Saturday, July 11, 2009

NYTimes Article about Collectors of Blues 78rpm Discs

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/arts/music/12petr.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

The "United (Airlines) Breaks Guitars" Saga

Dave Carroll posted this to YouTube after trying to get satisfaction from the airline that broke his guitar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
Excellent song, I think!

And got some results:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay7hFIYQFnw

And then CNN covered it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpQNWNN_HS4

And Fox too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay7hFIYQFnw

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Wall St. Journal: The Sisterhood of Bluegrass

Alison Brown, Missy Raines, Dale Ann Bradley:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124701433834009187.html#mod=article-outset-box

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Martin Guitars Introduces Less Expensive Guitar-Model

Wall Street Journal, 7/8/09

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124683752846098045.html

Festival Update Take 7

July 10 – 12: Solarfest, Tinmouth VT
http://www.solarfest.org/

July 16 - 19: Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Oak Hill NY
http://www.greyfoxbluegrass.com/

July 17 & 18: Green River Festival, Greenfield MA
http://www.greenriverfestival.com/

July 18: 16th Annual Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival, Florence/Northampton MA http://www.glasgowlands.org/

July 23 - 26: Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Hillsdale NY
http://www.falconridgefolk.com/

July 24 – 26: Lowell Folk Festival, Lowell MA
http://www.lowellfolkfestival.org/index.html

July 25: Blackstone Valley Celtic Festival, Webster MA

www.blackstonevalleycelticfestival.com

July 30 - Aug 2: Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival, East Hartford CT http://www.podunkbluegrass.net/

July 31 - Aug 2: Champlain Valley Folk Festival, Ferrisburgh VT
http://www.cvfest.org/

Aug 1 & 2: Newport Folk Festival (George Wein's Folk Festival 50), Newport RI http://folkfestival50.com/

August 14 - 16: Philadelphia Folk Festival, Upper Salford PA
http://www.pfs.org/PFF.php

Sept 12 & 13: Boston Folk Festival, Boston / Dorchester MA
http://www.bostonfolkfestival.org/

From Gideon Freudmann's newsletter:

A couple years ago one of my tunes wound up in an episode of Weeds. Two more tunes are in the current TV series season - one song called Choose Me Waste Me Please was recorded several years ago with Holiday Clocks (a duo with Peter Cummings), and another called Cello Bop was on my Cellobotomy CD. AND, I got invited to attend the wrap party with the cast and crew of Weeds in Hollywood later this month. Now I need to buy a fancy shirt.
In celebration of his success, here's a Gideon-video from a few years back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ucj1JYhzY

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Sarah Jarosz on Austin TV

http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/sarah-jarosz-sings-on-tv/