My original blogging plans for this Bastille day have been superseded by the need to help broadcast the call to HELP SAVE ZIMBABWE and to ask you, if it is possible for you, to DONATE to this important cause.
I was to have blogged today for Derrick Ashong’s band SOULFEGE, a much better cause than [...]
It is the weekend, so we are singing bluesy rock from Andahuaylas with UCHPA. There are a number of important terms beginning with A, associated with Andahuaylas: Abancay, Apurimac, Arguedas, and Ayacucho, whose song we have sung before:
ADIOS PUEBLO DE AYACUCHO, PERLASCHALLAY
TIERRA DONDE YO HE NACIDO, PERLASCHALLAY.
KAUSAQPAYCHA KUTIMUSAQ, PERLASCHALLAY
HUAÑUSPAYJA AMAÑALLA, PERLASCHALLAY.
Everyone in my house speaks [...]
Our cook is going to Huaripampa this weekend to investigate the possibility of buying property there, and I am envious. This video of one Huaripampa musical culture is not of the Huaripampa she is going to, and it was filmed in Lima, but it is truly excellent, so I am posting it as a way [...]
It is the weekend, so we must sing! Singing recommendations for this weekend have been made by our contacts at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. They are singing with these stars:
BOBBY BLAND - Z.Z. HILL - ROBERT CRAY (especially the song “Back Door Slam” 
- SIR CHARLES JONES - RAY CHARLES - JOHNNY TAYLOR [...]
Anytime is a good time to study La Perricholi, a famous 18th century diva, and to consider the composition of her strange name (perra + chola).
Axé.
This is St. John’s Eve, when trees receive their midsummer’s crown. Holger Drachmann’s traditional song for St. John’s Day, is somewhat patriotic and bellicose. It is also rather eerie as it evokes witch burning, although this is also said to be a burning away of what is unwanted. It has been satirized, as the Danes [...]
Tomorrow is Juneteenth, and we are already celebrating by listening to live blues from Club Raggs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on KQXL - 106.5 FM. Last weekend was the Donaldsonville Juneteenth Festival, rumored to be good.
Axé.
One summer long ago we went to the beach every day. Diva played for months at the repertory cinema, and we went to see it every weekend. Here is the key scene, with the aria from Catalani’s opera:
The song is sung again and also explained in this video from the Caffè Trieste. In Italy it [...]
It is the weekend, and we have forgotten to sing lately, so we will sing a marvelous and savage song with Chavela Vargas. Today, an excellent day for spells and healing, we feature this post on alternatives to academic labor, by a good professor with a good blog we should all read around in. Here, [...]
Any time is a good time for a son jarocho, so we will now sing the Tilingo Lingo:
If you liked that here is El Tamaulipeco, with good violin:
Neither of these videos has wonderful visuals. I am posting them for the sound and also because California, where I have recently been, is so very clearly in [...]
