Author: mick

Happy Mayday 2023

I had performed at Mayday for over four decades. Working as the Ceremony Cue Guy, marching in the parade with the Community Band and presenting bands in the park like the Maroons, Positive Vibrations, Beau Koo Jacks and many more. Those days are gone and a new era of Mayday has been created. So Blessings…

Cosmos NGC 7293

Cosmos NGC 7293

The Helix Nebula is one of brightest and closest examples of a planetary nebula, a gas cloud created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star. The outer gasses of the starexpelled into space appear from our vantage point as if we are looking down a helix. The remnant central stellar core, destined…

Bill Kreutzmann

Bill Kreutzmann

William Kreutzmann Jr. (/ˈkrɔɪtsmɑːn/ KROYTS-mahn; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to perform with former members of the Grateful Dead in various lineups, and with…

Bumble Bee Slim

Bumble Bee Slim

Admirl Amos Easton (May 7, 1905 – June 8, 1968), better known by the stage name Bumble Bee Slim, was an American Piedmont blues singer and guitarist. Easton was born in Brunswick, Georgia, United States. Several original sources confirm that he spelled his first name “Admirl”. Around 1920 he joined the Ringling Brothers circus. He…

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker,…

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms  7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the “Three Bs” of music,…

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