[ From Butch Ross ] Shows in Southeastern PA and Frederick, MD and a return to an old form.

[Butch Ross]

Jun 9, 2010 – Chattanooga
Terminal Brew house - Happy Hour 5:30 to 7:30ish
6 E. 14th Ave
Chattanooga, TN 37408
423-752-8090
www.terminalbrewhouse.com

Admission to this gig is free but you’re gonna wanna get dinner there too.

Jun 11-12, 2010 – XFEST
An all-day event, I play Saturday at 5:40pm
Country Creek Winery
133 Cressman Road
Telford, PA 18969

All Fest Tickets ($45)
Single Day ($20.00 Friday, $30.00 Saturday)
Children Under 11 always free.

June 14, 2010 - Frederick, MD – 7:30
Songwriters' Showcases at Brewer's Alley
124 North Market Street (route 355)
Take elevator to 2nd floor
www.brewers-alley.com
Full dining available till 9 pm; limited menu thereafter; full bar

True Story.* This afternoon, I had a conversation with a lawyer in a bar
(that always goes well) and instead of writing this email to you all, I
listened to him blather on about how he doesn’t understand technology and
how it keeps him from the face-to-face communication he prefers. “I like to
talk to people.” he lamented. I would have told him about how useful I found
Twitter to be in keeping all y’all updated (sort of) while I was overseas,
but I didn’t really want to tell him what I do for a living because that
would have led to a comparison of jobs, the likely result being that at some
point he would have chided me about living in a state of suspended
adolescence and I would have reminded him that my job always involves making
things (be they CDs, Books, or experiences) and his job often involves
taking things away from people.

Then I would have said that Woody Guthrie line “ain’t never seen an outlaw
rob a family with a fountain pen” and the conversation would have been over,
with him turning away as he mumbled into his scotch**

I’ve returned to an older form of email missive in honor of my old roommate,
Adam Brodsky’s, snarky writing style, because he was largely responsible for
getting me into this weekend’s event: The Extreme Folk Festival. Now it’s
not what you think, there’ll be no rock-climbing, extreme motocross or
freestyle wheel barrowing*** nor will there being anyone warbling through
“more than words.”**** But there will be a bevy of genre-breaking,
risk-taking acts that fit in between the XFS twin mission statements of “the
promotion and dissemination of folk music, with a determined emphasis on
that which is original, daring and extreme” and “kick ASS music.”

It will be held at the Country Creek Winery in Telford, PA, which is in
southeastern Pennsylvania, somewhere in the vicinity of a much larger (and
frankly not quite as cool*) folk festival I will also be attending later
this year.

Again, let me give big thanks to Adam for getting me into this festival,
even tho’ his efforts most likely just consisted of him repeatedly saying
“but he’s not like that anymore!”

Now, for those of you who have been asking me to do something in the DC
area, well, this is as close as I could get on short notice. I will be
performing as part of the Songwriters' Showcase at Brewer's Alley in
Frederick, MD. Basically, a  “songwriter’s showcase” is an open mic with a
vetting process, but that means it’s pretty likely that everyone else
performing that night is also very good. You get the best seats if get
dinner, and there’s a suggested donation of $6 to $10 that goes to the
featured performer (who is NOT me, but is very good). I will also be doing
something similar at Jammin’ Java towards the end of August.

Finally, I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who supported me in the
UK either by buying the live CD, downloading it, or just following the
antics on facebook/twitter/website. I don’t mind repeating ad nausea what I
once heard Ritchie Havens say on stage, “I get to be up here, because you’re
out there.” So thanks again.

C-ya out there

-Br

Those shows again

Jun 9, 2010 – Chattanooga
Terminal Brew house - Happy Hour 5:30 to 7:30ish
6 E. 14th Ave
Chattanooga, TN 37408
423-752-8090
www.terminalbrewhouse.com

Admission to this gig is free but you’re gonna wanna get dinner there too.

Jun 11-12, 2010 – XFEST
An all-day event, I play Saturday at 5:40pm
Country Creek Winery
133 Cressman Road
Telford, PA 18969

All Fest Tickets ($45)
Single Day ($20.00 Friday, $30.00 Saturday)
Children Under 11 always free.

June 14, 2010 - Frederick, MD – 7:30
Songwriters' Showcases at Brewer's Alley
124 North Market Street (route 355)
Take elevator to 2nd floor
www.brewers-alley.com
Full dining available till 9 pm; limited menu thereafter; full bar


Footnotes

*Not a word of this is true.

**Actually it was Cranberry and Vodka, which says to me he probably wasn’t a
very good lawyer.

***God, I wish that I were making that up.

****Not on my watch anyway.