Old Time Music

Galax! Deadline for registering...

july 15 is deadline for registering for Galax.  it is free and you can get a comtestant camping space. it is right after clifftop.

Click on oldfiddlersconvention.com

cu at HSF

--susan

Seeking old Lowell Contest winners! Plus Blues & BBQ Fest SUNDAY!!

Searching for old Lowell Banjo & Fiddle Contest Winners!

We're working on a benefit show for the venerable contest to be held on

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18TH at Johnny D's, Davis Square, Somerville, MA

Sponsored by Sandy's Music and Alex Demas.

And we'd like to invite old contest winners to perform!  We need to raise money to keep this contest going, and your presence and cover charge will help keep it going!  This should be a hoot!  Anyway, we'd love to have a "parade of winners" perform in the style of the old contest to draw people to the benefit show, and frankly, it'd be a lot of fun!  Old-time, Bluegrass, Ethnic, Banjo, Fiddle, whatever!  So... do you know the whereabouts of old Lowell winners??  Please contact me (or have them contact me) at jon@planetbanjo.com and we'll try to organize something.  We'd need to know what year, what category, what prize, etc.  If you have suggestions on how to organize this, I'd love to hear them!  I don't want to exclude anyone, but of course, time is limited.  I'm thinking that we'd start with any first place winners that emerge, followed by second place winners, and so forth, till we run out of time.  Rumor is that Martin Grosswendt and Larry Unger with Eden MacAdam-Somer, and Dave Palmater will be there, too!  So this will be pretty big, if my guess is right.  Please help spread the word, and save the date yourselves, this is an important benefit show.  I'm thinking that a fifteen dollar cover would be a fun contribution, even for the performers... but again, we're open to suggestion.  You'll hear more about this, I'm sure.  Please help!!  Sincerely, Jon, Sandy, Alex Demas, and the gang.

---

From our good friend and mentor, Geoff Bartley, this coming Sunday!!  I can attest to the great food and music... Geoff's there every Sunday, but this one is special, as you can see... please go support the blues, and a GREAT eatery in Brighton, right near the Greenbriar...

Smoken Joe's BBQ and Blues
Anniversary Benefit Concert and Pig Roast
Sunday, July 12 from 2:00 PM till closing
featuring Shirley Lewis and her band
The Phil Pemberton Band
Alizon Lissance
The Gumbo Kings
Geoff Bartley
Music All Day / jamming among band members / Special Guests
Tix are $20, $10 of which will be applied to dinner
Concert takes place at
Smoken' Joe's BBQ and Blues
351 Washington Street
(Brighton Center)
Brighton MA 02135
617 254-5227
www.smokenjoesbbq.com

share ride to clifftop

Leave monday, return sunday, I'll do all the driving, plenty of room to bring whatever, half the gas. Thanks

XO - Johnny Wrench

Oh yea, days 246-4606, nites 625-6832

(winner of the 2002  clifftop non-trad band contest
- editorial note, daisy)

REMINDER: Moonshine HOLLER @ the Dream Away Lodge, Becket, Friday, July 10th, 8:30 PM

Moonshine Holler performs Friday July 10, 8:30 PM at the Dream Away Lodge, 1342 County Rd., Becket, MA www.thedreamawaylodge.com.  The Dream Away Lodge has been a Berkshire legend for more than 90 years. Rumored to have been a brothel and speakeasy during the great depression, this two hundred year old farmhouse at the edge of October Mountain State Forest is renown for its larger than life founders, Mamma Maria Frasca and her three musical daughters, and a colorful history, rich in music and local mythology.   We think Mama would have loved our old time music!  Fine Food. Unique Cocktail Lounge.  An Atmosphere Long Remembered.   Dinner reservations strongly suggested.  Call 413-623-8725.

