We’re gearing up for the weekend, and to help us along here are five of the best travel tracks to keep you company on your next flight, hike, or train ride. We decided to focus on songs about cities (and a few countries!), that actually contain the name of...
Posts Tagged with Music and Travel
Turn the headphones up! Some of our favourite tracks for travel, tunes with place names in there and plenty more ….
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Festival Spotlight: The Shanghai International Music & Fireworks Festival
Once a year the skies above Century Park in Pudong erupt with colour and sound as the Shanghai International Music & Fireworks Festival takes place. Organised around China’s National Day and as part of the Shanghai Tourism Festival, the ‘symphony of fire’ is considered by many to be the...
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Festival Spotlight: The Lake of Stars Festival – Malawi, Africa
With obvious parallels to the summertime tradition of European music festivals, the Lake of Stars Festival in Malawi nonetheless retains a strong African identity. With a strong and diverse musical line-up, the Lake of Stars festival brings international attention to one of Africa’s poorer countries, and unifies a worldwide...
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Bollywood dancing: embracing India’s colourful heritage
Music, dancing and folklore are a huge part of the traditional Indian way of life and modern Bollywood-style dancing and music have a lot to thank their forebears for. Before it really made its mark on the international film scene with many a western homage to the genre, I...
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Musical memories from the road
Music and travel go together. From the earliest days of family road trips around my native South Africa, my trusty Walkman played non-stop until either the feeble AA batteries reduced the audio to warbled garbage as the tape slowed down, or my ears began to ache from my low-quality...
