Posts Tagged as ‘psalters’

April 14, 2009

Writtenhouse

My Hip Hop & Black Culture class has been pretty great throughout the year, but the past week or so has been particularly cool.  Last week Chris Conway & Charlie K from the Germantown-based hip hop trio Writtenhouse were our guests.

Last tues, Chris gave the lecture about “finding the perfect” beat.  He taught on the [...]

March 13, 2009

psalters spring 09 update

this is a cross post with the new handsome Circle Venture blog.
For psalters Jay Beck & Scotty Krueger, creating a working Philadelphia headquarters has been a challenge.  They spent the better part of the last five years living on a converted veggie oil-powered school bus with the rest of psalters travelling around, leading worship, leading [...]

February 13, 2009

me 3.0

my brother Jeffrey (funniest of the 4 of us) made a couple cracks to me about 3.0 today.  He is not only funny, he’s right.  I’ve been getting ready for the next version of me, today is a good day to be feeling it.   I feel good.
Lots happening these days.  Last week I was in [...]

November 9, 2008

Getting Africanized

I just wrote a longer post on the Circle of Hope blog, but at least wanted to mention how pumped I am to get the drumming classes going again-see earlier post here for deets.
Last night a group of us spent several hours re-headding and building djemebes.  I learned a lot about a lot.  We tried [...]

November 8, 2008

good to be home

what a week.  sorry that I haven’t posted anything.  I either didn’t have time or didn’t have any wireless signal (on the Turnpike you have to pay!)
One of the things was going out to western PA to pick up Abigail (our accordian player) and practice for 24 straight hours before we went over to Messiah [...]

October 23, 2008

Jay’s return

I’m glad we’re getting the drumming classes going again.  We are going to have some issues with scheduling and no doubt with space conflicts until we get the studio built.   Here’s the flyer for the upcoming classes.

The word on the street is that the mate-masie will be in the house for both classes.  MG and [...]

September 5, 2008

meko and the dream moth

Brittney had a pleasant surprise up her sleeve today when she brought our friend Meko over for dinner at my house.  I didn’t even know he was back in town!

Welcome back, buddy.  Can’t wait to get the studio/school rolling with you.
Among other more relevant things, my cell discovered afterwards that Monster Camp is out on [...]