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Blue Sky Highway, “Valentines, Hearts and Epiphanies” on Blog-Talk Radio and Sound Cloud

Thanks to poet and photographer Roger Allen Baut (Chasing Tao) for sharing this announcement with you and me. Roger does some very fine work that brings a broad diversity of artists together in support of one another under the banner of The Creative Nexus™. More on Roger, The Creative Nexus and Blue Sky Highway will feature here soon. J.D.

(c) Frank Webster http://fwebster.com
(c) Frank Webster

The Creative Nexus™ is pleased to announce that Season Two, [episode 004] of the Blue Sky Highway [BSH], entitled Valentines, Hearts & Epiphanies, will première at 2:00 p.m. ET, on BlogTalkRadio [BTR] and at 2:15 p.m. ET, on Sunday, February 14, 2016, on SoundCloud [SC] HERE .”

The latest episode continues in its ‘contemplative’ theme with alternative, ambient, contemporary, experimental, indie forms of music, mashups and more, as well as spoken word, vocals, and soundscapes.

Each episode of the BSH is designed to be without an excessive amount of talking, and/or comments, so the listener will ‘not’ be distracted from the various tracks and artists, that compose the show. The focus of the BSH continues to be placed upon the music, the artist, and their creative endeavors, and to encourage creative folk, everywhere, to work together and promote each others endeavors for the mutual benefit of all humanity, and the planet. If we are going to survive, advance, and succeed as a species we need to start working together as soon as possible.

– The Creative Nexus

c Frank Webster
c Frank Webster

 

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Poetry Into Music ~ grab your box of tissues first 

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Iris_Dement_-_Ron_Baker_-_2007-1A poet by any other name is still a poet.

WALKIN’ HOME

I’m walkin’ home tonight
The streets are glowing ‘neath the pale moonlight
I look around, there’s not a soul in sight
and I’m walkin’ home
Once again I hear my mother’s voice
and all us kids making a bunch of noise
If I’m not careful I might start to cry
Just walkin’ home tonight

I turn my head and hear the screen door slam
and there he is, that tall and dark-haired man
He looks my way but all alone he stands
and I am walkin’ home
He’s my Dad, you know I was his girl
He taught me all he knew about this world
and then he traveled right on out of sight
and I’m just walkin’ home tonight

I’m walkin’ home tonight
The streets are glowing ‘neath the pale moonlight
I look around, there’s not a soul in sight
and I am walkin’ home

Old worn-out couches and a bunch of kids
Four to a bedroom and all Mom’s plates were chipped
but I never knew about the things I missed
and I’m walkin’ home
You see, it’s just the place where I come from
and, good or bad, it’s where the deal was done
Mom and Dad, their daughters and their sons
and I’m just walkin’ home tonight

I’m walkin’ home tonight
The streets are glowing ‘neath the pale moonlight
I look around, there’s not a soul in sight
and I’m walkin’ home
Once again I hear my mother’s voice
and all us kids making a bunch of noise
If I’m not careful I might start to cry
Just walkin’ home tonight

– Iris Dement

© words and music, Iris Dement; photograph, Ron Baker under CC BY-SA 3.0 license

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The BeZine, 15 August 2015, Vol.1, Issue 10 – Table of Contents with Links

15 August 2015

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” Platohintergrund-802

We are excited this month to bring you an issue devoted to music. Never have we had such an enthusiastic response to a theme. Facebook messages, emails and emoticons flying through the ether resulting in what is probably our best and largest issue to date … chock full of mind, imagination and flight wrapped in essay, memoir, poetry and video . . . and it’s all about music.

There is no part of life that music doesn’t touch. No part of our being that is left unmoved. Music is a gift that transcends borders and beliefs and can move the most hardened heart to tears and joy.

As fortune would have it, tears could have been the theme for this month.  More than one of us lost someone special. As I worked to pulled things together I also learned of the death of a good friend and found myself helping out another friend who is at the end of her life.  She loves music, so during visits with her I shared the videos that were coming in from Core Team members and friends of The BeZine. No matter what life is delivering to us in this very moment, music comes as friend, healer and  spiritual succor.

And so we start here with a tear: John Anstie’s short piece on the Darwin Song Project, which is accompanied by a video of Karine Polwart singing We’re All Leaving.  It struck me as I listened to this that there is no need for walking on water, no need of “miracles.” We are THE miracle. We who know we are mortal, that we will lose and be lost, still reach out and give our hearts away …What remarkable creatures we are.

