Impulsion

Now being at a new hosting provider, I thought I would clean the slate of all my old posts, and start anew.

I have been reluctant to go to any concerts or venues for the last few years.   The crowds, the awkwardness, and a endless fear that a show will somehow taint my impression of the music (strange, eh?), have all kept me away.      Well, there is one musician that I know I could not miss, if he were to come into driving distance from Cincinnati.     That artist is Antoine Dufour.

Like many people, I have periods of ups and downs in life – some climbs and dips being more extreme than other ones.    Luckily, there have been only two extreme drops into depression in my adult life.   It was during the second of which I found Antoine Dufour’s music.     Despite all the music I listened to, his was the only set I could truly attach myself to.   It was if it set a life rhythm that helped me start to climb out of depression.

Antoine Dufour was the opening artist in the, “Guitar Masters Tour”, which thankfully came into town to the Southgate House in Newport, KY last Friday.    There was no stopping me, I had to go.   And, although I am a 37 year guy, I can honestly attest that I was fighting back the urge to tear up while I listened from the back of the grand ballroom.      If for no other reason than the firm belief that this music had saved my life.

It’s strange to think how much pull music has on people’s life.    For some, it is their life.   They may wake, live, and sleep embracing music.   For some others, it may be merely something that is tolerated as they deal with more, “important”, things in life.   For me, I couldn’t live without it.

Thank you, Antoine, for sharing your music with the world.

I will always find time to support musicians.   For without them, I truly believe we would all have to succumb to a much uglier, meaningless, and heartless world.

VH1 – Save the Music Foundation

(I don’t work for them, but I believe the future of music deserves all we can give.)