Other upcoming Moonshine Holler performances:

Sat., July 25th -11-2  Otis Cultural Council Art Show @ Farmington Elementary School
Sun., July 26th - 12-3 - Austerlitz (NY) Blueberry Festival
Weds., July 29th - 8:00 PM Black Moon Music Lounge www.myspace.com/blackmoonjazz
Fri., Aug 7th - 7:00 PM, Monterey General Store, www.montereystore.com

And, of course, we'll see you @ the Harry Smith Frolic in Greenfield Sat & Sun July 11 & 12! (it starts the 10th) http://www.sacrasoft.com/HarrySmith

Paula & Bill
Moonshine Holler
www.myspace.com/moonshineholler

Support the Old Time Blog!

Hi Folks,

You may have noticed the new 'Donate' button on the Old Time Blog pages. If you have found the blog helpful over the years, either as a musician or just a fan, we hope you'll consider donating a couple of bucks via PayPal. Your contributions will help defray the cost of hosting the blog with TypePad, which isn't free.

It's simple and secure - you can click the 'Donate' button on any of the Old Time Blog pages, or click right here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=654

Thanks!!! Pam & Andy

GiRL HOWDY JULY SHOWDATES

Happy July from Girl Howdy -

C'mon on out and share some summer fun...

                                honky tonkin' round with us!

 

 

Thursday July 9
Sunset Concert Series at the Summit House
Mountain Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
7:30-8:45pm with a sunset intermission!
This is a beautiful mountain top location,
Great views of the Ct river valley, bring a picnic!
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/skinner/

 

Saturday July 11

Granville Town Lawn Concert

Outdoors, on the town common

Bring your picnic baskets & lawn chairs!

6pm - FREE

Tuesday July 14

Mark Twain House, lawn concert

Hartford, CT  FREE

Bring your picnic baskets & lawn chairs!

6 – 7:30 PM - Rain location: Great Hall of the Visitor’s Center - adjacent to lawn

www.marktwainhouse.org 

 

Sunday July 19

Austin Farm - Bishop's Castle

199 Austin Farm Rd, Exeter, RI 02822

Double-bill w/Slippery Sneakers Zydeco Band

2pm - 8pm, $20. suggested donation, potluck

Wonderful outdoor setting for picnic-ing, pond for swimming, rowing.

Inside open-air space for dancing, this is a great dance party event!

Thursday July 23

Fitzwilliam Summer Series

Town Lawn Concert

Fitzwilliam, NH

7 - 8:30pm FREE!

Cajun Music from Louisiana THIS Friday in Brattleboro VT

EVENT DATE: FRIDAY JULY 3, BRATTLEBORO, VT.

AL BERARD CAJUN COMBO

Louisiana's Grammy nominated Cajun  musician Al Berard, and his "Cajun Combo", making their only Vermont appearance, will bring a new expression of Cajun music from spicy to sublime,  to "The Church", 3 Grove St., downtown Brattleboro VT on Friday, July 3 at 8PM immediately following Gallery Walk. The event is both a concert with seating space and dance with a fine hardwood floor in the hall used regularly for dance concerts.

The trio will perform the heart and soul of Cajun music's best traditional melodies of  two-steps and waltzes, played string-style featuring twin fiddles, twin mandolins, and authentic French vocals. The stringed family combinations, lets listeners taste the flavor and fully hear the beauty of these timeless songs that come from a people of living history in Southwest Louisiana.

Musical director and fiddler/mandolinist, Al Berard, CFMA's fiddler of the year, brings the authenticity of being born and raised a bilingual-speaking Cajun and native son of Louisiana. He has been playing traditional French Cajun music all his life and enjoys sharing both the music, and anecdotal stories of his home and his culture with his audiences, as he has done all over the world for 30 years. Mark Trichka (mandolins, guitar)  and Lisa Brande (fiddle, octave mandolin, guitar, vocals), both part-time Louisiana and Vermont residents, and full time touring musicians for over 20 years, add texture and depth to Al's musical expressions. More information about the group can be found on their cajuncombo.com website.

Tickets are $15 general/ $5 kids, available only at the door the night of the show. Info: 941-586-4476.