Acoustic Americana Music Guide, April 23 to 30 (and beyond) – UPDATE

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The Guide needs your support, and time grows short. Time is almost gone for a MAJOR decision to be made on the future of the Guide. The #7 & #8 News Features, just below, explain what you can do.
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Tied to the Tracks
ACOUSTIC AMERICANA
MUSIC GUIDE & NEWS
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APRIL 23 to 30 events (and beyond, through 2010)
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APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH, and includes Cowboy Poetry Week, officially designated in both the U.S. and Canada.
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NEWS FEATURES
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1) THIS WEEKEND? AMAZING: FILLED BEYOND BELIEF WITH MUSIC
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One might think that a weekend that’s jammed with acoustic music-friendly festivals – too many to attend them all – wouldn’t be likely to have any tempting options for evening gigs. One might think so, but one would be as wrong as can be.
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In additon to stellar lineups at the STAGECOACH FESTIVAL and the SANTA CLARITA COWBOY FESTIVAL and the ADAMS AVENUE ROOTS FESTIVAL, there’s NANCI GRIFFITH at The Coach House and The Canyon Club, RICHARD SMITH & JULIE ADAMS: “Guitar & Cello” at the Fret House and at Boulevard Music, THE PERFECT GENTLEMEN at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, KELLY’S LOT at the Arcadia Blues Club, PHIL CHRISTIE & friends’ annual “Earth Day” show at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, THE SCOTTISH FIDDLERS OF LOS ANGELES’ 29th annual Spring Concert, JUDY COLLINS in Rancho Cucamonga, PRISCILLA HERDMAN (playing what may be her final California tour) at the Caltech Folk Music Series, BONNE MUSIQUE ZYDECO BAND in Monrovia, INCENDIO at Russ and Julie’s House Concert series, LEON REDBONE at the Poway Center, the LOS ANGELES TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS with PETER YARROW (of Peter, Paul & Mary), the ORIGINAL RENAISSANCE PLEASURE FAIRE in Irwindale, the MT. CARMEL MUSIC FESTIVAL in the desert, THE WAYMORES – the band of Tom Kimmel, Sally Barris & Don Henry – at the Trinity Backstage Coffee House in Santa Barbara, THE KAHURANGI MAORI DANCE THEATRE presenting “Dance & Music of New Zealand” outdoors at the Music Center, Baltimore-based uke goddess VICTORIA VOX in Huntington Beach and at Room 5, GOIN’ SOUTH BAND – of virtuosos Paul Lacques, Vic Koler, Fred Sokolow, Rick Shea, & John Zeretzke – at the Coffee Gallery Backstage, AMY CLARKE playing an “EARTH DAY SHOW” at the House of Blues Sunset Strip, and for artists, there’s the ASCAP “I CREATE MUSIC EXPO.” And much, much more.
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Bottom line? It would be a lonely choice if you stayed home, and one for which your more intrepid friends will chide you for a loooong time. (Yes, many choices are free events.)
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2) 50th ANNUAL TOPANGA BANJO FIDDLE CONTEST & FOLK FESTIVAL: CELEBRATING A “GOLDEN DAY” ON MAY 16
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It’s a perennial “Show-of-the Week” pick in the Guide, and we’ve cited it (here and in other publications) over many years, as the best one-day acoustic festival anywhere. A look at the event’s colorful history is our feature story, written by WARREN GARFIELD:
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Fifty years ago the Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival started in Topanga Canyon – thus the name – a canyon that’s home to writers, artists and lots of music people and a remote pocket of sylvan beauty, practically spittin’ distance from the Pacific Ocean. Today a few traditional music-loving diehards are still around who can remember the first “Banjo Pickers and Open Fiddling Contest” created by Margot Slocum and Peg Benepe as a fund raiser for the Santa Monica Friends’ Meeting House.
