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

[Tane' Tachyon]

Again, as of July the slow session has moved to The Buttery bakery
and cafe, at 702 Soquel Avenue close to downtown Santa Cruz. Check
out Nick's "Santa Cruz Session Relocates" blog entry, which in
addition to being a short introduction to what the slow session is
like, also features two pictures from the July session at The
Buttery:
http://quantumtantra.blogspot.com/2008/07/santa-cruz-session-relocates.html

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Fáilte (welcome) to this month's 3rd Sunday Session. 3rd Sunday of
the month, 2 - 4 p.m. on September 21, at The Buttery, in 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.
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 (which is a more
sheltered location in terms of sun and wind than the Windmill was,
but clothespins/clips to make tunebooks behave in breezes might still
be desired), and then last month we played in a room upstairs -- I'm
not sure what the story will be this month, especially as some
people were talking about maybe part of the group playing outside
and part inside, if a lot of people showed up and there was a desire
to split into slower and faster groups for the afternoon.

One way or another I will most likely not be there myself this month
  -- either we'll have houseguests following my younger son's birthday
the day before, or I'll be at Family Music Day giving out flyers as
described in this message
http://lists.sonic.net/pipermail/santa_cruz_celtic_slow_sessions/2008-September/000074.html
-- so if anyone doesn't have a tunebook and wants to get one before
the session, email me about it.
-- 
Tane' Tachyon = tachyon at tachyonlabs.com = http://www.tachyonlabs.com/