Time to get your Dyngus on
Where’s Anne? Where’s Max?
Like that elusive Waldo, Max & Anne have made a game of today’s podcast. Anne’s not here (boo) so Max has to go it alone. Max decided to broadcast from the wrong station so none of the live audience could find the video cast today. Major fail. But we did rebroadcast on the proper channel and, of course, you can always watch the archived video or listen to the audio version on iTunes.
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This past weekend was Easter, how was yours? Max celebrated with a bike ride.
A beautiful spring day, perfect for a ride. But Max needs to get a "big boy bike."
WHAT IS DYNGUS DAY?
from DyngusDayBuffalo.com
Historically a Polish-American tradition, Dyngus Day celebrates the end of the often restrictive observance of lent and the joy of Easter. Over the decades, Dyngus Day has become a wonderful holiday to celebrate Polish-American culture, heritage and traditions.
This is a yearly debate among Dyngus Day revelers. The tradition holds true that on Easter Monday boys would sprinkle the girls with water and tap them with pussywillows. On Easter Tuesday, the women would return the favorite. At modern Dyngus Day parties it is common practice that both men and women trade water and pussywillow equally.
WHY PUSSY WILLOWS?
Pussy willows playa (sic) big part in Buffalo’s Dyngus Day celebrations as men and women flirt with playful “taps.” Branches of the plant are used as the pussy willow is one of the first “budding” plants of spring. But how did the pussy willow get its name? According to Polish legend, many springs ago, baby kittens fell into a raging river while chasing butterflies. The mother car (sic) sadly wept at the river’s edge, pleading for help for her drowning kittens. The willows heard her mournful cries and swept their long graceful branches into the water. The kittens grabbed the branches, held on tightly and were safely brought to shore. Every spring, from that day on, the willows sprouted fur-like buds where the tiny kittens once clung.
Guest hosting The Lancast
Max filled in for Daniel Klotz this weekend on our sister podcast “The Lancast.” He and David talked about the iPad release on Saturday and look back on a year of podcasting and the creative scene in Lancaster.
Lancaster 4 Haiti recap
- 5 hours
- 8 Bands, including Steven Courtney and Band of Friends , Josh Albright Band , Movies With Heroes, Ben Roth Band , The Mint , Slimfit, The Swimmers and The Slackwater News.
- Over 500 people attended
- Approximately $5,000 raised (not including online donations)
- Creatively Wired covered the whole thing live and got exclusive interviews with the bands. You can watch the Archive video on our Ustream.tv channel. We were only able to capture the first 3 hours to Ustream, but we did record the whole thing locally and will be releasing that footage soon.
- We can’t thank our sponsors enough, we never could have pulled this off without you! So many to thank, but topping the list is the Lancaster County Convention Center and Marriot Hotel, who donated the event space; Illusion Sound and Lighting, for a great job with lighting, sound and production; all of the many volunteers that helped set up, run the event and tear down; and WXPN our band sponsor. A complete list of sponsors and donors can be found on The Creative House of Lancaster facebook page.
Upcoming schedule
Launch Music Conference April 15-16, 2010. We’ll be broadcasting live on Friday and Saturday. Broadcast schedule to come soon.
PCA&D’s Senior Show & Celebration, May 1 from 3 – 6 p.m. Don’t miss our coverage from 2:30 – 3:30pm that day. And come on down to watch us live and join the fun.
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