Going to see these folks in concert tonight ...

[BudreauReye]

... at One World Theater.  R Carlos Nakai, William Eaton, and Will Clipman.  My wife and I saw them last Spring and we agreed that it was the best concert either of us had ever attended.

Nakai is a Navajo flautist, William Eaton is the harp-guitarist, and Clipman is the percussionist.  Probably not everybody's cup of tea, but well worth a listen.  We discovered Nakai playing on the speakers at a gift shop at the Grand Canyon a number of decades ago.  We bought a cassette and listened to his haunting flute all over Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico and on many vacations there since.  He has an album that he recorded with a traditional Japanese band of stringed instrumentalists that is just amazing to behold, if you like that kind of thing.  It is entitled "Island of Bows".   William Eaton is one of the world's foremost luthiers and stringed instrumentalists.  He specializes in making guitar harps.  The one he is playing in this video has a full synthesizer built into the body of the guitar harp.  Give it a listen, if you like this sort of thing. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_LXJh5EVr4

 

[oldmanriver]

Pass the peyote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BudreauReye]

Pass the peyote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess you could say that.     I have been talking to my brother-in-law lately, who is a second generation Russian-Jewish New Yorker.  He is not religious in any way but he certainly does not feel much connection with the western Christian heritage with regards to the arts and sacred music.  I was surprised recently when he said that he had been listening to sacred christian music, mainly from the classic christian composers from the Renaissance.  He doesn't appreciate that music from a religious perspective,  rather from a more universal spiritual sense.  I am glad that we have these influences from differing cultures from around the world and that we can appreciate the light that they bring to our shared human experience.  If, "Pass the peyote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", floats your boat, I give you this.  You'll have to forgive him, for he is an Aggie ... but this is a reminder that on one level or the other, all music can be sacred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4evzpIVnMVs

 

[bbdude]

Lyle is always ok in my book.  Great song.

 

[BudreauReye]

Lyle is always ok in my book.  Great song.

Once upon a time long past, I worked for the State of Texas in emergency management.  One summer, I spent a week at a time surveying Bryan, College Station and Aggie U with regards to how buildings could be used in natural disaster situations.  I would listen to a public radio station from Houston that would play that song on a regular basis.  That song helped keep me sane that summer.

 

[Duke C #11]

You may enjoy this.

 

[BudreauReye]

You may enjoy this.



This is the last song on Guerra's album "Arieto", "Naboria/Daca Mayanimacaná".  he uses it to end a lot of his concerts with a plethora of fireworks.  Even if you do not love this, introduce your wife or girlfriend to the album . You will thank me for it later.  Women of all ethnic persuasions love Mr. Guerra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmoUu1XDrvA