[Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions] 3rd Sunday Session Invitation - Slow - January 16 - at The Buttery

[Tane' Tachyon]

Fáilte (welcome) to this month's 3rd Sunday Session. 3rd Sunday of
the month, 2 - 4 p.m. on January 16, 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) Going around in a circle, everyone has a turn to choose a tune and
   the tempo.
2) 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.
3) A single tune is played 3 times. In a set, each tune is played
   twice.
4) 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
5) 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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After the January 2 slow session at the Buttery, my neighbor Mary and
I followed Jamie over to the weekly Poet and Patriot session, which
lasted until 6:30 -- some people might like to check it out after
this Sunday's slow session as well! The Poet and Patriot is at 320
Cedar St. in downtown Santa Cruz, and here's what I had written about
their session at the time:

It was really something! I just watched/listened because my fingers
were sore, but I counted 13 participants -- there were some really
excellent musicians and singers there, but everyone was very friendly
and welcoming to newcomers as well. A large number of the tunes
included impassioned singing as well as playing, and instruments
included guitars, bass guitar, fiddles, accordions, harmonicas,
cajon, bodhran, recorder, and flute. Mary was totally blissed out.

Here are some somewhat-murky pictures I took:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tachyon/archives/date-taken/2011/01/02/detail/
-- 
Tane' Tachyon = tachyon at tachyonlabs.com = http://www.tachyonlabs.com/