Celebrating a playful and exotic love song with words and music by multi-talented woman of colour Amanda Aldridge, written in 1907. Filmed at the Clarendon with Matt Redman on zither banjo, and Andrea Kmecova on the piano.
Read about Amanda, who composed under the pseudonym of Montague Ring, in my book “She Wrote the Songs” (https://www.valleypressuk.com/book/126/she_wrote_the_songs) and see more of her story here: https://youtu.be/_Guk9WGvXGA
Watch Amanda Aldridge’s song “Little Missie Cakewalk” here: https://youtu.be/MRoJnMVplQQ
Join me and Matt for our twice-weekly series “Living Room Requests” here: https://bit.ly/3eeB9CD
Matt’s website: https://matt-redman.co.uk
See Andrea’s website: https://andreakmecova.com/
Our CD together: https://youtu.be/bk54-Ivzjqk
Dress by https://www.nataya.com
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