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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