Newsletter

Hello Dear Ones,

We hope that you are well. After pulling deep inside our shells for the past two years, we are starting to emerge. We have some great offerings for you as we reconnect and offer our gifts out to the community.

We hope you are well and look forward to seeing you soon.

blessings,
Arlyn & David

 

~ UPCOMING EVENTS ~

 

Friday, April 8, 2022 – 6-8pm Swing Night with The North Fork Valley Community & Parade Band as well as the NF Miners Jazz Band. Beginner swing dance lesson from 6-6:45 followed by live music and dancing (or listening). Suggested donation $10. At the NF High School (438 Miners Way).

 

Friday, May 6, 2022 – music starting around 7pm Open House and Marimba Concert with The Embodying Rhythm Marimba Ensemble. Join us in celebrating The Learning Council’s new Hearth space and ice cream parlor at 138 Grand Ave, Paonia. Save the date, more info coming soon.

 

Monday, June 6th to Friday, June 10th FREE Celebrate the Beat Summercamps: These camps will be outside at the Paonia Town Park with David Alderdice providing live music and Emma Stedman providing CTB style dance and movement. Registration: 970-270-3331

Dancers entering 1st or 2nd grade from 11:00 am-12:00 pm

Dancers entering the 3rd-5th grade from 1:00 pm-3:00 pm

 

Monday June 27th to Thursday June 30th: afternoons Skill Toys, Music and Games Camp with David Alderdice offered by Arts For All.  for students going into 2nd to 6th grades – camp will be outside at the Paonia Town Park with David Alderdice

If you like being outside and playing games, this would be a fun camp for you. And if you have interest in any of the following hobbies like, Kendama, Rubik’s Cube, Marimba Music, Yard Games, Hackysack, Percussion, Slackline, Backgammon, Knot Tying, Frisbee or other similar activities, this would definitely be a super fun camp for you. $125 for just the afternoons. $200 per week for both the morning and afternoon sessions. $300 for both weeks. Full camp details coming soon. Register by emailing artsforallnf (at ) gmail.com

 

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“Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.”
— Mary Oliver

Hello,

Happy Equinox! We hope that you get a moment to notice the beauty that is this time of year, as we begin to prepare for winter. We hope you get a moment to listen for your soul’s longings as the days begin to shorten. We hope that you will join us for our only live concert this year with our Embodying Rhythm Marimba Ensemble.

We want to let you know that the concert time for the Embodying Rhythm Marimba Ensemble performance has been moved a half hour earlier, so now we will be playing from 1:00-2:15pm this Saturday Sept. 25th at Paonia Town Park to accommodate all the Harvest Festival Performers for that day being moved outdoors into Town Park.

We hope to see you there! Happy Harvesting!

blessings,

Arlyn & David Alderdice

 

 

-Upcoming Events at the Harvest Festival-

• Saturday, Sept. 25, 1:00-2:15pm Embodying Rhythm Marimba Ensemble outside in Paonia Town Park. Click here for a video playlist of our group.

 

• Saturday, Sept. 25, 9:45pm NFV Community & Parade Band outside in Town Park. Click here for a video from 2016.

 

• Sunday, Sept. 26, 10-11:30am Celtic Vibes and a few songs from the North Fork High School Choir, outside in Town Park

 

• Sunday, Sept. 26, 12:30-2pm Women’s Drumming with Arlyn Alderdice, outside in Town Park – meet by the Teen Center. More info.

 

• Sunday, Sept. 26, 2-3pm Rhythmic Solkattu Playshop for all with David and Arlyn Alderdice, outside in Town Park – meet by the Teen Center. More info.

 

 

– World Music In Paradise 2021-2022 Series –

Tunas Mekar Gamelan: A 22 piece Balinese Orchestra with traditional dancers.
Friday, 1 October, 2021. Poulos Park.
6pm and 8pm showings, limited tickets available.
Tickets $20.00 in advance/ $25.00 at the door/ $17 student (18 and under). Available at the Paradise and online.

–   10am workshops for either Gamelan Music or Balinese Dance at Poulos Park – the dance workshop participants will learn a traditional Balinese dance to the music created by the Gamelan Music participants music. $10

 

Miguel Espinoza Flamenco Fusión: Plays a blend of Flamenco, Jazz, European and Indian classical, as well as Afro-Caribbean-influenced styles.
Friday, 8 October, 2021. Poulos Park.
6pm and 8pm showings, limited tickets available.
Tickets $20.00 in advance/ $25.00 at the door/ $17 student (18 and under). Available at the Paradise and online.

– 10am workshop for ensemble & fusion playing at Poulos Park $10

 

Newpoli: The group stirs up a mesmerizing sound that melds traditional Italian folk music, Greek and Turkish Grooves, Mediterranean and Spanish colors, and a contemporary sensibility they call “Mediterranean Pulse – Ritmi della Terra.”
Friday, 4 February, 2022. Paradise Theatre.
6pm & 8pm showings, limited tickets available.
Tickets $20.00 in advance/ $25.00 at the door/ $17 student (18 and under). Available at the Paradise and online.

