Learning Creativity

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Thanks to Trudy Nan's sense of truth and an affinity to HBO programing, we have a true Irish American wake at hand. We may not see the likes of this series again. It's The Best I've seen and there is fiddle content.

Friday July 17th fiddle gig Senoia Coffee House

We boys in Celtic Ties are in the Senoia Coffee House again this Friday night July 17. They ask us back because we don't eat or drink much of their profits and we clean up after ourselves. We will play 2 sets starting at 7:00pm and going till 9:00pm. The tunes are all traditional Irish tunes over 150 years old. These tunes, having passed the test of time and good taste, help us hide the truth of our ungraceful aging and cheap hair cuts. Please come on down and join in the rowdiness. The power of the tunes lightens the work for us and can moves the audience to spontaneous dance. So don't be shy about bringing your hoop and hollars, your whistle and wallets. Your gonna want to drink the coffee, taste the dessert and tip the band.

The urge to merge

This is the latest video project I have been working on at Griffin Tech. After about a month in production, The video team here, Thomas, Charles and I finished the final corrections last week. The merge video was produced for the Commission on Colleges and was shown at their monthly meeting and then was shown to Georgia's governor-Sonny Perdue. It will be up on the Griffin Tech webpage on Monday. Fiddle content insert here (played fiddle at night and worked gigs on the weekend). I've been practicing playing over "Rythmn Changes" and hope to spend the next month struggling within the key of Bb learning to use the diminished scale over the A section of the changes

Here it is, I've had this blog up and running for just over a week and the only one who has visited the site is my wife, and she didn't post a comment. Although we have a running commentary at home. I know the content is esoteric and not aimed at any group that I would want to belong. So, why don't I just rationalize and say, "This is a test to see if I could post and play in blogagog. So welcome to the playground". I can work with that definition.

For fiddle content. I've just gotten under my hat and fingers all the tunes in a 20 song Irish set. I play with a group named "Celtic Ties". There are three of us in the group. I'm on fiddle. Hollis a multi-instrumentalist is on penny whistle, mountain Dulcimer, hammer dulcimer, concertina, banjo, and guitar. Ed plays Bodrhan and bowed psalter. We are playing coffee houses, museums, weddings, schools and retirement villas all very tame venues. No vocals yet but we will be workin' them in.

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090405 2007 Peachtree Road Race

To publish a video blog using a how to book has got to be one of the most convoluted journeys I have been on recently. The directions, contrary to the writer of this how to book, are written in a dialect uncommon to most English speaking travelers and written by guides who have been over the ground but cannot and should not attempt technical writing. Assume you are guiding a blind and deaf beggar when you take on the task of writing an "easy guide" to video blogging. You have sent me over a cliff. Lucky for me there was a branch I was able to grab before I hit the ground.