Guy Livingston: The Bug - "music, secrets, and silence"

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Guy Livingston: The Bug - "music, secrets, and silence" Podcast

Listen to "The Bug" every Friday with host Guy Livingston. --- Do you like what you hear? subscribe, or rate us, or send us an email, or like our facebook page: Want more information and complete playlists? Go to the official website at you'll find links for more information, complete playlists and performer details, CD reference info, and even photos.

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  1. 06/19/2020

    Juneteenth

    Juneteenth is a celebration of the day on June 19th, 1865, when the last remaining American slaves were proclaimed free. It’s often described as an occasion “to celebrate, to educate, and to agitate” Playlist Jay Watts: “New Rules” Tim Carman: “A little bit” “Rise Up” by the Greenwood Rhythm Coalition these are from the album: Talk minus Action equals Zero: a compilation benefitting Black Lives Matter. Buy it on Bandcamp tonight, June 19th, and all your proceeds go to social justice. Like all the music on tonight’s show, it’s published by Rough Trade Publishing and Bank Robber Music.   The end of season two of The Bug… This season began during the lockdown, as I was desperate to find some focus, and some way to express my own personal anguish. As the season gatherered momentum, many listeners sent in their own experiences, good and bad, of quarantine. We heard about birds, and pollution, and silence, zoom music, and free online art, and demonstrations, and racism. These issues don’t stop now. I want you to keep listening to new sounds, in the small sense of hearing the birds, but also in the larger sense of hearing the world around us. That’s the natural world and the political world. So I want us all, and that includes me and you, to take action against dangerous politicians and frightening policies.  … So make your voice heard! You could post on facebook (which is probably pointless), but more effectively, you can vote, you can help others vote, you can get out in the street and demonstrate if you feel comfortable, you can reach out to people who are not like you, and open dialogue with them (which is definitely uncomfortable), you can buy music and art from creators of color, and you can also give money to causes you support.   Buy the CD! Download the music! Black lives matter compilation download the album today, and your purchase price goes entirely to BLM charities   more The historical legacy of Juneteenth   PS: if you want more podcasts, join me in mid-July for a new series, called “under/city/sound” – I’ll be talking about the sounds of a city – in this case, The Hague.

    10 min
  2. 05/22/2020

    Lost friends and old recipes (or how to make Cauliflower with Tahini)

    This week’s show is in memory of Fuad Bahou: cook, poet, and artist. It’s been a strange week for many reasons. Death has been present for many people I know. But music and food help to understand, mourn, and accept.   Playlist: Music by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Lou Harrison and Ezio Bosso Text on time by: Ludovica Guarneri Video of Lou Harrison: Fuad’s Cauliflower with Tahini, as handed down to me by my mother: When I was young in the 1970s, I had an artist-teacher friend from Jerusalem named Fuad Bahou, who started a restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee. His brother Shawqi came to help him, and my husband Philip and I designed it. It was our first restaurant for them, and we went on to design four more. We were also waiters for the first year or two one night a week. My favorite recipe, one I still make fifty years later was fried cauliflower with tahini. It is so good. Cut all the flowerettes from a fresh head of cauliflower leaving a fat stem on each piece. Rinse, then fry in hot oil until the flowerettes brown. Drain well on paper towels. Put in a bowl and pour over them a dressing made of tahini thinned with water with a few tablespoons of added olive oil, mixed until it has a thick, still pourable consistency. Add tablespoon of well-crushed garlic, which would be four generous cloves, and a third of a cup of lemon juice. Add three-quarters of a cup of chopped Italian parsley leaves, salt to taste, plenty of fresh black pepper, and stir. Either serve immediately while the cauliflower is still warm, or later at room temperature, but not chilled. This salad is delicious with flatbread served with other salads like tabouleh and rice-filled grape leaves on the side, which is how Fuad liked to start a meal. Fuad Nakhleh Bahou passed away April 23, 2020 at his home in Knoxville, TN. Born May 14, 1935 to Nakhleh and Mary Bahu (formerly Nassan) in Al Bireh, Palestine, he attended a Quaker school in Ramallah. He was the first of his family to come to the United States after receiving a scholarship to a college in California. He spent most of his student years in Los Angeles, where he attended UCLA and worked at the flagship restaurant of the Carnation Company. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in painting and art history, he joined the faculty of Knoxville College in 1968, establishing and heading the art department until 1975. In later years, he served as an instructor in the University of Tennessee and Georgia State University art departments. WHO’S PAYING FOR ALL THIS CAULIFLOWER? well – actually – since you are here, please consider donating a dollar or three. These are difficult times, and every little bit helps: …and in return, I will make a podcast every week for our quarantine’d time!

    11 min
4.9
out of 5
7 Ratings

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Listen to "The Bug" every Friday with host Guy Livingston. --- Do you like what you hear? subscribe, or rate us, or send us an email, or like our facebook page: Want more information and complete playlists? Go to the official website at you'll find links for more information, complete playlists and performer details, CD reference info, and even photos.

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