– 10am workshop Traditional Dances from South Italy workshop at the Paradise Theatre $10

 

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“We watch a sunlight dust dance,
and we try to be that lively,
but nobody knows what music those particles hear.

Each of us has a secret companion musician to dance to.
Unique rhythmic play, a motion in the street we alone know and hear.”

― Rumi, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems

Hello out there!

It’s been awhile since we’ve sent out a newsletter, we hope you had a great summer and are doing well as the days shorten into fall time.

We are excited to be offering a free outdoor concert with our marimba band at the Mountain Harvest Festival this year, see full details below as well as the details for the upcoming World Music in Paradise Concerts.

This will most likely be the only chance to see the Embodying Rhythm Marimba Ensemble play live in person for the rest of 2021, so please tell your friends and bring out your families. There’s been some confusion in the promotion, but we will only be playing one concert and it is in Paonia Town Park at 1:30pm on Saturday September, 25.

Here is a video of us playing the 80’s hit song, Don’t You Want Me, from our last concert with a live audience in January of 2020.

Ladies, I’d like to personally invite you to the Women’s Drumming class at 12:30 on Sunday, Sept. 26th, at Paonia Town Park. I’d love to see you there and play some music together.

There are two World Music in Paradise concerts in October. The performers will be playing outside in Poulos Park in downtown Paonia. We are hosting a 22 member Balinese Gamelan Orchestra with traditional Music & Dance on Oct. 1st and a Flamenco Fusion quintet on Oct. 8th.

There’s also a new video in David’s Found Percussion Series where he is playing music on mushrooms – click here for a Porcini/King Bolete Groove.

And here’s a fun a play-along solkattu video that David and Arlyn recorded for a virtual summer-camp last year. Click here and be ready to jump up and join us in some solkattu.

take care,
Arlyn & David

 

-Upcoming Events Harvest Festival Events-

• Saturday, Sept. 25, 1:30-3pm Embodying Rhythm Marimba Ensemble outside at Paonia Town Park. Click here for a video playlist of our group.

 

• Saturday, Sept. 25, 9:45pm NFV Community & Parade Band outside on Grand Avenue in downtown Paonia. Click here for a video from 2016.

 

• Sunday, Sept. 26, 10-11:30am Celtic Vibes and a few songs from the North Fork High School Choir, Paonia Town Park

 

• Sunday, Sept. 26, 12:30-2pm Women’s Drumming with Arlyn Alderdice, Town Park – meet by the Teen Center. More info.

 

• Sunday, Sept. 26, 2-3pm Rhythmic Playshop for all with David and Arlyn Alderdice, Town Park – meet by the Teen Center. More info.

 

 

– World Music In Paradise 2021-2022 Series –

Tunas Mekar Gamelan: A 22 piece Balinese Orchestra with traditional dancers.
Friday, 1 October, 2021. Poulos Park.
6pm and 8pm showings, limited tickets available.
Tickets $20.00 in advance/ $25.00 at the door/ $17 student (18 and under). Available at the Paradise and online.
–   10am workshops for either Gamelan Music or Balinese Dance at Poulos Park – the dance workshop participants will learn a traditional Balinese dance to the music created by the Gamelan Music participants music.

Miguel Espinoza Flamenco Fusión: Plays a blend of Flamenco, Jazz, European and Indian classical, as well as Afro-Caribbean-influenced styles.
Friday, 8 October, 2021. Poulos Park.
6pm and 8pm showings, limited tickets available.
Tickets $20.00 in advance/ $25.00 at the door/ $17 student (18 and under). Available at the Paradise and online.
– 10am workshop for ensemble & fusion playing at Poulos Park

Newpoli: The group stirs up a mesmerizing sound that melds traditional Italian folk music, Greek and Turkish Grooves, Mediterranean and Spanish colors, and a contemporary sensibility they call “Mediterranean Pulse – Ritmi della Terra.”
Friday, 4 February, 2022. Paradise Theatre.
6pm & 8pm showings, limited tickets available.
Tickets $20.00 in advance/ $25.00 at the door/ $17 student (18 and under). Available at the Paradise and online.
– 10am workshop Traditional Dances from South Italy workshop at Paradise Theatre

 

 

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There is a community of the spirit.
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street
and being the noise.

. . .

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.

Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.

-Rumi

Hello Friends,

We hope you are well and enjoying the springtime. Our lives have picked up a bit after over a full year of not much going on in the way of public offerings.

Please check out the events below to see details about Celebrate the Beat, our Yard Sale, Women’s Drumming with Arlyn, Boy’s Backpacking trips with David, an Embodying Rhythm Playshop, and the 2021-2022 World Music in Paradise Concert Series line-up.

We’ve also been busy with starting this year’s garden. If you are local and would like some veggie starts to plant in your garden, please let us know or come by the yard sale, as we have extras.