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It was 1961, and the music-only event attracted 26 five-string banjo pickers, five fiddlers, four judges and at least 500 eager fans to Ian Thiermann’s place amid the native oaks known as “Friendly Acres.” It was such foot-stompin’ fun, everyone agreed it was high time it happened and it would have to be put on again.
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The following year the event moved to Topanga Canyon’s Camp Wildwood, attracting the local folk singing, old-time and bluegrass community and in 1963 Mary Ellen Clark replaced Peg. The Santa Monica Friends pitched in and stayed active until 1981. Soon the Topanga festival was getting national attention and net proceeds were going to charitable causes, youth activities, various folk and dance music archives and non-profit radio stations that featured folk and/or bluegrass music. In 1965 Dorian Keyser started to help and after a few years he replaced Margot. In 1969, due to a new ordinance limiting the size of outdoor music events, Topanga Canyon could no longer be utilized, so the Festival was relocated to U.C. Santa Barbara for one year. Since then, it’s been held at various locations around Southern California:
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1969: University of California, Santa Barbara
1970 to 1972: Sunset Canyon Recreation Center
1973 to 1977: Santa Monica Community College, Corsair Field
1977 to 1985: UCLA Soccer field
1986 to 1989: El Camino Community College
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After the ’72 Festival, Dorian assumed responsibility for the entire event with the help of his wife, Dalia, and Mary Ellen Clark. In 1990 the Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest moved to its present home at the Paramount Ranch near Agoura, California, not far from its Topanga Canyon roots in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreational Area. While the event was at UCLA, a few folk artisans were invited to bring their handmade wares to sell. Today there are around 45 folk arts booths and several merchant booths featuring weaving, ceramics, woodcarving, inlaying, leather craft, metal work, jewelry, needlework, painting, glass and more. Also included are National Parks booths providing information and displays of national, state, and local parks, hiking trails, volunteer organizations, environmental groups and native plants of the Santa Monica Mountains Recreation area.
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By the 17th year, the event was attracting around 75 contestants, most of whom performed with backup musicians to win cash and gift awards. A further expansion occurred in 1979 when a second stage was added for clogging, contra dancing, square dancing and Scottish Country dance demonstrations and instruction. Colorfully-costumed teachers and advanced dancers showed their skill and invited onlookers, both timid and bold, to try some basic steps. Soon a clog dance contest and Israeli dancing were added and international folk dancing became a permanent and popular feature of Topanga.
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The folk arts booths were added in 1982; guitar, mandolin and band contests in 1983 and in 1995 came folk song/story telling “workshops” and participative crafts for children. In 1981 the Jewish Centers Association replaced the Santa Monica Friends and the “Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival, Inc.” was officially created as a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. By 1988 this corporation had sole responsibility for the event, together with Paramount Ranch personnel. Starting in 1990 both the Superintendent and staff of the Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area, a unit of the National Parks System, assumed a key role in making the Festival a continuing success.
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In 2001, the official Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest web site was created and has been serving the fans with good information ever since at www.topangabanjofiddle.org. A year later, a Topanga Prize Drawing was added and many prizes and beautiful instruments are now won by lucky fans. Also, the “Music Legend Award” was created, as an annual $1,000 prize and award honoring the individual or organization that has done the most to promote and support old-time, bluegrass and folk music in Southern California.
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In the past four years, children’s music and arts has grown from two hours to a full day’s activity in the Eucalyptus Grove. Top regular performers and fun novelty acts, young musicians, participatory workshops, community groups, jam sessions and some serious children’s arts & crafts may now be found every year.
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That’s the story of Topanga’s amazing growth. From the start when 500 attended, to this year, when thousands of pickin’ n’ grinnin’ fans are expected at the 50th annual Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest, it continues to be the most popular old-time, folk and bluegrass event in Southern California. More at www.topangabanjofiddle.org; Hotline, 818-382-4819.
