We have a YouTube channel where we post all of our videos. You can access individual songs below.
Manzanita Harmony had a fabulous concert on November 1. Fully engaged singers and audience members. A lot of emotions with joy topping them all. Here is a five-minute video of concert excerpts.
Music & words by the Electric Light Orchestra front man, Jeff Lynne. Arranged by Liz Garnett. Lynne recalled his inspiration during a BBC radio interview: "It was dark and misty for two weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote Mr. Blue Sky and 13 other songs in the next two weeks."
Music: 19th century hymn of unknown origin. Words by American Baptist minister Robert Wadsworth Lowry. Arranged by chorale conductor Stephen Caracciolo for Cantus, a professional, male vocal ensemble, based in Minneapolis. Frequently, but erroneously cited as a traditional Quaker song.
Music & words: Freddie Mercury, arrangement, Kevin Keller. Its gospel choir, Aretha Franklin styling sets the tone for this song about faith coupled with Mercury's attempts to find love as a homosexual man in an unaccepting world.
Music by Elton John, words by Bernie Taupin, and arranged by Steve Tramack. Taupin wrote the lyrics as a "kiss off" to an old girlfriend. But he noted later that the song took on a meaning all its own: "An anthem based on Elton's strong sense of survival in the face of adversity."
Music and words by George Michael. Arranged by Kohl Kitzmiller. It was the number one single in the United States in 1988. Michael never intended to release it as a single but band mates and friends encouraged him to add a guitar solo (to lengthen it) and make it stand alone.
Music and words by George Michael (the "90!" is to prevent confusion with his former band Wham!'s 1984 hit also entitled "Freedom"). It uses a complex, syncopated, so-called "funky drummer" rhythm against an energetic melody. Handling the solo for Manzanita Harmony is Jason Chodora.