Fund-Raiser for Kid Pan Alley
- by Linn Barnes
As September rolls in, things are bustling and changing in spite of the continuing heat.. It will be in the 90's today with no let up in sight. But the tell-tales are at work. The light is shifting to a Fallish slant and the leaves are blowing and falling in the early rounds. There's much more to come, but you gotta start somewhere...
Allison and I had a great rehearsal this morning for the benefit program for Paul Reisler's "Kid Pan Alley', s truly wonderful creation for stimulating exactly that among the young: Creativity through song writing. We are going to play a short program with a variety of other artists. Right now it looks like we'll be playing Harp and standard guitar and, this is the killer, harp and harp-guitar duets, which we think will be interesting and fun for this varied audience a little later in September. We're going to do a bit of a bouillabaisse of tunes: a March from Galicia, the northernmost province of Spain, an air from Ireland, a fancy gig from Ireland, four 16th century lute pieces combined with two blues by Mississippi John Hurt, and a composition. We're to try and cram it all into twenty minutes which may work if we play presto through the whole deal...