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Note on the author:
WARREN GARFIELD is a retired board member of the Topanga Banjo•Fiddle Contest. These days, he presents a Topanga-sponsored program of free concerts in Los Angeles libraries and schools that introduces folk singing to children and their parents. You can contact Warren regarding these programs, and bringing them to your library or school, at 323-656-5813.
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3) GETTING A SONG PLACEMENT ON A TV SHOW
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The FX show, “Damages,” just brought Holly Figueroa a song placement, and there’s a point here for others.
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Veteran singer-songwriter HOLLY FIGUEROA got her version of LEONARD COHEN’s “Everybody Knows” on the FX show “Damages” on Monday, April 19. (Holly didn’t know in time for us to tell you to catch or record it.) The show had Glen Close, Martin Short, Lily Tomlin, and Holly’s music performance.
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It raises the point that, oftentimes, a talented musician can have not an original but a cover placed, usually because the TV show or film can’t afford the royalties on the original artist’s recording. But can you second-guess what a Music Supervisor in Hollywood will want – your original, with or without the lyrics you’ve crafted so carefully, or a song that the director has already heard and really wants, and must seek as an affordable cover? As Shakespeare would say, Aye, there’s the rub. If you’re working with a song placement service, or song pitch agent, you might not think it’s worth your money to pitch covers. Maybe it is. Talk to the people you’re paying, and get the best inside track on what Hollywood is seeking at any given moment. (Yes there are trends at work, however brief.) If you’ve got the current “it” available as a studio-quality recording, you may go to the head of the line.
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More on the “Damages” show at www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/damages. More on veteran musician Holly and her music at www.hollyfigueroa.com
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4) PERFORM AT THE INAUGURAL “AMERICANA MUSIC FEST” NEAR L.A.
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The “AMERICANA MUSIC FEST” will take place October 3, sponsored by the Thousand Oaks Kiwanis Charitible Foundation at the beautiful Paramount Ranch near Agoura Hills, in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation area. Info, www.americanamusicfestkw.org
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This is the inaugural year for what’s already being called “a wonderful event, with multiple stages of scheduled acts, prestigious contests, and all-day jams under the oak trees and on the wooden boardwalks of the buildings in the movie-set old west town.” Yep, if any of that sounds familiar, it is indded the same site as the Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest.
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Organizers ask, “Would you like to have the opportunity to present your music to 1000 kids? We hope to have that many or more at the Americana MusicFest this year. You are invited to take advantage of a fantastic opportunity to show kids that there are a lot more genres and styles of music than what they hear on mainstream radio or download based on Facebook or Twitter buzz.
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“There will be three stages going all day and free-style jamming throughout the park. There will also be an Instrument Petting Zoo to let kids get some hands-on feel, as well as workshops, many with the goal of getting kids interested in learning to play and letting them know where to get lessons.
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“Kids will be invited to attend through targeted advertising and at their schools through the youth groups sponsored by the Kiwanis Club (www.kiwanis.org). Those groups include K-Kids and Terrific Kids (Elementary), Builders Club and KEY Club (Teens), and KEYLeader and Circle K International (University) throughout the Southern California area.
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“To be considered as a performer, please submit a link to your Electronic Press Kit (EPK) and/or web site to judges@AmericanaMusicFestKW.org. Submissions must include samples of your music and preferably videos of recent performances. Selections will be made based upon varieties of genres and styles as well as ability and presentation. Young musicians are especially encouraged to submit and may be scheduled in special performances. Stages will be scheduled based upon the recommendations of a panel of judges who will review all submitted materials. Send your submission early as the number of slots on the three stages will be limited by the time available (the park closes at sundown), and earlier submissions will prevail in cases of equal ability within genre/style.
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“Artists that are scheduled for the stages will receive an honorarium (TBD) to help defray expenses. Musicians and groups not scheduled on the stages may still present their music jam-style around the park. As implied, NO ELECTRIFIED INSTRUMENTS will be permitted!
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“If you would like further information or if you would like to assist with the planning or presentation of this event, please send an inquiry to: info@AmericanaMusicFest.org.
