Marylee met Gilberto Gil!!! Holy shit, right?!
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Another good one...
I recently watched this excellent DVD series on Brazilian history and culture, featuring Chico Buarque and Tom Ze, among others. It's based on the book by one of Brazil's preeminent intellectuals, Darcy Ribeiro, which took his whole life to complete, and which he finished just before his death about 10 years ago. Am reading the book now... it's delicious! The book and DVD explore all regions of Brazil and the indio-afro-euro-gringo cultural mash-ups that are uniquely Brazilian... often rooted in tragedy, but always persevering and adapting. He says Brazil's greatest asset is cultural... how much the rest of the world has to learn from Brazil about embracing cultural diversity. But we knew that...
Monday, May 12, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
ukulele safari
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting Australian uke sensations, Bosko & Honey. They are traveling around the world, interviewing uke players and posting their adventures on youtube. Here is the interview they did with me.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
more manlove
Adam's work took him back to Austin again where he apparently met up with Paul Sonnenberg. Prompted by pub quiz vixen Elizabeth Holst they recorded a wonderful version of "Brandy."
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
my machadinho is finished!!!
A few months ago a fellow named Tho X. Bui started making this guitar for me. It's going to be tuned like my banjo (D-G-B-D). I've anxiously been watching his progress online since December. It should be here in Chicago sometime next week. I'm really, really excited about it and just know it's going to sound fantastic. As you can see, it has two output jacks -- one for the humbucker and one with a dynamic mic to pick up the acoustic sound.Tho is a violinist and makes and sells a lot of interesting instruments. You can see some of them on his homepage, thoxbui.com.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
roommate
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