Newsletter

Dear One,

Blessings to you in this time of snowy weather. We hope that you’re staying warm and cozy (when you’re not out enjoying the snow). We remember this summer when we were busy with the garden, the backcountry, and food processing, thinking… “won’t it be nice to snuggle up by the fire with a book.” Now we are making sure to enjoy it while it’s here, rather than wanting to skip right back to the part where it’s warm out.

‘Tis the holiday season, and drum lessons make great holiday gifts! Call David at 872-4238 or email to inquire about scheduling your (or your loved one’s) drum, percussion, and rhythm lessons. As Rumi says, “The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself.” Also see the events listed below for some fun holiday celebrations.

Our big news for the month is that Arlyn is pregnant, due in mid-April. We are thrilled and looking forward to this new addition to our family.

much love and many blessings on the coming New Year!
Arlyn and David
www.embodyingrhythm.com

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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Kirtan – Vamadeva and Shangri Devi (Andrew and Luna) will share the ancient tradition of Kirtan with David on percussion at BIJA yoga studio in Paonia, CO. 7pm. www.vamadevakirtan.com  for more information and here for music samples.

Friday, December 20, 2013
The Dark Night with Craig Childs and Friends (David on percussion) at the Paradise Theater in Paonia, CO. doors open 7pm. More information and tickets.

Saturday, December 21, 2013
The Dark Night with Craig Childs and Friends (David on percussion) at the Paradise Theater in Paonia, CO. doors open 7pm.  More information and tickets.

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The Music by Rumi translation Coleman Barks

For sixty years I have been forgetful,
every minute, but not for a second
has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.
I deserve nothing. Today I recognize
that I am the guest the mystics talk about.
I play this living music for my host.
Everything today is for the host.

Hello,

September has been slipping by incredibly quickly marked by the ripe tomatoes, peaches, nectarines, pears and other garden wonders. We’ve been busy in the kitchen nearly daily with freezing, canning and drying the bounty for the winter.

In musical news,

– David is putting together a project for Saturday night at the Mountain Harvest Festival at the Paradise Theater at 8:45pm. “A fun, eclectic world music ensemble featuring violin, bass clarinet, double bass, and drumset. This project combines improvisation with original arrangements; the sound is energetic, groovy and diverse in its range. David will be joined by his fellow Feast alumni’s Dr. Marcin Ardent (solo violinist, chamber musician, teacher, and arranger), and Benjamin de Kock (double bassist, freelance musician, and symphonist), as well as April Johannesen (multi-reeds instrumentalist, teacher, and performer). They will be joined on a few numbers by a few special guests including Tony Peters on trombone, Sticky Mulligan on tenor banjo, and Arlyn on shakers.” more info

[We’re really excited about this project, and for anyone who has wondered what David would do with an hour of music and some classically trained friends willing to play different styles and improvise, here’s your chance to find out.]

-The Sea Stars’ new album “THE UNKOWN” was just released on September 3rd. It’s a beautiful record that features Kurt Baumann and Katie Grey, backed up by Bill Renolds, Bridget Law and David Alderdice, as well as others. check it out: www.seastarsmusic.com

David does have some slots available in his teaching schedule for the fall, so if you, or your friend, or your parent, or your child has been thinking about (or dreaming about) drumming or drum lessons, now is a great time to start groovin’. (offering lessons: 5 week fall session Sept/Oct. and then resume Nov. 19 for the winter and spring). 872-4238 for details and scheduling.

All the best!
Arlyn and David

www.embodyingrhythm.com

 

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David with Sticky Mulligan at Palisade Mountain WineFest, Palisade, CO
Saturday, September 21, 2013 2-5pm www.stickymulligan.com

David with Beth Quist at Mountain Mountain Harvest Festival, at the Paradise Theater in Paonia, CO. More info here.
Saturday, September 28, 2013 7:30 pm See full Mountain Harvest Festival Lineup

David Alderdice and Friends at Mountain Harvest Festival, at the Paradise Theater in Paonia, CO. More info here.
Saturday, September 28, 2013 8:45 pm See full Mountain Harvest Festival Lineup

David with Sticky Mulligan at Mountain Harvest Festival, at Town Park in Paonia,
Sunday, September 29, 2013 3:15 pm www.stickymulligan.com

Sticky Mulligan / David Alderdice Duo at the Hot Tomato in Fruita, CO
Friday, October 4, 2013 7:00pm www.stickymulligan.com

