Once again I am in awe and wonder at how effortlessly my son Liam is able to pull off harmonies, above and below the melody line. As I mentioned before, our voices are similar yet different enough to be different…
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Mar 9, 2025
BV's Blog - Recording, Part 2!
My son Liam came in again and did a bang-up job on “Dad's Old Records”. I describe this song as a funky, folky tribute to the music I listened to and was influenced by when I was a kid. Originally…
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Mar 2, 2025
BV's Blog - March 2, 2025: Recording!
Hi Everybody! It's been awhile since my last post, but here I am. As of September 2024, I have begun working on a new album. My hope is that it won't take five years to complete, like the last one…
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Feb 25, 2024
BV's Blog: Psycho Violins and Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul.
I'm currently re-reading a book which I originally purchased in 1994. It is “Care of the Soul” by Thomas Moore. In it, Moore talks about “cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”. The lessons learned from mythology and the use…
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Jan 28, 2023
BV's Blog: Saturday, January 28, 2023 - Der Zimmer Meister
As part of being an elementary (K-6) music teacher in Calgary, I showcase a different composer each month. So far it's been the Great Old Dead Guys: Vivaldi, Mozart and Beethoven. You know, the Biggies! In January, I decided to…
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Oct 10, 2022
BV's Blog, October 10, 2022: Artists Who Make Music, Musicians Who Make Art
I am one of those people who makes music and also makes art. All my life I have done both and in fact both have been inextricably linked for me. At the age of about 10 I began drawing album…
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Jan 8, 2022
BV's Blog, January 8, 2022 - A New Year: "As long as the sun is shining..."
Forgive me folks, it has been eight months since my last blog entry!
A lot has happened in the past eight months. Musically, I put out an album (Acres of Chrome) and have been performing at numerous venues in person…
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BV's Blog - June 30, 2021: Summer's Here
"Summer's here, I'm for that! Got my rubber sandals, got my straw hat! It's my favourite time of the year and I'm glad that it's here, yeah!"
Thus sang James Taylor in his song "Summer's Here". I've always liked that…
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BV's Blog - November 29, 2020: Who indeed, is Bob Calls?
In my last blog (or is it blob?) I told the story of how when I was a kid, I invented a rock star named Bob Calls. Don't ask me where I got the name from! According to the album…
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BV's Blog - November 16, 2020: Who's Bob Calls?
Who's Bob Calls?
Why, he's the imaginary rock star I told you about last blog. I made him up when I was about nine years old.
I had a thought the other day - I get them now and again…
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BV's Blog - October 31, 2020: Made Up Superstars and Imaginary Alter-egos!
Bob Calls and the Beat Boys. Anybody ever heard of them? No? Probably only two people in the world have heard of them: my cousin Ken Volke and I.
Bob Calls was an imaginary rock star I made up. I…
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