HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA!

Costs are rising and times are tough.
Please consider a donation to keep this
place going.

Welcome to one of the most active flamenco sites on the Internet. Guests can read most posts but if you want to participate click here to register.

This site is dedicated to the memory of Paco de Lucía, Ron Mitchell, Guy Williams, Linda Elvira, Philip John Lee, Craig Eros, Ben Woods, David Serva and Tom Blackshear who went ahead of us.

We receive 12,200 visitors a month from 200 countries and 1.7 million page impressions a year. To advertise on this site please contact us.

Update cookies preferences

You are logged in as Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >>Discussions >>General >>

Page: [1]

Message

<< Newer Topic Older Topic >>

Jenny

Posts: 97
Joined: Mar. 13 2007
From: Oxford, UK

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA!

Happy birthday, sevillanas composer extraordinaria!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 29 2008 19:33:10

duende

Posts: 3053
Joined: Dec. 15 2003
From: Sweden

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Jenny)

OH! i did not know that, Happy birthday!

_____________________________

This is hard stuff!
Don't give up...
And don't make it a race.
Enjoy the ray of sunshine that comes with every new step in knowledge.

RON

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 29 2008 20:25:09

Ailsa

Posts: 2277
Joined: Apr. 17 2007
From: South East England

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Jenny)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Jenny

Happy birthday, sevillanas composer extraordinaria!

Thanks Jen! The full explanation for that is going to have to wait a couple of weeks!! All will be revealed.

In the meantime this is what every woman should do on her 52nd birthday! Put some feathers and sequins on and dance about in public.

I used to play a lot of Brazilian samba and went to Rio to learn and play in carnival. Samba is not only energising music, it's a great community activity, and I think very therapeutic too! I was playing today with a community band called Sambuka, and as you can get away with anything on your birthday decided to have a dance too.

Images are resized automatically to a maximum width of 800px

Attachment (1)

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 29 2008 20:41:36

Ailsa

Posts: 2277
Joined: Apr. 17 2007
From: South East England

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Ailsa)

And another....

Images are resized automatically to a maximum width of 800px

Attachment (1)

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 29 2008 20:42:48

Ailsa

Posts: 2277
Joined: Apr. 17 2007
From: South East England

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Ailsa)

And here's a little youtube vid - I know it looks like I'm a fraction of a beat out, but that's something to do with the low quality vid. I can dance in time honest! And if not, you can blame my age

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 29 2008 20:47:49

Ron.M

Posts: 7051
Joined: Jul. 7 2003
From: Scotland

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Ailsa)

quote:

And if not, you can blame my age

Ailsa...
I'm stll trying to work out if you're 27, 37, or 47!

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 29 2008 21:00:41

JBASHORUN

Posts: 1839
Joined: Jan. 23 2005

[Deleted]

Post has been moved to the Recycle Bin at Apr. 11 2011 16:53:56

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 29 2008 21:50:13

ChiyoDad

Posts: 151
Joined: Jun. 30 2007
From: San Francisco Bay Area

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Jenny)

Many happy returns, Ailsa!!

_____________________________

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 29 2008 21:53:32

HemeolaMan

Posts: 1514
Joined: Jul. 13 2007
From: Chicago

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Jenny)

HAPPY CELEBRATION OF THE ANNUAL FESTIVITY MARKING THE OCCAISION OF YOUR BIRTH!

_____________________________

[signature][/signature]

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 30 2008 7:49:52

Matic

Posts: 603
Joined: Jul. 3 2006
From: Slovenija

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Jenny)

Happy birthday, Ailsa!

_____________________________

vengo de los san migueles
si no me caso este año que yo
me caso el año que viene

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 30 2008 8:30:14

Rain

Posts: 475
Joined: Jul. 7 2005

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Matic)

Happy Birthday Ailsa.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 30 2008 12:40:03

Estevan

Posts: 1943
Joined: Dec. 20 2006
From: Torontolucía

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Jenny)

Happy Birthday Ailsa from me too!

Nice outfit - looks Dutch (rather than Flemish)

_____________________________

Me da igual. La música es música.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 30 2008 17:33:06

Arash

Posts: 4516
Joined: Aug. 9 2006
From: Iran (living in Germany)

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Jenny)

Happy Brithday Lady :)

_____________________________

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 30 2008 18:48:30

Georg

Posts: 405
Joined: Feb. 5 2006
From: Germany

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Jenny)

Happy Birthday Ailsa!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 30 2008 20:37:41

Ailsa

Posts: 2277
Joined: Apr. 17 2007
From: South East England

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Georg)

Thank you all guys - you are real sweeties!!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 30 2008 21:02:15

Stu

Posts: 2731
Joined: Jan. 30 2007
From: London (the South of it), England

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Ailsa)

Happy birthday Ailsa!!! Hope you had a good one.

Finished the book!! it was great, and pretty darn sad at points.

Stu

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 31 2008 21:49:31

henrym3483

Posts: 1584
Joined: Nov. 13 2005
From: Limerick,Ireland

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Stu)

la beatha beannacht duit (a good prosperous birthday in irish) excuse the missing fada's

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 31 2008 22:13:36

Estevan

Posts: 1943
Joined: Dec. 20 2006
From: Torontolucía

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Stu)

quote:

Finished the book!! it was great, and pretty darn sad at points.

Which book?

_____________________________

Me da igual. La música es música.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Apr. 1 2008 1:21:38

Stu

Posts: 2731
Joined: Jan. 30 2007
From: London (the South of it), England

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Estevan)

Hey estevan, book is "a way of life" by don e pohren.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Apr. 2 2008 9:49:17

Ailsa

Posts: 2277
Joined: Apr. 17 2007
From: South East England

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Stu)

Yeah it's a great read, and full of useful info. The one aspect I didn't like is that it sort of suggests that 'real flamenco' no longer exists, because our way of living has changed. I understand what he's saying, but with something as dynamic as flamenco there are bound to be changes, but that doesn't make what happens now any less 'real', just different.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Apr. 2 2008 10:17:33

Stu

Posts: 2731
Joined: Jan. 30 2007
From: London (the South of it), England

RE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILSA! (in reply to Ailsa)

Hey Ailsa I agree,
He did make several references to big city professional players and how at that level it becomes commercial and less "flamenco" as he sees it, which kind of made me feel a little disappointed if its true. but it also just made me want to do the pilgrimmage to Moron and locate this "real flamenco" thats slowly fading.

Anyways, it was a good read, thanks for the lend. I'll bring it on the 20th.

Stu

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Apr. 2 2008 15:57:15

Guest

[Deleted] (in reply to Jenny)