Gary Halsey at the Buffalo Rose (photo by Ken Arias from Gary’s Facebook page)
According to Dan Treanor, Gary Halsey died April 11th – quite suddenly. Gary Halsey – RIP – Gary was always good to me and Ellie. He loved the blues. These are some hard times.
Erik Boa: I knew he was battling cancer. Sorry he’s gone, glad he is no longer suffering. Rest well.
https://www.abplace-funeral-cremation.com/obituaries/Gary-Halsey/
Sonya Shannon with Gary Halsey
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Friends, please PRAY for our Spirit Brother, Gary Halsey aka Puck Lonewolf. Puck is holding on for now, focused on his transition to Valhalla. He is bravely fighting terminal cancer.
Puck has asked for prayers. In the spirit of everyone’s 4|4|4 ascension prayers yesterday, please help Puck’s spirit prepare to ultimately fly free.
Here are two of the poems he wrote, which he asked me to share, as well as some photos from when he took the Transformation Oracle workshop. His thesis was that the deck was full of archetypes.
“GRATITUDE”
Puck Lonewolf 3/11/20
I have been Blessed
With Divine Potential
At Birth All God’s Tool’s
To in my Life Journey
Fulfill my Purposes
No Original Sin
Council of Niciene
Dogma not Spirit
Faith Spiritual Path
Practice Meditate
Unfinished can wait
Cancer body take
I believe my Soul
Is Inner God within
Souls are Everlasting
I believe in Karma
… Reincarnation
Multiple better Lives
Have all the Time in
Many other Realms”
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“ONE RIVER”
Puck Lonewolf 3/12/20
“Many Wells, ONE RIVER”
Many Paths, ONE RIVER
All Religions, One Divine
All Faith’s, One Spirit
All Spiritual, One Buddha
One God Thread
One Rainbow Weave
One Ecological Web
One 3D Entanglement
Quantum Physics
Astronomical Physics
“Physics of the Soul”
Karma, Reincarnate
All Life Sacred
All inanimate Vibrate
Living Mother Earth
Universe, Cosmos
All Realms One
Humans are Free
In the Garden
Do Desire anything
Or do Nothing
No Rules Regulations
Then ONE RIVER
Free to do her Job
Sensual, Create
Be Spiritual
Can not Separate
All Ways Present
Always Connected
Always Available
We just Trust
Turn from Shadow
To Divine Opportunitty
Walk to our Surrender
One with DIVINE RIVER
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Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths…
The deaths that are listed from Wikipedia are those of musicians or who have ties to the music business from all over the world. These are our brothers and sisters. It is so sad to see the listing of just “famous people” who have died from COVID-19, not only musicians but other artists, sports figures, politicians, actors, jurists and so many more. Please stay home – keep YOUR names and those of your loved ones from being added to this list.
April 2020
15: Lee Konitz, 92, American jazz composer and alto saxophonist, COVID-19; Gary McSpadden, 77, American gospel singer (The Imperials, The Gaither Vocal Band), pastor and television host, pancreatic cancer; Knox Phillips (74), Sun Studios, Memphis.
14: Akin Euba, 84, Nigerian musician; Kasongo wa Kanema, 73, Congolese musician (Orchestra Super Mazembe); Kerstin Meyer, 92, Swedish mezzo-soprano.
13: Ryo Kawasaki, 73, Japanese jazz fusion guitarist and composer; Moraes Moreira, 72, Brazilian guitarist and singer (Novos Baianos), heart attack.
12: Louis van Dijk, 78, Dutch pianist, cancer.
11: Liu Dehai, 82, Chinese pipa* player.
10: Big George Brock, 87, American blues harmonicist and singer; Lucie Dolène, 88, Syrian- born French actress and singer; Shanti Hiranand, 87, Indian classical singer; Jymie Merritt, 93, American jazz bassist (The Jazz Messengers), liver cancer.
9: Andy González, 69, American jazz and Latin dance bassist; Bert van de Kamp, 73, Dutch music journalist; Dmitri Smirnov, 71, Russian-born British composer (Tiriel, The Lamentations of Thel), COVID-19; Richard Teitelbaum, 80, American electronic music composer, stroke.
8: Andrzej Adamiak, 60, Polish bass guitarist, singer and songwriter; Carl Dobkins Jr., 79, American singer (“My Heart Is an Open Book”); Peter Ecklund, 74, American jazz cornetist, complications from Parkinson’s disease; Glenn Fredly, 44, Indonesian singer, meningitis; Chynna Rogers, 25, American rapper, drug overdose; Larry Sherman, American house music publisher, founder of Trax Records, heart failure.
* The pipa (Chinese) is a four-stringed Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called the Chinese lute, the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12 to 26. Another Chinese four-string plucked lute is the liuqin, which looks like a smaller version of the pipa. The pear-shaped instrument may have existed in China as early as the Han dynasty, and although historically the term pipa was once used to refer to a variety of plucked chordophones, its usage since the Song dynasty refers exclusively to the pear-shaped instrument.
The pipa is one of the most popular Chinese instruments and has been played for almost two thousand years in China. Several related instruments in East and Southeast Asia are derived from the pipa; these include the Japanese biwa, the Vietnamese dàn ty bà, and the Korean bipa. The Korean instrument is the only one of the three that is no longer widely used; examples survive in museums, as attempts to revive the Korean instrument have been partially successful in recent years.