Asking To Learn Then Learning So Much More!
An old blog note I found in google cache. I don’t want this one to ever disappear and it looks like a database went away where this entry used to sit. Bummer.
Monday, 12 August 2013
The most serendipitous kismet I’ve had this side of the Millenium happened yesterday afternoon. I was looking around Danbury for Marian Anderson’s famous homestead. Not the studio, I’d already seen that, and I found a building I thought might’ve been it. I asked a guy in a station wagon near me if he knew if that building was the famous growing up home, and he said he wasn’t sure, but his granddaughter was about to have her cheer-leading camp and the instructor might know so I should wait and ask her.
“He’s a famous baseball player,” said the granddaughter. Well it turns out the fellow I asked was Gilbert Black who played professionally in the “Negro Leagues” in ’56!
He gave me an autographed photo and I gave him a copy of my newest CD, etc. He was delighted to meet a young folksinger because it turns out he went to grade school with Josh White’s daughter and he was shocked when being asked if I knew who Josh White was, I quickly recalled the name even though never knowing actual songs I could say I knew he got famous in the ’40s. He said he listened to nearly the entire NPR stream of this year’s folk festival for three days straight and almost none of the people there knew who he was. Pete Seeger sure, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, etc., but almost no one knew who Josh White was. Well, Mr. Black, I’ve heard of him, and now I’ve heard of you, and thank you for pointing that out so I can go find his renditions of “Joshua Fit,” and “Dying Bed” and stuff. Wow. Amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijUoiBhVOw
Happy Valentine’s Day, err’budd… I mean Groundhog day, ummm, I mean Polar Plunge day, or Solar Flare? Bipolar Hair day. Fred Astaire; Stroller Chair, everywhere. Yes, I mean that from the depths of my heart, top and bottom. So here’s a recap of my year. Much more in depth than the algorithm Facebook decided to share, although I did like the pictures they chose. But it definitely did not tell a complete “story.”
Another circle around the sun. Beauty before me, beauty behind me. Beauty under my feet, so I walk lightly, deliberately and with great care.
Winter NAMM. I didn’t go this year. Enough said. I’ll miss the new technology; I’m kind of take-it-or-leave-it with being surrounded by so many petentious snobs and so few peers and mentors who truly are the real deal…
The year mostly begins with my song “Frybread” getting picked up to be the theme song of a TV pilot. I got paid a little bit of money and if the show ends up seeing light of day (the percentages on these things are rather daunting…) I’ll see a bunch more and be able to say “you knew me when,” or something. Or something.
Anniversary of Ant Hamlin getting murdered in cold blood in front of New York Amtrak and then his body was dumped near Shewville Road out in North Stoningtonish, Prestonish, Grotonish. Yuck. I’m friends with his ex and many other friends of his and this hurt my feelings a lot. Facebook got this one right and collected up 4 pix of the ceremonies including a rose I kept on my dashboard until early summer and brought over to bury about where his body had been found.
http://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152144841981697
27jan Pete Seeger died. I don’t even know where to start writing about that. I’ll wait for clearer words and a different venue to write that. I could go long! One of the best tributes was written by his friend David Amram who was with him the moment he died.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/pete-seeger-performed-music-bring-joy-world-article-1.2061403
He wrote this just a day and a half ago, but almost a full year after Pete’s passing. Profound!
What else can I say about “Desiree Bassett sits in with Foghat at the Wolf Den,” but wow, just wow.
Bob Dylan did a car ad for the Superbowl and everyone gave him a hard time but me it seems. I must say it was a great ad.
Bob Dylan is a master creative, a creative genius and a genius musician, what more can I say. Does anyone out there feel just a little less venomous toward Mr. Dylan a full year out now? I sure do appreciate the guy.
4april can be summed up academically this way. So this week I watched Frozen three times and DrumLine four times. Yay!
In fact I’ll give you two perspectives of the same day back to back. Two different substitute teachers co-teaching the same students. “I watched Frozen 3X & DrumLine 4X. 2day I’ll teach Quantum Theory & Linear Equations 2 Theater majors. Neat!” — Marco Frucht “Any day can turn around: I am now getting paid to watch Drumline, speak Spanish, and have my hair braided by middle schoolers #love” — Carolyn Luby
I released a fully remastered and engineered cut of my EP “Poems For Roberta Blackgoat” in April too. You’ll remember it as the one I printed 150 copies of to give away at my Indian Summer Music Festival performance in Milwaukee last year. I had so much fun giving it away to not just radio stations and industry bigwigs but anyone I met who was considering whether they could afford the asking price on my commercial CD. “Here, have this free even if you can’t get my commercial CD,” I’d say, maybe you’ll get it some other day at iTunes or Amazon, right? I think I sold a total of 5 rekkids and gave away more than a hundred. Yay! Sometimes cash flow is not only less important than what else is going on, but not important at all.
No matter what else happens every April 12, this day will always be the time I was was beaten to within a 3-minute blackout of my life in Washington DC back in 2003. I was telling someone just the other day that one of the last big purchase items I got for myself from my out-of-court settlement was a $1500 memory foam bed. I have no regrets with that, and I joke that I’m actually thankful I was a victim of police brutality since I can sleep so well now.
