February 27, 2005
Women In Song
Caribbean Women Network
Celebrates International Women’s Day
Women In Song
The flavor is International! Local female singers and musicians from around the world to entertain you!
Gospel
Classical
Jazz
Spanish
African
Caribbean
Bluegrass
And More!
Program Opener
Women’s Day Talk
By Dr. Malinda Smith
Associate Professor and Assoc. Program & Global Governance Coordinator
University of Alberta
Join us for a fun afternoon as we celebrate with women the world over,
the strides made towards economic and gender equality for women.
Sunday March 13th, 2005
Stanley A. Milner Library Auditorium
7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
1:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Posted by songdawg at 11:19 AM | Music
February 21, 2005
BCBW 2005
We are not going this year but if we were we would registering ASAP.
BCBW Registration Open
Sorrento Centre will open tomorrow to accept registrations for both the 2005 Bluegrass and Swing Workshops! We’ve planned another three weeks of great workshops and all of the details are available at our updated website (http://www.musicworkshops.ca)
Have a look and reserve your spot by calling Sorrento Centre after 9AM tomorrow.
Phone: 250-675-2421 • Fax: 250-675-3032 or email: info@sorrento-centre.bc.ca
We've got more of the best instructors you've come to expect and some fantastic new ones. Our program always leaves people with great experiences and fond memories.
If you have specific questions about the workshops or the program, feel free to call Jay Buckwold (Director) at 604-737-0270 or email jay@musicworkshops.ca or contact our Program Director, Steve Fisher at fisheng@telus.net
NOTE: Sorrento Centre will process all applications as speedily as possible. In the interests of fairness to all participants, reservations for classes and accommodations will only be considered after 9AM ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21st. The volume of calls on the first day of registration is very high, so please be patient. Any applications including those by email or mail received before February 21st will be held for 2 days until the initial backlog has been cleared. If you don't receive confirmation of your application within 21 days, please call Sorrento Centre to ensure that it was properly processed.
Posted by songdawg at 11:47 AM | Music
February 14, 2005
Marge Gordon CD Release
Bring your friends and join
Marge Gordon
For an evening of music
to celebrate the release of her CD
0-60 in Record Time
With many special guests including Woodbend (Les Eberhardt, George Bayard, Windi Hanson, Terry Lawson, Toby Tellier)
Sunday February 20th, 2005
(Family Day Weekend)
7:00 PM. Doors open at 6.
Salvation Army Church
12404 140th Ave, Edmonton, AB
Tickets: $10 general admission, under 16 free
For tickets contact:
Marge Gordon
Weekends and evenings
tel: (780) 406-5772
email: marge.gordon@shaw.ca
Posted by songdawg at 06:12 PM | Music
February 10, 2005
Winter Jam Camp
Winter Jam Camp was a blast - I am just waiting for Augie to send me some photos to post.
Update: Augie gave me pictures but I haven't had time to put them up. Just to set the record straight - he's not the slacker. I am. :)
Pictures coming soon...
Posted by songdawg at 06:25 AM | Music
February 02, 2005
Winter Bluegrass Jam Camp
Only two more days until the NBCMS Winter Bluegrass Jam Camp at Camp He-Ho-Ha.
Friday, February 4 - Sunday February 6, 2005
Posted by songdawg at 09:15 PM | Music
Uptown Bluegrass
Woohoo! George McKnight's Uptown Bluegrass radio show is now available on the web. Thanks George! Now I can listen to you on the way to work.
Posted by songdawg at 09:12 PM | Music
Great Tool to Rip CDS
My favourite tool to rip CDs is dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC). It's free and easy to use. It has great track tagging and is fast and simple. And there are no nags, popups, hidden spyware or bundleware. I use it to rip my favourite cds to mp3 and then I transfer them to my mp3 player.
Posted by songdawg at 07:38 PM | Music
February 01, 2005
MSN Music and Smithsonia Folkways Recordings
From an email circulating on the NW Bluegrass list:
"Today we are announcing an alliance between MSN Music and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. The agreement will provide the diverse Smithsonian catalog, which offers hard-to-find historical music and sound, for download for the first time.
