I'm Steve Suffet ...

I'm Steve Suffet and I call myself an old fashioned folksinger. I was born in 1947, and I've been singing as far back as I can remember. My Mom was a jazz singer and she played the ukulele. She couldn't stand what she called "hillbilly music," so rebel that I was, when I was about five years old I used to insist on listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford sing Sixteen Tons. Around the same time I got a harmonica as a gift and I went around tooting it just to annoy people. Eventually, I learned to play a few simple tunes, like Oh, Susannah, and that drove everyone even crazier.
My Mom showed me a few chords on the ukulele, but I really never got into it. However, when I was in high school I spent $17 and bought a Harmony Stella guitar, and from then on I was completely hooked. I started hanging out in New York City's Washington Square Park and I tried to absorb everything I heard. In a year or two I got my courage up to start performing in public. I never stopped.
The stuff I do I call folk music, but if you would rather call it roots music, or traditional music, or old time music, or even hillbilly music, that's OK with me. Essentially I take any song I like, from whatever source, and sing it in a manner that suits me. Sometimes I change the tune a little, and sometimes I change the words. More and more I find that I'm making up my own songs, but they always sound traditional. Old fashioned folksinger suits me just fine.(more suffet...)

Is it Legal In Ein Hod?

In Wednesday's 5-2 decision, the high court said Wisconsin law makes sex acts with dead people illegal because they are unable to give consent.
The ruling reinstates the attempted sexual assault charges against twin brothers Nicholas and Alexander Grunke and Dustin Radke, all 22. The charges carry a punishment of up to 10 years in prison.
Justice Patience Roggensack, writing a majority opinion with three other justices, said state law bans sexual intercourse with anyone who does not give consent "whether a victim is dead or alive at the time."
"A reasonably well-informed person would understand the statute to prohibit sexual intercourse with a dead person," she wrote.
Jefren Olsen, an attorney who represented Radke, said the decision was flawed because the law was never intended to punish necrophilia.
"Obviously, the facts are rather notorious and not the easiest to deal with," he said. "I assume that had some impact."
Police say the three men, carrying shovels, a crowbar and a box of condoms, went to a cemetery in southwestern Wisconsin in 2006 to dig up the body of Laura Tennessen, 20, who had been killed the week before in a motorcycle crash.
Nicholas Grunke had seen an obituary photo of her and asked the others for help digging up her corpse so he could have sexual intercourse with it, prosecutors say.
Authorities say the men used shovels to reach her grave but were unable to pry open the vault. They fled when a car drove into the cemetery and were eventually arrested.
The men were charged with attempted third-degree sexual assault and misdemeanor attempted theft charges. The case has been on hold as prosecutors appealed the dismissal of the assault charges.
Suzanne Edwards, a lawyer representing Nicholas Grunke, said she was disappointed in the decision. She said the men will be arraigned on the charges and have a chance to plead not guilty.
The law in Wisconsin had been murky, and two dissenting justices insisted Wednesday that lawmakers did not mean to ban necrophilia but to allow assault charges when someone was raped and then killed(from AP)

From Druze to Dada

Road to Ein Hod.(כביש מדאלית אל-כרמל לעין הוד)
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Jasmin's Wall

The Ein Hod Gate: 1996 Golden Calf

Directed by Doron Shapiro.
Nobuya Yamaguchi has been working with metal for 20 years, creating sculptures and forged iron works and designs including Ein-Hod's sculpture-gate.
Four years ago, he started to be interested in the sounds of the metal while forging it and created several sculptures that produced various sounds when spectators hit them like gongs or xlylogong. Both were in the exhibition "Sculpture as Play, by the Art museums Forum)
Nobuya continued to search for new sounds within the metal, though hearing about Steel- Pan –a melodic percussion instrument originated in Trinidad, in the Caribbean islands.
During his last visit to Japan he happened to meet Master Michael Robinson –Steel - Pan maker and tuner from Trinidad that lives, performs and teaches in Japan.
Nobuya learned the art of pan –making and tuning and
started to make his own instruments in his workshop in Ein-Carmel.
"Tuning the instrument is also tuning oneself" he says.
Workshops and concerts of steel – Pan are held for groups and individuals and it is also possible to purchase Original hand – made steel Pan in the workshop.(read more...)

Jack Pajack and Kirkas Kiss

Jack Pajack joins Kirkas Kiss (Pocket Circus in hebrew)is the name of a theatre group from Ein Hod. Yael and Alain Koginsky, both members of UNIMA, founded the group, create the puppets props and costumes, produce and act in its shows.
The repertoire includes puupet shows for all ages as well as street events with giant puppets & actors..
Kirkas Kiss productions have toured in all National and International festivals all over Israel (The Israel Festival of Jerusalem 1998 & 1999 , the Acco Fringe Theatre Festival 1997 & 1998, the International Street Theatre Festival of Holon 1996, 1999 & 2000,), the Jerusalem International Puppet Festival (2001) & many more.
Kirkas Kiss productions include puppet theatre productions such as"The Cabaret Circus Show" & "The story of Yekutiel & Mitzi" and street theatre shows featuring giant puppets such as in" The Royal Colour Parade".(read more...)

Tali Cohen and Ein Hod

Angels in Ein Hod

ממערת האצבע אנו ממשיכים לעין הוד, בכניסה יוצרים קשר עם הד שמואלי אחד מ"מלאכי השביל" ושואלים במה הוא יכול לסייע בידינו. קבלנו רשימה של כעשרה חבר'ה, פזורים על פני הארץ כולה, אשר בהתנדבות מסייעים בידי מטיילי "שביל ישראל" בחזקת מצווה לשם מצווה וזכו לכינוי "מלאכי השביל".
הד, בחור טוב מראה כבן שלושים ופסל באומנותו לוקח אותנו לביתו, מכיר לנו את אשתו בת אל, אתיופית יפהפייה ומקסימה ובנם התינוק שניאור ומרעיפים עלינו מכל טוב, אוכל טעים, מקלחת ומקום לינה. מצטרפת אלינו נגה האנרגטית, תושבת המקום שהייתה ממדריכות הטיול להודו בו נטלתי חלק לפני כשנה וחצי ואנו מבלים ערב נחמד.

via E-mago