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Guitar talk: Desio Guitars & The Secret Identities
Last week, I was privileged to take part in a night of guitars at The Monkey House with a dozen or so other Desio guitar owners. For the past several years now, local luthier Mario Desio has quietly...
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Songs upon songs
We found a stack of songs books — Great American, sing-along, Bob Dylan, bar songs, 'traditionals,' you name it — at a yard sale the other day. A trove of books giving voice to everything from...
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Climate change, birds & wonder
I started my second year volunteering as a hawk watcher for Golden Gate Raptor Observatory a couple weeks back, which involves being part of a team tracking the fall raptor migration of raptors, adding...
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KCDC CD Release 9/14 @ The Starry Plough
Yes, the KCDC CD release show is this weekend, Sunday September 14, 2014, 4-7pm, at The Starry Plough in Berkeley. We'll be sharing the bill with Seattle's wonderful Joy Mills and Tom Parker who will...
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KCDC Your Own Reaction Released!
I'm pleased to announce that the KCDC "Your Own Reaction" Cd is now available worldwide, online via CDBaby, Amazon, iTunes, etc.! We're proud of these songs and had a great time playing them live in...
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Read.Eat.Listen: Full
Read: The dear writing-group friend LJ recommended'Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing' by Deborah Levy and I ate all but all of it up on the flights to and fro LA a couple weeks back. A free night...
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Starling songs and the Hesitation Blues
Basically, I live in the suburbs. A few businesses operate nearby, but we're on a mostly residential grid, complete with sidewalks and a smattering of trees lining the streets. In the bird department,...
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Autumnal Sky
Christopher Capell photoThe word equinox comes from the Latin words for "equal night." The fall and spring equinoxes are the only days of the year in which the Sun crosses the celestial equator. From...
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Artist Interview: Oakland Musician Blood & Dust
The Crooked Road by Blood & DustBlood & Dust, akaOakland-based artist Doug Tiemann, first came to my attention through the Balanced Breakfast East Bay music meet-ups. A hard-working...
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Thoughts on Yoga & Music
Illustration by Boonchu http://www.alliscoming.comI play music. I practice (and teach some) yoga. But I don't play music when I practice. And I don't make 'yoga music' as an artist. That said, I think...
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Catastrophes, Catharsis and a Bit of Ancient Juju
Evan Blaser Photo https://www.flickr.com/photos/evanblaser/It was a bad night. It wasn't bad in that we weren't unprepared. Not bad in that we weren't presenting the songs as I'd intended. Not bad in...
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Benefit for Operation Shanti in New York City, October 9, 2014
In 2003, Tracy Kunichika traveled to India and started planting the seeds for what would become Operation Shanti, an American-based non-profit that seeks to provide basic health care and services for...
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Waikiki redux
Note: I'm visiting Oahu this week, my first visit since I traveled to this Hawaiian island in High School. Being here again reminded me of the following experience.If we took a holidayTook some time to...
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Artist Interview: Michele Kappel-Stone's Full Heart
Oakland musician Michele Kappel-Stone is one of those rare hybrids of cool, talented and nice. The Baltimore native is always playing somewhere and she's a seemingly tireless advocate of her fellow...
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Hawaii Postcard: Wherever you go...
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put...
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Hawaii Postcard: Walking Up Hills
Old ghost ranges, sunken rivers, come again stand by the wall and tell their tale, walk the path, sit the rains,...
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Red Meat, Run Boy Run, David Jacobs-Strain to Perform at FAR-West Music...
Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 7:00 P.M.Oakland MarriottOn Thursday evening, October 16, FAR-West will kick off its 11th annual conference with the Venues’ Choice concert. Five venues from around the...
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Read.Eat.Listen: Island State
Read: Though I was hard pressed to wander to far from the beach on my visit, there's a more to Hawaii beyond the sand and teaming tourists. Written in 1866 (!), nearly a century before it became a...
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FAR-West Fun; Coming up on KZSU & @ The Cottonwood Truckee
Well, FAR-West in Oakland turned into a song-soaked, musical fun ride. I had a great time playing PGS rooms hosted by Bohemian Highway, Maurice Tani & Jim Bruno, Kyle Alden and Amy Andrews Music,...
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Artist Interview: Annie Bacon's Pounding Corps
When I think of artists who exemplify The Bay Area's creative culture, I think of people like Annie Bacon. Highly original, filled with integrity and continually questing, the SF-dwelling...
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