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V - Voice - Voce - Voix This page is my place to rant, my letters-to-the-editor page, and to mention what I'm up to or have recently accomplished. I'm at: info@valdy.com If you post me, please mention something relevant in the subject line, as I am merciless at dumping suspected spam. And please don't hold your breath awaiting a response; life is full. |
What is our national debt, in total and per capita? What portions of this debt are attributable to what administrations? Can we please ask our MPs to source these figures for us? ------------------------- Also, please pay attention to our BIG opportunity. We in Saanich-Gulf Islands get to elect the leader of the Green Party, Elizabeth May, the first Green member of our House of Parliamment!! -------------- Stay tuned for news of the Saltspring Seniors' School . . aka The Rock and Roll Rest Home. We will build a school to learn in and live in until we go. Think about it. Should we do this now, or wait twenty years , then search the Yellow Pages for a place that'll sustain us in a creative manner, a place we can afford, a place that'll take us! |
Pond Hockey on Saltspring Island - Ahhh!!
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My Love Kathleen - - lucky me!! - Tour Schedule - Press Kit - Discography - Contact - Buy - Product Info - Home - Here comes Ski Season! Aprés Jam at Mount Cain .
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Our Yorkies, Chirp
and Bliss -, Landscape Design and Building
Placement Lap Steel Guitar, Local
Governance, Lust: an obsession without a fixed goal,
the shifting sands of desire.
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The very much beloved 'Reynolds Road Bon Vivant' known as
"Dickens", also "Mr. Dickens" and 'Little Woolyman', passed
away sadly around the same time as 'Fritz' the cat. He was
lion-hearted, a most decidedly independent fellow, always
with a mission up the road, whether visiting Claire and
'Wrinkles', a stop at a catfood dish along the trail, or
tolerating gracefully the Drummond girls dressing him in
doll clothes and pulling him around in a wagon. (He was
thrilled when 'Ivy' relieved him of these duties!). He loved Trish and Maggie too for his spot in their
hearts. Dickens was rescued in '92 on Christmas Eve from the
downtown Vancouver pound and lived the ideal of finding his
'inner wild dog' here on Salt Spring. He put in many hours of service as a 'therapy dog' for
Bessie Dane Hospice and will be always remembered with great
joy by K.& V. and multitudes of others... Our furpeople
do indeed touch very deep places in our human souls.
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My two CD set "Viva Valdy: Live at Last", has twenty-five tracks, nine older tunes redone, and sixteen new ones, with a lyric book.
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Above photo is at a Festival Workshop, one of the few times I play sitting down, and look Ma, No Capo! below, my wife Kathleen's Sculpture, "Simone" |
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Here's a 2006 shot of Graham Wardrop and I at the Mussel Inn, Golden Bay, New Zealand |
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I am; I have been for 42 years, and I'm pained to see so many union families shopping at Wal-Mart, actively undermining the union movement, on behalf of all the major retailers, who've been union bashing for over 100 years; now all you sisters and brothers who shop there are doing their work for them!. Unfortunately, shopping alternatively means paying more, and even at union wages that's a major bite. But wait a minute! Without collective agreements, wages are being rolled back. Without collective agreements, benefits are disappearing. Unions work. Community is worth investing in, as culture. Support your local merchants, eat at the local restaurants, and just plain boycott any franchises that you know are keeping the unions out. Organize, support local commerce, and prosper. I'm union, eh? |
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Done and available:
a Guitar Instruction DVD for Learn Roots Music, a few of my
guitar chops using four songs, including "Play Me a
Rock'n'Roll Song," arguably my biggest radio hit. I'm
selling a lot of these on the road.- www.learnrootsmusic.com.
this DVD is
moving really well at concerts; there's a wave of inspiring
grayer players: got the chops, play for the
joy. ***** - A Wild Christmas
CD: Caliban
Does Christmas.
I got to sing on three tracks of this exceptional CD.
