[ From Butchross ] First Chattanooga show this weekend! SEODF next weekend.

[Butch Ross]

11/03/2007
10:00 PM
J.J.'s Bohemia
231 MLK BLVD.
Chattanooga, 37402
Cost: $5.00
Playing with Christabel and the Jons (a cool swing band from  
Knoxville) and The New Binkley Brothers.


11/9-11/2007
Southeastern Ohio Dulcimer Fest
The Federal Valley Resource Center
Stewart, Ohio 45778
Cost: $35 advance, $40 day of.
A weekend dulcimer festival featuring long in-depth lessons with  
Jerry Rockwell, Steve Seifert, Steven K. Smith and myself. This is  
going to be small but very cool.

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Originally I had planned to make this a longer missive, but was faced  
with writer’s block, and really no desire to type. So instead, I  
thought I would just write a quick email to tell you about the  
upcoming shows. Now I’m looking at the mess before you.

Also, I’m co-writing this email with my cat, Ellie, who has decided  
(like most cats do) that the most comfortable spot in the room is  
between you and whatever it is you’re doing right now. She got into a  
fight with another neighborhood cat and ended up with a big festering  
ball of infection that needed lanced. So now she trotting around with  
a disgusting draining wound on her butt and one of those lampshades  
around her neck to keep her from ripping out her stitches, she hates  
it and looks ridiculous. It’s Halloween today, I think I’m gonna  
dress her up as a daisy.

The last tour up through Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia was a  
really great time. I wrote a review of the week on my web site, and  
my Myspace page. Myspace is great; they don’t accept rss feeds so I  
have to write everything twice. Plus it’s exactly like being on AOL  
circa 1996. Anyway, I posted some pics and some video both at  
butchross.com and Myspace.com/butchross. Go check it out.

After I got back from that tour I decided to stay off the road until  
the end of the year. So I could play local shows and get to know the  
new neighbors I haven’t seen since we moved here. Tho’ I’ve played a  
lot of outdoors-y event-type stuff, and sat in with other folks (even  
playing three gigs in a single day two weeks ago), Saturday will be  
my first local club show here. On the bill are the Binkley Brothers  
(http://www.myspace.com/newbinkleybrothers), who are a local old-time  
band, and Christabel and the Jons (http://www.christabelmusic.com), a  
swing band from Knoxville. I have been telling everyone that I would  
recommend this show, even if I weren’t on the bill, and it’s true.

The weekend after that I will be back up in Ohio, at Jerry Rockwell’s  
Southeastern Ohio dulcimer festival. This will be a technique  
intensive festival with longer and smaller classes from me, Jerry,  
Steve Seifert and Steven K. Smith. There will also be a big Saturday  
night concert that is going to feature a lot of collaboration and  
jamming. It’ll be held, as usual, in the community center, which is  
an old school, just outside of Athens in Stewart, Ohio: A small town  
just up the road from (I’m not making this up) Guysville, and  
Coolsville. This is going to be best kept secret in dulcimerdum (is  
that a word?) and if you really want to learn to play well, you  
should make the trip.

I’ve also spent the better part of the last few weeks holed up in Dan  
Landrum’s studio working on my Christmas CD. As those of you who have  
been on this list for a while will remember, in 2003 I released a CD  
of Holiday tunes that was my first true mountain dulcimer project. I  
recorded that in an unused apartment in my building, with a minidisk,  
a borrowed folkcraft dulcimer, and Pro-tools free. I got reverb by  
wiring my computer to my Fender amp’s reverb unit. I had been looking  
to update it for some time, and this was the opportunity to do so. I  
also was able to add some new tracks, including a few played on a  
Hungarian Cittera, the Hungarian version of the mountain dulcimer  
(that thing is so cool).

In the near future I’ll be posting more about it, including how you  
can get it for free. But I want to wait a bit before I do. Christmas  
seriously starts waaaaaay too early these days.

So again, to recap, Saturday at JJ’s Bohemia in Chattanooga, next  
week at Jerry’s festival in Ohio, and there’ll be a Christmas CD  
coming that you can get for free.

I really thought that this would be a short email.

C-ya out there.

-Br

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11/03/2007
10:00 PM
J.J.'s Bohemia
231 MLK BLVD.
Chattanooga, 37402
Cost: $5.00
Playing with Christabel and the Jons (a cool swing band from  
Knoxville) and The New Binkley Brothers.


11/9-11/2007
Southeastern Ohio Dulcimer Fest
The Federal Valley Resource Center
Stewart, Ohio 45778
Cost: $35 advance, $40 day of.
A weekend dulcimer festival featuring long in-depth lessons with  
Jerry Rockwell, Steve Seifert, Steven K. Smith and myself. This is  
going to be small but very cool.


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