Wonderfully inspiring Blog
I somehow (serendippity?) came across this wonderfully inspiring Blog written by Lloyd Khan, who is a freeform builder, writer, publisher, skateboarder and so much more.
He has written a series of wonderful books about people who have built alternative homes within the USA and throughout the world. He was involved in building “geodesic domes” as homes earlier in his career and years ago I was fascinated with geodesic domes too, plus skateboarding, strangely.
If you get a moment I would recommend that you pop over to his website and read about Lloyd’s approach to life and his books and other interests. http://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/
As a taster here’s short video that will tell you a little more about this remarkable man.
SHELTER from jason sussberg on Vimeo.
The Toy Hearts at Grateful Fred’s
Hi Fredheads,
Wow, what a night we had. I think that The Toy Hearts gave us one of the best Grateful Fred Night’s we’ve enjoyed in our first full year. Yes’ it was our first birthday yesterday as our first Grateful Fred Night was the 3rd of September 2010 when we had the excellent Drew Nelson guesting.
Last night we had the very original Jo Bywater who performed songs from her debut album, a few songs from ourselves (Grateful Fred) with our new 5 piece line-up and then one and a half hours of glorious music from the absolutely superb Toy Hearts.
It was a complete sell-out so apologies for those people who just couldn’t’ get tickets and I’m sorry you missed such a great example of “live” music.
The Toy Hearts, (Stewart on banjo, dobro and pedal steel, Hannah on mandolin, Sophia on guitar, Howard on fiddle and John on stand-up bass) are really superb musicians and add the vocals of Sophia and Hannah and you have the ingredients for a world-class band.
Playing a mixture of western-swing and bluegrass as well as their own wonderful songs the Grateful Fred audience were pretty much spell-bound as the band ripped through their sets.
Hopefully we can get The Toy Hearts back again next year when we will be in a new and bigger venue and we can ensure that everyone who wanted to attend can do so.
Please take a look at the Gallery page to see some photographs that our great friend Ron Davies took for us.
Thanks to The Toy Hearts, Jo Bywater and Peter, Roger, Glynne and Jack for all helping to put on a wonderful night.
Fiddle Player Wanted…
Hi Fredheads,
We are hoping to augment our little resident combo “Grateful Fred” (otherwise known as “The Waves of Nausea”, “Armitage Shanks”, etc, etc) with a good fiddle player.
If you are such a person or know of anyone that might be interested we’d love to hear from you. It’s just a fun gig, playing every month at Grateful Fred’s and maybe one or two other gigs that come up.
Please call me, Colin, on 0797 077 4618, if you are interested.
Ta
