[Callers] A contact for a fiddler in Modesto trying to meet the musical community
Jim McKinney
stringtet at charter.net
Wed May 16 13:31:51 PDT 2018
Hi Ken,
There’s a South Bay Old Time Session that meets on a regular basis. Larry Joba manages the mailing list. Here’s his latest report on their last session.
Jim
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Larry Joba <larryjoba at aol.com <mailto:larryjoba at aol.com>>
> Date: May 16, 2018 at 12:44:55 AM EDT
> To: South.Bay.Old.Time-296.contacts at list.us <mailto:South.Bay.Old.Time-296.contacts at list.us>
> Subject: South Bay Old Time 5/14 now on line
>
> 5/20 Sunday EOP
> 5/21 Monday 7-9 pm South Bay Old Time session in Palo Alto http://www <http://www/>.showman.org/jams/oti/ <http://www.showman.org/jams/oti/>
>
>
> Fandango Pizza has closed. We are now meeting in the Fireside Room at Palo Alto Unitarian Universalist Church, 505 E Charleston. https://goo.gl/maps/jF1eX5nbQvu <https://goo.gl/maps/jF1eX5nbQvu>
> We will be meeting here for the foreseeable future.
>
> I have loaded the files onto gdrive, as my dropbox account was running out of memory.
> I have now added the tracks from the 5/14 session and updated the listings.
> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ngE33OcetrRFlJYW4zYWJCU00&usp=sharing <https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9ngE33OcetrRFlJYW4zYWJCU00&usp=sharing>
> or if this one is easier to remember: http://tinyurl.com/p722tyf <http://tinyurl.com/p722tyf>
>
> We played 45 tunes selected by 18 people. This brought the number of tracks up to 10,971
> Newly recorded tunes: A May Pole Song & "Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes"
> We now have 623 different tunes and songs from 285 sessions with 239 different people selecting tunes.
> I'm attaching the new sessions as PDF files and the performance grid as an XLS.
>
> Here is the updated link to the complete list
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9ngE33OcetrNmR1cU1ja1FXeDQ <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9ngE33OcetrTzhkSGgwS2h1bTQ>
>
> Read about the session here: http://www.showman.org/jams/oti/ <http://www.showman.org/jams/oti/> (Updated 1/08/2018)
> _________________________________________________________________________
> SOME OLD TIME LINKS:
> Library of Congress website with Alan Jabbour's field recordings of Henry Reed from the mid 1960s
> http://www.loc.gov/collections/henry-reed-fiddle-tunes/ <http://www.loc.gov/collections/henry-reed-fiddle-tunes/> ;
>
> Nashville Old Time String Band Association https://notsba.org/ <https://notsba.org/%C2%A0>;
>
> Hetzler's Fakebook http://www.hetzlersfakebook.com/ <http://www.hetzlersfakebook.com/> ;
>
> Tater Joe's - From Ken Torke (& Mark Wardenburg) http://www.taterjoes.com/ <http://www.taterjoes.com/> ;
>
> Bay Area Country Dance Society http://www.bacds.org/ <http://www.bacds.org/>
>
> Ray & Barb Leach who visited from Centralia, Washington host the Centralia Old Time Campout
> www.centraliacampout.com <http://www.centraliacampout.com/> and also a monthly session http://www.parlorpickers.com/ <http://www.parlorpickers.com/>
>
> Ryan "Captain Fiddle" Thomson and his son Brennish who visited from New Hampshire
> http://www.captainfiddle.com/ <http://www.captainfiddle.com/> https://www.youtube.com/user/4stringjoe <https://www.youtube.com/user/4stringjoe>
>
> Traditional Tune Archives http://www.tunearch.org/wiki/TTA <http://www.tunearch.org/wiki/TTA> ;
>
> I also include a folder of tunes performed by the Canote twins, Greg & Jere which was contributed by Dan Murphy.
> This folder also contains a PDF of Samuel Preston Bayard's first book "Hill Country Tunes"
> The Canotes grew up in Los Gatos and moved to the Seattle area.
> They have performed as the Small Wonder String Band.
> In addition to being fine Old Time musicians, they have also performed as their alter egos, the Spoonoplians.
> I first saw them do this at the SFFMC New Years camp in the early 80s
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25rzoPslGnI <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25rzoPslGnI> ;
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTHch1YtYNs <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTHch1YtYNs> ;
> from 1979
> http://www.well.com/user/dmsml/pt/pt79/spinop_1.jpg <http://www.well.com/user/dmsml/pt/pt79/spinop_1.jpg>
> http://www.well.com/user/dmsml/pt/pt79/jere_greg.jpg <http://www.well.com/user/dmsml/pt/pt79/jere_greg.jpg>
>
> If you haven't been here for a while (or if you have never been), please come and join us.
> We now meet almost every Monday at the Palo Alto Unitarian Universalist Church from 7 to 9 pm.
> http://www.uucpa.org/main/location.html <http://www.uucpa.org/main/location.html>
>
> Read about the session here: http://www.showman.org/jams/oti/ <http://www.showman.org/jams/oti/> (CHECK FOR PETE'S RECENT UPDATES!)
>
> Larry
> ps FOGIES = OLD TIMERS
> FANDANGO = The place (unfortunately closed) where we had many years of good music, pizza and other food.
> _________________________________________________________________________________
>
> On May 16, 2018, at 2:56 PM, K Panton via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not a member of the musicians list and I may have success here, hence this post.
>
> A client informed me that his 20-something daughter - fiddler since 5 - had moved to Modesto, CA a year ago and not yet linked in with a community of musicians. She has apparently sat in with the Old Sod Band here in Ottawa at some point for a dance. I've not met her.
>
> At this point, having recently started a new job, she may not be actively seeking musical contacts. Nonetheless, if anyone can suggest a contact for her - Bay area? Sacramento? Alvin, Yogi, Smoky in Yosemite? - which I can pass along, I would be happy to do so.
>
> Ken Panton
>
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