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Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines - this week on Public Radio
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This Texas based team has produced some of the most unique and infectious music around. With her unflagging love of Creative expression, Terri talks with us about her work finding her true musical path, her work with Lloyd, and their workshops on songwriting and creative process.
Michael Hearne - week of August 25
The quintessential southwestern country picker, Michael Hearne talks with us about his passion for the landscape, the people, and the art of New Mexico, and how they inform his songwriting. We'll hear about the upcoming Big Barn Dance Festival in Taos Sept 5,6 & 7, 2008, where you can witness first hand the fact that there is no such thing as a cranky two-stepper.
Robert Mirabal - week of Sept 1
Grammy Award winner Robert Mirabal talks with us about the deep bond between creative process and place. Born and raised on the Taos Pueblo, his music spans tradition and pop culture with inspired poetry and groove.
August 04, 2008 | Posted by Vivian Nesbitt
I am going to write here today from the heart of what has been going on for us. More personal than usual, I hope you will bear with me. In the midst of family reunions, performances, travel and the arrival of our first grandchild, I am happy to say that I have written a song and conceived of a play that I hope to write as a one woman show this year.
We had two family reunions back to back in July that allowed me a certain interesting perspective …
July 07, 2008 | Posted by Vivian Nesbitt
First let me apologize for the tardy update of our website! Between turning 50 (!!), a failed hard drive computer, the holidays and a family reunion I’ve been more than remiss. I hope that you all enjoy these additions. I have to say that the response to Chad & Jeremy has been really uplifting. There is a moment in the interview, when the subject turned to the message of the peace movement in the 60’s. Chad remembers “We almost made it…” Perhaps now at this powerful time in history we will be able to refocus our efforts toward that same goal. Thanks to Tony for getting the word out to all the Chad & Jeremy fans so beautifully.
We are more than proud to have been able to produce the Song of America special that is available for streaming now. Talking with Attorney General Janet Reno and…
June 08, 2008 | Posted by John Dillon
I knew very little about the creative process in August of 1969 when I threw a change of clothes and a few things in a backpack, and jumped into Stan Reed’s 1962 Fairlane. The two of us headed north from Pennsylvania toward some remote farm in upstate New York. I had no idea that what was to transpire over the next few days would change my life… forever.
I was a lonely kid, somewhat of a social outcast, but nonetheless, a budding guitar player whose major fun and social activity was playing in a band with my buddies. We’d even dare an occasional public appearance for the high school dance or church teen social. I thought playing guitar was cool, and that maybe people (especially girls) would like me, if they would just notice my soul-bearing, string-bending talents…
May 26, 2008 | Posted by Vivian Nesbitt
In our small town of Questa, NM there is an annual event on Memorial Day. Hundreds of American Flags are placed in a field for four days. It is such a glorious sight to see acres of them waving. So very beautiful.
I love that we have a national holiday dedicated to the memory of the men and women who served and continue to serve in the Armed Forces, as much as I don’t believe that war is ever the answer. I come from an Army family. The last to serve was my Uncle Bill who now lives in Columbia, SC having survived two tours of Viet Nam. He took all his skill and has dedicated his life to service of others, acting as a disaster relief coordinator for the Red Cross for many many years. He continues to be an inspiration to me, as in the face of so many difficult situations he has kept his focus on the needs of the people…
May 14, 2008 | Posted by Vivian Nesbitt
I was listening to a CD the other day and the subject came around to perfectionism. Hmmm I thought, this is interesting as it is one of my most compelling and fatal flaws… I listened patiently, to all the things I have ever heard before, how “magazine perfection” is not real, that no one is perfect, that it is self destructive to pursue perfection, and guaranteed to be a creativity killer… you doubtless know the rap…
May 05, 2008 | Posted by Vivian Nesbitt
The world beyond trying is doing. We learned that from Yoda. The world beyond doing is freedom and the field of all potential. In Creative Process, we allow ourselves to try new things and find out so very much. Yet I recently realized that, like brainstorming, trying can become a bit of a sand trap…
April 28, 2008 | Posted by Vivian Nesbitt
I used to live in NYC, pursuing an acting career with a modicum of success. When I moved to New Mexico I pretty much gave it up. As luck and good fortune would have it the film and television moved out here to Albuquerque. To sharpen my tools, I have been taking an class with Greg Serano…In class one of our bits of homework was to play with the characters that are polar opposites from ourselves. I have been having a blast playing with the different personalities, and expressed one in a scene that I was given to work on for class. It was a raving boss taking down a worker. Not that I have never expressed anger, displeasure or pure unadulterated rage before, but this was different and in terms of my creative expression, I was traveling in very different territory…
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