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The 4th semi-annual Childbloom camp is an immersion into creative play and exploration of music, dance, visual art, and theatre for young people ages 7-11. Our week is a trip around the world, traveling through the traditional songs, rhythms, stories, and dance of the U.S., South America, India, Africa, and beyond.

A week-long exploration of music, movement, and story telling for young people ages 7-12
June 23-27th • 9am-2pm • University Congregational Church, Missoula, MT

Activities will include:
Storytelling, theatre, West African drumming, guitar, creative movement, singing, mask-making, and games to create a safe and creative environment.

There will be optional aftercare & recreation available in the afternoons until 5:30 p.m. (there will be an additional fee for this service). Please pack a brown bag lunch for your child. Campers are provided with a healthy mid-morning and afternoon snack.

Heidi Junkersfeld grew up training in tap dance, musical theatre, jazz and madrigal choir, and piano. She graduated with a degree in Physics and a minor in Dance. She has produced various multi-media shows that include artistic mediums such as dance, theatre, spoken word, music and visual art. In 2002 Heidi moved to Ecuador, and proceeded to travel, work, and study in 8 different countries in South America. During her travels Heidi studied Ashtanga Yoga, Capoiera, dance, traditional South American music, contact improvisation, theatre, and contemporary clown. She taught theatre and dance in several schools and Universities, as well as creating travelling multi-media performances all over South America. She now lives in Missoula, teaches yoga, works as the music and movement specialist at the Missoula Community School and the Missoula Community Resource Coordinator for the Missoula County Public Schools. She is part of the art collective Open Field Artists, and is one of the cocreators of the music duo Sueno Lunar.

Nathan Zavalney is a trained and licensed Childbloom guitar instructor. He has been director of the Childbloom Guitar Program of Missoula since September 2000, specializing in teaching guitar to young students. He has 15 years of experience with guitar in classical, jazz, and folk styles. He has performed as a guitarist, vocalist, and percussionist in solo and group settings, including the world music group Drum Brothers and the Mo-Trans modem dance company. During his musical studies at the University of MT. he focused on composition, jazz studies, and classical voice training. Nathan has taught music to students all over the northwest in educational assemblies and in-class instruction, including two years as the music instructor for the Missoula City International School. He has taught private lessons for the last 7 years in both percussion and classical guitar. Nathan also runs Burning the Midnight Oil Audio Productions, through which he has created a variety of music for film, television, dance, and commercial CD release.

“Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?” – Nigel

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When I first arrived in Missoula, I discovered KBGA, a hit-or-miss college station here in town. hit-or-miss because it’s a student run station that has a high turnover rate of DJs because they are all volunteer, and, well, that’s just the nature of the beast isn’t it.

I called the station one day, wanting to know how I could become a DJ. I jumped through all of the hoops, until I became Marcus Maximus, the 2AM to 6AM guy on Tuesday nights/ Wednesday mornings.

I left town for a while, was on the road for my job, and upon my return, I claimed an open slot on the radio and began playing only free, legally downloaded music. The paperwork for that was a huge PITA, and I soon burnt out on it. There was a short stint with Original Gimp doing a punk show called Girls on Skateboards before I finally gave up my permanent slot.

Now, when the mood strikes, I swing by the station to see if there are any open shifts. There were plenty this holiday break, and I landed one on New Years Day.

Here, submitted for your approval, is a recording of that show. Well, part of it, anyway. Download it, listen to it, listen some more, and let me know what you think in the comments.

Apologies in advance for: forgetting how to work the phones, the PSAs and local advertising.

Thanks, and happy listening.

—————-SETLIST and MP3 below———————————

MARCUS MAXIMUS ON KBGA MISOSULA – GRAB THE MP3 HERE. [link]

Opens with DAFT PUNK

1. Frankie Teardrop – Suicide
2. Radiohead Mashup
3. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie – Black Flag
4. Point Blank – Bruce Springsteen
5. Selections from Pornosonic: Unheard Music from 1970s Porn  (With excerpts from Sun Ra’s Discipline, Noam Chomsky and Paris Hilton/Bansky “That’s Hot” mashup)
6. Providence/Tazer Floyd mashup – Godspeed! You Black Emperor
7. Life Worth Living – Uncle Tupelo
8. Screw Top Wine – John Dendy, Live at Liquid Planet, Missoula, MT
9. Buildin’ Somethin’ Up – John Dendy, Live at Liquid Planet, Missoula, MT
10. Don’t Make Me a Target – Spoon
11. Singin’ the Blues – Tricky
12. Mirror in the Bathroom – The Beat
13. We Will Not Be Lovers – The Waterboys
14. Waiting Around to Die – Be Good Tanyas
15.  4 A.M. – Richard Buckner (cut off)

If you haven’t listened to The Dawn and Drew Show while shopping at the grocery store, do yourself a favor and load up your iPod the next time you head out to buy kibbles. Here in Missoula, they don’t hire Tards to work in grocery stores the way they do back in Ohio, (must be Akroness), so one must find new and innovative ways to entertain oneself when wondering the aisles.

I loaded up the Nano with the newest D+D show and headed over to Rosaeurs, a local grocery store, to grab some lip balm and a bite to eat for lunch. As I’m crossing the busy lunch hour South Avenue on foot, I burst out laughing when Dawn begins describing her dream in which people had to shove food into their assholes and vaginas in some sort of contest. Cars swerved to avoid the crazy man in a black hoodie (me), and I strolled on down the lane.

Approaching the store, I consciously think to myself, You can’t laugh in the store and am repeating this to myself as some sort of mantra. As I’m walking past the deli counter, Dawn is explaining, at Drew’s request, the types of foods that are being stuffed into various orifices. Thinly sliced ham is on the list. I am ready to explode with laughter as I walk past the fingerprint laden glass, which displays a sign for thinly sliced ham, in Comic Sans, advertising the weekly special. I kid you not.

The sound is not turned up all the way in my headphones, but it’s loud enough that I cannot hear anyone when they speak to me. I’m trying to decide which shitty sushi I want to buy when Dawn begins explaining that, in her dream, after everyone has jammed various foods up inside themselves, they must squirt it out onto a scale. Whoever has crammed the most edible stuff into them wins. As she’s explaining this, one of the lunch counter girls is asking me something. it was a little surreal, listening to Dawn go on and having this girl almost lip-syncing to it but not knowing it. She’s talking quite a bit, but I can’t hear her and she can’t see that I have headphones in my ears because I have my hood on. Couple that with the fact that I am wearing sunglasses because I had my eyes dilated at my optometrist’s earlier today, and the look of confusion on her face when I nodded and smiled was understandable.

I found it hilarious.

I nearly bit my tongue in half trying not to laugh, got some California rolls and headed for the checkout line.

There’s no punchline, no moral to the story, no witty ending. But all day I have found myself laughing a little to myself here in my cube.

Meanwhile, I’ll be showing up around these parts more often. I have to head over to FedEx in the morning to pick up my new Intel iMacG5 (20″ bitches!) and the cable company’s coming on Wednesday to hook up Internet. I’m like a kid on Christmas Eve, waiting for Santa to arrive. Expect that I have to drive to Santa’s house to pick up my presents.

music heard in the background is 16 Horsepower)

In which our hero discovers an old audio journal, including old answering machine messages.