#ravishankar — Public Fediverse posts
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“Nature alone is antique; and the oldest art, a mushroom”*…
Every August, Telluride hosts the Telluride Mushroom Festival—an event that brings fungal science, conservation, foraging, cultivation, psychedelic research, art, and community together in the Colorado mountains. Tamara MC reports…
… Nestled in the Colorado mountains, Telluride has long been a town of festivals: Bluegrass, Film, Mountainfilm, and Jazz. But for more than four decades, the Telluride Mushroom Festival has carved out its own niche as the largest gathering of its kind in North America.
The festival began as the Aspen Mushroom Conference before moving to Telluride in 1981. Its early circle included Dr. Emanuel “Manny” Salzman, a Denver radiologist and one of its founders, and his wife, Joanne Salzman, along with Gary Lincoff, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms; Dr. Andrew Weil, the integrative medicine pioneer; Paul Stamets, the mycologist and entrepreneur who founded Fungi Perfecti; and Goodtimes himself. Furci credits Goodtimes with helping bring the gathering from Aspen to Telluride. Today, the festival operates as a program of the Telluride Institute.
What began as a relatively intimate gathering focused on psychedelics and fungal science has grown considerably. More than 700 people attended in 2019; by 2025, [Guiliana] Furci [here] says, attendance had reached about 1,500. The growth accelerated in the pandemic years, when mushroom foraging and other outdoor pursuits drew new interest, part of what Furci calls “the mushroom hype.” Roughly 70 percent of recent attendees, she says, were experiencing the festival for the first time. Yet despite the influx of newcomers, the gathering retains what Furci describes as a “tribe or family feeling,” with regulars returning year after year and considering one another family…
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… Without fungi, everyday life would look radically different: no beer, wine, chocolate, coffee, or bread. No penicillin. Fungi decompose organic matter and return nutrients to ecosystems, while fungal partnerships with plants helped make life on land possible and remain essential to much of terrestrial plant life.
“They are a life form that is different than plants and animals,” Furci explains. “They are neither plant nor animal nor bacteria. They can live on land, in the air, in water, both oceans and fresh waters.”
The fungal kingdom is astonishingly diverse, encompassing yeasts, molds, and mushroom-forming fungi, including everything from morels and chanterelles to conks and puffballs. Fungi also form the structural basis of lichens. When Furci mentions that morels and chanterelles are both fungi, she quickly puts the distance between them in perspective: “They are as closely related as a whale and a flea.”
Both whales and fleas belong to the animal kingdom, she notes, yet occupy profoundly different branches of it. The same is true within the fungal kingdom. “There are more ways to be a fungus than there are ways to be an animal,” Furci says.
Some of those differences challenge familiar ideas about reproduction. Schizophyllum commune, a widespread wood-decaying fungus, has more than 23,000 mating types—a genetic system far removed from a simple male-female binary.
Are fungi gendered? “No,” Furci says flatly. But she cannot bring herself to call them “it,” either. “They’re definitely not things, so I can’t talk about them as things. And they definitely don’t have a he vibe.”
For Furci, the problem is partly one of language. Calling a living organism “it” can reduce it to an object, while “he” or “she” imposes a gender fungi do not have. That attention to words extends well beyond pronouns.
Furci is one of the driving forces behind the “3F proposal”: Fauna, Flora, and Funga. For generations, “flora and fauna” has served as shorthand for the living world while leaving fungi linguistically—and often institutionally—out of the picture. In 2018, Furci and mycologists Francisco Kuhar, Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, and Donald Pfister published a paper formally delimiting “funga” as the fungal equivalent of fauna and flora: the diversity of fungi within a particular place or region.
The idea has traveled far beyond the original paper. The Fauna Flora Funga Initiative now counts more than 2,500 signatories across 77 countries and documents adoption or use of mycologically inclusive language by conservation groups, universities, museums, and government agencies around the world. In 2021, the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Re:wild formally embraced the three-F framework, calling for fungi to be recognized alongside fauna and flora in conservation language…
Much more: “The Telluride Mushroom Festival: Where Fungal Love Runs Wild,” from @tamaramc.bsky.social
Still, we’d do well to remember (Sir) Terry Pratchett‘s wise reminder: “All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”
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As we celebrate shrooms, we might recall that it was on this date in 1965, on their second day off during their tour of North America, that The Beatles rented a house owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor in Beverly Hills. There, they were visited by Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds as well as English actress Eleanor Bron, who’d appeared in their film, Help. While young girls stood outside the gates, John Lennon and George Harrison had their second experience with LSD, and Ringo his first. (Paul did not partake.) It was here that McGuinn introduced Harrison to Indian music, particularly that of Ravi Shankar.
Actor Peter Fonda was also present, and helped comfort Harrison as he grew unsettled after taking LSD and thought he was dying. According to Fonda, Lennon overheard him saying to George, “I know what it’s like to be dead,” recalling a childhood incident in which his heart stopped beating several times due to blood loss after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach. Lennon then told Fonda “You’re making me feel like I’ve never been born,” words that were later included in the Revolver track “She Said She Said.”
