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Well, Annie Oakley was a distant relative, and Charlemange before her (we're not so proud of him)... Some say African but that's just hearsay. Andrew On 25 March 2011 20:51, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Andrew thanks Janet has 5 or so of his plays and a lot of others -me my > delight is the cheery Cd of 'Bran Nue > Dae' my sort of thing (low brow-ish:-)) > Cheers P > Ps what tribe are you?? The Wild Burke's have a Gaelic flavour???do you > have > a sporran? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of andrew burke > Sent: 25 March 2011 12:21 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: pat snap > choir with Kavisha Mazzella > > And he was Jack *Davis*, indigenous poet and playwright. He came from here > on the West Coast, a member of the Noongar tribe if I'm not mistaken. > Andrew > > On 25 March 2011 17:36, Patrick McManus > <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > > > Oops meant to be B/C > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > > Behalf Of Patrick McManus > > Sent: 25 March 2011 08:21 > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: pat snap > choir with Kavisha Mazzella > > > > Cheers Max thanks 'Irish bouzouki'??more likely an Irish bazooka from the > > troubles??:-) Any Greeks about?? > > You do a lot of thigs I seem to be cutting back at the moment-hospital > > scares and tings hospital checkups and hospital hospitalling > > But today here it is warm beautiful spring Icat just walked over keyboard > > with actually writing anything > > I had a nice birthday party all the family around > > scratch group > > 'influx of Asian ladies > > wooden former chapel > > numbers dropped > > below the OK level ' > > must be snap material > > cheers Patrick > > ps my partner Janet is working on a paper-dissertation thingy on Jack > > Davies > > (havs his plays been performed in Melbourne-tricky from half a world away > > (even if she is an Oz person-from Melbourne > > pps now to get on with the serious business of maybe sorting things out > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > > Behalf Of Max Richards > > Sent: 23 March 2011 19:17 > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: pat snap > choir with Kavisha Mazzella > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au > > > > > > -- > Andrew > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at > http://www.picaropress.com/ > http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766 > http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at http://www.picaropress.com/ http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766 http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html