[Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions] 3rd Sunday Session Invitation - Slow - September 20 - at The Buttery

[Tane' Tachyon]

Fáilte (welcome) to this month's 3rd Sunday Session. 3rd Sunday of
the month, 2 - 4 p.m. on September 20, 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:

> Irish poet, Alan Jude Moore to read from his works at Felix Kulpa 
> Gallery
> 
> On Friday September 18, 2009, Alan Jude Moore will fly in from 
> Dublin, Ireland to read from his poetry collections at the Felix 
> Kulpa Gallery in Santa Cruz at 7:30 pm.
> 
> The May 22nd reading is sponsored by Ping-Pong magazine and Culture 
> Ireland, and is part of A New Cadence Poetry Series curated by James 
> Maughn.  Felix Kulpa Gallery, starting at 7:30pm. Felix Kulpa is at 
> 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, behind Streetlight Records.
> 
> Alan Jude Moore was born in Dublin. His two collections of poetry, 
> Black State Cars (2004) and Lost Republics (2008), are published by 
> Salmon Poetry. A third collection, Strasbourg, will be published by 
> Salmon in 2010.
> 
> His work is also widely published in journals and magazines, 
> including Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, The Stinging Fly, Poetry 
> Salzburg Review, Iota (UK) and Kestrel (USA). His poetry has also 
> been published in Italian and Russian. He has been short-listed 
> twice for the Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writing for his 
> short stories. He holds a degree in political science from Trinity 
> College Dublin and his first publication was in the TCD literary 
> magazine Icarus. He has since been published across Europe and 
> North America and has given readings in Ireland, Italy, Russia and 
> the USA. In 2007 he was a featured poet at the Riflessidiversi 
> cultural festival in Umbria. American poet and critic Michael S. 
> Begnal discusses Moore's work in the context of contemporary Irish 
> literature in his essay The Ancients Have Returned Among Us: 
> Polaroid of 21st Century Irish Poetry (Avant-Post, Litteraria 
> Pragensia 2006, ed. Louis Armand). Alan's work has been included in 
> the anthologies Salmon: a Journey in Poetry (Salmon Poetry, 2007) 
> and Jacobs Ladder II (Six Gallery Press, 2003). He lives in Dublin.

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