At noon we went to Sound Cafe to hear Mark Clark’s Bent But Not Broken played live with Paul Sanchez and Margie Perez sitting in – all proceeds of the sale of this song go to Silence is Violence, an organization that is grassroots and fundamental to trying to heal and help this city’s soul. T has been taking Tin to the Music Clinic there on Tuesday nights and so when the band was organizing…
Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~ Henry James. We had a week that saw a thunderstorm to end all storms, and then a cool spell but it was a tease as summer came yesterday and let’s just forget about Spring – unless you call high 80s spring weather. As usual, Spring in New Orleans means one word – FESTIVALS –…
I just hung up with an long-time source of mine and it is a nice way to end the week. One thing I was telling a colleague is that if I have not been on the phone with a source in a while, I get wiggy. Hard to explain but you get addicted to the connections and when you are disconnected you’re like a fish out of water. I always said that I was born…
I’m starting a list of music and books that I want and why oh why did I miss this guy at Blue Nile last Saturday? Could someone tell me? But the good thing is the universe is providing a lot of what I need for free – such as a friend from Boston who sent me Poser and a friend across the bayou who lent me her copy of Zeitoun. And I finally fixed our…
I have something going on every night until April 19th. That’s gnarly. And again it’s that time in New Orleans where there are so many competing events that it is head spinning. A friend sent this about NOMA’s Art in Bloom: it’s like the designer/builders of the rose bowl parade floats took LSD and hooked up with edward scissorhands.. it is so awesome. and they stick the exhibits all over the museum so its like…
The daily schedules have just been posted – good grief – so much music, so little time. The Cubes are the Rosetta Stone of New Orleans art and culture, the secret language of music and dancing.” – Chris Rose
Tuesday – went to yoga and Michele talked about how everything we experience we do through the lens of our own experience and so when someone reacts a certain way that they are doing it through a completely different lens and that we need to take that into consideration to possible understand let alone communicate with all the various personalities that come our way. Came home to a Facebook post by a friend who said:…
Tin can improvise with a drumstick like nothing else – it rarely plays drums, it is a trombone mostly, or quickly becomes a clarinet, and it has even been a tuba and a guitar. God bless imagination. I read somewhere that Trombone Shorty used to parade around with his neighbor kids and they used a Big Wheel as a tuba and cardboard boxes as horns. It just goes to reinforce the message that kids need…
When Tin was a baby people bought him Baby Mozart type DVDs and I couldn’t stand them and instead gave him a DVD of Louis Armstrong & his All-Stars in ’59. Last night, we video’d Tin watching the DVD last night as it has become a family favorite pass-time. T asked Tin if he was channelling Louis and I thought who better to be a mentor/hero to a musical toddler. From the liner: Louis’ performance, aired on…