Teka

[ritaxis]

I swear Hungarian music has got to be up there with the best in the whole wide world. I just happened to find out about a concert last night at the Cayuga Vault, which is this tiny space that used to be part of a mortuary. It's the first time I've been there though it's been open for a while. The group is called Teka -- there's supposed to be a doodad over the e: they are so Hungarian it just makes me want to give them apricots. Or apricot brandy.

There are four of them and a couple of dancing masters. There's the fiddler, and the bagpipe player who also plays contra viol and something like an oud, and the double bass player who also plays hurdy gurdy and an amazing object that looks like a primitive cello -- I mean really primitive, unfinished wood -- which is worn slung over the shoulders and is hit with a stick! and of course the girl singer. Who also plays something like an oud -- something different.

Bay Area people: tonight, Sunday nigh, 7/10, they're at Ashkenaz in Berkeley at 7:30.

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[pnkrokhockeymom.livejournal.com]

That sounds incredibly interesting. I'm in a musical mood already today (music apprecation only--I'm actually not able to play a single solitary instrument).

I also have to say that a venue called the Cayuga Vault is brilliant in and of itself. The fact that the place used to be part of a mortuary almost sends me over the edge. I think it would be a great place to see, say, Dead Can Dance.

Now here is a completely off-topic question. I would love more than anything to have a list of links off to the side of my lj like you do. How do you do that? Is it hard? I'm sort of html stoopid, primarily just because I'm a newbie at it.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

What you have to do to get a list of links is to choose a style that allows it, and you figure that out, as far as I can tell, by trial and error. Go to your user info profile or whatever it's called. There's that navigation bar at the top (or bottom, I think, if you have it set up that way). Click "Manage" and one of your options is "customize." On the "customize" page, there's "step 1-- layout" with a drop-down menu of names for layout styles. Next to that is a preview link. So you page through the styles until you see one that sems to have a place for a links list. And then you go down the customization page to links list and start putting things in and see if they show up.

What I can't remember and can't find at the moment is how I found the place where they lket you pick which components show up on the left and in which order they will appear.

Re: Teka

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

thanks for the tip! i love hungarian music, but almost all i listen to is old, old, old.

Re: Teka

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I used to have the Muszikas Bela Bartok h8omage album but I wore it out writing Esperanza Highway. Now I have two of these Teka albums and I hope I don't wear them out, but one has been playing continuously for a few hours now.