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A (walkaboutsverse.741.com) multicultural WORLD... |
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| Location: | Newcastle, England, UN - rather than EU, |
| Country: |  United Kingdom |
| Last Login: | Oct 11, 2008 (422 days back) |
About Me |
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| Welcome aboard! I'm David Franks, an English folk and Christian musician plus poet; and my web-nickname, WalkaboutsVerse, is an abbreviation of my paperback/e-scroll: "Walkabouts: Travels and Conclusions in Verse" - which, along with info. on a related C.D., "Chants from Walkabouts," you may read, for free, via the above-left link to my website. Also at this site, you'll find further links to other things about me (other info. on repertoire, other publications and performances, messages, etc.), as well as links back to this Space.------------------------------------------------------
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--------------------------------------But here is THE BLURB from WALKABOUTS, and some other abridgment - "ABOUT THE POET AND THE POETRY: David Franks was born and, after a long time away, lives in England. The four-part collection has travels and conclusions, in poems and songs, from his nomadic first-thirty-six years. The experience behind the verse includes shoestring-travel through about forty countries, A-grade junior sport, a B.A. in humanities, four technical certificates in manufacturing, plus several years on the shopfloor. The style is mostly direct; and the substance informative, humorous and didactic."--------------------------------------------------
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-----------------------------------------------------Armed with poems, unaccompanied Chants and E. trads, I began participating in folk and poetry clubs, festivals, and forums during 2004, before beginning to teach myself keyboards and recorders a year later. I've since placed in folk-festival competitions, done a few mini-gigs, recited on radio, and, as suggested above, some Walkaboutsverse has also been published in journals, etc.--------------------------------------------------------
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----------------------------In broad summary, then, I travelled and studied in humanities, before writing the verses and finding a way to sing or chant some of them; I learnt (formally and informally) desktop publishing, P.C. recording, as well as other I.T.; and, lastly, I taught myself to read and play music plus, eventually, to write it by mimicking my singing with the above instruments.------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------In the future, I intend to record &/or perform more E. trads, hymns, chants, plus poems, and perhaps post some of them here, along with a few new digital-photos/videos.--------------------------------------
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-------------------------------------------Other main interests are - as with many English folk - gardening and tennis (see Blogs, Pics, plus my website).---------------------------------------------------
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About this Space: the above Blogs offer samples of my work; as do the 6 tracks, which you may listen to whilst viewing the, below, silent video of my recorder-techinique and/or the slides (click once for captions). Furthermore, please do leave a Message/Comment, if you wish.-------------------------------------------------------
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(For non-Myspace-members, email - david1franks@yahoo.com)-------------------------------------
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My Interests |
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Music:Member Since: 3/13/2007Band Website: walkaboutsverse.741.com Band Members: Solo - vocals, English-flute/tenor-recorder (very occasionally, soprano and alto recorders, aslo), electronic (or other) keyboards, poetry readings. Influences: English traditional singers, poets, and hymnals; Mudcat's Digital Traditional Mirror; Nationalism: with eco-travel and fair-trade, via the U.N. - rather than yet more conquest and immigration. Sounds Like: Use some multi-voicing but, mostly, try to sing like I play, and play like I sing, just the tune (as English folkies have done for centuries), with tenor-recorder/English-flute and, less often, keyboards. Accordingly (if you'll pardon the pun!) whether fluating, reading, chanting, or singing, I nearly always take one breath per line, and one swallow per stanza - a phrasing that makes it easier to know where I'm up to. As for selection, in public/here, I usually alternate between Walkaboutsverse and English traditional-songs or hymns - the latter sung in a somewhat sweeter "Sunday best" voice. And, as for occasional self-accompaniment, I double the melody with the keyboards set on "Organ" for hymns and "Piano" for folk - or plead to play a pub's proper piano! So far, I've made one C.D., "Chants from Walkabouts," which derives from my poetry collection, "Walkabouts: Travels and Conclusions in Verse" - for both, please use the above link to my website. Record Label: Self-Published - see website Type of Label: None |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Folk / Christian / Other) |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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THE WEEKLY WALKABOUT, E.G. |
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| Poem 61 of 230: WORSLEY VILLAGE
Where earliest of coal-canals meet, And have their waters ochredBy the seepage of old-deep-mine earth; Where mock-Tudor is a t... Posted by WalkaboutsVerse on Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:14:00 PST |
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THE MONTHLY MESSAGE, E.G. |
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| (Changed first Saturdays)
ENDS
Within the broader music industry, and beyond, what some get for their hour's work, compared with others, is ridiculous and inhumane; hence, many relatively competent m... Posted by WalkaboutsVerse on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:26:00 PST |
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RECORD OF REPERTOIRE |
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| CHANTS FROM WALKABOUTS
(There is a C.D.)
01. WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN (now playing)
02. STATE TO STATE
03. LAND'S END TO JOHN O' GROATS
04. TO CARE AND SHARE
05. IMPRESSIONS OF L... Posted by WalkaboutsVerse on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:23:00 PST |
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GREEN/GODLY GARDENING |
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| (Further to the gardening verses in walkaboutsverse.741.com)
Green gardening is native gardening, and vegetables, plus other consumables, should be the only exotic-flora we plant - as doing so ... Posted by WalkaboutsVerse on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:19:00 PST |
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FORSAKEN FOOTBALL, & TENNIS TIPS TO TRY |
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| FORSAKEN FOOTBALL:
Internationals should be INTERNATIONALS; and, if the manager is not important, why choose a foreign manager?
Also, not that long ago, club-football, in England, was mostly-locals i... Posted by WalkaboutsVerse on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:40:00 PST |
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