Feb 28, 2007
I noticed today, around 5:45pm, that in fact….it was still light out. Today was an oddly warm day and the first thoughts of spring entered my life, as they always do when the sun once again produces heat with its light.
I am listening for the sweet rich tones in every note I hear. I’m listening to each word for a message. My tank is filling as I return home from Folk Alliance in Memphis and as I reflect on this short month, its every day was brimming.
I visited the site of Martin Luther King’s last breath and learned about the Civil Rights Movement. I walked through Graceland, learning some of the story of a young man who plowed paths with music…ruffled feathers..broke hearts, including his own. I watched the march of the ducks at the Peabody Hotel…I shook Guy Clark’s weathered and wise hand, listen to him reflect on his career & craft and then watched him perform a gracious and flawless set with his good friend Verlon Thompson. Everyone in the room was shouting the title of their favourite song in hopes that he would play it…imagine.
I wonder what our revolution is. I suppose at this stage & state of the world we are at the cusp of a greatly needed environmental revolution. Will we march? History is spattered with brave people who took the risk needed to make a change or at least get the party started. Brave people teach us that it is possible to be brave.
Before Memphis was the whirl of the East Coast Music Awards…I got a taste of many stages and my first national appearance on CBC TV (photo by Colleen Bovaird). I celebrate the success of our local musicians and especially my good friends and multiple award winners In -Flight Safety and Jill Barber…soooo proud. Other highlights were meeting the incredible Jully Black and the infamous Shelagh Rogers of CBC’s Sounds Like Canada!
Even before the whirl I had a great time sharing a few maritime stages with the most certainly talented Royal Wood from Toronto (backed by IFS) …(photo by Marc LeBlanc) a musical genius and kind gentleman.
Even EVEN before that (wow)..was a great show in Wakefield Quebec where I warmed the stage for Mr. Justin Rutledge (Toronto) and I borrowed his guitar and fantastic band for a new rendition of ‘good enough’. (photos by Thom Fountain)
Soon Toronto, Boston, Saint John….keep in touch
In my player: Jully Black, Patty Griffin (NEW), Chris Smither (NEW), Guy Clark (NEW), Quebe Sisters
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