Ah, Patrick, one of your best.
And it reaches me just after choir practice at our little municipal arts centre
where my wife and I have joined a scratch group under the inspired coaching of
Melbourne's folky/songwriter-performer Kavisha Mazzella (see her website).
The council has asked her to get up a 'united nations of song'.
In the little wooden former chapel (where I used to take a writing class till
numbers dropped below the OK level!), a very odd lot of locals without musical
training are learning songs from all over.
And rather too soon we will perform in front of an audience of our friends...
First Wednesday evening I was the only male, but some others have joined.
Songs in Latin, Italian (Ciao Bella), Romany, Hebrew, so far...
But the exotic musical instruments are lacking - only guitar and a cute little
sort of bodhran.
Bound to prompt me to some verse snaps later.
Kavisha's CDs are worldish music - she likes to say she's part Neapolitan, part
English, part Thai, and grew up in a cafe in Perth WA. She's off to a folkfest
in Slovenia shortly and someone else will take us on Wednesday evenings.
Last night there was an influx of Asian ladies, now outnumbering the
Mediterraneans.
Max
(Tomorrow night we cross town to Brunswick to hear the great Andy Irvine, a
regular visitor, one of my heroes, a master of the Irish bouzouki...)
Quoting Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> SEX LIFE
>
> he had always
> loved the pure
> sweet roses
> of
> English Folk Music
> lala trally lala lee
> but
> recently
> he had discovered
> the tropical wild flowers
> hot passionate delights
> of
> World Music
> ram bamma bam!
> tuckoo tuckerooeah!
> zam zam zugger!
> tackertack terakko taa!
> tee untarla muzarrra!
> que quanga zha!
> choZaha!
>
>
>
> pmcmanus
> q806
>
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