A Brief History On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, touted to be “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace and Music” opened in the Catskills region of New York State. The 3 day weekend blast saw 32 music acts perform rock and folk music, with just about all forms of rock (of the time) represented. About 400,000 people attended, and the event is often considered one of the most important and famous musical events in rock and roll history. Digging Deeper Located on a farm owned by Max Yasgur near Bethel, New York, the site is…
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A Brief History This article presents a timeline of music history. Digging Deeper On January 1, 1773, the first use of the all familiar hymn, “Amazing Grace“, was performed at a church service in England. On May 23, 1829, Austrian maker of keyboard instruments, Cyrill Demian, a man of Armenian descent, was granted a patent for his new musical instrument, the Accordion. On March 31, 1923, the first U.S. dance marathon ended in New York City but began a strange fad with sometimes fatal consequences! On October 11, 1932, in the heart of Depression Era Tennessee, little Dorothy Marie Marsh,…
A Brief History On June 16, 2012, Forgotten Books published The English Madrigal Composers. The book concerns a style of music popularized during The Renaissance Era in Europe, a new age for invention and discovery. It was an age of rebirth and re-education in the arts, and science. It was also important to know that the Renaissance Era was also the age of re-education of Ancient European history for example, Greek philosophy and Roman teaching and characteristic to the general public. The alpha of the printing press by German painter, Johannes Gutenberg was an encouragement of knowledge as well as…
A Brief History On June 10, 2016, 22 year old internet singing sensation Christina Grimmie was shot to death at an autograph signing after a concert in Orlando, Florida. The beautiful Grimmie rode her beautiful voice to third place on the 6th season of the television singing contest, The Voice. Digging Deeper A 27 year old Florida man, James Loibl, shot the singer 3 times before being tackled by Grimmie’s brother. Loibl then shot and killed himself during the struggle, his motives unknown at the time of this article. Grimmie had won a variety of music industry awards and had…
A Brief History On June 5, 1956, the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, introduced what would become his top selling hit, “Hound Dog,” on The Milton Berle Show, an early television favorite. Digging Deeper Elvis’s performance included exaggerated gyrations that drove the girls in the audience wild, and enraged parents and prudes across the country. By this time Elvis had a number 1 hit with “Heartbreak Hotel” and was touring, continuing to draw animosity from the conservative media and prompting the Catholic Church (La Crosse, Wisconsin diocese) to contact J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI about Elvis being a threat…