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Featured Guided Drum Meditation Session(s) at Yoga & Wellness Studios - Fall/Winter There are still some available spots for October/November, dm me for more detail. #GDM #guideddrummeditation #mindfulness #meditation #monkey #mindfulness #hangdrum #pandrum #ravvast #dconcept #yoga #toronto #torontoyoga #thewillow (at Gta) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj3JS0-LOK7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Spooky late night ghostly synths and altered voices, conjure up a world of lost children’s television programmes and weird tales in haunted landscapes. Disturbing and magnificent 🎶🎹 #belburypoly #thewillows #ghostboxrecords #jimjupp #electronic #ambient #musiqueconcrete #vinyl #vinylcollection #recordcollection #vinyladdict #vinylcollector #vinyljunkie #vinylporn #nowspinning #lp, https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQFN3jN9He/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

On January 28th 1908 Jimmy Shand, Scottish country dance band leader was born.

Shand was a musician who played traditional Scottish dance music on the accordion.

Born James Shand in East Wemyss in Fife, son of a farm ploughman turned miner. One of nine children, they soon moved to the burgh of Auchtermuchty.The town is also known as the birthplace of the brothers Charlie and Craig Reid of The Proclaimers and now boasts a larger than life-sized sculpture of Shand. His father was a skilled melodeon player. Jimmy started with the mouth organ and soon played the fiddle. At the age of 14 he had to leave school and go down the mines. He played at social events and competitions. His enthusiasm for motor-bikes turned to an advantage when he played for events all round Fife. In 1926 he did benefit gigs for striking miners and was consequently prevented from returning to colliery work.

One day Jimmy and a friend were admiring the instruments in the window of Forbes' Music Shop in Dundee. His friend said "It wouldn't cost you to try one". Jimmy walked in and strapped on an accordion. The owner heard Jimmy and immediately offered him a job as travelling salesman and debt-collector. He soon acquired a van and drove all over the north of Scotland. He switched to the British chromatic button accordion, an instrument he stuck with for the rest of his life.

Shand failed an audition for the BBC because he kept time with his foot. At a time when gramophones were very much luxury items he made two records for the Regal Zonophone label in 1933. His career took off when he switched to making 78s for the Beltona label between 1935 and 1940. Most of the Beltona recordings were solo, but he experimented with small bands. This boosted sales. He appeared in a promo film shown in cinemas. While the image showed his fingers moving in a blur, Jimmy was disappointed to hear the sound track playing a slow air.

Jimmy was prevented from joining the RAF by a digestive disorder, and spent the war years in the Fire Service. On New Year's morning 1945 he made his first broadcast with "Jimmy Shand and Band". This was the first of many such BBC radio and television appearances.

After the war he became a full-time musician and adopted a punishing life-style later adopted by rock bands. He would play Inverness one night, London the next night and still drive the van back, at breakneck speed, to bed in Dundee.

He took his trademark bald head, Buddy Holly specs and full kilted regalia, Scottish reels, waltzes, jigs and strathspeys to North America, Australia and New Zealand, including Carnegie Hall in New York

In 1972 he went into semi-retirement. From then he played only small venues in out of the way places for a reduced fee. He was made a freeman of Auchtermuchty in 1974, North East Fife in 1980 and Fife in 1998. He became Sir Jimmy Shand in 1999. His portrait is in the Scottish National Gallery, close to Niel Gow.

In 1983 Jimmy released a retrospective album with the cheeky title "The First 50 years". At the age of 88 he recorded an album and video with his son, "Dancing with the Shands".

More than 330 compositions are credited to Jimmy Shand. He recorded more tracks than the Beatles and Elvis Presley combined. In 1985, British Rail named a locomotive Jimmy Shand.

Dissatisfied with the chromatic button-key accordions available on the market in the 1940s so he designed his own one. The Hohner company still manufactures the "Shand Morino" to his specifications.

