<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Tane and everyone,<br><br>Its on. The <span style="text-decoration: underline;">slow</span> jam will happen on the first Sunday of every month, from 2-4 pm at Deli-licious in the East Cliff Village shopping center (Sunday summer farmers market locale). I have talked with Carla, the owner of Deli-licious and she is all for it. I told her we would patronize, of course. I believe the first one will then be on the Sunday of December 6th. <br><br>Please tell all your friends who considered the other jams too fast. The 3rd Sunday, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">medium</span> paced jam and the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span
style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></span></span></span></span>2nd Sunday <span style="text-decoration: underline;">medium fast</span> jam will still be unchanged. <br><br>Carla asked if we were going to advertise this jam? I thought I would leave that up to the group. I know I have seen a small community activity ad placed for our other jams in the Good Times (or was it the Metro?). It might be a neat idea to beef up attendance.. <br><br>I feel we should be democratic about this as well. If anyone has any ideas please bump them back.<br><br>Take care,<br><br>Lucas<br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 11/13/08, Tane' Tachyon <i><tachyon@tachyonlabs.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Tane' Tachyon <tachyon@tachyonlabs.com><br>Subject: [Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions] 3rd Sunday Session Invitation - Slow -
November 16 - at The Buttery<br>To: "Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions email list" <santa_cruz_celtic_slow_sessions@lists.sonic.net><br>Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 2:05 PM<br><br><pre>Fáilte (welcome) to this month's 3rd Sunday Session. 3rd Sunday of<br>the month, 2 - 4 p.m. on November 16, at The Buttery bakery and cafe,<br>at 702 Soquel Avenue close to downtown Santa Cruz. This is a slow<br>session. Bain sult as! (enjoy)<br><br>Etiquette guidelines:<br>1) Session starts promptly so we don't lag into the whole day.<br>2) Please save the socializing for the break so we have lots of<br> playing time.<br>3) 3:15 - 3:30 break: As The Buttery is a bakery and cafe, there are<br> drinks and treats there for purchase. In fact, Janet (Buttery<br> owner and concertina player) has been setting out amazing trays of<br> cookies.<br>4) Going around in a circle, everyone has a turn to choose a tune and<br> the tempo.<br>5) Try to maintain the tempo
set by the person who chose the tune.<br> Conversely, if you choose a tune and tempo and find that the tempo<br> gets sped up too much while playing, don't be shy about asking that<br> it be immediately played again sticking to the slower tempo -- it's<br> good practice for everyone.<br>6) A single tune is played 3 times. In a set, each tune is played<br> twice.<br>7) If needed, bring your music stand and tuneset book. Here's a<br> website with tips on playing by ear:<br> http://www.slowplayers.org/SCTLS/learn.html<br>8) Copies of the tuneset books generally used at slow session are<br> sold for $15. And if anyone wants a copy of the big (over 1000<br> tunes) "King Street Sessions" tunebook some people bring to the<br> sessions, you can get one from Michael D. Long (the compiler and<br> editor of both tunebooks) at mikelong@cruzio.com<br><br>In July we played out on The Buttery's patio -- you can see two<br>photos of this in Nick's blog
entry<br>http://quantumtantra.blogspot.com/2008/07/santa-cruz-session-relocates.html<br>-- and then since then we've been playing upstairs in an office,<br>which you can see in these two photos<br>http://flickr.com/photos/tachyon/2956709828/<br>http://flickr.com/photos/tachyon/2955870083/<br>though some people have expressed interest in playing on the patio<br>again. Basically, if you don't see anyone on the patio (which,<br>again, has been the case in recent months), go up the stairs on the<br>left outside wall of the Buttery, and you'll find us in a room down<br>the hall on the left.<br><br>*********************************************************************<br><br>Also, passing on some upcoming concert/workshop harp/bodhran info<br>from Community Music School:<br><br>> Community Music School of Santa Cruz presents<br>> <br>> A Living History Concert: Chris Caswell, Harp Without Borders<br>> <br>> A Magical Evening of Music & Song
& a Little Too Much Talk<br>> with one of the masters of the modern Celtic harp.<br>> <br>> "a true Celtic bard, weaving a fierce beauty through intense playing <br>and delight. His music is informed by the Middle East, Latin America, the<br>French countryside – anywhere from which his deep experience can move the<br>listener towards the realm of resonance wherein our true hearts abide."<br>> <br>> Saturday, Nov. 22 at 8 PM<br>> <br>> St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church<br>> <br>> 216 Oakland Ave., Capitola, on Depot Hill off Escalona<br>> <br>> Hear the ethereal tones of the wire strung harp as well as the earthy <br>tones of the pipes and drums in an intimate concert by this California bard. <br>Chris Caswell has been one of the mainstays of the California Celtic music<br>scene since the 70's, and is considered one of the foremost Celtic harp<br>makers, teachers and players. He is equally fluent on
Scottish pipes and<br>bodhran, the Celtic frame drum, and is a brilliant singer of sea shanties. His<br>partnership with singer/fiddler Danny Carnahan has produced some of our most<br>beloved albums, such as the classic Borderlands. Chris also worked with Robin<br>Williamson and his band.<br>> <br>> Join us for an intimate concert at the historic redwood church of St. <br>John the Baptist in Capitola on Saturday, November 22 at 8 PM. Tickets are $10<br>in advance by calling (831) 426-9155, or $15 at the door. For more information<br>call the Community Music School at 426-9155. This concert is made possible by<br>a grant from the Capitola Arts Commission.<br>> <br>> An intermediate harp workshop on world music on folk harp will be held on<br>the Westside from 3-5 PM preceding the concert. Cost is $20. On Sunday the<br>23rd, Chris will be holding a bodhran (Irish drum) workshop and beginning harp<br>workshop at Rhythm Fusion
in downtown Santa Cruz. E-mail or call (831)<br>426-9155 for information and to register.<br>> <br>> As a harp maker, Chris is known for blending tradition and innovation. <br>Caswell Harps has made over 650 high-end harps since 1977. Also an engineer,<br>his Gargoyle Recordings currently boasts ten ethnic titles. He has produced<br>and composed for film and broadcast video. He has held harp retreats<br>throughout the country, and taught at numerous music camps. He has a popular<br>instructional bodhran video.<br>> Chris is co-founder of the Sebastopol Celtic Festival. He has been <br>National Chairman of the Scottish Harp Society of America, and a member of the<br>Judges Panel of the Western United States Pipe Band Association. He studied<br>pipes with Donald MacPherson at the College of Piping in Glasgow and later with<br>Donald Shaw Ramsay. He was Pipe Major of the City of Petaluma Pipe Band for<br>many years. He studied
harp with Allison Kinnaird in Edinburgh, and worked<br>with folklorist Peter Kennedy in Devon, England. He was a music composition<br>major at San Francisco State and more recently studied composition with <br>Allaudin Mathieu.<br><br>-- Tane' Tachyon = tachyon@tachyonlabs.com = http://www.tachyonlabs.com/<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Santa_Cruz_Celtic_Slow_Sessions mailing list<br>http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/santa_cruz_celtic_slow_sessions<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>