I have thoroughly enjoyed writing this D-mail every Thursday morning for the past decade. As most of you know, the D Note has new owners (kind of like marrying off your daughter!) so it is time to hang up my impresario hat and take a break. I will only be writing a few more D-mails and then I'm off to the next chapter in my life. Gonna be tough to follow the last chapter. My time at the D Note was amazing! I can't thank Matthew and Monica and the rest of my family and friends enough for helping bring this amazing dream to fruition.
I will miss meeting with all of you here weekly (and face to face at the D Note), but if you want to stay in touch I would love to connect with you on Facebook or Instagram (just hit me back for urls). And/or I would be happy to keep sending you poems via e-mail once a week too. Just hit reply and let me know!
As for this weekend, there's some great music on board. There's the sweet bluegrassy harmonies of Birds Of A Feather Friday night at 5:30p. Free! Then a really good dance band (seriously) called Moses Jones at 8pm. $10.
Saturday at 4pm we have the big band panache of Sentimental Sounds at 4pm. Free!
Then at 7pm Saturday we have Flamenco. From Rene Heredia's announcement for the show:
"We many new numbers, all produced and choreographed by René Heredia. The enchantment of Spain, the excitement of genuine gypsy flamenco dance, live authentic music played by a flamenco master, and multiple changes of lavish costumes all combine in one exquisite performance.
René
Heredia is one of today’s foremost flamenco artists—the artistic
director of both the Gypsy Chicks and the Flamenco Fantasy Dance
Theatre, a solo guitarist, and a leader in the Flamenco Fusion movement.
He has produced shows and performed around the world. René holds both
the Governor’s and the Mayor’s Awards for excellence in the Arts for
performance and education. René just recently received the “Living
Legend of Dance in Colorado” award from the Carson-Brierly Dance Library
and was nominated for the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado
Dance Alliance. He has won the Grand Prix de Disc from France.
René
has performed for Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, Princess
Nora of Jordan, Princess Grace Kelly and Prince Rainer of Monaco, and
Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia. He has worked in person and on television
with such noted artists as Art Linkletter, Steve Allan, Ed Sullivan,
Ann Southern, Peter Nero, Hal Linden, Eddie Fisher, George Gobel, and
Bill Cosby. Denver is privileged to have one of the leading flamenco
artists in the U.S. today as a resident, performer, producer,
choreographer, and teacher."
Extra Credit: I recently read the following Longfellow poem to my girls and we found it to be enchanting. Dungeon of my heart indeed.
The Children's Hour
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the Children's Hour.
I hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
From my study I see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,
And Edith with golden hair.
A whisper, and then a silence:
Yet I know by their merry eyes
They are plotting and planning together
To take me by surprise.
A sudden rush from the stairway,
A sudden raid from the hall!
By three doors left unguarded
They enter my castle wall!
They climb up into my turret
O'er the arms and back of my chair;
If I try to escape, they surround me;
They seem to be everywhere.
They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine,
Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen
In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!
Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustache as I am
Is not a match for you all!
I have you fast in my fortress,
And will not let you depart,
But put you down into the dungeon
In the round-tower of my heart.
And there will I keep you forever,
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And moulder in dust away!
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