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Category Archives "Music"

Farewell Pete Seeger

February 2, 2014 By Chris Corrigan Music One Comment

Well, Pete Seeger died last week.  And when giants like Pete Seeger die, there is an overwhelming flood of story and tribute that comes in.  I haven’t even scratched the surface of it, but here is one of the best retrospectives I’ve found.  That will serve as an excellent introduction to this man. I was raised on Pete Seeger.  My dad had a bunch of Weavers records and he used to strum Seeger and Hays songs.  My musical upbringing and subsequent love and practice of folk music was directly attributable to Pete Seeger’s compelling hold on my father’s own desire …

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Of the musics you have ever got…

September 10, 2013 By Chris Corrigan Music, Travel

Home now from Ireland, with this marvellous extract from Flann O Brien’s “At Swim-Two-Birds” that somehow captures my experience of living a week in Ballyvaughn listening to the rush of na Gaeilige spoken from the mouths of scholars and poets and activists and to the floating tunes on the air of the night as I walked home from O Loclainn’s pub with the taste of Green Spot on my lips and my skin kissed by the breeze off the sea.   Of the musics you have ever got, asked Conan, which have you found the sweetest ? I will relate, …

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Pacing the Cage

June 5, 2013 By Chris Corrigan Music 3 Comments

Bruce Cockburn is probably my favourite songwriter.  This is Pacing the Cage, a hymn for our times: Sometimes the best maps will not guide you You can’t see what’s round the bend Sometimes the road leads through dark places Sometimes the darkness is your friend

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Life in the Beat Nation

May 28, 2013 By Chris Corrigan First Nations, Music, Poetry, Youth

  Over the past 15 years First Nations artists in Canada have taken to hip hop as a powerful storytelling method.  First Nations hip hop is an incredible blend of traditional art forms, evocative imagery and raw and real exerpience relayed with a beat.  It’s as if hip hop was built for indigenous expression – being story based, status informed, poetic and underscored with a heartbeat.  I have a bunch of friends in this field including Skeena Reece, Jerrilynn Webster, Manik1derful, Rachel Oki, Wasaskwun Wuttunee and others. Beat Nation was an exhibition of indigenous hip hop artists that closed in …

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Mentoring in the world of hosting

February 6, 2013 By Chris Corrigan Art of Hosting, Leadership, Learning, Music, Practice 3 Comments

All the best stuff I have learned about mentoring has been in the context of traditional culture, whether with indigenous Elders from Canada or in the traditional Irish music community.  Traditional Irish music is played and kept alive in a structure called a “sessiun.”  There is a repertoire of thousands of tunes, but most musicians who have played for a while will have a hundred or more in common, and that can easily make for a long evening of playing together.  Sessiuns are hosted by the most experienced musicians (traditionally a Fir a Ti, or Ban a Ti; the man …

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