Blue Sky Highway™ ~ Season Two [episode 004] "Valentines, Hearts & Epiphanies" ~ Update

Blue Highway ©Frank Webster

Friday, February 12, 2016

Metro Detroit, Michigan (Global) - The Creative Nexus is pleased to announce Season Two, [episode 004] of the Blue Sky Highway (BSH), entitled "Valentines, Hearts & Epiphanies," and will be aired Sunday, February 14th.

The BSH, continues to evolve its approach to internet radio into one that is more theme oriented, in depth, and contemplative in nature. The BSH strives for a quality listening experience.

Each episode will be without an excessive amount of talking or comments, so the listener will not be distracted from the music, songs, sound, or spoken word. The focus of the BSH continues to be placed upon the music, and the artist.

The fourth in the Season Two series, and a special edition, will air Sunday, February 14th, at 2:00 p.m. EDT on Blog Talk Radio (BTR), and 2:15 p.m., EDT, on SoundCloud.

► Stop by for the BTR 'pre-show' with Natasha and Roger at 2:00 p.m. EDT. 

"Valentines, Hearts & Epiphanies"

BTR Player
Click on link to go to player

BTR All Time Stats as of 2/12/2016
50,571 Total Listens
1,727 Live Listens
43,912 Profile Listens

Artists appearing on "Valentines. Hearts & Epiphanes":

♥ Owsey & Resotone

♥ Marek Iwaszkiewicz

♥ .jack

♥ Jessica Kristie 

 ♥ KOTXETXE

♥ Natasha Head aka TASHTOO

♥ Pino Rastovich

♥ Alexander Axion

♥ Susie Clevenger

♥ GMaks fea Deb D

♥ Chasing Tao

♥ Johnny Jewel & Chromatics

♥ Lo-Fye fea Niko Chan


"...a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; a stone a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.

Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh we have come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth.

Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

O waste of lost, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this weary, unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?

O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again."

Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel


In Memoriam:

Jonathan Matthews,
host, Southern Progressive Revival,
Indie Media Weekly Radio

Please note: Neither The Creative Nexus, Nexus Café, Blue Sky Highway, or any of its various participants receive any financial remuneration from any of its' episodes. It is simply about showcasing the brilliant artists who appear in our various shows.

Please take a moment to like, share, and repost this episode so these talented artists may get a broader range of listeners!

The Creative Nexus™ News

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Metro Detroit, Michigan (Global) - Spring has sprung and as the seasons have changed, so too has The Creative Nexus™. 

Lots of fresh, new ideas have blossomed from the originators of The Creative Nexus Café™ and Blue Sky Highway™.

• The New World Creative Union (NWCU)™ continues with a full complement of 250 members. Look for some new features to come along as we move further into 2015.

• The Nexus Café and core team: Matthew Hatt, Susie Clevenger, Natasha Head, and Roger Allen Baut return live on Sunday, May 24th, at 2:00 p.m. EST. Format for the popular show remains the same.

Creative Nexus Café™

• Music Intro
• Opening: Greetings and information
from co- hosts/producers Natasha, Susie,
Matthew, and Roger

• Shout Outs

• A View from the café’s window: Roger

• Something to Consider: Natasha

• Summation/convo

• Closing

...with a bit of spoken word, and music, sprinkled about here and there for good measure.

• The Blue Sky Highway(BSH) is in the process of updating and refining its design and program. The new format will have a 'theme' with no interruptions during the episode. 

As always the BSH is 'not' about the 'host' or 'producer,' but about the artists comprising the show.

• Look for more updates as the BSH approaches its Season 2, episode 1 launch date.

The Creative Nexus™ News

 Sunday, April 5, 2015 

Metro-Detroit, Michigan (Global) - The first part of this year has turned out to be very busy, with all sorts of activity, ideas and promotion going on.

Highlights:

• The New World Creative Union (NWCU) continues with a full complement of 250 members. As I am sure you are aware the premise of the NWCU is for artists to present their laudable creative work, share it with others, and to share each other's laudable endeavors, in return; look for some new features to come along as we move further into 2015.

We welcome back the co-founder of the NWCU, Natasha Head who is resuming her previous responsibilities with the NWCU, Nexus Cafe, The Creative Nexus, blog, et cetera.

