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Samuel Osborne Barber (March 9, 1910–January 23, 1981) was an American composer of classical music, best known for his Adagio for Strings. He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania and began to compose at the age of seven. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia before becoming a fellow of the American Academy in Rome in 1935. The following year he wrote his String Quartet in B minor, the second movement of which he would arrange, at Arturo Toscanini's suggestion, for string orchestra as Adagio for Strings, and again for mixed chorus as Agnus Dei. He tended...

The serious start of Sandy comes in 1995, there is a club called “La Grange (Charente Maritime France)” that offers him a residency, he spins there every day from June to September 1995. During this event he meets David Duriez (private la Grange resident). From October to November 1995 they start to work together on an hardcore project which has been released on a label in Antwerp called ZOMBIE Records in January 1996. Meanwhile Sandy has another residency in a club called Café Face, which is also owned by the chief of “La Grange”. After his return to Belgium, Sandy...

Maverick English Folk! The Demon Barbers perform traditional English folk music, song and dance. The band consists of: Damien Barber - Vocals, Guitar, Concertina, Rapper Bryony Griffith - Fiddle, Vocals Will Hampson - Melodeon, Harmonica, Morris, Rapper Lee Sykes - Bass, Rapper Ben Griffith - Drums Damien Barber took the bold decision to become a professional folk musician at the end of the 1980s. He had strong folk credentials: raised in rural Norfolk and a regular (since the age of 5) at a folk club where Walter Pardon was resident, his other influences include Harry Cox, Sam Larner, Tony Hall...