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5) CAREFUL! YOUR “TMI” POSTS FROM THE ROAD CAN GET YOU ROBBED
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Folksinger JULIE KROLL tells us, “Just picked this up from AOL news. As a newcomer to Facebook, I didn’t think of this. Following warning makes a lot of sense. We should all be concerned about broadcasting, to the cyber world, personal info that could be used to do us harm.”
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Never Say THIS on Facebook or Twitter:
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The most dangerous thing you can post to your Facebook page or Twitter account is information about where you’re going when you are not at home. By telling the world you are on vacation in the Bahamas, or even just eating at your favorite local restaurant, you’re letting potential thieves know that you’re not at home.
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Financial writers Ken and Daria Dolan warn that how you use Facebook and Twitter can be hazardous to your wealth!
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“Burglars are fond of your constant updates,” the Dolans told AOL. “Would you stand up in the middle of a crowd of strangers and announce that you’re leaving on vacation for three days and then tell everyone your address? Of course not, but that’s exactly what you are doing if you share such information online.”
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They cite the case of an Arizona man who told his 2,000 Twitter followers that he was leaving town. When he returned, he found his home had been burglarized and video equipment, worth thousands of dollars, had been stolen. “Even saying you are running to the mall, going out to dinner…is too much information,” the Dolans explained to AOL.
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One Web site recently found itself in the news for bringing attention to the problem. The site pleaserobme.com was designed to show how easy it is for anyone to sift through Twitter updates for a “feed” of people’s current locations. The recent buzz caused confusion, because of course the site was not intended to give criminals the keys to your home. But it did achieve its goal of bringing much-needed attention to the potential danger.
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Some insurance companies are catching on. Legal & General Insurance in New England says Facebook and Twitter users could be hit with higher homeowner’s insurance premiums. Why? All that blabbing about activities away from home means they face a higher risk of burglary.
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The company thinks burglars are actually “shopping” for victims on social media sites, looking not only for an indication you’re not at home, but also photos of your home and valuables. That cute picture of your son hugging the dog? A burglar is looking in the background, eyeing your big-screen TV and new stereo system.
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And it’s not just adults. Teenagers are even more likely to post personal information, so Legal & General has warned that parents who aren’t even online themselves could face higher homeowner’s insurance premiums if their children are online.
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The Guide’s editor, as a newspaper journalist, has written similar cautionary stories. Wedding notices, impending birth announcements, and any announced hospital stays are risky propositions, since that’s telling the world you are someplace other than home. And people who include home addresses in obituaries risk getting the deceased (or other family members) robbed during the memorial service or funeral.
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Indeed, we are rushing headlong into a “TMI” – too much information – culture, without considering the potential consequences. It can be more serious even than risking burglary. Artists, particularly female artists, often work hard to cultivate a fan base, and along the way, inadvertently encourage a stalker. Some venues, including the Coffee Gallery Backstage, routinely offer an escort to cars for single women artists and patrons alike, even in the venue’s presumably safe neighborhood. Not all venues do that, and they should. A stalker gets an engraved invitation from a social network post that announces where you’re going.
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Finally, the Guide NEVER includes the address of any house concert in our listings, specifically because not everyone who seeks information wants to come to hear your music – unless they plan to listen to your CD collection after they steal it. (Think of all the online photos and videos of house concert performances that reveal what’s inside the house.) We do our part to encourage house concert presenters to open their doors to artists and listeners, partly by allowing them to maintain control over who learns the address, to make it safe to host concerts.
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6) GROUP SWEEPS MULTIPLE NUMBER 1’S IN THE BLUEGRASS WORLD
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Earning a #1 anywhere is a dream for most artists. Over the past few months, LOU REID & CAROLINA have reached multiple #1 ratings and brought rave reviews all over the bluegrass map. The focus is their song, “Amanda Lynn,” from their chart-topping album, “My Own Set Of Rules.” LOU REID has been at the top before, when he was a member of DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER, and as a continuing member of THE SELDOM SCENE.
