So a student of mine wanted to learn this song, and I decided to make a recording of it, so that they'd have something to follow along to while they were practicing at home. But of course, I can just bang out a simple run through, I have to do a whole full-blown arrangement. So, add this one to your Xmas IPod Playlist if you want. The music is below if you want that (it borrows heavily from Bing Futch's version) and there's a "Karaoke version" (backing tracks but no dulcimer) if you want to play along as well.
Merry Christmas!!!
Download the tune here (right click or ctrl click and "save link as")
Download the Karaoke version here (right click or ctrl click and "save link as")
Download the music (as a .pdf)
Download the music (as a .tef file)
And while it's too late for the USPS to reliably get you any of my Christmas CDs in time for the holiday, you can still download them. More importantly, you can listen to both CDs online for free!
To listen to the Dulcimer Christmas Card Click here.
To listen to the Dulcimer Christmas Card 2 Click here.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Friday, September 07, 2012
House Concerts in NJ and MD this weekend.
Saturday, September 8 - 7pm
Juke Joint House Concert Series
Denville, NJ
Cocktails at 5, show at 7
RSVP Mike @973 328-3723, or missycat10@verizon.net
Sunday, Sept. 9 - 4pm
House Concert at the home of Gary and Toya Koch
RSVP Toya at dulcimerjoy@gmail.com
Fall has fell but I'm no less busy than I was this summer. Got fun new stuff to tell you about, but it'll have to wait until next week. Meanwhile, If yr anywhere near these two places, I'd love to see you.
C-ya out there.
Juke Joint House Concert Series
Denville, NJ
Cocktails at 5, show at 7
RSVP Mike @973 328-3723, or missycat10@verizon.net
Sunday, Sept. 9 - 4pm
House Concert at the home of Gary and Toya Koch
RSVP Toya at dulcimerjoy@gmail.com
Fall has fell but I'm no less busy than I was this summer. Got fun new stuff to tell you about, but it'll have to wait until next week. Meanwhile, If yr anywhere near these two places, I'd love to see you.
C-ya out there.
--Br
www.butchross.comThursday, May 03, 2012
Spring Tour! OH, IN, PA, KY --A new Book!-- New Album Update
It’s taken me literally all day to get this thing written but there’s a lot to tell. I’ve been out of sight, but doing anything but relaxing. Here’s what’s inside.
1. Spring Tour
2. New Beginner Book
3. Album Update
4. Help me get on Prairie Home Companion
1. SPRING TOUR
The spring tour still has some free dates in it and I’ll be
in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana for most of it. If you’re in these states and
would like to me to come to your club, for a workshop or a house concert, drop
me a line at butch@butchross.com
This need not be a big event; a few folks and a place to
stay can very often make the whole thing worth my while. Especially, if I’m
only a couple of hours away (maybe too far for you to come to me, but nothing
for me to come to you)
Friday, May 4th - 5ish Free but RSVP preferred.
Festival kickoff potluck at the shelter house in McKinley
Field Park,
1661 Goodale Blvd., Columbus, OH 43212 (Grandview Heights).
1661 Goodale Blvd., Columbus, OH 43212 (Grandview Heights).
Not really a gig or workshop, just a potluck/jam
session/hangout with dulcimer folk. It’s a lot of fun. Contact Doug Snapp for
more information. dougsnapp@gmail.com or 614 313-6424
May 4-6, 2012
Central Ohio Folk Festival
Battelle-Darby Creek Park - Columbus, OH
My sixth year at this great festival!
Check website for workshop times dates and costs.
http://cfms-inc.org/
Thursday, May 10, 2012 – 7pm Free (pass the hat)
Webster’s Bookstore Cafe
133 E Beaver Ave, State College PA 16801
814-272-1410
My first time here, if you got peeps in the area, send ‘em
my way.
Friday, May 11, 2012 – 8pm $16.50 (Reservations Recommended)
Godfrey Daniels - Possibilities of the Mountain Dulcimer.