We also welcome back (by popular demand) the Nexus Cafe and core team: Matthew Hatt, Susie Clevenger, and Natasha Head. The Nexus Cafe will return shortly after the Season 2 opener of the Blue Sky Highway (BSH), which is in Phase 2 (composing the show) at the moment. Speaking of the BSH, our good friend, Adrian Hallam continues on as  Music Consultant for the Blue Sky Highway.

Stay tuned for further news and adventures of  the The Creative Nexus.

The Creative Nexus™ NWCU and Silver Phoenix Award News

 Saturday, January 3, 2015 

Metro-Detroit, Michigan (Global) - It's 2015 y'all, and as the new year opens, it looks like it's going to be a very busy and auspicious one.

• The New World Creative Union (NWCU) continues with a full complement of over 250 members. As I am sure you are aware the premise of the NWCU is for artists to present their laudable creative work, and share it with others, and to also have others share their work too; look for some new features to come along as we move in to 2015.

• In 2015, The Creative Nexus™ continues its cooperative venture with the Indie Media Weekly (IMW), Indie Media Weekly Radio (IMWR) and Kim Williams with its Winds of Change series of triplets. The triplet is a creative article that includes an image, written component, and video/music selection to complement one another. It also carries the theme of the written portion throughout the article. Click on the above 'triplet' link to see the latest offering, "Winds of Change: Arcanum XVI (The Tower)," which has its origins in Arcanum XVI of the Tarot.

• Upcoming features for the Indie Media Weekly and Indie Media Weekly Radio are audio-bios of musicians and composers that The Creative Nexus™ has featured in several of its Blue Sky Highway™ (BSH™) radio shows, as well as new artists, and episodes of the BSH!

• Look for a return of The Creative Nexus Café...the café is calling!

Blue Highway ©Frank Webster

• The Creative Nexus is pleased to announce that Season One of the BSH™ was very well received, so much so, that a Season Two is now in Phase 1 of preparation. The overall STATS indicate that listeners are still tuning in to Season One on SoundCloud (SC) and Blog Talk Radio (BTR). The contemplative nature of the BSH seems to be calling listeners back for more drives along the highway. Season Two will also be featured on IMW and IMWR.

STATS for Season One are as follows:

BSH STATS

(SC & BTR Listens per episode as of 01.02.2015)
Links should take you to the designated episodes.

*"Calliope's Tears" [Ep010]: 561
(air date: 09.07.2014)

"A Kaleidoscope" [Ep009]: 969

(air date: 08.03.2014)

*"Through the Broken Doorway" [Ep008]: 1,354
(air date: 06.07.2014)

"Thoughts from Waking Dreams" [Ep007]: 1,214
(air date: 05.04.2014)

*"The Imperfect Nest" [Ep006]: 1065

(air date: 04.05/2014)

*"Air Castles" [Ep005]: 1,519
(air date: 03.02.2014)

"A Journey" [Ep004 fea Alan Watts]: 1,499

(air date: 01.12.2014)

"Fortes - Fortuna - Adiuvat" [Ep003 fea John Anstie]: 1,884
(air date 11.17.2013)

"Ride Life" [Ep002 fea Bono]: 2,129
(air date: 10.06.2013)

"A Dream within a Dream" [Ep001]: 1,938
(air date: 08.22.2013)

Total listens to all BSH episodes: 14,132

* Episode 005, 006, 008 and 010 were
co-produced and hosted by Michael Ash Sharbaugh

Special thanks are in order:

John Anstie

 My Poetry Library

Susie Clevenger

at the Butterfly Poet

Kim Williams
of the Indie Media Weekly

for their ongoing and support to art, artists, musicians, poets and the spoken word!

The Silver Phoenix Award for Merit 2015




The New World Creative Union (NWCU) Silver Phoenix Award was established in the Autumn of 2012, and is awarded for the following reasons:

1. To designate someone who has won in any of the NWCU 'special events,' such as the NWCU Autumn Kick-Off' event, et cetera.

2. To someone who has demonstrated a high level of 'liking,' 'sharing,' or promoting' of the NWCU and Creative Nexus, as well as sharing others artists, artisans, musicians, and writer's commendable creative endeavors.

