Ringing in the Season

Posted on December 24, 2016 by hollyburke

Greetings fine and Christmasy folk! The view is great today – lots of blue sky and puffy clouds over Cypress and incoming hummingbird clouds leading us to our main topic today which is “humming“!

It’s nice to hear the care aids at Ma’s new care home in Lynn Valley humming and singing as you go down the hall. Ma is adjusting well and it has only been a couple of days.

hummingbird2016 And next on the theme of humming, I would like you all to meet Calliope my pet humming bird and her husband André (André is tending to the next while Calliope here is noshing on nectar!)

Now a poem:

humming georgia

driving home from the church gig
i come upon the melting moon…
crème brulée – with a spoonful
already eaten…
just for a moment – a pine tree silhouette carves
the moon’s surface and i realize
i’ve never actually seen this sight before,
though i’ve heard the lyric and sung it many times.

but tonight, our love comes home to me, “sweet and clear like moonlight through the pines”

home yes, almost home.

from Looking for Hymn collection by Holly Burke

And lastly, I have a little gift for those of you dear readers with a smart phone: a ringtone of Serengeti

So I am sending out warm Christmas wishes to all of you and hoping that you have a good one and looking forward to new adventures in 2017!

Like a Small Miracle 🌞

Posted on March 17, 2016 by hollyburke

An interesting foreign couple asked me for directions in Stanley Park the other day, and I was quite drawn to speak with them. The woman was from Switzerland, her husband Oman told me his wife was really into trees because of a book she was reading. Ah – A soulmate! She told me that this book was only available in German, and it describes how trees communicate through their roots! For example: there are some trees in Africa that can secrete a toxic substance to turn off giraffe’s that are coming to eat them. Not only that, trees at a distance will warn other trees that the giraffes are coming! When I find out when this book will be translated I’ll let you know. The French are going to make it into a movie. For me, I think of my beautiful family and how we help each other and how similar we are to a group of trees. Screen Shot 2016-03-17 at 10.55.15 AM.png

Serengeti in “Heavy Rotation” all over the World! Wow! and thanks…

Posted on September 15, 2015 by hollyburke



We are pleased to provide you with your consolidated spin report for the month of: August 2015
STATION	DATES	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	SPINS	CATEGORY
KXRL Radio Los Angeles, California USA	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	185	Heavy Rotation
www.kxrl-radio.com
KEDG Radio Sydney, Australia	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	190	Heavy Rotation
www.kedg-radio.com
KHSX Radio Houston, Texas USA	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	182	Heavy Rotation
www.khsx-radio.com
WLDN Radio London, United Kingdom	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	186	Heavy Rotation
www.wldn-radio.com
WMIC Radio Miami, Florida USA	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	186	Heavy Rotation
www.wmic-radio.com
KSPR Radio San Francisco, California USA	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	227	Heavy Rotation
www.powerfm-radio.com/sanfrancisco1
KBPR Radio Boston, Massachusetts USA	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	227	Heavy Rotation
www.powerfm-radio.com/boston1
KPPR Radio Paris, France	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	223	Heavy Rotation
www.powerfm-radio.com/paris1
KRPR Radio Rome, Italy	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	223	Heavy Rotation
www.powerfm-radio.com/rome1
KMPR Radio Manila, Philippines	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	223	Heavy Rotation
www.powerfm-radio.com/manila1
Hot FM KHTL Radio Los Angeles, California USA	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	211	Heavy Rotation
www.hotfm-radio.com/losangeles1
Hot FM KHTP Radio Phoenix, Arizona USA	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	216	Heavy Rotation
www.hotfm-radio.com/phoenix1
Hot FM KHTS Radio Shanghai, China	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	213	Heavy Rotation
www.hotfm-radio.com/shanghai1
Hot FM KHTI Radio Istanbul, Turkey	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	214	Heavy Rotation
www.hotfm-radio.com/istanbul1
Hot FM KHTB Radio Buenos Aires, Argentina	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	213	Heavy Rotation
www.hotfm-radio.com/buenosaires1
A-Pulse Radio Atlanta, Georgia USA	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	206	Heavy Rotation
www.pulse200.com/atlanta1
C-Pulse Radio Capetown, South Africa	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	205	Heavy Rotation
www.pulse200.com/capetown1
J-Pulse Radio Jakarta, Indonesia	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	203	Heavy Rotation
www.pulse200.com/jakarta1
M-Pulse Radio Mumbai, India	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	202	Heavy Rotation
www.pulse200.com/mumbai1
S-Pulse Radio Seoul, South Korea	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	207	Heavy Rotation
www.pulse200.com/seoul1

TOTAL SPINS FOR AUGUST 2015	August 1, 2015 – August 31, 2015	Holly Burke & The Naturals	Serengeti	4142	Heavy Rotation

Level of rotation is determined by the program director at each station and is based upon a combination of song quality and listener response. Each station also records and tracks listener requests and corresponding chart activity for all songs. You may receive a separate report summarizing peak chart activity for your song. Berkshire Media Group and other radio station networks use proprietary spin tracking systems whose data forms the basis for this consolidated report. Report data are made available only to current artists or by special request. Please note that spin data may or may not be simultaneously tracked by other similar reporting agencies, such as Digital Radio Tracker, Nielsen, Mediabase and others. The Akademia is not responsible for the accuracy of data culled by these other agencies which each use their own propietary spin tracking system.