The future in our past - songs of the 60s and 70s with Pabs and Friends Come gather round people/Wherever you roam And admit that the waters/Around you have grown And accept it that soon/Youll be drenched to the bone If your time to you/Is worth savin Then you better start swimmin/Or youll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin. FIFTY years ago in 1964, Bob Dylan wrote and sang “The Times They Are A Changin’,” a portent of change, perhaps figurative at the time but very real today, especially in recent days when in Iloilo City and elsewhere have gone underwater. In the same year, Paul Simon, revealing his “vision, softly creeping” warned, “The words of the prophets are written on the subways walls and tenement halls.” With powerful, poignant poems set to music, Dylan and Simon as well as a host of other intrepid folk singer-songwriters, foretold of change and the coming of a new age in the 1960s. They gave us not just songs but anthems, articulating our hopes and dreams through resonant rhythms and expansive narratives enriched by incredible imagery, texture, and nuance. They gave us songs that captured our various moods and moments, songs that set our hearts aglow, songs that fed the fire in our guts and in our loins. But, more importantly, songs that gave meaning and value to our lives. Songs that told us to dream, nay, to imagine (I wonder if you can)… a great love, a promising life, a wonderful world. Those were the days, indeed. On Thursday (October 16, 7:00 pm) at The Waterfront function room of the Regatta Residence Hotel, Pablito Araneta and Friends bring us the music of those days allowing us anew to “frolic in the autumn mist” and find “the future in our past.”
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 06:03:18 +0000
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