Alf Bashore opens
7 E. 4th St. Bethlehem, PA 18015-1601
610-867-2390
Another first, one for the bucket list, tell your friends
and carpool!
May 12, 2012 – EARLY SHOW! 3pm
Lili's Coffee Shop
3138 Dobson Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States) 15219
412.682.3600
Co-bill w/Panther Hollow String Band
(pantherhollowstringband.wordpress.com)
May 13, 2012 – 5:30pm
Dulcimer Workshop
Zion United Church of Christ
2332 Sherwood Lane, Norwood, Ohio (United States) 45212
May 13, 2012 – 7pm Leo Coffeehouse
Zion United Church of Christ
2332 Sherwood Lane, Norwood, Ohio (United States) 45212
May 16, 2012 – 7pm Free
J.K. O'Donnell's
121 W. Wayne Street
Fort Wayne, Indiana (United States) 46802
I’d say come for the food anyway, that I’ll be there is just
a bonus.
May 19, 2012 – A day of FREE Dulcimer Workshops at the
Intergenerational Center
214 W. Jefferson St. Berea, KY, 40403
9:30 – 11am Workshop I – Rhythms Beyond 4/4 (explore
waltzes, hornpipes, jigs and more) All levels encouraged.
11-1 lunch on your own.
1 – 2pm Post lunch Q&A; ask me your dulcimer questions!
2 – 3:30pm Workshop II – Different levels playing together.
Arrangements so folks of all levels can play the same songs together. All
levels encouraged.
Contact Adrian at Madison.dulcimers@gmail.com
or Nancy 859 624-2721
May 19, 2012 - 6:30pm $20 suggested donation
Richmond, KY
House Concert at the home of Tommy and Nancy Adams
Contact Nancy Adams to RSVP: 859 624-2721
THIS SHOW WILL LIKELY SELL OUT!
And still to come…
May 26, 2012 workshops and concert at The Pickin’ Porch
Wood-n-Strings Dulcimer Shop - Townsend, TN
May 27, 2012 - The Acoustic Coffeehouse in Johnson City, TN
Jun 17-24, 2012 - Kentucky Music Week in Bardstown, KY
(New location and a new hotel, PLUS Jerry Rockwell
and Joellen Lapidus will be there)
2. New beginner’s book:
All The Strings, All The Time
Inspired by Danny Shepherd’s excellent “Mountain Dulcimer
for Children (and the young at heart),” this is a book of 21 well-known
traditional tunes, arranged in order of difficulty from super easy to
not-terribly-hard-at-all. It’s a simple, but thorough way to get a solid start
playing the mountain dulcimer.
3. Album update:
So, it seems that I’ve been in the beginning stages of
recording this record for over a year now, but finally there is some light at
the end of the tunnel. Demos are beginning to get to the various musicians who
will be playing on the record, and I’m working out arrangements with new
instruments (bass drum, cello, Edison Wax Cylinders) as well as new techniques
(like drone and noter!) that I’m really excited about. I’m sure I’ve said this
before, but musically it will be closer to Moonshiner’s Atlas, with more original
tunes and lots of singing (tho’ I just wrote a tune today that would be a great
fit).
To fund this thing I’m planning on selling pre-release CDs
like I did with Shady Grove, but I’m also kicking around the idea of a
Kickstarter campaign. Kickstarter is a web site where they collect donations
for various projects. Each project has a fiscal goal, and you’re not charged
until the end of the donation period (usually 30 days) AND when I’ve made the
stated goal. I’d love to know what y’all think about that idea.
In any case, stay tuned here. Or—if you do these
things—“Like” me on Facebook, as I’ll be posting new demos there as well.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Butch-Ross/55431615966
4. Help me get on Prairie Home Companion
A fan of mine started this Facebook page, kind of an online
petition; to have me on Garrison Keilor’s long running and much loved show. I
think it’s a great idea, and would be a real hoot if I got to do it. Right now
there are 416 “likes” which is impressive, but not nearly enough to make the
folks at PHC take notice. So, if you Facebook, go here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-want-Butch-Ross-on-Prairie-Home-Companion/132568563454384
and “like” it. And Hurry! Rumor has it that Garrison may retire soon, and I
don’t think I’ll be able to keep a straight face if the “News from Lake
Woebegone” is read by Ryan Seacrest.
