[Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions] 3rd Sunday Session Invitation - Slow - February 21 - at The Buttery
Tane' Tachyon
tachyon at tachyonlabs.com
Wed Feb 17 15:25:58 PST 2010
Fáilte (welcome) to this month's 3rd Sunday Session. 3rd Sunday of
the month, 2 - 4 p.m. on February 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 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.
--
Tane' Tachyon = tachyon at tachyonlabs.com = http://www.tachyonlabs.com/
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