[Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions] 3rd Sunday Session Invitation - Slow - December 21 - at The Buttery

[Tane' Tachyon]

Fáilte (welcome) to this month's 3rd Sunday Session. 3rd Sunday of
the month, 2 - 4 p.m. on December 21, at The Buttery bakery and cafe,
at 702 Soquel Avenue close to downtown Santa Cruz. This is a slow
session. Bain sult as! (enjoy)

Etiquette guidelines:
1) Session starts promptly so we don't lag into the whole day.
2) Please save the socializing for the break so we have lots of
   playing time.
3) 3:15 - 3:30 break: As The Buttery is a bakery and cafe, there are
   drinks and treats there for purchase. In fact, Janet (Buttery
   owner and concertina player) has been setting out amazing trays of
   cookies.
4) Going around in a circle, everyone has a turn to choose a tune and
   the tempo.
5) Try to maintain the tempo set by the person who chose the tune.
   Conversely, if you choose a tune and tempo and find that the tempo
   gets sped up too much while playing, don't be shy about asking that
   it be immediately played again sticking to the slower tempo -- it's
   good practice for everyone.
6) A single tune is played 3 times. In a set, each tune is played
   twice.
7) If needed, bring your music stand and tuneset book. Here's a
   website with tips on playing by ear:
   http://www.slowplayers.org/SCTLS/learn.html
8) Copies of the tuneset books generally used at slow session are
   sold for $15. And if anyone wants a copy of the big (over 1000
   tunes) "King Street Sessions" tunebook some people bring to the
   sessions, you can get one from Michael D. Long (the compiler and
   editor of both tunebooks) at mikelong at cruzio.com

Some months we've played out on The Buttery's patio -- you can see
two photos of this in Nick's blog entry
http://quantumtantra.blogspot.com/2008/07/santa-cruz-session-relocates.html
-- and other months we've been playing upstairs in an office, which
you can see in these two photos
http://flickr.com/photos/tachyon/2956709828/
http://flickr.com/photos/tachyon/2955870083/
Basically, if you don't see anyone on the patio (which I suspect will
be the case, as the weather report I just looked at predicted a high
of 57 -- stiff playing fingers), go up the stairs on the left outside
wall of the Buttery, and you'll find us in a room down the hall on
the left.

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Also, Mary McLaughlin's Cór Ainglí (Angelic Choir, featuring at least
one Slow Session regular) will be doing their annual "A Gaelic
Christmas" concert Friday, December 19, at 8pm at Holy Cross Church,
126 High St. in Santa Cruz. For details see
http://marymclaughlin.com/gaelicchoirs.html
-- 
Tane' Tachyon = tachyon at tachyonlabs.com = http://www.tachyonlabs.com/