Acoustic Americana Music Guide and the editor’s eye surgery…

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For many of us, Thanksgiving arrived early this year. Firefighters saved over a thousand homes (many built where they should never have been). And for at least one grateful editor, dedicated surgeons saved an eye that otherwise would have been lost.
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So, what do you do when friends drop by to visit after your eye surgery, and you still can’t use the computer? Well, you put the willing to work updating the Guide! This edition covers just today and tonight, September 9. PLUS there’s a full feature on the upcoming MILLPOND MUSIC FESTIVAL, held September 18-20.
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When possible (as in, when various people are available to do it) we will try to help Larry keep the Guide current.
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If you’ve emailed news of your gigs, or well-wishes for the editor, we aren’t letting him open his email. There are probably another thousand or so messages there (on top of the thousand that arrived while he was in the High Sierra, just before his eye surgery) and no one is up to reading all those messages to him or helping him navigate through all that. This edition of the Guide is what was already in the database before any of that happened. It’s at http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com
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Check out your editor’s latest column in FolkWorks, available free online at www.folkworks.org/content/viewcategorycur/89 – it’s a time of remembrances for the late musicians MIKE SEEGER and DAVID CARRADINE, and for WOODY GUTHRIE’S guitar.
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Tied to the Tracks
ACOUSTIC AMERICANA
MUSIC GUIDE
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 (Yep, the Nine-Nine-oh-Nine) EDITION
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The Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona opened early this year, on Labor Day weekend. There’s plenty of acoustic music there and we plan to bring you the news of it as the fair continues. Plus, (as always) an almost incomprehensible number and variety of live acoustic performances continues all across the L.A. region. So raise a toast to the firefighters and go enjoy a show.
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Whether you got to go anywhere this summer or not, the wonderful “MILLPOND MUSIC FESTIVAL” (the 18th annual), is a fine last hurrah to celebrate summer’s end, just north of Bishop, September 18-20. It’s an “EVENT-OF-THE-MONTH” pick; last year, Millpond made FolkWorks “Best of 2008 / Top Ten;” www.folkworks.org/content/view/35788/166. All you need to know about it is in a special feature at the end of this week’s listings. That, and all else that’s happening, hither and yon,
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as September continues, awaits you at
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http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com
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Yes, it’s true –
There are more ACOUSTIC AMERICANA / ACOUSTIC RENAISSANCE music performances EVERY week in the Los Angeles area than the COMBINED TOTAL of ALL OTHER KINDS OF MUSIC!
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(And that doesn’t even take into account the dozens of electric Americana shows!)
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