Happy New Year to you all! Here's a quick blog post to tell you about the changes that have happened, or that are going to happen on the...

In 1989, having left college, I started driving lessons. My instructor was a very cool bloke who happened to be a hard core thrash metal...

I thought perhaps you might like to hear about my love of all types of music, because really I do have some quite unexpected musical...

Away in a manger No crib for a bed The little Lord Jesus Lay down His sweet head The stars in the sky Look down where He lay The little...

Silent night, holy night! All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child. Holy infant so tender and mild, Sleep in...

O come, O come Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here, Until the son of God appear. This ancient tune with...

Who doesn't love the Christmas song 'Jingle Bells'! It's fun, lively, positive and happy and children love to sing it and shake the...

My last blog was a tad depressing! So I'm turning it around here and talking about some happy, positive things that are going well and...

I can't really have a blog on this site without mentioning the fact that the classical arts and music business is falling apart. I don't...

I haven't created a post for the longest time. In fact, to be honest, I haven't done much work on the site for a while now at all. I'm...

In 2020 I wrote a piece of music called 'Moonlight over the Ocean'. Once when I was on summer holiday with my family in a town on the...

We learn, over many years, to play our string instruments by being taught technical stuff: hand positions, position changing, scales and...

One of the first pieces I ever wrote was a piece called ‘Little Birds Flit About’. In our kitchen, we have what we like to call our...

In the late 1990s, I visited South Africa on a tour with a ballet company. We flew to Cape Town and spent a week there, then went to...

Many people recognise this tune now as it's the theme music to the TV series 'Outlander' Here's an easy arrangement for string quartet.

Hi folks... At the moment I'm working on the Shop part of the site, altering the titles in the gallery so that you can see the...

I want to include folk tunes on the site because I just love them and they remind me of past times in my life.

‘Danny Boy’ is my favourite. The words were written by Fred Weatherley in 1910 to a different tune than the one we now know.

Welcome to the first blog post of thelittlemusicbazaar.com, the website where you can buy original pieces of music and folk song arrangement