Uploaded July 2009 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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Friendship is a great old song first published in Northampton, MA ca. 1787 if I have my dates right.
The castle is in Namest nad Oslavou, and my set was followed by a little celebration in which champagne was dumped on a copy of a new live CD released by the Czech label Indies Scope, recorded in Namest last year. It's not currently available in the USA, but it will be available at my shows and possibly at some point on my website.
The beginning of this video features bits of a miniature artistic rendering of a ship/theater launched on the Vltava river by a theater company from Prague. The last shot is the Baroque castle in Namest where both the 2008 and 2009 concerts took place as part of the Folkove Prazdniny festival.
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P.S. 10-10-2009
For what it's worth, the American Musical Miscellany version of Friendship is 1798, not 1787. I got it confused for a very convoluted reason and am inclined not to correct things too much in my writing in this context. Not that it's at all significant in this case, but I'm uncomfortable with how easy it is to fix things after the fact on the internet. Maybe it's because of the confusion of the historical trace- makes it look like people are responding to things that happened later etc. or maybe I'm just attached to ephemera that bears some relatively stable evidence of a moment rather than ephemera that's genuinely ephemeral.
timeriksenmusic.com
Friendship is a great old song first published in Northampton, MA ca. 1787 if I have my dates right.
The castle is in Namest nad Oslavou, and my set was followed by a little celebration in which champagne was dumped on a copy of a new live CD released by the Czech label Indies Scope, recorded in Namest last year. It's not currently available in the USA, but it will be available at my shows and possibly at some point on my website.
The beginning of this video features bits of a miniature artistic rendering of a ship/theater launched on the Vltava river by a theater company from Prague. The last shot is the Baroque castle in Namest where both the 2008 and 2009 concerts took place as part of the Folkove Prazdniny festival.
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P.S. 10-10-2009
For what it's worth, the American Musical Miscellany version of Friendship is 1798, not 1787. I got it confused for a very convoluted reason and am inclined not to correct things too much in my writing in this context. Not that it's at all significant in this case, but I'm uncomfortable with how easy it is to fix things after the fact on the internet. Maybe it's because of the confusion of the historical trace- makes it look like people are responding to things that happened later etc. or maybe I'm just attached to ephemera that bears some relatively stable evidence of a moment rather than ephemera that's genuinely ephemeral.
