Hi Ho Come to the Fair! Hale'iwa Arts Festival 2017

It's that time again for the Hale'iwa Arts Festival!

Where did the year go??

I don't know as i was painting the fabrics for my arts and then it was July, Again!!

 

(Hale'iwa War Memorial at the entrance  landmark)

July 15th and 16th  2017

Haleiwa Arts Festival  #20 

                 Held at Haleiwa Beach Park, Haleiwa 

           on the  North Shore, Oahu  

Saturday 10 to 6pm       Sunday 10 t0 5pm

 I'll be manning my booth # 98 near the front 

near INFO booth and community tent 

Music and  visual arts, ono foods, kids art tent,

Celtic Pipes and Drums early Saturday

Ian O'Sullivan Sunday  am

and so much more! 

Hope to see you there!

                                                               Last Years Booth Shot, 2016

 with the woman behind the work!

                                                         www.HaleiwaArtsFestival.org

for more info

Santo & Johnny, Sleepwalk, 1959

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rwfqsjimRM

Recently a person from my high school sent an email that talked about music,a poem actually.

 It got me a pondering music,again.

I love  new, old and ancient music from the Beatles to Bach and back again..the thing about music for me  is that  it is a time tunnel and when i hear some selections, i travel back in my memory to where i was, who was there, what i thought about dis and dat....and just for a moment my skin fits nicely once again.

"Sleep Walk" is one of those wonderful tunes that i love. it gives me chicken skin when i hear the first notes.  It must be the steel guitar that gets to me.And that haunting melody.  The steel guitar is so loved by Hawaiian musicians .
While i am in a musical mood,

Today was the birthday of jazz musician Louis Armstrong ( august 4,1901),  also known as "Satchmo."

Armstrong's most famous, and enduring, song is "What a Wonderful World" (1967), and claimed as his favorite. It is another wonderful song that almost seems to me  to be a prayer of gratefulness.

I love this song .I have  a post with that youtube if you check in my labels, down the right column with those wonderful quotes i so love, you can pull it up.

Louis Armstrong What a Wonderful World

  or you can just goggle it!

Happy Birthday Louie!

be well,

Happiness Runs...

  

"I paint on fabric while singing  a song

 and I can't go wrong.....

'cause if  you can't recall the words,

 make up some new ones 

as you hum along! "

Sonja   sept 17, 2013

 with music as theme for ATC this month in

heARTisttradngcards,

I  thought about a song I  have loved for a long time
 by Donovan

called Happiness Runs.

You may have heard it in commercials with breakfast cereal a while back

with kids in colorful inner tubes floating about in what appeared to be milk.

  Recently I heard it in a cat food commercial with a big red tabby like Morris.

It is one that gets in your head and plays there. again.

 Recently while conducting a painting class I looked up to see a boat on the water

 with red sails, Again.

I  am apt to say  "paint what you see " to myself as well as folks
 with paint and brushes and fabric before them.

and that is not the first year that boat has appeared  during class time.

we saw this a year or two back as well,
 those same deep reddish sails on a little boat
 upon the blue Pacific!

 the words from Donovan are here if you aren't familiar with them .

the short version goes;

"Happiness runs in a circular motion

Thought is like a little boat upon the sea

Everybody is a part of everything anyway

you can have everything if you let yourself be

Happiness runs  happiness runs. "
 If you have interest, 
Read more: Donovan - Happiness Runs Lyrics | MetroLyrics

if you are my age or older, you might also enjoy singing

" Red sails in the Sunset "!

 Bing Crosby (1935) was first to record it I think,
 and many artists  have covered this song, many !
So what is on your hit parade?
   

Happiness Runs!

here's Ruby enjoying boxes of fabric

What a wonderful world - LOUIS ARMSTRONG.

I love this song and this man.

What a wonderful face and what wonderful words.

What kind of picture does Satchmo paint for you?

 What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1967.
what a wonderful song.
be well, Sonja