2may the late Link Wray’s birthday.
Stevie Wonder got my friend Dylan Jenet Collins signed. That was my high point for the month of March I think. Just rooting for that young Native American rockstar!
10 may New London Konetiuk’s 4th annual Youth Talent Show. I’m their instrumental talent coach. Some amazing moments that day. No, many amazing moments that day!
http://www.topictimes.com/videos/music/nlyts-finale—garde-arts-center-10may14-full-Trk31cJbhY8.html
7june or so? Whalie Awards. Nominated for 2 or 3, win nothing. I will never win an award in New London because of people like, well I won’t name them there are 5 or 6 of them and they are very corrupt, very small minded and very self-centered not to mention big fishes in the littlest pond ever. Oh well, who cares. I don’t do this stuff for awards — nominations just tell me someone was thinking about me and makes my nose itch so I’m happy about that!
16june or so. I go to Hank’s Dairy Bar to see Noelle Smith. An amazing singer/songwriter who moved to North Carolina. Connecticut’s loss and America’s gain for sure.
21june I sing some of my zaniest renditions of my even crazier songs at the bonfire of a guy named Andrew and his wonderful family. Soooooo fun. I hope we do that again 3 or 400 more times next summer!
23june I get accepted to Sacred Heart on a full ride scholarship from the VocRehab section of the Veterans Administration. I should probably say that in allcaps. I GOT ACCEPTED TO SACRED HEART FOR GRAD SCHOOL! Wait, I should type it in allcaps but spaced out old gutenberg style, I’m just THAT excited about it.
I G O T A C C E P T E D T O S A C R E D H E A R T F O R G R A D S C H O O L !
Yeah, that was a highpoint in my year, perhaps my decade. I got rejected by UNH because they didn’t like my essay, and was feeling pretty terrible about that when the letter from SHU came in and patched it all up and made it better than better. Heck, I’ll say it, UNH is a horrible school anyhow. Their loss
22junish Gabriel Ayala plays the National Anthem on a classical guitar at an Arizona Diamondbacks game. You could hear a pin drop! Wow.
26jun or so I drop off a single flower at the site where the murdered Ant Hamlin’s body had been dumped after someone killed him outside of Amtrak in downtown New London. His murder just like Mr. Spicer’s up the road from me here in groton remain unsolved from so long ago. Not among New London, Groton, Waterford submarine-capitol-of-the-world’s proudest moments, to be sure.
4th of July I publish Marc Frucht’s American Songbag.
http://muffinbottoms.org/?p=1085
12july my first A as a grad student. My bachelors degree did not even closely resemble these grades.
Jana’s movie starring alongside Lorenzo Lamas hits Walmart stores around the country. About the same time last year or so she managed to get onto Sony RED which my friend Tony helped start back in the day, and they agreed to some kind of distribution for her newest CD but when you walked into Walmart and BestBuy you had the clerk telling you it wasn’t present but you can order it. This time around I was able to walk right in the store and actual buy a copy of the DVD right on premises. Sooooo happy for Jana to be getting her artwork out there like that. She’s been working so hard in these industries!
Pauline Whitesinger dies. She was Roberta Blackgoats next door neighbor. (and by next door I mean half a mile down a fairly well graded dirt road) In the early 90’s I walked back and forth between those two house at least 5 dozen times. A couple times pickup trucks have pulled up and given me a ride half way there because a snowstorm had just begun that might have killed me before I got there. One time it was Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) cops that saved my life.
18aug – I sort of “ambush” the Governor GuerillaJournalist-Style at one of his openhouse town meeting forums in a coffeeshop to request that he bring gas prices down in southeastern CT since wages are so much lower in the parts of CT where gas prices are artifically low but wages are so much higher. I’ll never know if he brought the prices down two weeks later or if they did that on their own but it sure made some good press.
http://www.theday.com/article/20140819/NWS01/308199957
26aug my Making Wampum video gets to the 6000 hits mark which I’m happy about but I get a little suspicious. It seemed to climb really fast a couple days in a row. Looking for why the spike hit I discover that for one year this video had been included in an eBook by one of the CommonCore corporations outfitting schools with material they claim is better than what the schools are already using. Sort of a backhanded curriculum change without any reflection or deliberation on the school district’s part. Anyhew, state of New York school systems were using my homemade music Video as supplemental material to teach grade schoolers about NDN crafts in centuries past. I’m flattered and aggravated at the same time, to say the least.
9sep I find out that the makers of Duke Nukem video game have been using the .MID file of my song “Hey Mon” for years in their video games. They acquired it in a very “pirate” way from their own developers so I’ll never see a single penny from it, but I don’t care. I’m just happy to be able to say you can hear a melody that I wrote in some of the most popular singlepersonshooter games to ever hit computers prior to Grand Theft Auto and Mortal Combat and stuff, right? Ah, there’s a claim to fame I might not even tell too many people about, certainly not anyone under age 11 or so, yikes.
http://dukeworld.duke4.net/classic%20dukeworld/maps/a-e/dukehnt1.txt
My coversong of the Violent Femmes’ coversong of Marc Bolan’s “Children Of The Revolution” gets shown for an entire month at a listening station in an art gallery as part of an installation at a national gallery in Sharjah, UAE. You get to hear my song in between ones by Joey Ramone and Aldous Huxley! I use an exclamation point there because this is way more exciting than it sounds.
