Amazing Grace

This video introduces viewers to the magic of Scottish music and the traditions that infuse it. Many different performers in many different formats are featured, from massed and solo pipers, to dancers performing traditional steps. Many of the most prominent figures from the world of Celtic music are featured, including Tommy Scott, Stuart Liddell, Eric Rigler, Caledonian Heritage Pipes & Drums, Bill Garden's Scottish Orchestra, Denny & Dunnipace Pipe Band, and Massed Bands.

You were either on the Mountain Bus, or you were not. Those who did like Gear Fab's 1998 reissue of the Chicago band's sole album - and perhaps even some of those who did not - should find the even more satisfying Amazing Grace, which collects the various recordings made by the post-Mountain Bus communal band Sky Farmer, to be a welcome treat. From the time the original band was litigated out of existence until its reshuffling and re-emergence with the music found on this archival release, the members of Sky Farmer discovered an even more liberating range of stylistic eclecticism…

For most genre fans John Elefante needs no introduction. But for the youngsters out there … Vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer John Elefante is the guy who replaced the guy, Steve Walsh, in Kansas in 1981. (Elefante beat out, among others, Sammy Hagar and Doug Pinnick for the job.) He would record two albums with Kansas, Vinyl Confessions and Drastic Measures. To the former, he was the vocalist on the mega-hit, Play The Game Tonight; to the latter, he wrote Fight Fire With Fire, Kansas' biggest single to date.