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Birgit

ok, fine, it matters.

About Me


My Space or Yours? Myspace Layouts and more at myspaceoryours.net!
If you have a question, ask. **********************
Check out my new music site http://www.myspace.com/birgitburke to hear songs I've written and play. John Lyon plays fiddle, and my daughter Miriam sings harmony. Also, I put up one song I sing harmony on that is written and performed by Tuffy Tanner. Other people I've done either vocals or mandolin or both for, Dan Brain, Mumbletypeg, J Shogren, Centennial Jug Band, Slanty Gart (yes there is such a thing), Jennifer Blue, Beatha Gan Fir, Lost Button String Band, Living Proof and Slick's Blues Project, both with Tuffy.
Radio bio - “Birgit Burke has been playing music and writing songs for over 30 years. Songwriting is a combination of hard work and epiphany, following the forms of poetry and theory and then going off to make the noise you want to hear. Her first song at age 6 was about blue spruce.”
I seem to require a lot of pushing to get my ass in there to record.
had a real interesting conversation last night about cutting your hair when you are drunk on whiskey. I didn't know so many people do that regularly...

My Interests

music. gardening. drinking. cooking. hanging out having conversations. going to festivals. making stuff..

I'd like to meet:

the sandman. Wm. Kaluta. I actually met Holly Near. Casey Neill. The man in the flying machine. A couple of good friends...

Music:

Drag the River, Vasen, Clyde Curley and the Oxymorons, the Copper Family, Bert Jansch, The Soviettes, Uncle Earl, Hamsa Lila, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, The Reptile Palace Orchestra, James McMurty, The Reeltime Travelers, The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir, Julie Miller, Teenage Bottle Rockets, Bessie Smith, Mississippi Joe Caldicott, Any Old Time String Band, Yank Rachell, Siegal-Schwall, Volumen..

Movies:

sin city. snatch. hellboy. italian for beginners.

Television:

I don't watch tv

Books:

the ethical slut. the federalist papers reader. the riftwar saga by raymond feist. any graphic novel with niel gaiman or dave mckean or john bolton as a contributer.

Heroes:

promethea... this woman here http://people.tribe.net/mim

My Blog

music posting for an old friend, Greg Pasenko

For Immediate Release: JAZZMASTERS WORKSHOP TO START FUNDRAISING ROAD TOUR & COW BOP BLUJAZZ  CD RELEASE"Route 66  One More Time" Monday, May 12 - 8pm - $6MartyrsChicago, 3855 N Lincoln Ave Chicago, ...
Posted by Birgit on Wed, 07 May 2008 08:03:00 PST

good story

The Navajo teach their children that every morning when the sun comes up, it’s a brand new sun. It’s born each morning, it lives for the duration of one day, and in the evening it passes o...
Posted by Birgit on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:53:00 PST

new news

some new photos from the Taurus birthday party... mim firedancing some more. A rare shot of Tuffy Tanner, a guy I used to be in a band with. I'm supposed to put some harmonies on the cd he's working o...
Posted by Birgit on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:01:00 PST

visual DNA

Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™...
Posted by Birgit on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:53:00 PST

the song in my head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5upiUrUw0JkThis is the song in my head right now. I can't figure out how to upload the video and, god knows, I don't know who would want to share this space with me. It'...
Posted by Birgit on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:11:00 PST

old jug band story

So, Miriam went to a Beltane party in Oregon recently (well, May 1st, to be exact) and it was out in the woods, can't do the pagan running around in the woods naked thing in town really. They had a Ma...
Posted by Birgit on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:56:00 PST

still more photos on photobucket

I have a photobucket album at birgitfb and I do keep updating it. All you do is just click on the link and go there. See the cannibal cooker! See various bands I've been in! See me looking onery at F...
Posted by Birgit on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:55:00 PST

Burning Man

I'm still thinking. It was pretty damned intense. Transformative. I can't go back to being who I was before I went. That makes it really hard to be at work and live the life I've got right now. But I'...
Posted by Birgit on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:28:00 PST

changing things around

Okay so I dumped Dogboy this week and cut my hair off really short. I mean, really short. I dumped Dogboy because I spent 10 days in Portland being freaking thrilled about being single again, runing m...
Posted by Birgit on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:55:00 PST

recording

John Lyons and I did some recording last week at our friend J. Shogren's. He's got a nice set up, lots of equipment and a good room, and the recording came out really sweet. Of course, I was about hal...
Posted by Birgit on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:52:00 PST