🖤Michael Hedges’ passing is announced on NPR (National Public Radio).
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Michael Hedges
DECEMBER 2, 1997
HEARD ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, NPR
LISTEN:· 3 minutes
Acoustic guitarist Michael Hedges, one of the performers who helped establish the Windham Hill music label, has died in a car crash. Hedges had a unique style of playing the guitar, in which he used both hands to play notes. He was 43 years old. We’ll hear some of his music in this remembrance of his career.
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Baby Toes – Michael’s elegy for a plant🌱 dying from gasoline fumes – in his Baltimore apartment window) w Michael Manring/bass
Ritual Dance – Michael’s “ode to joy” !!
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♡Michael Hedges (31 December 1953 ♡ 2 December 1997)
♡Musical prodigy, Peabody Conservatory (John Hopkins University), Carnegie Hall…
♡Visionary artist, Acoustic guitar genius, Brilliant performer, Musical angel, Composer…
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💽 Michael Hedges
♡Oracle (1996)wins ’97 GRAMMY Award – Best New Age Album (40th Grammy Awards)
♡Taproot (1990) NOMINATION – Best New Age Album (33rd Grammy Awards)
♡Aerial Boundaries (1984) NOMINATION – Best engineered recording – Non-classical
(27th Grammy Awards)
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🕊Michael Hedges 25th Remembrance Part 1 – The early years to ‘Taproot’. Enjoy !! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3aw-KAy2Azhp29QfXz4ZAdnb7JbbVenV
🕊Michael Hedges 25th Remembrance Part 2 – the Road to Return to Torched + 3 tribute songs. Enjoy !! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp9CAp2tXu_VuyDCeiOq0z52A79fb33vl&jct=3WQ4wOePnwRPz70QimUsJ7W6Z2sTuw
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🎬Oracle: The Life and Music of Michael Hedges
▶️ https://michaelhedges.com/documentary/ (to support the 2024 film) Thank you !!
▶️ https://youtu.be/9B9tL-lqNxM 💜David Crosby asks: Please support the making of the Micheal Hedges documentary💜 ♡
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▶️ https://www.npr.org/1997/12/03/1037155/michael-hedges-obit