You have reminded me that I need to get back
to listening to more reggae. :smile:

I have witnessed this.
Puyallup is my wife's tribe.
We live on a different reservation though, the Nisqually Indian Tribe.
Which is one river down.
We know many people in the vid. and we do participate
in Canoe journey's and have since it's inception in 1989 I believe, called Paddle to Seattle.

:smile: thank you for sharing. I can only imagine the energy and the healing.

Song of the day... lol, literally just popped in my head. :biggrin:

https://youtu.be/d-diB65scQU

Not very spiritual, or is it? rofl.

Please forgive. :redface: I woke up on the silly side. :D

It is just an expression.
Never seen anybody summon/raise the wind, and with the cyclone season looming – wouldn’t play with it even for fun.

Though during the cyclone season, when everybody is clued to their gadgets for weather reports, taping the windows and stocking up goods – I’m thinking: “Why don’t you just go outside and listen to the wind - what it says”.

Seems that we have lost our ability to listen to the ‘elements’.

So my song of the day is wind itself.

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Is that a bit like a re-enactment of how different tribes seasonally used to come together for ceremonies and socializing?

Dugout with different totemic clans, going for ceremony I suppose:
https://estonianworld.com/wp-content...P%C3%B5llu.jpg

From dugouts to birch bark canoes to skin boats made from moose hide, the moose head on the prow.
http://www.paabo.ca/uirala/uini-seag...gwhaleboat.jpg

Moose clan I suppose, in a moose-skin boat:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pr...tOvgdkdnP8_fKQ


I was looking at the prows of your canoes. What do they represent – different clans?

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Viking prows:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/66/55...afa3d73dca.jpg

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sentient,

Ah, yes,... be careful what you wish for! I see this!

I agree! Look and listen! There are times the wind tells us to run home and get in the basement! And I respect it!

I was wondering what the elder think of the fusion music? Mixing new instruments with the traditional songs.

I think they were happy enough that people are reminded of the culture and all of our connection with the elements.

Then it is up to the individual to renew it.

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I loved your ice-skating music.
Any other pieces you like to fly with? :smile:

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Yes! That is a beautiful!

Our talk about native music reminds me that in the beginning of the pandemic, so many dancers and singers and healers posted on Facebook to heal the world! The outpouring was amazing!

I have looked for some of the videos, but they are only on Facebook.

I feel as if barriers between peoples and culture might be thinning to where we are all beginning to see each other, our sameness, our humanity, our beauty. A glimmer of hope.

It is really beautiful!

Hans Zimmerman, “Time”:from the movie score of Inception
https://youtu.be/xdYYN-4ttDg

Yes. That is how it started and it has grown to a way of life.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/el...JPG?imgmax=512
This pic. has a deer head. It is a common prow. Of course the owner can do
whatever they want to represent what ever they deem best.(Clan, tribal symbols, canoe spirit etc.)
I think all have the groove to hold a harpoon.

Why the deer head ?
It is said in Suquamish creation story the Creator turned a deer into the first canoe.:icon_rendeer:
The story is told in this short video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waQ4eK7wfb8

Most of the NW coastal canoes are dugout from a large cedar tree.
Some use modern methods to have a lighter weight canoe.
The journey lasts from 1 week to 2 weeks. Paddling to different tribes
and staying the night and off again to the next destination until
everyone converges at a final host tribe location. Then every tribe or canoe
family will share their songs and dances and words of wisdom with all in a
performance or what is called protocol.

Here is one explanation of canoe journey from the perspective of the S'klallum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFJVOoN2yE0

Here is a Nisqually song that a group of us traveled to a neighboring tribe
to receive as a gift,after being invited to receive the song back in the mid. 90s.
It is used by the Nisqually canoe family today as their song or anthem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9PTmSM1BU8

AC/DC
Back in Black

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA

Sultans of swing
By Dire Straits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fAQhSRLQnM

It is spiritual, in my book.

A great lesson for life, in a simplistic easy to remember
slogan. "Don't worry be Happy".:smile:

I like the silly side. It goes hand in hand with "Laughter is medicine".

Here is a couple of Natives that take silly to their
hip hop music and have done pretty well.
Warning explicit lyrics.(Drops a few "F" bombs)

Boujee Natives
Snotty Nose Rez Kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSn1C_pLpoQ

Autour du Rocher' Jimmy Buffet........filmed live at the Bête à z'aile night club on St Barts

Autour Du Roche (French....around the rock) tells the story of an infamous night club/ petite hotel that Jimmy Buffett owned back in the 1980's on St Barts island, French Antilles.

