Welcome to Arvid Smith's web site. For four decades Arvid has been working within and outside of the musical box. His eclectic approach succeeds in molding diverse elements into distinct and unified musical works. "Sure, how many times have I heard that one?" you may ask, but his output has won critical acclaim from some very distinct and diverse areas. How many performers out there could count both The Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts and CBGBs on their venue list?

As a founder member of Tammerlin (with Lee Hunter) he garnered praise from critics in the folk/americana arena (see the above link) and his contributions to the ambient genre and holistic yoga environs are winning new listeners daily. Whether performing on sitar, lap steel, acoustic fingerstyle 12 string (in the American Primitive style) or the searing leads of the electric blues guitar, Arvid leaves his mark.

His soundscapes have graced independent film and video projects and his solo performances incorporate those very sounds and ideas into entertaining and up to the minute club sets.

Today’s Wanderings

Posted in Uncategorized on July 28th, 2012 by arvidsmith
Do What Thou Wilt Shal Be The Whole Of The Law
It has been an intense and blistering summer thus far. Music and heat have been the themes. I have a penchant for three hour solo show with no break. No characteristic 45 min on 15 off usuality. Momentum is the rule and my body and psche pay for it in immense ways. My new great place to perform is Underbelly on East Bay Street here in Jacksonville. I am a Thursday regular as a soloist with occaisional other dates with groups such as this Tuesday July 31 with Canary in the Coalmine.
So we are past the mark of mid-summer and now the drive to fall is on. My own solstice that keeps me happily watchful.  Things in the future are looking positive and will open as their dates draw closer.
with love under will……….Peace

Song of the Earth...and The Rite of The Black Sun

Peace & Praises to you all.

my preferred stage set up at R.A.M. River Stage last Oct 1st

Love is the Law, Love under Will.

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Hello To All

Posted in Uncategorized on February 21st, 2012 by arvidsmith

The Pleasures of sweet incense. I have just recently found a source for Aparijita varietal incense. I first became aware of this rare treasure when I aquired my first sitar back in 2003. A box of it came with the instrument ( lovingly set up by Buckingham Music of Austin). A note said that it was the preferred scent of Panditji Ravi Shankar and ,his most famous disciple , our beloved Hari Georgeson.  I savored each stick and then discovered it was a discontinued item.  Rain City Music to the rescue ,however, as this wonderful source of quality instruments and accessories (to date: a sitar, dilruba, a swaramandala/sangum, and numerous narkas, mizrabs and untold coils of sitar wire) now keeps it in stock.

Indeed, the world is a new place each time I light up.

93 93/93

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Dates Added

Posted in Uncategorized on February 15th, 2012 by arvidsmith

I just added a bunch…please see the Performance Schedule Page…..G’Bless

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