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Canary Islands is an archipelago of seven islands off the Atlantic Sahara coast, only one hundred miles away from the African continent, however its people and culture has greatly influenced by its strategic geographical position, halfway among three continents. Its importance as a shipping route between Europe and America has a very long history: Christopher Columbus provisioned water and food in the Canary Islands on his voyage of discovery of the New World.

Gillian Welch is a singer- songwriter, and David Rawlings plays  Appalachian music & Bluegrass music, and together they create and play Americana music-  Their recordings include Revival (Gillian Welch album) and  Time The Revelator. 

Ingrid Jensen (left) has been blazing a path in the jazz world since before she even graduated from Montreal’s McGill University in 1994. While completing her undergrad studies in jazz performance, the saxophonist and composer penned songs for the debut album of her sister, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, and the resultant Vernal Fields won a Juno Award. The sisters continue to feed off one another’s creative energy, as evidenced on the Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra’s recent release Harbour (Nettwerk/Justin Time)

Set in a fictional and eponymous bar in Boston USA, Cheers was a long running tv comedy series built around the relationships between the various regular customers and staff. The Bar boasted the logo á place where everybody knows your name´