As we travel musically through Oceania and the Pacific Islands this season we’re going to find a supreme amount of pleasure in Pacific string bands. Pacific string bands, like as this one in this video, from Vanuatu, are groups of several performers playing guitar/ukelele/mandolin and singing in sweet multi-part harmony. The stringed instruments may be relatively recent additions to the Pacific musical array — within the last couple centuries for sure — the harmonies seem so much a part of the islands’ nature, as if they rise from the ocean itself.
We are revising the AllAroundThisWorld.com site — the information you’re seeking may still be here, but a lot of links are broken and details may be out of date. We are currently using a new (better!) site — ExploreEverywhere.com — to tell you all about our class offerings, our “pen pal” program and how to become one of our teachers, and will eventually be moving all the goodies from here over to there. So, GO TO THE NEW SITE!
