Comments on: One Guitar, a Keyboard and a Sore Throat!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:21:57 +0000

Hi David,

Thanks for the note. I will be talking with the Port Fairy people about 2013. However I may not make it next year as I have several other offers at the same time of the year which we will assess over the next month or so and make decisions about when planning the touring schedule.

I have just come back from the National Folk Festival where I had a ball. The response was very encouraging and I will write something for the blog over the next week or so after I get through the weekend’s performing schedule.

Mike

By: David Cameron

David Cameron — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:40:07 +0000

Hello Mike,

I’ve just read your blog and new website for the fist time. It looks great!
I’ve been listening to your music for many years having seen you in concert a few times in the early 80′s. They were great shows you shared with Doug. Like Helen who wrote on your blog on April 9, I too have your live album ‘an evening with MM’. Live music has always been my favourite way of appreciating an artist and that LP remains a favourite of mine. I particularly love your rendition of High Flying Bird, it is fantastic as are the songs you penned.

I was interested to read you are a fan of John Gorka. I am a fan too since buying his Jacks Crows CD some years ago. I most recently got his CD/DVD “John Gorka, The Gypsy Life” which is a live studio recording and also features lots of other interesting stuff including some other live footage, interviews etc.
Keep on singing, Mike!
PS: Come to Port Fairy again

By: Cafetaria

Cafetaria — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:48:04 +0000

As a fan of Leonard Cohen too, as well as a second-generation dsdceneant of Glastonbury, where my father was born, I loved the connection made here. For me there’s a wonderful synergy between the words of this anthem, and a symbol that is associated with Chalice Well in Glastonbury the . In a mandorla’ the focus is that almond shape created where two circles intersect and it’s a space in which we are invited simply to sit and be still’ in the middle of seeming paradox. If we can do so quietly, and simply accept what is rather than try to resolve the difference or take sides’, a new understanding or paradigm will emerge.From my perspective, Cohen’s anthem offers a similar invitation. Often we can be tempted to reject or bemoan the cracks’ we encounter in life the faults, the broken pieces, or the pain. But if we can simply be still’, accept them and embrace them, they offer us the gift of light’, of new learning, new understanding and growth.Perhaps another way of expressing this can also be found in the words of another poet Kahlil Gibran: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. Thank you for sharing this and for inspiring me to reflection.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:03:14 +0000

Hi Paul, I have the new Leonard Cohen – when your a life long fan you don’t hesitate. I am still in awe of his ability to move and still find inspiration in his music. I hope I am still doing it when I am his age.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:14:02 +0000

Great to see you in action again. Love your new CD. And then in your blog you mention two of my favourite CDs – Sharon Robinson (Invisible Tattoo) and Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now). Recommend you have a listen to the new one from laughing Lenny (Leonard Cohen) called Old Ideas (absolutely great) and the most recent one from the backup singers who work with Sharon Robinson – the Webb Sisters. Their most recent CD Savages is yet more great stuff.

By: Alessandra

Alessandra — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:27:51 +0000

Like the blog