This is a wonderful time to get creating and get musicking. This is why musicians and artists are in the world. When we are shovelling the horseshit that we see on a daily basis, it’s when we are most needed. So, although we are allowed to say – look, this is a bit too much…

I The art of guitar and the art of living are very much the same. The art of the guitar is specific; the art of living a life, wide-ranging and all-inclusive. Taking up the guitar is immediately do-able, taking up and taking on our life is a major undertaking, perhaps overwhelming. Feedback and acknowledgement are…

I Wish comes from the place we were before we were born.  It comes with us, into this human animal we inhabit, when we are born. Perhaps, Wish is why we are born. In this animal, in this lifetime, we embody, enact and realise in the everyday world the work we were born to achieve:…

I The outside world is outside. It has no hold on our shared sacred space inside these walls. The liminal zone, the in-between space, is what enables the outside and the inside to come together, to permit movement from one to the other, to accommodate each other, to negotiate the space. It is neither one…

Very good comments over lunch. One question, from a Crafty who was very active in the early years and we have not seen for some time, asked “where did the energy go?” He was referring to the energy once available for him to invest in hours practising the polyrhythms used on courses at that time.…

Dear Crafty, In any environment, our weaknesses (actual or perceived) are recognised by those around us, if they have any wit or sentience. In a hostile environment, those looking to feed recognise potential food. If we maintain our state, recognising our own capacities and process, impartially and without judgement, that is, maintaining neutrality towards what…

Q: Whenever playing and you are on that Zen KC alternate plane ~ How does your body react? I imagine lightning coursing through your veins and lightning bolts coming out of your fingers. RF:  Perhaps Ms. E has a Romantic notion of the artist possessed by a Divine Influx of Music coming to life, coursing…