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Read JOEL OKIDA’s review of WPA (Works Progress Administration) superstar band at Largo in L.A., Oct 6; it’s at
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We’re deep into FALL FESTIVAL season, and waaay too many fine ones happen this weekend. (We warned you in the last edition that Sunday, Oct 11 is especially crazy and we’ve added even MORE festivals and other gigs that happen on Saturday and / or Sunday).
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An outline of festivals this weekend:
There’s the annual SEASIDE HIGHLAND GAMES with its multiple stages of music in Ventura;
the annual TASTE OF FOLK MUSIC / TASTE OF ENCINO centers on the free folk & bluegrass music stages in Encino Park on Sunday;
the annual BLUESAPALOOZA / THUNDERFEST has several venues Saturday in Covina, including the Fret House;
the 38th annual SANTA BARBARA OLD TIME FIDDLERS’ CONVENTION is Sunday in Goleta;
AND a new ACCORDION FESTIVAL in Orange County happens, too, on Sun, Oct 11;
OC has two festivals, as THE GREAT AMERICAN RAGTIME PIANO SHOW happens Sunday in Fullerton;
the annual MONROVIA FESTIVAL happens in that charming San Gabriel Valley burg, all weekend;
CASTAIC DAYS is all day Saturday at Castaic Lake, and features only original music;
the annual UNDERWOOD FAMILY FARMS FALL FESTIVAL continues through the month in Moorpark;
PLUS, farther away:
the 12th annual TRAIN SONGS FESTIVAL happens Saturday down in Poway (North San Diego County);
the 4th annual JOSHUA TREE ROOTS MUSIC FESTIVAL is in the desert all weekend;
the annual LONE PINE FILM FESTIVAL, Oct 9-11, includes a fine concert, and more;
AND, this is as strong a week and weekend of first-rate folk-Americana shows in clubs and coffeehouses and concert halls as we’ve ever presented. Oh the tension of soooo many decisions where to go, and how to get from two or three early events to a couple of late ones, and the foregone conclusion that you’ll be taking the hammer to the piggybank.
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Yep, obviously, October is Rocktober, even in the land of acoustica. There’s an abundance of music indoors and out throughout this month.
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Of course, it’s all here in the Guide, along with sooooo much REAL music you can see and hear LIVE, without embellished studio overproduction, soulless drum machines, pitch correction software, or other treatless tricks from Big Music’s bag of nonmusical fakery.
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The editor still can’t use the computer as his recovery continues to progress from eye surgery – but he does contribute some colorful phrases and somehow coax a coalition of the willing to keep it all going.
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WANT TO HELP? We can send info for you to format and send back to us for inclusion in the Guide! Of course, we want to include YOUR acoustic gigs in Southern Cal or at festivals everywhere (and these days, it’s really important that we receive your events ready to go in the Guide’s format).
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This update is made possible by the combined efforts of many, in many places. We continue to format the unbelievable amount of info that the editor already had in the Guide’s database, and combine all of it. (He’s got stuff here into late 2010 already.) We hope to post the remainder of October’s events soon, and keep this thing going without interruption.
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The editor thanks everyone for the cards and letters and tasty edibles and homemade treats, and for whatever well-wishes await in the mountain of emails that he can’t yet read. A few at a time, we are starting to read them to him (there are over 2,700 there, waiting!)
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Tied to the Tracks
ACOUSTIC AMERICANA
MUSIC GUIDE
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OCTOBER 8 through 15, 2009 EDITION
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Herein is an almost incomprehensible number and variety of live acoustic performances all across the L.A. region, at festivals everywhere, and on radio shows that feature live performances and/or interviews with acoustic musicians that are available on the web. So go enjoy some wonderful live acoustic music!
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OCTOBER’s live acoustic performances happen at concert halls, coffeehouses, clubs, bars, parks, band shells, fall festivals, and theaters and amphitheaters indoors and out, and all of it awaits you at
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http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com
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(Yes, you can give your friends the url, even if it reveals they don’t need to call you anymore to learn what’s happening.)
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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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PLUS, you can check out Larry Wines’ September column in FolkWorks. It’s available free online at www.folkworks.org/content/viewcategorycur/89 and 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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RADIO NEWS: the return from hiatus of the syndicated TIED TO THE TRACKS radio show is delayed, due to the producer / host’s ongoing recovery from eye surgery. (At least he has time to listen to all those submitted CDs that arrive daily!) We’ll keep you posted.
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