My Musical Summer Musical Vacation,and yours?

[Rick Schmidlin]

This year I have a cool job so I gotta stay in Vancouver. So for my fifth year celebration of playing mandolin this my plan. I will take three private lessons during the summer. One with John Reishman and another with Mike Compton, also possibly Mike Marshall .I will also go and listen to Sonny Rollins,Chu Chu Valdez,Elvis Costello (for Compton's playing), The Vancouver Internation Folk Fest and The Vancouver Blues Fest.

hat are you musical plans?

[Randi Gormley]

a week of music at catskill irish arts week and lessons there with a couple/three others who play mandolin, and whatever gigs we play in the summer at local irish fests; playing the usual session monday nights and playing duets with my husband.

[Mike Bromley]

After a blast at River of the West with Don Stiernberg & Brian Oberlin, I'm after taking a run at Grand Targhee....

Monster, have you ever been to Sorrento?

[Dave Hicks]

Summer camp for adults - mando and guitar at Augusta Blues Week.

D.H.

[Dave Hicks]

Oh yeah, concerts - Derek Trucks, The Decemberists and Marty Stuart.

D.H.

[GTG]

Monster, have you ever been to Sorrento?

I'm signed up for the Sorrento camp - Radim Zenkl's seminar series. Very excited! A couple of gigs, Calgary Folk Festival, possibly one or two jam festivals planned for the summer before the camp.

MB - you going to Sorrento? Been there before?
-Dan

[Mike Bunting]

Which MB?

[mandopete]

Milton Bradley perchance?

Looks like it's gonna be more like a summer musical staycation for this Mandopete. I have been wanting to go to Sorrento for years and never seem to be able to make it. Hoping at least to get to Chilliwack.

[mandroid]

nothing special , no names to drop. local, with friends,

6-22, 2nd day of summer.

[Mike Bromley]

MB - you going to Sorrento? Been there before?
-Dan

It depends on timing. Presently it falls smack dab on my rotation to Iraq. I've never been there.

MP: What's in Chilliwack? (Aside from Heiden)

MB: We are spozed to go for coffee?

[violmando]

Mine aren't really mando influenced this year, due to finances....I usually do AMGUss, which is in it's last year, but due to only working parttime and earning a 2/3 less of my income, it's a no go. I am doing the Mideast Recorder Workshop in Pittsburgh, which I work at as a gopher, assistant, what have you....I play treble viola da gamba and recorder and love all the people there.
Then in August I am going back for the second time to the East European Folklife Center's NY Balkan Camp--that's a BLAST!!! I am learning both Bulgarian and Macedonian tambura (see avatar) and will be playing my bass domra in the Triangular Liberation Front, also known as a balalaika ensemble, and do some gypsy fiddling. The food and folks are FANTASTIC!!! Mando will be taken care of this coming October as we are hosting the CMSA convention here in Dayton, so I'm calling that my mandolin vacation....Yvonne

[man dough nollij]

No summer.

[mandroid]

you had yours on 21 December , down under, Lee, (and our other AU/NZ friends) didn't you?

[words]

I have an insanely busy summer, but my uncle recently passed away. He was a bit of a ukulele guru and he really encouraged me to play the uke. Mid June, I went to his memorial concert, where I played my uke in front of people for the first time. It was a challenging piece, and I tripped up once or twice, but it was really a magical concert. It was outdoors, and the weather had been so beautiful.

My plans are to become a better mando player. I dont' have much time off, but I do have evenings in the sun, on my back porch with a cup of tea and a sheet of pinky-busting exercises. And I'm going to learn chording. I've learned all kinds of lead work, but I need to learn chording so that I don't come off as pretentious when I go to a jam and I can't figure out what anyone is playing.

Anyway, I hope everyone savors the summer as much as possible.

[Chris Willingham]

acoustic music camp in august in dallas, and portland, maine july 16-24. Very excited.

[mandopete]

MP: What's in Chilliwack? (Aside from Heiden)

Chilliwack Bluegrass Festival

It happens right after Sorrento

[man dough nollij]

you had yours on 21 December , down under, Lee, (and our other AU/NZ friends) didn't you?

Unfortunately, I was in Montana in December! Yikes, I need to work this Earth climate thing out one of these days...

[mandocrucian]

Depending on your ethnicity and folkloric heritage, Midsummer may or may not have passed you by (since it may not be exactly the same as the astronomical summer solostice). So, you still may be able to upgrade your playing abilities (magically)!

In Finland (and probably Estonia too, maybe Sweden) Midsummer is the time for the "Crossroads deal". Except, on Middsummer eve you are supposed to go to river rapids and wait midstream on the rocks until midnight, when the man in black ("Hello, my name is... well, pleased to meet you won't you guess my name?") will appear and you can make the certain "swap", shall we say. (And don't just go for only mandolin proficiency either, hold out for electric guitar, Hammond B-3, Fiddle and especially killer vocal chops as well! And get enough ca$h to hire some pro hired-gun players to back you the way you want without all the democratic arguments, plus buying the appropriate transport vehicles)


Go to rapids, wait, meet......the zombie prince

But if the date has passed you by, you can still put on some warpaint and celebrate (what should be made the next US national holiday) "Chief's Day", on June 26th. June 26th....why does that date seem so vaguely familiar? That's when Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse saved America from vain, narcissistic George Armstrong Custer ever running for (and possibly being elected) president. So the anniversary date of the the Battle of Little Big Horn...a day of celebration for the little guy sticking it to the man.

Should hold you until July 14th (Bastille Day!!!)

[Jack Roberts]

I'll either make a pilgrimage to Acoustic Music in Brighton next weekend, or cross over to Ireland and try to find some live music in Dublin.

[Mike Bunting]

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MB: We are spozed to go for coffee?

You actually in Canada? in Calgary?

[kristallyn]

scotland, where my musical sister and her musical husband live, near the musical pub, and yes ..the very first day there is a concert in the village
taking my guitar and mandoline