{"id":328047,"date":"2025-12-02T17:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/uncategorized\/introducing-billy-moons-a-a-milne-in-song\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:42:29","slug":"introducing-billy-moons-a-a-milne-in-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/?p=328047","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Billy Moon\u2019s A.A. Milne in Song"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Here\u2019s a Thanksgiving treat for families: Billy Moon, a Charlottesville VA indie-folk band, has just released an album of A.A. Milne poems set to music.<\/p>\n

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My niece Adria Vaughan is the composer. She explains the new work this way:<\/p>\n

\u201cWatching my first child fully immerse herself in the rain gave me new appreciation for (and joy in) A. A. Milne\u2019s poem \u201cHappiness,\u201d and, being a musician, I soon found myself humming it rather than simply reciting it. When I shared the song version of the poem (on ukulele) with two musician friends, they were delighted and found ways to shape the song with their instruments (guitar and fiddle) and voices.<\/p>\n

\u201cSoon we put more Milne poems to song and performed them in house shows. We called our band Billy Moon, after Christopher Robin\u2019s name for himself. Our music is in a gentle, acoustic style that opens up to more upbeat folk melodies and rhythms. Combined with Milne\u2019s imagery, this album gives an aural artifact of intricacy meeting innocence, a peaceful, artistic sound space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Billy Moon\u2019s new album, titled \u201cWhen We Were Very Young,\u201d takes its name from a poetry collection by Milne.<\/p>\n

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