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04/17/2026

Accademia del Piacere. Beautiful! What a treat.

12/30/2025

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12/29/2025

“Jig” by the great Jean Luc Ponty. Beautifully arranged for many strings by Casey Driessen. Worthy tribute. Big energy. Great joy!

12/28/2025

“It’s not up to us whether what we do is any good, and if history has taught us anything - the world is an extremely unreliable critic.”
~Ethan Hawke
TED

12/27/2025

Need a moment of sheer wonder? May we suggest Yamandu Costa. 🙏🏼❣️

Música: Samba Pro RaphaCompositor: Yamandu CostaEssa música é uma homenagem que Yamandu Costa faz ao grande violonista Raphael Rabello e tem o intuito de rep...

12/26/2025

Find 10 quiet minutes and enjoy an incredible performance of masters at work. Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía.

12/25/2025

We never tire of the beautiful tones that comes from Christie Lenée.

12/24/2025

There are interesting interpretations of holiday songs, and there’s Jon Gomm.

09/20/2025

Aaron Jaxon!!! There are covers and there are covers. And then there are tributes on another level. 🎶🙏🏼❣️

08/24/2025

Happy Birthday to the great Mason Williams. Classical Gas still inspires!! ❣️🎶

Happy 87th birthday to classical guitarist, composer, singer, writer, comedian, and poet, Mason Williams who was born on this date August 24, 1938 in Abilene, Texas.

In 1968, Williams won three Grammy Awards for his guitar instrumental "Classical Gas". It was released as a single from "The Mason Williams Phonograph Record" in 1968,and won three Grammys that year for "Best Instrumental (theme) Composition", "Best Instrumental (theme) Performance", and "Best Instrumental Orchestra Arrangement", Mike Post, arranger.

He also wrote songs for The Kingston Trio. For both "Handmade "and "Sharepickers", Mason received two more Grammy nominations for "Best Album Cover Design". Together with Nancy Ames, he wrote "Cinderella Rockefella", a 1968 number one hit for Esther and Abi Ofarim in the United Kingdom.

Williams has recorded more than a dozen albums, five on the Warner Bros. label ("The Mason Williams Phonograph Record", "The Mason Williams Ear Show", "Music", "Handmade", and "Sharepickers").

In 1987, he teamed with Mannheim Steamroller to release a new album on the American Gramaphone label. The album, titled "Classical Gas", included a remake of the 1968 composition. Another track from the album, "Country Idyll", was a 1988 nominee for a Grammy in the country music category for "Best Instrumental Performance by a Soloist, Group or Orchestra". The album went gold in 1991.

In 1992, the Vanguard label released "Music 1968–1971", a compilation of tracks from his five Warner Bros. albums recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Williams then concentrated on a variety of programs for his concert appearances. His "Concert For Bluegrass Band And Orchestra", also titled "Symphonic Bluegrass", has been performed with over 40 symphony orchestras.

In 1998, BMI, the performance rights organization that tracks air play performances on radio and television, presented Williams with a Special Citation of Achievement in recognition of the great national and international popularity of "Classical Gas". By 2008, the song logged over six million broadcast performances, to become the all-time number-one instrumental composition for air play in BMI's repertoire.

Williams' music has been featured in several movies including "The Story of Us", "Cheaper by the Dozen", "The Dish", "The Heidi Chronicles", and "Heartbreakers". His compositions also have been played on the television series "The Sopranos".

In October 2007, he was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame, and co-headlined a concert with Everclear and Paul Revere and the Raiders.

08/23/2025

Memories. Time. ❤️🎶🙏🏼

06/11/2025

Another great one joining the Hall of Fame band above. RIP Brian Wilson.

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys co-founder and one of pop music's greatest songwriters, has died at 82.