Guitar Legend Carlos Santana Launches His Own Coffee Company

 Carlos Santana launches his own coffee company which is featuring blends inspired by his legendary catalog of music. (And yes, there is definitely a "Smooth" one.)

Carlos Santana has launched a new coffee company, ‘The Carlos Santana Coffee Company.’ The legendary six-string master announced that the company’s mission is two-fold: “to serve fans and friends around the world the most divine and meaningful cup of coffee while helping children in need throughout the world through his The Milagro Foundation.” (Quote via press release.)

A portion of all sales from the new company will be donated to Santana’s Milagro Foundation, which the guitarist founded in 1998 “the mission of helping young people, especially in underprivileged communities both across the globe and here in the U.S.”

“We believe that life is a miracle and that children everywhere deserve the opportunity to lead safe, healthy and educationally creative lives,” Santana said, via press release. “It is an honor to partner with Icon Global Coffee and with each cup of coffee, make a significant difference in the world. And as we say ‘Wake up and smell the future!’”

Santana partnered with the Icon Global Coffee Company to kick off the company. “All of us at Icon Global Coffee Company are humbled and proud to partner with Carlos Santana, his family and the entire organization as well as The Milagro Foundation,” said Icon Global Coffee Company CEO Greg Ousley via release. “Coffee is a global business and touches and impacts billions of people’s lives each day. Carlos is a global ambassador of peace, unity and divinity. Together we will all make a difference, spread hope and create positive change. Through support of The Carlos Santana Coffee Company, fans, followers and friends can have “Coffee with Carlos” and we can change the world together.”

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David Bowie’s ‘Lazarus’ Musical to be Streamed Online In January 2021

David Bowie’s ‘Lazarus’ Musical to be Streamed Online In January 2021

David Bowie‘s Lazarus musical will be live-streamed to mark the five-year anniversary of the late icon’s death and what would have been his 74th birthday.

The Michael C Hall-starring show, inspired by Walter Tevis’ novel The Man Who Fell to Earth (1963), was penned by Bowie alongside Enda Walsh.

On January 8, 2021, when Bowie would have turned 74, fans will be able to watch the UK premiere of a filmed version of the performance online.

There will be a second broadcast of Lazarus the following evening (January 9) before a final virtual outing on January 10, which is the fifth anniversary of Bowie’s death.

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See Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band on Saturday Night Live

 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band play live on Saturday Night Live

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band were the special live guests on this weekend’s edition of Saturday Night Live. They played two songs from recent album Letter To You – “Ghosts” and “I’ll See You In My Dreams”. Watch them here…

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King King New Album 'Maverick' Is Out Now

King King New Album 'Maverick' Is Out Now

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Belle Chen: Turning Sounds From Around the World Into Music

 

Belle Chen: Turning sounds from around the world into music

From noisy Indonesian children during Ramadan to a calm night inside a Chinese hospital, Belle Chen has spent the pandemic making music inspired by ambient sounds from around the world.

Unable to travel and perform due to Covid, the classically-trained musician has been asking people to send her audio recordings from where they are.

She then uses them to improvise pieces of music to share online for her Sounds from Home project.

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Peace Through Music Global Event for Social Justice

 Peace Through Music Global Event for Social Justice

Gibson has partnered with Playing For Change to air the Peace Through Music: A Global Event for
Social Justice concert , which is streaming in its entirety on demand via Gibson TV through December 31 in celebration of the annual Human Rights Day.

Produced by Playing For Change and Blackbird Presents, the event features more than 200 musicians, including Keith Richards, Robbie Robertson, Gary Clark Jr., Jack Johnson, Brandi Carlile with Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, Carlos Santana and Cindy Blackman Santana, Run the Jewels with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and many more.

Show highlights include Gary Clark Jr.’s performance of This Land, Santana’s Oye Como Va with Uruguayan percussionist Rubén Rada and Tito Puente Jr. and Carlile and McCready’s cover of Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are A-Changin’.

There are also special remarks from Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, and from Epsy Campbell Barr, First Vice President of Costa Rica. In addition, Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will offer a message to empower the world to seek freedom and justice, end all forms of discrimination and protect everyone’s rights.