David with Isa and JoeAlan at KVNF benefit at the Blue Sage in Paonia, CO
Saturday, October 5, 2013 8:00pm isaandjoealan.com

David with Sea Stars at the Main Street Center in Parker, CO
Friday, October 11, 2013 7:00pm www.seastarsmusic.com

David with Sea Stars CD Release @ Shine in Boulder, CO
Saturday, October 12, 2013 9:00 pm www.seastarsmusic.com

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Something to think on. . .
If we are meant to continue living on this particular planet, we must switch—very rapidly, now—to a way of thinking and living that has never before existed. This is necessary because the conditions we now face as a species are utterly unprecedented. What this means is that no culture—I repeat, no culture whatsoever—can give us full instructions on how to embody this new consciousness. Every culture provides hints, but none by itself could possibly be complete. . .

So how does one steer a path that does not yet exist? Since there is no cultural map, we have no alternative but to rely completely on the internal compasses we all carry in our hearts

~Concepts to Calm and Comfort…Insight from Martha Beck

Hello Dears,

We hope that this summer is treating you well. We’ll be celebrating our one year anniversary soon and it has been a very sweet journey.

We have been reading Martha Beck’s book, “Finding Your Way in a Wild New World.” Arlyn’s obsessed and resonating strongly with Beck’s suggestions. One of them is a recommendation for a cycle of playing and resting. Basically: play until you need to rest and then rest until it’s time to play again. It’s been fun to see what that brings and the places where it feels impossible. . . and then seeing if something small can shift the dynamic. Yesterday Arlyn alternated 5 minutes of reading with 10 minutes of housecleaning and had a lot more fun cleaning than she sometimes does.

See below for ways that you can play with us.

The Sticky Mulligan / Pretty Gritty double header evening is one that we are especially looking forward to enjoying on August 9th! It’s only $5 because we wanted to make sure everyone could come and play together.

Many blessings on your playing and your resting,
Arlyn and David

www.embodyingrhythm.com
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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David with Sticky Mulligan and Pretty Gritty
Double the fun. Soulful Americana with Pretty Gritty and fun and funky with Sticky Mulligan and band.
Friday, August 9th. Doors open 7:30.
Live at the Blue Sage, downtown Paonia, CO. Show around 8pm. $5.
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David with Pretty Gritty
August 10
Live at Cavalcade in Fruita, CO. 7pm $10. 201 E. Aspen Ave
a great listening venue
www.prettygrittymusic.com

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ARISE
August 17th
David with the Sea Stars 11pm. main stage. right after Michael Franti
http://arisefestival.com
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David with Sticky Mulligan and band
August 24th.
Live in Redstone Colorado. 6pm. Outside next to the Crystal River.
www.stickymulligan.com
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David and Arlyn with FEAST
August 31
Live at the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, CO. 7pm $15. (kids under 14 years of age are free)
http://www.taboroperahouse.net/bcevent.ihtml?lastcatid=1&step=4&pid=533&month=08&year=2013
www.musicbyfeast.com
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Wild Writing with Arlyn and Adrianna
Tuesday’s at 3pm in August @ Adrianna’s under the willow tree. Bring a notebook and favorite writing utensil.
Let your imagination flow. Let the words be free.
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For your calendar:
Pulsing into Truth; Tapping into Oneness through Rhythm.
David and Arlyn will teach a frame drum and dumbek class in Oct/Nov.  This class will be more metaphysically based than some of their other classes and focus on the simplicity and depth of rhythm as a tool for meditation and how we come into rhythm together as a group. No experience necessary. Open to beginning rhythmists as well as accomplished musicians who want to deepen into themselves through rhythm.
Dates, times and location to be announced. Paonia, CO.
Contact us if you’re interested. We’ll solidify our plans soon.

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The Summer Day
~Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

Hello.

It is now officially summer and a good time for getting up into the mountains. If you have any mountains near you, we highly suggest it. Woods, forests, beaches, and deserts will have a similar essence. Here’s a picture of some conifers with Ruby and Owen peaks in the background from around Kebler Pass near Crested Butte, CO for inspiration:

We have been so inspired and thankful for these wild places that still exist in our backyard – such majesty and presence.

July for us is about being in the garden and in the wilderness.  Also this month, Arlyn offers yoga and wild writing and David plays with Pretty Gritty, Sticky Mulligan, and Celebrate the Beat; see below for details.

