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April 1 - Thurs- Paula and Karan will be performing at the Keystone Heights Farmers Market located in the city park across from the Keystone Beach at 4:00-6:00.. (In the event of rain, it will be postponed)
April 2-4 - THE FLORIDA STATE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL (see below for details)
April 4 - Farm to Family Music event in Alachua (see below for details)
April
4, 5- Courtney (our daughter) will be performing at the FSU circus at
FSU under the BIG tent in Tallahassee at 2pm on both days. On April 4
she will be doing a balancing act on the ground. On April 5, she'll be
doing an aerial performance. whoohooooooo!!! (Her sister, Bailey (the FSU Squirtle), will be watching with her family from the bleachers..)
April 3, 4, 5 - Will McClean Festival in Dunellon
April 11 Melrose Plein Art Event- DIM LIGHTS will be performing at the Melrose Bay Art Gallery 6-8pm- (see below for more detail)
April 16 - Thurs- Dim Lights (Ned, Gerald, Karan & Chuck) will be performing at the Keystone Heights Farmers Market located in the city park across from the Keystone Beach at 5:00.. (In the event of rain, it will be postponed)
April 23 Thurs- House Concert at Karan and Chuck's with "BILL STAINES" (more later) whoohoooooo!! Call 386 659-2041 for directions and info
April 25- MULLET RUN will be performing at the Arbor Day event in Ocala 11:45- 3:00 at the Discovery Science & Outdoor Center located at 701 N.E. Sanchez Avenue
April 25- The POTLUCK POACHERS (Pete,
Pat, Karan,& Chuck) along with the Cross Crk Cloggers will be
performing for the Benefit dinner at U of FL for Kids with Cancer in
the Oconnel Center
April 24- 25 - Barberville Spring Frolic - Music Festival- Hartline will be performing on Sunday
May 1, 2, 3 - Gamble Rogers Festival at the St. Johns Fairgrounds
May 22, 23, 24- Florida Folk Festival in White Springs Dim Lights, Hartline and the Cross Creek Cloggers will be performing
May 30 - Swing Shifters (Mike Elias, Frank Lorenz, Karan, Ron Spencer) will be performing at the Palatka Riverfront 6-8pm
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FARM TO FAMILY ANNIVERSARY SHOW
APRIL 4th 2009
April is the Farm to Family Music Anniversary show.
This show will be the first show of the 5th year, and we have a great
show planned. Be sure to check out all of the music samples and videos
on the web site, and those early acts are really good too. http://farmtofamilymusic.com
Saturday April 4th 2009 :: Show time 3:00 pm
Gate Opens at 1:00 pm
$10 to $20 Sliding Scale
Regwa
Umoja Orchestra
3rd Stone
Quartermoon
Michael O'Meara
The Bandits
Brian Smalley
Kicking off the show this month will be Brian Smalley
- Brian is a song writer from the Orlando Area and has been coming to
the shows for a couple of years. I'm glad that we are going to have
him play this month.
Next up is The Bandits - They came out and played
an open mic a few months ago and I knew I just had to share thier music
with everybody. Beautiful harmonies of all original songs. Be sure to
listen to there audio samples on the web site. My favorite is Sister
Pritchard.
Then Michael O'Meara will play an original set.
Original ballads with a flavor of Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, and Bob
Dylan. Click Michael O'Meara at the top of the web site and you will
go directly to his music.
Quartermoon returns this month.
They have been with Farm to Family from day one. New originals are
showing up each month. There style has been change over the years.
Check out their video and audio on the web site.
Also if you are going to the SpingFest at the Spirit of the Suwannee
March 26 - 29th, Be sure to catch Quartermoon at the Old Florida Stage
on Friday at 3:10 and on Saturday at 5:50 and remember to visit the
night time, Quartermoon hosted, Jams at the Bill Monroe Tent in the
camp ground.
Umoja Orchestra is up next. . . I have been hearing so many good things about this band. Umoja
Orchestra, is an eleven-person afro-beat, Latin music band. Abre La
Puerta is the sophomore album by Umoja Orchestra, a group that has
become a household name in Gainesville for their irresistibly danceable
rhythms and “Umoja Means Unity” vibe, which feels like everybody’s
invited to their party. They play with a stylistic sophistication and
playful ease on stage that exceeds their youth and sells out shows.
“We play not just for ourselves and not just the audience but for the
community that allows us to do what we do,” he said. “This is what the
album is for — thank you for lending us your ears.”
3rd Stone plays next. The
band continually reaches for the perfect mix of genres to form their
own uniquely irresistable style. 3rd Stone's original tunes soulfully
blend rock, blues, funk, afro beat and a splash of reggae to create a
sound appeal that transcends all bounderies of age, gender and style.
Closing the show from Richmond Va is Regwa
Drummie
Zeb presents... Reggae, Regwa and Dub ~A~ Delic. Zeb didn’t just wake
up one day and find himself a member of The Wailers. He’s been playing
drums, accomplishing his love for rhythm over the past thrity years.
The event that really set things up for Zeb with The Wailers came when
he was playing with Awareness Art Ensemble, the two groups on the same
bill. He sat in on their sound checks, playing alongside Aston “Family
Man” Barrett, the original bassist of The Wailers who produced,
arranged and wrote much of the band’s legendary catalog. Zeb ended up
playing on the same bill as The Wailers numerous times each year,
maintaining his relationship with Aston “Family Man“ Barrett. Twelve
years ago, an Awareness Art Ensemble manager who had also worked with
The Wailers heard that The Wailers needed a drummer. Shortly Zeb found
himself playing in the most internationally renowned reggae band,
enhancing his creativity as an artist now driven to bring new sound and
rhythm to the masses. With “It’s Rolling Bob” CD 2006, with Sanctuary
records the project produced by Dr. Dread and Drummie, “Serve Somebody”
played internationally with great success.
