Amazing Grace on the Kalimba

The kalimba is one of the thousands of variations of the mbira. The mbira is a member of the lamellophone family of instruments and consists of a flat board onto which are mounted metal tines of various lengths. The tines were originally made of bamboo but about the year 700 the bamboo was replaced by metal strips. The tips of the tines are plucked with the thumbs. The mbira is sometimes referred to as a “thumb piano.”

The mbira is very common in the Democratic Republic of Congo and among the Shona people of Zimbabwe.

"Amazing Grace" Performed by Alabaster Box

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWjOlytm3CA

Alabaster Box is a four man Ghanian a capella singing group founded by Samuel Narku Dowuona. The other members of the group are Gideon Allotey, Michael Allotey, and Horst Ayub. The African musical instrument sounds which you hear are all made by the men.The group is often referred to simply as the Box.

Alabaster in its purest form is a snow-white mineral which is especially useful in sculpture.

President Obama Sings "Amazing Grace"

At the memorial held at Emanuel African Methodist Church for the Bible study members murdered by a white supremacist, United States President Barack Obama sang the hymn, "Amazing Grace."

Amazing Grace Snow Globe

Snow globes are glass balls filled with water and a substance resembling snow. When the globe is shaken, the interior of the globe seems to be engulfed in a blizzard of swirling snow. Various scenes, often of a religious nature, but not always, are depicted by tiny figurines and landscapes inside the globe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkPl01j13IQ
http://www.pinterest.com/dianeharrisday/snow-globes-music-boxes/

Amazing Grace on a Wind-up Metal Musical Church Box

Little boxes such as these are often seen as children's toys. What a wonderful teaching tool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrctnKULkx0

Amazing Grace Performed on the Blues Harmonica

Amazing Grace performed on the Harmonica in the blues music style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7e3JWnLEDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crxqFzslD0Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EggMezlS04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWark492C0

This next link has nothing to do with the links above except that it shows one of the true blues masters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ny5ajCn0xw

Amazing Grace Performed on Several Musical Instruments

Amazing Grace Performed on Several Musical Instruments

Ukelele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRJTLqUcBOY

Q-chord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrOduATSEaA

Bluegrass version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_48lTzLsnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBgk8_hnCNA

Harmonica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crxqFzslD0Y

Trump (aka: Jew’s Harp)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dirEn3ykyg

Harp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJCXXqwXODw

Camille and Kennerly Kitt

Amazing Grace Sung in the Lakota Language by Tiana Spotted Thunder

The Native American Lakota Tribe is more commonly known as the Sioux.  Some, but not all, consider the word "Sioux" to be an insult word (see the third link)..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd0SgrUpFnc

http://www.indians.org/articles/lakota-indians.html
http://www.aaanativearts.com/sioux/

Amazing Grace Sung in the Navajo Language

Amazing Grace in Navajo, sung by Elizabeth Bryant and Virginia Greymountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1s9jd7OOcM

http://navajopeople.org/

http://www.navajo-nsn.gov/history.htm

A Country Music Version of Amazing Grace on the Steel Guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAlydSxj--s

A Beautiful A Cappella Version of Amazing Grace

A beautiful a cappella version of Amazing Grace. The a cappella style of music utilizes human voices presented without the use of musical instruments. The word a cappella is of Italian origin and translates as "according to chapel, " meaning sung like a chant without musical instruments.


/www.godtube.com/watch/?v=JFME1JNU

Amazing Grace Performed in a Falsetto Voice

超級星光大道 (第二屆  One Million Star is a Taiwanese television singing competition similar to American Idol. Here is a video of one of the contestants, Lin Yu Chun (林育羣), singing “Amazing Grace.”  Though he has an adult speaking voice, he is a counter-tenor.  He was born in 1986 in Taiwan and uses an alternate stage name of “Jimmy Lin.”

Two sites which discuss the counter-tenor singing style are presented below. The inclusion of these sites does not imply endorsement of all their statements. Counter-tenors are often natural baritones or basses who have the ability to sing in a falsetto voice which sounds natural though there are men whose natural voice is in the countertenor range. The countertenor part is believed to have been developed during the Renaissance in reaction to the prohibition on women taking part in church choirs, taking the place once occupied by the castrati.

http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/performers/countertenors.html

http://www.voiceteacher.com/counter_Tenor.html

Three Versions of Amazing Grace on the Steel Drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB3Uyptlfj0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J3X0whM_-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWWpyfMsee4

Ueno Yoshie Performing Amazing Grace on the Flute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFOjMWw5Vok

http://kobe-bunka.jp/flute/7th/en/profiles.html

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/yoshie-ueno/id536076065

The flutist, Yoshie Ueno, should not be confused with the international judoka, Yoshie Ueno.

http://www.judoinside.com/judoka/view/14043/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Jz_kNJHkw

Several Electric Guitar Renditions of “Amazing Grace”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-r-Vj8zgN8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiEozQ786nY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NXkWZ-qOwg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWGzpBvnG2k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69RA7vxmIcw
Several listeners insist that this is Jeff Beck rather than Carlos Santana.  The guitar style does seem to be more like Beck than the more Latin inspired Santana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPtX5gPT5KQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUZ24ZFBiok

Repost, With Additions, of "Amazing Grace in the Cree Language"

Someone recently recently viewed my post of the hymn “Amazing Grace” being sung in the Cree language.  I realized that I had provided no information about the Cree themselves.

The Nehiyaw tribe is commonly known in English as the Cree tribe.  They are one of the Native North American tribes. Their traditional language is part of the Algonquian group (see below at the # sign) of languages.  Here is a photograph of a young Cree man taken in 1903.

You may notice that the English transliteration of the language is inconsistent.  The same word is represnted as "kihci" and as "kitchi." This is quite common in the transliteration process.  The Chinese language, for example, was represented by at least twelve different transliteration systems before the adoption of the modern Pinyin system. 

#: The Algonquian group includes Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Menominee, Ojibwe (Chippewa),  Shawnee, Potawatomi, Massachusett,  Miqmaq (Mi’kmaq), Mahican, Narragansett, and others.

How Great Thou Art

You have probably never seen “How Great Thou Art” performed like this.

http://vimeo.com/59093411

From Wikipedia:

“"How Great Thou Art" is a Christian hymn based on a Swedish poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg (1859–1940) in Sweden in 1885. The melody is a Swedish folk song. It was translated into English by British missionary Stuart K. Hine, who also added two original verses of his own composition. It was popularized by George Beverly Shea and Cliff Barrows during the Billy Graham crusades.[1] It was voted the United Kingdom's favourite hymn by BBC's Songs of Praise.[2] "How Great Thou Art" was ranked second (after "Amazing Grace") on a list of the favorite hymns of all time in a survey by Today's Christian magazine in 2001.”

http://www.ingeb.org/spiritua/howgreat.html

Amazing Grace Drum Solo!

I would not have thought this was possible but the Amazing Grace melody is clearly discernable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqF62r_XxOc

"Amazing Grace" Performed by Smokie Norful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVnzPeclilk

Amazing Grace Performed on the Zither

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFExzG0CF7g

The zither is a stringed instrument which is strummed or plucked.  The strings do not extend past the sounding box.