3. Provided exceptional assistance, and/or service to the NWCU in General.

4. This award, for numbers 2 and 3, will be made at the discretion of an active founder, and administrator of the NWCU.

Silver Phoenix Award for Merit 2015

Kim Williams

Kim Williams, proprietor of the Indie Medial Weekly (IMW) and Indie Media Weekly Radio (IMWR) has been acquainted with The Creative Nexus, New World Creative Union, Blue Sky Highway, and Creative Nexus Café. She  has appeared on the Creative Nexus Café and Blue Sky Highway, and has always been willing to lend a hand, provide input, and share the good work of The Creative Nexus and artists associated with it.

She is also a veteran of the United States Air Force, serving in the first Gulf War, and began her 25 year career in healthcare in the military, as a paramedic. However, she left the financial rewards of the corporate healthcare world behind, as she witnessed it evolve into a soul sucking profit, before people model.

She says, "I sold the big house and all the toys, and bought a cabin on 5 acres, on the top of a mountain in Tennessee. It was there I began an awakening to the fact, that the 1% were robbing people blind, via our own government, which led me to start a "new fangled" thing called a blog, that developed over several years into what I have now at the IMW and IWMR."

Kim is also an advocate for human rights, freedom of speech and expression, and a clean planetary environment. She is one of the few people, I have met, that was practicing the main core of the NWCU principles, in sharing and promoting the laudable work of others.

It is with a great amount of pleasure, to me, for Kim Williams to be named a recipient of The Silver Phoenix Award for Merit, for 2015.

If you like, you can tune in to Kim on Fridays during the daytime on Kim's Juke Box, and Turn Up The Night with Kenny Pick, every Friday, alternating all 3 hours, and hour 3 where Kim features indie artists in her "Indie Media Moment' segment.

Blue Sky Highway™ [episode 009] "A Kaliedoscope of Music, Sound & Spoken Word" Update-3

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Metro-Detroit, Michigan (Global) - The Blue Sky Highway™ (BSH) is pleased to announce that Episode #009, A Kaliedoscope of Music, Sound, and Spoken Word, [or simply The Kaliedoscope] will 'air' on Sunday, July 20, 2014, at 11:45 AM, EDT, for the 'live' pre-show on BlogTalkRadio (BTR), and at 12 NN, EDT, (for the SoundCloud simulcast).

Blue Highway ©Frank Webster

BTR PLAYER
Click on the above link and go directly to Ep009

Join the BSH in this exciting adventure in music, sound, and spoken word, with some phenomenal and quality artists for you to enjoy. Look into "The Kaleidoscope" to see and hear:

Marek Iwaskiewski - Oyasuminasai, No. 1

Estelle Parisot - "Come Find Me -
(Junefall Opportunity)

Vast & Harker - Dance of Dawn

Beautiphonic - lights (3.0)

John Anstie - Abigail Baker's Prism -
in collaboration with Blue Room Green

Lady of Fire Poetry - Rain1

Patterns in Plastic - All I Need

Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

(Experimental Feelings Private Remix)

Luke Prater - Small Things

kicked - evolution of god
(another doodle from another night...unfinished)

Soundscapades - Looking into the Future

Bruised Skies - Distant

Susie-Clevenger - Practicality and Fairy Tales

COTXETXE Mashup -
The Cure vs Christina Perri vs Ferdj

jack - Rivers and roads2

Denominated Dreams - it's middle October

(original version)

Unknown Poetry - resurrection

(Moloch Remix)

Zumoko vs Rinzumo - A Moth to a Flame

Stuart McPherson - F.A.M.I.L.Y.
Fear And My Inability (to) Love You

Rek-Ignition - Vanished

everyone moves away - with the night

Carey Rose - Journey in Inches

COTXETXE Mashup - Radiohead vs Orange Crush

The Blue Sky Highway is:
Roger Allen Baut.
Michael Ash Sharbaugh,
and Adrian Hallam

Stay tuned for more 

information/updates on The Kaliedoscope

BSH STATS

(Listens per episode as of 07.16.2014)

"Through the Broken Doorway" [Ep008]: 772
(air date: 06.07.2014)

"Thoughts from Waking Dreams" [Ep007]: 972
(air date: 05.04.2014)

"The Imperfect Nest" [Ep006]: 934
(air date: 04.05/2014)

"Air Castles" [Ep005]: 1,273
(air date: 03.02.2014)