30oct 4 years ago this day 6 teenagers killed my friend Matt Chew. That’s why I became a substitute teacher and that’s why I became an instrumental talent coach, to show young people all over my county that they can write a song, or sing along, or dance and shout or let it all hang out, instead of pulling a drive by or a beat down, right? Yupper and this led to the annual youth talent show that brings so much beauty out of and into New London!
9november I discover someone’s selling a used copy of my SOFFTY FASNFFTOF CD for almost 60 dollars online. I don’t know for sure yet but I think it’s a drop-shipper who hasn’t even purchased it yet but knows s/he can get it off of CDBaby anytime he needs to. If I ever see a penny from that transaction it will only be something like four-dollars-and-fifty-cents and there’s almost nothing I can do about it. This “recording industry” is dying a slow torturous twisted and sordid death and it’s killing off so many souls in the process. I refuse to care. I’m just flattered someone thought enough of my musical work to include it in his/her diabolical plans to take over his or her tiniest part of his world.
Janice Marie Johnson closes out the Nammys this year. I wasn’t able to go this year but was able to see the thing livestreamed on the web. Great stuff. My friends Clayson and Jeneda performed and got an award, so did the Plateros. Very happy for them. They get to tour as the Plateros now and also as part of the band Indigenous.
8oct. Educator Diane Ravitch speaks at Quinipiac college. That was major!
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HIGH POINT OF MY YEAR:
And sometime in early November I was the sole witness to a Kindergartner speaking for the first time. I won’t write much about it, but he was labelled with a nonverbal learning disability and was on watch for either Selective Mutism or full Mutism and I was supposed to lead in structured play and readalongs and make notes if I see him do even so much as a grunt or a snortle. Well since I’m not like your usual average “garden variety” substitute teacher I brought a guitar and played him some flamenco music three days in a row and sang to him a capella occasionally in between all the structured play. He had a favorite book called “Five Little Monkeys,” that I could read to him and point at pictures. I impovised my own little ditty to sing to him as the introduction of this book and then I’d ask if he wants to read it with me. The third day I did this he pointed at it and said, “Monk.” I nearly jumped out of my skin! “Did you just say “monkeys?” I asked him. He just puffed out his chest and grinned and said nothing else. So I read it to him and that’s all I’m going to say about that. It really was one of the “most high” moments I’ve experienced in 5 or 6 years, not just this past year!
13ish November my friend Frank Waln makes it onto MTV with a major project he’d been working diligently on. I’m amazed that MTV allowed such monumental ideas to be shared in one movie short. Not since Little Steven led the Sun City campaign, or maybe with “We Are The World” did that much “movement” happen!
Watching @FrankWaln @Nataanii_Means & @inezjasper on the big screen #RebelMusic @MTV #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth pic.twitter.com/lmzEr1l7w4 — Tinsel Korey (@tinselkorey) November 14, 2014
Watching @FrankWaln @Nataanii_Means & @inezjasper on the big screen #RebelMusic @MTV #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth pic.twitter.com/lmzEr1l7w4
— Tinsel Korey (@tinselkorey) November 14, 2014
Other November highpoints? Sihasin getting a NAMMY, Jones Benally getting a lifetime achievement award from the Heard Museum.
http://www.reverbnation.com/c/fr5/artist_1308964?eid=A1308964_23541206_
Please close the School of Americas no matter what name they’re giving WesternHemisphereInstituteForSecurityCooperation it’s still the School of Assassins. I’m embarrassed to be a patriotic American citizen having served in the US army signal corps with each new day that our tax dollars pay for us training paramilitary death squads like that. Look it up.
F I N A L E X A M S
(Translated from the Greco Roman to the English that means, “stress.”
2dec starts off the month AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR with auditions for the 5th annual New London Youth Talent Show coming up 13march (pi day by the way)
13dec Franc Gramz releases a CD to a fully sold out show at Hanafins Pub. I saw Dio Hanafin and his wife at a local Homegoods/Hardware store a few days later and he told me it was one of the best shows of his entire year, with his wife nodding in agreement the whole time.
Sometime between Thanksgiving and NewYears I found out online thanks to BlackBoard educational webapp that I managed to get 3 gradschool As and a B- at America’s most unaffordable college. My masters degree candidacy is more difficult, more stressful and rigorous all the while more fulfilling than I could have ever imagined it to be.
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Survey-SHU-least-affordable-college-in-U-S-3779924.php
26dec My friend Tanya Tagac gets declared Canada’s best artist for 2014. Wow.
