aufälligste What is the difference between the music scene in casting and Arkansas? While on most alternative Gießen stages of all pop-rock formations listen to metal bands or sometimes to see jazz and electro, and are, the music scene in Arkansas is mainly under the influence of a) country music and b) Hip Hop. The only club in Fort Smith, called 'Electric Cowboy', combines these styles, so go there range from dance to hip-hop beats.
That the music on offer here in the south but it is far richer than the playlists of the Electric Cowboy , I could do yesterday. Lucinda Williams told me earlier not really. The best part of the first ranks of American country music. For over 30 years on stage and, among the population so popular here, more than any other artist. Her father, Miller Williams - literary scholar and poet - has opened the show with one of his texts. He himself was able to his poem "Of History and Hope 'at the second inauguration of Bill Clinton in January 1997 (as explained to me the other concert guests) present.
Of History and Hope
We have memorized America,how it was born and who we have been and where. In ceremonies and silencewe say the words,telling the stories, singing the old songs.We like the places they take us. Mostly we do.The great and all the anonymous dead are there.We know the sound of all the sounds we brought.The rich taste of it is on our tongues.But where are we going to be, and why, and who?The disenfranchised dead want to know.We mean to be the people we meant to be,to keep on going where we meant to go.But how do we fashion the future? Who can say howexcept in the minds of those who will call it Now?The children. The children. And how does our garden grow?With waving hands -- oh, rarely in a row --and flowering faces. And brambles, that we can no longer allow.Who were many people coming togethercannot become one people falling apart.Who dreamed for every child an even chancecannot let luck alone turn doorknobs or not.Whose law was never so much of the hand as the headcannot let chaos make its way to the heart.Who have seen learning struggle from teacher to childcannot let ignorance spread itself like rot.We know what we have done and what we have said,and how we have grown, degree by slow degree,believing ourselves toward all we have tried to become --just and compassionate, equal, able, and free.All this in the hands of children, eyes already set on aland we never can visit - it is not there yet - butlooking through their eyes, we can see what our longgift to them may come to be.If we can truly remember, they will not forget.
The concert itself was pretty awesome (I want to take this word into German!). A mixture of country and singer songwriter, a woman - a guitar. All it takes. Here is a small, whom I just found on Youtube.
PS: THANKS TO PERRY FAMILY FOR THE INVITATION!
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