Derek Abt
Songs at the fire: classical guitar beside Ben Holt, Friday night into Saturday's dawn
A classical guitar and an open voice at the pre-dawn grate, singing the circle toward first light.
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What Derek carried
Derek's offering came after the stages went quiet. Friday night ran into Saturday's dawn, and at the big grate he sat on a low bench beside Ben Holt, a classical guitar across his knees, a capo on the neck, while Ben kept time on the djembe. The two of them sang together through a long song, the flames in front of them and a ring of blanket-wrapped listeners around them, and closed on a laughing freestyle about the crew at the fire. No stage and no announcement: it was music made for the people still awake, the kind that turns a fire into a home for an hour.
- classical guitar and song at the Friday pre-dawn fire, with Ben Holt on djembe
- live-looped soul-fusion (his own name for his music, on his public profile)
Songs at the fire
Friday night, into Fire Day's dawn
Before Fire Day's dawn, a guitar and a djembe at the grate, singing until the sky turned.
When the stages went quiet, the fire kept the music. A ring of listeners wrapped in blankets, flames in front, and one long song about being free that ended in a laughing freestyle for the crew at the fire.
Ben Holt on djembe and voice and Derek Abt on guitar
Shared as moments at the fire. Each song stays its writer's, and none is credited as anyone's own.
The set, song by song
Two songs, in the order they were played. Each one plays here as it premieres.The set · 7:40
1 of 2Track (unknown title): djembe and guitar at the grate
2 of 2So free (the long fire song)
What Derek is up to in the world
Derek Abt (pronounced "Apt") is a live-looping multi-instrumentalist who blends funk, folk, Latin rhythms and electronic dance energy into a one-man, high-vibe jam band, and the founder and guide of Dreams to Reality Music Academy, a year-long mentorship for musicians with unfinished work.
For you, Derek
Thank you for what you brought to the Love Dimension. This page is our gift back to you: the words you gave us, the films cut from your time on stage, and the frames caught while weaving through it all.
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