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
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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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