Burnt Earth News:

• The Burnt Earth Ensemble will be featured at "All Fired Up!" - a city-wide arts festival in New Rochelle, NY on October 25, 2008
• Barry Hall and the Burnt Earth Ensemble provided a talk on ceramic musical instruments and a concert for the Still Mountain Center in Washington, CT on Nov. 3, 2007.
• From Mud to Music was reviewed in Percussive Notes, the Journal of the Percussive Arts Society, August 2007.
• The May/June 2007 issue of Clay Times magazine has a review of "From Mud to Music" (see the article here) and also a review/report on the "Sound of Earth" show at the Brookfield Craft Center (read it here).
• The June 2007 issue of American Style Magazine has a spotlight article about Barry Hall and "From Mud to Music" See the article here.
• Photos and report from "The Sound of Earth" and curator's talk.
• Newspaper article about "From Mud to Music" and "The Sound of Earth" exhibit.
• The Sound of Earth: Ceramic Musical Instruments - curated by Barry Hall - an exhibition at the Brookfield Craft Center in Brookfield CT from February 4 - March 18, 2007. Press release here. Curator's talk on Feb. 4.
• Musical Mud - an exhibit of ceramic musical instruments inspired by Barry's new book, is being presented at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, CA from July 8- Sept 2, 2006.
• From Mud to Music: Making and Enjoying Ceramic Musical Instruments has been released!.
• The Burnt Earth Ensemble was featured on WYPR-FM radio on the program "The Signal" on 3/18/05.
• The new Burnt Earth Ensemble CD "Terra Cotta" was just released in Early March 2005.
• The Burnt Earth Ensemble and special guests will be performing a series of concerts in the Baltimore area March 17-20, 2005, in conjunction with NCECA and Tour de Clay.
• Check out the new Burnt Earth video: Udu: Clay Pot Drums and How to Play Them
• Barry Hall and Burnt Earth globular horns are featured on the CD "Later Years" released by Experimental Musical Instruments.
• A concert at Clarion Music featuring many unusual instruments.
• A unique concert and sound experience in San Francisco - "No Boundary: Deep Tones at Twilight" featuring Burnt Earth didjeridus played at twilight in a candle-lit stone tunnel with fabulous reverberation, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Future tunnel concerts are being planned in the San Francisco bay area - send us an email if you would like to be notified of these unique opportunities to hear unusual music in natural and unnatural outdoor settings.
• June 2000: Many Burnt Earth instruments are featured on the new CD by Alan Tower and Free Energy, "10,000 Thunderstorms". Find out more about Octave Alliance
  
• April 2000: Barry Hall and Daryl Baird are writing a new book about ceramic musical instruments, titled "From Mud to Music". Find out more at www.frommudtomusic.com
  
• Pottery Making Illustrated magazine's web site and Fall 1999 issue features Burnt Earth and other ceramic musical instrument sites.
  
• A new article on Globular Horns was published in the Summer 1999 issue of the Journal of Experimental Musical Instruments. You can read the article online here.
  
• Burnt Earth Ensemble was featured in the latest recording from Experimental Musical Instruments, Volume 14
• Burnt Earth Ensemble will be performing Saturday, March 27, 1999, 7:00 - 9:00 PM at Gaia Bookstore, 1400 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA for their grand re-opening event. For more information, please call Gaia at (510) 548-4172
• Burnt Earth Ensemble will be performing March 12, 1999 in San Francisco at the Clarion World Music concert series. Reservations & information: (415) 391-1317
• Burnt Earth Ensemble will be performing March 11, 1999 in San Francisco at theUCSF Library, Lange Reading Room, 530 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco. Admission free, validated parking $1, for more information please call (415) 476-2675.
• Geoff Brown is featured playing his Burnt Earth didjeridu at Yoga in the Park and Yoga on the Beach...check it out!
• Making a Ceramic Didjeridu is a new web page I created for Peter Spoecker's site.
• Didgeridoo USA is now available...a two-CD set featuring many US didjeridu players, including a cut by the Burnt Earth Ensemble. Click here to see the ceramic instruments used on our cut on this CD - "US Clay". Click here to buy the CD.
• Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones including the cut "Terra Zona" by the Burnt Earth Ensemble was featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and has been reviewed or featured by many major newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the LA Weekly, the New Yorker, and Billboard.
• A song by Barry and Beth was included in the CD release "Didjeridu Planet". "Inte Sörja Vi", a traditional Swedish folk tune, was performed on ceramic didjeridu, medieval vielle and bodhrán. Follow the link for more information.
• The Burnt Earth Ensemble performed at West Valley College in Saratoga, California on April 12, 1997. Thanks to the Saratoga Rotary, West Valley College and independent donors for sponsoring the event.
• The Burnt Earth Ensemble performed live on KUSP, Santa Cruz, California on January 22, 1997. The program was "Global Village", hosted by Ray Price.
• The Burnt Earth Ensemble performed at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California on January 22, 1997. Faculty and students were in attendance. The program included a discussion of acoustics as they relate to musical instrument design, demonstrations of many of the ceramic instruments, and a concert performed by the Burnt Earth Ensemble.
• Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones is a new book and CD set released by Ellipsis Arts. Barry Hall and the Burnt Earth Ensemble are featured in the book and on the accompanying CD. Click here to find out more!