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June Callwood

CBC's The Hour has more of June Callwood's last interview. The edited version is also worth watching again if only to remind us to orient today's schedule around kindness. More about Callwood here.

The truest of things.

You may have read our interview with hip hop artist K'naan in the latest issue of Beyond. His thoughts on doing "more deleting and less saving" when learning about other cultures are still with us as we work on other bits for upcoming magazines.

After traveling in Mali for a few days, K'naan spoke of making music with local artists.  In this video (Wrap Up) he speaks of being inspired:

This is the right vibe. Good spirit. Good people. A  community of serious musicians who live for the music, who live for sound you know. A lot of people I've met are not necessarily thinking of platinum records or anything like this. They just live to make some music. They live to make sound. They travel around the world and meet other musicians and have clever little things to show to each other. Very passionate about their thing. This is where you find the truest of things in a way. It's not connected to commerce. I'm not mad at making money but it can't be that you create something genuine if your beginning is thinking about the outcome of a financial kind of gain from that thing that you create. At least, it's not going to be art.