Okay that’s all the news I got. Thanks for reading this far.
C-ya Out there
-Br
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Spring Thaw Fling this weekend, with DOUG BERCH!!!! and web cast is now up online
Happy Leap Day to you!
Spring Thaw Fling - with Butch Ross and Doug Berch!
Charles F. Alley Memorial Park (Geneva Hills)
2805 Old Logan Road
Lancaster, OH 43130
United States
740-243-4210
http://www.genevahills.com/directions/
Teaching two workshops
Beyond Beginner and up - I Don't Improvise, I Just Make Stuff Up: Using a series of games and exercises we'll learn how to free up inhibitions and start improvising. Make your favorite tunes better, keep yourself interested in lengthy jams and maybe eventually create your own arrangements or tunes!
Intermediate/Advanced - Contemporary Rhythm Workshop.
Ready to graduate from Bum Ditty? Learn rhythmic forms from genres such as jazz, rock and world music. learn to swing and shuffle, syncopate and and play poly-rhythms that breath new life in to old war horses.
The flyer's up on my facebook page if you need more info (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150636879369712&set=a.10150116331884712.296967.768934711&type=1&theater)
Well this has got to be fun. An chance to jam and hang out with Doug Berch is time well spent. Oh and he's pretty good on them dulcimers of his.
Also, the web cast is now available for viewing online at http://vimeo.com/37430256 in shockingly vivid HD (well, shocking to me anyway) there's a little tech glitch with the sound at 4:11 that you need to be prepared for (it's a bad cable) but overall I think Phillip Luckey did a really great job of it.
The tunes on it are ones I've been kicking around for a while, like "Brothers on a Hotel Bed" but also some old folk songs and some really old original tunes, including one i wrote for a band I was in in College. It's kind of amazing to me that with a loop pedal and a mountain dulcimer I can recreate an arrangement that two guitar and a drummer did all those years ago.
Of course, we weren't as good them. :-)
Anyway, if you want to watch it (or watch it again) it's here: http://vimeo.com/37430256
No word on when (or if) the EP will be done, but I got plenty of ideas to kick around.
So again this weekend...
Spring Thaw Fling - with Butch Ross and Doug Berch!
Charles F. Alley Memorial Park (Geneva Hills)
2805 Old Logan Road
Lancaster, OH 43130
United States
740-243-4210
http://www.genevahills.com/directions/
Oh, I just saw as I was typing this that Davy Jones died. Too bad, I liked him.
C-ya out there.
--Br
www.butchross.com
Spring Thaw Fling - with Butch Ross and Doug Berch!
Charles F. Alley Memorial Park (Geneva Hills)
2805 Old Logan Road
Lancaster, OH 43130
United States
740-243-4210
http://www.genevahills.com/directions/
Teaching two workshops
Beyond Beginner and up - I Don't Improvise, I Just Make Stuff Up: Using a series of games and exercises we'll learn how to free up inhibitions and start improvising. Make your favorite tunes better, keep yourself interested in lengthy jams and maybe eventually create your own arrangements or tunes!
Intermediate/Advanced - Contemporary Rhythm Workshop.
Ready to graduate from Bum Ditty? Learn rhythmic forms from genres such as jazz, rock and world music. learn to swing and shuffle, syncopate and and play poly-rhythms that breath new life in to old war horses.
The flyer's up on my facebook page if you need more info (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150636879369712&set=a.10150116331884712.296967.768934711&type=1&theater)
Well this has got to be fun. An chance to jam and hang out with Doug Berch is time well spent. Oh and he's pretty good on them dulcimers of his.
Also, the web cast is now available for viewing online at http://vimeo.com/37430256 in shockingly vivid HD (well, shocking to me anyway) there's a little tech glitch with the sound at 4:11 that you need to be prepared for (it's a bad cable) but overall I think Phillip Luckey did a really great job of it.
