1st Year Anniversary Café Ça Va & Thanksgiving Bash!

I’ve always loved Thanksgiving, giving thanks feels great, doesn’t it? It’s kinda like “Christmas Lite,” without all the trappings and expectations of X-mas. Except for the turkey feast which is always fine. So do come and feel breezy with us @ the Café Ça Va next Friday October 9 – 1860 Marine Drive. West Van. 604-925-2503. Music 8-11 pm, and the best French onion soup and red wine I’ve ever had. It’s a really pretty place, and so is the piano player, Dmitri ‘Gritty’  Gritsaenko. 309736_10150288258562066_139878418_nHe’s the one on the far right. I seem to prefer pianists from the Eastern Block, just one of those things. ‘Gritty’ and I will be making the scene, “a deux”, which is not to say “adieu,” although we will be giving thanks!

See you there, my friends. The music is free! Please spread the word?

Happy Thanksgiving!

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

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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
KEDG Radio Sydney, Australia
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
190
Heavy Rotation
KHSX Radio Houston, Texas USA
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
182
Heavy Rotation
WLDN Radio London, United Kingdom
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
186
Heavy Rotation
WMIC Radio Miami, Florida USA
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
186
Heavy Rotation
KSPR Radio San Francisco, California USA
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
227
Heavy Rotation
KBPR Radio Boston, Massachusetts USA
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
227
Heavy Rotation
KPPR Radio Paris, France
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
223
Heavy Rotation
KRPR Radio Rome, Italy
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
223
Heavy Rotation
KMPR Radio Manila, Philippines
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
223
Heavy Rotation
Hot FM KHTL Radio Los Angeles, California USA
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
211
Heavy Rotation
Hot FM KHTP Radio Phoenix, Arizona USA
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
216
Heavy Rotation
Hot FM KHTS Radio Shanghai, China
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
213
Heavy Rotation
Hot FM KHTI Radio Istanbul, Turkey
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
214
Heavy Rotation
Hot FM KHTB Radio Buenos Aires, Argentina
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
213
Heavy Rotation
A-Pulse Radio Atlanta, Georgia USA
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
206
Heavy Rotation
C-Pulse Radio Capetown, South Africa
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
205
Heavy Rotation
J-Pulse Radio Jakarta, Indonesia
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
203
Heavy Rotation
M-Pulse Radio Mumbai, India
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
202
Heavy Rotation
S-Pulse Radio Seoul, South Korea
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
207
Heavy Rotation
TOTAL SPINS FOR
AUGUST 2015
August 1, 2015 –
August 31, 2015
Holly Burke & The Naturals
Serengeti
4142
Heavy Rotation

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Let Heaven and Nature Sing!

Today we welcomed a new baby boy into the Burke family! Congratulations Sarah and JJ Burke!download

Tremendous Time on the Island Thanks to All!

We’re already planning our return tour! Here are a few pictures to share of us lounging around between shows!IMG_1311IMG_1307IMG_1301IMG_1311

The Sound of Waves and Words Come to Me

Driving along Long Beach

at last, the sound of waves

and words come to me…

YAZ YAZ  airport. norfolk pine. eucalytptus tree. fish taco!

I look across at The Manny,

motoring powerfully beside me…Longbeach_prnp

We’re a million miles away now,

returning to the singing sands of Middle Beach,

our Tofino home, wider than a mile.

Three Great Shows on Vancouver Island Aug. 22-23

Yes yes, all ye Islanders …now’s the time! spread the word!

We have a great line-up! and special guests…

BILL RUNGE – saxophone

RANDALLL STOLL – drums

MICHAEL CREBER – piano

KEN LISTER – bass

Holly Holliday – voice and flute!

Chemainus Jazz Festival

Chemainus Jazz Festival

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you’ll find me…

riding in on the backs of small dragons

with striped quivering wings over the lagoon

all held aloft by August breezes,

that always tell the truth.

sleek wide beech trunks invite me up

to roost, to nest, to breathe

in all creation and know

that it is good. even perfect. today.

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To Blog or Not to Blog…that is the question

To blog, or not to blog – that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them. To die-to sleep-
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die-to sleep.

Act 11 sc.1 Hamlet, Bill Shakespeare

Well, the answer is TO BE silly…it always is!

I received my new instructions just this morning.

The right answer is, ” TO BE.”LIGHT

So You Like My Poetry

ok. that’s cool. Being with you is all I’ve ever wanted.

Like tasting the first ripe cherry of the season

or breathing in the first wild white rose growing

in tangled leafy thatches down by the lagoon

the total immersion of my senses that you are

walking barefoot, hand in hand, over a soft emerald carpet of grass.

 

 

barefootgrassHB 2015 for Otto

A Great Time to be Human

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