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George Wakim in Louisville
So Mel and I went to see George Wakim again in Louisville this weekend. He's a Lebanese American musician based in Lexington, Kentucky. Self taught on the Oud, Arabic violin, and Arabic percussion. He and his Egyptian Tabla player, Firas, played a number of traditional Middle Eastern tunes at the Cafe Classico this past Saturday (March 31). The ( Read more... ) -
Lack of updates...
For those of you who don't know, I'm basically mirroring this livejournal from my MySpace blog ( http://blog.myspace.com/silpayamanant )--which means that I sometimes don't get those blog posts posted here nearly as timely. I'll be adding a few that I've posted there the past ( Read more... ) -
Ani Mori Nuse
Me singing an Albanian folk tune (Ani Mori Nuse) at Carenza's. Carenza bint Asya dancing.
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Arabic drumming
a video of me backing up Dale whle drumming for Jenn Dawson. I'm actually playing a Turkish Darabuka in this show. From the Carmine show in Muncie, IN last Friday, the 9th.
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Indianapolis Artsgarden
It's a lovely venue. While talking to Jeff before our gig there earlier yesterday Robert and I realized we first performed there about two years ago. Not an especially long time, but I still remember the first show there and how far we've come since then.
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a little bit of China and the Middle East in the Midwest
So last night we played with Carmine Guida, a fantastic oud and dumbek player. He's doing a series of workshops and concerts in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky all this weekend. It was great fun jamming to some middle eastern tunes, and playing for Laylia and Jenn Dawson again. Of course, I took his doumbek workshop.
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Doing Time, Doing Vipassana
In keeping with the theme of Jeff's lastest post, Never Disparaging, I came across a documentary about using Vipassana meditation in prisons. Excerpt follows:
During the following winter of 1994-95, the Israeli filmmakers traveled to both Tihar and to the Baroda Jail in the India state of Gujarat, at which Vipassana courses had also been ( Read more... )
