Bill Runge is a God

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Yes, he is. The reason “Serengeti” is so epic is because of his amazing talents as a writer and arranger, not to mention multi-instrumentalist! So this is very much a shared honor with the one and only Bill Runge.http://www.billrunge.com/

“This is top shelf jazz, the kind that lives between 64th notes, and Burke’s virtuosity with the flute is rivaled only by her skill as a songwriter.”

The Akademia Music Awards – Los Angeles, CA

http://www.theakademia.com/april2015_bestsong_instrumentalacousticjazz.htm

Also all thanks to our wonderful engineer Ken Burke of Burkeville Productions.

Here’s Ken’s video with “Serengeti.” It’s a (literal) trip!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVFEevdFbWU

Thanks everybody! gotta go practice now…

aboard my brother’s boat “Island Roamer“of www.bluewateradventures.ca It was Mom’s 90th

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Award Nominations, Mad Love and Room with a View.

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So Bill and I finally make it out to Harrison Hot Springs…hallelujah!

I check my email and see that ‘Serengeti,’has been nominated for an “Akademia Music Award”

out of Los Angeles. far out. I get a call from my brother Kerry, and find out that Dad has had a bad fall and is in hospital,

needing an operation. whoa. Bill and I sat by the fire for a long while, staring into the dancing flames…

The old man made it through. I spoke with him today and his tone anyway, was good. We have a room with a view and it’s

all you could ever want.

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Contacting Our Intelligent. Original. Inspired. Good Fortune.

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PC2015_Splash_2PACIFIC CONTACT. I step out into a world I’ve never known before…

it’s about reaching out for new terrain, it’s also about serendipity and chance. Interestingly, I found myself just standing

beside several of the people I had wanted to make contact with…lovely people!

It felt wonderful, and right, to be a part of this great festivity of Arts and Culture, everyone on their special quest, all of us

together.

Happy Questing Pacific Contact!

Ants, Uncles and Telepathic >>>> Messages )))))))))

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Last year right on Daylight Savings the ants showed up. Like they were taking their cue from the Great Ant conductor in the sky. Sometime last week I started making preparations, so I might be able to head them off at the pass this year. At every entry point, I laid out a mixture of cornmeal and borax, while sending them strong  telepathic   messages   not    to   come   at    all   !

ha haaaaa!

do    not    come

go    eat     somewhere     else      please      !

so far…no ants!  TT__HH___AAA__NN__KK__YYYY__OO__UUUUUUUU   !!!!!  Ants…and uncles…images

Happy International Women’s Day!

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Yup, got all jacked up on dong quai today and joined the women’s liberation movement march on Commercial drive.

At one point a guy in one of those unreasonably huge pick up trucks, threw a fit and laid down some rubber because we’d apparently put a dent in his day. Someone shouted out ,”dude, calm down. You’re the reason we’re having this march!” Perfect.

Meet Natalie Drache, Doyenne of Actions, maintaining perfect cool. It was a beautiful day.

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Happy Birthday Daddio!

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http://stanleyburke.blogspot.com/2015/02/friends-fans-and-family-of-stanley.html

Vancouver Horn Players Blow Away Fog

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Fog Horns

The chilly Vancouver fog really is oppressive today
We quiet down like birds at night still stopped waiting
pondering which colour of tea would be most beneficial
green matcha, yellow camomile, red rose. we have all the colours.
you just can’t see them today.

How about this: I invite, entreat, any and all of the wind players in Vancouver to meet at Prospect Point to play today at 2 pm to play improvised communal tones together, to blow the fog away.

weather permitting

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Here’s January 23 @ The Beautiful Genesis Theatre ‘LIVE@5005’

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Yes. This beautiful theatre in Delta/Ladner has it all. Lights! cameras! action! Sit back and enjoy a truly satisfying concert filled with delightful musical surprises…great for the whole family and all your friends, every single one of them. It’s going to be an incredible night!picmonkey_image

Tickets only $15 @ the door. Doors open at 7:30 – show @ 8pm. 604 – 946 – 5005.

We so look forward to being in the music with you again!! “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

Let’s warm ourselves by the fires of Art and Culture January 22/23

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It’s winter in Canada. That mysteriously long seeming season that settles whitely across most of our wide land for months. CBC radio is a lifeline. People go to concerts and shows to warm themselves by the fires of Art and Culture. It’s cool, in every way! Vancouver is like the unfrozen area at the edge of the pond so to speak, where the ducks can still swim around. Lucky ducks.

So come warm yourselves January 22/23, and swim around, you lucky duck. How does a downtown Vancouver Caribbean island sound to you? Reservations 604 – 568-5882.

HB & The NATURALS LIVE @ Calabash Jan 22

HB & The NATURALS
LIVE @ Calabash Jan 22

Goodbye Ça Va ~ Hello Calabash, Genesis, St. Andrews Wesley and beyond!

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We had a good run! Thank you to everyone at Café Ça Va, we look forward to future dates. ‘Le Petit Spectacle‘ was a fun show. We are super excited now looking forward to the return of Holly Burke & The NATURALS! Coming right up in 2015.

Plan on coming to “COCONUT THURSDAYS” January 22 ~ 9 pm/$8 the NATURALS will be deeply affecting the earth’s rotation in company with Special Guest Hugh Fraser. ’twill be a night of nights!! 

Holly Burke & The NATURALS LIVE 9 pm

January 22 428 Carrall st. MUST SEE!!
“COCONUT THURSDAYS”