"I have to be there" - PWP

"In May of 1969, my friends and I, from Youngstown, Ohio, learned that Jimi Hendrix was to perform in a festival in NY. I asked my father if we could stay at my Aunt's house in Buffalo before driving to Woodstock. He agreed. However, watching the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite on Aug 14th, there was a NY State Trooper telling the audience that the rains had created a huge mud hole and that many roads were closed. That was all my father needed to hear. He said I could not go and I was watching the TV thinking "I have to be there". So we left anyway...."

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A Moment of Muddy Grace

Joe Cocker was the first officially scheduled act at the Woodstock Festival's final day, Sunday, August 17, 1969 . He went on stage at about 2.00 pm. Though Cocker was in the music business for quite a while he was hardly known. But after his triumphal success at Woodstock the man with the soulful voice became famous everywhere. Especially well received was the Beatles' cover song "With a Little Help from My Friends" which was already the second performance after Richie Havens' version on the first day. Cocker's backup band at that time was the superb Grease Band - a formation that lasted only two years. Shortly after Cocker's 1-hr gig a heavy thunderstorm washed over the festival and everything was brought to a stop for several hours.

(Photo courtesy: Don Hogan Charles)

Country Music Workshop @ the White House

Michelle Obama invited 120 middle and high school students from Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia to the White House for a country music and song writing workshop yesterday. Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss led the workshop and later performed for the students, the President, Mrs. Obama and their family and friends.

The performance and workshop was the second in a music series Mrs. Obama launched last month to encourage arts and arts education. Pretty well perfect.

(photo credit: HuffingtonPost.com)

Simple Salads for Summer: PWP

FRESH AND FRESHER Clockwise, from top left: tuna, egg, green beans; carrots, blueberries, sunflower seeds; croutons, tomatoes, mozzarella; walnuts, blue cheese, raspberries; couscous, oranges, honey; strawberries, tomatoes, Parmesan.

(photo credit: Francesco Tonelli)

Willie K was PWP @ Kauai's block party

Jimi Hendrix, Gabby Pahinui, Andres Segovia, Eddie Van Halen, Luciano Pavarotti, Janis Joplin, Bob Marley, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, and Willie Nelson - does this sound like the world's most eclectic get together? Nah, they're just a few of the influences that rumble through Willie K's heart-stopping performances. Whether he is playing acoustic solo guitar or ripping it up with his electric band, Willie knows how to capture an audience. His shows are energetic, polished, witty, recklessly technical, and always played straight from the heart.

Saturday night Willie performed for over two hours under the stars at the Sheraton Kauai ho'olaule'a, Poipu Kauai's annual block party. Pretty well perfect.

(Photo courtesy of the Locktefeld Agency)

PWP Road Trip

Kauai's multimedia sculptor Wayne Zebzda is exhibiting his Road Trip, artworks containing found objects from the Department of Transportation Hawaii, at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center today through August 22, 2009.



(photo courtesy of Wayne Zebzda)

The pwp art critic !

I am a mosaic artist currently working on a number of mosaic stepping stones. A neighborhood peacock turned up recently, hung out for a couple of days, and was quite entertaining. I realize this is an 'assumption', but it seemed to me that his discriminating eye took an admiring shine to one of my works (there are about 25 others in the yard right now) by his constancy at viewing it. Anyway, subject to interpretation which in turn could negate its pwp status, I am submitting this was the one that was pwp for him and, "everyone is an art critic on this island!".