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Gary Lee Joyner returns to Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music
GLJ returns to Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music, his home-away-from-home, in early April. These visits are always filled with electric energy and are enjoyed by all.
For registration, call the school (773.728.6000), or go to the website—www.oldtownschool.org.
Contact Gary directly if you want to set up a private session while he’s in Chicago—info@garyleejoyner.com.
Here are the details:
Friday, April 3
A private workshop for Old Town School teachers only. Looking forward to connecting w… Continue
For registration, call the school (773.728.6000), or go to the website—www.oldtownschool.org.
Contact Gary directly if you want to set up a private session while he’s in Chicago—info@garyleejoyner.com.
Here are the details:
Friday, April 3
A private workshop for Old Town School teachers only. Looking forward to connecting w… Continue
Posted on March 20, 2009 at 10:16am —
Michael Yonkers
Michael Yonkers is widely known for his electric guitar work (e.g. his 2003 SubPop CD, Microminiature Love), but he did record several acoustic-based LPs in the ‘70s. In 2007 deStijl, in cooperation with SubPop, decided to re-release Grimwood, one of those early albums. I was asked to write the liner notes for the CD because Michael and I have been friends for over 35 years. We’ve done theater work and musical performance together in that time, as well as a lot of partying and a great deal of ta… Continue
Posted on December 16, 2008 at 8:00am —
Creativity
Creativity. We value it and aspire to it when we pick up our guitar, but what is it? How does one pursue creativity? This is a key issue in my teaching, in my own music making and other artistic pursuits, and in daily life in general. I spend a lot of time reading about it, thinking about it, developing ideas and collecting schemes.
Many of us think of creativity, if we actually stop to think about it at all, as an ephemeral, vague quality—a gift of the gods that comes, or not, of its own volit… Continue
Many of us think of creativity, if we actually stop to think about it at all, as an ephemeral, vague quality—a gift of the gods that comes, or not, of its own volit… Continue
Posted on December 13, 2008 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments
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- Which one of the following describes your involvement in music? (Check all that apply)
- Music teacher, Guitar-related website
- How many years have you been playing guitar?
- More than 30 years
- Which of these instruments do you own or play?
- Flattop steel-string acoustic guitar, Nylon-string guitar, Electric guitar
- What type of music do you like to play?
- Creative approaches and experimentation in guitar, composition, songwriting, recording, and performance that have evolved and continue to evolve after years of playing, teaching, and writing about a mixture folk blues, classical, rock, and jazz while listening to everything I could get my hands (and ears) on. Continued fascination with fingerstyle, hybrid picking, loopers, and signal processing gear. Extensive work in theater as well as spoken word. (garyleejoyner.com)
- Who are your favorite artists?
- MUSIC
Brian Eno, Bonzo Dog Band, Captain Beefheart, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Vivian Stanshall, Franz Josef Hayden, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Miles Davis, Pat Martino, Bill Frisell, Indoor Life, Ralph Towner, Pierre Bensusan, Elliot Sharp, Eberhard Weber, Jan Garbarek, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Mann, Gabor Szabo, David Torn, Sonic Youth, Earl Brown, Roger Eno…
BOOKS
Witold Gombrowicz, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski (he lived to write), Jack Kerouac (The Subterraneans), Kenneth Patchen, Luigi Pirandello, Slawomir Mrozek, Mikhail Bulgakov, W. Somerset Maugham, Franz Kafka…
VISUAL ARTISTS
Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, Jean-Michel Basquait, Pablo Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico…
MOVIES
Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean Renoir, Eric Rohmer, Alain Resnais, Seijun Suzuki, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Bela Tarr, Andrei Tarkovsky, Krysztof Kieslowski…
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He can, cause of our hospitality , Belgian, but ...
I can"t do that to him....
Language.....
S°oo° hard times but i love him, whatever they even might say over here.......
Back-pocket-friend.....
How are u?
G°oo°d, very indeed; I cAn SEE......
Keep on goin'...
I h°o°pe 1 day, i 'll be around t°o° see U 'LIVE' !!!!!
L°o°tzzzz of l°o°ve sent t°o° U......
Paul
as for workshops, venues and the like I know that some of the local record stores have small stages, and do CD release parties, for local bands...The Universities, Wilamette, westrn Oregon university, Lewis and Clark, Portland state, Oregon Stae, University of oregon,in eugene... which has a great radio station, and still has that Ken Kesey/Merry prankster ethic.. a fun town with great indie scene...Portland as well and salem is working to build it's local music/ arts scene...There's Whethers music, who does a lot of lesons, and works through the Local schools....I'll Check into it....I think that they may be interested I'll get some more info for you... that would be great if you could get a gig out here , and you're welcome to stay here, we got a futon in our office, Open invitation.. Let me get some info for you...we have some cool local bands here.. and we're trying top build up the Salem Scene...
Any way I'll Be in touch....
Steve
Steve
See ya
Steve
steve
Listen to your stuff, and grooving. Love as always. trying to work a bass part for Pat's Parts....Henry Miller fan Huh?.. Loved The Air Conditioned Nightmare...of course, Tropic of cancer.
Talk to you later.
Steve.
Thanks for sending this my way. Impressive site you have. I've have to follow suit. Dan
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