The statue, as I earlier said is in Auchtermuchty, there is also a memorial in East Wemyss/

How many of you out there remember doing "Strip theWillow" during our school years, or even after at a cèilidh

The Willow USCG

Docked On The Savannah River The US Coast Guard has a long tradition of naming its vessels. The new class of buoy tenders are all named after trees. Coast Guard Vessel US Coast Guard Vessel Th Willow The Willow-Coast Guard Vessel Have a nice day and thanks for stopping by 🙂 Alice Monday Willow

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🔮💫 Card of the Day 💫🔮 The Willow The willow reversed indicates that the winds of change (or conflict) are blowing around you. Don’t try to fight, or you may be uprooted. Instead, stay flexible and bend with the demands of the times. While it may appear to be period of total upheavel, like the willow you are strong and capable of bending without breaking. Stay centered yet adaptable, within the circumstances swirling around you. Yo have deep and strong roots in your spiritual identity, so rely on the now. This cycle of uncertainty will pass. In the meantime, let yourself op to the guidance of the Akashic Records. You are grounded in their wisdom and truth. Let yourself receive the power there. ⭐ Akashic Force: ⭐ Take a deep breath and feel yourself plant energetic roots through the bottom of your feet, moving down to the very depths of the earth and tapping the resources you need. Notice, the strength you feel rising up from this profound source of energy. #theakashictarot #2offorces #thewillow #cardoftheday #tarot #dailytarot #tarotcards #tarotreader #tarotreading #tarotreaderofinstagram #tarotcommunity #loveandlight #spiritual #divination #reading #free #oraclecards #oracle #oraclereadersofinstagram #dailyoracle #oraclecommunity #oraclereader #oraclereading #mysticalfaeryreadings https://www.instagram.com/p/B34cO1YHVTz/?igshid=693xerjh4snl

@china_chronicles Put the kettle on ! #thewillow #willow #blueandwhite #transferware #wedgwood #bonechina #madeinengland #englishstyle #chinoiserie #cobaltblue #teatime #tea #blacktea #teacup #teacups #vintageteacup #vintageteatime #porcelaine #porcelain #china #crockery #chinachronicles #transferwarechinapottery #chroniquesdeporcelaine #deco #tealady #thé #té (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByP6Oi3ndPP/?igshid=1g5icy74360ag

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Featured Guided Drum Meditation Session(s) at Yoga & Wellness Studios - Fall/Winter Thank you to the great team and members at The Willow for the lovely environment, tea and participants. I hope to see you all again! There are still some available spots for October/November, dm me for more detail. #GDM #guideddrummeditation #mindfulness #meditation #monkey #mindfulness #hangdrum #pandrum #ravvast #dconcept #yoga #toronto #torontoyoga #thewillow (at Gta) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj3IV5LLwXL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I am happiest when I’m with you. ❤️❤️❤️ #jotphotography #photographybyjot #wedding #bride #groom #joy #family #ladies #singleladies #thewillows #florist #lillies #bridalparty #weddingdress #diamonds #engagementring #ring #engagement #weddingphotography #londonphotographer #londonwedding #ukwedding #weddingphotography #prewedding #jotprewedding #engagementring #engagementsession (at Olympic Stadium, Stratford East London.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEpPIsOJ62G/?igshid=1uflxmu34hb5b

Peter Paul and Mary top covers - Leaving on a Jet Plane - The Willows

"Leavin’ on a Jet Plane" is a song written by John Denver in 1966 and most famously recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary. The original title of the song was "Babe, I Hate to Go" but Denver's then producer Milt Okun convinced him to change the title. The song was initially recorded in 1966 by John Denver with the title "Babe, I Hate to Go." That same year, Denver chose this song along with fifteen others and, with his own money, had 250 copies pressed onto vinyl. He distributed the copies to friends and family. Peter, Paul and Mary were so impressed with the song that they chose to record it themselves and released it on their 1967 Album 1700. However, it didn't become a hit for them until they released it as a single in 1969.

“When common objects in this way become charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures.” - from The Willows by Algernon Blackwood . . . . . . #night #nightphotography #nightscape #leaves #bushes #algernonblackwood #thewillows #shed #longexposure #canton #cantonmassachusetts #massachusetts #orange #eeriebeautiful #folkhorror (at Canton, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/By8LmE8lrnY/?igshid=nxwqo0dhbhfc

Os Salgueiros / The Willows - Algernon Blackwood #ossalgueiros #thewillows #algernonblackwood #livro #livros #book #books #editoraempireo @editora.empireo https://www.instagram.com/p/BubCE1qA1_S/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17th7914afi56