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03/11/2023

23/09/2023

Today we're celebrating Bruce's 74th birthday AND the inaugural “BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN DAY” in New Jersey. 🎸💪🌟💃

“The voice of the Garden State” honored on September 23

23/09/2023

Happy First Day of Fall! 🍂🍁🎃

Wishing you all a very happy first day of Fall! 🍂

23/07/2023

Remembering Tony Bennett - 💔
Tonight, Sunday, July 23rd, 9:00 - 10:00 p.m. ET on CBS - "One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga".

The Special Originally Aired Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021 and Features Tony Bennett’s Historic 95th Birthday Appearance ONE LAST TIME: AN EVENING WITH TONY BEN

10/12/2022

At opening night of A Beautiful Noise Musical on Broadway, Neil Diamond surprised theatergoers when he popped up in the balcony during the curtain call to help lead the audience in a singalong of his beloved 1969 hit “Sweet Caroline.” 🌟

08/12/2022

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece” 🥀
~Claude Monet

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”

01/12/2022

Rest in the sweetest peace, songbird ~ 🕊

Fleetwood Mac-Christine McVie - SongBird

23/10/2022

Two of Carly Simon's sisters died this week, a day apart, from cancer. The 3 sang together as "The Simon Sisters" and now Joanna and Lucy have joined the heavenly choir. Condolences to Carly and family.

Joanna, 85, was a former opera singer, while Lucy, 82, was a Broadway composer.

15/10/2022

A scenic Autumn road in High Point State Park, NJ.

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13/10/2022

Belmar, NJ 😱😳 Thanks 📸 John Entwistle Photography 🌟

I was lucky enough to catch up to a humpback whale swimming just off the beach in Belmar, Jersey Shore, NJ. It was an amazing sight to see and photograph.

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13/10/2022

Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre - in Morrison, . Required attendance in your lifetime 🤠🎶🎸🥁🎹⛰

An incredible shot 😱😍 🎶 from the most spectacular concert venue in the world: Red Rocks

📸: captaincoloradophotography

09/10/2022

Miss him 💔 Need him. Imagine...
John Lennon 🕊

Imagine this: John Lennon would have turned 82 years old today.

LennonTribute.org.

29/09/2022

"Do I Love You"? Indeed I do. Bruce Springsteen releases first single from his upcoming album. 🎶🌟 You can watch it at the link.💃

Other tracks will include ‘Nightshight’ and ‘The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore.’

25/09/2022

More uke love 💕

“Whenever you went round George’s house, after dinner the ukuleles would come out and you’d inevitably find yourself singing all these old numbers.” - Paul McCartney

-Matt-

13/09/2022

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent:
“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.
Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!"
Kurt Vonnegut

“In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent:

“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!"
Kurt Vonnegut

10/09/2022

02/09/2022

“To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.” - Paul
❤️🎶❤️

“To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.” - Paul

11/08/2022

An old truck is a field of sunflowers, Jersey Shore, NJ.

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08/08/2022

So sad 😥
"Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.
Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer. Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that any donations be made in her memory to the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund (ONJFoundationFund.org).
Olivia is survived by her husband John Easterling; daughter Chloe Lattanzi; sister Sarah Newton-John; brother Toby Newton-John; nieces and nephews Tottie, Fiona and Brett Goldsmith; Emerson, Charlie, Zac, Jeremy, Randall, and Pierz Newton-John; Jude Newton-Stock, Layla Lee; Kira and Tasha Edelstein; and Brin and Valerie Hall."
- via John Easterling, husband, Olivia Newton-John

Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.

Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer. Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that any donations be made in her memory to the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund (ONJFoundationFund.org).

Olivia is survived by her husband John Easterling; daughter Chloe Lattanzi; sister Sarah Newton-John; brother Toby Newton-John; nieces and nephews Tottie, Fiona and Brett Goldsmith; Emerson, Charlie, Zac, Jeremy, Randall, and Pierz Newton-John; Jude Newton-Stock, Layla Lee; Kira and Tasha Edelstein; and Brin and Valerie Hall.

- via John Easterling, husband, Olivia Newton-John

25/07/2022

❤️🌟🎶 Another iconic performance at Newport Folk Festival. Yesterday Joni Mitchell, along with Brandi Carlile and many other musicians performing "Both Sides Now" shown here 😭
-Ginny

24/07/2022

Look forward to seeing Amy Helm and her mother share Ezra’s writing. So sorry for this sadness in Levon Helm’s life.

