[Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions] Sunday Session Invitation - Slow - December 7 Deli-licious

[Lucas Cantin]

Hi Tane and everyone,

Its on.  The slow 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. 

Please tell all your friends who considered the other jams too fast.  The 3rd Sunday, medium paced jam and the 2nd Sunday medium fast jam will still be unchanged.  

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..  

I feel we should be democratic about this as well.  If anyone has any ideas please bump them back.

Take care,

Lucas


--- On Thu, 11/13/08, Tane' Tachyon <tachyon at tachyonlabs.com> wrote:
From: Tane' Tachyon <tachyon at tachyonlabs.com>
Subject: [Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions] 3rd Sunday Session Invitation - Slow - November 16 - at The Buttery
To: "Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions email list" <santa_cruz_celtic_slow_sessions at lists.sonic.net>
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 2:05 PM

Fáilte (welcome) to this month's 3rd Sunday Session. 3rd Sunday of
the month, 2 - 4 p.m. on November 16, 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

In July we 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 then since then 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/
though some people have expressed interest in playing on the patio
again. Basically, if you don't see anyone on the patio (which,
again, has been the case in recent months), 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.

*********************************************************************

Also, passing on some upcoming concert/workshop harp/bodhran info
from Community Music School:

> Community Music School of Santa Cruz presents
> 
> A Living History Concert: Chris Caswell, Harp Without Borders
> 
> A Magical Evening of Music & Song & a Little Too Much Talk
> with one of the masters of the modern Celtic harp.
> 
> "a true Celtic bard, weaving a fierce beauty through intense playing 
and delight.  His music is informed by the Middle East, Latin  America, the
French countryside – anywhere from which his deep  experience can move the
listener towards the realm of resonance  wherein our true hearts abide."
> 
> Saturday, Nov. 22 at 8 PM
> 
> St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church
> 
> 216 Oakland Ave., Capitola, on Depot Hill off Escalona
> 
> Hear the ethereal tones of the wire strung harp as well as the earthy 
tones of the pipes and drums in an intimate concert by this  California bard. 
Chris Caswell has been one of the mainstays of the  California Celtic music
scene since the 70's, and is considered one  of the foremost Celtic harp
makers, teachers and players.  He is  equally fluent on Scottish pipes and
bodhran, the Celtic frame drum,  and is a brilliant singer of sea shanties.  His
partnership with  singer/fiddler Danny Carnahan has produced some of our most
beloved  albums, such as the classic Borderlands.  Chris also worked with  Robin
Williamson and his band.
> 
> Join us for an intimate concert at the historic redwood church of St. 
John the Baptist in Capitola on Saturday, November 22 at 8 PM.   Tickets are $10
in advance by calling (831) 426-9155, or $15 at the  door.  For more information
call the Community Music School at  426-9155.  This concert is made possible by
a grant from the Capitola  Arts Commission.
> 
> An intermediate harp workshop on world music on folk harp will be  held on
the Westside from 3-5 PM preceding the concert.  Cost is  $20.  On Sunday the
23rd, Chris will be holding a bodhran (Irish  drum) workshop and beginning harp
workshop at Rhythm Fusion in  downtown Santa Cruz.  E-mail or call (831)
426-9155 for information  and to register.
> 
> As a harp maker, Chris is known for blending tradition and  innovation. 
Caswell Harps has made over 650 high-end harps since  1977. Also an engineer,
his Gargoyle Recordings currently boasts ten  ethnic titles.  He has produced
and composed for film and broadcast  video.  He has held harp retreats
throughout the country, and taught  at numerous music camps.  He has a popular
instructional bodhran video.
> Chris is co-founder of the Sebastopol Celtic Festival. He has been 
National Chairman of the Scottish Harp Society of America, and a  member of the
Judges Panel of the Western United States Pipe Band  Association.  He studied
pipes with Donald MacPherson at the College  of Piping in Glasgow and later with
Donald Shaw Ramsay.  He was Pipe  Major of the City of Petaluma Pipe Band for
many years.  He studied  harp with Allison Kinnaird in Edinburgh, and worked
with folklorist  Peter Kennedy in Devon, England.  He was a music composition
major at  San Francisco State and more recently studied composition with 
Allaudin Mathieu.

-- Tane' Tachyon = tachyon at tachyonlabs.com = http://www.tachyonlabs.com/

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