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Rhythm Roots Workshop @ St Therese Senior Communities

Rhythm Roots Workshop @ St Therese Senior Communities September 25th, 2023 third in a series of nine Monday workshops. Teaching a Rhythm Roots Workshop Residency at two locations; St Therese New Hope and Oxbow Lake Senior Living (https://www.sainttherese.org/) on Mondays 10am & 1pm September 11th thru November 6th 2023. Celebrating world rhythms and cultures for…

Cosmos SDSS J103512.07+461412.2

This Hubble Picture of the Week includes the pithily-named galaxy SDSS J103512.07+461412.2, visible in the centre of this image as a dispersed sweep of dust and stars with a denser, brighter core. SDSS J103512.07+461412.2 is located 23 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. The seemingly rambling name is because this galaxy was…

John Taylor

John Taylor

John Taylor (25 September 1942 – 17 July 2015) was a British jazz pianist, born in Manchester, England, who occasionally performed on the organ and the synthesizer. John Taylor was a self-taught pianist. With his family, he moved from Manchester, first to the Midlands and then to Hastings where he played locally. In 1964, Taylor…

Erik Darling

Erik Darling

Erik Darling (September 25, 1933 – August 3, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter and a folk musicartist. He was an important influence on the folk scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Darling was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He entered New York University in the early 1950s, but soon abandoned higher education. Inspired by…

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throughout his life as a major composer. Shostakovich achieved early fame in the Soviet Union, but had a complex relationship with its…

Sam Rivers

Sam Rivers

Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011) was an American jazz musician and composer. Though most famously a tenor saxophonist, he also performed on soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica, piano and viola. Active in jazz since the early 1950s, he earned wider attention during the mid-1960s spread of free jazz. With…

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