Acoustic Americana Music Guide, Nov 18 through 20

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Even when The Guide only brings you a day or two to tide you over, you’ll always find extensive event listings and descriptions, and a bit o’ news you won’t get anywhere else…
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Tied to the Tracks
ACOUSTIC AMERICANA
MUSIC GUIDE
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NOVEMBER 18 through 20, 2009 EVENT LISTINGS
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Yep, even MID-WEEK, there are concerts, club gigs, coffeehouse shows, acoustic open mics, (more than you can go see, even if have a hovercraft or a helicopter or one of those rocket backpacks), plus workshops for artists.
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And if you’re so broke you’re stuck at home, check out our listings for RADIO SHOWS with performance-interviews with acoustic musicians (mostly on web simulcasts, of course). It’s all here for you, at http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com
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3 NEWS QUICKIES:
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1) BE PART OF PASADENA’S LARGEST FOOD DRIVE this weekend at the “Fork in the Road,” where Pasadena Av divides from St. John and creates a triangle N of Bellfontaine (all just N of California Av, near Huntington Hospital).
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On Sat & Sun, Nov 21 & 22, you can do a drive-by drop-off of food for Union Station Homeless Services, from 8 am to 4 pm, and “Put the Fork in Hunger,” as the event’s name says.
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So, why did you read this in the Music Guide? Well, because the “Fork in the Road” – an 18 foot high fork sculpture, was recently dedicated as a guerilla art placement in honor of the 75th birthday of Coffee Gallery Backstage impresario Bob Stane. In addition to being honored with the fork, Bob just received the Folk Alliance FAR West Ambassador Award for all he does to support folk-Americana and acoustic artists. As he is wont to do, Bob is giving back to the community, once more, with Ken Marshall, the fork’s creator. And this time, everyone can help! More info? Call Philip Coombes at 626-644-3227 or email phil@agentphil.com
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2) YOUR VOTE selects winners in the 2009 “INDEPENDENT SINGER SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION (ISSA) SONG CONTEST.” See the list of nominees and hear song samples at http://issa-music.org/song_contest2009_nominees.htm. Winners in this year’s contest are determined by online fan vote, which runs Wed, Nov 18 through Tue, Nov 25.
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Nominees include DALE LaDUKE, a past “Tied to the Tracks” guest whose original song, “The Lone Ranger,” became a “Listener Favorite” on the radio show. That’s the song that’s now vying in the ISSA Folk Category.
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In the Adult Contemporary Category is a song by SUSAN PICKING, whose music has been heard on “TttT.”
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You can vote for your favorite nominees at
www.issa-music.org/voter_reg_songcontest.php
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In parallel, the judging panel will review all nominee submissions to select the winner of the $2,000 grand prize and title of “ISSA Singer-Songwriter of the Year.” Winners from the Fan Vote and the Judging Panel will be announced Mon, Nov 30.
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3) ATTEND A LIVE TV TAPING, on Fri, Nov 20, at 3 or 4 pm, of “THE LATE LATE SHOW” with Craig Ferguson. Rather suddenly, on Wed, Nov 18, the show announced two rare Friday tapings. Free tickets are available to be in the audience at CBS Studios in Hollywood, with arrival times of 3 or 4 pm. Producers tell us, “If you’ve ever had trouble making one of our Monday-Thursday tapings, or if you just want to start your weekend right, use the link below to print free tickets!” The link is www.ocatv.com/latelate.
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We don’t know who the guests are, but we do know that guests from radio’s “Tied to the Tracks” have later performed on this nationwide network TV show.
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Entire contents copyright (c) © 2009, Larry Wines. All rights reserved.
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