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But LOU REID & CAROLINA are taking the bluegrass world by storm. Hold on to your hat. They are the cover AND feature article in “Bluegrass Music Profiles” March-April 2010 issue, AND:
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The single, “Amanda Lynn” is
#1 Bluegrass Music Profiles – Top 30 Songs (April 2010)
#1 Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine – Top 30 Songs (April 2010)
WINNER of the 2010 SPBGMA – Song of the Year Award
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The album, “My Own Set Of Rules,” is
#1 Bluegrass Music Profiles – Top 10 Albums (Nov 2009)
Bluegrass Radio Network – Top Picks of 2009, Album
#19 on WNCW Radio’s “Top 50 Bluegrass CDs of 2009”
#21 on KSON-FM “Top 50 Bluegrass CDs of 2009”
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Here’s what the music press is saying:
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“The bluegrass genre is always one that is interesting for its combination of styles and musicianship and Lou Reid and Carolina have given fans a modern twist on the foundation of bluegrass while keeping the traditions well intact on ‘My Own Set Of Rules.’” – Today’s Country Magazine. (Editor’s note: WHAT? A positive and relevant quote from the leading COUNTRY music magazine – quite significant from a genre that otherwise seems totally in the control of a Nashville-dominated paradigm of formulaic and soundalike dysfunctional relationship songs “weth thet fahke ack-scent” that we seldom have any reason to recommend. Good on ya, “Today’s Country”!)
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“Lou Reid and Carolina, My Own Set of Rules – Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver alum, Lou Reid, who also performs with The Seldom Scene, is a master at the craft of bluegrass, as this CD gives great witness. On 13 tracks, Reid and company show you how it’s done. Gonna stay in your CD player a looong time.” – The Inland Northwest Bluegrass Association.
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“’My Own Set of Rules’ deserves to be #1! This album is a gem top to bottom and it’ll be in the playlist here in Indy for some time to come, no doubt about it.” – Cary Allen Field, Host of “Fields of Bluegrass” Radio Show.
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”Amanda Lynn – A great song by a great group – again and again and again!” – Gracie Muldoon, www.worldwidebluegrass.com
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“Lou Reid and Carolina’s music focuses on singing and songs rather than strings and picks, and they retain tradition while creating their own contemporary voice.” – Hyperbolium.
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7) THE GUIDE’S FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS (DVDs & CDs FOR YOUR SUPPORT)
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The online culture has created an expectation that whatever you can find on the web is free. That’s a shame, because a lot of what you want and expect to find simply can’t be here without a modest level of your financial support. It’s looking like the Acoustic Americana Music Guide is in its final month of comprehensive editions.
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Our detailed reporting – on the VAST amount of live acoustic music performances and artist workshops in the Los Angeles region, plus notable events on the arts scene and acoustic festivals everywhere – stuff that you can’t find anywhere else – may vanish.
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We need you. Really, really, need you. More to the point, we need a little of your money. We’ll give you cool stuff RIGHT NOW in return. And we’ll even give you chances to receive great tickets to shows ALL SUMMER – IF we’re still doing this. You can read the whole urgent appeal at http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2010/03/support-guide-and-get-some-great-dvds.html
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Here, we’ll keep it simple: The Guide must ask you, NOW, URGENTLY, for your financial support. We’ve been doing this for more than seven years, through thick and thin, through two very serious eye surgeries (with two more to come), and it’s grown and grown – it’s had to, to keep track of, and tell you about, the HUNDREDS of amazing live acoustic music events that are out there EVERY WEEK. As a result, it’s come to require sooooo much time that we just can’t do it for free any more.
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RIGHT NOW, we are offering some GREAT thank-you gifts in return for your support – we have CDs and DVDs we can send you, while they last.
