Welllll, it’s unfortunate that the sound is lousy in this video from our last concert…
19 May 2009
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24 April 2009
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Bones Solo & discussion (pitch change, triplets)
I had somewhat figured out that you could change the pitch of the bones because now that I have 2 similar pairs of bones I was intrigued at how hard it was to get the same pitch from both hands. My left hand always sounds higher regardless of which bones I’m using. LOL
Because of that I’ve made good progress with simply finding how I prefer to hold them but remain in awe with all the great rhythms shown here!
16 February 2009
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The Return Of The Collapsible Kunsthalle
From Februar 20 till March 21, 2009 the Galerie am Landsgemeindeplatz is exhibiting the artwork of Mark Staff Brandl.
Brandl is an internationally well-known artist with works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Whitney Museum in New York, the St. Gallen Art Museum…
21 January 2009
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This Land is Your Land - The Obama Inaugural Celebration Concert
There is a nice little article about this song, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger by Tommy Stevenson that has also been posted at truthout. As emotive as Obama’s oath giving was the next day, it was a far cry from hearing all the words of This Land is Your Land sung from the steps of the Lincoln memorial; the true moment of change?
21 December 2008
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Get Up In The Morning/Circus Jig
A foolish whim these last month was buying and then making myself a pair of rhythm bones so that I have a pair for each hand. Foolish because I know that my washboard playing is not nearly good enough to give myself yet another thing to practice, but what can you do… Rhythm bones were just too attractive to not try and now that I have, I find them even more so although obviously it will be years of practice to get somewhere; it must be said that I’m not particularly dexterous…
11 November 2008
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Saturday's Wine Drinking Blues
Saturday we (Crawfish) played what will probably be the only gig we’ve managed to get this fall, which is lame but what can you do when people’s availabilities aren’t what they would need to be to really get things going.
That said, it went ok and I believe that there where even some nice moments. However we are still pretty very uneven in my opinion, jumping from the best to the worst with a tip of the thumb…
26 December 2007
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A Spoonful...
Another thrilling moment from Saturday’s concert!