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Folk Fest 2.0

Let's have a picture party at the richmond folk fest and send each other mms messages!

Links I could have tweeted V001

I got a twitter account but I can't bring myself to spam people... here is a sampling of interesting links to peruse...

• Virginia ranked in the top 42 of 100 US cities as far as economic health http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/news/article/three-virginia-metro-areas-rank-well-in-survey1/307651/
  
• Gov McDonnell unveiled a new statue today (Sep 17) at the state capital. It honors Barbara Rose Jones, who attended school in Farmville and organized a walkout of the “black school” there. The statue will move to the Robert Russa Moton Museum in Farmville likely during next year’s April 23 commemoration of that Civil Rights event http://wjz.com/wireapnewsva/Portrait.of.Virginia.2.1918679.html
  
• Interesting history of “Devil’s triangle” by Alix Bryan http://www2.richmond.com/content/2010/sep/14/devils-triangle/ http://twitter.com/alixbryan
  
• Just read Ray Bonis’ article and decided I like this Richmond History Blog… “The Shockoe Examiner” http://theshockoeexaminer.blogspot.com/
  
• I am no fan of anarchists, but I like the idea of the GRTC being more efficient. The Richmond Transit Riders Union has some good ideas… http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20100917051125494
  
• People walking around in Richmond neighborhoods in Red berets to promote safety… http://www.wtvr.com/news/guardian-angels-in-richmond,0,4018552.story
  
• Ross Perot will be at the grand re-opening of the Virginia War memorialperhaps worth a bike trip http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/09/ross_perot_mcdonnell_to_attend.html

The second half of the list of ministers from the first congregational church of charlevoix

The first half of the list of ministers from the first congregational church of charlevoix

churchy-pedia, perhaps

I will spare you the detailed theory behind this... but trust me that there is an interesting Sceney Richmondy theory behind this. But, be warned, this post contains is alot of history of Northern Michigan. And it's not very organized, because I am just trying to put the facts together...

So yeah, I went on vacation, and did some research tourism related to my obsession with the 1830s. In Northern Michigan, almost nothing remarkable happened before 1850 and Charlevoix wasn't much of a place until sometime between 1870 and 1890. Growing up there I had almost no sense of pre-civil war history in the United States. In Richmond it is kind of the opposite; all our good history (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, E.A. Poe, John Marshall, John Tyler, Capital of the Confederacy) happened before 1865 and the historians rarely have time to talk about anything that happened after that.

Long story short, I went back a couple weeks ago and geeked out on local Northern Michigan history. I went to the public library and read up on Pioneer John Dixon and how the Strangite Mormons drove him away while during the era of their cult kingdom on Beaver Island from 1846 to 1856. I learned how the John Dixon fled by boat across the Grand Traverse Bay to the Old Mission Peninsula and Northport (on the Leelenau peninsula). When I convinced my parents to tour Northport with me, we learned how the founder there was a Congregationalist minister who had come from the Holland area to set up a mission to the Native Americans. Northport, Charlevoix and Beaver Island were not only locations of Native American encampment (and Christian Missions to Chippewa and Ojibway tribes), but they were also chosen as lighthouse locations by the US Lighthouse service. In short, Northern Michigan was originally settled in the 1840s and 1850s by Missionaries and Lighthouse keepers.

Later settlement in the area occurred after the Civil War, as veterans paid $1.25/acre via the Homestead Act and began chopping down all the trees to build their farms. Lumber speculators came north (lured by all the virgin forests) and set up sawmills all over Northern Michigan. The Industrial Revolution was in full effect. Later, the city fathers of Charlevoix ensured that a rail connection was made to Chicago. That was 1870s-ish, and with the establishment of convenient rail transportation to and from Chicago, the clean, beautiful, and temperate Charlevoix began to establish itself as a vacation spot for Chicagoland. So ... that's the setup for the REAL research that I want to do in the future. I want to investigate cultural connections between Charlevoix and Chicago.

So anyways ... I do have an inside clue into some of the cultural influences... the church I grew up in in Northern Michigan... the First Congregational Church of Charlevoix, Michigan ... has had a number of pastors over the years. While at church, I snapped a picture of a plaque listing every pastor that the church had for 100 years.

Being that there are no seminaries in Northern Michigan, I though it would be interesting to trace the background and training of these pastors and where they went after their time in charlevoix.

So basically this post is a setup for future google research into the identities of these folks. I don't know if there is a story to tell there or not, but I like that I have sketched out a possible research project that will give a little more insight into the culture of the town where I grew up.

I will send the pics from my phone as separate blog posts ... and maybe merge them later.

-M

The Cardinal Train from Indy to Charlottesville

11:50 -- Indianapolis, IN (map) (wikipedia)

1:26AM -- Connersville, IN (map) (wikipedia)

3:17AM Cinncinati, OH (map) (wikipedia)

4:51 Maysville, KY(map) (wikipedia)

5:44 South Portsmouth / South Shore, KY (map) (wikipedia) (wikipedia)

6:29 Ashland, KY (map) (wikipedia)

7:09 Huntington, WV (map) (wikipedia)

8:16 Charleston, WV (map) (wikipedia)

8:45 Montgomery, WV (map) (wikipedia)

9:36 Thurmond, WV (map) (wikipedia)

9:53 Prince, WV (map) (wikipedia)

10:23 Hinton, WV (map) (wikipedia)

10:53 Alderson, WV (map) (wikipedia)

11:25 White Sulphur Springs, WV (Greenbriar) (map) (wikipedia)

12:14 Clifton forge, VA (Homestead) (map) (wikipedia)

1:31 Staunton, VA (map) (wikipedia)

2:47 Charlottesville, VA (map) (wikipedia)

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March in march in april game night that was really a music night

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

Ok this is violating the "No Alleluias during Lent" rule but you need to know it in case your church sings it this Sunday... it is an Easter classic, and I happen to have figured out an arrangement it for guitar a couple years ago ... It kind of reminds me of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changing"

 

The RAW version was recorded first and then I created the LR version by basically re-recording everything (partial transliteration using the 'raw' track as a baseline!!!!)  but with new harmony vocals to the right, new guitar to the center, and a new main vocal to the right.

