Hello everyone! Today is my birthday and also the 5 year anniversary of me starting to street perform! I first went busking on my 14th birthday (when it is legal to street perform in England), and I loved it ever since. It has been a journey, gaining confidence, discovering and learning about the best sound equipment for my performances and learning new music and travelling to perform in different countries! I hope to continue it for many more years to come!
Today, I am posting something much different from what I usually post. I mainly only post violin covers on this channel but something else that I love to do is compose original music, so I decided to enter the Indie Film Music Contest. If you’d like to vote for me in the contest, please like this video!
I learnt this song recently and wanted to post it for Valentine’s Day and although I usually post videos videos from my street performances, I haven’t been busking in a while because it has been too cold or rainy haha so I thought I’d make this cosy little music video next to the fireplace. I hope you enjoy my violin cover of Valentine by Laufey.
This song was very popular in 2019 during my family’s first trip to America and California and so it always reminds me of Santa Monica, where we visited. This trip and California will always hold a special place in our hearts and I hope you enjoy my violin cover of Beautiful People by Ed Sheeran ft. Khalid.
I recorded this video in Santa Monica at Santa Monica Pier in March this year, ready to post in August because of the pier and beach setting with the California sun shining and now it is August so I am posting this summer song. I hope you enjoy my violin cover of the very upbeat song Lambada by Kaoma!
Hello everyone! I hope you enjoy my violin cover of Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars. This video is from a wedding from last year in summer. It was a beautiful day and I can’t wait for this year’s wedding performances! They are always such a lovely atmosphere.
I learnt this song in spring earlier this year but not posted it until today although I filmed it multiple times… I was waiting until I was happy with how I played it. I hope you enjoy my violin cover of ‘Listen To Your Heart’ by Roxette.
One of my favourite movies is Back To The Future and I love the trilogy!I hope you will enjoy my violin cover of my favourite song from the 80s, ‘The Power Of Love’ by Huey Lewis and the News from Back To The Future. It is one of my favourite songs to play!
House Of The Rising Sun - Acoustic Cover by Lilly May and Holly May (Guitar, vocals and violin)
Santa Monica Street Violinist | Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses - Holly May Violin Cover Busking
I played ‘Wind Of Change’ in the wind… To be honest, I’m so surprised that I still had hold of my bow at the end of this video… This was the most difficult 5 minutes of playing violin in my life because of the wind, multiple times during this video, my bow almost flew away into the ocean! Anyway, I hope you enjoy my violin cover of ‘Wind Of Change’ by Scorpions on Santa Monica Pier in California.
Stand By Me - Ben E. King | Santa Monica Pier Violin Street Performance - Holly May Violin
EVERYBODY IS DANCING | Despacito - Ibiza Electric Violinist
It was Stephen Sanchez’ birthday on November 3rd so I thought I’d post on of his songs. I hope you enjoy my violin cover of this Rock N’ Roll sounding song ‘Shake’.
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon - Violin Cover by Holly May Violin
I filmed this when I was at Santa Monica Pier because only a short walk away was Venice Beach (which we visited also) and some famous scenes of the Barbie movie were filmed very close by at Venice Beach so I wanted to have my performance close to it and patiently waited to post it on the anniversary of the movie. I hope you enjoy my violin covers from the Barbie soundtrack.
Despacito - Ibiza Beach Party - Violin Cover - Summer 2022
Golden Hour - JVKE | Violin Cover - Holly May Violin (Street Performance)
I hope you enjoy my violin cover of ‘Golden Hour’ by JVKE. I had finished filming my videos in this performance but then the sun came around and I thought that this song would fit so well so thank you to my Dad for filming this
Until I Found You - Stephen Sanchez | Violin Cover by Holly May Violin
Marry You - Bruno Mars | Beautiful Farm Wedding Performance - Violin Cover by Holly May Violin
What Was I Made For - Billie Eilish (from ‘Barbie’) Violin & Piano Duet - Holly May & Lilly May
All You Need Is Love - The Beatles | Romantic Wedding Violin Performance - Holly May
A Man Without Love - Engelbert Humperdinck | Violin Cover by Holly May Violin (Street Performance)
On this day in March, I tried out a new spot to street perform and I had a great time! I hope you enjoy my violin cover of Mamma Mia by ABBA.
Enchanting Virtual Duet - All Is Found - Holly May Violin & Karoline Flute (Frozen 2 Cover)
Your Song - Elton John | Violin Cover - Holly May
Dance The Night - Dua Lipa (from ‘Barbie’ soundtrack) | Violin Cover - Holly May Violin
Livin’ On A Prayer - Bon Jovi | Violin Cover - Live Stage Performance - Holly May Violin
In today’s video, I unbox and show you two new electric violins (‘Crozz’ and ‘Duchess’) that were sent to me by Kinglos Neo Classical. I also give a sound demo at the end of the video for both violins. If you are interested in purchasing either of these violins, make sure to use code ‘Holly20’ for $20 discount off of your purchase, or visit the shop using this link - https://neoclassical.kinglos.com/disc...
