Here are a couple of iPhone captures from last night’s solo concert at the San Miguel chapel in Santa Fe, a benefit for the restoration of the “oldest church in the USA”. A beam of light plays across the altar:
I took this image while an announcement/introduction was made, moments before I walked to the little stage that had been set up on the stairs. 
Ottmar Liebert – Tour Schedule: Benefit Concert for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
OL + Luna Negra at Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque on September 30th.
You can buy tickets here – select “Search by Event” field and scroll down to Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra.
This is wonderful! Autumn Leaf Art:
Bio-Diversity – Abstract City Blog – NYTimes.com
Found this today:
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There are various utensils used in the preparation and service of the tea ceremony. Especially utensils made of pottery hold an important place in tea utensils. I have been making them for a long time for my mother who is a teacher of the tea ceremony. Homepage
December 10th:
Digital Dharma preview in New York. An intimate evening of art, music and ispiration.
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I donated some of my photos to the movie and will perform solo with a new slideshow of my Tibet photos.
On Saturday night Roy Rogers and I stayed at the Green Apple Inn in Freestone. It was quite cold, that wet cold that chills to the bone, but a fireplace and red wine made us comfortable and we pulled out guitars. He showed me a rare Dobro twelve string he had brought and another, equally ancient guitar, might have been an old Martin, with a small body and classical-looking headstock. We jammed for quite a while, I don’t know how long, and talked about the origin of Blues and Flamenco. We agreed that it is quite possible that both are rooted in Arabic music. The ancient oud, see wikipedia entry on Ziryab, is a fretless instrument – as is the slide guitar in Blues. There are the “blue” notes in Blues, and Blues guitarists will play certain notes a little flat, remnants of Arabic music… I think a big reminder of the common heritage are those notes, which are not in a regular western scale, that make the hair on your neck stand up and your heart tremble.
In the Morning I was up early and went for a walk through the picturesque town of Freestone.
Support for an old water tower:
I walked to the Wild Flour Bakery. I think a friend of mine told me to go to this bakery several years ago, but we were never close and the curvy roads are too much for a tour bus. The morning’s bread was still in the oven, but I bought a nice whole wheat sourdough that was left over from the previous day and waited for my “eye-opener” (((a cup of drip coffee with a shot of espresso, also called “red eye” – a “dead eye” contains two shots of espresso and a “dead eye” contains three… ))). Here is a shot of the table in the bakery with my bread-purchase at the far end.
The Hopmonk Tavern is a nice place and the benefit was a success. Roy and I signed two Epiphone guitars that were auctioned off. We didn’t perform together since he had another gig that afternoon, but a good time was had by all.
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