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k.d. lang comes out spiritually

::kd lang Comes Out Spiritually

The March issue of Shambhala Sun Magazine features Melvin McLeod's interview with kd lang about her Nyingma Buddhist practice with teacher, Lama Chodak Gyatso Nubpa , and her new album, Watershed: 

"The idea of watershed has a great deal of pertinence to becoming a Buddhist and following the path.  It seems to me that the flow of dharma - or the flow of one's own innate buddhanature - is like water.  There are obstacles, but eventually the water will find its way around them. 

"A change of direction happens when you take refuge and become a practitioner.  For me, it's been about reassessing, reviewing and reprioritizing everything in my life.  It's been about revitalizing my morality and my relationship to cause and effect, meaning what I do as a person - with my body, speech and mind - and how it affects all other beings.  Each song is about my relationship to something, and it's also about the cause and effect of each of those relationships."
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musicians unlock mystery melody in scottish chapel

The 15th Century Rosslyn Chapel, about seven miles south of the Scottish capital Edinburgh.....which featured in the best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code" has revealed another mystery hidden in secret code for almost 600 years.

A father and son who became fascinated by symbols carved into the chapel's arches say they have deciphered a musical score encrypted in them

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I heard this music on Radio 4 - The Today Programme, which was on as I woke yesterday morning - it was very attractive and stayed in my head all day.....but I've lost it now.

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stop global warming college tour kicks off

The Stop Global Warming College Tour kicks off today April 9th at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. Over the next two weeks, singer-song writer Sheryl Crow and I (Laurie David) will visit ten universities across the Southeastern United States in a bio-diesel bus, urging students to join the movement to stop global warming.

gore gets a hand from congress for climate concert

....The former Democratic presidential candidate had wanted to highlight the need to address global warming by staging one of seven worldwide "Live Earth" concerts on the National Mall in the U.S. capital on July 7.

But two events already are scheduled for that day on the Mall so Gore reached out to a close friend in Congress, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, to use the front lawn of the Capitol ::read more

series of concerts: larger than live aid, to focus minds on climate change

Calvin says:

Interesting story, just out in the FT. Climate Change Concerts.

Apparently Al Gore is about to launch a series of concerts, that will 'dwarf Live Aid'.
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On Vox: music and the end of an era

42 - not just The Answer but also the age of Top Of The Pops - and tonight we've just watched the last one. This show was so much part of my life when I was younger - it started when I was eighteen - though I have to admit that, in later years, there were some styles of music that I didn't like at all. Well, that's to be expected.

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oh, sublime

My head is filled with sublime music.

We have just arrived home from a marvellous production of The Marriage of Figaro at the wonderful Theatre Royal. Unplanned meetings with friends, then out into the summer night and lights of Grey Street - voted the best street in Britain

lives in the balance - jackson browne sings against war

Here is Jackson Browne's anti-war song:

There are lives in the balance
People under fire
Children at the cannons
There is blood on the wire....

http://videos.digett.net/jacksonbrowne/lives/lives_in_the_balance.wmv

music and visions of peace

From   "one people": Music and visions of peace 2006 - a series of 11 events
designed to promote peace and unity, between the people's of Israel and
Palestine. These events are healthy events (non smoking) in peoples houses
and communities in and around Brighton.

bush war blues

Billy Bragg has updated Leadbelly's 'The Bourgeois Blues' and remade it into "The Bush War Blues' , which is available as a free mp3 download
 
Link (Thanks, John!) via Cory of BoingBoing