31dec – Noon. Save for eating dinner and other NYE stuff the very last thing I did this year was pretty neat. Late morning I get a call from DJ Dot who is the “Gramma” in Gramma’s attic. She’s had a last minute cancellation on her weekly TV show and can I come on and entertain TVland in one of those “Taped-Live” settings. Sure, when? Oh, a couple hours. I literally went home, got three guitars, tuned them up once quickly and scoured my room for several set-lists and cheat sheets because I knew I wouldn’t even have time to rehearse at all. I’ll stick to songs I know well. Yeah right. How did that work out for you? I had to cover for so many mistakes with humor that this show went from loose to fun to downright zany in less than 35 seconds. I hope that translates well to the upcoming show and isn’t too embarrassing for you. Or me!
Consequently, I had more fun entertaining on this show than I’ve had in any venue for years! The show airs in a few weeks and then I can start sharing movie shorts from it on vimeo or liveleak or something. Yay!
Happy GNU Year!
Sincerely, marco frucht aka Marco Capelli e&p atizine since 1988 Singer/Songwriter since well, since I’ve been singering and songwritering.
PS: THIS JUST IN!! 2015 begins with my dear friend Eric Lichter nominated for a New England Music Award as Producer Of The Year. Eric owns and operates Dirt Floor Recording Studio which is almost entirely an analog environment. If you want an easy comparison of just how wonderful analog equipment can sound with the right producer placing mics and engineering you, you can listen to his three productions on my commercial CD and then contrast them against most of the others.
Here are two to compare:
http://www.reverbnation.com/marcofrucht/song/12273016-03-love-me-for-my-heartreverbsnippet http://www.reverbnation.com/marcofrucht/song/12811360-02-song-explicit-with-expletive
RIP Sam Houston Kingfisher, an old friend I met on the Navajo rez.
I just found out an old friend, Sam had died two years ago.
Sam’s dad Eagle Kingfisher was really good friends with Sam Drywater who I met in Tulsa in 1992.
http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Sam-Kingfisher&lc=7384&pid=161047990&mid=5305660
A very headhitting funny story I can tell you about Sam Drywater is this. A newage wannabe lady came to this potluck supper we were having and she found out that Sam was a bona fide certified wool-in-the-dyed medicine type elder dude. So she offered him a pack of cigarettes and asked his advice about a profound moment she had just had. She was driving to that pot luck just hours ago and drove by a large hawk that had been hit by a car. She stopped a while and sat and prayed near it and asked Creator for guidance and was just certain Creator sent him to her, in the form of sending him to that Potluck that she was going to. Well Sam asked for a small room he could darken completely and some blankets and clothespins to do it. He sat in that room for at 20 minutes, and I swear this lady sat in a chair facing that door the entire time waiting for him to come out just like my family dog used to do when you pushed down the electric canopener.
Well he eventually came out that door while most of us were eating potluck stuff and mingling and he went right to her. Well he couldn’t go anywhere else without going right to her first because she was about 9 feet away directly in front of that door facing him. She got up like he was 9 men on a jury about to give the verdict and she was the defendant.
Well?
She stared deeply into his eyes, and he stared back. Neither of them blinked for a long time.
I just knew she wasn’t going to do a thing until he said something. It was almost painful to watch. Finally he pursed his lips and stiffened his chin and here’s what came out.
“Did you call the DEP or at least the DOT?”
She left that potluck with a mission, pronto. Many of us giggled a little. Even before Sam Drywater told Eagle, Eagle’s wife, his wife, me and Sam and a guy everyone calls Fumby, we laughed again as he told us he figured out in that room that it had to be the same roadkill wild turkey he’d driven by a few hours to get to the same potluck supper.
Well that’s what I remember, there’s probably more. So long ago.
Story about Sam Drywater while I’m remembering Sam Houston Kingfisher, sort of his nephew, who died a couple years ago. I just found out this morning. RIP.
***BREAKING NEWS***
The results are in. Thank you all! It was tough, but the search is over.
We are excited for this year and promise an EPIC showcase!
Be sure to tell your friends and family! Bring joy this Holiday season. Tickets go on sale SOON!
1) William Nieves
2) Denny Ward
3) Eric Jones
4) Kairo Castillo
5) Lions Den
6) Jeni Flo Band
7) Ryder Singer-Johnson
8) Dance Infusion
9) Sara Coley
10) Moe Steele
11) Caroline Tanner
12) Jonas Picinich
13) Todd Belcher
14) Naomi Jones
15) Zak Ackart
16) CJ Thibeau
17) Juan Moscol
18) Anna Dozier
19) Carlos Rosario
20) Andrew Barnes
21) Ramon Mendez
22) Sara Maynara
23) Michael Okoasia **
24) Iyanla Page
25) Casey Flax
26) Rebecca Reyes
27) Rhythm ‘n Sync
28) Miquel DeJesus
29) Zionna Williams
30) Brian Johnson
31) Mykela Parker
32) Maria Bonanno
33) Joseph Salcedo
34) Ra’anna Clark
35) Serenity Davies
36) Kathianna Celestin
37) Aliyah Slater
38) Dina Erie
39) Crystaliz Sanchez
40) Brianna Brown
41) Kathy Liz
This show is going to be so off the chain, over the top, other worldly, out of the park, amazingly wild and wow, what else to say that begins with a “w” or an “o” did I say Wow? Yeah, wow, just wow.
