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6 months ago

in Sister Hazel at Fillmore NYC on Random Musings
I belive you like Cherish the Ladies. I recently subscribed to the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Club in Fairlawn. Cathy Ryan of Cherish the Ladies will be playing there Saturday January 10.
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hadar Thanks Alan! We're just getting back then, so I don't know if we can make it. But, we already have tickets to see them on April 1st at the Barns at Wolftrap, so you are correct that we like them a lot! :-)

8 months ago

in Cherish The Ladies at Towne Crier Cafe on Random Musings
I just came across a notice that Cherish the Ladies is playing at Riverspace in Nyack, NY on Saturday December 20, 2008. I thought you might be interested. FYI, Jerry Douglas was interviewed on WFUV.org on Sunday October 26 by John Platt. You can hear it in the archives.
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hadar Thanks for both heads ups Alan. We're already planning on seeing Cherish The Ladies in late March at the Barns at Wolftrap, so this could be a treat we can experience sooner than that!

1 year ago

in Alison Krauss is Awesome on Random Musings
Though I don't listen to Grisman much these days. The flute part doesn't grab me, Grisman was essential to my musical growth in the 70s and 80s. I listened to a lot of bluegrass in those times. There was more live bluegrass in NYC then. Doug Tuchman (I think that was his name) had a series at the Seaport in the summer before it became the "Seaport" and a winter series at NYU in a beautiful theatre on LaGuardia Place that I think has been torn down.

The David Grisman Quintet album created a whole new genre of music and helped me explore whole new areas and get me to Stephane Grappelli who I adore. I am a lover of swing music in all its acoustic and mostly non-horn variations. Give me a fiddle and any type of guitar playing swing music and I am a hppy camper though somehow Django Reinhardt never grabbed me.

1 year ago

in Alison Krauss is Awesome on Random Musings
This may be out of chronological order as I clicked on a few of your links but I thought I would recommend two bluegrass records that are exemplary standards of two different styles. 1) Seldom Scene's "Live at the Cellar Door" and "Old and in the Way" a project with Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Vassar Clements and others. Both recorded in the early mid-1970s. The Seldom Scene was one of the first bluegrass groups to rearrange "modern" songs in a bluegrass style. The harmonies are superb as well as the instrumentals with a terrific dobro player. Old and in the Way you might be familiar with. It is definaltely bluegrass and some of the musicians actually played with Bill Monroe but it has an incredibly loose feel to it that is hard to describe. There are about three different versions of the album. Start with the original.

1 year ago

in Bromberg and Angel Band at Paramount Theater on Random Musings
You have an interesting website. You really get around. I just thought that I would add that I saw the David Bromberg Band in Red Bank this past Friday (2/22/08). It was a great show. I prefer him with the horn section than without. I thought your comments about his guitar playing were very accurate. I have seen him about five times in the last few years. I am not so crazy abolut the Angel Band. Good harmonies, just not to my liking.

I tried to login but got wierd messages. Alan
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hadar Thanks Alan!

When you say you tried to log in, to my site directly, or to the Disqus commenting system (which is not run by me, it's an outside service that I use to drive the commenting on this site)?

I am not sure I allow people to create their own accounts on my system, and if I do (by some WordPress default), then that might be screwed up by my use of an OpenID plugin. That one didn't like https in the OpenID URL in past incarnations.

If it's Disqus, that's a different matter, and might involve registering for an account in a separate step.

In any event, thanks for sharing your experience from Friday night!

Here's an irony for you. David Bromberg and the Angel Band are playing tonight at the Birchmere Theater in Alexandria, VA. We drove down today from NY to VA. On the way down, we passed Alexandria. I mentioned to my wife that we could have timed the ride to catch David, but that I didn't really care enough. She didn't either...
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