Its been a couple of months since Hawp has had the chance to play together, following Andy & Niamh’s relocation to Nova Scotia. But as we gear up for this weekend’s spots at the Mill Race Festival of Traditional Folk Music in lovely Cambridge, ON, its better than ever!
Today’s rehearsal began shortly after 2 pm, was followed by a wonderful pasta [...]
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New tracks and Hawp back in the saddle!
Posted in Creative Process, Gigs, Recording projects on July 29, 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 [...]
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” [...]
Improvisation
Posted in Creative Process, Early Entries, Jazz, Performance on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TAKEN from an article by Terri Windling on the art of Stu Jenks: “Circles, Sprials and Stu,” as it appears on the Endicott Studios website:
Art historian John Berger, in a recent essay (“Steps Toward a Small Theory of the Visible”) comments: “The modern illusion concerning painting (which postmodernism has done nothing to correct) is that [...]
More Alex Grey
Posted in Creative Process, Early Entries, Folk Art, Inspiration, Practice on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ART is communion of one soul to another, offered through the symbolic language of form and content.” (p 19)
“The only way to formal inventiveness and technical ability is to work and work, studying and perfecting the craft.” (p 19)
“Technique is just the way to arrive at a statement. Great art is a concentration of transformative [...]
