[Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions] 3rd Sunday Session Invitation - Slow - October 18 - at The Buttery

[Tane' Tachyon]

Fáilte (welcome) to this month's 3rd Sunday Session. 3rd Sunday of
the month, 2 - 4 p.m. on October 18, 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 you can now download and print the 1006-tune
   "King Street Sessions Tunebook" for free at
   http://www.pacholo.com/mike/
   -- many thanks to Michael Long for putting the book together and
   now putting it online as well!

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, 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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Passing on an email message:

> On Tuesday, October 27 will be the start of new six-week session of 
> Irish Gaelic - Beginners 1 & 2. Classes take place Tuesday evenings 
> from 7pm to 9pm at New Brighton Middle School in Capitola. Cost is $95 
> for Capitola residents/$107 for non-residents. There is also a $5 
> materials fee. 62 years and older receive 10% discount. Open to 
> students aged 16 and older; younger with teacher's permission.
> This class is for absolute beginners or those with a little Irish upon 
> which they'd like to build.
> 
> Usually taught by Mary McLaughlin, while Mary is pursuing her master's 
> degree in Ireland, it will be taught by Audrey Nickel. Audrey has 
> studied the Irish language & Irish singing with Mary & also at Oideas 
> Gael language school in County Donegal and a moderator & translator at 
> www.irishgaelictranslator.com.
> 
> For more info, contact Audrey at (831) 335-4879 or 
> Audrey_Nickel at yahoo.com.
> 
> To register, visit www.capitolarecreation.com, call (831) 475-6115 or 
> (831) 475-5935 or stop by the Capitola Recreation office at the 
> Capitola Community Center, 4400 Jade St. in Capitola between 8:30am & 
> 4:30pm.

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