Concerts with Michael and Olivia

This October we’re teaming up for concerts with Michael and Olivia, two of our favorite musical collaborators. We’ll feature original works and arrangements for this intimate quartet of voice, flute, and two guitars. The concert explores various classical, jazz, and tango combinations with a new take on the Folias Duo repertoire combined with songs from Olivia and Michael’s band August.

“We’ve combined with Olivia and Michael separately for some reworkings of our music, and this will be the first time with all four of us together,” Maret says, “we’re really excited about the combined sound of all our musical interests and abilities for these concerts!”

Tuesday, October 4 at 7:30 pm Concert at Aquinas College

Friday, October 14 at 7:00 pm Live Stream Concert

PROGRAM

Bergeron/Maret  Air Drop Queen (2022)
Andrew Bergeron  Silver Jack (2018/2022)
Olivia Vargas  Self Deprecating Love Song (2020)

Carmen Maret Octopus Fantasma (2016)
Andrew Bergeron  Dreaming to Live (2016)
Astor Piazzolla arr. Michael Pierce  Escualo (1979)
Andrew Bergeron  Procession of the Foxes (2021)
Andrew Bergeron Forgotten Peach Blossoms (2021)

Flor de Toloache Dicen (2016)
Andrew Bergeron  Delicate Omens (2016)
Bergeron/Vargas  Soon (2022)

LYRICS

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Air Drop Queen 
words by Carmen Maret

He calls me the Air Drop Queen 
But I feel more like a falcon
I see the river running dry
I see through all this armed propaganda 

Good people lack confidence
And the evil populate the stimuli 
This Queen without a spoon 
is no match for a 
crocodile 

This is all there is
But this isn’t all there is
This is all there is
But this isn’t all there is 
This is all there is

I ask myself what’s poverty
The loneliness of the whole world
So many prisons in things called freedom
Some people want to burn it all 

Let’s get together 
With the help of the mice
I won’t need a mushroom smoothie
To turn bread into roses 

Do we understand this boat?
Setting sail on crypto cash rivers
Bluetooth religion 
Stealing stars and stealing stars 
Stealing stars we crack the story 
We’ve always been told 

This is all there is
But this isn’t all there is
This is all there is
But this isn’t all there is 
This is all there is

She’s the queen she looks for something 
She’s the queen she looks for something 

This is all there is
But this isn’t all there is
This is stealing stars and stealing stars 
Stealing stars 
All there is

All

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Silver Jack 
words by Andrew Bergeron

Silver Jack, Colorado
Uncompahgre, Matterhorn, Wetterhorn
Silver Jack, Colorado

 

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Soon
words by Olivia Vargas

Everyday days grow shorter
As Light lingers only in reflections of the moon
The sunrise sleeps in and frost covers the soil
As the icy wind sings: soon 

The frozen Earth sits in anticipation
Still, barren, broken, and alone
And the planet readies herself in steady excitement
To repeat the oldest ritual she knows 

Everyday days grow longer
Idle roots begin to squirm, move, and stretch
Morning Mist breathes upon the ash and the oak
And whispers “awake” to the still Earth beneath it 

Light stepped in delicately
From the corners where she hid and slept
She gathered the Earth in her vast and balmy embrace
While the Earth sighed and wept 

But Light held on too long
Through the incalescence of June
And just like every year, she lowers her arms and steps away
And whispers to the Earth:
Soon 

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Self Deprecating Love Song 
words by Olivia Vargas

I’m not good with directions
I go the way I remember the most
I’m not the most attentive
 But I will listen when you feel alone

I am late almost always
I spend most days in my mind
But I’ll be there on your birthday
Even if I am falling behind

I will not claim to be something more
Something more than what I have to give
I will not ask you to give me the world
Just please don’t grow tired of me
Just say that you want me

I place blame when I’m angry
But that is few and far in between
I’m not good at quick decisions
But I’m passionate about what matters to me

I will not claim to be something more
Something more than what I have to give
I will not ask you to give me the world
Just please don’t grow tired of me
Just say that you want me

I’m not perfect, though I’ve tried to be
This could be worth it
So please don’t grow tired of me
Just say that you love me

I will not claim to be something more
Something more than what I have to give
I will not ask you to give me the world
Just please don’t grow tired of me
Just say that you want me

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Dicen (They Say)
words by Flor de Toloache

Dicen

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Emerson
words by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Delicate Omens
Delicate omens traced in air,
To the lone bard true witness bare;
Birds with auguries on their wings
Chanted undeceiving things,
Him to beckon, him to warn;
Well might then the poet scorn
To learn of scribe or courier
Hints writ in vaster character;
And on his mind, at dawn of day,
Soft shadows of the evening lay.
For the prevision is allied
Unto the thing so signified;
Or say, the foresight that awaits
Is the same Genius that creates.