The crowd at the gate (source) #Beatles #culture #fungi #fungus #GiulianaFurci #history #IndianMusic #LSD #mushrooms #PeterFonda #RaviShankar #revolver #RogerMcGuinn #SheSaidSheSaid #Telluride #TellurideMushroomFestival #TheByrds -
On the 15th of August 1969: Woodstock Festival opens in Bethel, New York, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm; performers include Richie Havens, Tim Hardin, #RaviShankar, Melanie, Arlo Guthrie, and Joan Baez.
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55 years ago today, #GeorgeHarrison's benefit concerts for Bangladesh (two shows) take place at Madison Square Garden, NYC; performers include #BobDylan, #RingoStarr, #RaviShankar, #EricClapton, #BillyPreston, and Leon Russell.
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"Eight Miles High" is a song by the American #rock band #theByrds, written by #GeneClark, #JimMcGuinn (later known as Roger McGuinn), and #DavidCrosby. It was first released as a #single on March 14, 1966. Musically influenced by #sitar player #RaviShankar and #jazz saxophonist #JohnColtrane, the song was influential in developing the musical styles of #psychedelia and #ragaRock. Accordingly.
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On 13 April 2002: Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include: #Sting, #EltonJohn, #JamesTaylor, #NinaSimone, #SmokeyRobinson, Lulu, Patti Labelle, #RaviShankar, Anoushka Shankar, #JeffBeck, #WynonnaJudd, and Rebecca Del Rio.
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On April 7th, 1920: #RaviShankar, Bengali Brahmin sitar master and Indian classical music composer (West Meets East; Concert for Bangladesh), born in Benares, British, India (d. 2012).
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This sunday Anoushka Shankar will play for the first time in Chile. My father (80 years old) saw Ravi Shankar in 1973 in a sold out Theater, where several people smoked weed to enjoy the show. My dad told me the venue was full of smoke so Ravi said to the crowd in the middle of the show: "stop smoking please or ill'get out of here" 🤣 tomorrow I'll go to this show with my wife and my dad, as a gift for him, and a tribute for his musical history.. after all, he is responsible for my love of music and my transformation into a professional musician. Here is a column about her and her first visit to Chile, among other issues! I'm quite excited! Go!
#music #anoushka #anoushkashankar #ravishankar #worldmusic #india #indianmusic #sitar #ethnic #livemusic #concerts #gig
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Ravi Shankar:
🎵 Vandanaa Trayeehttps://open.spotify.com/track/0ikbKcgUbI3hinyrWEfwo5
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1r22YroTqfHn6X0RvVg67f🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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G-Nitro’s Daily Music Wrap-Up – 12/18/25
I check out an album by Ravi Shankar
Favorite Videos include Akeboshi on The First Take, a classic episode of Show Music Tank, and more!
https://g-nitro.com/g-nitros-daily-music-wrap-up-12-18-25
#Music #1001albums #RaviShankar #Akeboshi #TheFirstTake #ShowMusicTank
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#OnThisDay in 2012, #RaviShankar, Bengali Brahmin sitar master and Indian classical music composer (West Meets East; Concert for Bangladesh), died at 92.
#RIP 🕊️🪦🎚️🕯️ -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #WordsAndMusic Ravi Shankar, Philip Glass & Ravi Shankar: 🎵 Passages #BBCRadio3 #RaviShankar #PhilipGlass
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"Eight Miles High" is a song by the American rock band #theByrds, #written by #GeneClark, #JimMcGuinn (later known as #RogerMcGuinn), and #DavidCrosby. It was first released as a #single on March 14, 1966. Musically influenced by #sitar player #RaviShankar and #jazz saxophonist #JohnColtrane, the song was influential in developing the musical styles of #psychedelia and #ragaRock. Accordingly.
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"Eight Miles High" is a song by the American rock band #theByrds, #written by #GeneClark, #JimMcGuinn (later known as #RogerMcGuinn), and #DavidCrosby. It was first released as a #single on March 14, 1966. Musically influenced by #sitar player #RaviShankar and #jazz saxophonist #JohnColtrane, the song was influential in developing the musical styles of #psychedelia and #ragaRock. Accordingly.
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Ravi Shankar - "Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival" (1967)
#NowPlaying #RaviShankar #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lL5QyJwJTvrCx6nla1FJ_ywcrBp3VulSQ&si=v_3fQ3Jsm_QtZKA8
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Legendary Lyricist Prem Dhawan's Death Anniversary: A Tribute to His Musical Legacy
#Acting #choreography #music #PremDhawan #Ravishankar
https://blazetrends.com/legendary-lyricist-prem-dhawans-death-anniversary-a-tribute-to-his-musical-legacy/?fsp_sid=27581 -
#30DaySongChallenge Day 27: A song in another language
#AsatoMa by #RaviShankar (with #GeorgeHarrison) from #Chants
ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय ।
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।
मृत्योर्माऽमृतं गमय ।
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥ -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AstralPlane
Ravi Shankar:
🎵 An Introduction to Indian Music
