Showing posts with label Steve Martin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve Martin. Show all posts

Sunday, May 03, 2015

Scots-Irish, Heading South



"Will the Circle Be Unbroken"

The iconic David Letterman features the violin - fiddle magic of Mark O'Connor and an all-star jam on "Will The Circle...

Posted by Mark O'Connor on Saturday, May 2, 2015

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Steve Martin and Edie Brickell

have a new album out, "Love Has Come for You." (Rounder)







full album

Bluegrass Today: Steve, Edie and The Steeps on Letterman

On The View - full episode (includes an interview with the two musicians).

Her website. Steve Martin.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Items of Interest, 26 October 2011

James Matthew Wilson, Catholic Teaching and Global Political Authority
Rod Dreher, The cafeteria is only closed for liberal Catholics (see the comment by Adam De Ville)
Sandro Magister, "Occupy Wall Street." The Vatican at the Barricades


Creating Rural Wealth

Harvey Ussery and Broody Hens


Why Companies Aren't Getting the Employees They Need

NPR: The Informal Economy Driving World Business

Kevin Carson, There is No Disinterested Authority and Battle for the Heart of the Occupy Movement

Peak Oil:
The peak oil crisis: the energy trap by Tom Whipple (EB)
Oil and the Economy by Chris Martenson
A recording from yesterday's conference call with Cris Martenson is now available.
Individual statements in support of ASPO-USA's letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu (EB)

A return to the age of sail? The first Transition podcast! A visit to the Tres Hombres, tasting a revolution in shipping

The Environment:
Polluted America: Amazingly colourful aerial pictures that highlight damage to Earth wrought by industry
Grist: Is the environmental crisis caused by 7 billion or the 1%

Conservative:
Thomas Fleming, The End of the American Empire and Fight Night in Vegas
Jack Hunter, I'm still holding out hope that conservatism will triumph
Daniel Larison, Paul Ryan and Social Mobility
More ignorant "We're #1!" rhetoric from a Republican.

Counterpunch:
JOHN LAFORGE, Radiation Reporting
GARETH PORTER AND SHAH NOORI, U.N. Tally Excluded Most Afghan Civilian Deaths in Night Raids


NPR: Reporting from the front lines of Mexico's drug war

TAC hiring online editor
I find myself tempted by this...

Catholic:
Solemn Dominican Rite, Blackfriars, Oxford
Fr Thomas Kocik's Talk at Thomas More College
Further from the Association of Latin Liturgy and the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
Pulling an all-nighter: The example of St. Dominic

Chant - Amor et Passio: Interview mit David Ianni


Anthony Esolen at Christendom College: Author Anthony Esolen Exposes Society's Misunderstanding of Love - his lecture can be downloaded at iTunes.

Music:
Heinrich Isaac, the film (full version)

Maine Song and Story Map
Bluegrass Diva with Steve Martin, Ed Helms and Noam Pikelny
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers will be at Villa Montalvo tomorrow.


Yo-Yo Ma on The Tonight Show

In the Footsteps of a Hero: The Joseph Brennan Story

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Items of Interest, 14 June 2011

Donald Livingston, "Decentralization for Freedom" (via Karen De Coster)

Sandro Magister, Pentecost on Mount Athos

Illicit ordinations in China: the Holy See explains what is to be done with excommunicated bishops by Bernardo Cervellera

Armenian Church Leader On Landmark Visit To Georgia

British Army to get new uniforms – turned down by the US and made in China

Meet the farmer next door, by Lauren Reed-Guy
Institute of Urban Homesteading
Farm Curious

Simple Homemade Toys
Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books

The toys most of us really remember playing with as children weren’t really toys but things we turned into toys. My earliest recollection is a matchbox of multicolored and multisize rubberbands I played with by the hour when I was about two. I don’t know why they fascinated me only that they did. Even the matchbox was a wonder — the way it slid so neatly open and closed.

I'm including some music with this post:


Rhonda Vincent and The Rage "All American Bluegrass Girl"

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Bluegrass Blog: Steve Martin: Bluegrass over Comedy? (the youtube video)

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Tony Trischka


(source)

source

Steve Martin, Tony Trischka and Bela Fleck together with their banjos in NPR's New York Bureau. (Ned Wharton, NPR)

NPR: Tony Trischka Has More Than One Banjo on His Knee

official site
MySpace
Rounder Records

As I listen to more bluegrass I'm appreciating the banjo more...

Steve Martin, Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka Banjo HDTV The Crow


Tony Trischka Banjo Interview with Smithsonian Folkways


Tony Trischka - Fox Chase - IBMA 2008


Earl Scruggs Medley - Tony Trischka


Bluegrass Fire! Richard Greene, Tony Trischka Little Rabbit


Richard Greene

Tony Trischka & Skyline - I Can't Believe

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Earl Scruggs & Steve Martin - Foggy Mountain Breakdown



A different performance:


Steve Martin, Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka Banjo HDTV The Crow


And I thought he was just a comedian...