Side Door 6 - June 21st!

Get your Solstice on! The Side Door Sessions will ride again on June 21st.
We've got a bunch of new acts and some old favorites, including:

Andrea Marshall
Jim Kern
The Free Range Possums (a.k.a. the Steele family, and if reports are correct, our old Pal Fritz sitting in)
Dale Cash and Friends
Kendal Weddle's Bluegrass Band

As always, there'll be jammin' galore after the scheduled acts.

$5 gets you music and all the coffee you can drink, and snacks till they're gone.

The Side Door is at the corner of Grove and Third, up on the 2nd Floor.
Email me at chris.burgoyne@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Anybody out there?

Hey y'all! We're happy to be back in the NRV. I love travlin' but we're from Virginia now, and it's good to be home. Being back at the jam was very important to me, so thanks for savin' me a seat. I was pleasantly surprised to learn the identities of three distinct individuals who said they had been reading the blog and following the threads. Anonymity is what it's all about online, but hey, leave a comment! Join the group!

I know I missed some pickin' while I was away, but I aim to catch up.

You're all invited to the 4th of July gig on Hercules street before and after the Java Brothers' big show in Bissett Park at 5:00PM.

Music! Here's another big act besides the JB's playing around this summer:

Fiddles, banjos and ... cellos? Oh my!

The Radford Fiddle and Banjo Jam eased out of the station last night at a relaxed crawl, perhaps in hopes of conserving precious fuel during these dire times. Around 8 p.m., though, we floored it. The crowd got bigger, the musicians played faster (and faster and faster) until we reached cruising speed.
We were pert-near overjoyed to welcome home the globe-trotting Chris Burgoyne family. Chris hasn't lost a step on the 8-string. Glad to have y'all back, Chris, Christine and Isabella!
Susan Gaskins pinch-hit on the bass while Doug sipped a Cappucino-Bianco. Bass players were thick as thieves -- Slash and Chris thumped away outdoors until a storm blew in and chased folks inside. Tim and Scott picked a little on the sidewalk while it was still dry.
Several guests popped in: Tom Steele and his sweet-fiddlin' daughter Bailey regaled us with their musical stylings. Wayne and Joe's old pal John Pierce arrived with his daughter, too, Hannah, the best bluegrass cellist ever to perform at the jam! They say they'll all be back.
Wayne, Joe, Jason, Nancy, Kendall ... who else, who'm I missing? ... all threw down at the hoedown. Another good night in the books.

Tinikling

Little Bird Dance. This is a Filipino folk dance that we saw a group do on the Loboc River. Basically, if you're not fleet-footed like a little Tinikling bird, you'll get chopped by the bamboo poles. We're bluegrassers, we respect a little danger in our music.

Here's a more professional group doing a very involved routine.

More Duke...Django style

Rosenberg Trio.
It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)



True today as it was then.
As Wayne says, "FCP."

Back in the USSA

Hey y'all, we're back and in all complete sets. We lost no luggage, were victims of no crime, and caught no disease. Had good, fun times. Travel is good.

Actually, we came back with more luggage than when we left with--what's up with that?
We humped it from JFK into our buddy's place up in the Bronx. We took the A Train up to Harlem, and then the D past Yankee Stadium. Saw a guy playing latin beats on plastic tubs near the subway, and rode over to see Duke Ellington's grave. Miles Davis is right next to him. Beautful up in the cemetary--feels like your out in Connecticut. Got some real pizza in the Italian section. (Of the Bronx, not the cemetary.) Good times.

Maybe the JBs can get on this one. Doesn't have too many chords.
Take the A Train:


Anyhoo, we're back in PA now and heading to VA tomorrow. Maybe we can do some pickin' this weekend? I'm jonesin' for a Salt Creek or three.

Love me some Brubek and he loved him some Duke. (Wayne--check out Joe Morello; one of my fave drummers.)

CB

Jammin at the Mill

We had a really good jam tonight. Had a nice crowd listening and a good group playing. Let's see, we had myself, Joe, Doug, Nancy, Mary, Frankie, Kendal, and Doug Dalton on the inside. Jason, Dale, Sloane and Slash manned the sidewalk out front. A new fellow showed up and played some banjo and a little mandolin. Finally, Alan Surface, who I met through Joe showed up and relieved me on the mandolin on the inside. He's a mighty good player, too. Timmy Mills came in later and played one or two. Lewis' sister rounded out the group, playing a few on her electrophonic autoharp, and she even danced a little, too.

Everybody took a turn or two making the selections and we kept it going til a little past 10p. It really was a good time.

Ralph, I don't see how Alison and Plant could have been much better. I'm really upset with her straying too far off the path with this one. I've got the CD, and listening hasn't really changed my mind. Hope you had a good time anyway! Chris is supposed to be back in town this week, so we expect some fancy playing out of him next Monday. Only problem may be he has to get the finger tips back in shape, unless he did some playing in the far east. (Not VA beach mind you, but the real far east.)

Anyway, just wanted to post something to let everyone that was absent know how it went.