19 October 2008
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Whew, already mid October, so much to do, so little time….
Last Thursday E. and I drove down to Geneva for the latest fanfareduloup ORCHESTRA latest show: QUEL CINEMA ! Musiques de films qui n’existent pas. The French speaking among you will have understood the title: Music from films that don’t exist, and may I remind you that friend Bill plays in this fun band…
1 June 2008
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Messin’ Round has often played at the P’tit Paris, a cool café near where I live. In fact it was there that I heard Dave for the first time as well as debut my ongoing existence as washboard player wannabe a few month later.
30 March 2008
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Last night Bill and I went to the Café du Soleil in Saignelegier to listen to a concert by Linda Bsiri and Michel Godard. I did not know anything about these two musicians besides the fact that Godard would be playing a recently made copy of an ancient musical wind instrument; the Serpent.
19 August 2007
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Saturday’s fun brings today’s burnout so I will keep it short – for my own sake.
I helped friend Bill install and animate an afternoon activity at our local “Fête de quartier” (neighborhood fete). He organizes different musical workshops for the young, and sometimes not so young, which might interest anyone who had already identified the cool sculpture pictured here as a musical instrument.
8 July 2007
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Dave, his son and myself went to play some Blues in the streets of Bern yesterday morning. It was the first time I’ve ever busked and because the news has recently been filled with articles about the growing amount of beggars in swiss cities, the fact that many pretended to be street musicians and what the authorities where doing about it, I was a bit worried. Especially since I felt that Dave wasn’t about to be bothered by any official regulations. Not that there is really any risk here, a fine perhaps, but I guess my tendency is play by the rules which means knowing them, which I didn’t…
27 April 2007
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I wasn’t ready for the wave of emotion that hit me this afternoon when I heard on the radio that Mstislav Rostropovich had passed away. And there is simply both too much and not enough to say about him.
Best is to put on an old LP of Brahms double concerto…