Music
Winnipeg Folk Festival 2012
My impressions of this year’s Winnipeg Folk Festival (my eighth year in a row)… After this many years, folk fest feels like home. I feel 100% comfortable and safe, surrounded by good folkie souls. Sunday always comes with mixed emotions — on the one hand, I’m missing my husband and dog and kind of want [...]
Nafro Dance Productions: Patana III
Nafro put on another great show last night… very entertaining with some interesting pieces. It always amazes me that choreographers have the creative capacity to do what they do. I’m a Creative too, but I can’t imagine being able to develop every movement of an entire dance show. If you would like to see African [...]
Live Music
Although I love music, and am a firm believer that grocery shopping, errands and driving are so much more enjoyable with good tunes in the background, I’m more likely to sit or walk in silence… just listening to the noise (or quiet) around me. I think I most enjoy live music… especially in smaller, more [...]
Alphabet playlist
While traveling last week, I decided to pass the time by making an Alphabet playlist. This essentially consisted of picking my favorite song for each letter of the alphabet (out of what I already had on my iPod). For some letters I had lots of choices, for others, barely any. Some songs were chosen out [...]
There is no movement without rhythm
Last night I took part in a drum workshop with Jordan Hanson of Hand Drum Rhythms (accompanied by Sam Lopez on bass drums). I haven’t been to a drum class in a couple of years now and I realized last night how much I miss drumming regularly. There is just such a sense of positive, [...]