Feri Tani Nyagi & Nay dembe kasila

Frustrated that my archaic Protools does not work on Maverick, therefore experimenting with Garageband using iMac inbuilt mic which is a tad rubbish. But a way of generating demos I suppose! This is the start of something that could evolve into a nice track. 

Kora Theme

Truth is the Alibi

Both Sides Now

Internet fury

A Naoidhe Naoimh O Holy Child

Lulajze Jezuniu Polish carol

from 'Notes from a Blue Room' - a rather sad  album from yesteryear - many moons ago

You leaving

Music by Joaquin Rodrigo, words Lope de Vega, translated into English by N.Glendenning

Pastorcito Santo

A suggestion from the lovely Anne Hastings whose mother tried very hard to teach us naughty girls Italian at school in the sixth form - senza Madre Hastings! A traditional Italian carol dating from 1756.

Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle

Minuit Chretiens

There is no Rose

Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly

The Gate of a New Year

Tax Fury

Scruttocks

Repercussions

For BBC Daily Service 19 March 2015, demo track, gathering song from Zimbabwe arranged for Kora, quintet of voices and double bass

Uyai Mose

Brother, sister, let me serve you

Ayoo sama sope

Sitting by the river near Salem Fields on Duck Race Monday, singing songs of the year with my Kora

Hebden Bridge

The Birds

For I will consider my cat Geoffrey (with a G)

The Phoenix

An Inspector calls

Even as each of you stands alone

World premiere of Holly Marland's You are The Mirror, performed by Manchester Cathedral Choristers conducted by Christopher Stokes with a double bass soliloquy written and performed by Michael Cretu.

You Are The Mirror Recording

8 bars bass slow
8 bars Jally variation 1 slow
8 bars Jally variation 2 slow
8 bars Johnny version 1 slow
8 bars Johnny version 2 slow
1.5 bar pause
8 bars Holly Kelefaba with ornamentation
4 bars Holly Kelefaba with ornamentation
8 bars Johnny version 1 slow
Scale excercises x 2 solo (NB these are not Jally's version, they are mine)
Full scale exercises over bass line Holly's version
Jally variation 1 at faster speed
Johnny variation 1 at faster speed
Johnny variation 2 at faster speed
Holly Kelefaba at faster speed
Break to finish
Jazz hands




Big Kelefa Mash Up For Steve

Walk out from your wedding in style with an arrangement of Stevie Wonder's Signed Sealed Delivered - double version to allow for extended audience appreciation of the bride and groom! Draft version for wedding at Gorton Monastery 25 Aug 15.

Signed Sealed Delivered with Kora and Vocals by Holly

Panis Angelicus arr. Kora and voice

‘Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody? But how shall I unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, yea, the lovers of all your elements?’
A very simple pattern in the Kora to underpin a reflection on the need for us to take personal responsibility for bringing about peace in ourselves and peace with others. Only we can re-harmonise the discord and rivalry of our emotions within ourselves and amongst humanity. The first and last verse are sung by a wonderful Treble soloist, the inner verse by the whole group.


The Peacemaker recorded live at Manchester Cathedral

Whispers of the Beloved is Holly’s setting of 5 short quatrains by the Persian mystic and poet Rumi with small lyrical adaptations by the composer.
1.	It’s good to leave the day behind
2.	With friends you take wing
3.	With love you don’t bargain
4.	The world is full of men like Jesus
5.	The birds have flown to freedom


Rumi Whispers of the Beloved (concert performance at Buxton Festival)

The guy who wrote this was a multi-tasker. He combined being a priest with being a highwayman, and a murderer and something else but I forget! (1618 - 1699) a goodly long time ago! Roger Child is accompanying me on a renaissance spanish guitar with the most beautiful rose

Aquella sierra Nevada (concert at Buxton Festival)

Holly Marland (Kora & Vocals)

‘beautiful and mesmeric and very charming too’…’Love the fact she has no airs and graces…just talent!’(audience feedback, Embryo Feb 13)

Holly is rapidly gaining a reputation as a unique and exciting kora player, combining the authentic rhythms and songs of West Africa with her own compositions and collaborating with a culturally diverse range of instrumentalists and artists. Last year Holly performed as Kora soloist with the band Delphic the Manchester International Festival, toured New York performing in a variety of hospitals and healthcare settings, arranged and performed settings for Kora and choir with the BBC Daily Service Singers for a live broadcast on Radio 4 and gave many solo concerts across the UK.

Holly has a First Class BA hons degree in Popular Music and Recording from Salford University as well as an MA in Community Music Therapy (Nordoff Robbins) from City University in London.

A freelance professional singer, Holly performs weekly with Radio 4’s Daily Service Singers and regularly participates in broadcasts, concerts and recordings as a soloist and choir member. She has performed with the Britten Singers, Halle Orchestra, Lancashire Sinfonietta, Goldberg Ensemble and many other notable groups. Holly is also a member of the early music trio, the Accordes, as a singer, recorder player and lutenist as well as performing with an award winning larger ensemble, Partita.

Holly set up the Music for Health programme at Central Manchester University Hospitals in response to a burgeoning global interest in the relationship between music, health and wellbeing. The programme now stands as a beacon of good practice in the UK and internationally, providing training and support for student and professional musicians from across Europe who are interested in working in health and social care settings

In 2009, Holly was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to explore the different uses of music with older people in New York and Paris. In 2012, she was awarded a Finzi Scholarship to study the Kora with Muhammed Saho, an extraordinary griot from the Gambia with whom Holly spent 7 weeks.

Holly Marland

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