at a secret location!
in Snowhomish this time. A new collaboration is born with a Grammy Award
winning Seattle Producer and other fine folk from the southlands…I can say that guitarist Richard Knowles invited me to join and I am thrilled.
“Nature Girl“ is the newest CD release from leading Vancouver composer/lyricist/flutist/vocalist Holly Burke. Holly has been on the scene in Canada and the US for decades and has quietly persisted to produce creative, texturally rich and evocative music that often transcends genre.
This current offering combines elements of World Beat, Fusion Jazz, Avant-Pop, Ambient, and enigmatic forms that defy description. Some of the wide ranging musical influences include; Paul Horn, Diane Reeves, Hubert Laws, Eric Satie, Bill Evans, Pat Metheny, and Michael Brecker.
The compositions include some moving lyrical content, exciting and thoughtful improvised instrumental soloing and some infectious grooves combined with fresh harmonic content, thoughtful arrangements, brilliant performances by a crack band that includes some of Canada’s best musicians, pristine recording values, and a pervasive sense magic and mystery.
“We are stardust – we are golden
billion year old carbon,
and we’ve got to get ourselves back…
to the garden”
Now more than ever. Thanks for the decades of inspiration Joni.
~ ah George Carlin…
And I’m not going to bother cleaning it up. Let it run all over town as far as I’m concerned…I may be the luckiest flute player in town today, anyway that’s how I feel. I love my band The Naturals , I love sharing our music with you, with a church full of lovely human beings, feeling the music rising, lifting us all up up UP!
Holly Moly
It’s a family affair, isn’t it?
First Time
isdomDeep breath
dive in
as this new life’s
about to begin
“Oom pah pah, oom pah pah, that’s how it goes… (Photo credit: bobfranklin)
brass quintet pumping away
little kids always in the very middle of the crowd
running, with their arms way up
into the palest blue of blues mountain air
late afternoon sun stretched out
like a big scruffy dog
belly cooling over the bricks
now the band shifts to a gentle oompah
a dalmation watches
his owner pump up his bike tire
in time with the music.
from my collection of poems
“Looking for Hymn”
yes – we’re waiting to see if Pat’s left arm will be playable this Friday @ the Genesis Theatre!
crossing arms, legs, eyes, toes and fingers for good healing luck!
I LOVE playing Pat’s EPIC ORIGINAL MUSIC!!!!
Holly Burke Music & Poetry 