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The Gullah Celebration takes place annually over four weekends in February on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The event showcases the history and heritage of the island’s Gullahs, the name for people of African origin inhabiting the islands and coastal areas of the southeastern U.S. Entertainment at the celebration includes storytelling, traditional gospel music, African dance, and popular R&B and jazz. An expo provides demonstrations in such traditional arts and crafts as basket-making, indigo dying techniques, African “long-strip” quilting, and weaving fish nets. More…: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch
Anthony was a pioneer in the US women’s suffrage movement. The daughter of an abolitionist, she was well-educated and campaigned tirelessly for abolition and suffrage, attempting to secure laws to protect women’s rights. In 1869, she and fellow suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. She helped edit a history of the movement and purchased copies for American and European universities. In 1872, she was arrested for leading a group of women in doing what? More…: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch
Financial calculations using the old currency of the UK were complicated, as one pound was made up of 240 pence or 20 shillings, a shilling was equal to 12 pence, and the half-crown was worth two shillings and sixpence. After considering decimalization for over a century, Parliament passed the Decimal Currency Act in 1969. The pound was to be divided into 100 “new pence,” and a massive publicity campaign was launched in the weeks leading up to Decimal Day. How did people react to the change? More…: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch
Perhaps the most important invention in history, the wheel was—and remains—essential to the development of human civilization. The first wheels appeared in the 4th millennium BCE and were solid wooden disks. Spoked wheels were developed about 1,000 years later in Asia Minor and were used in the chariots of Caucasian horse cultures, which then penetrated into the Greek peninsula and laid the foundation for classical Greece. The spoked wheel remained in use without major modifications until when? More…: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch
When I look out my window Many sights to see And when I look in my window So many different people to be That it’s strange, so strange It’s very strange to me
You’ve got to pick up every stitch (gonna be) You’ve got to pick up every stitch (gonna be, gonna be) You’ve got to pick up every stitch Oh no, must be the season of the witch Must be the season of the witch Must be the season of the witch (Gonna be)
When I look over my shoulder (what happens then?) What do you think I see? (mmm) Some other cat looking over (shadoop, shadoop) Over his shoulder at me (ahh, at me) And he’s strange, so strange (so strange) He’s very strange to me
You’ve got to pick up every stitch (gonna be) You’ve got to pick up every stitch (gonna be, gonna be) Beatniks are out to make it rich Oh no, must be the season of the witch Must be the season of the witch Must be the season of the witch
Witch, witch Said it must be the season, must be the season Must be the season Of the witch (Said it must be the season, must be the season, must be the season) (Said it must be the season, must be the season, must be the season) (Said it must be the season, must be the season, must be the season)
Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire, in 1967. Initially playing blues rock and jazz fusion, the band later developed their sound to incorporate elements of hard rock and folk rock to forge a progressive rock signature.[3] The band is led by vocalist/flautist/guitarist Ian Anderson, and has featured a revolving door of lineups through the years including significant members such as guitarists Mick Abrahams and Martin Barre, keyboardist John Evan, drummers Clive Bunker, Barriemore Barlow, and Doane Perry, and bassists Glenn Cornick, Jeffrey Hammond, John Glascock, and Dave Pegg.
Years active1967–2012, 2017–presentLabelsIsland, Reprise/Warner Bros., Chrysalis, Eagle, Fuel 2000, EMIAssociated actsFairport Convention, Lucia Micarelli, Steeleye Span, Blodwyn Pig, Wild TurkeyWebsitejethrotull.comMembersIan Anderson
David Goodier
John O’Hara
Scott Hammond
Joe ParrishPast membersSee members
The group first achieved commercial success in 1969, with the folk-tinged blues album Stand Up, which reached No. 1 in the UK, and they toured regularly in the UK and the US. Their musical style shifted in the direction of progressive rock with the albums Aqualung (1971), Thick as a Brick(1972) and A Passion Play (1973), and shifted again to hard rock mixed with folk rock with Songs from the Wood(1977) and Heavy Horses (1978). After an excursion into electronic rock in the early-to-mid 1980s, the band won its sole Grammy Award with the 1987 album Crest of a Knave. Jethro Tull have sold an estimated 60 million albums worldwide,[4] with 11 gold and five platinum albums among them.[5]They have been described by Rolling Stone as “one of the most commercially successful and eccentric progressive rock bands”.[6]
The last works as a group to contain new material were released in 2003, though the band continued to tour until 2011. Anderson said Jethro Tull were finished in 2014;[7] however, in September 2017 Anderson announced plans for a tour to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the band’s first album This Was, and then record a new studio album in 2018. This was later clarified; the album will be an Anderson solo project, and is now scheduled for release in 2020[citation needed].