The Boy Who Said “Monk!”
A Connecticut K-5 school. I’m on a three-day assignment in Special Ed. Several one-on-ones with students who have a schedule of tiered RTI pull-outs from their regular classes. A little pre-schooler I won’t name of course comes every day for a morning hour and an additional afternoon on Fridays. I have him Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They’ve tagged him as nonverbal and on watch for mutism. I was asked to write down any grunt or giggle I might hear if possible. Even if it’s just positive response to something I’ve said or done and you almost hear a snortle or something.
First two mornings there was nothing, but he was very cheery and happy to comply with each and every change in structured play. Each day in between tasks I sang a capella to him or got my guitar and played him an instrumental flamenco piece. Each morning I read him a cardboard book entitled, “Five Little Monkeys” and he really seemed to like that.
So Friday morning I made up a song about the 5 little monkeys book before reading it to him and asked if he wanted us to read it together and he looked at me plain as day and said, “monk!” Yes, I nearly jumped out of my own skin.
I said, “Wait, did you just say “monkeys?” and he didn’t say another word, just grinned and puffed out his chest. Then I read him the book and he smiled the whole time.
Then I had one more hour in the afternoon and it turned out it was after his class had a music special. He walked in, waved goodbye to his para professional and pointed at the boom box on the floor. So I turned it on and he sat on the floor repeating “wheels on the bus” and “heads shoulders knees and toes” over and over for most of the hour.
CEREMONY: Donating Some More Journalism Skills to the Native American Music Awards
By marco capelli frucht
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So here’s my reverse chronology rundown of the Nammys last night. Their 15th annual.
There were a couple glitches at the beginning of the show from the webstream’s point of view but overall it went really great. This is the first year they’ve managed to include anyone else anywhere else in the world who wanted to watch the Ceremony from afar. I’m really psyched about how well it went, and what an artifact it’s now become thanks to the people at Livestream, SingleFeather, and FNXdotOrg. Yippie!
http://fnx.org/namas2014
Congrats to Tribe @atribecalledred for their Best Music Video win at the nammys! marco capelli @atizine · 10h10 hours ago So I missed @raphaeldeas presenting and I missed Village People shouting out the pop category. What else did I miss? @atizine Here’s a link where you can scroll fwd/bkwd and see anything you might’ve missed earlier 2nite:http://new.livestream.com/accounts/10694077/events/3576245 …
· 10h10 hours ago BTW: I think Livestream’s company has plenty of bandwidth to archive shows so it’s probably going to be an “artifact” now. · 10h10 hours ago And my sistah from anuddah mother, Janice Marie Johnson closes the show. #nama #nammys Kelly Montijo Fink and John Kane presenting the next one… #nama #nammys #nammy
More marco capelli @atizine · 11h11 hours ago @4JayMichael You’re welcome! So happy I can help out even a little bit from afar. I’ve been there backstage for so many other ones. · 11h11 hours ago It is so absolutely neato keen and awesomely wonderful to see @theplateros joining Indigenous. Now that’s rock n roll. Have Mercy! More · 11h11 hours ago @mwalim brings the music a capella to introduce Charly Lowry and DarkWater Rising. Wow. Best Rock Recording goes to the Ollivanders #nama #nammy #nammys Sihasin about to perform one of their songs. I think Woody Guthrie’s “Mean Things” is gonna be one of ‘em. Ryan Little Eagle Molina takes Best Instrumental Recording Nammy at the 15th annual #nammys for “The Long Journey Home.” More · 11h11 hours ago Janice Marie, how’s the lights for you. Too bright? Not bright enough? That’s right, boogie oogie oogie. Good work grrl!
Nama gives a guitar away. Weall usually sign it the night b4. It’s always a fundraiser for great things. Vets, heating fuel, antisuicide… · 12h12 hours ago Joanne @JoShenandoah‘s daughter Leah performs one of her songs at NAMA15. 14nov14 · 12h12 hours ago Dark Water Running and Jimmy Wolf win Nammys. Couldn’t write fast enough for provenance. I’ll get the specifics asap. · 12h12 hours ago Sihasin takes the Debut Group Of The Year Nammy at the 15th annual #nammys for “Never Surrender!” Yippie!
