{"id":31,"date":"2005-02-21T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T22:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=31"},"modified":"2005-02-21T17:07:46","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T22:07:46","slug":"musical-happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Musical Happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heard some incredible music from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevegorn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Gorn<\/a> last night at the Knitting Factory&#8217;s Concert for Darfur.  Steve&#8217;s a master of the bansui, a bamboo flute from India.  Accompanied by a second bansui player and the large, droning stringed instument called the tambura (played by a somewhat distractingly beautiful woman, but that&#8217;s just me), Steve played a long, late-night raga that sent the audience swooning into clouds of relaxation and beauty.  I&#8217;m sure glad we didn&#8217;t have to follow him on stage; it would have been a jarring transition to <a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/devest3\" target=\"_blank\">Halley DeVestern&#8217;s music<\/a>.  Fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roches.com\/terre\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terre Roche<\/a> was scheduled in between us, and meeting her was something of a thrill since I grew up listening to the The Roches.  Her voice was as high and strong as ever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/hd_knittingfactory_02202005.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Our set<\/a> went extremely well.  Maybe this is a non-p.c. thing to say, but I&#8217;m beginning to think the key to a really successful <a href=\"http:\/\/halleydevestern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Halley DeVestern<\/a> show is having a few black people in the audience.  You New York readers are invited to catch Halley and me with The Hot Button All-Stars at <a href=\"http:\/\/corneliastreetcafe.com\/list.asp?from_cal=0&#038;sdate=2\/23\/2005\" target=\"_blank\">Cornelia St. Cafe<\/a> this Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 10 PM.  (We&#8217;re preceded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littletobywalker.com\/\">Little Toby Walker<\/a>, a wonderful country-blues wizard I&#8217;m proud to have in my line-up.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard some incredible music from Steve Gorn last night at the Knitting Factory&#8217;s Concert for Darfur. Steve&#8217;s a master of the bansui, a bamboo flute from India. Accompanied by a second bansui player and the large, droning stringed instument called the tambura (played by a somewhat distractingly beautiful woman, but that&#8217;s just me), Steve played &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=31\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Musical Happenings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}