I’ve been suggesting to one of my button accordion students that he should try to feel the rhythm of the music through his whole body. I found a delightful video of a Fogo Island kitchen party that illustrates exactly what I mean, and I showed… Read More
It’s storytime here at 27th Street. Get comfortable, maybe pour yourself a little something. A wee dram of Scotch? Yes I’ll join you, thank you very much. Let me take you back in time a little bit, back to 1982. This is a true story,… Read More
I just read Miss O’Dell – My Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and the Women They Loved. For a music-lover of my generation, it’s a page turner, or at least it was for me, because I… Read More
This has been such a bizarre early spring, with many things in the garden greening up way early, it’s difficult to judge when the morels will show up. I see on Twitter that it is turning into a great season for morels in many places… Read More
The word dulcimer derives from the Latin dulcis, meaning sweet and the Greek melos meaning song. Yesterday I featured the mountain or Appalachian dulcimer, but that isn’t the only kind of dulcimer around. The hammered dulcimer has been around a number of different musical traditions… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose features the mountain dulcimer, sometimes also called the Appalachian dulcimer. This is a fretted instrument that normally has either three or four strings. It belongs to the zither family of instruments. The Cuckoo – this is Jean Ritchie Here’s one of my… Read More
Tuffy P snapped this shot of Jacques the other day…
At some point this month I think it is reasonable for us to expect black morels to make their appearance in Southern Ontario, followed by yellow morels. In fact there have already been some vague reports of early black morels showing up not far from… Read More
This was the other day…today was damp. Here’s Tuffy P with Ellie Mae Above, Memphis and Ellie MaeAnd finally, Miss Ellie Mae
Rainy Sunday afternoon, listening to The Old Magic by Nick Lowe. Perfect. Here’s some nice Nick Lowe material from NPR…
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