Friday, August 26, 2016

World-Music Festival in Second Life Comes Tomorrow to Amsterdam from Cat Boucher

Second Life music has a bad reputation for schmaltzy rubbish but take a look around at the real world and what do you hear but schmaltzy musical crap everywhere.  The interesting part of music is when anything rises above that low standard and this show flies far up in the sky.  Cat Boucher is bringing the World-Music Festival to Second Life with wonderful help from the Amsterdam sim and do expect to hear some fantastic musicians.

I was not aware fado is similar to flamenco so there's an immediate simpatico between TB Andel and Voodoo Shilton.  I have not heard TB Andel much but know he has great skills and I can tell you for sure Voodoo Shilton plays music he sometimes calls 'African jazz' with heavy flamenco influences (e.g. Paco de Lucia) for an outstanding result and much more than a few simple words.



If you can assist with hosting for this special performance, please contact Cat Boucher in Second Life as she would like to hear from you.  I can't because I can't do six hours of anything.  No need for explanations, it's just a fact.

I do plan on attending when I can as I know Cat and online friends have worked exceptionally hard to put the show together and particularly on working on a line-up of performers with a musical simpatico.  There are multiple examples of venue owners who could not be bothered with that but Cat is only interested in excellence.

Note: that's the Rockhouse 'we' (i.e. me) as anyone who knows Cat already knows excellence is the only thing ever to impress her musically.


Flatland is a world which exists in two dimensions and, maybe remarkably to you, it was published by an English schoolmaster in 1884.  The World-Music Festival will show the world is definitely not flat but rather exists in multiple dimensions just as Abbot suggested.

Note:  the book didn't go so well when he wrote but it came in vogue about the time of Einstein when the idea of multiple dimensions became somewhat more approachable to people.  (WIKI:  Flatland)


Come to the World-Music Festival this week-end and possibly experience dimensions Einstein did not because his colleagues in a chamber music quarter said, 'he can't count worth a damn.'  (True)

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