 

Ok, maybe I need to record some mourning tracks for Good Friday. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves!

 

 

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

Ok first of all, y'all don't know what you're missing... I could have sent you this super weird half completed caucophony of terrible drum beats over top of this obscure Holy-week hymn (that I never heard until tonight when I found it on page 284 of the Rejoice in the Lord Hymnal), but good sense got the better of me and I mixed down a nice and calm ooh ooh ooh version.

 

Secondly, after recording, I googled the hymn and found out from wikipedia  that "English rock band Coldplay has a song entitled 'A Message', the lyrics and melody of which were inspired by this hymn"

 

so naturally, I am obliged now to include the lyrics of both the 17th century lyrics and the Coldplay tune ...and allow you to either compare them and/ or sing along with the track I have provided.

 

 

If nothing else you now have a fun fact about the song "the Message" by Coldplay. (youtube link for people like me who did not know this song)

 

 Enjoy!

 

 

 

My Song Is Love Unknown (by Samuel Crossman)

My song is love unknown,
my Saviour's love to me;
love to the loveless shown,
that they might lovely be.
O who am I, that for my sake
my Lord should take frail flesh, and die?

He came from His blest throne
salvation to bestow;
but men made strange, and none
the longed-for Christ would know:
But, O, my Friend, my Friend indeed,
who at my need His life did spend!

Sometimes they strew His way,
and His sweet praises sing;
resounding all the day
Hosannas to their King:
Then "Crucify!" is all their breath,
and for His death they thirst and cry.

Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
he gave the blind their sight,
Sweet injuries! Yet they at these
themselves displease, and 'gainst Him rise.

They rise and needs will have
my dear Lord made away;
a murderer they save,
the Prince of life they slay.
Yet cheerful He to suffering goes,
that He His foes from thence might free.

In life, no house, no home
my Lord on earth might have;
iIn death no friendly tomb
 but what a stranger gave.
  What may I say?  Heav'n was His home;
  but mine the tomb wherein He lay.

Here might I stay and sing,
no story so divine;
never was love, dear King!
never was grief like Thine.
this is my Friend, in whose sweet praise
I all my days would gladly spend.

 

A Message (Coldplay)

My song is love
Love to the loveless shown
And it goes up
You don't have to be alone
Your heavy heart
Is made of stone
And it's so hard to see you clearly
You don't have to be on your own
You don't have to be on your own

And I'm not gonna take it back
And I'm not gonna say I don't mean that
You're the target that I'm aiming at
Got to get that message home

My song is love
My song is love, unknown
But I'm on fire for you, clearly
You don't have to be alone
You don't have to be on your own

And I'm not gonna take it back
And I'm not gonna say I don't mean that
You're the target that I'm aiming at
And I'm nothing on my own
Got to get that message home

And I'm not gonna stand and wait
Not gonna leave it until it's much too late
On a platform I'm gonna stand and say
That I'm nothing on my own
And I love you, please come home

My song is love, is love unknown
And I've got to get that message home

 

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

The background: Yesterday, I received a suggestion to come up with an original song... so I found a chord progression and then had to come up with lyrics. I improvisationally mumbled into the microphone on a couple tracks and then I wrote down what I thought I was saying on a word document.

 

then I edited the lyrics to have them  make sense.

 

This A-mazing process resulted in a triple entendre song loosely based on Bachelor angst.

 

The other cool thing is that I stripped out the beat track and so now it is theoretically playable by two people at a cafe.

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

 

Ok I was gone this weekend...

 

so I am sending this Ukropia remix

 

 

a new day in Ukropia

the day has come and gone

the salad bar and my guitar

they softly sing this song

Take my rainbow cookies back

don't know where I'm gonna snack

Am -- C G

mrs fearnow will always be here now,

You, Ukropia

are burned in memory

You, Ukropia

will always be with me

　

Richmond wil never be the same

You, Ukropia

have made it what it is today!!!!!

You Ukropia

what else do I have to say?

outro

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

haha this is all concept... I did not put a lot of thought into the lyrics but you get the point... this is just the MBOX Boom module and two audio tracks... I HAD to add the cheesy hype upfront.

 

I can just imagine the video for this one as one of those kit-kat commercials where everyone is doing the "new dance" that is so dumb.

 

 

 

Re: Got the MBOX 2 hooked up last night...

Ok I felt it was time for another hymn... as basic as it sounds, I am excited that I can do what I am doing in this track. I don't usually know the exact harmony parts for these old hymns, but I can read music ... and thus encode the hymnal four part piano harmony into protools on a MIDI piano track ... After learning and practicing with the computer I just eventually record myself singing the parts and then strip out the piano altogether. I can do as many takes as I like until it is 95% right...

 

I added some reverb (echo chamber) to cover my voice up a little.

 

-M