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Modern Pop Strings – Wedding Love Song – The Luckiest, for String Quartet

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Happy Day, everyone! This is our favorite Ben Folds string cover, with a string quartet arrangement and sheet music written by our talented violist, Benton Wedge! If you’re a fan of modern pop music and wedding love songs, this is an absolutely beautiful song for walking down the aisle, prelude music as your guests are being seated, or the first dance. Imagine floating down the aisle to The Luckiest for your wedding processional music. Our Chicago wedding band and Artistrings string quartet are partial to this song, as it’s a perfect wedding song and an exceptional choice for wedding music.

Grab our free list of the best songs for walking down the aisle. Whether your vision is classical elegance or fun and accessible pop, this quick-start guide has got you covered.

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Wellerman Sea Shanty One Hour String Cover

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Hey all!

So, we’re back this week with a one-hour version of Wellerman sea shanty for string quartet. This TikTok tok sea shanty craze started by Nathan Evans has been a whole lot of fun, and the Artistrings players from our Chicago wedding band made this long version video for those who want to join us and play (or sing) along. Two violins, viola, cello, and bass is the instrumentation for this all string version of Wellerman. Grab some tea, come in from the snow and join us. The fire is on and it’s cozy in here!

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Wellerman Tik Tok Sea Shanty – String Version for String Quartet

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And just like that, the sea shanty craze has caught our hearts by surprise, and yes, we’re smitten. Grab something to drink (tea….or rum, perhaps?) and sing along.

Wellerman is the sea shanty that’s going viral on Tik Tok right now from the most fabulous Nathan Evans! We’ve got a snowstorm here in Chicago today, so we thought we’d jump in on the fun of The Wellerman sea shanty craze. Nathan Evans’ Tik Tok video has inspired so many awesome Wellerman sea shanty remix videos, and we thought we’d contribute an all string version to the mix. If you’re looking for a new version of Wellerman sea shanty violin, give this a listen. We had a lot of fun with this string quartet cover of what’s become the most famous sea shanty, and hope that you enjoy it!

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Cello Jazz & Micro Wedding Music – Tangerine – Solo Cello Improv

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Tangerine for solo jazz cello, performed by cellist Matthew Agnew. This sweet solo cello improv is sure to bring a smile! We’ll soon be able to have small micro weddings and mini weddings again, including solo and duo musicians from our Chicago wedding band, and solo cello is an excellent choice for these small wedding celebrations!

Starting as relaxing cello music, the peaceful cello music shifts to a pizzicato bossa nova in this cello jazz version of Tangerine. For cello pop covers, cello music, micro wedding music, and more solo cello videos like this, please subscribe to our YouTube channel to be the first to see our weekly videos! Looking for a place to learn about wedding music, wedding songs, wedding ceremony music, and wedding reception songs? Hop over to our education site for lots of ideas. For booking information, please reach out to us.

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String Pop – Fireflies (Owl City) – String Quartet Cover (with really cute baby owl!)

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A new one from Artistrings this week with a string quartet cover of Fireflies (Owl City), and the perfect little visitor that showed up a few nights ago during the mini snow fall. He tapped on our window so we went to see what was going on, and there he was. How cute is this little baby owl?! We’re naming him either Hootie or Keith (Moon), but that’s still up for discussion. This Fireflies string cover is a favorite with all of our Chicago wedding band couples, and it hits all of the bases: string pop, modern pop, and classical pop, with exciting string covers of popular songs.

The Artistrings acoustic pop string quartet is a traditional string quartet made up of four instrumentalists: 2 violins, viola, and cello. One track per instrument, and zero overdubs/stacks. If you love string quartet covers of popular songs, and especially if you’re interested in our custom arrangements of string quartet sheet music, please subscribe for our weekly updates!

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Katherine Hughes, violin
Carol Kalvonjian, violin
Benton Wedge, viola & arranging
Jill Kaeding, cello

Watch this video directly on YouTube.

Photography: Jai Girard