A New Years Day Community Harmonic Choir with Amy McTear

A New Years Day Community Harmonic Choir with Amy McTear

Joining together in heartfelt chorus with the crystal singing bowls to call forth whole and liberated living.

  We are music.  The pure tones of the crystal singing bowls have the ability to travel below the cognitive level and restore harmony.  Toning, a simple practice of wordless singing, can stir a deep remembrance of a limitless Self.  Meeting one another in the heart, we begin to heal the rift in our collective soul.

*Entering a river of sound, lingering in spaces of emptiness and silence*

Thursday January 1st, 2009  4-5:30PM
At The Living Seed in New Paltz  $10

kate clinton's organizing to "sage" the whitehouse

OK, it's not folk music -  "Saging", BTW refers to burning sticks of the herb sage to ward off evil spirits.

Kate Clinton said the idea grew from hearing about shamans who cleansed the area around Machu Picchu of evil spirits by saging after George Bush visited. 

"We are going to meet in Washington at 6PM on January 19th at the new White House visitor's center," Clinton said in a new interview. "We'll mill around there for a little bit. And then we're just gonna walk over towards the White House, or as close as we can get, with our little sage sticks and try to get out the bad spirits. So, we can clear out the bad spirits in time for the new Obama administration to come in on the next day."  (hundreds have signed up!)
http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/saging-the-white-house/

above strategy superseded -

new meeting place & plan.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG_9bGSYVV8

Becker/Keyes video to air on Saugerties TV

"The Sounds of the Hudson River Valley," featuring Kevin and Carol Becker with Rich Keyes, will be airing on Saugerties Lighthouse TV, channel 23.

The videocast, which runs 1hr 24mins, was recorded in Saugerties at the Dutch Arms Chapel. It features tunes such as "Apple Pickers Reel," "Erie Canal," "Hudson River Steamboat," and "The Burning of Kingston" among the 20 Hudson Valley themed songs.

The video was produced by Ernie Mortuzans in conjunction with the Heritage Folk Music Series organized by Bob Lusk. A DVD of the video is available.

Dates for the airing are as follows:

Friday, January 2nd, 7-8:24pm
Tuesday, January,6th, 8-9:24pm
Saturday, January 10th, 7-8:24pm






     

Happy Holidays

From my friend, musician and nurse Tom Heilein.  

These folks went on the road, and got all these musicians to play on the same recording session. When I say on the road, I mean: Europe, America, Africa, Asia etc. All playing the same simple and wonderful old song written by Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller.  It is absolutely Awesome!!!

Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A_ma2h0idk

"Music is a higher revelation
than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music is the electrical soil
in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."
~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~

Tom Siblo passes

My good friend Tom Siblo Landsman passed away Friday evening.  Tom was a tireless fighter for peace and justice in the mid hudson valley.   The funeral will be at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation on Wed.  Please check in the paper for time and more information.

 

Bob Lusk

Winter Solstice

12/21/08 Winter Solstice at the Muddycup on Partition St in Saugerties. 7-9 pm. I'll be playing songs and tunes on the guitar, mohan veena and mandolin.

Bank Letter

 

Dear Sirs, In view of what seems to be happening internationally with banks at the moment, I was wondering if you could advise me correctly.If one of my checks is returned marked "insufficient funds," how do I know whether that refers to me or to you? Yours truly, Bank customer

Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya nominated for Grammy

Dear Friend,

 

We are glad to inform you that Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya has been nominated for this year's Grammy Award for his album "Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey". The album published by Riverboat Records / World Music Network has nominated for Best Traditional World Music Album.

 

Best regards

 

Pramod Sharma
(For Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya)
Bhattacharya's School of Universal Music
204/1 Regent Colony P.O. Regent Park
Kolkata - 700 040 India.
Phone no.     : +91 33 2428 6886 / 2471 7822
Fax no.          : +91 33 2471 3250
Website        : www.debashishbhattacharya.com
e-mail            : info@debashishbhattacharya.com

Holiday Caroling in Saugerties

The caroling should be  a lot of fun.  I just got word that Girl Scout Troop 117 from the Saugerties Methodist Church will be joining us!

12/14/08 Holiday Caroling in Saugerties. Bring your voices and instruments. Meet at the Dutch Arms Chapel on John St in Saugerties and then stroll through the streets singing seasonal songs, meeting back in the Chapel for a pot luck supper and more singing! Starts at 3:00. at the Dutch Arms Chapel in Saugerties, NY.