Bass at the Beach 2007
Registration is now open for the popular Bass at the Beach at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where each bass player is guranteed hours of playing every day! Staff includes Victor Wooten, Mike Pope and Gregg Bissonette.
Chris Whitley’s Birthday 1960-2005
Chris Whitley passed away in November 2005. He was a tremendous performer and singer. According to his tribute web site:
Chris made 12 albums, ranging from raw-boned folk-rock to lush electro-blues, had the thread of intense emotion and constant invention running through them.
Chris's hit debut LP, Living With the Law, came out on Columbia in 1991. His final album, Soft Dangerous Shores, came out in June 2005 via Messenger Records, the independent label he worked with most. The discs now seem like spiritual/aesthetic book-ends. Both mix roots-rock grit with heat-haze atmospherics and were produced/engineered by Malcolm Burn. If his beloved debut still contains some of his best-known songs, Soft Dangerous Shores has the elusive intertwining of organic and synthetic that Chris often held as an ideal.
Christopher Becker Whitley was born Aug. 31, 1960, in Houston, to a restless, artistic couple: His mother was a sculptress and painter; his father worked as an art director in a series of advertising jobs. As a family, they traveled through the Southwest, with many of the images the young boy absorbed finding their way later into songs. He once described his parents' music taste as formed "by race radio in the South." The real deal — Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf — seeped into their son's soul, eventually leading to Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix.
I have recently been introduced to his songs and they are beautiful.
Sam Bush has launched a new site
Sam Bush, mandolin genius from Kentucky, has launched a new web site. he has several upcoming gigs which promise to be great!
Maltese Music
Well, I must admit that I do not know the first thing about Maltese music. According to Wikipedia Malta:
is in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea directly south of Italy and north of Africa. The area is 246 km² (95 square miles). The highest point of the archipelago, at 253 m, is Ta' Dbiegi on the island of Gozo. The capital is Valletta. The landscape is characterised by low hills with terraced fields.
According to RootsWorld:
The international radio program The World ran an interesting interview with Maltese musician Andrew Alamango, of the ensemble Etnika. He talks about the music, the making of the intstruments, etc, and it includes some muisic form their 1999 CD Zifna
Listen to the program from The World
FolkAlley.com internet radio & website community
Linda Fahey of FolkAlley.com writes to tell us of their 24/7 internet radio stream and website community of folk music lovers. Thanks Linda!
Willow Park Bluegrass Jamboree
Jim Marino writes to tell us of the
Willow Park Bluegrass JamboreeNew Credit Reserve, Hagersville On.2nd weekend in August.Next year featuring The Grascals!! and Gold Wing Express!!
Jim himself has a radio show called the Freewheeling Folk Show, a "Smokin' Bluegrass Show" available on 93.3 CFMU cfmu.mcmaster.ca worldwide, broadbast from Hamilton On. Can. every Saturday from 10am 'til 1 pm. Thanks Jim!
National Folk Alliance to be held in Memphis February 22-25, 2007
Josh Dunson from Real People’s Music writes to tell us that
SI KAHN, PEGGY SEEGER AND THE PETER SEIGEL TRIO are three of the first ten selected for Showcasing at the 2007 National Folk Alliance to be held in Memphis February 22-25, 2007. What fine company! (The locations in parenthesis are home towns, not necessarily where the Showcase performers live now.)
First showcase invites announced
Artists Invited to Showcase at the 2007 International Folk Alliance Conference:
Adolphus Bell (Birmingham, AL)
Carolina Chocolate Drops (Durham, NC)
Antje Duvekot (Heidelberg, Germany)
Ernie Hawkins (Pittsburgh, PA)
Si Kahn (Penn State, PA)
Lovell Sisters Band (Calhoun, GA)
Pine Leaf Boys (Lafayette, LA)
Rig The Jig (Roscommon, Ireland)
Peggy Seeger (Washington, DC)
Peter Siegel Trio (Yonkers, NY)
For more on the Folk Alliance please see: http://www.folkalliance.org/
New website for Clydesdale Folk Club
Clydesdale Folk Club have just recently launched their new website
Ralph Stanley Festival in Virginia
Ralph Stanley Museum Mountain Music Festival To Be Held On
September 29th, 30th, and October 1st
- Read the latest Press Release here!
Folk Fact of the Day
According to Contemplator:
America is based on an "Old English Air," God Save the King. The words to America were written by Samuel Francis Smith in Boston, July 4, 1832 for a children's celebration. The tune was also sung in the German Reich as Heil Dir in Seigerkranz.
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