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Open Air Arts presented by the Bellamy Road Fine Arts and the Melrose Bay Art Gallery
75 REGIONAL ARTISTS
Artists on site all week, April 1- 8. Maps and artist location information available at both galleries.
Artists will focus on the lake front of Melrose Bay on the weekend, April 3 - 5, and welcome spectator observation.
Work created during the week will be on exhibit during the Gala and will continue through April during regular operating hours.
The Conservation Trust for Florida presentations will be held at Bellamy Road Fine Arts:
April 4, 2:00 pm
April 11, 3:30 pm
We will be open during this event from April 1 to April 8 every day
from 10 to 5 p.m. and Saturday April 11 from 6 to 10 p.m. when both
galleries will have a reception and awards will be given.
Amanda and Scott Anderson will be playing on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at Lightnin' Salvage at Satchel's Pizza in Gainesville, FL from 6-9pm. (352)335-7272
More info at http://scottandersonmusic.com/appearances.htm. Hope to see you there.
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From John Allison:
Dear Friends,
Last night someone broke into
Grampa's Music in St. Augustine and found the keys to their van and
then picked out the most expensive guitar and loaded up.
If you have
any music stores in your address book would you please foward this list
of missing items to them. Please do not send this list out to the
general public, If you know someone that you have know for a while
that might be able to also send this to dealers. That is OK, but we
are afraid that this may be someone that we know and we would really
like to have them take one of these pieces to a music store and try to
sell it.
Thank you for you help.
John Alison
Here is a list of what was taken:
1. OME Banjo, Silver Sweetgrass bluegrass style. Serial #5427.
2. Early seventies Martin D-35. Has very low action because the under the sadle pickup has been removed.
3. Sweet Lutherie Dreadnaught. Rosewood B & S, Spruce to and Purpleheart on the head stock.
4. Ibanez solid body white with monkey grip #F0300460.
5. Gibson ES-330 red.
6. Compass Rose Tenor Ukulele, Koa.
7. Fender Strat 1986 orange with some finish damage.
8. Brian Moore 1999 cherry sunburst DC-1, serial #D226.
9. Gretch Monkee's only came in one colar kind of an orange/red.
10. Paul Reed Smith Custom-22, wineberry.
11.3ea. Sure SM58 Microphones.
Well that's what we are looking for.
Thanks again for your help.
Grampa's Music
804 Anastasia Blvd
St Augustine Fl 32080
(904) 819-5797
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Here's a cool Youtube on sheep herding at it's finest! k
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April 2-4, 2009
Forest Capital State Park
Hwy. 19 South ~ Perry Florida
THE FLORIDA STATE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL:
Featuring...
Rhonda Vincent
& the Rage, Mountain Heart, Charlie McCoy, Pure & Simple,
Mueller Family, Southern Lite, Swinging Bridge, Sawgrass Band, Charlie
McCoy, Ernie Evans, Tallahassee Fiddlers, and many more...
Only 15.00!
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Biography of Bill Staines:
For over thirty five years, Bill has traveled back
and forth across North America, singing his songs and delighting
audiences at festivals, folksong societies, colleges, concerts, clubs
and coffeehouses. A New England native, Bill became involved with the
Boston- Cambridge folk scene in the early 1960's and, for a time,
emceed the Sunday hootenanny at the renowned Club 47 in Cambridge. Bill
quickly became a popular performer in the Boston area. In 1971, after
one of his performances, a reviewer for The Phoenix stated that Bill
was "simply Boston's best performer." A decade later, both in 1980 and
1981, the annual Reader's Poll of The Boston Globe selected him as a
favorite performer. In 1991 , Bill entered his forth decade as a folk
performer with an international reputation as an artist.
Singing mostly his own songs, he has become one of
the most popular singers on the folk music circuit today and averages
around 200 concert dates a year.
Bill weaves a magical blend of wit and gentle humor
into his performances, and as one reviewer wrote, "he has a sense of
timing to match the best stand-up comic." His music is a slice of
Americana, reflecting with the same ease, his feelings about the
prairie people of the Midwest or the adventurers of the Yukon.
Interspersed between original songs, Bill also
includes songs ranging from traditional folk tunes to more contemporary
country ballads and delights in having the audience participate in many
of the numbers. He may even do a yodeling tune or two- having won the
National Yodeling Championship in 1975 at the Kerrville Folk Festival
in Kerrville Texas.
A number of Bill's songs have been recorded by other
artists including, Peter, Paul, & Mary, Makem and Clancy, Nanci
Griffith, Mason Williams, The Highwaymen, Glen Yarborough, Jerry Jeff
Walker, Grandpa Jones, Priscilla Herdman and others. Bill has recorded
twenty-two of his own albums, fifteen of which are still in print.
Additionally, Bill's songs have been published in four songbooks, If I Were A Word, Then I'd Be A Song, River, Music To Me, The Songs of Bill Staines, and All God's Critters Got A Place In The Choir. Two of the books contain nearly one hundred of Bill's songs.
Radio and TV appearances have included A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, The Good Evening Show
and a host of local programs on PBS and network TV. Bill continues to
drive over 65,000 miles a year, doing what he loves, bringing music to
people.
http://www.acousticmusic.com/staines/bsbio.htm
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