Ubud Music

... Jazz Cafe. We paid the cover charge, WTF, a cover charge in Bali? We could have stayed in LA for that. We enjoyed the music and recouped the cost of the cover charge by pouring from the bottle of Stoli we brought with us. The night went late and we ...

... here. On our first night we took in a traditional Balinese dance show. Frankly it was pretty weird. The haunting music was accompanied by sinister looking monsters that jerked around using elegant hand gestures and wild leg movements. The show lasted ...

... across a colourful ceremony involving the entire community (PICS). We later discovered it was a cremation ceremony but the colours and music seemed like much more of a celebration - perhaps a fitting way to say goodbye to someone, especially as in the ...

... the food was excellent. It seemed to be open sporadically however this lead us to experience a percussion practice of tradional music. We heard what sounded like xilaphones and drums and followed the sound to this open air structure where there was a ...

... : ) 12. Bill and Di being here for two weeks 13. The Food, The People, The Island and it is an Island in Indonesia, not a country - I was corrected very directly on that by a non-Bali native from Java. 14. Running through the Rice Fields and back ...

... crossed legged and with shoes removed it certainly warrented extra incense and pot pourri at my table. They played great Balinese music that reminded me of my Grannie Mary and her little tin whistle (although without the funny false face, Family joke ...

... dying for business. How sad that California is so far away! Would love to come for weekends, or a week here, a week there. Indonesia is a mixed bag, especially since it is basically a series of islands. All of them somewhat different. Bali is 95% ...

... centre of Bali. Saw a gamelan dance show (traditional dancing based on stories from the Hindu scriptures), with a very trance-like music (repetitious phrases played on an orchestra of something like xylophones) - to my ears, and I'm sure to anyone ...

... - bulls, lions, and boxes, all carried on a bamboo structure by tens of people who walked these structures down to the cemetery with music and shouting and spinning them around in the street (you'll have to watch some of my YouTube Videos for this when I ...

... clothes. It's hard not to want everything. We got caught in a wedding parade with all the locals dressed traditionally, playing music and carrying offerings on their heads. We found out that just about everyday in Bali there's a festival for something. ...