{"id":16980,"date":"2022-09-22T17:27:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=16980"},"modified":"2024-07-31T12:58:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T11:58:21","slug":"kbs-viral-sensation-danielle-marsh-family-pen-tribute-to-the-late-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2022\/09\/kbs-viral-sensation-danielle-marsh-family-pen-tribute-to-the-late-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"KBS Viral Sensation Danielle Marsh and Family Pen Tribute to the Late Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Kent Business School Professional Education Coordinator Danielle Marsh and her musical family have released a tribute song to the late Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment -->The Marsh household &#8211; dad Ben, a lecturer in History at Kent and mum Danielle and their four children Alfie, Thomas, Ella, and Tess &#8211; reworked the famous Sound of Music&#8217;s <em>Edelweiss<\/em> to remember the life of the much-loved monarch who died on 8 September 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WqOlFNFc3PY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The idea for the rewritten track stemmed not only from the outpouring of grief from the nation but from overseas, particularly from fans in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We were getting requests from our listeners and followers in the states to almost pass on condolences to the Queen&#8217;s family,&#8221; explained Danielle when we caught up with her this week. &#8220;It was a feeling that we&#8217;d lost a foundation pin in our lives and everything felt strange.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we did an interview in the New York Times during the pandemic where they labelled us as the &#8216;Von Trapps&#8217; and we&#8217;d never done anything from the Sound of Music &#8211; this felt like the right song and the right time. On the Friday night we decided on <em>Edelweiss<\/em> and Ben wrote the lyrics. We did it all in about an hour. Ella added her cornet solo at the end, which gave it a real sense of remembrance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The family are now working on a live stream and producing direct covers of songs rather than just parodies and are hoping to keep recording new material on regular basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshfamilysongs.com\/\"><strong>Click here to watch more of the Marsh Family performances\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Business School Professional Education Coordinator Danielle Marsh and her musical family have released a tribute song to the late Queen Elizabeth II. The Marsh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2022\/09\/kbs-viral-sensation-danielle-marsh-family-pen-tribute-to-the-late-queen\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74553,"featured_media":16983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[261735],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16980"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980\/revisions\/22360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}