Acoustic Americana Music Guide, Oct 1 through 12
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(If you’re impatient, click to go there right away: .
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com )
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A top-notch FESTIVAL happens this weekend, as the 2nd annual “UNDERWOOD FAMILY FARMS FOLK FESTIVAL” arrives in Moorpark, with FUR DIXON & STEVE WERNER, MARY McCASLIN, SUSIE GLAZE, SIMON PURE, TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT, THE HOLLOW TREES, MOIRA SMILEY (of VOCO) & ANDY TABB, CHRIS CAIRNS TRIO, & THE CATERWAILERS, all day Sat & Sun, starting at 10 am both days, different lineups. That’s after Fur & Steve play an evening with MARY McCASLIN at the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena on Oct 1! And THERE’S MORE:
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The annual “SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UKULELE FESTIVAL” is in Cerritos, while Saturday evening brings the 11th annual “EAGLE ROCK MUSIC FESTIVAL” with over 40 musical acts, including BONNE MUSIQUE ZYDECO. In the OC all day is the annual “HARVEST FESTIVAL OF DULCIMERS” with KIM McKEE, KEN WILLSON, and DAVE HAAS, in Dana Point. In the SFV is the annual “GRANADA HILLS STREET FAIRE” with multiple music stages, including one booked by and in front of the Blue Ridge Pickin’ Parlor. And all over L.A. is the fifth annual “MUSEUMS FREE-FOR-ALL” weekend when more than twenty Los Angeles–area museums ands arts institutions offer free admission. Out east, this is the closing weekend for music (and everything else) at the 2009 L.A. County Fair in Pomona. And you thought you were going to spend a boring weekend with the TV.
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And there are boatloads more festivals NEXT weekend, when Sunday, Oct 11 is especially crazy (yep, that’s in this edition, too).
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It’s inevitable, if you’re into music, that October is Rocktober, even in the land of acoustica. Call it what you will as you adjust to the end of those extended summer outdoor concert series. BUT WAIT! There’s a WHOLE LOTTA outdoor music THIS MONTH, even after this weekend in Moorpark. There’s the annual “TASTE OF ENCINO / TASTE OF FOLK MUSIC” on Sun, Oct 11, the annual “OLD TIME FIDDLERS” event in Santa Barbara the same day, AND a new ACCORDION FESTIVAL in Orange County that same day, too, PLUS the annual “LONE PINE FILM FESTIVAL” with top-notch music, Oct 9-11, and MORE!
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Of course, it’s all here in the Guide, along with sooooo much REAL music you can see and hear LIVE, without embellished studio overproduction, soulless drum machines, pitch correction software, or other treatless tricks from Big Music’s bag of nonmusical fakery.
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The editor still can’t use the computer as his recovery continues to progress from eye surgery – but he does contribute some colorful phrases and somehow coax a coalition of the willing to keep it all going.
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WANT TO HELP? We can send info for you to format and send back to us for inclusion in the Guide! Of course, we want to include YOUR acoustic gigs in Southern Cal or at festivals everywhere (and these days, it’s really important that we receive your events ready to go in the Guide’s format).
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This update is made possible by the combined efforts of many, in many places. We continue to format the unbelievable amount of info that the editor already had in the Guide’s database, and combine all of it. (He’s got stuff here into late 2010 already.) We hope to post the remainder of October’s events soon, and keep this thing going without interruption.
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The editor thanks everyone for the cards and letters and tasty edibles and homemade treats, and for whatever well-wishes await in the mountain of emails that he can’t yet read. A few at a time, we are starting to read them to him (there are over 2,700 there, waiting!)
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Tied to the Tracks
ACOUSTIC AMERICANA
MUSIC GUIDE
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OCTOBER 1 through 12, 2009 EDITION
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Herein is an almost incomprehensible number and variety of live acoustic performances all across the L.A. region, at festivals everywhere, and on radio shows that feature live performances and/or interviews with acoustic musicians that are available on the web. So go enjoy some wonderful live acoustic music!
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OCTOBER’s live acoustic performances happen at concert halls, coffeehouses, clubs, bars, parks, band shells, fall festivals, and theaters and amphitheaters indoors and out, and all of it awaits you at
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http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com
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The last of September is still available, at http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2009/09/acoustic-americana-music-guide-sep-26.html
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(Yes, you can give your friends the url, even if it reveals they don’t need to call you anymore to learn what’s happening.)
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Yes, it’s true –
There are more ACOUSTIC AMERICANA / ACOUSTIC RENAISSANCE music performances EVERY week in the Los Angeles area than the COMBINED TOTAL of ALL OTHER KINDS OF MUSIC!
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(And that doesn’t even take into account the dozens of electric Americana shows!)
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PLUS, you can check out Larry Wines’ September column in FolkWorks. It’s available free online at www.folkworks.org/content/viewcategorycur/89 and it’s a time of remembrances for the late musicians MIKE SEEGER and DAVID CARRADINE, and for WOODY GUTHRIE’S guitar.
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NEWS FLASH!
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RADIO NEWS: the return from hiatus of the syndicated “TIED TO THE TRACKS” radio show is delayed, due to the producer / host’s ongoing recovery from eye surgery. (At least he has time to listen to all those submitted CDs that arrive daily!) We’ll keep you posted.
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