[Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions] 2nd Sunday Session Invite - Moderate Speed - May 8

[Tane' Tachyon]

Céad míle fáilte (100 thousand welcomes)!
You're invited to the 2nd Sunday of the month Session, 7pm - 9pm on
May 8, Britannia Arms Pub, 8017 Soquel Dr., Aptos. This is a slow/
moderate/intermediate-speed session.

Etiquette guidelines:
1) Session starts promptly.
2) Going around in a circle, everyone has a turn to choose a tune and
   the tempo. Tunes are generally played at moderate speed, but players
   are willing to slow down if needed.
3) A single tune is played 3 times. In a set, each tune is played twice.
4) Talking beyond short chats or helpful comments please carry on out
   of the circle or after the session.
5) This is a place of business. Please purchase something, if only a
   soda. Come early and have some of the pub's tasty food.
6) In general, sheet music is not used at sessions (other than the 1st
   and 3rd-Sunday Slow Sessions). This is the session you can use to
   wean yourself. Here's a website with tips on playing by ear:
   http://www.slowplayers.org/SCTLS/learn.html
   Of course, use your tuneset book if needed.

Directions from Santa Cruz: South on Hwy 1, take State Park exit,
turn left at light. At Soquel Dr., turn right. Go about a half mile.
Go under a bridge. Pub's immediately on the left. Parking is best
just past the pub on the left in general village parking.

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Passing on an email message from Shelley Phillips:

> Sponsor a music camper!
> 
> As many of you know, every year we hold a teen Celtic music camp up in  
> Boulder Creek, CA.  All info here:
> http://www.communitymusicschool.org/teen_camp/
> This will be our 11th year, and it is totally fun and awesome.  We  
> have lots of testimonials!
> 
> Many students want to go, and we try to make it as inexpensive as  
> possible.  We are the cheapest music camp around, but still it's hard  
> for lots of folks who are just scraping by.  The camp we rent has in  
> the past charged us $125 per student, but just upped it to $165 per  
> student for the room and board.  We are happy to give many  
> scholarships in-kind and for trade, and our teachers are patient with  
> large classes, but we need real money for the boarding expense.
> 
> So we have asked that, if you feel so moved, you might go to the  
> website above and click our sponsor a camper button, which will take  
> you to PayPal where you can enter an amount to support a teen camper  
> at this year's overnight Celtic music camp.  You can also of course  
> send a check to Community Music School, P. O. Box 531, Santa Cruz, CA   
> 95061
> 
> For a donation of $100 or more you will get VIP seating at our teen  
> camp concert at 11 AM on Saturday June 25, free lunch, lots of thanks  
> and adulation, and a choice of any of our school fund-raising CDs: 
> http://www.communitymusicschool.org/cds/ 
> Let us know which one you want and we will send it.
> 
> And to those who have already given to the camps (that means you  
> David, and the rest of you too) YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST.  You are  
> angels.  We will survive this arts programs "downturn" and keep  
> smiling!  Love, S

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