http://www.mandolincafe.com/news/publish/mandolins_00846.shtml
This sure hits home to me.
Friday, May 02, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
May Day Strike Led By Longshoremen's Union
http://maydayilwu.googlepages.com/
Great news for those who see blue collar workers as an important component of a progressive coaltion.
Great news for those who see blue collar workers as an important component of a progressive coaltion.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Joshua Bell In The Train Station
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html
If you don't know the Bach piece that he's playing, please do so as soon as you can.
If you don't know the Bach piece that he's playing, please do so as soon as you can.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Cheney On Democracy
RICHARD CHENEY ON DEMOCRACY MARTHA RADDATZ: ABC NEWS - Two-thirds of Americans say it's not worth fighting, and they're looking at the value gain versus the cost in American lives, certainly, and Iraqi lives. RICHARD CHENEY (with smirk): So? RADDATZ: So. . . You don't care what the American people think? CHENEY: No, I think you can't be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.
This is how Cheney spells : deMOCKracy.
This is what he is really saying about public opinion: "Fluc You Nation."
This is how Cheney spells : deMOCKracy.
This is what he is really saying about public opinion: "Fluc You Nation."
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Gerry Tenney and The Lost Tribe in Concert
Where: McGraths Irish Pub , 1539 Lincoln Ave. in Alameda Ca.
Date and Time: Friday March 28 8:00 P. M.
Cost: $5.00 ( Such A Deal)
Link to Mcgrath's . http://www.mcgrathspub.com/
Gerry Tenney and the Lost Tribe have been playing in the Bay Area off and on for over 20 years. Based mostly around Gerry’s song writting , the band offers a fresh selection of songs and tunes played and sang only the way that a group of friends and talented musicians can do. The mix of folk, bluegrass, acoustic country, a little rock and roll and klezmer, create a refreshing look at Gerry’s vision and version of that style of music Americana Among the current members are ,Gerry on guitar and mandolin, David Laub on bass, Leslie Tenney on vocals, Suzy Thompson on fiddle and vocals, and Harry Yaglijian on mandolin, guitar and vocals.Emery Barter will join us on the dobro and Neil Linden, my old bandmate from Woodstock N.Y. is on banjo. With plenty of guest musicians, this will be a special night of music.
Date and Time: Friday March 28 8:00 P. M.
Cost: $5.00 ( Such A Deal)
Link to Mcgrath's . http://www.mcgrathspub.com/
Gerry Tenney and the Lost Tribe have been playing in the Bay Area off and on for over 20 years. Based mostly around Gerry’s song writting , the band offers a fresh selection of songs and tunes played and sang only the way that a group of friends and talented musicians can do. The mix of folk, bluegrass, acoustic country, a little rock and roll and klezmer, create a refreshing look at Gerry’s vision and version of that style of music Americana Among the current members are ,Gerry on guitar and mandolin, David Laub on bass, Leslie Tenney on vocals, Suzy Thompson on fiddle and vocals, and Harry Yaglijian on mandolin, guitar and vocals.Emery Barter will join us on the dobro and Neil Linden, my old bandmate from Woodstock N.Y. is on banjo. With plenty of guest musicians, this will be a special night of music.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Feta Cheese
If you like feta cheese, and have access to various kinds of feta cheese, try the French. It's a little more expensive, but its the smoothest and the taste is just wonderful. Let me know what you think.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Artie Traum
I had a chance to see and play a few songs with Artie on his west coast visit. Below are some of his thoughts on the current state of the music business.
Check out his website and his music.
http://www.artietraum.com/
If you're in the music business, you're aware that the old business model (record, press CDs and sell product) is essentially over. The big labels are in big trouble, but they're coming back with new ways to squeeze cash out of the system. The latest they've come up with is an experiment with free downloads paid for by advertising. Media sites like Salon.com have a similar model: watch an ad and get free content. I have mixed feelings about this. First, advertisers may use their clout to decide who gets included in the mix. Second, I believe this new system may squeeze "indies" as the major labels try to control the market. Those of us who are struggling to maintain small record companies are facing rising costs and diminished opportunities. Still, musicians and artists have always been resourceful. Hard times sometimes make us all work a little more creatively to find a path to success.It's no secret that the corporate world has started devouring itself in a mad frenzy of layoffs, buyouts and an unseemly squeezing of the middle (and poorer) classes. Greed and corruption have hit a tipping point. Is there a limit to how many fees, interest rate increases and price hikes can be levied? Rather than address the fundamental issues of why and how our society is falling apart, the media is fixated on distractions. Even some of the in-depth sites, like Huffington Post, are now simply grabbing the same feeds that everyone else gets. CNN and MSNBC and Fox spend hours analyzing election polls. This numbing parade of numbers tells us nothing.In the 1976 Sidney Lumet film "Network," Peter Finch (playing a network news anchor) reaches a personal tipping point. He goes on air and shouts, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." This mantra is picked up around the country and people start shouting "I'm mad as hell... " Clearly, a lot of people are feeling this way as we enter the campaign of 2008. Still, I remain optimistic. Perhaps it's that I grew up listening to Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie singing about the Great Depression and bitter struggles of miners, lumberjacks and factory workers. They never gave up a certain pioneering spirit and abiding belief that justice would, in the end, prevail. Studs Terkel wrote, "I've always felt that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information."See you down the road,Artie. NEW VIDEO! Here's a link to my song Halifax, which I performed at the Fairfield Theatre. Halifax. It tells how Acadians were driven from Canada in 1755, an early example of ethnic cleansing in colonial-era North America. Beausoleil was an Acadian resistance fighter who waged a guerrilla war against the British near Halifax. He did not prevent thousands of Acadians from being loaded on boats and sent to Virginia, French Guiana and Louisiana. I learned much of this story from Michael Doucet, the irrepressible fiddler and Cajun scholar behind the band Beausoleil. I've been drawn to Cajun culture and history since I worked with Michael Doucet on the CD "Chez Les Cajuns" several years ago. Perhaps the Acadian exile reminds me of Jewish history and how our ancestors were driven from lands they cherished -over and over- in the past. I believe a good song shouldn't need a long introduction but sometimes a little history expands what songwriters must compress into a handful of short verses. I tried to convey the emotion, despair and excitement of those sad years in the mid-18th Century.
