Burt Nagra
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There was this one night.
I was in a little fishing village in the Basque country.
Pasay Donibane.
Rained every day I was there.
And then this one evening...
The sky was clear as the fishermen came to port with their catch.
They were all singing on their boats as the sun broke through the clouds.
Let me tell you something.
Handel's Messiah had nothing on what those boys were singing.
They were so in tune and so in sync, even hauling ropes and nets.
I'd never heard anything like it.
Is it recorded anywhere I could hear it?
You can hear it on my Songs of the Basque Country compilation.
Just one of the records that came out of that trip.
Check a record store, maybe the library at CUNY.
I had a feeling the distribution thing would get easier, but I didn't realize it'd be that easy.