Pharis and Jason Romero, immaculate purveyors of sublime parlour music, recorded their new album, A Wanderer I’ll Stay, on home-made instruments in their living room in Horsefly, B.C. Their mix of original tunes and covers (Buell Kazee, Luke Jordan, Charley Willis) is quintessential Canadiana — parlour tunes with soul. The roots couple play a Rogue Folk Club concert tonight at St. James Hall at 8 p.m. Pharis and Jason Romero “Ballad of Old Bill” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3s8lNCkVgM.
Emmylou Harris and The McCarrigle Sisters perform Jesse Winchester’s “Skip Rope Song” on The McGarrigle Hour sessions (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxFaqybHW4s&list=RDIyjG0Tk3HFQ&index=3.
Jesse Winchester on Elvis Costello’s Spectacle mesmerizing the audience with his take on “Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding” (shot for Channel 4/CTV in 2009): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uKGWpqnS8E.
Laura Wright performs “The Last Rose Of Summer” (lyrics by Thomas Moore, arranged by Patrick Hawes) accompanied by the Toki Quartet and Patrick Hawes on piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqtSmj7zxmw.
Schubert Ständchen — Camille Thomas and Beatrice Berrut in live performance at Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JpXlliAn2I.
Jelly Roll Morton — The 1938 Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress sessions recorded by Alan Lomax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPt0IlmHJhs.
John Cage: Living Room Music (1940) for percussion and speech quartet with or without an instrumental solo with percussion trio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR6wL-lRQZ4. Conservatorium van Amsterdam’s X’q Percussion Quartet (Zhang Xi, Nicolai Slaatto, Ruben Garcia, Laurent Warnier) performing John Cage’s Living Room Music in Shenzhen Concert Hall, 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnciJhue24o.
Blues Origins: Spanish Fandango and Sebastopol: http://jasobrecht.com/blues-origins-spanish-fandango-and-sebastopol/. John Dilleshaw and The String Marvel-Spanish Fandango: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztTG65KMQ58.
Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks performing “By Hook or By Crook” and “Shorty Falls in Love” (identified here as “Another Night”) on the Flip Wilson Show in 1972: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBGeQ0zSifc.
Stanley Brothers “The Rank Stranger”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16YOPmmZbs.
The Hidden World of Ann Savoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwxTOCGGQHU. Cajun, roots and gypsy swing musician, produced by The Kitchen Sisters and Nathan Dalton with Melati Kaye.
Zydeco: Creole Music and Culture in Rural Louisiana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMRnD0r0eq0.
