Greetings, One & All~
Having spent a good bit of October on the road, in the air, over the ocean, in hotels and in airports, it’s good to be back in Arizona and working closer to home for a spell. This noteworthy November starts immediately on Day One, so read on now for all the good news this month (and a transformational glimpse ahead into early December) in this issue of your A 440 Newsletter!
RCNQ Aloha
The R. Carlos Nakai Quartet delivered and received much aloha in Hawaii last month, as exemplified in this photo-and-video enhanced review. Mahalo to all who came to our shows and danced on stage with us, to our lovely and talented special guest chanters, to Global Media Productions, and especially to RC for dreaming this experience into being.
Big Island Music News review
Winged Beats
On Friday November 1st from 3-5 PM the R. Carlos Nakai & Will Clipman duo will perform a benefit concert at Casa de San Pedro in Hereford AZ for the Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center to raise funds and awareness toward protecting the San Pedro River, southeastern Arizona’s last free-flowing riparian ecosystem.
info, tickets & directions at
https://mailchi.mp/4cb538bdf1ce/wingbeat
photo courtesy Pamela Hyde / A’toka Arts Management
Vets Flutes
On Friday November 8th at 7 PM the R. Carlos Nakai Trio will perform as part of a benefit concert for Flutes For Vets at Grace St. Paul’s Church in Tucson AZ to raise funds and awareness for this visionary program bringing healing and personal transformation to veterans through the art of the Native American flute.
info & tickets at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flutes-for-vets-2nd-annual-benefit-concert-featuring-r-c-nakai-tickets-72758433433
photo courtesy Shery Christopher Photography
Musical Medicine
On Sunday November 10th the R. Carlos Nakai Quartet will provide uplifting musical atmosphere for a convention of the Association of American Medical Colleges at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix AZ.
photo courtesy Shery Christopher Photography
SunDog Twins
Appropriately enough, on Thursday November 21st at 8 PM the Leon Littlebird & Will Clipman duo (aka, The SunDog Twins) will be in concert at Solar Culture in Tucson AZ. This is is an exclusive, don’t-miss Arizona engagement at one of The Old Pueblo’s hottest AND coolest venues!
info & tickets at
https://business.facebook.com/events/693802604365509/
Playful Performance
Roman Orona, Will Clipman & Aaron White, collectively known as Medicine Arrow, will offer a benefit performance at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix AZ on Friday November 29th as part of the 20th Annual Native American Children Toy Drive.
photo courtesy Marilyn White / Whistling Wind Productions
New Releases
Yours truly plays on two cuts off the brilliant new Join Coinman album Under the Sun, just out from Arroyo Verde Productions. I had the unexpected pleasure of performing four numbers with John and his all-star band at their CD release concert on the Hotel Congress Plaza stage in the heart of The Old Pueblo on October 26th, including the opening cut (one of the two I recorded and my personal favorite) Love is Everywhere.
Google Review
https://tucson.com/entertainment/music/tucson-singer-songwriter-coinman-releases-first-solo-record-in-five/article_ab7d135e-30aa-501d-a253-3754ae605600.html
Love is Everywhere video
Also, just out from Heart Dance Records, yours truly added that ol’ udu voodoo that he do so well to one track on the new Monica Williams album Within Us All, holding the heartbeat for Monica’s sumptuous world flutes.
https://www.jwvibe.com/single-post/2019/10/27/MONICA-WILLIAMS-Within-Us-All
Breathing Space
The new elemental trance groove album The Space Between Breaths by Sherry Finzer & Will Clipman from Heart Dance Records is rocking the airwaves, including October radio play on the world’s foremost contemporary instrumental music program Echoes.
New Age Music Guide feature
Blue Wolf review
Woodside Wonders
Early December will find me at the fabulous new Canyon Ranch Wellness Retreat in Woodside CA for a wonderful weekend of transformational experiences. The kick-off event is an intimate concert with yours truly and Native American flute master R. Carlos Nakai at 7 PM on Thursday December 5th, followed by my Myths & Masks creative self-realization workshop on Friday-Sunday December 6th-8th.
concert info & ticket link
https://myemail.constantcontact.com/R–Carlos-Nakai–the-world-s-premier-Native-American-flutist–and-Will-Clipman-at-Canyon-Ranch-Wellness-Retreat-in-Woodside–CA.html?soid=1128217421812&aid=vA4arrjZL_E
workshop information & registration:
https://www.canyonranch.com/woodside/retreats/featured-retreats/myths-masks/
photo courtesy Robert Doyle Photography / Canyon Records
Poem of the Month
Quitobaquito
People have come here for sixteen thousand years
to drink groundwater water from the last Ice Age
and in all that time no one has claimed to own you.
Pupfish wriggle in the trickle that feeds you
and a mud turtle slumbers deep in your bank
to the dreamtime rhythm of your prehistoric percolation.
Black-shelled snails smaller than a sesame seed who’ve lived here
since before the dinosaurs and survived multiple mass extinctions
ink like indelible periods the brink beyond which nothing drinks.
Now those who have never lived here plan to drain you
to mix concrete and tamp down construction dust
for a monument to futility in the middle of the desert.
May they wake in the middle of the night and hear
all the whispered wisdom they should be listening to
before the whisperers are gone. May they learn–
though it’s mocked in this age of incessant distraction–
that there’s something to be said for simply sitting still
in the shade of an ancient cottonwood and reflecting:
between never and forever there must be earth and sky
and water for all things that live and die and live again.
That which is whole cannot be divided.
© Will Clipman 2019
Photo of the Month
The pioneering Russian abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky famously opined that great abstraction and great realism are two paths to the same goal, an artistic achievement exemplified in your November Photo of the Month by Shery Christopher, who captured this mystical melange of natural forms against a reflective matrix of sunset sea and sky at Puako, Hawai’i during a brief respite in the recent RCNQ four-island tour. Dive in!
photo courtesy Shery Christopher Photography
~Make your November noteworthy as only you can~
It’s never too late to do good.
~Guillaume Henri
Will Clipman
poet ~ percussionist ~ maskmaker ~ storyteller ~ performing artist ~ educator
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