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Last Updated: 11/17/2009

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Thursday, October 29, 2009 
It was Easter when this was taken - maybe tomorrow is when they should meet again




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Sunday, October 18, 2009 
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbKAUEuHJfM

Hendrix song - covered by Sting

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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 
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Monday, August 17, 2009 
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 
Hang on till the end and catch about 5 seconds of me didging

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 

Category: Life
It's been a good year for didging!

So far I've done didge days at 3 primary schools in Bradford and Halifax - great fun with kids as young as 5 (who think I am a climbing frame) and as old as 10 (who ask some amazing questions about didges).  We play termite hollowed genuine didges then the children make their own out of plastic pipes and decorate them with a fantastic variety of designs.

I've played in the woods at a youth services opening of an outdoor performance space - Judy Woods in Bradford.  Check out the video on the next blog for info on this and for 5 seconds of didging!

I've worked with kids with learning disabilities at a respite centre in Keighley giving a musical experience to children at all points of the autistic spectrum.

I'm off to Belladrum festival in August to do some healing sound using the didge and working with homeopath Katie Majick to experiment with a joint approach to healing.

My new band Arcomnia is gradually introducing didge pieces into their repertoire - the didge tracks are not yet up on Myspace but five others are.

I did a didge workshop and performance at the lovely Love Apple in Bradford as part of their Sunday Funday series of events, at which my daugther "Aunt Sally" DJ'd her world music set.  And I have demonstrated didge at my other daughter Ada's Montessori nursery - from babies to 5 year-olds.

Hebden Fringe had me along again for the second year to do a workshop and that came after a trip to Glastonbury where I didged people in the street.  Earlier in the year I ran a workshop for a Home Education group in North Yorkshire.

I also did some work with an individual with ME exploring ways of using her voice and other sounds to improve her condition and quality of life.

I've added didge energy to Solstice and Beltane celebrations and other rituals at stones, woodland and moorland sites, alone and with others and I've given one-to-one tuition to new owners of their own didgeridoos, some bought from me at Pied Piper Pianos and some brought from Oz  or found elsewhere, most of these, I am pleased to say, have been genuine termite hollowed didges.  I am sourcing more didges to sell in the shop as my collection is getting low; I sell them, broke 2, lost one and someone helped themselves to another (they had good taste too - it was one of my best)

One of the kids at one of the schools asked me if I was a professional didge player - I thought a bit and then said - "Well yes - I suppose I am"  I hadn't thought of it before, but with the day job getting "crunched" playing the didge is increasingly becoming how I earn my living!

If you fancy hearing or learning the didge get in touch for a workshop or private tuition or healing sound or a festival or for your business.



Love Apple - Bradford


On stage - Love Apple - Bradford


Home Ed group - Steeton - the gear


Princeville Primary - Bradford


A selection of didges (yes even the curly one)


Home Ed - Steeton


Small World Music Festival


Sighnaghi - The Republic of Georgia


Eastwood Primary - Clap sticks with the nursery group


Hebden Fringe - Didge Workshop


The audience - Judy Woods
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 

Current mood:  sad
Some of the songs on this page were written by Loz and the guys in The Breed.
Loz was an old school mate and we played in bands as teenagers.  We got on cos we were both outsiders - at Buttershaw Comp if you stood out you got beaten up - a simple rule.  We didn't see each other for 25 years after school, then met and I joined his band, he'd been playing all the time in those years - I hadn't, family and career had taken precedent. 

We had a few problems with the health of band members but finally got gigging in 2006 around the time my new daughter Ada was born.  Loz was a family man and loved the idea of me having another child - he had two older daughters and a 6 year old son.  Ada was less than 6 months old when Loz died.  We thought we had loads of time to catch up, get to know each other's families and all that, but that didn't happen.

He was a good guy: loud, generous, creative, troubled, hilarious, angry, pedantic, loving, unconventional, passionate about music, dedicated to his kids and 48 when he died.

Ada is a measure of the time he's been gone and, together with his music and his voice on these recordings, a way of remembering him.





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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 

Category: Travel and Places
There is a contingent from Haworth UK in Peru this week visiting the Mayor and people of Aguas Calientes or Machu Picchu Pueblo, the village at the foot of the World Heritage site of Machu Picchu.  Last week an historic agreement was signed by the Mayor, linking our two villages.  Celebrations are underway and 3 years' work is complete now the "Twinning Agreement" has been signed by both sides.

Communication has been difficult; but part of the twinning principal is to learn from each others' ways.  The Incas had no written word and they communicated verbally or using "quipas", intricate knotted ropes passed from hand to hand.  This physical communication, I think, has remained intact in the psyche of modern Peruvians and although they have, like everyone else, embraced the digital age, their need for instant communication is perhaps less urgent than ours; and from this we can learn.

I hope we can look forward to years of contact.  Well done to the team in Haworth and particularly Rita Verity for persevering.

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