Michaela Meade
The Petbarn Foundation, together with its 23 pet adoption partners including the RSPCA, have launched “Find Your Perfect Match”, a national initiative aimed at pairing new pet owners with a “fur-ever” soul mate.
The initiative, which launched on Valentine’s Day, could not go ahead as planned due to Victoria’s circuit-breaker COVID-19 lockdown, however there is a second chance to find puppy love this weekend.
Pet lovers in South Morang and Craigieburn can go to their local Petbarn store on Saturday, February 27 and Sunday, February 28 and participate in “pet dating” to help loveable animals find their forever home.
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How Milford Graves Reawakened the Spirit of the Drum
How Milford Graves Reawakened the Spirit of the Drum
Late percussionist s radical approach galvanized everyone from Lou Reed to Albert Ayler, and built a bridge between music and the healing arts
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In September of 2008, an unusual performance took place at downtown New York club Le Poisson Rouge. At stage right, opposite fellow six-string adventurer Marc Ribot, sat Lou Reed, conjuring clouds of free-rock energy from his guitar. Behind them, avant-garde mainstay John Zorn sent forth piercing, impassioned blasts of alto sax. And at the center of it all, churning with the fury of a whirlpool and dancing across his hand-painted drum kit with the control and flair of a flamenco master, was Milford Graves the percussionist, healer, and interdisciplinary seeker who Zorn had once called “basically a 20th-century shaman,” and who died on Friday at 79 after a battle with amyloid cardi
do remember him.
Michael Wimberly: That was the beginning. Plus I ve been using your Afropop book for some time now.
Fantastic.
So the Urban Bush Women project was the thing that brought you to Mozambique?
Yes. I went there in 2001, 2002, and then again in 2010. I was scheduled to go this past year, but of course,
this happened. So, whenever life resumes, I will make an effort to get back. What s nice is that people there are using Facebook and Instagram, so I get to see who s doing what.
What were you doing there?
Well, initially, I went there because of Urban Bush Women. I was their musical director, and we were doing a play that Lincoln Center supported us on. So we just went to learn what some of the traditions were, religious traditions, language, music, costumes, art, and we kind of took all of that and weaved it into a story in collaboration with Urban Bush Women. That was very successful. It was called
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