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Richard Hayes @rmhayes.bsky.social · 2h

Apple picking last weekend

Black and white photo of the apple orchard

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Charles Lloyd signing LPs at Big Ears 2025

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with Don Was and some guy named Bill at Big Ears 2025 in Knoxville, TN

with Wadada Leo Smith at Big Ears 2025 in Knoxville, TN.

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Fat, fed, and friendly feral cats on the campus of the university in China where my daughter is teaching. The students build little houses for their favorite cats and compete over who gets to feed them

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Local Milwaukee content trigger warning. WTH is going on downtown

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Another minute of Rupak Kulkarni on Sunday performing a composition in Raga Durga, accompanied by the Majumdars on tabla

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New Wadada album just dropped. Such a treat to be alive at the same time as this man music.apple.com/us/album/con...

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Big mail day for the jazz fans at my house

Mosaic editions of Louis Armstrong and Pharoah Sanders collections

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A few minutes of (I think) Raga Malkauns by shehnai maestro Lokesh Anand accompanied by table maestro Hindole Majumdar last night in Milwaukee

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A minute of the alap section of Raga Yaman by violinist Ritesh Tagde in Milwaukee last night.

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Call and response section of the raga where the soloist challenges the percussion to imitate his melodic lines. When it shows up, you know they are close to the end!

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Now into the section of the raga where the soloist starts playing compositions — with Rupak Kulkarni & Hindole and Ayushman Majumdar right now in Milwaukee

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A minute of bansuri maestro Rupak Kulkarni performing an alap section of a raga in Milwaukee right now

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with shehnai maestro Lokesh Anand right now in Milwaukee

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Sound check for bansuri maestro Rupak Kulkarni with Hindole and Ayushman Majumdar on tabla right now in Milwaukee Glad I’m only helping with the sound duties tonight

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Jackson-Heinemann Quartet at Charles Allis Museum in Milwaukee on August 22, 2026

my high quality and artist-authorized audio recording of Keefe Jackson, Jakob Heinemann, and Adam Shead together with Norwegian clarinetist Andreas Røysum at the Charles Allis Museum in Milwaukee in August 2026 is now available on the Milwaukee Taper blog: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/09/jack...

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Reedist Keefe Jackson , bassist Jakob Heinemann , and drummer Adam Shead are no strangers to this blog. This hardworking trio based in Chic...

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Spain at MKeUltra in Milwaukee on September 19, 2026

my high quality and artist-authorized audio recording of the Kingston, NY-based scream/emo/punk band Spain at MKeUltra in Milwaukee a week ago is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog, freely available for downloading in both mp3 and lossless FLAC file formats: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/09/spai...

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Spain is an emo/punk trio from Kingston, NY who came through Milwaukee last Saturday on a week-long, mostly-Midwest tour. A recent online ...

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Milwaukeeans who enjoy live music should consider looking into this concert tomorrow featuring Rupak Kulkarni, a very senior disciple of legendary bansuri maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia

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Once again I report that Chairman Mao is still adorable #Caturday

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Proof I am taller than 6 feet! [Narrator] In fact, he is 5’10.5”

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Picking apples in Mequon. WIsconsin

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Preparing for apple picking with an apple brat and a big ass pretzel

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Jen Powers and Matthew J Rolin at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee on September 23, 2026

my high quality and artist-authorized audio recording of the Powers/Rolin Duo at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee two days ago is now on the Milwaukee Taper blog -- freely available for downloading in both mp3 and lossless FLAC file format: www.milwaukeetaper.com/2026/09/jen-...

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Jen Powers and Matthew J Rolin were the only act over the last two Milwaukee Psych Fests whom I was not able to record. The reason was a ...

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Half a minute of Croz Boyce, featuring two members of Animal Collective (Avey Tare and Geologist) at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee a few nights ago

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A minute of sarodist Manik Khan (youngest son of the late Ali Akbar Khan) and tabla maestro Hindole Majumdar at the 2022 Ragamala festival in Chicago. Damn I was tired by this time (about 13 hours in)

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Our future is being determined by people who don’t know where they live

A minute or so of the Sleeves (Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham) at the Hideout in Chicago

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A minute of Model Earth right now at the Hideout in Chicago

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A minute of Eli Winter, Erez Dessel, and Tyler Wagner at the Hideout in Chicago right now

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Richard Hayes @rmhayes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

with Eli Winter and two guys I have never seen before at the Hideout in Chicago right now, opening for The Sleeves

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Chairman Mao manning the window seat #cats