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Live Performances Round-up

Occasionally I feature live music performances on Star Sparkle. And of course, every year there is the Eurovision Song Contest which I'm a fan of, so I share more live music then. I'm looking forward to the 2022 contest in May! Today I'm doing a round-up of live performance posts on the blog, plus sharing a new video. :)


Dutch band Within Temptation performing Candles and Memories from their Elements concert in 2012 (I saw it in 2015): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2015/07/within-tempation-concert.html

American singer Justine Skye performs We from her 3rd album Space and Time, released last year (Vevo live performance): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/06/weekly-music-video_30.html

Ariana Grande performing songs from her latest album Positions (2021): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/09/ariana-grande-live-performances.html

Jennifer Lopez performing classics such as If You Had My Love, All I Have and I'm Real remix at last September's Global Aid Citizen Live: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/10/jennifer-lopez-live-performances.html 

JoJo- live performance of Worst (I Assume),  from her latest EP trying not to think about it (2021): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/12/jojo-live-performance.html 

JoJo performs Spiral SZN live (also from trying not to think about it): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/01/weekly.html

 

Eurovision

And if you're a Eurovision fan, here's my last post from 2021, sharing my favourites of that year: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/05/eurovision-favourites-2021.html

This year the contest will be held in Turin, Italy, on 10th, 12th and 14th May. Visit the official site for updates: https://eurovision.tv/

You can find all my Eurovision posts under the "Eurovision" label. :)

Also the American Song Contest (America's version of Eurovision) just launched! Read about it here: https://eurovision.tv/story/the-american-song-contest-is-about-to-begin

American K-pop singer AleXa (real name Alexandra Christine Schneiderman) has entered for her home state of Oklahoma. Check out her performance of Wonderland here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daovKmAu13s

Update 24/4/22: Had to replace the original video because it was made private for some reason! So this is a different upload but still official. :)



Elliot Tordo & The China Oriental- Endless Love- The Myth

I thought I'd end with a performance of a different kind! This is a classical music performance by Elliot Tordo and The China Oriental.

Elliot is an erhu player from France. The erhu is a Chinese two-stringed musical instrument. It kind of reminds me of the Japanese koto which characters play in The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby, one of my favourite books, although the koto is a harp. (The book inspired the name of my self-help /spiritual blog Falling Petals!) 

Elliot is also a piano player. The China Oriental is a performing arts group which promotes Chinese cultural music and dance.

This is an erhu, bamboo flute and pipa (four-stringed Chinese musical instrument) cover of Endless Love from the 2005 Hong Kong/Chinese fantasy film The Myth, which stars Hong Kong born actor Jackie Chan and Korean actress Kim Hee-sun (Hee-sun Kim in Western terms). It was uploaded last month. Nice, chillout vibes.

 



The Chinese name for Endless Love is Wujin De Ai and it's a Mandarin (Chinese) and Korean language duet by the movie's stars Jackie and Hee Sun. Listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGB0LN8Codw

Read more about the erhu and pipa (and koto) here: http://eastmusicradio.com/instrument/index_en.html

And to hear more classical/chillout music, including a bansuri (Indian bamboo flute) performance, visit this post: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/06/chillout-music.html 

 

Follow Elliot on YouTube (you can buy his music and he also teaches online erhu lessons): https://www.youtube.com/c/EliottTordo_Erhu

And visit these links for more on The China Oriental: 

Website: http://www.dfyanyi.com/English/list_7_1.html

FB page: https://www.facebook.com/China-Oriental-Performing-Arts-Group-108436994381131/

 

Hope you liked the post! :) Are you a live music fan? I don't listen to it often, so it makes a change.




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