"A Journey" [Ep004]: 1,363
(air date: 01.12.2014)

[Ep003]: 1,806
(air date 11.17.2014)

[Ep002]: 1,982
(air date: 10.06.2013)

[Ep001]: 1,782
(air date: 08.22.2013)

Total listens to all BSH episodes: 10,884

Blue Sky Highway™ NEWS UPDATE 06.04.2014a

You are traveling the Blue Sky Highway

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Metro-Detroit, Michigan (Global) - On Saturday, June 7th 2014, at 11:00 AM on BlogTalkRadio, and at 12:00 PM on SoundCloud, The Creative Nexus™ launches episode #008 of the Blue Sky Highway™ entitled "Through the Broken Doorway" [fea Buson (translation by Robert Haas)] from episode Producer Michael Ash Sharbaugh. 

You're on the air with the Blue Sky Highway

Producers and Hosts Roger Allen Baut and Michael Ash Sharbaugh will be on hand to give the listeners updates, comments, insights, shout-outs, or answer any call-ins on the live pre-show for the BlogTalkRadio edition.

Special Guest Call-in:
Kim Williams

of the Indie Media Weekly

"Through the Broken Doorway" is this episode's theme for the compilation of tracks in the show. Michael states, "When I set out to compile this eighth episode of the Blue Sky Highway, 'Through the Broken Doorway,' I sought songs and instrumentals that were a bit psychedelic in nature -- a little on the 'trippy' side. Some are classic psychedelica. Some are mystifying. Just as beholding a dilapidated doorway might cause disorientation to one's vision, likewise, these sonic inclusions have the potentialities to bewilder, however much as they enthrall. Hence, 'Through the Broken Doorway.'" 

Through the Broken Doorway

BTR PLAYER

Click on this link to go directly to episode #008
with especially selected featured artists and tracks from:

Michael Ash Sharbaugh: "The Broken Doorway"

DarkStar83: "The Mary Celeste"

Mountain Songs, (fea Brian Reeves):
"Sorry, I'm No Good at That Sort of Thing"

Phonograph Johnson: "Pterodactylope" 

A Beautiful Place: "Hello, World"

HeadPhonesRecord: "Jim Naked-In the Wild"

Messages in Light: "The Journey 2: The Harvest"

Fermented Foam Fishes: "Wander Fog"

Mountain Ash Forest: "Northern Light"

MUSH (not British DJ Mush):
"I Have Everything, I'm Waiting"

Patrick Edward Fagan: "Light of Day"

Blue Room Green: "Falling in Slow Motion"

Irradiated Camera: "Baltic"

Masaya Ozaki: "Ice"

Mono Girl: "Sheep" [demo]

SPECIAL PREMIERE: The BSH will be presenting the latest offering from Michael Ash Sharbaugh and Gold & Water, Patience Dear, during the pre-show. Something you won't want to miss!

BSH STATS

(as of 06.04.2014)

"Thoughts from Waking Dreams" [Ep007]: 779
(air date: 05.04.2014)

"The Imperfect Nest" [Ep006]: 884
(air date: 04.05/2014)

"Air Castles" [Ep005]: 1,150
(air date: 03.02.2014)

"A Journey" [Ep004]: 1,334
(air date: 01.12.2014)

[Ep003]: 1,787
(air date 11.17.2014)

[Ep002]: 1,932
(air date: 10.06.2013)

[Ep001]: 1,765
(air date: 08.22.2013)

Total listens to all BSH episodes: 9,631

The BSH is designed to have an ambient, chill, relaxing, and soundscape flavour to it, so that our listeners may enter into a greater sense of awareness, contemplation, creativity, and relaxation.

We also encourage the sharing and promotion of artists, artisans, musicians, and writers who are featured in this episode, whether in the form of a RT (retweet), Share, and/or Google +1.

The Blue Sky Highway is:
Roger Allen Baut
Michael Ash Sharbaugh
and Adrian Hallam

Follow the BSH on Twitter at:
The Blue Sky Highway

Follow the BSH on Facebook at:
Blue Sky Highway

The BSH recommends:
Indie Media Weekly
The Bardo Group

"If we are going to survive and prosper as a species, it can only be through the mutual 

interaction, benefit, and promotion of the well-being of all people, and the planet!"