"It does'nt Fall Far from the Tree"

Ella Bleu Travolta - John Travolta is her Dad - has released her debut single, DIZZY, and has already up to 172,000 downloads on Spotify alone. By all accounts she is a genuinely talented singer and also plays Piano and the Ukulele. DIZZY is catchy, but it’s a slow song and unlikely of seeing Dad’s disco dance movements to it ? Notwithstanding, her relationship to an established movie star can only boost career prospects.

A Singer to Watch this Coming Year

Nigerian born singer TEMS has had a lot happening in the last twelve months.

Barack Obama picked “Essence” the hit Wizkid track on which she features, as one of his favourite songs of2021,

Drake asked her to contribute vocals on a song from his chart-topping album “Certified Lover Boy. She made it on the BBC 2022 longlist, embarked on her first solo tour and was nominated for a Mobo.

A Grammy nomination then followed for best global music performance,and Adele became her music fairy godmother. Not a bad track record for a young lady whose music career only started in 2018

THE NEWEST DANCE STYLE

DanceStyles:

In times past many different dance styles have come and gone worldwide

(The Charleston, Swing, Rock and Roll, The Tango, Cha Cha Cha, Krumping and Electrodance,The Floss just to name but a few and now the latest Glitching.

So what the heck is glitching ?

A new and possibly more embarrassing style of dance is about to sweep our nation. Glitching started in June 2021 on TikTok after a user called Vanessa Clarke (known as TikTok's Glitch Queen) posted a video of her dancing in the style of, well, a computer glitch. Imaging you're buffering over a poor internet connection and you're halfway there.

In one week her account went from 20,000 followers to 1.7 million; her most popular glitch video now has more than 37 million views. The Glitching dance style is to make subtle jerking movements in sync with computer-game-style music. (Hip-Hop style music) If you've got younger family members then you'll no doubt already be well acquainted with the latest dance craze to have swept this planet.

CONFETTI AT YOUR WEDDING

The history of confetti really dates back to the middle ages. In more recent times circa 1875, the first paper confetti was manufactured in Italy. It took the form of small paper discs, not unlike the kind of confetti we use today. It didn’t take long for this type of confetti to catch on elsewhere throughout Europe when it was first used at a wedding in 1895. That same year, the word even made it into the Oxford English Dictionary!

Throwing confetti is designed to be lightweight, so that it ‘flutters’ as it falls through the air and doesn’t hurt when it lands on your head. Paper confetti is the traditional kind. It’s made from coloured tissue paper, and cut into shapes such as hearts, stars, squares or circles.

Nowadays, many modern wedding venues, including churches and hotels, don’t allow confetti. There are a few different reasons for this. Firstly, confetti thrown indoors creates a huge clean-up problem. Confetti pieces are tiny, and notorious for sticking to floors and tables, making them difficult to vacuum or sweep up. Plastic and metallic confetti can also leech out dye when wet, staining wooden surfaces.
If thrown outdoors, traditional paper and plastic confetti is unfortunately not environmentally friendly. It can be eaten by wildlife, such as birds, causing stomach impactions. Not only that, but plastic confetti isn’t biodegradable. It sits on the ground until rain washes it away into rivers and ponds, causing pollution. Though paper confetti eventually rots away, it can take a long time, leaving an unsightly mess in the meantime.
Some venues will allow eco-friendly confetti, such as dried petals or rice paper, to be scattered outside. But many venues have placed a blanket ban on confetti of any kind. Fortunately, if this is the case for your venue, there are plenty of alternatives. Best advice is to check with the venue in advance.

The “Light at the end of the Tunnel” is getting brighter. With a lot of medically based scientific work, resulting in the availability of very effective vaccines, which hopefully, will result in “herd immunity”, long awaited pre-covid lifestyles might return to all and to the music industry in the not too distant future.
With the oncoming Summer weather, weddings, receptions, garden parties, and many events can safely take place with social distancing and be enhanced with your own choice of music performed by The Rondo Trio.
Suitably managed indoor musically based events may also be allowed if planned forthcoming trials are successful. The Rondo Trio will keep you updated in these matters.

