The Week’s Highlight

I’ve just started another week on the road.  It’s my last time I’ll be away all week for a long time, as my schedule thins out over the next month or so.  I spend the first couple of days at the Association of Independent Maryland Schools (AIMS) Retreat acting as keynote speaker and conference journalist.  Then a couple of days in Baltimore for the MICCA conference.  I can’t remember what MICCA stands for, but it’s Maryland’s educational technology conference.  Once again, I follow Hall Davidson, but at least there are 24 hours between us.  After that, I fly to Charlotte for an International Schools event, and then…

http://davidwarlick.com/images/performance2.jpgI may have mentioned on several occasions that my home town, in western North Carolina, has a rich heritage of music.  There use to be a famous mountain music festival near there called the Pumpkin patch (or Pumpkin Corner or Pumpkin Square) Blue Grass festival — or something like that.  I may also have mentioned that Beach Music (or what came to be called Beach Music) was also born there, as a band formed in the early 60s called the Shakers (not to be confused with the Fantastic Shakers) formed and started playing dances and pavillions all over the souh east.   I remember when I was about ten, my Dad taking me to Blackwoods (the local teen hangout) where the Shakers were set up on the roof of the building and playing their songs, to throngs (well what constitutes a throng in that very small town).

I’m thinking about this, because I just got off of the first leg of my flight to Baltimore, having sat next to the guitar player for the southern rock band, Dakkota.  They use to be quite famous (I texted Brenda and she remembered them) and are still playing gigs.  Anyway, our conversation got me to thinking about what happened with the Shakers.  They started becoming famous, but there was a core of musicians who didn’t really want to be famous.  They liked the small town family life, and the band broke up and the core formed a new local band.  Meanwhile, the glory hounds would form the next BIG Beach Music band, and the local band would start to travel.  When the travel became too intense, the local band would disband again, and this continuing pattern spawned groups like The Embers, The Spontanes, The Catalinas, and eventually The Fantastic Shakers (not to be confused with the Original Shakers).

When I got old enough to drive, I’d picked up the guitar and then keyboards (can’t read music a lick), played in a couple of bands, and was invited to join the latest incarnation, Liberty Ark.  It was great fun, but the travel got to be too much (even for me as I was going to college in Dallas, NC.  We disbanded.  But periodically, a bunch of us get back together and play, and this weekend, I’ll drive home from Charlotte, and we’re going to try to record some of our music, before some of us get to be too old to pick up a guitar.  Should be fantastic fun, and I’m taking my video camera along.  May be something on YouTube about this.

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