Grange Hall Music

I think the best music is performed in halls late at night. Grange Halls and old barns are home to the acoustics of 'music in the moment'. I love the lonely sound of a piano or guitar tumbling across a summer praire from a far off dance.

In these places I can feel guitars echoed and etched into the wooden rafters. Their reverb never quite leaves the room, even in silence. The building is a collection of hovering lives, settled dust and settled dreams.



Cigar smoke rises into the summer air. The old sit next to the young, whisky speaks, emotions melt finally and drip slowly like wax on to the hardwood floor.

We relax...an hour before the dance ends, we close our eyes, forget tommorow and yesterday...and let the guitar take hold of our shoulders with it's glass of wet wine and it whispers.. 'Everything is gonna be alright'.

We melt in this moment and we live, at least for a little while, in the moment - for the moment. We feel life's pulse - knowing the whole time that tomorrow this feeling will have vanished ... no not tomorrow, in just a few minutes as we make our way home chatting with our friends or spouce. We plan our next day.

These structures do not only seep out soothing sounds but are also the birthplace of stories and lifelong memories. I hear these stories outside and inside of these halls. Teenagers in love, adults distraught, fist-fights while the music seeps out through the wooden walls. Memories get built in these moments, I'm sure of it. I'm certain that at this very moment there are men and women of all ages spread all around the planet with eyes closed, rocking gently or drifting off into their slumber as they remember that moment, some moment, their moment. "The first time I saw him". "I wonder what happened to them?" "I remember her shoes. Why the shoes?" "Ma and Pa dancing". "Climbing trees". Sleep.

I don't claim to be a musician. I'm not. Call it music to words or poetry or whatever you want. For me it is the echoes of other's lives...echoing still..like guitar chords.

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