Posted in hammered dulcimer, original music, tagged Chattanooga, mothers day on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This past Sunday, Butch and I were playing our first of many Sundays out at the aquarium. He’d gotten up for a bathroom break, so I was left there alone to improvise on my dulcimer. A small meditation on my mother, and Mothers Day in general, is what came out. When Butch [...]
Posted in captured sound, hammered dulcimer, original music, tagged hammered dulcimer, Lisa Ferguson, Main Street, Southside Chattanooga on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m glad this blog is about all kinds of music I encounter on a daily/weekly basis, so I’m free to post a clip of someone else playing the hammered dulcimer. Lisa Ferguson and I got lucky with two last-minute gigs this weekend. The first one, Saturday night, was at CreateHere on Main Street. [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, original music, traditional music, tagged Budapest, Butch and Christie, dulcimer, Hungary on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
We just received word that the video of our first concert in Budapest has been posted! Once you’re on the page, use the small black scrollbar to scroll down, and click on the line that has my name on it… and then wait a while… It took quite a long time for the video to [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, original music, voice, tagged Into the Sky, Malcolm Dalglish, Ooodoo on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this week I decided to order myself a birthday gift, and with some luck it actually arrived on my birthday! It’s Malcolm Dalglish’s latest, “Into the Sky.” It’s under the ensemble’s name, Ooodoo, which is himself, Moira Smiley, Naomi Dalglish, and Joshua Kartes, plus N. Scott Robinson a’tappin’ on all kinds of percussion. I [...]
Posted in original music, voice, tagged round on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I wrote a round in the shower last week. Or at least I was pretty sure it was a round. Couldn’t be 100% sure until I tried it out with some friends, which I finally did last night at Carla’s house in Memphis. So this is me, Adrian, Carla, and Butch all giving it a [...]
Posted in original music, voice, tagged Adrian Kosky, Jefferson Heights, mountain dulcimer on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m feeling like a doofus tonight for forgetting to set up my recorder at our house concert in Memphis. It’s not that I necessarily wanted to capture me and Butch, but we did something very special at the end with our Australian friend, Adrian Kosky. He had played a few of his own songs at [...]
Posted in original music, tagged Dante Bucci, hang, Philadelphia on February 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s pronounced “hung.” It’s an instrument invented in Bern, Switzerland, and anyone who has one is incredibly lucky. I’m totally stuck on it, particularly this Dante Bucci guy, who lives in the Philadelphia area. He’s going to be doing a gig at the Tin Angel next week, and if I were anywhere [...]
Posted in improvisation, original music, piano, tagged art, improvisation, piano, Terry Payne on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a piece I wrote and recorded on Christmas Eve. I like it because it reminds me of an artist in Pasadena, Terry Payne, whose work is shown above. Mostly, it reminds me of the music on his website, but then I can easily remember meeting him and his big fluffy dog [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, original music, tagged Butch and Christie on January 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
…But it sure is starting to sound good.
Here’s me and Butch giving it a whirl, thinking we might perform it in Budapest next week. When he gets it goin’ on the guitar, I forget all about Death Cab for Cutie, and realize it’s “Dear Prudence.” Hey, I could steal from worse.
Confused Waltz, hammered [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, original music, piano on January 7, 2008 | No Comments »
A few weeks ago, I was feeling a little confused. And I sat down with all of my feelings at the piano and wrote this waltz. I find that it’s good to play when you’re thinking too hard, because the playing can take over… Sometimes it’s just funny what comes out, though. [...]