The tunes on it are ones I've been kicking around for a while, like "Brothers on a Hotel Bed" but also some old folk songs and some really old original tunes, including one i wrote for a band I was in in College. It's kind of amazing to me that with a loop pedal and a mountain dulcimer I can recreate an arrangement that two guitar and a drummer did all those years ago.
Of course, we weren't as good them. :-)
Anyway, if you want to watch it (or watch it again) it's here: http://vimeo.com/37430256
No word on when (or if) the EP will be done, but I got plenty of ideas to kick around.
So again this weekend...
Spring Thaw Fling - with Butch Ross and Doug Berch!
Charles F. Alley Memorial Park (Geneva Hills)
2805 Old Logan Road
Lancaster, OH 43130
United States
740-243-4210
http://www.genevahills.com/directions/
Oh, I just saw as I was typing this that Davy Jones died. Too bad, I liked him.
C-ya out there.
--Br
www.butchross.com
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Chattanooga show this weekend with a WEBCAST, New EP preview... Plus New Video online.
Friday, Feb 24th - 8:30pm
Market Street Tavern
850 Market St.
Chattanooga, TN 37402
(423) 634-0260
http://www.marketstreettavern.com/ (site is under construction)
I'm much later getting this out than I would have liked, but a lot of
things have come together at the last minute, and I wanted to get them
all nailed down before I announced them.
This Friday (that's tomorrow for most of you) I'll be doing something
that I haven't done in Chattanooga for quite some time...Play a show.
No bells no whistles, no scratch my back, no Christmas spectacular, no
tributes to Springsteen, or Dylan or Emmit Rhodes. Just me doing what
i do when I'm not in my hometown. I'll be previewing a bunch (if not
all) of the songs in contention for my new EP "Gone"
Oh and it's gonna be webcast. So maybe there is a bell or whistle after all.
Details to follow probably tomorrow, but the long and the short of it,
you will be able to watch on my facebook page (the band page, not the
personal page) and even if you can't make it live there will be video
posted after the fact.
But me playing to an empty room and having that broadcast across the
many tubes of the interwebs is not my idea of a good time. So, if you
can make it, I'd love to see ya there. If you're too far away, there's
always facebook.
In other news, I've posted a real simple video for the song Pole
Position from my 2009 album "A Long Way From Shady Grove" it features
the old video game Pole Position (natch), played by someone who was
way better at that game than I was. It's not a great video, but
especially useful as an office time-waster. You can watch it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEVQn1TST7M
Okay, that's all, I'll C-ya tomorrow (one way or another).
--Br
Market Street Tavern
850 Market St.
Chattanooga, TN 37402
(423) 634-0260
http://www.marketstreettavern.com/ (site is under construction)
I'm much later getting this out than I would have liked, but a lot of
things have come together at the last minute, and I wanted to get them
all nailed down before I announced them.
This Friday (that's tomorrow for most of you) I'll be doing something
that I haven't done in Chattanooga for quite some time...Play a show.
No bells no whistles, no scratch my back, no Christmas spectacular, no
tributes to Springsteen, or Dylan or Emmit Rhodes. Just me doing what
i do when I'm not in my hometown. I'll be previewing a bunch (if not
all) of the songs in contention for my new EP "Gone"
Oh and it's gonna be webcast. So maybe there is a bell or whistle after all.
Details to follow probably tomorrow, but the long and the short of it,
you will be able to watch on my facebook page (the band page, not the
personal page) and even if you can't make it live there will be video
posted after the fact.
But me playing to an empty room and having that broadcast across the
many tubes of the interwebs is not my idea of a good time. So, if you
can make it, I'd love to see ya there. If you're too far away, there's
always facebook.
In other news, I've posted a real simple video for the song Pole
Position from my 2009 album "A Long Way From Shady Grove" it features
the old video game Pole Position (natch), played by someone who was
way better at that game than I was. It's not a great video, but
especially useful as an office time-waster. You can watch it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEVQn1TST7M
Okay, that's all, I'll C-ya tomorrow (one way or another).
--Br
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