GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 23, 2026
The daily music geography game: five clues about where music history happened. Try them yourself first, then reveal the answers.
▶ Play this round Play today's roundSince 1961, older local musicians have played traditional jazz in this small hall in a famous old quarter.
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📍 Preservation Hall, French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA · map
At first the hall had no alcohol, no amplifiers and no advertising. It now gets about 180,000 visitors a year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
This music, film and tech festival started in 1987 with about 700 people. It is held every March.
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📍 South by Southwest (SXSW), Austin, Texas, USA · map
The organizers expected about 150 people at the first SXSW. More than 700 came.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Arctic Monkeys formed in 2002 among school friends from this city's High Green suburb.
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📍 High Green, Sheffield, England · map
Alex Turner and drummer Matt Helders were next-door neighbours from age five. The band first rehearsed in Turner's garage.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes drank at this bar, then called Veloso, while writing a famous 1962 song.
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📍 Bar Garota de Ipanema (former Bar Veloso), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · map
'The Girl from Ipanema' is believed to be the second most recorded pop song ever, after the Beatles' 'Yesterday'.
Source: guidemyrio.wordpress.com
On this day in 2002, Ningning of the K-pop group aespa was born in this city.
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📍 Harbin, Heilongjiang, China · map
Her birth name is Ning Yizhuo. 'Ningning' was her nickname when she was a child.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
On this day in 1945, Kim Larsen, singer of the rock band Gasolin', was born in this capital city.
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📍 Copenhagen, Denmark · map
Kim Larsen co-founded Gasolin' in 1969. It became one of the most successful Danish rock bands.
Source: en.wikipedia.org