Green Shoots!
Mud Season!
I decided that since I so brazenly hijacked the ax[1] of the washboard player in Chubby Carrier’s band — his name is Earl Sally, by the way — the least I could do is make an effort to learn a little more about the instrument.
First off, its proper Cajun-French name is the frottoir, or, in [...]
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Hé, toi!
As I hinted at briefly in my last post, I got a chance to do some impromptu music-making while I was in Austin, Texas this past weekend at the Netroots Nation convention. I hadn’t expected to perform until Sunday morning, when I was to play for the Multifaith Worship Service. But when life provides [...]
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Howdy, y’all! MMN is currently in Austin, TX, where, yes, it is hot! I’m here attending Netroots Nation, a conference for political bloggers. Of course, I’m a music blogger, but I’m politically engaged as well, and there’s lots of cool stuff going on here… not the least of which is the chance to meet in [...]
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Yesterday on NPR’s Fresh Air, I heard an interview with singer and composer Theo Bleckmann, a German native who moved to New York in 1989 and has been, according to his bio, “a steady force in the New York downtown music scene for over 15 years.”
Now, don’t worry if you don’t know what “downtown music [...]
Filed under: 20th century, music, musical theater | Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Hanns Eisler, Kurt Weill, Terry Gross, Theo Bleckmann | No Comments »