THERE GO THE BRIDES, UNTIL NEXT YEAR

A glut of weddings is being scheduled for this winter and next year as the Covid-19 restrictions have forced thousands of couples to postpone their summer nuptials. All going well, it looks like 2021 is going to be a a big year for weddings with resulting shortages in availability of weekend venues, celebrants and the many other wedding business suppliers.

Maybe a surge in midweek weddings may be a result of any such end of week wedding venue shortage, which, in one way, could be highly beneficial and cost effective for wedding couples. Food on a Wednesday tastes the same as food on a Friday or a Saturday and no doubt supplier cost may also be considerably lower vis a vis the high demand weekend events. So if your are offered a mid week date, why not go for it ?

Mid-summer 2020, we still do not have Covid-19 under certain control, vaccine development, while being developed, is not yet readily available. So moving to 2021 seems like a good idea.

Getting out of the lockdown

Hopefully, as time goes by, the Covid-19 viral pandemic is being overcome and normal wedding events will be as before in the not too distance future. Accordingly we are open to wedding music enquiries for the remainder of 2020, for 2021 and beyond. Whatever your wedding or reception musical requirements, the Rondo Trio will satisfactorily enhance the ambience of the event for you and your guests. There is no loss in sending us an non-obligation enquiry.

Call Ray on 087 9274956,

How Pachelbels' "Canon in D" became a wedding song

As wedding traditions evolve, it becomes increasingly common to walk down the aisle to sappy, chart-toppers by Ed Sheeran or wistful acoustic covers of classic rock hits. But Johann Pachelbel’s “Canon in D Major,” a composition that shares elements of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat,” remains a perennial. It was never intended to be.

When and where Pachelbel’s Canon originated, and why exactly he composed it, is largely a mystery to music historians. It dates to the late-17th or early 18th century, and there’s speculation that it was written as a gift for the wedding of Johann Sebastian Bach’s older brother. But even then, Pachelbel’s Canon was still definitively not a wedding song. Music works by Richard Wagner and Felix Mendelssohn, on the other hand, were explicitly bridal marches.

What prompted the melody’s meteoric rise was a 1960s recording by the French conductor Jean- Francois Paillard. “This thing became really popular — just as a thing of popular music — from that recording,” said the conductor Kent Tritle, the director of cathedral music and an organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. The piece shot to even greater stardom in 1980 as the theme tune and opening song in “Ordinary People “ a film starring Mary Tyler Moore and directed by Robert Redford that won several Academy Awards, including for best picture.

And yet, at that stage, Pachelbel’s Canon was still not a wedding song.

What finally catapulted the song to matrimonial fame was Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s fairy-tale wedding in 1981. The royal couple did not use Pachelbel’s Canon, but they did use a baroque processional — “Prince of Denmark's March “ (Also known as “Trumpet Voluntary”  by Jeremiah Clarke — drawing sudden, far-reaching attention to other baroque composers like Pachelbel.

Source: Alexandra S. Devine : New York Times

The Cake Cost How Much?

Imagine spending €100,000 on your wedding cake. Not the whole shebang, not the rings, not even the dress, but the cake, which nobody eats. In a recent episode of Extremes Cheapskates, a tight-fisted bride had three tiers of polystyrene cubes "iced" with pastel modelling clay and decorated with ribbons and fresh flowers. It looked fantastic in the pictures, everybody clapped when the couple pretended to cut it and nobody noticed that they didn't get a slice with their tea.

A recent newspaper article tells the story that an Irish Bride did actually spend €100,000 on her (edible) wedding cake. Apparently the cake came from an exclusive New York bakery known for its "statement" cakes. The owner, Sylvia Weinstock, baked it herself, personally oversaw the packing of the confection into 20 boxes, and then she and a team of assistants flew with it to Dublin. At the wedding hotel the team reassembled its six tiers beneath a towering two-metre cascade of edible flowers.

Presumably,the wedding guests did sample it with their tea/coffee !