As many of you know I do a weekly radio show called, “Music from Germany.”
https://knuj.net/2022/06/05/music-from-germany-june-5/
It’s brought to you by Domeiers New Ulm’s German Store!
Domeier’s is a unique store located at 1020 South Minnesota Street in my hometown of New Ulm, MN!
It’s always a nice walk from my house to the wonderful world of Domeiers German Store!
I have decided to dedicate each Friday blog post to songs that come my way.
Whenever I discover a new song or remember a good song to share, I will post it here on Fridays.
Today we are going to feature a song that I had not heard before, or did not know much about.
It was dedicated to me by a jazz trio because I was wearing my beret at a jazz night last Saturday night.
The band leader said, “Here is a Django Reinhardt song for you called, “Nuages,” a French word for clouds. ☁️
Here is the illustrious Monsieur Reinhardt on the guitar performing, “Nuages.”
To find out more about Django Reinhardt you can click here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt
Watch Django Reinhardt play incredible music with just 2 fingers on the fretboard.
There are over a hundred daily videos that my eclectic folk duo, Molly and Sonny Boy, made 2 years ago, shortly before the Covid pandemic.
We posted them nightly on YouTube.
We called it our Daily Verse and Chorus Project.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM1Sv8w3nV6MJ_f8dZpN0nEAnwxc_–Se
I still view them now and then to catch a glimpse of our sweet dogs Cole and Pixie who sometimes appear in them.
I still feel so much sadness over their deaths.
Happily, they both each lived to be about 17! Pixie, the Pomeranian lived to be 16 years and 8 months and Cole the Poodle, lived to be 17 years and one month.
I wish they were still alive. Their lives were too short in my books, even though in dog years, they would each be over 100!
In 2013, we fulfilled a lifelong dream of my husband’s, to perform at Cafe Lena in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Now that hubby is retired, we continue to practice daily, dreaming of stardom, or at least steady gigs!
The most used app on my phone is the Voice app, so we can record inventive guitar riffs and pin down lyrics for new songs.
We like to write songs, and we have an album out already of all original songs you can check out on Apple music.
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/molly-and-sonny-boy/259940366
So now I’m using this WordPress to update my music life. Part of being me, is being a radio broadcaster, a singer-songwriter and a music teacher.
I do have a music teaching studio call Zents Music Studio, but my life is really a studio of sorts. I’m learning everyday.
Although I’m looking forward to a bright musical future, I also want to discuss great singing technique, guitar and piano which I teach. But also there’s the lessons of living.
As a writer and songwriter there are stories everywhere you go, from the smiling old woman who curls her hair too tightly that you see at the grocery store, to the way you feel about the young guy who likes to use the electric wheelchair/shopping cart around the store even though he’s healthy.
There’s also the matter of psychology that comes along with being a performer. You can’t deny that people compare you as a singer-songwriter, the way you sing, the way you play, and the songs you write. Also, there’s no denying the CD’s which you record, and produce are always being judged.
There’s so many topics to write about here on my new WordPress domain at Zentsmusicstudio.com
Zents Music Studio 