stella Ella Ola MusicPosted by Warner Schwartz on July 2nd, 2021 Victor Dale Wood, 64, of Athens, Alabama, died Friday, April 23, 2021, at his residence. Mr. Wood was born February 23, 1957, in Whitehouse, Ohio. He grew up in Montgomery, Alabama. Jean Casteel, 79, of Athens, Alabama, died Sunday, April 25, 2021, at her residence. She attended Calvary Baptist Church and loved to spend time with her kids, grandkids, nieces and nephews. Monday at Spry Funeral Home Chapel in Athens. Deanna Joan Jackson, 81, of Huntsville, Alabama, died Tuesday, February 16, 2021, at her residence. Charles Chapman, of Athens, passed away on February 21, 2021, at his residence. Thursday, February 25, 2021, at Roselawn Cemetery. The four pals – Jake and Nixon Boyd , Anne Douris and Vince Rice – have only played one show at this point as Stella Ella Ola, but they’re ready to take this year’s NXNE by storm. Stella Ella Ola decided to take a different approach to making their record than the popular quarter-note kick clichés of radio dance music. “We all had the same kind of vision, we wanted to take a positive approach to music, keep songs short and sweet, keep songs fun and about people,” said drummer Vince Rice. In one three-player version, one player will turn around and the other two players will hold hands and alternate positions. If no one is hit, the player who was slapping is out. J. Guadalupe Valberde-Pompa, 52, of Harvest, Alabama, died Sunday, February 14, 2021, at Athens-Limestone Hospital. Friday at Spry Funeral Home chapel. Visitation is from noon until 1 p.m. James Buford Tennison passed away at his residence Monday, March 1, 2021. In 2001, I launched my cocojams.com cultural website. That website was consistently online until October 2014. Most of the examples of children's recreational rhymes that were featured on that website were either submitted by visitors or gleaned from my online searchers. In a time where artist’s creativity is being curtailed by corporate management to familiar bite-sized shapes, Stella Ella Ola puts expression before economy. He was saying it discourages them because they feel like they’re not making good music. Their right hand rests on top of the left hand of the player on their right. One person starts, by lifting their right hand, and slapping the right hand of the player on their left. At the end, the person who has the last slap will either slap the hand of the person beside them, or that person will yank their hand away, causing the slapper to hit their own hand. The player that is hit is then out. Roger Dale Blankenship, 69, of Athens, Alabama, died Monday, March 1, 2021, at Athens-Limestone Hospital. graveside service Thursday at Lentzville Cemetery. Calvin Eugene Powers, 91, of Athens, died March 20, 2021, at his residence. Graveside service was held 11 a.m. Betty Jo McLemore, 72, of Decatur, Alabama, died Sunday, June 27, 2021, at her residence. This song goes along with a game. To read the rules for the game, click HERE. Backstage at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, there were some guest performer children from somewhere in Africa. We had no common language and they taught a bunch of us this song and we all played it in a circle for days. For some reason, the comments that I wrote aren't included in that discussion thread, but a commenter who replied to one of those comments specifically mentioned my name. But I questioned that conclusion after reading song examples that were posted on that Mudcat discussion forum discussion thread of "In China There Lived A Great Man". Stella Ola make the kind of music that embodies good times, friends, and sunshine. Picture rollerblading down a boardwalk, flippin’ burgers, hanging out in someone’s basement eating popsicles while reflecting on yearbook memories. It’s a simple joy that they’ve captured, and in such a short time since forming and in songs that are purposefully bite sized, they’ve tapped into some charm that’ll make this city even more fun.Like it? Share it! More by this author |