Check out his website and his music.
http://www.artietraum.com/
If you're in the music business, you're aware that the old business model (record, press CDs and sell product) is essentially over. The big labels are in big trouble, but they're coming back with new ways to squeeze cash out of the system. The latest they've come up with is an experiment with free downloads paid for by advertising. Media sites like Salon.com have a similar model: watch an ad and get free content. I have mixed feelings about this. First, advertisers may use their clout to decide who gets included in the mix. Second, I believe this new system may squeeze "indies" as the major labels try to control the market. Those of us who are struggling to maintain small record companies are facing rising costs and diminished opportunities. Still, musicians and artists have always been resourceful. Hard times sometimes make us all work a little more creatively to find a path to success.It's no secret that the corporate world has started devouring itself in a mad frenzy of layoffs, buyouts and an unseemly squeezing of the middle (and poorer) classes. Greed and corruption have hit a tipping point. Is there a limit to how many fees, interest rate increases and price hikes can be levied? Rather than address the fundamental issues of why and how our society is falling apart, the media is fixated on distractions. Even some of the in-depth sites, like Huffington Post, are now simply grabbing the same feeds that everyone else gets. CNN and MSNBC and Fox spend hours analyzing election polls. This numbing parade of numbers tells us nothing.In the 1976 Sidney Lumet film "Network," Peter Finch (playing a network news anchor) reaches a personal tipping point. He goes on air and shouts, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." This mantra is picked up around the country and people start shouting "I'm mad as hell... " Clearly, a lot of people are feeling this way as we enter the campaign of 2008. Still, I remain optimistic. Perhaps it's that I grew up listening to Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie singing about the Great Depression and bitter struggles of miners, lumberjacks and factory workers. They never gave up a certain pioneering spirit and abiding belief that justice would, in the end, prevail. Studs Terkel wrote, "I've always felt that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information."See you down the road,Artie. NEW VIDEO! Here's a link to my song Halifax, which I performed at the Fairfield Theatre. Halifax. It tells how Acadians were driven from Canada in 1755, an early example of ethnic cleansing in colonial-era North America. Beausoleil was an Acadian resistance fighter who waged a guerrilla war against the British near Halifax. He did not prevent thousands of Acadians from being loaded on boats and sent to Virginia, French Guiana and Louisiana. I learned much of this story from Michael Doucet, the irrepressible fiddler and Cajun scholar behind the band Beausoleil. I've been drawn to Cajun culture and history since I worked with Michael Doucet on the CD "Chez Les Cajuns" several years ago. Perhaps the Acadian exile reminds me of Jewish history and how our ancestors were driven from lands they cherished -over and over- in the past. I believe a good song shouldn't need a long introduction but sometimes a little history expands what songwriters must compress into a handful of short verses. I tried to convey the emotion, despair and excitement of those sad years in the mid-18th Century.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Great Obama Video
http://pol.moveon.org/endorse-o-thon/video.html?id=12030-1699880-5soASt&t=967
He's not my ideal candidate, but clearly the best of the narrowed down field.
There's a certain intangible charisma there, and an ability to stir people for change in the right direction. We on the left should not let our criticisms of him stop us for voting and working for him. The defeat of facist Republicanism is much more important than anything else. It goes without saying that we should not do this blindly and furthermore take this opportunity to promote and encourage more progressive, anti-war, anti-corporate etc. positions.
He's not my ideal candidate, but clearly the best of the narrowed down field.
There's a certain intangible charisma there, and an ability to stir people for change in the right direction. We on the left should not let our criticisms of him stop us for voting and working for him. The defeat of facist Republicanism is much more important than anything else. It goes without saying that we should not do this blindly and furthermore take this opportunity to promote and encourage more progressive, anti-war, anti-corporate etc. positions.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Israeli Conductor Barenboim Takes Palestinian Citizenship
Click: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/944235.html
Worth reading the reader responses too.
A brave and bold step towards peace and understanding.
Worth reading the reader responses too.
A brave and bold step towards peace and understanding.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Schmaltz
Schmaltz, Chicken Fat, Used To Make High Yield Biodiesel Fuel By U Of Arkansas Engineers.Cooks everywhere have long used schmaltz, the Yiddish word for chicken fat, as the basis for chicken soup, a tasty power dish reputed to cure the common cold, but soon drivers might find themselves cooking, so to speak with schmaltz as fuel in their gas tank. Researchers say they have found a way of converting schmaltz to turn it into high-yield biodiesel fuel for vehicles.To read the full article, see:http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009509960
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Yiddish Beatles
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=6vAMgbGEDTY
This is me with California Klezmer /The Lost Tribe, doing A Hard Day's Night,A Schvereh Togedikeh Nahkt, synched up to the Beatles on YouTube.
Translation by Gerry Tenney and Khane Yakhness
This is me with California Klezmer /The Lost Tribe, doing A Hard Day's Night,A Schvereh Togedikeh Nahkt, synched up to the Beatles on YouTube.
Translation by Gerry Tenney and Khane Yakhness
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
