Goblin Hot Pot

“Goblin Hot Pot” drawn by Sandy Ross Bender with crayons and colored pencils on red paper a while ago.

Dancing around a fiery cauldron bubbling with delicious goblin cuisine ingredients is in stark contrast to coping with real time global dangers that encroach upon our conciousness. Living in art and music is starlight as darkness and its inky blackness thicken and roll out the last glimmers of the day.

“Goblin Hot Pot” composed, performed, and recorded by Sandy Ross Bender with guitar, banjo, glockenspiel, and concertina on November 19, 2021.

And then there is music for the next morning…

“Beautiful Banjo Morning” composed, performed, and recorded by Sandy Ross Bender on banjo, guitar, and concertina on November 20, 2021.

She Runs Through My Mind Like an Apparition

Listen to my recent musical composition entitled, ” She Runs Through My Mind Like an Apparition” for guitar, concertina, and mandolin. My boxwood engraving of a vine covered oak is evocative of the haunted James River floodplain in Virginia. The musical composition is reminiscent of stories sung in ballads that migrated from Europe and Africa to the southern regions of North America. The diverse musical instruments express the fleeting polyphonic thoughts that run through my mind, forever changing in time. I fondly acknowledge my son, Adam Bender for assisting me with graphic layout and production. Sandy Bender

She runs through my mind like an apparition

“She runs through my mind like an apparition” composed, played, and recorded with guitar, mandolin, and concertina by Sanford R. Bender 081521
“Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy” drawn with pen in sketchbook by Sanford R. Bender in July, 1992.

“Bees. diamonds, and other flying creatures” drawn with pen and colored pencil on cardboard cutout by Sanford R. Bender in September, 2002.
“Arizona buttes, pinnacles, and canyons” drawn with pen in sketchbook by Sanford R. Bender in April, 1995.