[Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions] 3rd Sunday Session Invitation - Slow - June 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 June 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 email about David Brewer's free Celtic Music Night:

> Hello friends of Celtic Music Night!
> 
> As we get into summer, we have a very special treat!...
> Celtic Harpist and multi-instrumentalist Chris Caswell will be our 
> featured guest!
> Tuesday June 22nd, 7pm at St Andrew Church in Aptos
> Chris Caswell completely embodies the traditional ways of the Celtic 
> bards of times past... he is a wealth of traditional knowledge, and is 
> full of fabulous stories and tunes, so this music night will 
> definitely be one you want to make it out for.
> It has been a long time coming and Chris is coming from a considerable 
> distance to here for us, so please help spread the word to friends and 
> family to attend, and let's make sure we put on a fabulous night for 
> him at music night! Not a problem I'm sure, because I know the music 
> night audience never disappoints ;-) Thanks for your help though!!
> To get a sneak preview of Chris's music, cds, and even hand built 
> harps, please check out: http://www.caswellharps.com/

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