In tonight’s tips video members of Hele Sjællands Symfoniorkester – the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra – surprise Metro passengers with a flash mob performance of a passage from Peer Gynt by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.
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In tonight’s exciting Tips video Odessa-born pop singer Maria Lukacs, backed by the vocal quartet Советская песня, sings her 1960 Soviet single Сто дорог.
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John Peel was a British DJ and record producer who over the course of 37 years broadcast in-studio performances from a variety of musical artists on his BBC1 radio show. In tonight’s Tips music, from the December 9, 1987 Peel Session, Icelandic group The Sugarcubes perform a five song set.
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He did the Healthcare Mash..
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Desecration of human mammals? It’s a vicar’s duty.
Due to the horrifying scenes, no one admitted without a vomit bag.
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Tonight, the late Andy Stewart is joined by his hair and his sporran for a performance of the traditional Scottish folk ballad The Road To Dundee.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips, forwarded by SDA guest blogger Robert, we see Vancouver in a new way: Here’s Vancouver City Time Lapse in 4K.
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Tonight, we watch some film footage from 1935 showing a large group of Roman policemen riding their motorcycles in a very un-Italian way – in other words, calmly, in synchronized fashion, and with no angry shouting or rude hand gestures.
Very impressive — eat your heart out Busby Berkely.
h/t Kate
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips Bonnie Raitt performs Richard Thompson’s beautiful song Dimming of the Day, accompanied by none other than Thompson himself.
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You don’t hear much about Albania these days. Tonight, we watch a short documentary about the northern Albanian city of Shkodër.
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Tonight we take a look back at the early days of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Based on the stated population of Edmonton at the time, the film probably dates from around 1965 or ’66.
h/t David M.
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Transatlantic Sessions is a long-running television program – the first series began 18 years ago – in which highly-adept performers of mostly traditional/country/folk music from both sides of the Atlantic join together in Scotland to play music in intimate settings. In tonight’s Tips music, from the sixth series, England’s Teddy Thompson, the son of British folk-rock legends Richard and Linda Thompson, is backed by a house band including the series’ musical co-directors, Shetland Island fiddler Aly Bain and legendary American lap steel player Jerry Douglas, along with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Aoife O’Donovan, Julie Fowlis, and Karen Matheson on background vocals, as he beautifully interprets George Jones’ classic She Thinks I Still Care.
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Tonight, with the help of the fine folks at the Goethe-Institut, we do our best to understand the Germans.
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I ain’t got the slightest hankerin’ to be a broker or a banker. No sirree, I want to be Your Mother’s Son In Law… ♫
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In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips we listen to a track from songwriter/singer and fiddler Sara Watkins’  2012 solo album Sun Midnight Sun called Take Up Your Spade.
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Tonight, we watch a Senior News Editor at one of the big three networks in a command performance at a recent White House dinner.
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Tonight, Icelandic indie-folk group Árstíðir forgo their instruments and gather in a train station to sing an a cappella version of an old Icelandic hymn, the lyrics of which were written in the 13th Century, called Heyr himna smiður (“Hear Heaven’s Carpenter”).
h/t batb
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Tonight Sunny Lohmann displays her thespian talents as she reenacts the recent debt-ceiling negotiations between the Democrats and the Republicans.
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Tonight, pianist Paul “The Badger” Barton performs a 12-bar blues duet with Peter “The Elephant” Elephant, and a good time was had by all.
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In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips, forwarded by SDA guest blogger Robert, we watch a sunny time-lapse video shot in San Diego, California.
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