New Year’s Resolution #1 Reinstate Piano Practices into daily routine. 5 Minutes, minimum. Here’s Day 1. FYI. Improvisation is the priority for these musical musings. Making it up as I go along.
Category: <span>Music</span>
It was midnight of the third day when the chanting ended. Jan 1, 2008. We’d been at it, 2 hours on and 4 hours off, around the clock. After the first 24 hours I felt myself slipping into an altered state that felt amazing. For the entire 3 days, the chant never left my mind…there was no room for discursive thinking, worrying, obsessing, analyzing, wondering,. There was no past, no…
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SUNDAY, OCT 9, 2016 1:30 pm East Brunswick Public Library, 2 Civic Center Drive. NJ I’ve attended the Harper’s Escape weekend intensive maybe 6 times, and now that I’ve finally gotten the ‘hang’ of it, it’s ending. After 25 years Kathy, the director, and one of my most favorite teachers, is retiring this event. So sad. But, I do understand. The details above is for the final public…
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5 stars from me! a must see…. touched me in too many ways to count. Ah….the road(s) not traveled…….. Om shanti.
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Heading to the NJ State Folk Festival this weekend where I’ll see one of my favorite harp teachers. I’m really excited to hear some current folk music. It’s been a while. As a “baby-boomer-extraordinaire” I spent countless hours listening to people like Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Tim something?…… It’s a maritime theme this year and I just attended a local photowalk and took these pictures (scroll down) experimenting with…
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Just opened an account @ soundcloud….they’ve really simplified all the uploading and downloading so amateur people like me can share some music……. So, here’s the tune The Factory Girl, at least part of it….. I tried to really slow it down and use very few notes so that you can feel the “bones of the song”. Story at 2pm. ……told under the auspices of a disseminating moon Om shanti. …
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I’ve been practicing my story for Tellebration 2014 and excited to present it. I’ll be telling more about Dagda and adding a nice bit of harping to the telling. Dagda is the god of the bards and his lineage connects him to the fairy realm of Ireland. He’s a comical figure, visually, but still immensely powerful. His primary tool for the magic he weaves is his harp. Besides composing the…
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Well, I am simply filled to the brim with joy and gratitude for last weekend’s Harper’s Escape. It was fabulous and I promise to gift myself more harp events. Meanwhile, last week I also learned how to lightly edit an audio file and upload it to the internet. I know it’s no big deal anymore to do that, but for me this feels really cool! Uh oh…..I do see …
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I’m registered once again for the Harper’s Escape! I’ve attended it maybe 4 other times and it’s never failed to rejuvenate my soul. Oh, and my harp playing gets a little bit better too. The faculty will be different this year which is disappointing and exciting both. I will miss Grainne and her family. Watching the little ones dance to harp & fiddle is a sight to behold. I wrote…
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…..and I for one will be glad to see the population shrink back down to us locals. The upcoming Storytelling Festival, of which I am a part, is featuring stories about New Jersey. We have been a state for 350 years. States have horoscopes also, in case you did not know that. My personal NJ story is as old as I am, being a lifelong resident of this small, crowded,…
