NPR All Things Considered will feature a touching interview and live performance with Rahim AlHaj discussing his life journey, recordings and musical message on Saturday afternoon, December 23, 2006. It will also be available online at www.npr.org – usually delayed by a day.
You can find 2 of Rahim’s albums in our ListeningLounge.
Update: Direct link to Rahim’s interview on NPR.
NPR : Day to Day for Friday, Dec. 15, 2006
NPR has been playing tracks from Euphoria during their broadcasts. Very cool. Scroll down to find the track.
At 11 AM I get picked up to go to a public radio station in Worcester, WICN. From 1 to 2PM I am guest on a radio program that’s called Jazz New England. The host has a beautifully nebulous definition of Jazz. We talk and play few tracks from the CDs La Semana, Winter Rose, and One Guitar, and I play one piece live. In the evening, two shows at Scullers, at 8 and 10PM. 14 shows in 12 days! Feels good to play so much.
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But a couple of weeks before Christmas, Ottmar Liebert came through town with Luna Negra, a string quartet and a new Christmas album under his arms, Winter Rose. And it wasn’t shlocky. It was tasty, full of original interpretations and originals. He played a great performance for us at the late-Indre Studios in Philadelphia.
This is in regards to last year’s tour with my trio and the string quartet. The performance will be broadcasted on Echoes this month. For a list of radio stations that carry Echoes please click here.
Went to the Santa Fe Baking Company early today, to get a Breakfast Burrito and to listen to Roshi Joan Halifax get interviewed for the Santa Fe Radio Cafe hour on the local Public Radio station KSFR. Couldn’t hear the interview because the radio host and Roshi were speaking softly and the place was packed with breakfasters, but the Burrito was very tasty. Judging from Roshi’s expression, she enjoyed the conversation.
Dropped off my PowerBook yesterday afternoon to get a larger HDD installed. The laptop is 29 months old and I have outgrown the 80GB internal HDD – more than 11,000 photos take up 40GB plus SSRI audio files etc… Well, something happened to the computer. My guess is that somebody, after opening the PowerBook to swap out HDDs, might have touched the motherboard without ridding him/herself of static electricity first… and now, instead of starting up, the laptop just beeps three times and that’s bad news. It means the computer has to be sent off for repair and who knows when it will be back in my hands. I was going to wait and see whether Apple would announce a MacBook Pro upgrade in January, but decided that the best solution for my current predicament would be to order a MacBook Pro model right away. It should arrive here on Monday and that will give me a week to get my slideshow sorted out before the solo tour starts on November 28th.
Luz Says:
Just curious what you ended up doing with the guitar? You mentioned you might give it away if it survived the long trek.
I was going to put four candles on it or actually set the guitar itself on fire, float it on a sacred lake as an offering and take pictures of it early in the morning around sunrise when the lake looks still and like glass – photos of that beautiful lake will be uploaded to Flickr on December 1st – but the evening before my ritual one of our Tibetan guides asked whether he could have the guitar and so I gave it to him and showed him how to tune it.
Earthwatch Radio
Joseph Bruchac is concerned about the environment, but he doesn’t lecture people. Instead, he visits schools to tell stories in the Native American tradition.“Within our various cultures, the storyteller was often a man or a woman whose job it was to keep the memory of those things that we need alive, for without the memory of those things we will not survive. I fully believe that, as a storyteller, one of my jobs is to do a similar thing: to share with people, especially children, those stories that will help them to make the right decisions.”
(Via Mediaburn)