Until I Found You - Stephen Sanchez, Em Beihold | Violin Cover by Holly May Violin
Can’t Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley | Dad & Daughter Duet - Holly May Violin & Chris Marsden Sings (cover)
I hope you enjoy our voice and violin cover of this timeless song ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’ by Elvis Presley
Glimpse Of Us - Joji - Violin Cover by Holly May Violin - Ibiza
I loved playing at this gig in Ibiza last year, especially this moment when everyone sang along to ‘Country Roads’ by John Denver! I hope you enjoy my violin cover!
Hey! I thought I’d make this vlog video on how my street performances went in Santa Monica in March. Performing on the pier was the most difficult performance in my life because I was convinced that my bow was going to fly away in the wind. However, I loved performing, despite the wind and rain. Santa Monica has a great system for street performing and from the weekend I was there, it seemed to work really well and so it is my favourite place I have street performed so far!
In this vlog, I go to a wedding fair and perform my violin, my Dad helps me set up the equipment and the banner because I’m too short and couldn’t reach… 4 days later we both perform at a beer festival at a building built in the 1300’s in the 14th century in York! I hope you enjoy this behind the scenes vlog!
In this video, I show you the behind the scenes of one of the most beautiful wedding’s I have played at, the venue was stunning! I hope you enjoy
Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars | Violin Street Performance - Holly May Violin Cover
La valse d’Amélie - Magical Virtual Duet Cover - Holly May Violin and Kalina Mascord
Five Nights At Freddy’s - The Living Tombstone | Violin Cover - Holly May Violin
Karolina Protsenko & Holly May Perform Dance Monkey In Santa Monica - Violin Cover
This is my 4 year violin progress video - I hope you enjoy it. I used to play violin when I was younger but I never practiced and became very un-motivated and so I quit. About 4 years ago, I started to play again, self-taught learning pop songs using a mixture between violin tabs on YouTube and learning by ear. I got a teacher in March 2021, who I have weekly online lessons with to work on classical music. I now love to play violin and I’m so happy that I picked it back up again.
Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison | Violin Cover - Holly May (Street Performance)
Since the beginning of this year, I have been on a search for a new violin. My old violin has served me very well over the past 3 and a half years, however, I had never been to a violin shop to try violins before as I bought mine online during 2020. As I am short, my hands are quite small so I was looking for a smaller violin. I recorded the journey from January to July and I hope you enjoy the video
I hope you enjoy my acoustic guitar and violin cover of ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone. My new Christmas cover is available to stream on Spotify! ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ - https://open.spotify.com/album/7Lg1UI... iTunes / Apple Music ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ - / have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-single Amazon Music ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BQW8P18...
In March, it was 5 years since I started to play violin again after previously quitting. I when I started again, I could not remember how to read sheet music and I decided not to restart lessons but I began teaching myself and ‘Despacito’ was the first song I learnt by myself. I have already done a 4 year progress video of my playing last year, so I thought I would share 5 years of progress in a different way through 1 song. I hope you enjoy it!
As some of you know, I am a big Five Nights At Freddy’s fan and I loved the games and songs growing up. I hope you enjoy my violin cover of ‘Join Us For A Bite’ by JT Music.
In today’s video, me and Emma Sušilo collaborated on a duet together! Even though I live in England and Emma lives in Croatia, we still found a way to duet. We hope you enjoy our virtual violin duet of ‘Arcade’ by Duncan Laurence.
When I filmed this video, it was the 22nd September which was the one year anniversary of the Stephen Sanchez debut album ‘Angel Face’ and so I decided to play the whole album from start to finish in the beginning of my street performance set! I hope you enjoy this little montage of the songs.
It was spooky season and almost Halloween so I was asked by York Dance Space if I would accompany them in their Halloween dance for a Halloween charity event we were both booked for and it was so much fun and the dance was beautiful and haunting. I hope you enjoy our performance of ‘Nothing Else Matters’ (originally by Metallica, Apocalyptica arrangement).
Today I though I’d bring you along busking with me, and show you my street performance set-up, equipment and everything about how I street perform with my violin. I realised there lots of videos like this for guitarists and singers but there are not many videos on YouTube about a violin busking set up, so I hope you find this helpful if you, yourself, want to street perform as a violinist!
Recently I got to do a little interview for a section of a radio show covering what it is like to be a busker in York and how it is to street perform. I was happy to talk about my experiences and hope that you will enjoy listening.
Hi everyone! On the 21st June 2023, I took a trip to London and saw TwoSet Violin in concert! Not only this, but we managed to get VIP tickets back in April, and so we also got to meet Brett and Eddy and attend a Q&A before the show! The whole evening was brilliant and I hope you enjoy our vlog video to show you what it was like! If soon they announce they are coming to a city near you, I highly recommend their show!
I wanted to learn this ABBA song and I thought I would film and show you how I learn all of my songs by ear. This song took me about 10 - 15 minutes to learn, some songs take 5 minutes and play them in one try, others take 30 minutes to an hour. My time learning a song by ear has definitely got faster since I started learning songs like this a couple years ago but the time they take also depends on how well I know a song and if I have heard many times before or not.
Hey everyone! I thought I would document the process of my new song ‘Quest’ over the past couple of months to show you how it came to be and what goes into composing, producing and recording an original song on violin!
As we are currently in the middle of Autumn, I really wanted to film a video at this beautiful lake so I thought I’d play Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John as all of the leaves are yellow… and brown and red. I hope you enjoy my violin cover!