Here’s a copy/paste blog of my trip to Milwaukee and back for the ISMAs and the Indian Summer Music Festival.
I played on the Potawatomi stage and the Miller Lite stage and had a blast! So glad I went. Definitely one of the high points of my music career.
Marco Frucht shared a link.
One work shift, twice as much driving and then a performance in ILLwaukee (Potawatomy stage at Summerfest Grounds,) then an entire weekend of enjoying one of the nicest 26th annual festivals in our whole entire nation.
Listening to ‘Cult of Personaliy’ a a Sonic west of Stroudsberg. This is livin’ !!
I ride a Danville paint /
I ride a Danville paint /
I’ve never used the word aint in a song /
I ride a Danville paint /
In Sandusky stretching out the new knee the army gave me way back when. I don’t remember to do that as often as I should.
Greeting the sunrise in Indiana helps me not care that gas here is 4.39 a gallon lowest price! Also having filled up in Ohio at 3.69 helps me not care either.
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_14468442
Here’s a live recording of Cody Blackbird guest soloing on my song “Beauty Way” at NDN Summerfest in Milwaukee Wisconsin last night.
I rolled off the bass, and added some light breathiness and hard limiting to the recording but other than that it’s pretty pure and raw. I thought it didn’t come out too badly for having simply placed a stereo mic right onstage near my feet.
High point of my time at NDN Summerfest so far was sharing a stage with seasoned flute player Cody Blackbird I hope someone got pics or video.
Last night backstage I got to hang out with old school comedian Charlie Hill quite a bit and at some point he told me that Tito Ybarra is the funniest young man he’s met in his entire career. I can’t wait to tell him that. So this is one of several high points of my trip so far, including seeing Wade Fernandez and Dustin Leeperform again, and getting positive feedback about my CD from my peers and my mentors, but I think the highest point is still sharing a stage with Flute Player Cody Blackbird. 🙂 Oh, and I have a special announcement coming soon.
OK, I just don’t know how to articulate just how funny this theater troupe were:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQjTBDxz8K4
I got more video but this is all I can put up for now.
Enjoy
This once-a-year ecumenical Church service is the only one that has ever felt just like the one I participated in at the National Cathedral in 1992. Thank you Creator and also thank you, Father Ed!
Wow, Milwaukee must’ve invented the Americano. I’m in Hi-Fi cafe right in the heart of BayView having one that would make any Starbucks barista cry. 😉
Yes, I had some frybread. Yes I also had some wild rice and some buffalo meat. Mmmm. NDN Summerfest was a blast. I don’t think any of my personal friends won an ISMA but of course several FB friends did. And I probably feel the same way they do, bummed a little but just plain happy to have been considered. It was a wonderful weekend. Seeing so many old friends again, both people in and out of the
industry was wonderful, and so was watching the last quarter of the Packer Game with my friends Joel and Mollie and their kids. Lastly I’ll mention that three mornings in a row I was reminded how much I miss the cool lake breeze that keeps you gently air-conditioned until about 10 or 11 am when it starts to get hotter than one of Dante’s chambers. Having lived in Milwaukee for 4 years and Green Bay for 7 will remain a goodly part of my life’s story and returning to NDN Summer each year as often as I can keeps me feeling a part of it all.
Leaving Milwaukee, I’d better quote some Dustin Lee:
It took your city to believe/ You put your heart out there for me/ That’s why I’m sorry, but I’m gonna have to leave/ Oh, Milwaukee, you got the best of me.
Two new places to purchase my CD’s are:
on Brady Street, Milwaukee and:
Peace Action Wisconsin on East Keefe Avenue
QUANTUM MOMENT: Breezed by Chicago too fast to remember and reflect that their teachers struck this a.m. I’ll have to send them some solidarnos yesterday.
Another reply that belongs a status I think:
I gravitate toward people who write a song or three every day and try to ignore people trying only for grammys or sound exactly like someone else. Ironic, that this is much of the reason many grammy and emmy winners call me “peer” and I call them and many other nonwinners my mentors.
12 dollar toll for gw bridge??
Unreal. Wasnt this bridge paid off back in Benedict Arnolds years???
Thnx exponentially inflated toll booths between ny and mke. You’ve taken one of my best guitar gigs ever and just destroyed my memory of it. Half your lights are not on, the roads are still terrible, and your perpetual construction projects as far as the eye can see are dangerous and a huge bother. I’m simply lining your pockets and I’m left very bitter and resentful.
Here’s a poem I read at the Miller Lite stage called Journal Poem 23, which will be on my upcoming album “Poems 4 Roberta Blackgoat.” The theme this year to NDN summerfest was storytelling, and Joy Harjo, Joe Bruchac, and Denise Sweet and others were there too this year performing spoken word, comedy, poetry, everything too, not just music. Cody Blackbird accompanied me on flute for both poems that I read. I thought it added a lot.http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_14513836
Here’s Nammy winning flute player Cody Blackbird accompanying a native youth fashion show during the NDN Summerfest in Milwaukee last weekend.
Marco Frucht shared Joel Butler‘s video.
Sunday night I watched the last quarter of the Packer game over the house of my friends Joel and Mollie. Their 5 year old, Lucy informed me that she has had “Frybread” in her favorites for a very long time. I played the song live for her, and shortly after that she wrote up some new lyrics to it. Yes, right on the spot. Here’s her rendition right from that moment. 🙂
One more bit of footage from the Aztec dancers. Amazing performers, eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lEgBnl4E2w
Here’s more from New Native Comedy Theater out of Minnesota performing a “traditional” hand drum song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6sFTnqJWzQ
Wait, you mean I can add “Award winning filmmaker” to my name? Neat. Thank you 48hour filmfest!
http://www.48hourfilm.com/en/newhaven
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Well there goes the neighborhood. A short and to the point video essay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmq-mri2ITw
Copies of Marco Capelli Frucht’s CD Soffty Fasnfftof can now be purchased also at Looney Tunes in Wakefield! So all you URI profs who might remember my dad and students who might remember me… Go get em!
And if you’d like to hear it before purchasing, go to Cool Beans Coffee and ask them to play it for you.
😉