Demo Recordings – Enjoy – Click link to listen:
Blackbird – guitar/vocals – recorded by Matthew Nord – 2013 – Originally written and recorded by Paul McCartney – 1968
All of Me – improvised jazz piano – recorded by Matthew Nord – 2012 – Originally written by Seymour Simons and Gerald Marks
Matthew’s Repertoire: This is an incomplete and ever growing list – refer to the wedding contract for requests and special songs.
By Genre – Links with Asterisks (*) are Cover recordings by Matthew. All others are links to Youtube’s by original artists to give listeners the opportunity to listen if they do not know the song or artist.
Classical:
- Canon in D (Pachalbel’s Canon) – Piano – Johann Pachelbel
- Canario – Guitar – Carlo Calvi
- Fur Elise – Piano – Beethoven
- Minuet in G – Piano – Bach
- Sonata in C (K545) – Piano – Mozart – Second Movement
Jazz:
- What A Wonderful World – Piano/Vocal (or instrumental) – Louis Armstrong
- Come Away With Me – Piano/Vocal – Nora Jones
- Sunrise – Piano/Vocal – Nora Jones, Moondance – Piano/Vocals/Guitar – Van Morrison
- Bright Side of the Road – Guitar/Vocals/Harmonica – Van Morrison
- Warm Love – Guitar/Vocals – Van Morrison
- Summertime – Piano – Gershwin
- All of Me* – Piano, Black Orpheus – Piano/Guitar
- All Blues – Piano – Miles Davis
- Ain’t Mis Behavin’ – Piano – Fats Waller
Popular:
- Blackbird* – Guitar/Vocals – Paul McCartney
- Here Comes the Sun – Guitar/Vocals – The Beatles
- I’m Yours – Guitar/Vocals – Jason Mraz
- I Won’t Give Up on You – Guitar/Vocals – Jason Mraz
- Dreams be Dreams – Guitar/Vocals – Jack Johnson
- Gone – Guitar/Vocals – Jack Johnson
- Symbol in my Drive Way – Guitar/Vocals – Jack Johnson
- Bubble Toes – Guitar/Vocals – Jack Johnson
- Home – Guitar/Vocals – Philip Philips
- Beautiful Day – Guitar/Vocals – Donovan Frankenreiter
- The Wind – Guitar/Vocals – Cat Stevens
- Imagine – Piano/Vocals – John Lennon
Country:
- When You Say Nothing At All – Guitar/Vocal – Alison Kraus (written by K. Whitley) – This song can also be a nice instrumental piano or guitar.
- To Make You Feel My Love – Guitar/Vocal or Piano/Guitar Instrumental – Garth Brooks
- Fire and Ice – Guitar/Vocal – Garth Brooks
- She’s Every Woman – Guitar/Vocal – Garth Brooks
- The River – Guitar/Vocal – Garth Brooks
Folk: Various Bob Dylan Songs, Cat Stevens, Woody Guthry…..
Bluegrass:
- Sweet Sunny South – Guitar/Vocals
- Redhair Boy – Guitar
- Wildwood Flower – Guitar/Vocal – Maybelle Carter
- Freight Train – Guitar/Vocal – Elizabeth Cotton
- May the Circle Be Unbroken – Guitar/Vocal – Traditional
Reggae:
- Three Little Birds – Guitar/Piano/Vocal – Bob Marley
- Redemption Song – Guitar/Vocal – Bob Marley
- One Love – Guitar/Vocal – Bob Marley