in her teeth! The music is fairly classical featuring violins, double bass and a piano, but it can also have the accompaniment of flutes and clarinets.

Spanish pop music is a meld of many regions that is produced to appeal to the masses. Pop music is usually more about the singers than the songs themselves.

Latin jazz does not have a backbeat which makes it sound completely different from American jazz music. The rhythm is straight and not like the swing sound found in American jazz. Latin jazz combines African rhythms with conga drums giving it a Caribbean flavor

Bossa nova music originated in the country of Brazil. Unlike other types of Spanish music, bossa nova does not use percussion instruments. Instead, bossa nova is infused with guitar and piano instruments to give it a gentle rhythm.

Tejano music is often characterized as a Spanish polka, if you can imagine that sort of comparison. Tejano music roots are from Mexico and traditionally feature an accordion, but synthesizers have been used more recently to update this classic style of Spanish music.

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