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The Snake Charmer is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. [1] After it was used on the cover of Edward Said's book Orientalism in 1978, the work "attained a level of notoriety matched by few Orientalist paintings," [2] as it became a lightning-rod for criticism of Orientalism in general and Orientalist painting in particular, although Said ...
He assembled a large collection of historic bagpipes, their music, and related materials, which forms the core of the collection now housed at the Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum. He was elected to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1920, remaining a member until his death. [ 1 ]
McDonald is the only Australian to have been Lone Piper at the Tattoo in both Scotland and Australia. The year 2009 also saw the publication of sixty tunes, R S MacDonald: The collection. [7] In 2016 the Red Hot Chilli Pipers recorded MacDonald's composition The Fallen for charity. [8] The accompanying video had in excess of two million views ...
Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He performs as a solo artist and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. [1] He has been described as "the most recorded bagpiper of all time". [2]
Dave "Animal" Maltby – guitar on "Snake Charmer" and "Sleazy" François Kevorkian – production, drum programming on "Snake Charmer", synthesizer on "It Was a Camel" Jaki Liebezeit – drums on "Hold on to Your Dreams" Ben Mandelson – guitar on "It Was a Camel" Herb Powers Jr. – mastering; Paul "Groucho" Smykle – production, engineering
Snake charmer song, also known as "The Streets of Cairo", or "The Poor Little Country Maid" "Snake charmer" (song) by Teddy Powell (composer) and Leonard Whitcup (lyricist), published 1937; Snakecharmer, by Sort Sol; Snake Charmer, an EP by Jah Wobble, The Edge and Holger Czukay
Duncan created a new style of idiosyncratic bagpipe music. [1] He also incorporated the bagpipes into a rendition of AC/DC's Thunderstruck. [2] His work was heard at T in the Park, Celtic Connections, Celtic Colours in Canada, the Lorient festival in Brittany, where he was the two-time winner of the MacAllan Trophy and the Fleadh Cheoil in ...
A biography of Slowinski titled The Snake Charmer was written in 2008 by Jamie James. Three species have been named after Slowinski: a species of North American corn snake ( Pantherophis slowinskii ), [ 2 ] a species of bent-toed gecko native to Myanmar ( Cyrtodactylus slowinskii ), and a species of krait native to Vietnam ( Bungarus slowinskii ).