The University of California at Santa Barbara library has undertaken an heroic digitization effort for its world-class archive of 19th and early 20th century wax cylinder recordings, and has placed over 10,000 songs online for anyone to download, stream and re-use.
There are 2,000 more cylinders to come. UCSB’s own trove has grown threefold over the past decade.
We received a note from the band Tellico that they are in the final month of their "FRIEND-RAISER" campaign and still need about 250 more friends to reach their goal. They're offering some free music downloads for your friendship. Here's the story we posted last May!
From the North Carolina Band DEHLIA LOW, who've been on hiatus for the last couple of years, we've heard of a new venture with part of the band.
President Woodrow Wilson approved a resolution in 1914 marking the second Sunday in May a nationwide observance for Mother's Day. We'd like to suggest a perfect song to commemorate this 100th Anniversary "Dreaming of a Little Cabin."