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We can and will continue to bring you the Guide, and even EXPAND to a full-feature website (see News Feature #2) – IF we have your help. But without your help, we’re gone. Kaput. Finis. And you’re on your own to figure-out WHO PERFORMS WHAT, WHERE AND WHEN. (Others may tell you some of news of “who” and “when,” but nobody else tells you WHAT kind of music, for all those times you see names that otherwise have no meaning to you – yet.)
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SEND US A CHECK FOR $25, and we’ll send you a professionally-produced concert DVD and a CD, OR 3 CDs (either option, your choice) PLUS another bonus! The complete list of “thank-you” gifts you can choose is at
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http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2010/03/support-guide-and-get-some-great-dvds.html
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WRITE YOUR $25 CHECK TO “TIED TO THE TRACKS” AND MAIL IT TODAY TO:
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Tied to the Tracks
PO Box 5427
Pasadena CA 91117-5427
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Then email us at tiedtothetracks@hotmail.com and put “Guide support” in the subject line – tell us what DVD / CD choices you want – confirm your selections before they’re gone. (Whatever happens, you’ll get GREAT STUFF in return for your support!)
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Seriously, unless we get sufficient support from you, our readers, we just can’t do this any more. It is our desire and intention to keep publishing the Guide, and to make it even better – but we simply cannot do it without your help. THANK YOU!
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8) THE ACOUSTIC MUSIC NEWS IS MOVING TO ACOUSTICMUSIC.NET – WHAT WE DO WHEN WE GET THERE DEPENDS ON YOU…
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We are committed to continue to write at least some News Features, as the Acoustic Americana Music News. (That’s the smaller part of what we do now.) THAT much will move to acousticmusic.net. Whether we continue to produce the comprehensive Guide to live acoustic performances, workshops, and events – the biggest part of what we do now – is an open question.
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The long-sought goal to move the Guide to a full-feature website can be realized, at last (okay, it would take a few weeks to get it all done). There are SO MANY acoustic music concerts, club gigs, festivals, workshops, acoustic music radio shows, and MORE, and describing all of that for you (as we work hard to do) just overwhelms many people with the Guide’s current format. Even though we’ve separated each day’s radio & TV listings and given each of them their own url, the live shows you can go see ARE ENOUGH TO FILL WELL OVER 100 PAGES EACH WEEK (!)
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In addition to the need to make everything MUCH more user-friendly – and rapidly accessible to find specific events and days – we have long wanted to do even more.
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We get offers from venues large and small, all the time, to GIVE-AWAY TICKETS to great shows – to you, our readers. We have done some of that (to see Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, and others) but it isn’t easy to do that kind of thing without a real website. We can essentially take-over at AcousticMusic.net – not quite a coup, because what’s on that site will still be available there and accessible from a new full-function directory. We’ll be able to update the site with LOTS MORE, including exciting new graphics and news of more Folk-Americana / Acoustic Americana / Acoustic Renaissance and other acoustic music – more than you can find anywhere else! (Yes, we already DO more of that than anybody else, each week in our “plain Jane” presentation of the Guide… so maybe you should think of what we can do on the new site as all that on steroids, PLUS photos PLUS hours of archived performance-interviews as dowloadabe audio from the huge radio show library PLUS concert ticket give-aways.
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Plus, “more” includes HUNDREDS of hours of performance-interviews, recorded live, from the “TIED TO THE TRACKS” Radio Show Library and concerts recorded live. We get requests all the time to hear favorites again. So far, we haven’t had a way to do that. Moving to a full-function website can make FAR MORE available to you!
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Moving the Acoustic Americana Music News – with or without continuing the Guide – and what happens with the new presence on the established acousticmusic.net site – will be determined by your financial support. For one thing, we will need money to pay the octopus tentacles of the music industry so can we provide the radio show recordings there. And as we discuss in the preceding News Feature (above), we just can’t continue to spend the many, many, MANY hours required to write the Guide and do it anymore for free.
