I’ll keep this brief, because we are celebrating our non-human friends this week, and not my doggerel. Here’s a little edited Walt Whitman: “I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained… Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things… Not one is […]
Alash Ensemble
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Jan.27
Tuvan throat singing first came on my radar when I was a teenager, via the documentary Genghis Blues, where San Francisco blues musician Paul Pena learned the art over shortwave radio and was invited to Tuva to perform in one of their festivals. I even saw one of his hosts, the amazing Kongar-ool Ondar, do […]
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Dry the Rain
I’ve been enjoying the frantic back and forth between the flood days and warm sun days, so I haven’t really paid much attention to January slipping by. Which is unfortunate because it’s one of my favorite months. They all have their charm, depending on where you are, and my associations from childhood with our Humboldt […]