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Music Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE13 Osingolio in Ngong’u Narok (bonus episode)Osingolio means singing and dancing in the Maa language of the Maasai. They cannot be separated in Maasailand. This episode is an excerpt from a video I made for the village of Ngong'u Narok in Amboseli, Kenya in 2008. You might hear Kaika talk about singing the dances. That's what they do there. That's how they flourish in drought and oppression. But this latest drought is really hitting them hard. I made this bonus episode to bring attention to a fundraiser I am doing. More details to follow.
2022-10-0409 minMusic Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE12 From Guns to GodThis episode is a conversation with Jaden King who was a gun carrying MAGA guy til he found Jesus. I tell him that music saved me and we're off and running.
2022-09-2351 minMusic Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE11 Seven UU Principles of Every Body Music at PUUFThis episode was recorded at Prescott Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (PUUF) August 14, 2022. I talked about how the seven Unitarian Universalist principles can be applied to Every Body Music.
2022-08-1935 minMusic Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE10 Jazz Musician/Historian Paul Ruffner Talks About Music & RevolutionThis conversation with historian and jazz musician Paul Ruffner shows the vital role music played in the movement that got Salvadore Allende elected in Chile and also how threatening music was to Pinochet’s coup that ousted him and also why it has been so hard to get Every Body Music going here in the United States. This conversation made me wonder if social change without music is really social change at all. Listen closely and click the links in the description. You will find yourself singing if you really listen to yourself.
Here are some amazing li...2022-07-201h 47Music Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE9 My Life in Art - Jon Meyer of Prescott Center for the Arts Interviews Me.This episode from 2016 was culled from the comMUSIKey archives three years after comMUSIKey's creation. It's fun to see the very roots and seedlings of Every Body Music.
2022-06-2053 minMusic Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE8 Musical Stories with MariekeIn this episode, I talk to Marieke Slovin who spent a number of years in Brussels turning stories of immigrants into songs. As I was listening to this conversation it made me think of a snowfall that seeps into the ground over time continuing to nourish the music garden. So Let this conversation sink in.
You can get the whole story at guidingsong.com/migrationsong
You can buy her book On the Move: Poems and Songs of Migration at Lulu. "Songs of Migration" is a collaboration between Marieke Slovin Lewis, Sarah Reader Harris, and residents...2022-05-201h 05Music Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE7 Physics Professor/ Poet Wally Glickman on Relativity and Human RelationsThis episode is an interview I did with Wally Glickman May 11, 2021. Wally was my teacher at Skunk Hollow High School. He introduced me to Einstein's theory of Relativity way back in those days and I haven't stopped trying to make sense of it since. I thought I could apply the theory to music and human relationships. Here's what Wally had to say.
Wally taught Physics at Long Island University at the same time he was teaching theatre, wrestling, and relativity at Skunk Hollow. He created a slide show on Einstein which was premiered at LIU. He co-produced t...2022-04-291h 01Music Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE6 SetaI recorded this interview in my studio Sept. 8, 2019 with Seta. Seta was a student in my spring 2017 Prescott College class called Creating Community Through Music. Seta tells me many things about the importance of music in Native Black life. This interview feels like a song with lyrics that take me to different places each time I listen.
2022-03-2715 minMusic Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE5 Jarvis Tyner Chairman of the New York Communist PartyWhat I realized after the fact is that Jarvis Tyner and his brother McCoy Tyner, major influencer of Bebop jazz are both revolutionaries on the same coin when you realize that music is life and life is music. I interviewed Jarvis in NYC 2019. Thank you Tina Nannarone for setting up this interview.
2022-02-2044 minMusic Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE4 Sarah Crews - Rest in PerennialsI visited Sarah and her Heart Land Prairie Cemetary in Kansas on my 2019 cross-country build the bridges. I interviewed her in her home and as we strolled through the cemetery. Her podcast called A Path Home inspired me to start mine even though it took two years. It's about reclaiming our innate right to care for our own loved ones at death in natural, and often, environmentally friendly ways.
As you listen to our conversation, I encourage you to hear the music in our voices. Hear it as a song to allow feelings into our conversations around d...2022-01-1541 minMusic Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE3 Playing with Asylum SeekersThis podcast was recorded in May of 2019. I went down to an undisclosed church in Phoenix with my friend David Sorensen, a big bags of clothes, my piano, and a bunch of drums. The story of the Asylum Seekers is a story without an ending. It’s a story that will keep expanding as more and more people get displaced by the effects of the climate disaster which is interwoven with the effects of insane inequality.
I’ve rarely been able to record my interactions with Asylum Seekers on either side of the border. As I recall, this...2021-12-1530 minMusic Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE2 Every Body Music at the Unitarian ChurchThis episode was recorded June 23, 2019 at a talk I gave at the Prescott Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, affectionately known as PUUF. You might consider it an introduction to the Every Body Music Revolution. Special thanks go to Glenna, Dale, the Ricklefs, and everyone at PUUF who helped make it happen.
2021-11-1548 minMusic Gardeners Almanac: Cultivating the Roots and Fruits of Every Body MusicE1 Introduction to the Music Gardeners AlmanacThe Music Gardeners Almanac Podcast is all about bringing All Inclusive Every Body Play Music into every conversation. Jonathan Best will host talks with movers and shakers all over the earth while spreading seeds and cultivating the roots and fruits of Every Body Music. Because we at comMUSIKey believe that the world can use a lot of musical moving and shaking. For lots of cool links and stories go to EveryBodyMusic.Rocks.
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