More· 12h12 hours ago Tracy Bone takes the Best Country Nammy at the 15th annual #nammys Yippie! @raphaeldeas @NativeAwards I think it’s 15lbs, Raphael, but I know whatcha mean! @Edko5871 See what I mean? Edko’s houseband’s jam right now sounds like Eagles’ I can’t tell you why, meets Ted Nugent’s Stranglehold…
NAMCountdown Show @NAMCountdown · 15h15 hours ago Good luck to everyone at the #NAMA‘s! http://www.nativeamericanmusicawards.com/ Happy 15th Anniversary! · 12h12 hours ago @Edko5871 provides the house band for each annual #nammys – These guys are selfless and amazingly talented! So proud to call them friend · 12h12 hours ago FNX, First Nations Experience provides this brand new #nammys live webstream along with Mikey Kickingbear Johnson’s SingleFeather Media. More Samantha Eldridge @DCSamantha · 21h21 hours ago Don’t have plans tonight? Watch the live stream of the 15th Annual Native American Music Awards @ 8:00 PM ESThttp://fnx.org/namas2014/ #NAMA More marco capelli retweeted ICTMN Arts @ICTMN_Arts · 13h13 hours ago Are you watching? Native American Music Awards #NAMA streaming live right now on @FNXTV link: http://fnx.org/namas2014/ More marco capelli retweeted Frank Waln @FrankWaln · 5 Nov 2012 My beats were winning awards before I was. #Nammys Best Producer 2010 Best Rap/Hip Hop Recording 2011http://instagr.am/p/RpyP8tFRgR/ Reply Bobby Richardson @ColdWinterWind · 10 May 2013 ME!! RT @delschilling: Who is watching the #NAMMYS ? http://www.nativeamericanmusicawards.com/home.cfm More Ed Koban @Edko5871 · Apr 5 Please visit my band page and click like. We appreciate your support. #EKG #FUMSE #nammys #NAMA #edkohttps://www.facebook.com/EdKobanGroup · 12h12 hours ago And what’s Jim Boyd do in addition to giving an acceptance speech? Carries out his geetar and plays for us. Yippie! @atizine View conversation
· 12h12 hours ago Jim Boyd gets “rekonized” at the 15th Nammys. Hard medicine; good medicine. Janice Marie Johnson hands Jim the Lifetime Achievement award. · 13h13 hours ago Leah Shenandoah takes the Debut Artist Of the Year Nammy at the 15th annual #nammys for her rekkid “Spektra.”
More marco capelli @atizine · 13h13 hours ago Indigenous wins the Best Blues Recording #Nammy at the 15th annual #nammys for “Vanishing Americans.”
More marco capelli @atizine · 13h13 hours ago Buddy Big Mountain & his little friend intros the next performer, Jan Michael Looking Wolf at the 15th annual #nammys
· 13h13 hours ago The Tribe wins the Best Pow Wow Recording #nammy at the 15th annual #nammys for “Stoic.”
14h14 hours ago @DylanJenet onstage this second presenting!!! Best Pow Wow Recording. Who might get it! #nama #nammys #nammy
More · 14h14 hours ago “Indian Honkytonk Wonder Woman.” — One of the Superkids jammin live this sec w/ Wayne Silas, Jr. Menom & Oneida represent! @KarlaCarolAnn View conversation More · 14h14 hours ago Spirit of Thunderheart wins the Best Traditional Recording #nammy at the 15th annual #nammys for “Rising.”
marco capelli @atizine · 14h14 hours ago @Edko5871 Boy, that’s a gorgious backline, what with the Mesa Boogies, Marshalls and Fenders and stuff. http://fnx.org/namas2014 View conversation
marco capelli @atizine · 14h14 hours ago @dougbluefeather, are you watching the #nammys on the webstream? @NativeAwards
Dark Water Rising @DarkWaterRising · Nov 13 Layla Rose got all of us to take a #selfie. #GotSnow #Salamanca #NY #NAMMYS http://instagram.com/p/vW_TkBwOHp/
marco capelli @atizine · 14h14 hours ago Watching the native american music awards on the livestream. #nammys http://fnx.org/namas2014
marco capelli @atizine · 14h14 hours ago @tinselkorey @Nataanii_Means https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152456634446701 … View conversation
More marco capelli retweeted Zalka Csenge Virág @TarkabarkaHolgy · Nov 13 Don’t know yet what I am teaching next semester, but #RebelMusic is going straight in the syllabus. #culturestudies
More marco capelli retweeted Tinsel Korey @tinselkorey · Nov 13 Watching @FrankWaln @Nataanii_Means & @inezjasper on the big screen #RebelMusic @MTV #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth More marco capelli retweeted Alannah Begay @LongHair_DC · Nov 13 Inspiring and powerful video on behalf of @MTV . Native Country is alive and well! Represent. @FrankWaln @Nataanii_Means@inezjasper
marco capelli retweeted Dani @xodanix3 · Nov 13 What I liked most about #RebelMusic was it showed Native Americans as human. Not as angry activist or stereotypes but as relateable ppl.
