I have to apologize to any who have been following this podcast.  It appears that I vanished.  Actually, I just split my podcast and am hosted elsewhere, and I've been busily at it for a couple months now - I just forgot to mention it!

My writing podcast is at http://chas.willowrise.com/

My music podcast is at http://music.willowrise.com/

Thanks for listening!!!!

- Chas

Here's a little mix of piano and flutes.  Some of you may recognize the tune...

For a transcription of this podcast, go to http://chas.willowrise.com/?p=146

This episode is for the benefit of all the friends and family who think our little two year old Bunkin girl is quiet and never talks...

Just improvising with the 'nino again.  A little tune on the spot and a little tune from Star Trek.  Enjoy!

I was listening to The Third Day and realized it might sound good with a flute part, so I played around a bit, and here's what I came up with...

About halfway through I realized that the chords go crazy on this piece.  Whew!  You'll have to forgive me for the notes that are off.

One of the funnest things to do is get together with friends and have a Jam session.  I'm just lucky enough that my best friends are also family.  Ria and Jake are both incredible on the piano and flutes.

This was a unique jam session because all of the flutes played were made by Jake.  The solo piece Jake plays is also his original composition - and quite amazing.

I was having a little fun with the copy and paste function on my recording program.  Did you know Row Your Boat could be split into 8 parts?  It works - even with a tenor flute.  But finding that even a couple rounds of row your boat makes a pretty short podcast, I threw in a couple flute improvisations.  You'll have to excuse the little kid voice in the background - I guess my daughter wanted to be in the show.

This is the song Rain from Dayspring.  Maria Hathaway, my sister, wrote the words, and Shelly Hathaway, my other sister, is the singer.  I highly recommend that you take a look at their blogs and websites.  Both are incredibly talented individuals.  In addition to being an amazing singer, Shelly designs incredible websites.  In addition to being an incredible poet, Maria is an amazing artist. Shelly's blog: http://shelly.hathawaymix.org/weblog.htm

Shelly's web design site: http://creocan.com/ Maria's blog: http://maria.willowrise.com/ Maria's art Site: http://www.riafineart.com/

A drum duo - me and my two-year-old daughter.  I'll let you figure out who's the cuter drummer.