The reformed group—now billed as “Ian Anderson and the Jethro Tull band”—still performs live, and has announced tour dates into 2020. The current band line-up includes musicians who have been members of Anderson’s solo band since 2012.
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OriginsEdit
Ian Anderson, Jeffrey Hammond and John Evan (originally Evans), who would become members of Jethro Tull, attended grammar schooltogether in Blackpool. Anderson was born in Dunfermline, Scotland and grew up in Edinburgh before moving to Blackpool in January 1960.[8] Evans had become a fan of the Beatles after seeing them play “Love Me Do” on Granada Television’s Scene at 6:30. Though he was an accomplished pianist, he decided to take up the drums, as it was an instrument featured in the Beatles’ line-up.[9]Anderson had acquired a Spanish guitar and taught himself how to play it, and the pair decided to form a band.[10] The pair recruited Hammond on bass, who brought along his collection of blues records to listen to.[11]
The group initially played as a three piece at local clubs and venues, before Evans became influenced by Georgie Fame and the Animals and switched to organ, recruiting drummer Barrie Barlow[12] and guitarist Mike Stephens from local band the Atlantics.[13][14] By 1964 the band had recruited guitarist Chris Riley[14] and developed into a six-piece blue-eyed soul band called the John Evan Band (later the John Evan Smash). Evans had shortened his surname to “Evan” at the insistence of Hammond, who thought it sounded better and more unusual. The group recruited Johnny Taylor as a booking agent and played gigs further afield around northwest England,[15] playing a mixture of blues and Motown covers.[16] Hammond subsequently quit the band to go to art school.[15] He was briefly replaced by Derek Ward, then by Glenn Cornick.[17] Riley also quit and was replaced by Neil Smith.[18] The group recorded three songs at Regent Sound Studios in Denmark Street, London in April 1967, and appeared at The Marquee club in June.[19]
In November 1967, the band moved to the London area, basing themselves in Luton. They signed a management deal with Terry Ellis and Chris Wright and replaced Smith with guitarist Mick Abrahams,[20] but quickly realised that supporting a 6-piece band was financially impractical, and the group split up. Anderson, Abrahams and Cornick decided to stay together, recruiting Abrahams’ friend Clive Bunker on drums[21] and becoming a British blues band.[22] Cornick recalled that although Evan left, the band said he was welcome to rejoin at a later date.[19] Anderson shared a ground-floor flat with Cornick in a large house at the top of Studley Road in Luton,[23]and worked as a cleaner for the Luton Ritz Cinema to pay the rent.[24]According to Cornick, “we were so poor that we would share one can of stew or soup between us each evening.” [25]
Early years (1967–1968)Edit
At first, the new band had trouble getting repeat bookings and they took to changing their name frequently to continue playing the London club circuit, names which included “Navy Blue”, “Ian Henderson’s Bag o’ Nails”, and “Candy Coloured Rain”. Anderson recalled looking at a poster at a club and concluding that the band name he didn’t recognise was his.[26] Band names were often supplied by their booking agents’ staff, one of whom, a history enthusiast, eventually christened them “Jethro Tull” after the 18th-century agriculturist. The name stuck because they happened to be using it the first time a club manager liked their show enough to invite them to return.[7] They recorded a session with producer Derek Lawrence, which resulted in the single “Sunshine Day”. The B-side “Aeroplane” was an old John Evan Band track with the saxophones mixed out. It was released in February 1968 on MGM Records, miscredited to “Jethro Toe”.[27] Anderson has since questioned the misnomer as a way to avoid paying royalties.[28] The more common version, with the name spelled correctly, is actually a counterfeit made in New York.[29]Anderson later met Hammond while in London and the two renewed their friendship, while Anderson moved into a bedsit in Chelsea with Evan.[30]Hammond became the subject of several songs, beginning with their next single, “A Song for Jeffrey”.[31]
Because he was living in a cold bedsit, Anderson bought a large overcoat to keep him warm, and, along with the flute, it became part of his early stage image. It was around this time that Anderson purchased a flute after becoming frustrated with his inability to play guitar as well as Abrahams, and because their managers thought he should remain a rhythm guitarist, with Abrahams becoming the front man.[32]
I didn’t want to be just another third-rate guitar player who sounded like a bunch of other third-rate guitar players. I wanted to do something that was a bit more idiosyncratic, hence the switch to another instrument. When Jethro Tull began, I think I’d been playing the flute for about two weeks. It was a quick learning curve … literally every night I walked onstage was a flute lesson.[33]
The group’s first major break occurred at the National Jazz and Blues Festival at
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