
If you haven’t seen a full 20-piece air-band rocking out to classic power rock, complete with furious air-guitar, celery-stick air-drums, and peanut-butter-and-jelly-sticky-fingered air-keyboards -- well, you should. Hopefully they’ve enjoyed it as much as I have.
September:
Oumar Konate
Pearl and the Beard*
Modeste Mussgorsky assorted sonatas
Michael Jackson
Kavinsky
W.A. Mozart’s Requiem
Emmilea
Calexico
Bacilos
Juanes*
October:
Gaby Moreno
Michael Jackson (again)
Carlos Vives
Michael Jackson (...again. The kids love Thriller more than life itself.)
Rodrigo y Romero Concierto de Aranjuez
Billy Joel*
Ratatat
Paul Simon
Zoe Keating
Soul Rising & The Human Experience**
That1guy**
Queen*
Too Many Zooz
Michael Jackson (...)
The Decemberists*
J.S. Bach Cello Suites
Dio - Holy Diver, Rainbow in the Dark**
Sia*
Rokia Traoré
Caravan Palace*
Zola Jesus*
Otis Redding
November:
Bon Iver
Ratatat
Russian music (shared by the Paschal family)
Sa Dingding
The Protomen**
Ella & Count Basie
Golden Earring*
Blue Öyster Cult**
Whitney Houston
Dropkick Murphys**
Ennio Morricone - Soundtrack to The Mission
Grover Williams’ Choice: Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Ylvis
Andre-Erneste Gretry
Elgar - Cello concertos
December:
Muse**
Black Sabbath**
Red Hot Chili Peppers*****
The Clash**
Michael Jackson (yep.)
Santana
Daft Punk*
Handel’s Messiah -- brief excerpts
Fleet Foxes
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Movement II
David Bowie*
Glenn Miller In the Christmas Mood II
“Holidays Rule” compilation*
Stan Kenton & The Boston Brass
various: Elvis’ Blue Christmas, Mel Blanc’s Blue Christmas, etc.
January:
Keith Jarrett: The Köln Concert
Jazz Sampler: Art Blakey, Sarah Vaughn, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis
The Talking Heads
Arvo Pärt
Phil Collins