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Category: Musicology

The Uke Heads Experience: “The album that became a community”

Posted on 16 February, 2024 by dilovelyadmin

Back in 2022, an opportunity arose that I had been awaiting for years, although I didn’t know it. My ukulele hero, James Hill, sent an invitation to his mailing list, asking us to be part of an album of songs he’d been working on. He and his friend-since-childhood Chris Parsons had a nutty idea: get…

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The New Year Questionnaire – What Was Up in 2023

Posted on 31 January, 2024 by dilovelyadmin

Here it is! Been working on the New Year Questionnaire since New Year’s, predictably. It’s still January (barely) and not yet Lunar New Year, so it’s still “timely”. What did you do in 2023 that you’d never done before? D: Attended the Annual General Meeting of the provincial Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario in Toronto….

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Dilovely’s 90s Coming-of-Age Playlist, Vol. 2

Posted on 29 March, 202329 March, 2023 by dilovelyadmin

Hello again, lovely 90s music fans! If you read Volume 1 of my coming-of-age playlist and thought to yourself, “But, hey… what about so-and-so?”, take a look below and see if your special band/artist is there after all. As stated in my previous post, there is still no Nirvana (although if there were, it would…

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Canadian Christmas, Vol 1: “New” Stuff – Dilovely’s Playlist

Posted on 24 December, 2022 by dilovelyadmin

Merry Christmas Eve, lovelies! It’s time for a playlist, based on the Canadian Christmas song list I made for myself last year. I was inspired by a couple of relatively recent, unique holiday-themed songs I’d heard that I liked. Which sounds overly obvious, but let me tell you: I do not adopt new Christmas songs…

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Bill Wurtz: a prophet helping us through the pandemic

Posted on 17 May, 202110 February, 2022 by dilovelyadmin

You know how humans turn to music to keep them going during tough times? That has been very true for our family during the pandemic. In our house, Bill Wurtz is one musician in particular who has helped us the most in this long, stressful year. Last spring, our son E (who was ten at…

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Sing In the New Year

Posted on 2 January, 201917 January, 2019 by dilovelyadmin

Happy New Year, lovelies! It has been an emotional New Year’s for us this year. Many mixed feelings, and lots of gratitude in spite of everything. Here is another example of Dilovely’s infinite nerdiness, in the form of rounds. Some call them canons; like Row, Row, Row Your Boat, one person starts the song and…

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