Today is my bother Ezra’s birthday, and also the day he took his own life and left this world 13 years ago.

Ezra was tender hearted, sensitive, profoundly funny and smart. A brilliant writer, gifted with words and insight. I remember his trembling hands, his wide open wild heart, his talent, and how he suffered the weight of his burdens.

He took on the task of narrating the ‘colorful’ realities that surrounded us in our childhood. His powerful intellect and insight quickly landed on the indescribable dysfunction, and made it funny.

Tears streaming down our face funny.

We both loved my Dad dearly, but he and his cohorts weren’t in a place to see the truth just yet….so we framed it all in the darkest of humor, all to ourselves, and made it our refuge.

Imitations of the drunk nights, the season of the dope fiend , the endless stream of friends who came and went in stoned droves. Animated re-enactments of clipped and abandoned conversations that people couldn’t finish with us, as they sank into the various dark places that held them.

It was the highest comedy, and it lit up the impossible and painted it in peals of laughter.

He took on the burden of protector that big brothers carry -holder of the truth that threatens to bend us- holding it so I didn’t have to all alone.

I wish he were here, I wish I had been better able to reach him and light up for him the place where his heart got trapped.

It’s not easy to forgive su***de, it’s not easy to hold it, it’s not easy to watch my Mom hold it. Sometimes it still makes me angry, sometimes it still shatters.

I try to make living amends to him by committing to the practice of kindness and connection, and seeing people where they are.

My Mom and I are preparing some of his writing to share with you- more to come

I love you Ezra ❤️

04/07/2022

Happy 246th Birthday, America🇺🇸 🎂
Norman Rockwell Museum

Ginny

First published for the July 1976 issue of American Artist magazine, Norman Rockwell’s Liberty Bell would be his final cover illustration, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the nation whose character he had reflected for over six decades.

This limited edition lithograph personally hand signed by Norman Rockwell is available from our Museum Store here: https://store.nrm.org/liberty-bell-celebration-artist-proof-ap992c.html

You can also find prints of Rockwell's The Saturday Evening Post covers (made in the USA!) 15% off with coupon code NRM15 at print.nrm.org

02/07/2022

For this week’s Frivolous Friday post:

18/06/2022

🎶 They say it's your birthday - Happy Birthday to you 🎶 Celebrating 80 years of Paul McCartney today ❤️ 🎂 ❤️

17/06/2022

A BIG birthday surprise for the audience at last night's Paul McCartney "Got Back" tour finale at MetLife Stadium in NJ! Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi showed up to help celebrate Paul's 80th. Here's a great review with video's and setlist from Jay Lustig of NJArts.net.
Ginny

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers perform 'Glory Days,' 'I Wanna Be Your Man' and 'The End' together.

16/06/2022

The new Pete Seeger Stamp will be officially unveiled on Thursday, July 21st.
Pete’s stamp is based on a photograph taken in the early 1960s by his son, Dan Seeger. It is the 10th issue in the US Postal Service’s “Music Icons” series.

15/06/2022

Congratulations to the beautiful and talented couple Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste, honored by the Brooklyn Public Library tonight for their musical and literary contributions. 🎹🎶📖👏💕

30/05/2022

Ukulele love from George Harrison 🎸❤️
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/tom-petty-said-george-harrison-clear-rooms-ukulele-playing.html/

Tom Petty said George Harrison could 'clear rooms' with his ukulele playing, but not because he was bad at playing the instrument.

08/05/2022

Happy Mother’s Day to all the amazing Momma Bears!! 🐻 ❤️🌷

Painting “Sunrise Mountain Bears” by Carol Decker Wildlife Art Studio

Motherhood! "Sunrise Mountain Bears," to moms everywhere, a very Happy Mother's Day ! Your work is never done.......celebrate!!

01/05/2022

With NFT's (non-fungible tokens) becoming more popular, musicians and fans are getting in on the action. Here's an excellent article written by Talia Smith for Berklee Online which clarifies musical NFT's for us.

Learn what music NFTs are, how to buy and sell them, and what two Berklee community members say about their viability and future.