Maybe fearing what might ultimately be, my mother signed me up for
accordian lessons at the tender age of 8 from the itinerant salesman who
was peddling culture throughout our county in the mid 50s. My second grade
teacher was somewhat horrified that I was trying to write prayers in verse.
However, a career in trad was not to be. My best friend did quite well, I
was begged to stop. In the 60s I played folk guitar. In recent years I've
actually been exploring my percussive roots. I've been quite taken with the
bodhran. It has its own identity issues in terms of whether it is a true
traditional instrument and its place in the hierarchy. However, I love it
and it is as one person said, "the heartbeat of Irish music." Ironically, I
couldn't find a tutor so I have been taking Latin drums for the last couple
of years. Now I am taken with Afro-Celt and fusion music. My musical
passions probably mirror my poetry--eclectic and wandering. However either
poetry nor music has cured the frustration or satisfied the ear for tunes.
Best,
Deborah
packing up
leaving tomorrow to teach bodhran
at our NY Gaeltacht Camp for next week
Deborah Humphreys
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> [Original Message]
> From: Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 8/26/2005 1:08:50 PM
> Subject: Re: each to their own
>
> As a frustrated
> musician - one of my early choices was which creative strand to follow
> - I often pour my ear into poetry. I'll have to get Mayakovsky's book.
>
> Roger
>
>
> Yes, yes, do. It's a little Cape Edition - well, my edition is. Probably
> published elsewhere, of course.
>
> Funny you should emtnion your 'frustrated musician' story. Same here. I
was
> a drummer as a youth for a very short while. I have found that the
majority
> of Australian poets have at least tried playing music sometime in their
life
> ... interestingly enough, not Les Murray (but his wife's a huge opera
fan).
> Tom Shapcott, Geoff Page, Fay Zwicky, Dorothy Hewett ... on and on.
> Interesting.
>
> Any other frustrated, or even unfrustrated, musos who have become poets
out
> there?
>
> Andrew the Little Drummer Boy
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