Going back longer than we care to count, @itspetergabriel.bsky.social has been one of our favourite artists, and he is still creating beautiful new music. Enjoy a solo classic on your Wednesday aft. #DiggingInTheDirt #LiveForLiveMusic
"A Still Life Picnic" by French artist Isabelle Brent. (Painting, Watercolor on Paper)
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"She made music jump into 3D": Wendy Carlos, the reclusive synth genius www.theguardian.com/music/2020/n...
And now, a little Vivaldi. Michel Tirabosco, a renowned pan flute player, collaborating with Raphaël Froissart. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory. Born with physical differences, he began playing the pan flute at 7 and has achieved international recognition for his skill. #streetmusic
MATEWAN is film that all of you should watch. It's a masterpiece that's more relevant now than it was in 1987.
‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice
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The @karenhunter.bsky.social show welcomes The First and (so far) only instructor of Gullah at Harvard; Artist, Musician, Performer, & Activist: Dr. Sunn m’Cheaux! #MotivationalMonday #KarenRebels
Yesterday, I listened to the whole Beautiful South catalog. What a great English band. They should've been bigger but like a lot of gifted groups (like XTC, Sprout, Blue Nile, …), they were probably too witty and clever for the masses. 0898 is a wonderful album but their debut remains unsurpassed.
NASA’s new NavCube3-mini navigation receiver is about half the size of a shoebox and weighs only 3.5 pounds! Operating on less than 20 watts of power (like a laptop), it tracks Earth-based GPS and Galileo signals across lunar distances. 1/3
I took a board game I’ve been working on to GenCon to get feedback and these guys were my first playtest.
3rd August 1973 - Stevie Wonder released his 16th studio album, Innervisions. Wonder played all or virtually all instruments on 6 of the album's 9 tracks. Hit singles from the album were 'Higher Ground', 'Living for the City' and 'He's Misstra Know-It-All'. #StevieWonder #Innervisions
This Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues in the history of Movies imho. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) Have a listen.
It may be my birthday, but Janet takes the cake! 🎂😉 #TheMartinSheenPodcast 💙
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Brownie McGhee during the Blues and Gospel tour of England, 1964.
I caught the faint aroma of sizzling sausages on the breeze… As Senior Neighbourhood Barbecue Inspector, it is my duty to investigate immediately. This is a completely selfless public service. Any burgers requiring quality control should be presented to me at once.
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We made it to Friday ☀️ Here's a short and sweet big-band tune from the WWII era done in a jazz style 🎹 I'm here every morning on Bluesky until I run out of gas! Thanks for following along 💙 It's Been a Long, Long Time - Styne/Cahn