Caliban are a bassoon quartet, among the finest players on
the planet, and their skill is combined with a sense of fun
within this wide swath of musical genres. ***** - a PA that'll fit
in a Subaru Forester has been corralled. I'm using a Yamaha
8 channel analog desk with two effests strips, a ten-band
graphic equalizer, AND (here's the space saver!) two 500
watt power amps. Express Kit!! -
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Body Fat and
Booze: Rub
a little, Dub a little, System Flaw. Making culture
cross, Leveling hierarchy, conVergence has
occurred withOut a manual. New pump, old
pressure Tank, golf umbRElla. FJ 45, shOrt block
three fifty, Zed twenty eight steering Box. Starchoice and
Earthlink and X-Drive Hybridized all our
Work and tools, and Now let's
discuss our Bodies. Dinner in a rented
tent, Kitchen help Schmooze, Chit chat, yoga mat.
Body fat and booze
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Valdy: Live at Last
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live, 12 tracked. portrait by
David Goatley,
Victoria,
BC, The 12 songs on the
Studio CD ( No Effects: well, Not Many ) is as ambitious as
anything that Claire and I did; Claire Lawrence is a fine
player, a composer, and for me, and he was and is a music
producer of great taste, earning us four Gold Record
certifications. This CD is as
even more diverse than what Elliot Mazer and I did in San
Francisco in 1978. I've been learning
as I go; it's all mileage, really, and paying attention.
Norman MacPherson co-produced this CD with me; as a
guitarist, a bassoonist, and owner/engineer of a fine
studio, Norm is a human of vast musical potential, and his
touch is evident throughout these recordings. So, that's
half of the story, the big half by my measure. The other is a
live CD, recorded between November, 2002 to April, 2003.
I've been asked for years to release another live recording,
the last being in 1974 from Massey Hall in Toronto.
Fortunately some of these performances feature other
musicians, and three songs feature Western Roots artist Gary
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Last, 2
CDs, 25 songs; 13 live, 12 tracked. "The 12 tunes on the
Studio disc are multi-track productions, with great players,
sweet BGs, a few parts flown in on the net, hard disks
lugged up and down the 401 to various studios; Logic audio
on a dual processor G4 through a Motu 2408, it's all good
stuff, great software," asserts Valdy, "and it has helped
Norm and I make a really decent recording." Now, doesn't that
sound Canadian? This is the best
recording work Valdy has ever done with keen songwriting,
assertive vocals, marvelous textures; this disc should be
this good, after the years Valdy's been recording. Maturing
as an artist, it would appear, does not include backing away
from the edge. Viva
Valdy: Live at Last,
the Live CD:
"No Overdubs, No Second
Takes!"
joined by Gary
Fjellgaard on 3
songs. the Studio CD:
"No Effects; well, Not
Many!"
10 new songs, 2 songs reprised,
including "Play Me a Rock 'n' Roll Song." "The original intent
was to do the same tunes both live and in studio, yet with
so many songs to document, the content shifted to who I am
today, and I want to give these tunes some shelf life, let
them be heard, et voila! Viva Valdy: Live at Last. Hope you
enjoy these tunes."
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I sang a harmony vocal on "River Stay Away From My Door" with the amazing Belvedere Broadcasters, recording at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria. That's Joey Smith on bass, Don Clark on trumpet, all eleven players are great. I'll link the CD here when it's ready. |
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I em-ceed a Seniors' Choir gathering here on Saltspring Island, entitled ChorFest. This gathering of choirs from across the province, many award winning and all a pride of their communities, had a concert at the Gulf Islands Secondary School (GISS). They've asked me to perform a few tunes; imagine if you can, being asked to sing for, and thankfully with, such a chorus of voices!! I've worked with Symphonies and Philharmonics, and the lush, full pillow of music is amazing to be part of. Now, imagine that texture replaced by major vocal sections, in all 4 voice registers? The mind reels. The average age, we determined, was 78. See what singing does for a heart? |
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Kathleen in her wedding veil. Looks good, eh?
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There is not enough music in the world. I played recently for some elementary schools, and what a wonderful reception! They drink it up. Here's a glimpse of Lakefield College School's band, at the school's 125th birthday party. Play for the kids, you adults. Play for the adults, you kids.
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