Click for full size image. Dracula poster for Skagit Valley College Theater Department production of Dracula by Steven Dietz.
Freddy Fender – Newsmaker of the Year 2006
Corpus Christ, TX – The Corpus Christi Caller Times has named Freddy Fender their Newsmaker of the Year. Denise Malan, one of the writers, called me a couple weeks ago for the article. Some of article focuses on the spiritual side of Freddy and includes some of my comments on that. You can read the Freddy Fender Caller Times article here.
As far as I know I’m the only former band member currently working on sacred music on a regular basis. It was a little ironic when the writer asked me if Freddy had any impact on my spiritual life, and I replied that I didn’t think so directly. Then she asked me what I was doing now, and I said music for theater and church. Made me stop and think for a bit about that. I stopped playing for Freddy Fender in March 2005.
Freddy Fender was very supportive of AA. He had the bond that only those in AA have for each other. The close of the article reads:
Askland, the keyboardist, remembers that while touring Fender kept in touch with friends from Alcoholics Anonymous. One Christmas a few years ago, Fender even brought the band to Corpus Christi to play for his AA group.
“We were right in the little meeting room,” Askland said. “That was his Christmas gift to them.”
Vaya Con Dios Freddy.
JS Bach Pipe Organ MP3 Music Samples
Reference page for JS Bach Pipe Organ midi samples. The samples are very mechanical and certainly not the way you’d want to play Bach on the pipe organ, but a good quick reference tool for organists.
Brigadoon MP3 Music Clips
I found Brigadoon sample MP3 music clips online at Yahoo shopping. Don’t know how long this link will work but thought I’d post it for easy reference. It is the 1991 studio cast of Brigadoon. These are not full clips, just samples to give you the feel of the songs. I don’t know if they are actually MP3 files, but play with Windows media player. I am calling them MP3 because that’s what I search for when looking for clips.