DC Bike to Work Day 2013
A reading by Wallace McRae of his poem “Things of Intrinsic Worth” during the 29th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada on February 1, 2013.
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Camera by Brad Winegar and H. Paul Moon, editing by H. Paul Moon. This piece is from footage we filmed for a feature-length documentary work-in-progress. For more information, visit: westdocumentary.com
ABOUT THE POET:
Wallace McRae is a third-generation rancher, with a 30,000 acre cow-calf ranch in Forsyth, Montana. He has been a part of nearly every National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. He was the first cowboy poet to be awarded the National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a recipient of the Montana Governor’s Award for the Arts, and has served on the National Council of the Arts.
Mr. McRae is fighting to protect his ranch and the greater environment in Montana, making the words of this poem tragically real. Read about it here: latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-montana-coal-20130427,0,4210576,full.story
A concert of George Crumb at the Library of Congress
Toward Pascha
Still images from Catedral de Sal, film & music by H. Paul Moon
Filmed on April 1, 2013 in Zipaquirá, Colombia, edited on April 7, 2013 in Arlington, Virginia by H. Paul Moon. Music composed and performed by H. Paul Moon, with Marilyn Park, violin.
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Rare subway apparition: commuter studying Paul Hindemith score
I love this photo I snapped, for its layered implications: his dark skin and woven bracelet suggest he is indigenous, sitting in a wealthy box of the gilded Teatro Municipal Guillermo Valencia, hands in supplication to an importation of rigid European classical music at this small southern Colombian town of Popayán.
A performance by Dave Stamey of his song “Twelve Mile Road” during the 29th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, February 2, 2013.
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Camera by H. Paul Moon/Shang Ik Moon, editing by H. Paul Moon. This is footage we filmed for a feature-length documentary work-in-progress. Apart from this song performance version, the footage will blend with lyrical visualizations in the finished film. For more information, visit: westdocumentary.com
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, a dude wrangler, and is now one of the most popular Western entertainers working today. He has been voted three times Entertainer of the Year, three times Male Performer of the Year and twice Songwriter of the Year by the Western Music Association, and received the Will Rogers Award from the Academy of Western Artists.
About “Twelve Mile Road,” the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry wrote, “Dave Stamey comes ‘from the dust’—’out where lives are held together / with sweat and baling twine…’—as the title song depicts it in his new CD, ‘Twelve Mile Road.’ He dedicates that song to his father, ‘who lived it’ and to ‘…the little ranchers scattered all over the West, who seem to get by on guts and stubbornness and damn little else…’ ‘Twelve Mile Road’ delivers complex-but-direct fresh and original songs about the real West, fueled by Dave Stamey’s fierce allegiance to that endangered world. He knows the country and he knows what matters.”
For more information, visit: davestamey.com
Procesión, Easter Sunday in Silvia, Colombia
Procesión — Semana Santa in Popayan, Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia from Monserrate
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Live at the Strathmore (20 March 2013). Shot on my Sony NEX-6.
Springtime at work.