Normally I would pick one or two of the pieces that come in to be lead features, but the depth and breadth of the work submitted made that impossible. Hence we have five lead features this month. We have Michael Dickel teaching us about the relation between poetry and music. James R. Cowles bringing music together with science. Lily Negoi is possessed by music. Priscilla Galasso and Terri Stewart bring us memorable experiences of music in the context of family.

From there we move on to a collection of poems and videos. The latter offering some humor as well as grace.

So grab a hot coffee or a cold beer and settle down with us for awhile.  Let us know what you think and consider sharing a link to one of your favorite videos as you go through the work delivered here.

Be the peace.

On behalf of The Bardo Group and Beguine Again, publishers of The BeZine,
Jamie Dedes

TABLE OF CONTENTS WITH LINKS

MUSIC:

Giving Life to Everything

Our header this month is courtesy of Sabine Sauermaul.

Special Feature

Music for Mewling, John Anstie

Lead Features:

Music as Self and World, James R Cowles
The Waltz: Poems and Songs, Michael Dickel
Music: A Soul Experience, Priscilla Galasso
On Music, Liliana Negoi
Yes, indeed, that kind of singing . . . , Terri Stewart

Poetry

Late Night Jazz, Michael Dickel
Words, Words, Words, Michael Dickel
Middle-Class Middle-Aged Male Blues, Michael Dickel
But Hear the Dissonance 1948-2011, Michael Dickel
Songs Around the City, Sharon Frye
The Final Bar, Joseph Hesch
Playing with Their Eyes Closed, Joseph Hesch
The Song Remains the Same, Joseph Hesch
I Hear the Angels Hum, Joseph Hesch
Concerto, Joseph Hesch
For Music, Ben Naga
Grande’s Mandolin (Revised), Corina Ravenscraft
music. . . , Charles W. Martin

Music Videos

Hallmark of Harmony, John Anstie
Don’t Throw Away Your Empties, John Anstie
The History of Lyrics That Aren’t Lyrics, Jamie Dedes
Britian’s National Disabled Orchestra, Jamie Dedes
Big Mama Thornton, Jamie Dedes
Sergey Khachatryan – Armenian violinist, Silva Merjanian
Georgre Enescu: “Carillons nocturnes,” Cristian Perescu, piano, Liliana Negoi

BIOS WITH LINKS TO OTHER WORKS BY OUR CORE TEAM AND GUEST WRITERS

FOR UPDATES AND INSPIRATION “LIKE” OUR FACEBOOK PAGE, THE BARDO GROUP/BEGUINE AGAIN

MISSION STATEMENT

Back Issues Archive
October/November 2014, First Issue
December 2014, Preparation
January 2015, The Divine Feminine
February 2015, Abundance/Lack of Abundance
March 2015, Renewal
April 2015, interNational Poetry Month
May 2015, Storytelling
June 2015, Diversity
July 2015, Imagination and the Critical Spirit

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Music, Language of the Soul: the second in a series from Imen Benyoub on music in the context of war and occupation

Poet, writer and artist, Imen Benyoub is from Guelma, Algeria and currently lives in East Jerusalem. She shares with us on The Bardo Group blog a series of stories and insights on music in war and occupation. This month she writes about Palestinian Musician Ramzi Aburadwan, his pursuit of music and his success in bringing it to the children of occupation. It’s a story with a lot of heart, soul and generosity … read on … it’s worth your time …

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The first post in this series is HERE.
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The cultural Intifada*…From stones to musical instruments.
The story of Ramzi Abu Radwan.

They impressed the world
And all they had in their hands were stones
They lit like lanterns, and came like messengers
From “children of the stones” Nizar Quabbani (1923-1998), Syrian poet and publisher

The first Intifada is the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation that started on December 1987 in Jabalia** refugee camp and spread throughout the rest of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It lasted six years until the signing of Oslo Accords in 1993.

It was an unarmed, spontaneous yet exploding uprising, men with their faces covered with keffiyehs***, women and children with nothing but stones, slingshots and Molotov cocktails faced tanks and live ammunition of well-trained, heavily equipped Israeli soldiers.

10423556_519811321480767_1963506964_aOne of those children, a kid…

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