Welcome to my blog. On the 18th of June, the Magpies will be playing our music at Expressionz between noon and 2 pm. We'll be featuring our own original songs. We do some cover songs, but not many. When we started playing about 4 or 5 years ago (time flies to quickly to remember exactly), we played cover songs with a few original songs. Since then, we've penned somewhere around 60 original tunes, so our performances are now original songs with a few covers.
I must admit, out of that 60 or so originals, there a a few tunes that aren't performance ready, and there's the odd one, that aren't Magpie songs. For example, we don't do "Two Roses". Our friend Irene has been doing that song, and has become a bit of a hit where ever she does it. (That's so cool!). The first time Irene did the song in public was at Expressionz Cafe at the "Magpies Extravaganza".
As for the 'Clever' description of our music. We are quite proud of that description. To us it meant that our music is a bit hard to put into the standard music categories. at one time, we described our music as "roots'. At that time, the instruments we played included acoustic guitars, mandolin, and bass. If you were one of the fortunate people who caught our performance at the Heart of the City Festival, you would have seen 7 instruments, and a couple were still left at home. The mix of instruments and the growth in our song writing has certainly taken us in a new and more interesting direction that can best be described as "clever".
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