Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:32:09 -0500
From: Alexander Winfield <sheepwpunks-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Brother Blue


Hello Everyone,

   Just thought I'd post this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RznMUhhJGpU

   First time I heard of him, so I sought him out on Youtube. He was a
remarkable talent.

-Alexander

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Geoffrey Navias <geoff-AT-openhandtheater.org
> wrote:

> Thanks Stephen,
>
> I missed that.  A thoughtful time this morning  hearing of two
> acquaintances, Nckolai and Hugh's, deaths.
>
> Geoffrey
>
>
> On 11/27/09 7:02 PM, "Stephen Kaplin" <skactw-AT-tiac.net> wrote:
>
> > Hey puptsters,
> >
> > I saw the obituary in todays NY Times for Hugh Morgan HIll, aka
> > "Brother Blue"-- visionary busker, griot and master storyteller.
> >
> > While he wasn't a puppeteer, he certainly was a fellow traveller. I
> > recall seeing him perform at several Puppet Festivals. And he was also
> > a regular guest artist at Bread and Puppet's annual Domestic
> > Resurrection Circuses  during the 80's and 90's. He would set up in
> > the corner of the field, with his wife Ruth  sitting close by, and
> > singlehandedly galvanize a gigantic crowd with his electric
> > performances. He had an unforgettable vocal delivery (like Lord
> > Buckley, he mixed high poetry with street-slang) and a sheer electric
> > charisma when he performed.
> >
> > His approach to the storytelling was similar to another great sacred
> > fool, Ken Feit. Both saw their storytelling as an exercise in
> > spiritual reconstruction.
> > The Times article ends thus: "Mr. HIll regarded storytelling as a
> > sacred duty and a path to universal harmony. 'When you tell a story,
> > you tell it to all creation,' he once said. 'It's cosmic. It never
> > goes away.' "
> >
> > Amen! Amen! Amen!
> >
> > Hope he is happily telling tales on whatever plane of existence he has
> > now relocated to.
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >
> > Kuang-Yu Fong
> > Executive Director
> > Chinese Theatre Works
> > (718) 457-1627
> > chinesetheatreworks-AT-gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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