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9) “LIVE HAM JAM” MARKS 100th LIVE BROADCAST ON S.F.’S KPIG
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Yes, every Americana music fan in L.A. is enormously jealous of the Bay Area’s KPIG in San Francisco. The station marked a milestone when their ever-popular “Live Ham Jam” (“Ham” – KPIG – get it?) did its 100th broadcast. Guest performers were IBMA winners MISSY RAINES & THE NEW HIP, PETER ROWAN & JODY STECHER, and LEFTOVER SALMON’s DREW EMMIT & VINCE HERMAN. Incidentally, MISSY RAINES & THE NEW HIP did their first radio show in L.A. on “Tied to the Tracks” when Missy first assembled the band.
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Missy says of the SF radio experience, “Thanks to Tim Lynch and all the gang at KPIG for a great day of tunes and Barbeque. Mighty fine.”
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RECENT NEWS FEATURES:
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The April 16 edition’s News Features (repeated in April 19 update) are available at
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2010/04/acoustic-americana-music-guide-april-16.html
The topics are:
1) WE REALLY NEED YOU – SUPPORT THE GUIDE! (GET DVDs / CDs IN RETURN)
2) GUIDE IS MOVING TO ACOUSTICMUSIC.NET – WHAT WE DO WHEN WE GET THERE DEPENDS ON YOU…
3) VENUE DIRECTORY IS UPDATED
4) IPOD VIRTUAL SOUND APP VS. NEW SOUND VS. REALITY
5) RECORD STORE DAY IS APRIL 17
6) PAID SUMMER ARTS INTERNSHIPS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS
7) INAUGURAL “AMERICANA MUSIC FEST” NEAR L.A. SEEKS PERFORMERS
8) THIS WEEK’S QUOTABLE THOUGHTS…
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The April 9 edition’s News Features are available at http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2010/04/acoustic-americana-music-guide-april-9.html
The topics are:
1) URGENT APPEAL: SUPPORT THE GUIDE! (AND GET SOME GREAT DVDs / CDs IN RETURN)
2) GUIDE REACHES AGREEMENT TO MOVE – TO ACOUSTICMUSIC.NET
3) ZOEY’S, VENTURA’S BEST ACOUSTIC VENUE, RELOCATES & GOES LARGE
4) CROSSROADS OF HISTORY APRIL 14, AND CONNECTIONS WITH MUSIC
5) BANSHEE IN THE KITCHEN CHANGING PERSONNEL
6) QUOTABLE THOUGHT…
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The March 27 edition’s News Features are available at
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2010/03/acoustic-americana-music-guide-fresh_27.html
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The March 20 edition’s News Features are available at
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2010/03/acoustic-americana-music-guide-fresh_20.html
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RECENT GUEST EDITORIALS:
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L.A.-based musician and expert on the subject MICHAEL HERALDA always presents a compelling and informative performance, and his written piece on the Mexica New Year is fascinating, spiritual, and a must-read for cultural literacy. It’s our guest editorial, by Michael, at http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2010/03/aztec-calendars-new-year-time-of-music.html. Michael has done musical and spoken word excerpts from his compelling “Aztec Stories” presentation on radio’s “Tied to the Tracks,” including music on original and traditional Native American instruments.
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Did you see our GUEST EDITORIAL in February 2010 by award-winning musician FREEBO? He wrote an essay on climate change that’s worth a read, and we presented it in the Guide. It’s entertaining and thoughtful, and takes it to the “deniers” in right-wing media. It’s at http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2010/02/climate-change-by-freebo-special-to.html
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Entire contents copyright (c) © 2010, Larry Wines. All rights reserved.
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Updated April 23, 2010; recurring events included through Friday, April 30, with updated listings of many upcoming events through the rest of 2010.
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For ALL that’s happening in venues around L.A., at festivals anywhere and everywhere, and how to find the best acoustic music radio shows (mostly on the web), go to the complete edition of the Guide at
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www.acousticmusic.net
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