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I just realized that I had written about planning to go to the Balkan Beat Box show in Toulouse but I never wrote how it was. I even had pictures in last Sunday’s photo dump from the show but no review. Well we have not gone to see much live music and we love to [...]

Joe Jackson just performed last night in Toulouse. We went to see the concert. A friend of ours from Philadelphia is his tour manager. He sent us an email to let us know he was going to be nearby and we asked to go. It was a fantastic concert.
Now I really like Joe Jackson’s old [...]

In France once per year there is La Fête de la Musique. It happens on June 21st every year. It is the longest day of the year and music occurs throughout every big city and small town. I knew about it but was unprepared for how enormous it would be. Every corner had a different [...]

Balkan Beat Box will be performing live in Toulouse this evening. Today is La Fete de La Musique in France. That means all cities and towns are having music all day long and well into the night. Concerts in every public square and every musical style. I started listening to Balkan Beat Box last year [...]

is a great music site. I joined a couple of years ago but didn’t really use it much. Now i use it all the time. You can listen to all kinds of music and find music of all different styles. You can even embed a player in a blog post. See below. I am trying [...]

Image via WikipediaIn France on TV we saw a show called Au Coeur de la musique seule which focused on Rhythm and Blues, Funk, and then early Hip Hop. It was a fantastic and realistic show. It interviewed not just the stars but mostly the sound engineers and unknown people behind the scenes. It was [...]