It was built on top of a hill (the rock) overlooking the Caribbean sea....local lore was that you could see hell through the floorboards of the dance floor.

The video shows the ruins of the place featuring a local model walking through it...

This brings back memories for me because back in the day St Barts was my wife and I hangout and we went to Autour Du Roche many times!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-P0D49tFM

:headbang: omg, ImthatIm and sentient, I have skated to this! LOL! Of course when I was much, much younger! This song reminds me of my brother. :smile: Good memories!

:laughing4: I laughed myself silly!

Lucky 1, what a beautiful location! That is such a different feel, from typical Jimmy Buffet. I like the switch from black and white to color in the video. The bar scene has such a mass energy. Interesting to see in a video, like that.

ImthatIm, thank you for explaining and sharing. I can almost feel the vibration from the singers and the drums! The video in the water mixed with the dancers, makes the whole video feel like a fish swimming up stream. Goose bumps!

Interesting! Thanks ImthatIm!

& yeah, I think it is one of :icon_rendeer: …. those things ….
Though I have associated the moose oooor the deer head prows with skin-boats:
http://www.paabo.ca/uirala/uini-seag...moose-boat.jpg

Not sure if you are interested, (a bit tooooooo wordy for me to digest on one go), but it is a link I at times return to - ancestry ‘n’ symbolism ‘n’ stuff – and if one comes from ‘boat people’ - just about everything relates to boats innit.
Some of this is true, some a bit pseudoscience me thinks, but barking at the same tree anyways:
http://www.paabo.ca/uirala/uini-seagoingskinboats.html

Drum – a shaman’s boat ….
From cradle to grave it is a canoe journey …

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Heh.

Finding an 'echo' from the Mong side of things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APW1UzladZg

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‘Echoes’ to things as Private Investigations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiDWF8mMSek

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Your link said it was unavailable but I found this one, they call the [SPECTACULAR VERSION!]
Dire Straits/Private Investigation LIVE 1986 in Sydney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnIENYgf9lk

Thanks ImthatIm.

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Dire straits! Wow! I totally forget... sounds of my youth! :D

Wow! Nice orchestra with piano and guitar. I like they way the play off each other! If only a little young, I could have worked a couple of jumps into the skate. :D

Yeah. You were/are totally a blast from the past of my teen years with your figure skating reference.

Was able to do a few jumps, (watching the images they left on ice), but on the wings of the music – yeah – we fly, eh!

:D

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If you like guitar. This one is good. https://youtu.be/dyQJH615KwA

Yes, we fly. Even when my body is broken I fly in my mind. :D

Amazing range! :biggrin:

How about some "bosa nova"?????

Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz - The Girl From Ipanema (1964) LIVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVdaFQhS86E

This guy is crazy with the guitar. Check out this one. https://youtu.be/u6QWm9GPNGo.

The music everyone's posting in this thread is quite a bit more eclectic then what's found in the other song threads and I like that!!!

Betcha nobodies heard of these guy's!!!!!! A prog-Rock band from back in the mid-1970's....kind of a cross between Yes, Rush, Kansas and Styx


Starcastle....Fountains Of Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL8ASA3CAfw

I was like oh no. a gimmick guitarist.
Then I was like hey, this guy has skill,
then I seen his pinky work.

Oh, this guy is now on my bucket list for
further investigation.

Real deal artist, no doubt. Talent, skill, creativity and I could
go on and on.
He has a kill switch. What???

I don't know much about buckethead, I stumbled on him a few months ago. I thought the same as you. "Gimmick" but then was wowed by his work. Have fun investigating.

What amazed me was - how on earth did she manage to stand so still?!

I’d like to see her try to stay still for this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAZDisirIGo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyNUH5UtoNU

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sentient I know! But didn't Elvis get in trouble for dancing and the TV station would only show the top have, because his swivel hips were possessed by the devil? :laughing6:

These guys are smooth!

Wow! the foot work! and then the cute dance with the children! Aww!

Okay, Now this is movement! :biggrin: https://youtu.be/w2KYAlcTQno I just couldn't resist. :biggrin:

Lucky 1 Wow! They do remind me of Styx!

Because we are having fun? That is what I suspect. :biggrin:

ImthatIm & sentient, I went back to listen to Dire Straits/Private Investigation LIVE 1986 in Sydney and it goes through so many different sound and beats, it is like a whole story unfolding. :cool:

I was wondering about that – heh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GanoEE7VUc

Smooth did you say?!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Whgn_iE5uc

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