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You always take a bit of a chance when you go to see Ashley MacIsaac. But last night playing at the East Coast Music festivities in Halifax he did not disappoint. He was simply brilliant. [ashleymacisaac.com/]
Bow Fiddle Rock during the blue Hour. Lacking a little EXIF data as it was taken with a manual prime (Pentax 50mm M f1.7
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Song: "My Blushin' Rose"
Show: Fiddle-Dee-Dee and Quo Vass Iss
Opening: 6 September 1900 (Weber & Field's Music Hall)
Lyrics: Edgar Smith
Music: John Stromberg
Sheet Music Artist: Unknown
Inset head shots: Uncredited
Publisher: M. Witmark & Sons
Joe Weber (1867–1942) and Lew Fields (1867–1941) first appeared together in 1876. The famous comedy team (they invented the pie-throwing shtick) split in 1904, though each continued as producers, writers and performers.
Fay Templeton (1865–1939) first went on stage at the age of three and became enormously popular in the U.S. and London. Weber and Fields engaged her for her comic talents in 1896. The musical burlesque extravaganza Fiddle-Dee-Dee opened at Weber & Field's Music Hall on 6 September 1900, closing 20 April 1901 for 262 performances. Her final appearance was in the Jerome Kern musical Roberta in 1933.
At the end of the Minnesota Orchestra's "A Scandinavian Christmas" last night. There was a Hardanger fiddle! And Frosty the Snowman and When You Wish Upon a Star in Swedish! And we all sang along to a song in Norwegian!
The Avalon Jazz Band at the Subway Swing Party during the 2015 run of the Nostalgia Shoppers Special Train. The organizers have changed hands since this first became a thing hence the name change. It used to be called the Vintage Tea Party then became the Vintage Swing Party after food became a no-no and apparently it's now the Subway Swing Party.
From the Fair at New Boston, Springfield, Ohio
I was lucky enough to have found the woman again this year that I shot last year playing her fiddle. This time, I got her in my studio.
Here is the shot I took of her last year:
he dances to music provided by John Harrod, Roger Cooper & Michael Garvin and mostly ignores Grandy's commands... :)
"My Pets" is an anthology of children's stories copyrighted by the World Syndicate Publishing Co. of Cleveland and New York in 1929. Authored and illustrated by various people.
My wife and daughter chatting to a lovely man (and busker) named Patrick in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow recently. Check out my daughter's cheeky face, she knows what Daddy is up to, taking a photograph.
Glasgow, Scotland - 9th October 2015
The Umoja Village Shantytown was founded on October 23, 2006 in the Liberty City section of Miami, Florida in response to a crisis of gentrification and low-income housing gripping Miami, Florida, considered one of the least affordable cities in the United States.
After months of planning, a group calling itself Take Back the Land seized control of a vacant lot on the corner of 62nd St. and NW 17th Ave. The lot sat vacant for approximately 8 years after low income housing there was demolished by the City of Miami. Take Back the Land erected several tents and then built wood frame shanties in order to provide housing for otherwise homeless people in the area.
Police, City of Miami and Miami-Dade County officials were unable to evict the residents or organizers due to the landmark 1996 Pottinger Settlement. After years of arresting homeless people essentially for being homeless, the Miami ACLU sued the city of Miami, who eventually settled. In the settlement, the city agreed that homeless people could not be arrested if they met three criteria:
1. The individual is homeless;
2. the individual is situated on public land;
3. there are no beds available at homeless shelters in the city;
4. the individual is engaged in "life sustaining conduct," such as eating, sleeping, bathing, "responding to calls of nature," congregating and building "temporary structures" to protect one's self from the elements. (Pottinger Settlement)
Take Back the Land exploited the legal settlement to build a shantytown in Miami, Florida.
By the end of December, Umoja Village housed approximately 50 otherwise homeless people and made the news in the Miami Herald, the Los Angeles Times, Time.com and the New York Times, as well as a number of documentaries and blogs.
Residents ran the Village, voting to build, distribute donations, move in new residents and evict others.
Umoja Village enjoyed broad support in the community, and, therefore, was able to successfully repel numerous attempts by government officials to evict them.
Take Back the Land organizer Max Rameau, of the Center for Pan-African Development, argued that the Umoja Village was not just about gentrification, but was a full "land struggle," in the mold of Brazil's MST, the Landless Workers' Movement and similar movements in South Africa. As an advocate of Pan-Africanism, Rameau asserted black people should control the land in the black community, as manifested by Umoja Village.
The Village itself was built with the help of local white anarchists, operating under the black political leadership of Take Back the Land.
On April 23, 2007, Umoja Village celebrated it's 6 month anniversary by announcing several campaigns, including the replacement of the wood shanties with more durable hexayurts (Autonomous building); building a water well; engaging in local anti-gentrification and pro-housing campaigns; demanding legal rights to the land from the City of Miami; and plans to acquire land and build low-income housing.
On April 26, 2007, on the day the first hexayurts were scheduled to be built, Umoja Village burned to the ground in a mysterious fire. There were no casualties or injuries. Miami police arrested 11 residents and activists for attempting to remain on the land and the City erected a barbed wire fence around the property that same day.
In order to avoid protests, the City offered Take Back the Land the property in order to build low-income housing before reneging on the offer under pressure from local power brokers and lobbyists. (Miami Herald, July 27, 2007)
On October 23, 2007, Take Back the Land announced it identified vacant public and private foreclosed homes and moved families into some of those homes, in a move it calls "liberating" housing. As of February 2008, Take Back the Land had a waiting list of 14 families waiting to move into one of those homes.
In February, Max Rameau released a book detailing the experience. The book is entitled Take Back the Land: Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown.
What: Umoja Village
Where: Liberty City, Miami, Florida USA
When: October 2006 through April 2007
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I tried fiddle heads for the first time last night. A friend warned me that they have to be well cooked as they can induce a 24 hour flu like sickness. Even with the thorough cooking (i like my veggies on the raw side!) they were still quite delicious!
What was the fate of this particular fiddle head? It didn't make it onto our supper table and should now have grown into a beautiful fern in a dark forest close to home!
My grandfathers violin/fiddle. It had belonged to my great grandfather, until his death. It hasnt been played in 40 years or so. It was dated from 1597, made in germany. I did a little research on it, and found that its maker had died of the plague in the 1620's. However it is likely that this is a replica made in the mid 1800's. It would have to be examined by a proffesional to confirm its actual origin. All I can say for sure, is that has been in my family for at least 90 years, and played many a hoe down in its day!
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