Music from the US – The Pentatonix

Pentatonix is a five-member a cappella group. consisting of Mitch Grassi (tenor), Scott Hoying (baritone), Avi Kaplan (bass), Kirstie Maldonado (mezzo-soprano) and Kevin Olusola (beatbox), originally from Arlington, Texas, USA.

Each year they publish at least one christmas song cover , this one is a new one from 2013 “Little Drummer Boy ” do you know the stoy behind ??

Little Drummer Boy (“The Little Drummer”) is an American Christmas song. It tells the story of a poor boy who can not afford it  to make a gift to the newborn Jesus  and thus plays with the consent of the Virgin Mary for him on his drum. Miraculously, the newborn seems to understand and smiles at him gratefully.

Music from the UK – Perunika Trio

“Perunika is a blossom named after the mythical goddess of spring and eternal youth who is said to make rain when she milks her cloud-cows[…]”
– The Independent On Sunday, 16th March 2008

The Perunika Trio consists of Eugenia Georgieva, Dessislava Vasileva and Jasmina Stosic. They are Bulgarian, and sing the serbian folk song “Mito Bekriyo” in England! That is how World Music should be like, shouldn’t it?