I've been working on our original website Oyate Ta Olowan.We've been working on adding digital downloads to the site, but it's still a challenge. Oyate is a public radio series that we did on traditional Native American music. We did 52 half hour shows and traveled over 100,000 miles collecting music from all over the Americas. It was a while ago, but people still seem to love it, so we keep offering the shows for sale. It's all a part of our little press Many Kites Press. Life is so amazing, and so full, but we keep on trucking. I hope things are going well for all of you, and that continue to create wonderful things. Later, Milt Lee
In Rapid City South Dakota, we are trying to get folks to spend more time downtown - a familiar issue for lots of small towns. The other night we went to event and ran into an old friend, Fred Thurston, an architect that loves to work on restoring old buildings. He is now restoring them and turning them green at that same time. It’s called LEED Certification.
I used to be a stage manager, and that meant that I was also a stage hand. I don’t do it much anymore, but it’s fun to keep you hand in. A week ago or so, I did the “in and the out” for Chicago when it came to Rapid City. It’s usually a 4 to 5 hr IN and about 2 hrs OUT. In between, they do a show or two. On this day they did 2 shows. This piece shows you in less than 4 minutes about 6 hrs of work, from an empty stage to when the truck pulled out to go to Cheyenne, Wyoming for the show the next day. Hope you like it - it was a lot of fun.
