{"id":21386,"date":"2022-06-26T19:45:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T23:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21386"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:40:20","slug":"episode-603-benares-concert-with-age-of-reason-june-24-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21386","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 603 BENARES CONCERT WITH AGE OF REASON June 24, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 603    CONCERT BY AGE OF REASON AT BENARES JUNE 24, 2022<\/p>\n

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\u201cBringing our own chair makes a concert very personal.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat do you mean by that?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cFeels like the concert is just for us.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSounds self – centred.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cRight. But maybe a few times in our lives we should feel special, don\u2019t you think?\u201d<\/div>\n

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THIS IS BENARES ESTATE\u2026OWNED BY THE CITY OF MISSISSAUGA<\/div>\n

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All summer long, every Friday except for Canada Day the Friends of the Museum<\/div>\n
has arranged social concerts\u2026.free, although a donation of $10 is appreciated.<\/div>\n

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David O\u2019Hearn
Michelle Gee
Maria Moore
Chris Burke
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Four musicians ,… David, Michelle, Maria and Chris\u2026.serenaded us for two hours of<\/div>\n
Folk Tunes most of us knew by heart. including  ‘Puff  The Magic Dragon\/\u2018 played and sung so Michelles’ grand daughter<\/div>\n
could dance.  (see little girl)<\/div>\n

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Join Lennon\u2019s \u201cIMAGINE\u201d \u2026was another\u2026  Then something from the Mommas and the Poppas who I had never <\/div>\n
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 David jumped off the stage and threaded his way though the  audience.<\/div>\n

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I counted two dogs\u2026.coul dhave been more\u2026another dog howled in some distant corner<\/div>\n
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Feature dancer…<\/div>\n

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Wanda\u2026.Enthusiastic committee member and record keeper<\/div>\n

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A reader \u2026 stretched right out <\/div>\n

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And the organizer and Mistress of ceremonies, Joyce <\/div>\n

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\u201cChriS, you were part of the Windmill Theatre\u2026I recognized our voice.\u201d  said Marjorie<\/div>\n
\u201cI wish the Windmill was still going\u2026.sadly not so.\u201d  said Chris.<\/div>\n

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featuring Maria on the tambourine .   Can you find it in he picture?<\/div>\n

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Michelle on the guitar\u2026.also a Windmill Theatre soloist.  And a grandmother believed or not<\/div>\n

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STORY SONGS \u2026LIKE \u2019SOUND OF SILENCE BY SIMON AND GARFUNKEL<\/div>\n
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Hello darkness, my old friend<\/span>
I’ve come to talk with you again<\/span>
Because a vision softly creeping<\/span>
Left its seeds while I was sleeping<\/span>
And the vision that was planted in my brain<\/span>
Still remains<\/span>
Within the sound of silence<\/span><\/div>\n
In restless dreams I walked alone<\/span>
Narrow streets of cobblestone<\/span>
‘Neath the halo of a street lamp<\/span>
I turned my collar to the cold and damp<\/span>
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light<\/span>
That split the night<\/span>
And touched the sound of silence<\/span><\/div>\n
And in the naked light I saw<\/span>
Ten thousand people, maybe more<\/span>
People talking without speaking<\/span>
People hearing without listening<\/span>
People writing songs that voices never share<\/span>
No one dared<\/span>
Disturb the sound of silence<\/span><\/div>\n
“Fools” said I, “You do not know<\/span>
Silence like a cancer grows<\/span>
Hear my words that I might teach you<\/span>
Take my arms that I might reach you”<\/span>
But my words like silent raindrops fell<\/span>
And echoed in the wells of silence<\/span><\/div>\n
And the people bowed and prayed<\/span>
To the neon god they made<\/span>
And the sign flashed out its warning<\/span>
In the words that it was forming<\/span><\/div>\n
And the sign said, “The words of the prophets<\/span>
Are written on the subway walls<\/span>
And tenement halls<\/span>
And whispered in the sounds of silence”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Source: LyricFind<\/a><\/div>\n
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Songwriters: Paul Simon<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 603    CONCERT BY AGE OF REASON AT BENARES JUNE 24, 2022 alan skeoch june 24, 2022 \u201cBringing our own chair makes a concert very personal.\u201d \u201cWhat do you mean by that?\u201d \u201cFeels like the concert is just for us.\u201d \u201cSounds self – centred.\u201d \u201cRight. But maybe a few times in our lives we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}