The catalog features nearly 35,000 tracks in genres such as American Folk, Blues, Latino, Jazz, Classical, World Music, Children's, Spoken Word, Natural Sounds, and a catch-all category for a unique collection of sounds called "From
the Nation's Attic."
The Smithsonian section of MSN Music (http://music.msn.com/smithsonian ) is set up to make it easy for listeners to explore the archive and discover music that interests them. The section is divided into 10 genre pages, with each one containing historical music and artist information as well as recommended tracks to download. The genre pages are as follows:
* American Folk Traditions. Comprising music predominantly from the 1940s to 1960s, the selection includes American bluegrass and folk singers; rural mountain ballads, hymns and melodies; musical traditions for labor, worship, lament and celebration; old-time square and contra dances of the South and Appalachia; and the first country music.
* Blues. This page provides a springboard to a range of regional blues styles --
Piedmont and New York blues, Texas, Mississippi Delta, Southwest, St. Louis and
Chicago blues. Blues can be heard here as a form of emotional release, political
vehicle, humor and medicine. The selections include vaudeville blues and
contemporary reinventions, folk-revival blues, white mountain blues, boogie,
jazz and barrelhouse blues, vocal harmony blues, and electric rock blues.
* Latino Roots. The Smithsonian's collection of Latino roots music includes
nearly 2,000 tracks, with artists such as Nati Cano's Los Camperos, Luiz Bonfa,
Cuarteto Patria and Compay Segundo. The listener can browse through the
collection and find Latino roots music from the Caribbean to the Andes and from
Brazil to the American Southwest.
* World Traditions. This offers a selection of the world's many ways of music,
from Mbuti Pygmy rhythms to Tuvan throat singing, a Peruvian call to clear the
waterways, Bahamian music, men singing as they work in Papua New Guinea, night music from Sumatra and much, much more.
* Children's. These are old songs, new songs, play-party games and poems,
selected from among many hundreds of outstanding recordings for and by children. These materials include songs by legends such as Woody Guthrie; Mike, Peggy and Pete Seeger; and Suni Paz. This section also includes dozens of full albums from Ella Jenkins, Folkways' all-time most popular and best-
selling artist, who received a GRAMMY Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.
* Jazz/Avant-Garde. Folkways' jazz selection includes James P. Johnson and Mary Lou Williams, piano solos, big bands, Latin, cool and bebop styles, to name a few. John Cage and David Tudor's collaboration, "Indeterminacy," a milestone in the history of instrumental and electronic music, is here as well.
* Classical. The Folkways collection of classical music includes such wonders as
Hyman Bress' multiple volumes of violin and other string repertoire, and great
performances from Soviet-era master musicians. Emory Cook's label (Cook Records) adds a good number of fine classical music performances to demonstrate his superior audio reproduction technologies.
* Spoken Word. Storytelling from nearly everywhere in the world is found here as part of an encyclopedia of the human experience of sound. Interviews, poetry spoken by fiery poets and read by passionate poetry lovers,
public speeches by men and women (famous or forgotten), living history,
lectures, language instruction, drama, isolated phonemes -- the building blocks
of language -- are all here. Some of the most famous tracks include FDR's
inaugural speeches, excerpts from President Eisenhower's campaign album and
poetry from Langston Hughes.
* Natural Sounds & More. There was a golden age of sound recording when sounds themselves, natural or manmade, were very much in style, first on the radio and later on the phonograph. These sounds provide us with accounts of everyday life, the history of technology and nature. Folkways contains many human-made sounds that aren't heard these days: steam engines, typewriters and propeller airplanes, as well as sounds from the mid-20th century of a South African homestead, a children's camp, New York streets and playgrounds, monkeys, and sounds made by water, frogs, birds and storms.
* From the Nation's Attic. This section includes a fascinating array of audio
artifacts that don't really fit anywhere else, including music from old sci-fi
films, a lesson from Pete Seeger about how Lead Belly's guitar music is notated,
an old telephone ringing and a square dance.
This is some amazing content and provides a truly unique look at our musical
heritage. The design team did an amazing job capturing the spirit of the
Smithsonian Archives and making it easy to browse and discover the rich content in the catalog. Definitely check it out - http://music.msn.com/smithsonian"