Hawp begins recording tracks for the new CD this week, which is tentatively scheduled for release in the Fall. No firm title yet, but probably something to do with storms.
The material is mostly original and there will be a nice balance of tune sets and song tracks. The arrangements are shaping up to be nice and full with a wide [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Hawp Begins Recording This Week
Posted in Recording projects on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dulcimerhead & Spiritfest – Newmarket, ON
Posted in Creative Process, Gigs, Music & Spirituality on April 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A few months ago I met this really cool artist & mountain dulcimer player, David Rankine, at the Owen Sound Celtic Festival. We were sitting next to each other in a “Tunesmithing” workshop where, you guessed it, we shared our tunes and talked about how we write them. We both liked each others stuff and [...]
Not by tunes alone…
Posted in Inspiration, Reading List on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing exists in a vacuum…
As a college freshman entering the jazz program at Manhattan School of Music, I had a philosophy professor who asked us newbies an interesting question. In a rough paraphrase, he said, “Do you think there is any point in a bunch of aspiring musicians being required to take non-music (i.e. liberal [...]
Beggar’s Road in Meaford
Posted in Reviews on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A week or so ago we went on one of our “Random Roads” jaunts up towards Owen Sound with the express intent of ending up in Meaford to catch muso friend Tara MacKenzie playing a show with Beggar’s Road. Its was a gorgeous day, the country was beautiful, few enough people on the road and new tunes on [...]
Paintings of Ennis
Posted in Creative Process, Folk Art, Practice, Traditional Learning, Transcriptions on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago I was sitting in Joe Kennedy’s pipe workshop hanging out & listening to some friends go on about all things ulliean-related. Quite esoteric for a non-piper, but very cool. While there Joe brought out a massive volume of transcriptions of Seamus Ennis’ playing. The book was huge and to call it “exhaustive” [...]
