From butch at butchross.com Thu Oct 23 09:13:55 2008 From: butch at butchross.com (Butch Ross) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:13:55 -0400 Subject: [ From Butch Ross ] Shows and workshops this weekend: Louisville, Chicago, and Evansville Message-ID: Friday, Oct. 24 - 9pm Jenicca's Caf? and Wine Bar 636 E. Market Street Louisville, KY 40202 502-457-1487 myspace. com/jeniccas Saturday, Oct 25 - 9pm Uncommon Ground 3800 N. Clark St,. Chicago, Il 773-929-3680 www. uncommonground. com Sunday, Oct 26 - 4pm Dulcimer Workshop: If you like one tune, you'll like 'em both. Camp RevealEvansville, IN. England was an amazing, amazing time. The shows all went really well, and the badn i was touring?the Matt O'Ree Band? were a great bunch of guys, as well as being really excellent musicians (sadly, there are few bands who are both) If you like Blue-Rock a la the Allman Brothers, I strongly urge you to check them out. http://mattoree.com/ It looks like we'll be going back over to England again real soon. I'll keep you posted. I'll also put up a longer blog post with pics and stuff from the trip real soon. I just need to find some long boring conference to sit through, hey!... This week in Louisville is the annual meeting of the American Folklore Society, it's the must-see event for those who share my "side job" as Folklorist. Since most of my professors and classmates will be there asking "so what have you done with your degree?" I decided to show 'em, and booked myself into a jenicca's, A hip little wine bar in downtown Louisville. I like Louisville, even started to write a song about it, 'cause i just hate that "8 more miles to Louisville" song. It's been too long since I've been there, it'll be good to be back. It's also been way too long since I've been at the awesome Uncommon Ground coffee shop in Chicago, 2218 days to be exact. I know this because the Uncommon Ground web site maintains a page where they list how longs it's been since you've played there. They also stream their shows on their web page, so even if you're not in the Chicago area, you can still listen online. I play at 9pm (central time) Finally, I'll be back at Camp Reveal in Evansville giving a dulcimer workshop and a mini-concert at 4pm that Sunday. The workshop will is called "if you like one song, you'll like 'em both." The title is a joke about old-time music, but the workshop will dwell on how to find similar musical phrases in different tunes, we'll learn three tunes over the course of the hour and a half workshop. The workshop is $20. There you go, since success in this business depends on keeping the overhead low, I'm hoping to avoid booking into a hotel in Chicago, so if any of you would like to put up a slightly disheveled folksinger for a night, drop me an email at butch at butchross.com (don't reply to this address, it just goes into a spam-filter neverland). c-ya out there. -Br Friday, Oct. 24 - 9pm Jenicca's Caf? and Wine Bar 636 E. Market Street Louisville, KY 40202 502-457-1487 myspace. com/jeniccas Saturday, Oct 25 - 9pm Uncommon Ground 3800 N. Clark St,. Chicago, Il 773-929-3680 www. uncommonground. com Sunday, Oct 26 - 4pm Dulcimer Workshop: If you like one tune, you'll like 'em both. Camp RevealEvansville, IN. From butch at butchross.com Thu Oct 30 13:10:59 2008 From: butch at butchross.com (Butch Ross) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:10:59 -0400 Subject: [ From Butch Ross ] Upcoming shows including JJ's TONIGHT! Message-ID: TONIGHTJJ's Bohemia MLK BLVD Chattanooga, TN With Matt Bohannon and Gabriel Newell, in the round. Oct. 31 through Nov 2 South East Ohio Dulcimer Festival Federal Valley Resource Center (FVRC) Stewart, Ohio Tel: 740-662-3011 Teaching a master class on "The Box Technique" Sunday Morning Hey y'all: November is shaping up to be the busiest month for me yet, so I thought I'd post the upcoming dates a little ahead of time (they're listed at the bottom). Steph Hayes and Chris Shultz had car trouble, forcing them to cancel tonight's show at JJ's, but Gabriel Newell and Matt Bohannon are gonna play instead. so it'll be a "songwriters in the round" thing. This weekend I'm going up to Jerry Rockwell's festival in Athens, this is kind of payback for me, jerry gave me a shot when no one had heard of me all those years ago. From that one festival I got 5 shows, including an introduction to Nancy Barker at Kentucky Music Week. I pretty much have a career from Jerry taking a chance on me. Sunday I'll be teaching a "master class" on the Box Technique. I've taught this at a variety of festivals this year. But this Sunday we'll have the time to really knuckle down and get a firm understanding of how it works. The workshops are $35 each. You can find out about the rest of festival and who's gonna be there at jcrmusic.com. and November 6th is "noogapalooza" 10 bands, 10 solo acts, 5 hours of continuous music for $10 and a good cause. This is a must-see if you live in Chattanooga (or even if you don't) There's more good stuff on the horizon, but i don't wanna jinx it. I'll be in touch soon. C-ya out there. -Br P.S. Those other shows: 6 Nov. 08 - Thurs. 6pm Noogapalooza A benefit for Re:Sound Rhythm and Brews Chattanooga, TN Nov 7 and 8th, 2008 Heartland Dulcimer Club Fall Festival First Presbyterian Church, 1016 Pear Orchard Rd Elizabethtown, KY with Christie Burns and Heidi and John Cerrigione. See web site for schedule and costs: heartlanddulcimerclub.org/fallfest.html Nov 14-15 2008 Suwannee Dulcimer Retreat Stephen Foster State Park White Springs, FL with Bing Futch, Dan Landrum and Aaron O'Rourke Nov 20-23 2008 Unicoi NGFDA Fall Festival Unicoi State Park Helen, GA