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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Haunting for me was Madonna singing "Cry for me Argentina" in the movie "Evita." Not quite, but nearly, a capella.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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The Joan Baez clips from the 1960s brought back some good memories. I was a grad student at the U of Alabama in the early 1960s and my first wife and I attended a Baez performance at Stillman College during troubling times for civil rights. It was an incredibly moving experience, with the audience standing and joining in, black and white together, in unity while outside the racial divide was deep and profound. What a marvelous performer and human being she was, and is.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 12, 2015 - 11:02pm PT
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For the Bay Area (East Bay specifically), I caught the Kitka Community Chorus performance tonight. Summary: It was wonderful, and I loved it. For those who don't know, Kitka is a chorus that mostly does Balkan music (a cappella), and they have a number of fantastic recordings and even better live performances. Two of their members Janet Kutulis and Caitlin Tabancay Austin run a workshop/community chorus program. It wasn't obvious to me that a community chorus of Balkan music would be a good thing, but they F*#KING KICKED ASS. It was beautiful, eirie, moving and grabbed me just the way the pros do. Man, what a good choice I made in going to see that. Check it out the next time they perform.
And yes, purely a cappella.
http://www.kitka.org/calendar/communitychorus.html
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couchmaster
climber
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May 18, 2015 - 04:50am PT
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For the win: Hayley Westerna doing Amazing Grace - live version. Joan Baez also did a good job on this (as has about every singer worth their salt).
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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jfailing
Trad climber
part Texas, part Oman
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May 18, 2015 - 03:38pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
One of my favorites.
Árstíðir - Heyr himna smiður
Done impromptu after a show in a train station.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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May 18, 2015 - 09:21pm PT
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best performance by a quartet in history (and best held note, ever)of the old spiritual:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 19, 2015 - 09:41am PT
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Well this is sort of the antithesis of dark, but I've always liked it.
Didn't attend Woodstock or Altamont, glad I didn't.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 20, 2015 - 12:32am PT
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SuperThread!
Threadbare song!
It's gonna be fun checking these all out.
We're all so alone and life is brief, and it's about dang time ( in fact I'm raging over it! And I'm even crying some, too, but I'll get over it ) some of you recognized/remembered old Joan Baez and her immense talent.
I dreamed I heard St. Augustine
Out walking by the sea
All by himself
--he was singing up a storm--
And calling up the gulls to accompany
With polyphonic harmony.
He had the voice of a devil inside
As he sang of his mother's pride
And the love they shared
Because she had cared
For the little child inside her devil.
And now their hearts are filled with gold.
Theirs tears of rage and grief
Have vanished just like some thief.
_MFM_
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We carried you in our arms
On Independence Day
And now you’d throw us all aside
And put us on our way
Oh what dear daughter ’neath the sun
Would treat a father so
To wait upon him hand and foot
And always tell him, “No?”
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know
We’re so alone
And life is brief
We pointed out the way to go
And scratched your name in sand
Though you just thought it was nothing more
Than a place for you to stand
Now, I want you to know that while we watched
You discover there was no one true
Most ev’rybody really thought
It was a childish thing to do
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know
We’re so low
And life is brief
It was all very painless
When you went out to receive
All that false instruction
Which we never could believe
And now the heart is filled with gold
As if it was a purse
But, oh, what kind of love is this
Which goes from bad to worse?
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know
We’re so low
And life is brief
Copyright © 1968 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1996 by Dwarf Music
Bob Dylan has an official website, which I did not know.
Heretofore.
Here's to Bob, who knows that an old broken bottle still has a useable neck as well as looking like a diamond ring. (Thank you, Mr. Prine.)
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