By Paulo Camacho “Are you ready for some football?” Thus is the rhetorical question that launched a cultural phenomenon in the world of sports and entertainment. For millions of Americans, the institution of Monday Night Football — along with its primetime brethren,
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By Paulo Camacho It’s this time of year — when the weather gets cooler, the leaves turn red, and school starts for millions of young people — that actually takes me back to my own childhood. And, in the days when I
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By Paulo Camacho It was the first of its kind to occur in almost a century, and it was the talk of American media for the better part of a month, leading up to it. An event like it will not happen
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By Paulo Camacho If you’re anything like me, you might have grown up in the 90s. If that is the case, you might have been raised on cartoons. You can likely remember the characters, your favorite storylines, and, of course, those iconic
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By Paulo Camacho It’s a song that lives in the fabric of modern Americana, simply for the city that it commemorates. It’s been sung by a wide variety of artists in the decades of its existence, but it was made most famous
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By Paulo Camacho It’s a song most people sing all the time, thanks to the simple act of celebrating a yearly tradition. Chances are you’ve sung it to a friend, a lover, or a family member at least once in the past
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By Paulo Camacho This viral video, featuring man’s best friend and a professional orchestra, has been making the rounds on social media in recent days — more recently on Picardy’s Facebook page: If, for whatever reason, you cannot watch the above video, it
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By Paulo Camacho It’s no surprise that people can learn music in a plethora of ways — one of which, being technology. We, at Picardy, pride ourselves on using the best of education technology to bring music education to a student’s fingertips. But
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By Paulo Camacho Since I started working for Picardy Learning, I’ve written on a wide variety of subjects, from the nature of royalty-free music, to the Picardy staff’s favorite exercise music, to the musical careers of sports stars like Muhammad Ali and Bernie Williams. But, this time
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By Paulo Camacho October 30, 2016. It’s Game 5 of the 2016 World Series, between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians. The game, held at Wrigley Field in Chicago, was a close one — the Cubbies held a slim 3 to
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