All In Good Time - the book

In this book, Rhan Wilson has assembled a collection of thoughts and helpful exercises, gained from his nearly 50 years playing and studying music. Rhan stresses the importance of rhythm and the lost art of "listening", as he encourages the reader to "let go" of the many self inflicted barriers to learning and growing creativity. With a foreword by Joe Craven, this book is targeted towards the growing community of ukulele players, yet could easily be speaking to any musician on any instrument. "Rhan offers here a humble, honest and heart-felt offering of what it means to truly connect to music making. This book is a guide that is both conceptual and pragmatic. Rhan reminds us to not to hold, or worse own, negative opinions about our abilities from others or created within ourselves. Now as an educator, he has become a country doctor of music - making house calls, applying nature’s cycles and natural metaphors and with wonderful bedside manner. Rhan importantly reminds us to, occasionally if not frequently, in the inimitable words of Sir Ken Robinson, to liberate ourselves from the “tyranny of common sense” in the world of creativity. Echoing Robert Fulghum’s brilliant book, “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”, Rhan brings it all back to the basics. Read this book. Rhan really gets it and so can you. Find the time to take your time to modify your behavior. Remember my mantra, “Success is not the key happiness...happiness is the key to success”. Your table is waiting. It will come. You and the world will be better for it." Joe Craven Musician, Educator and Ambassador of Artful Living

Emmita

Stories From My Childhood

Born in rural Mexico in 1928, Emma Paula Pidgeon grew up amid poverty, neglect and abuse. And yet, through it all, she is able to look back at these early memories with insight and often humorous reflection.
    As told to and transcribed by her son Rhan Wilson, Emma invites us to examine the goings-on of her early childhood. Whether it be in her story of the elderly man stuck to the seat of an outhouse, or her tale of the shunned and isolated woman with an injured leg, she describes a neighborhood permeated with superstition, gossip, and misfortune.
    In her recollection of these incidents – Emma Paula Pidgeon leaves many of them somewhat unresolved in the hope that we, the readers, might too ponder their meaning.
    In Emmita, this mother and son team present to you these stories of youth, old age, and the perseverance it took to get there and survive.
 

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Apr30

Jazz The Dog

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Fruition Brewery, 918 E Lake Ave., Watsonville, CA 95076

Rhan Wilson, Rick Zeek, and Patti Maxine are "Jazz The Dog," and together they play an eclectic mix of Americana inspired originals, re-imagined cover tunes, and moments of divine improvisation. This is their first time playing this brewery, so if you've been waiting for the right time to listen to their music - this is it.

May6

The United Methodist Church of Santa Cruz is hosting a benefit concert for AFC - The Association of Faith Communities - in the First Annual Concert To End Homelessness. AFC are now in their 10th year as a local Santa Cruz nonprofit serving the unhoused, through their Faith Community Shelter program, SafeSpaces Parking program, and Shower Trailer program. Concert doors open at 6:30PM, show starts at 7:00PM and goes 'til 9:00PM, with one 20 minute intermission (with refreshments). Local musicians and singer-songwriters are donating their talents, featuring Jazz the Dog, Joe Chaplain, Madrigal & Strange, Colin Hannon, Nick Royal, Linc Russin + Special Guests! Tickets are $25 in advance, $35 at the door. Mask optional. All donations including ticket purchases are 100% tax-deductible.

Tickets are $25 in advance, $35 at the door.