Many blessings,

Arlyn and David

www.embodyingrhythm.com

 

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Arlyn will be offering a “Wild Writing” (Goldberg) style writing circle Tuesday’s in July (beginning July 2) from 3-5pm. Under the willow tree at the Heideman’s house. Gift.

Arlyn will be teaching yoga in the dome. 9:30-10:45am Wednesday’s in July (beginning July 3). By donation. Here’s what Adrianna says, “It is a very Present, meditative, deep yoga; leaving me feeling quiet, calm and enriched.”

David with Isa and JoeAlan in Ridgeway, CO Town Park on Thursday, July 4. 6:00pm opening the Free Ridgeway Concert in the Park for Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band.  Also playing at the after party at Sherbino Theater 10pm.  isaandjoealan.com

On tour from Maryland – Blaine and Sarah return to Colorado with more great soulful Americana. David will sit in for a couple of these shows.prettygrittymusic.com
Pretty Gritty in Dolores, CO. Dolores River Brewery. July 5. 8:00pm
Pretty Gritty in Carbondale, CO Steve’s Guitars on Saturday, July 6. 7:00pm
Pretty Gritty in Crested Butte, CO Rumor’s Coffee house. July 8. 4:30pm
Pretty Gritty in Paonia, CO Revolution Brewery on Wednesday, July 10. 5:30pm
Pretty Gritty in Fruita, CO Cavalcade on Wednesday, August 10, 8pm

David with Sticky Mulligan in Casper, WY Nicolaysen Art Museum on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 5:30pm stickymulligan.com

David with CTB in Paonia, CO July 22-26. Performance: Friday July 26th @ 5:30pm Town Park ctbeat.org

David at Arise Festival – Sunrise Ranch, CO  August 14-18. www.arisefestival.com
Playing with Sea Stars and sitting in with the Tierro Band.

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I wish I could speak like music.
I wish I could put the swaying splendor of the fields into words
So that you could hold Truth against your body and dance.
I am trying the best I can with this crude brush, the tongue,
To cover you with light.
I wish I could speak like divine music.
I want to give you the sublime rhythms of this earth and the sky’s limbs
As they joyously spin and surrender, surrender against God’s luminous breath.
Hafiz wants you to hold me against your precious body And dance, DANCE.

~Hafiz

Hi! We do hope this email finds you well.

Our big and exciting news is that the new website is up for your viewing pleasure: www.embodyingrhythm.com . Please let us know if you find any links that don’t work or other discrepancies, we are still in the final stages of building it and would love your feedback.

Things here at the homestead (loosely defined) are good. Busy. Full. Summer! (though not officially until Friday). The garden is going off! And so is the beauty in the high-country. What abundance and blessings are to be received from nature. As a side-note, we thought you’d like to know that Alicia Michaelson will be offering herbal studies classes in Paonia at the Trading Post in July – Wednesday’s 1:30-4pm more info: 527-4740.

David will be playing drums for lots of fun projects this summer; see below for the list. And Arlyn will teach three yoga classes during Bernstock. We hope to see you soon.

blessings,

Arlyn and David

www.embodyingrhythm.com

 

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David with Sticky Mulligan in Evergreen, CO. Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:00 pm. www.stickymulligan.com

David with the Tierro band in Boulder, CO. Friday, June 21, 2013 10:00 pm Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place. www.tierro.net
David with the Tierro band in Niwot, CO. Saturday, June 22, 2013. Double Rainbow Ranch.

David with Sticky Mulligan in Paonia, CO on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 4:30 pm Paonia Town, Park Ride the Rockies.
David with Sticky Mulligan in Paonia, CO on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:30 pm Revolution Brewery.

Bernstock – June 27-30th Dances of Universal Peace retreat. Dancing morning and evening. www.bernieheideman.com for details. David will teach a drum class Saturday afternoon (~2:30pm) and Arlyn will be offering yoga in the mornings Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 7:45-8:45am.

David with JoeAlan and Isa in Ridgeway, CO on Thursday, July 4, 2013. 6pm Ridgeway Town Park. isaandjoealan.com

David with Pretty Gritty in Carbondale, CO on Saturday, July 6, 2013 8:00 pm. Steve’s Guitars. prettygrittymusic.com
David with Pretty Gritty in Paonia, CO on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 5:30 pm. Revolution Brewery.