And here’s the complete list of winners:
Artist of the Year Mato Nanji Vanishing Americans Best Blues Recording Vanishing Americans Indigenous Best Compilation Recording Don’t Let Me Forget Kelly Montijo Fink Best Country Recording Woman Of Red Tracy Bone Debut Artist of the Year Leah Shenandoah Spektra Debut Group of the Year Sihasin Never Surrender Best Female Artist Rita Coolidge A Rita Coolidge Christmas Best Folk Recording Keeper of the Dreams Red Feather Woman Flutist of the Year Rona Yellowrobe The Gathering Best Inspirational Recording Grace & Grit: Chapter I Dark Water Rising Group of the Year Plenty Wolf Singers Medicine Wolf Best Historical/Linguistic Recording Heart of the Buffalo Richard Stepp & Rick McKee Best Instrumental Recording The Long Journey Home Ryan Little Eagle Molina Best Male Artist Jimmy Wolf A Tribute To Little Johnny Taylor Best Native American Church Recording Apache Peyote Songs Joe Tohonnie Jr Best New Age Recording Bridge Rushingwind & Mucklow Best Pop Recording Day After Day Jamie Coon Best Pow Wow Recording Stoic Tha Tribe Best Producer Kevin Chief Honoring The Mazinikijik Singers Best Rap Hip Hop Recording One Tribe One Nation The Council Record of the Year Romanze Songs of Tosti Lawrence Harris Best Rock Recording Two Sons The Ollivanders Song of the Year Witchi Tai-To – Water Spirits Shadowyze, Caren Knight Pepper and Jim Pepper Songwriter of the Year Theresa “Bear” Fox Diamond Best Spoken Word Recording Grandfather Speaks Ken Quiet Hawk Best Traditional Recording Spirit of Thunderheart Rising Best Music Video Sisters ft Northern Voice A Tribe Called Red Best Waila Recording In Loving Memory of Our Beloved Father & Uncle Family Pride Best World Music Recording Nature Dance Joanne Shenandoah Native Heart Lex Nichols The Long Road Lifetime Achievement Jim Boyd
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This afternoon I gave our governor some data and asked him to do a favor similar to what Sam Gejdenson pulled off back when I was about 17 years old. He had managed to catch lots of gas gouging that caused southeastern CT to be the lowest wages and highest gas prices. Prices went down to something managable but crept back up little by little to where it is now once again New London County having some of the lowest wages in the state but the highest gas prices.
I was telecommuting in Muddy Waters eating one of their famous Love Salads when the Mayor, Governor and many other democrat cronies walked in to do some schmoozing at this the third of three local coffeehouse stops including BeanLeaf and Washington Street Cafe.
I wasn’t prepared to speak with him but I remembered this issue historically and would love to pose this question of everyone from him to Richard Blumenthal to Joe Courtney. And no, not just because they’re democrats. Mostly because it hurts.
Well the Governor begged to differ and said he thought Fairfield’s prices were 10 or 20 cents higher, and I sought compromise saying then that maybe Groton, NL, Wtfd have the lowest wages and the second highest gas prices in the state and he agreed to look into it.
So while he was schmoozing with everyone I buried myself back in my laptop and went right to one of those gasprices dot com sites to get him some data. Jotted them down on the back of a biz card and handed it off to one of his staffers asking him to get that data to him whenever things are less pressing. He obliged.
Cappuccino. Monkey and Bull make meal of Pomegranite, potatoes, pineapple & peppers. LL Zamenhof worked Pepsi's graveyard Shift til the day he died. Poetic. Death not for lack of irony. For growing calamity, asks Esperanza, Does one need fertilizer? Removes tongue from cheek. 1477. Chris visits Iceland inquiring As a wannabe Portugese picking up Waterfront gossip of "the NewFound Lands." Looks like Lawnmower Man on valium. Vacation - Grape Cod. Dwelling on payola, Punkrock, and plasma in Adobe Abode. Hystorically, a bladder bag full of bull. Mother Earth, you are beaux, bela, belle, Beautiful - Where's Dr. Esperanto When you NEED him?? Peabody Coal purchases Cavenham Forest for a copper penny. Mrs. Farthing leaves a pie on her porch for The plutonium miners. Make mine a strip so Rare IT'S STILL IN THE GROUND. Spineless as a Portugese Man O'War, now if That ain't the scumm calling the scummsucker scummy. Sage tea makes sore throat to merely a wet Groggy flemmy thing; yet Dire Wolf offers 12-page thesis on Yak semen. Can God hear you in a Hindu Ashram? "Yes," yells Yayo. She's 12 and SMARTER than you. Fiesta. Laguna March 19, 1992 They say you'll be led by children. Haiku: Zuni Moisture Dance Mudhead Kachinas - Laura, Yayo, HasKey Tso. Sweatlodge. Madrid, NM 2 FAS children flying a kite. Filthy fake fony false hair follicles Now fact thanks to Rogaine. Or was that Reagan?? Nancy's war-on-drugs: Rhymes with moron thugs. Open Mike is playing at the Chez What Cafe. Who IS this Open Mike? Just some honest Joe? Stench fries and fillet of potatoes at The Full Spoon Cafe. And Bo Diddley's cook wears wine-red Dingos pouring sherry in Mrs. Farthing's Chowder. Pampa, TX. Letting go of Police Brutality - Release, relax, relief. 2:30 a.m. Katy reads poetry for tips at the Omaha Greyhound. Makes 2-bucks on "Bernalilo Blues." Mytho-philosophical street poems. How do they make coffee in Nowata? Strong - same as Coffeeville. Trivia question: who's face on $5 Foodstamp?? Thomas Jefferson or Johnny Cash? Movado watch with moon minute hand, I straddle the corner of Florence & Normandy contemplating cops. A house full of cat-tails never falls; And Medina pours Mecca a 20 oz. cup of Mocha java. Previously published in a $5 Chapbook entitled "I Slurp My Coffee." Currently released as an album at: http://www.reverbnation.com/marcfruchtpoet And you can get the whole album as a printable .zip file at: http://www.frucht.org/Poems4RobertaBlackgoat.zip
Little Boxes – Malvina Reynolds
The first time I saw Pete Seeger perform this livewas in Providence Rhode Island. He was doing a tributeto Malvina Reynolds who he credited for his first hit single. It was an evening of folk music that was a who’s who of “Pete Seeger & Friends.” Each did a song or two that she’d written, and then they ended the show with a stage full of people singing Little Boxes for a very long time. I was in heaven. Not for the fame around me, but for the mass of people we were, singing together. It was something I can’t describe in words. Greater than his banjo playing and his beautiful voice that to this day remains clearer than a bell, Pete Seeger’s gift really IS his ability to get an entire “room” singing together.
