The Instrument – I have been studying the koto for a couple of months now, and recently made a breakthrough with the help of a slightly different tuning. Instead of the traditional Japanese hirajoshi tuning (D G A Bb D Eb), my teacher Mitsuki Dazai showed me a tuning based[…]
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Thanks Pete! Thanks for all the great music and for making even the most hardened cynic clap and sing along. If you’ve never heard Pete Seeger play live, find a recording and listen. And rest assured that whatever the angels were singing before, from now on they’ll all be singing[…]
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Now that the holiday season is finally over, we’re all recovering from the total immersion in Christmas music and most of us don’t want to hear any more of it for the next several months. But “The Gift” by Liz Story and Joel Di Bartolo is an exception to the[…]
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Call me a relic, but there’s something to be said for real interaction with real people in real time and real space. I’m trying to embrace social media, really I am. But it’s not working very well. Besides various accessibility issues that make the websites hard to use, I just[…]
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I’m in between two interesting weekend gigs right now. Last Sunday (Oct 27) I played with another 1/5th of Dyssband and this Sunday (Nov 3) I will be playing with some fraction of The Imperfect Strangers. For those who may not be aware, this isn’t that unusual. Musicians are a[…]
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I’m so excited about this I don’t even know how to begin. My first EP has been released! I had a fun and extremely educational time doing a recording session and decided to keep the momentum going by taking those tracks and making an EP out of them. So not[…]
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A lot of stuff has been going on lately. A website renovation, several new show dates, and now some fresh & crispy demo tracks courtesy of Jon and the rest of the critters at Pyrate Llama. It took a bit of doing to dial in the microphone setup for[…]
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When life gives you lemons, take them and be glad you got something for nothing. Recently I’ve been looking for solo gigs and as part of that process, I have to figure out how I’m going to get myself to places where the transit system can’t take me. Sometimes it’s[…]
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Every once in a while, I’m reminded of how permanent things can become. Case in point: last Saturday I was on my way to a concert and heard a street performer outside a nearby restaurant. That’s not unusual, it was a warm day and lots of people were out &[…]
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Did you ever have one of those moments when you realize that you’d accomplished a lifelong goal without realizing it? I had one last night. I was getting ready to go out to a rehearsal and had an old rerun of Hee Haw on the TV. This is important because[…]
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