David with Sticky Mulligan in Casper, WY on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 5:30 pm

David with Celebrate The Beat Summer Camp in Paonia, CO. July 22-26. More info at ctbeat.org

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On a day when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day.

My eyes are like the sun that makes promises;
the promise of life that it always
keeps each morning.

The living heart gives to us as does that luminous sphere,
both caress the earth with great tenderness.

This is a breeze that can enter the soul.
This love I know plays a drum. Arms move around me;
who can contain their self before my beauty?

Peace is wonderful,
but ecstatic dance is more fun, and less narcissistic;
gregarious He makes our lips.

On a day when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open
and the love starts.

Today is such
a day.

~ Rumi ~ trans. Daniel Ladinsky

	Hello ,We hope that you are doing well and staying equanimous amidst the changing spring weather.   We’re loving the green growing things in the garden and are working to cultivate the pallet for some weeds in the garden too – dandelion, mallow, lambsquarter are all finding their way into our salads and stir-frys.  Such abundance and such nutrition and healing for the body! And yay for Alicia Michaelson and her sharing of the herbal traditions.   David has returned from his travels on the east coast to find the house rearranged and it’s been fun to play music together and work in the garden. It’s good to have him back in Colorado!   My brother, Aaron, and I are busily re-working the Embodying Rhythm website. I’m excited to share it with you but it’s not ready quite yet. You can learn more about Aaron here: www.northforkpermaculture.com. The biggest change for you will be that in a month or so all newsletter emails will arrive from a different email address and maybe have a bit of a different look. We’ll let you know more soon.   Here’s a youtube video for your viewing pleasure of David with some found percussion: youtu.be/IVGSzVkjM78   much love, Arlyn (and David) www.embodyingrhythm.com & ladyarlyn/wordpress.com   UPCOMING EVENTS     Friday, May 3rd, 2013 David with The Tierro Band tierro.net and The Sea Stars www.seastarsmusic.com Lumonics Sound and Light Gallery 800 E. 73 Avenue #11 Denver CO 80229 8pm – midnight   $20 A powerful night of music and magic. Capacity is limited, tickets here: http://www.lumonics.net/seastars_tiero.htm   Saturday, May 4th, 2013 David with The Tierro Band tierro.net and The Sea Stars www.seastarsmusic.com 100 Sunrise Ranch rd. Loveland CO 80538 concert at 7:30pm   $25 as part of a two day extravaganza including a dance workshop with the lovely Ixeeya. Find out more here: http://sunriseranch.org/ixeeya-tierro-sea-stars/ Sunday, May 5th, 2013 David with the SEA STARS www.seastarsmusic.com at Cavalcade 201 E. Aspen St. Fruita CO 81521 (970) 260-5413, 7pm, $10 Fruita, Colorado.  Home of great fruit, great mountain biking and a great music venue called Cavalcade.  We’ll be helping soothe folks into a sweet Sunday bliss.  The space is beautiful with a great sound system.  Come one, come all!  more info: http://www.cavalcadefruita.com/index.html     ______________________     This month’s inspiration is writing from Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics. Read the full article here: www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/to-build-community-an-economy-of-gifts   “Community is woven from gifts. Unlike today’s market system, whose built-in scarcity compels competition in which more for me is less for you, in a gift economy the opposite holds. Because people in gift culture pass on their surplus rather than accumulating it, your good fortune is my good fortune: more for you is more for me. Wealth circulates, gravitating toward the greatest need. In a gift community, people know that their gifts will eventually come back to them, albeit often in a new form. Such a community might be called a “circle of the gift.” “Fortunately, the monetization of life has reached its peak in our time, and is beginning a long and permanent receding (of which economic “recession” is an aspect). Both out of desire and necessity, we are poised at a critical moment of opportunity to reclaim gift culture, and therefore to build true community. The reclamation is part of a larger shift of human consciousness, a larger reunion with nature, earth, each other, and lost parts of ourselves. Our alienation from gift culture is an aberration and our independence an illusion. We are not actually independent or “financially secure” – we are just as dependent as before, only on strangers and impersonal institutions, and, as we are likely to soon discover, these institutions are quite fragile.”     “You don’t have to participate in a local currency or service exchange to be part of the cooperative gift economy. Any time you give (or receive) a favor for a family member, neighbor, colleague, or stranger you’re part of it. “  37 Ways to Join the Gift Economy by Beverly Feldman and Charles Gray