“Katzberg recalled Seeger as emcee at a tribute to Malvina Reynolds at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in 1993, and singing at the Rhode Island Labor & Ethnic Heritage Festival in Pawtucket in 1996. The latter, she said, perfectly fulfilled a vision she once had about the festival. (Katzberg has a picture of herself on stage with Seeger.)”
http://www.providencejournal.com/writers/andy-smith/20140128-remembering-the-role-pete-seeger-played-in-rhode-island-folk-music-scene.ece
The nammys say this about him:
Seeger also encouraged Oneida Nation musician Joanne Shenandoah. She was one of his favorite artists. He shared the stage with her on many occasions including a remarkable set with the late Odetta ten years ago, at Madison Square Garden for his 90th Birthday on May 3, 2009, and in 2012 when he, Shenandoah and Patti Smith sang at Cooper Union Hall in New York City for a human rights event. When asked last year as to which performance he wanted to attend he elected to hear Joanne Shenandoah, standing on the side of the stage for her entire hour long set.
Last night Lincoln Center Out Of Doors put on a ginormous memorial concert remembering Pete Seeger’s legacy through song.
It reminded me so much of that Malvina Reynolds tribute in Providence way back in the day. It had that same feel to it. Heck, at least 15 of last night’s performers were at that show.
Anyhew, they’re streaming that entire concert on a loop at http://watch.lincolncenter.org/pages/live-stream-seeger-memorial?_ga=1.67522065.1040021086.1405935394 for the next 24 hours!
Check that out.
Here goes some “explication” about the two newest recordings I’ve mastered and edited up. Enjoy. Recorded live from the soundboard at a Bonfire in Groton, CT. I noticed while I was organizing these tunes that it kind of serves as the best kind of ethnomusicology lesson you could ever receive for free. Pro Bono, my gift to you. Call now, operators are standing by…
16th Century Greensleeves. (cover of a Ritchie Blackmore arrangement of a very old song)
Old Folksinger – by Merle Kessler, aka “Ian Shoales.” Need a real audio of my studio version?
http://frucht.org/audioclips.html
Other Side – Orig. Someone I was very sweet on turned to me one night and said, “why don’t you write a song about turquoise and silver and a pebble and a ring.” So I did.
Johnny B. Goode – Standard (played very non-standard)
Oh Boy – written by Sonny West, Bill Tilghman and Norman Petty. Made most famous by Buddy Holly
Hey Mon – Orig.
One Tin Soldier – Coven. Made most famous by the movie “Billy Jack.”
Little Things – Orig.
Wicked Wicked World. – Medley arranged by Marc Frucht. “Wicked World” by Black Sabbath’s Ozzie Osbourne, “When The Levee Breaks” collected folk style by Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page. Last verse Original.
Happened Just That Way – Roger Miller
Seminole Wind – John Anderson Want to hear just a cute cover of it by a little girl named Mary Elizabeth Kirkpatrick? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsN0zk7VojA Neat how sometimes a song can be kept immortal by lots of people giving it some love!
Mary Had a William Goat – I learned this parody from Carl Sandburg’s publication “American Songbag.”
Merry Minuet – I first heard the Kingston Trio version of this song from my mom and dad’s massive record collection. It was written by
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes – from the Movie of the same name. I’ve actually been asked to sing it a capella at movie premieres and stuff.
Dream On Again – You notice how they sing, “sing with me” and it’s a song written in like Fm7 with a flatted 9th in the bass, and it’s a key that only Bessie Smith can sing but she’s gotta warm up all opera style before she even tries to sing it?
Evil Ways – Carlos Santana
Milli Vanilla – I wrote this as a parody to the Poison song “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
FUN song – from Sponge Bob Square Pants. Just don’t ask me to sing the Campfire song or “I Ripped My Pants.”
Blister In The Sun – Violent Femmes. Done as a medley together with “American Music” and “Free.” Proof that the Bodeans stole liberally from the Violent Femmes. J/K they’re all friends with each other.
Oh Freedom – medley. My version of Pete Seeger’s version of Odetta’s version of several ancient spirituals
Do Wacka Do – more Roger Miller
FryBread – Orig.
* Recordings engineered in Groton, CT by Andrew Barnes
Listen to the entire thing in two parts at: http://soundcloud.com/atizine/marcofruchtsamericansongbag-part2