We have missed you and hope to see you soon.

blessings,
Arlyn and David

 

 

Celebrate the Beat Performance

May 7 | 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm @ Paonia Town Park

Watch the culmination performance of the 2 week CTB dance residency for all Kinder through 6th graders in The North Fork School of Integrated Studies. Accompanied by David Alderdice, Jeannette Carey, Tony Peters and Arlyn Alderdice.

 

Yard Sale at the Alderdices

May 8 | 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Hanson Mesa Yard Sale. Multi-family (Heideman’s, Jerad’s, and Alderdice’s). Lots of fun treasures. Boys clothes & gear 0-6, adult clothes, tools, home items, books, plant starts, and more. Plus some free items.

 

Women’s Drumming Series

3 Tuesday in May: 11, 18, 25 from 10-11:30am outside by the Drum Room in Hotchkiss. $20 for each class or $50 for the series. Bring your drum, or use one of ours. Come as you are and experience the healing powers of rhythm through hand drumming and rhythmic practice in a fun and safe learning environment. Reply to this newsletter or call 872-4238 for registration and directions.

 

Boys Backpacking Summercamp Through The Nature Connection lead by David Alderdice 

Boots to Roots – Gunnison National Forest Have you ever slept under a blanket of stars and hiked through endless groves of aspen? If you’re looking for an epic adventure in nature this summer, join us for four days of backpacking in the beautiful Gunnison National Forest!

Trip 1: July 19 – July 22
Trip 2:  August 2 – August 5

more info and registration

 

Embodying Rhythm at Medicine Weaver’s Retreat in Hotchkiss, CO

August 28 | 9:30 am – 11:00 am

David and Arlyn Alderdice will be teaching an Embodying Rhythm Workshop from 9:30-11am. During this fun and engaging rhythm experience, we will delve deeper into the awareness of feeling rhythm as a full body experience. More info.

 

World Music In Paradise 2021-2022 Series

More information coming soon.

Shows will either be in Poulos Park or the Paradise Theatre in Paonia

Paa Kow and his Afro-fusion Orchestra: tentatively scheduled for Friday, 17 September, 2021

Tunas Mekar Gamelan: Friday, 1 October, 2021

Miguel Espinoza Flamenco Fusión: Friday, 8 October, 2021

Newpoli: Friday, 4 February, 2022

 

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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

― Howard Thurman

 

 

In winter

the bare boughs

that seem to sleep

work covertly

preparing for their spring.

-Rumi

Hello Dear Ones,

 

We hope you are doing well. We have been switching our family focus from multi-day summer backpacking trips in the mountains to being down in the valley more, homeschooling and jumping on all the garden harvesting and food processing and land chores which are in full force right now.

 

If you or anyone you know is interested in learning drums or percussion or is wanting to deepen your/their relationship with music, David is now officially offering private on-line music lessons through Skype or Zoom or whatever. He is also available for private lessons. He is offering in-person lessons outdoors in Hotchkiss as well as the online lessons. For more information on lessons, contact David: david@embodyingrhythm.com

 

There are a few more backpacking found percussion videos that David has to share. The newest ones are bones with sticks, trowel and tp on a rock, wilderness boundary fence post with tent stakes, and dried glacier lilly seed pods. Here is a link to those videos.

 

The one gig that the Embodying Rhythm Marimba Ensemble was able to play this summer was as a part of the Paradise Fest, which is a virtual fundraiser for our local music venue, the Paradise Theatre (which is the same venue that is home to our World Music in Paradise Concert Series). In this 17 minute live set, you will see what we’ve been up to and hear a medley of 3 new original tunes, 2 versions of original tunes from our album, and 2 traditional tunes. It was recorded outside of Hotchkiss in mid-July and was just released virtually on Wednesday, August 26. You’ll notice a new member, Rose Costello, thanks to Rose for jumping in! We feel so grateful to be able to play and create and share this music.  Click here to go straight to the new Paradise Fest video of the Embodying Rhythm Marimba Ensemble on youtube.

 

Here is a little more information about the other great local artists performing virtually for Paradise Fest as well as the fundraising aspects for the Paradise Theatre. Starting Monday, August 24, The Paradise Theatre will be streaming (via Facebook & Youtube) Paradise Fest Videos. Musical acts to be featured are the Embodying Rhythm Marimba Ensemble, Hard Pressed, David Starr, Joe Alan, Ford & Fitzroy, Gabrielle Louise, Lily Lowe (student), and father son duo of Elliott (student) and Jon Hickam. Watching the videos are absolutely free. At any time over the next month, if you are called to support some local musicians and our small local venue, you can make a donation to your favorite artists and venue; 50% of the proceeds will go to the musicians & the other 50% will benefit the Paradise Theatre. Any donations that the Embodying Rhythm Marimba Ensemble gets will go toward the recording of our 2nd album which has been delayed due to covid, but we are ready to record once we find a good place to set up all our instruments and recording gear for a few weeks. And the Paradise will use any donations that they receive to keep live music happening in rural Colorado with their World Music in Paradise and Pickin’ in Paradise Concert Series offerings.

 

best wishes,
Arlyn and David

 

“All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we’re giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That’s one of the things that connects us as neighbors—in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.” – Fred Rogers