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Bulb Records’ Pete Larson reemerges in Kenya with a renewed purpose… to help document and preserve the Nyatiti

By Mark | June 27, 2017

My old friend and former bandmate, Pete Larson, moved to Kenya a few years back to oversee a number of public health related research projects. And, while there, he fell in love with the country’s culture and music. Now, like a good academic, he’s doing his best to document and preserve what he can, starting […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged academic research, Africa, Barack Obama, Biggie Smalls, Boaz Jagingo, Bulb Records, Colin Crowley, cultural traditions, curses, Dagoretti Records, Dave Sharp, Dodo, drinking, Egypt, erections, folks songs, goat brain soup, Greece, Hillary Clinton, hip hop, impotence, iron roofs, Japan, Kaboge Chagala, Kenge Kenge Sound System, Kenya, Kenyatta University, Kikuyu, Lake Victoria, Luo, lyre, musical instruments, Nairobi, Nairobi University, Ndio Sasa, Nyatiti, Nyatiti Stories, Obokano, Oduor Nyagweno, Oduor Nyagweno and the Nyatiti Attack, Orutu, Peter Larson, poetry, praise songs, rap, rap battles, Rapasa, sex, shamisen, Siaya, Sick Trees, stringed instruments, Swahili, Tomo Tsukahara, tribalism, Tupac, vernacular, witchcraft, world music | 9 Comments

Michigan Musicians on Vacation: Carol Catherine on the road from Las Vegas to Area 51

By Mark | February 25, 2015

Somehow, a year or so ago, I fell into groove where I started talking with local musicians about vacations they’d taken outside of Michigan. I’m not sure what prompted it, or why I suddenly stopped, but I suspect it was weather related to some degree. And, now that it’s 20 degrees below zero outside, I […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1692, aliens, Area 51, Arthur Miller, Basement Arts, Black Mailbox, Carol Catherine, Carol Catherine Burns Gray, Chris Bathgate, Civil War, Clementine, Coast to Coast, Community Music School of Ann Arbor, conspiracy theories, consumerism, Descent of the Holy Ghost Church, deserts, Doug Coombe, emoticons, Errol Morris, Extraterrestrial Highway, Fifty Shades of Grey, food blogs, Fox Mulder, Frieze building, HAM radio, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, Little Aleinn, Love Letters, manifest destiny, Mars, Matt Jones, Michigan Musicians on Vacation, missile silos, Misty Lyn Bergeron, Mittenfest, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Nevada, Prison Creative Arts Project, prison theater, Rachel, Rebecca Nurse, Roswell, Salem, Salem witch trials, sand, Shakespeare in the Arb, Silence is for Suckers, Sisters Within Theater Troupe, Stephen Hawking, Sullivan Ballou, Sullivan Ballou’s letter to Sarah, The Crucible, theater, Voyager, witch hunts, witchcraft, witches, Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility | 6 Comments

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