[Santa Cruz Celtic Slow Sessions] 3rd Sunday Session Invitation - Slow - January 15 - at The Buttery

[Tané Tachyon]

Fáilte (welcome) to this month's 3rd Sunday Session. 3rd Sunday of
the month, 2 - 4 p.m., January 15, 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!
6) All types of instruments are welcome and appreciated, but
   acoustic only, please!

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 ...

For anyone who has or hasn't been to David Brewer's wonderful Celtic
Music Nights over the years, next Tuesday's will be the last one,
because he's moving to the East Coast. This is at St. Andrew
Presbyterian Church at 9850 Monroe Avenue in Aptos. David says:

>  Tuesday, January 17th, 7pm -- THE END
> Final Celtic Music Night Farwell party, silent auction of unique 
> memorabilia, and jam!
> I really hope to see you all here for a casual night raising the 
> parting glass with stories, songs, and cheer until we meet again... 
> Of course there will be free refreshments and an open Celtic Music 
> Jam session! ...but until then, that's all she wrote... ...for now... ;)
> 
> But, a glimpse of the future is promising... coming soon, news 
> about **Celtic Music Night Series recordings released & available 
> for purchase (pending negotiations with artists, and portions of 
> proceeds going to artists, Music Night fund, and St Andrew Church 
> deacons fund)! **David Brewer Music Lessons anytime, anyplace via 
> Skype online! **summer lessons and workshops and Celtic Music 
> Nights! **Molly's Revenge at Woodland Scottish Games April 28th & 
> Topanga Fiddle Contest May 20th! **Rebecca Lomnicky, David Brewer, 
> and surprise guest at Santa Cruz Scottish Renaissance Festival June 
> 16th! Much more to come...keep you posted!!!

-- 
Tané Tachyon = tachyon at tachyonlabs.com = http://tachyonlabs.com/