Shooting Star Bones

12/28/2024

My husband Randy and I joined the cast of an original radio play on KBCZ, and you can listen to the whole thing on New Year’s Eve. It will be streaming live on KBCZ.org starting at 7:00 pm, so even if you’re heading out, you can listen while you’re getting ready.
It was really fun to be a part of, and we will be listening to it for the first time, too.
If you miss the first time, it will be streaming one episode at a time in 2025, and you can find it in the Mixcloud archive, too.

02/12/2024

SignAge & ArtWorks is moving!
We’re still making signs, banners, posters, magnetic and vinyl stickers, outdoor and indoor graphics.
We will be within walking distance of Roaring Camp and Henry Cowell Park, right next to the Sheriff Station in Zayante Depot.
We will be reopening in March. Come visit and check out our new home.

07/19/2022

We just returned from a weekend at the Redwood Ramble at Camp Navarro where Mardeen performed her original composition, The Rhythm Bones History Rap at the Chick Wagon All-Girl R***e in front of the largest audience yet.

Performance during the Chickwagon All-Girl R***e at the 2022 Redwood Ramble of The Rhythm Bones History Rap by Mardeen Gordon, with Alia Fintz on sax, and Je...

11/08/2021

The Rhythm Bones History Rap
All about the bones and where they came from.
3000 years in 3 minutes.
I’m a b***r. Yes I am.

06/27/2021

And here is a follow up to the last article, in the voice of Dom Flemons, telling his story of how he got bone fever.

https://oldtime-central.com/the-bones-and-musical-repatriation/?fbclid=IwAR1awugj8zWDV4Q4Ymy5J8il2RayPm1ogwIlksL1fGlqYq_X03tjcFRmawk

Dom Flemons, quoted frequently in last week’s article by Timothy Jones on rhythm bones and old-time music, here tells his story of discovering bones, and how he has integrated them into his vibrant and extensive musicianship as a former member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops and as ...

06/26/2021

Do you wonder where the bones originated and how they arrived in the New World? Was it the Irish or the African immigrants who brought their rhythms to America? And why does it seem that they nearly disappeared from musical history? They are one of the oldest instruments that hardly anyone knows about, and even fewer know how to play
Dom Flemons posted this article in another thread, and I would like to share it with b***rs everywhere.

https://oldtime-central.com/gimme-that-old-time-rhythm/?fbclid=IwAR2TJJY9NonRuKxNclETk-jFTxzp5L6qTSPXpCBTowP69FSBj5qmySVZXKE

At first, as I was coming to love oldtime music as an adult, I found it curious that percussion and rhythm instruments seemed to play such a minor role. Having played the drums while growing up in California in the 1970s, banging away to rock music heavy on the back beat, I was struck by […]

04/28/2021

There will be 2️⃣3️⃣ finalists in the bones competition‼️😮
If you're going to watch...Ireland is 8 hours ahead of PDT!
(So the bones championship will begin Monday, May 3rd with 2 junior bones players at 11:30am PDT) Watch it HERE!

04/28/2021

There will be 2️⃣3️⃣ finalists in the bones competition‼️😮
If you're going to watch...Ireland is 8 hours ahead of PDT!