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10 Day Album Challenge #7: NNAMDÏ, BRAT
He can experiment with the musical recipe and cook up things that shouldn’t taste good, but actually do.
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Calling All Seattle Area Musicians
One of the things I love about Seattle is it has this amazing ability to think outside the box. As a matter of fact, at times it’s like there’s no box at all. That can be a little scary, but also a little exciting. Every once in a while, the city will have an artist…
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Credit Where Credit Is Due
If you were told that someone had a talent that only a handful of people on the entire planet had, wouldn’t you be impressed? Wouldn’t you be even more impressed if you knew that person was also a free speech advocate, had been in a few films, organizes for street performers, is a storyteller and…
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Support Creativity!
What a strange world we live in. We are surrounded by creative people, people with talent that we can only dream about, and for the most part they’re the very people who have to struggle to survive. And that struggle often takes away from their ability to create. Imagine a world in which creativity were…
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The Milk of Human Kindness
A couple of years ago I met a musician in the virtual world of Second Life who went by the name of Strum Diesel. He’s a folk/pop/bluegrass artist, and an amazing talent. I started going to all his performances. I love his music. In real life his name is Sean Kagalis, and he often tours.…
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Kindly Stick a Screwdriver in My Ear
As I mentioned yesterday, I went to a Ray LaMontagne concert, and had a wonderful time. Once he got on stage, that is. The tickets said the show started at 7:30, so we arrived promptly. And the usher who scanned our tickets said the concert would end at 11:30. Wow! We were really going to…