The Simon Effect…as in Paul Simon, master gift musician of America these last 50 years at least …

Soaking up one chapter of his amazing catalog … Graceland … and bringing South African ensemble Ladysmith Black Mabazo to the Big Stage in America … and well beyond …

I was just out of high school when I heard this music … my mom, ever the subtle (?) influence … she embraced this music, and it soaked me through …

I was already becoming of the global mindset, so this music fit the bill across many buckets … and I was hooked, some forty years later, brought to joy and tears,

And what comes to the front, behind the music and the performance and the love,

Africans performing with African – Americans, and others besides, and the magic, and the wonder I had, have, how did, does that feel …?

I hope,

GOOD.