winterbadger: (williams)
Sometimes my college awards honorary degrees to people I'm not fond of or for reasons that seem a bit silly to me.

This one, though, I can get behind fully. And I like the way the citation was written. :-)

ETA: Lest there should be any mistake, *none* of last year's honorary awards seemed to me to be puzzling, foolish, or anything other than worthy. And while the citation I linked to made me smile and nod, several of the others caused me to tear up. Really, if at the end of my life I can look back and feel that I have accomplished as much, even half as much as any one of those six, I shall feel entitled to be very proud indeed. :-)

...oh, and

Aug. 20th, 2009 02:37 pm
winterbadger: (guitar)
The Proclaimers are due at the Birchmere on 13 September and Steeleye Span (or some facsimile thereof) on the 22nd.
winterbadger: (guitar)
I've been looking forward to tonight's Al Stewart concert for some time. I've been listening to his music all my life, but I never suspected he was still touring until a passing comment (by, I think, [livejournal.com profile] cmlc) indicated he was and made me go check his schedule. Tonight he was in Alexandria, and after a day that left me with some heavy thoughts on my mind, I was looking forward to hearing a musical icon of mine.

I was not disappointed )
winterbadger: (guitar)
I heard Le Vent du Nord interviewed on NPR the other morning--they're fantastic! A four-person folk music group from Quebec, they both play and collect folk music in the province (or not-province: their tour information say "Le Vent du Nord has toured extensively across the US, Canada, Quebec and in Europe") and elsewhere. Not only was their playing and singing wonderful to hear, but they reminded me how much I love listening to sung French, even though my grasp of the language is nowhere near good enough to understand the lyrics while they're being sung.

Now, if I could just remember the name of the French guitarist whose albums I gave one of my college friends...

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