something to make you smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnbOKH9Oe9s

I've been listening to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Live at WOMAD 1985. The first time I heard it was at WOMAD 2019, when we were treated to a preview just before its release, of this rediscovered and remastered recording of Nusrat's neophyte-audience-stunning performance from the third of Peter Gabriel'...

Yes, so much comes down to you, dear Jarkko.

Great you see you, Gwen and Bev! I've heard, and have been lamenting that he probably won't get to tour this album. I guess not, but that'd be a helluva way to break the music-lockdown :D . If that title song is typical of what it contains then we are in for a treat :D I agree! Another thing that st...

Just in case you haven't heard:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... u-1057927/

Leonard Cohen is alive and well, and living in Torquay?

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...I find to be endlessly fascinating, brilliant and sublime beyond compare. For me, it reflects the power of the human spirit, and it fills me with joy and hope! Thank you for the reminder, Lisa! I am listening as I write :D. Maybe the best concert I ever attended was Bee...

Streamed live yesterday, Andrea Bocelli - Music For Hope from Milan Cathedral:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huTUOek4LgU

Bev, your having caused me to alight here had me pick up The Flame again...I had missed some gems:-O The book melded very well with Easter Sunday's online concerts from both Andrea Bocelli and Tom Russell...as LC is kind of a folk mystic isn't he - both earthen and ethereal. Grazie mille to you, Mat...

That's very sad to hear. Linda seemed to have her pulse on every LC-related video out there. I will remember her for how we enthused together about the Crossroads Guitar Festivals. Safe flight.

Nice idea, Bev. I hope everyone in LC world is well.
And thanks for keeping the embers going:-)

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Hi folks. If you happen to be at home over the weekend, check out (LC fan) Jack Kornfield's recent live-recorded zoom talk/guided meditation for this coronavirus time:

https://jackkornfield.com/april-3-tricycle-magazine/

Dear Phil and Jean, everybody knows how much thought and sweat you put into this fantastic weekend.

Thank you both (and your support team) so very much!!!

By the way, there is a forthcoming album of snippets from a decade of Walking Weekends. It is called Thanks for the Prance .

It was a nice surprise to hear Leonard Cohen mentioned at the end of this clip of
Advaita Vedanta/non-dual teacher Rupert Spira, talking here about love and the resolution of longing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAdaqLy ... e=youtu.be

.. Beannacht: A Blessing for the New Year , by John O'Donohue On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behind The grey window And the ghost of loss Gets in to you, May a flock of colours, Indigo, red, green, A...