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The Naturals Ride again! @ Frankies Jazz June 7! 🩴🌴🦋🦒🌈🌟

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Well helloo! Springtime friends and Naturals fans…You are warmly invited to come hear us http://www.frankiesjazz.ca in a refreshing new way! that’s right! NEW and IMPROVED! (as they say – lol) You must be curious? I know I am…freshness is exciting, so is poetry. I’m having my first poem published this fall in Persimmon, an online magazine, so happy to say, and an honor for sure. In fact, we’ll be performing the poem/lyric/song ‘Love is a Traveller’ on Saturday June the 7th, LIVE and IN PERSON. Tingle-time!

 

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I encourage you to beat the rush and book your reservations SOON for Saturday night June 7 at FRANKIES ~ our favourite downtown Vancouver jazz club. Here’s Bill Runge ~ one of the best saxophone players in Canada and a true legend in Vancouver. The ubiquitous Andre Lachance will be joining us on bass, Magick Kristian Alexandrov on piano, and master drummer Randall Stoll. What a bouquet of wonderment, yes? YES! superlatives fall short of the experience…

into the mystic
“Nature Sky” by Miriam Espacio/ CC0 1.0





Bill Runge, Saxophonist, Arranger, Orchestrator, man of the hour.










Andre Lachance ~ consummate bassist.





The Magick Kristian Alexandrov himself.





Randall Stoll’s Zen and the Art of Drumming.





 





“Music can be made anywhere, is invisible, and does not smell.” W.H Auden





Composing is like making love to the future. Lukas Foss – NY Post





I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. John Coltrane





I’m not online,
     I’m not offline,
            I’m between the lines…





HB 🦩





Looking forward to seeing your shining faces June 7th!





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Reunion Concert: Experience the Naturals Live Friday January 3

				

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Hi There Wonderful People Third is a funny word now I look at it. Must be a truly ancient brit one methinks. Here I am holding the flute. amazing. next we’re in the pool. very very groovy indeed. Such great smiles! can’t wait to share the Naturals music with you again 🙂 at Vancouver’s premier Jazz Club, Frankies! and warm Season’s Greetings to all 🎄🌟🌲✨🎄🌟























It feels so amazing to be singing and playing again! I mean what’s ten years between friends? I hope this wee note finds you well and happy and full of mischief! We’re alive! and happy to be so. There’s going to be a great outpouring of beautiful Naturals music at our much anticipated reunion Concert Friday January 3rd 8 pm at Frankie’s Premiere Jazz Club 755 Beatty St. Please do join us for this exciting concert and groove to our greatest hits (visualize scrolling titles here with deep male voice-over- lol) thrill to “Serengeti” drift away with “River of Stars” be warmed by “Let me Stand Next to your Fire” as well as gorgeous and tuneful new material as well. Get your tickets ➡️ here ⬅️ for a passionate night of musical magic and mystery with the Naturals!























me actually singing





Bill Runge – saxophones and inspiration 🌟🔱💫👑





Randall Stoll – drums and heartbeat 🥁 ba-doom ba-doom





Kristian Alexandrov – piano – our magic sorcerer – ha!🔥🌪️





Brent Gubbels – bass – holding it all down ⬇️ and 🆙





Nick Apivor – good vibes and percussion 





Holly Burke – voice and flute – so very delighted to participate🕊️🪭










So let’s be together and wish each other a very happy New Year and beyond ))) )))) ))))) 🌟🐣🌈🕊️🌴  hb and los naturales sending out love to all but especially you 🆙🌻🐋  pass it along 🙂 and see you there!





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Come for a Flute Hang Monday afternoon…

				

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Hello Flute Fans! I’ll be playing in the Main Hall of the West Vancouver Memorial library from 2-3 pm. this Monday December 18, that is. Come and browse and flip magazine pages while I pour my heart out flute-wise…





It’s not set up for a Concert – more for a pleasant flute hang. Very casual and a bit of a scholarly vibe you know…lovely!





You’re invited! and a Merry ’tis the Season to All!






			

	
	



			
				


	

		
Kozmik Dancing September 16!

				

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Yes Friends,


A thrilling dance experience can be yours this weekend! I’ve written a bunch of new music for the Kozmik Keyboard to accompany YOU, while Jacob Larmour speaks inspirationally, and you, of course, dance.


Rain or shine 2-6 pm @ Davie and Bute st. You know, the rainbow walk! Jacob Larmour and I will be on from 3:30 – 4:30 for a fascinating guided experience of the human story.  Not to be missed!

			

	
	



			
				


	

		
Look UP in the night sky this weekend!

				

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This weekend brings the peak of Summer! We’ve had the fireworks, we’ve had Pride and now the great celestial Perseid meteor show takes over…up to eighty meteors an hour and fireballs will be somehow silently whooshing over our heads this very weekend! I kid you not! So get away from the city lights if you can and enjoy the greatest show off earth…


“great fireballs of fire!” – A guide to the Perseid Meteor Shower


Actually it’s a lot more mellow than that 🙂 Here’s our tune “River of Stars” for your starry enjoyment over this beautiful Summer weekend…how I wish Summer could last forever!


 


Now for a haiku by Mike:


rainless sky for weeks


photons drizzle down in the


perseid shower


 






 


 

			

	
	



			
				


	

		
Haciendas in the sun and the Power of Quiet

				

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Thoughts of sunny haciendas and social media-ocrity sweep through my mind…


Hey aspirational! Hey blookup! Hey all you dog gone great followers and fans! Let’s Face-book it:


Oh yes, this is a truly virtual blog now! I talked to Mike.Brown and he creates the post. These are my words coming through him! Thanks, Mike. (You’re welcome! 😜 )


When I’m out with my love dove, Bill, we frequently have to contend with the horrors of corporate background music. Last night we endured two hours of repellant looped robotic music that only drinking could improve. Oh I guess that’s the point, isn’t it?


Hey, come on… We’re human beings… We want to feel! To be touched… To imagine! It’s sinister how corporate decides which satellite (sat-elite?) channel will hold sway over the diners and the rest of us can just lump it. While it’s true I’m extra sensitive and still recovering from my head bonking last December, I think I’ve always been sensitive. Silence – you know, the space between the notes – can be powerful. Then, I want to put in a video clip of oh no nonononononononono leave it it’s wonderful. We will find this on YouTube…




Can’t wait to play with my Naturals again! And also check out Randall’s splash cymbal on “We are Golden”! My camera did something cool and unusual.


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The late Canadian composer Harry Freedman said it best:


Are you an informed listener? Do you take the trouble to protect your ears and your musical appetite? Do you cancel your order and leave a restaurant if the manager does not turn down the Muzak?

			

	
	



			
				


	

		
I’m recovering from a concussion and will not be performing tonight

				

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Yes, it’s true.  I was clipping my mother’s toenails and fell off her bed into a chest of drawers. I had a cranial sacral treatment yesterday, and slept for twelve hours. I’m as surprised as you are.


Peace to All,


See you when I see you,


Holly


ps. Kristian Alexandrov and Adam Rorlick will be playing tonight, oh!stardust golden





			

	
	



			
				


	

		
Peace, Love, Joy, Light! and All That Jazz!

				

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Is there anything better than hearing your songs float out into the world for the first time?




11053499_973851552659849_4775672024063635709_oFloating out into a beautiful space like Brentwood Presbyterian church..seeing and feeling the lovely people respond…wow!


Peace, Love, Joy, Light!


and all that jazz…


Thanks to Brian Fraser, the Naturals, old friends and new!