... unless there are other people and then it's just us and other people, but like, what's in a name, anyway?
May and I are packing our gear (and the kids) and we're headed up the road to Tobermory today to do a 30 minute set in aid of the Music on the Bruce Roots Festival, a new pay what you can local-arts fest being set in motion by David Smout as a fundraiser for their local medical services building. We'll be on the main stage from 6pm to 6:30, our first public gig billed as May and Gary Murphy ;) and we've got you a setlist that's something old, something new, something borrowed and a little blue, short and sweet, and built for a late summer's evening.
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Yes, it is true, we've been busy ... and we have news ...
The 'Handfast' is a medieval ceremony for contract of marriage where the couple's clasped hands are bound by a ribbon and thus what we know today as "tying the knot"
May Ip and Gary Murphy will tie the knot on the Summer Solstice 2008 (June 20); the wedding will be a small and casual eco-friendly affair in a local woodland garden with bonfires and singsongs into the evening [ Facebook | May and Gary: Our Handfasting ]
Some friends have asked us about PayPal for gifts, so there's a button here that we hope will do the magic; having been together so long, we're pretty much for housewares, so we've instead set up a Royal Bank fund (02122/5035316) for donations towards some very much needed home and property repairs that will happily forever after be known as "Our Wedding Present" ;) read more »
I feel all re-patriated: CBC Radio3 has revamped their website and rolled out the red-carpet to artists wanting an in to their Galaxy broadcast universe. Not only a new place to list your download tracks and maybe score an audition for airplay on the streamcast or even on the main networks, but each band gets their own homepage (here's ours) for their bios, photos and tracks, free space to host your videos, and a free blogspace to post your gig schedules and general band-news. read more »
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What is harmony? In music school we get taught something to do with beats and ratios and the harmonics of vibrating strings, but when we stop to actually ask people, that elegant old model very quickly falls apart. In the two and a half millennia since Pythagoras we've tended to all agree on the unison, octave and the perfect fifth as somehow consonant, but what of the tritone? Or the minor second and major seventh? read more »
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Berklee College is poised to launch a new service at the end of April, the Berklee Internet Radio Network (www.thebirn.com), a four-channel 24-hour broadcast for musicians, by musicians and about ...
a highly original and improvisational approach to programming, capturing a phase in a young musician's life when they are hungry to discover new artists and styles, and dying to share the music they love with others. Since all participants are musicians, expect to hear orginal songs by Berklee students and bands, as well as music created by the DJs themselves. read more »
Submitted by garym on Wed, 2007/04/25 - 8:26pm.
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Well planned, thoughtfully rendered as free PDF practice sheets with MP3 audio podcast instructions full of tips, guest-artists and examples, every Monday a new tune is illustrated by Australian Trad and Bluegrass guitarist Tony O'Rourke and Gerry Gaffney, first class lessons in how to play your reels and jigs up to speed and in the tradition. This is the future of cultural transmission, one tune at a time. read more »
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Can you tell me what loneliness is
I bet you don't really know
It's when you're feeling...um
Feeling down and out
And there seems nothing you can do
You turn to your boyfriend hoping he could ease your sorrow
But all he talks about is that tropical weather is cool
You cry on the shoulder of a friend you have known for years
He may try to comfort you but
He could never share your tears
Can somebody tell me please
How to become a happy loner
Having no one to be with
While in the world you wander
You feel like just working up to a stranger
And expose youself without any fear
Somehow if you every tried to do something like this
People would think that you were
They'd think that you were weired
Can somebody tell me please
Could I ever be a happy loner read more »
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Remember when I was young
All my dreams were built on solid ground
For every seed I sow a tree would grow
And my dreams would all come true
My mama said, "while you were young
Go dream your dreams and spread all seeds on the ground
Then your day will come if only you can wait
And believe that you can make it one day."
Life goes on many years gone
My dreams they still remain
I take the pain as I move along
The happiness it brings keeps me moving on
Life goes on many years gone
Some dreams they have come true
Happily I'm moving on
Despite what I've been through
Look back the days when I was young
Sorrowful time of life in it I found
Those prescious words my mama said to me
They turned out to be as true as they'd be read more »
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