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Me and Bobby McGee Played By Keith Luckey at Lincoln Drill Hall

 Me and Bobby McGee Played By Keith Luckey at Lincoln Drill Hall

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Fender Launches All-New Signature Stratocaster with Tash Sultana

Fender Launches All-New Signature Stratocaster with Tash Sultana

FENDER® LAUNCHES ALL-NEW SIGNATURE STRATOCASTER® WITH GLOBAL PRODUCER AND SINGER, SONGWRITER, MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST TASH SULTANA

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) today released the all-new Tash Sultana Stratocaster®, which is Tash Sultana’s first artist signature model with the iconic guitar brand. Sultana has long played Fender to create their signature sound: layered loops that fuse indie with ambient rock and impressive guitar licks. In the past 5 years, Sultana has rocketed to global fame; from open mic nights and busking in Melbourne to sold out shows around the world playing their hit songs Jungle, Notion, and more. Designed in collaboration with Sultana, the Stratocaster reflects their unique, multi-faceted playing style allowing for a wide range of tones and sounds. Explore exclusive access to the role of guitar alongside Tash in their creative song writing process – from the inception of a lyric to finished song and how it all came together in Fender’s new social series “Tracks”.

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Saxon Cover Classic Rock Numbers on Inspirations Album.

Saxon cover Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Motorhead & more on ‘Inspirations’ album.   

Saxon have announced full details of their ‘Inspirations' covers album featuring their take on classic tracks by Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Motorhead, The Rolling Stones and many more.  

As a taster for the album, Saxon have premiered their cover of The Rolling Stones’ 1966 classic ‘Paint It Black’ and its accompanying behind-the-scenes video filmed during the recording sessions at Brockfield Hall earlier this year.

Featuring 11 songs that influenced Saxon and helped mould them into the band they are today, ‘Inspirations’ was recorded at Brockfield Hall near York and it’s released on Friday 19th March 2021 via Silver Lining Music.

Saxon singer Biff Byford says of ‘Paint It Black’: “I’ve loved this band since I first saw them and heard them. I liked the Beatles, but the Stones appealed to my rebel side; their iconic look… so many great songs, such a great attitude in the music!”

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Jack Elliott - December Songs - Tour December 2021

JOHN ELLIOTT aka THE LITTLE UNSAID 'December Songs' 

SOLO TOUR DECEMBER 2021

John Elliott is the songwriter and producer behind The Little Unsaid, a band that according to The Line of Best Fit has ‘trodden the leftfield alt-rock edges of prolificacy for some time with moments of melancholic brilliance.’ Winner of the Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award for boundary-pushing music, John has split the last five years between touring with The Little Unsaid and composing music for theatre, film and producing records by other artists. 'December Songs' is a new album of acoustic wintertime songs that marks his first solo release under his own name. The album was made in his South London home over one week during lockdown, with John staying up late into the nights and recording quietly in the corner of his living room, trying not to wake anyone! It's been such a huge success we thought we'd put together a short tour in December 2021 featuring the songs from the album (hopefully out of lockdown!).   CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO   John Elliott   “I never thought I’d make a Christmas album. For me this time of year is tied up in rituals and a sense of myth that have been with me since childhood. Locked down and heading into winter at the end of this year that’s weighed so heavily on all of us, I found myself wanting to write stripped-back, comforting songs that captured things about Christmas that I’d miss this year. They’re songs that hum with the darkness that’s in and around us through the winter – especially this winter – but hopefully at the same time they’re little musical hugs that say, ‘yes it’s been tough…life is still beautiful…here’s a mince pie.” Press for John’s work as The Little Unsaid: ‘Bold and different’ - The Guardian ‘A stunning interpretation of contemporary chaos’ - The Line of Best Fit ‘A giddying conflation of folk, electronica and lavish orchestration…one of the genre’s grandest successes thus far’ - Dots and Dashes ‘Sweetly fragile and darkly muscular…intense, but always hopeful’ - Metro   John Patrick Elliott   CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO     GET IN TOUCH FOR TOUR BOOKINGS IN DECEMBER 2021 email: gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk Click here to go to LAUGHING DOG MUSIC Click here to go to JOHN PATRICK ELLIOTT   ©2020 Laughing Dog Music |