(From Part One) The world shares a voice when it comes to music, a central expression extracting the best and profoundest in us. Comprised always of sound, in its rhythms, reaches, and rampings up-and-down, music also includes silence, but not […]
The Colorado band, Taarka, taking its name from Indian spices, lost everything a few years back. When their Lyons home was completely overwhelmed by flood waters, the young couple with small son had to start all over. At the core […]
The 2017 Folk Alliance International Conference, with its many facets and some public access, occurred from February 15 to 19 in Kansas City. Part One Prelude – The Impressionist Merge of Folky World-ness in KC There is music and there […]
While there are multiple sites that cater to crowdfunding campaigns for musicians, it seems that, more often than not, the albums featured in this space come from PledgeMusic. This isn’t surprising since PledgeMusic is the one service that caters only […]
Ever visited an art museum, say MoMA in New York, and as you are slowly making your way through the galleries, gazing at all those sumptuous paintings, letting them seep into your consciousness, you come to Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” […]
From the 2015 Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyons, Colorado. Members (from left): Enion Pelta-Tiller and David Tiller. Taarka is a husband-and-wife duo who lost their home in the September 2013 floods in Lyons that also wiped out Planet Bluegrass, […]
The Colorado bluegrass duo Taarka takes its name from the sound of Indian spices roasting. With these simple facts in mind, their music is just as rootsy and hippie-ish as you’d imagine it to be, and I don’t mean that in a […]
