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Minutes of the July 15, 2007 meeting
Since there was no newsletter in August, the July minutes seem out of date, but are included here for your information.
For the next couple of months, we'll focus on two gigs: Labor Day celebration in Centennial Park and "Dulcimer in the Park" at White House on the Saturday following. For Labor Day, Glen will be coordinating with Metro Parks, but we expect a stage in approximately the same location, at the north end of Lake Wautagua and possibly playing "When the Saints Come Marching In" with the Dixieland band similar to last year. (Glen led the practice session, vocally imitating the sound of the band; it's guaranteed to call ducks and geese off the lake if he does it in the park). "Dulcimer in the Park" is a production of the White House club benefiting their middle school's dulcimer program. Our club will play as a group on the open mike part of the program. Please wear GODC tee shirts and name tags. There is a place on their program for open mike for any individuals that wish to play apart from our club's time. Let's plan on finding a place for supper together and hearing the concert featuring Butch Ross and Steve Seifert. Steve was with us and has added to his "Join the Jam" book with two more: one on flatpicking and low octave parts and one on harmony parts. We've been playing the four parts Tull Glazener gave us for "Spanish Hymn" and the harmony part for "Wildwood Flower" that Sandy gave us. We could add to our ensemble effect if we did more "parts" including chords on some of the songs we usually play.
Minutes of the August 19, 2007 meeting
We held two practice sessions for the Labor Day in Centennial Park gig, one at "deliberate" speed and one at rapid fire succession to mirror the way we will play them in the limited time slot. We sounded great, even a comment that David is behind a cloud smiling at the rendition of "Fisher's Hornpipe." Glen will be the conductor on Labor Day. We need to be there stage ready on time. Additionally, there seems to be enough interest in members of this club taking the open mike stage at "Dulcimers in the Park" celebration, 2 pm, September 8 in White House. Plus, there may be time available for anyone who wants to solo or play a duet, as individuals. Chester and Sue have directions and tickets for the 6 pm concert by Steve Seifert and Butch Ross. Additionally, there are six to eight "definites""and a few "maybes" to jam together at one of the two rest stops for bicyclists as they pedal to "Jack and Back" for MS research. "Jack and Back" is 75 miles from Franklin to Lychburg, and the two rest stop locations are 25 and 50 miles from Franklin.
Jack Daniels is reputed to put on quite a feast and show at their distillery on Saturday night and musicians are their guests. Bob Yeager is in charge of coordination, please phone Bob at 615-373-1909 if you are interested in learning more. Judy led an active beginner's session at the August meeting. Beginners are welcome. Brush off your Christmas songs for the September meeting. We need to talk about holiday plans and gigs.
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The weather was great under the shade trees and the big stage did quiet down at just the right moment so we could do our thing. About 24 showed up for the Centennial Park Annual Labor Day Festival. Everyone showed up in plenty of time to get tuned and warmed up before our time for the stage. Thanks to everyone for the good show! Special thanks to Wanda O'Guin for getting our songs off
with a good strong 1..2...3...LETS PLAY! and to Norma Bonds for leading Fishers Hornpipe with a good strong fiddle call! The group did a fine job and made a super showing for the Grand Old Dulcimer Club.
- Here's something to put on your calendar. You'll get more information in the spring. There will be a conference on the Southern Gospel Convention-Singing Tradition at MTSU on April 4-5, 2008. We were introduced to the shape note singing at Grand Old Dulcimer Day this year and if it piqued your interest, you might be interested in the conference. It will be listed in the upcoming events below too.
- Butch Baldassari is currently undergoing chemotherapy and related treatments for brain cancer. Butch and David shared an office at the Blair School of Music and created some beautiful music with their mandolin and dulcimer. Although not a dulcimer player, Butch is certainly an honorary member of our dulcimer community. If you would like to send good wishes to Butch, you can mail a card to Butch Baldassari, 125 43rd Ave. N., Nashville, TN 37209. There's a great slide show as we all Band Together for Butch! A benefit concert is planned for late October. Details will be emailed to you when they are available. Contributions can be made to the Butch Baldassari Medical Fund.
- Judy Beier is planning to attend the North Georgia Dulcimer Festival in Helen, GA on November 15-18 and is looking for company to share the experience. E-mail Judy if you are interested.
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Sue Sutton and Nancy Seifert played for Miss Garner's third grade class at Glendale Elementary School last May. Each student got to play our dulcimers. Sue's grandson, Roark Leutgens, had fun with his grandmother. He now has a small dulcimer just his size which he is learning to play.
The picture at the right is of Sue Sutton's grandsons, Geoff Leutgens, age 12, 8th grader at JT Moore and Roark Leutgens, age 9, 4th grader at Glendale Elementary, when they visited the Dulcimer Dandies in August at the Martin Center in Brentwood and joined in our jam session. Tradition Continues!
- Kort & Law Performance - On Sunday July 22, local dulcimer-guitar duo Kort & Law (Zada Law, dulcimer and Kort Nygard, guitar) played a live one-hour radio show on WRVU 91.1 FM. Zada & Kort were the featured guests on the show "Bogarted Funk." Their hour of live acoustic dulcimer & guitar music included a chance to win their CD, "Ten Strings" by calling in to answer a dulcimer trivia question. The highlight of the hour was when Zada's niece who is stationed at Ft. Bliss, Texas, called the radio station and said she was listening on the internet. WRVU is Vanderbilt's radio station and streams audio at www.wrvu.org.
- Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour
At the left is a photo taken at a recent WoodSong's Old Time Radio Hour Production that featured The Nashville Dulcimer Quartet, Jean Ritchie, and Jeff Hames. Sandy Conatser says, "Instead of saying "cheese" we were saying "Ritchie!" It was sooooooooooo much fun!! We were in an old restored movie theater and being there, sitting between Jean Ritchie and Jeff Hames was an amazing experience! You can see the archived show on the WoodSongs website (http://woodsongs.com). There are audio and video both. Go to the Woodsongs site, click on the radio hour icon and then click on the archive link on the left. We're at the top! (#450). It was a wonderful night for all of us and I'm so glad you can share in it! While you're at the WoodSongs website, check out David and Butch Baldassari (#377) and Jean Ritchie (#187).
- Dulcimers at the Wilson County Fair - Helen Mason successfully sent us this update on the Dixie Dulcimers - success with computers and email is sweet, as anyone who's done it can tell you. On Monday evening, August 20, 2007, the Dixie Dulcimers performed at the Wilson County Fair in Lebanon. Ann Avrit, Norma Bond, Helen Mason, Lisa Combs, Rudie Smith, Theresa Tomlinson, and Miriam Slaughter entertained fairgoers with a varied selection of music. At one point in the evening's entertainment, the audience joined in with lively renditions of "Red River Valley" and "Rocky Top." A special thanks goes out to Theresa Tomlinson for her hard work in organizing our playout. We were all extremely grateful for the airconditioned building (not to mention the 6 ceiling fans)! We hope to have this become an annual event for our club.
- Kindred Gathering
Mary Ann Asson-Batres attended Kindred Gathering 33 on August 10-12 that was held at a private residence in the beautiful coastal range setting at Rainier, Oregon. Participants set up tents and camping accommodations and everyone shared an outdoor kitchen where an excellent selection of food was contributed, cooked and shared by all of the 100 or so teenagers to old agers that were in attendance. The Kindred Gathering has been gathering since 1975 when Robert Force and Albert d'Ossche "returned to the Northwest after the previous winter's East Coast debut tour for "In Search of the Wild Dulcimer" (Dulcimer Players News, vol 33 no 1, page 4). Maddie McNeil had just published the first issue of Dulcimer Player's News at this time. Ideas meandered around for awhile and then Robert and Albert sent Maddie a flyer with a hand-drawn inviation to "A North Pacific Rim Kindred Gathering - a meeting for friends of modes and dulcimerie in Search of the Wild Dulcimer" and from there grew an annual event of dulcimer players, builders, and admirers that has continued to come together somewhere along the West Coast for 33 years. David Schnaufer lists Robert Force as one of the people who influenced him early on. I could see how this could be while watching Robert's style of playing. Each went off in their own direction to become masters of their instrument, but a tie between these two great musicians was unmistakeable. I met a new friend and dulcimer player from Nacogdoches, TX while there. It was also her first time at The Gathering and we were the only two from our neck of the woods. You can hear and see Robert Force at his website http://www.robertforce.com/ He also has a full copy of "In Search of the Wild Dulcimer" there, which is an instruction book for playing the dulcimer.
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Click here to reach "Remembering David Schnaufer," a web page which will link you to the descriptive panels which accompany David's dulcimers as exhibited by the Tennessee State Museum. There are other links there as well including the April 14 Appalachian Celebration which honored David at the Blair School of Music. You need RealPlayer or Windows Media Player to view it. You can download them free if you don't have them. Enjoy!!! It's a beautiful tribute to David and an awesome show!!! The show is also accessible directly through this link - http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/blair?id=35371
- White House Dulcimer Club Festival
The fiirst annual Dulcimer in the Park festival was held in White House, TN on Saturday, September 8. There were workshops by Stephen Seifert in the morning, jamming' throughout the day, an open stage in the afternoon, and an evening concert. Open stage participants included Freddy Brown, Sue Claiborne and Wanda O'Guin (top left), Ray Hunley (top middle), Rob, Peni Rowe and their friend Rex North (top right), The Grand Old Dulcimer Club (row two left), and the White House Heritage Dulcimer Ensemble directed by Grace Guill, teacher at White House Heritage Middle School. Stephen Seifert and Butch Ross played an interesting rendition of "Take 5" at the evening concert (row two middle). Proceeds from the festival will benefit the White House Heritage Middle School's dulcimer program. Thanks to Chester Page (row two right), a member of the White House Dulcimer Club and the Grand Old Dulcimer Club for organizing the festival.
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- Bob Yeager and Denise Gartin are coordinating the "Jack and Back" playout. Here is the information. If you would like to participate, contact Denise (dlgartin@yahoo.com) or Bob (bobyeager2@comcast.net) with your name, address, email address, t-shirt size and the day(s) and location(s) where you would like to volunteer. We will also talk more about it at the Sunday meeting.
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1) The cyclists will leave from Page High School in Franklin, TN early
Saturday morning. They will stop for lunch at the Tennessee Fire
Services and Codes Academy in Bell Buckle (this is a mandatory check in for
all cyclists). The Fire Academy is a great facility; if the weather is
good, you all can play outdoors; if not, we can move the festivities
inside, where Olive Garden will be providing lunch. We are hoping you
can provide music from 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 6.
2) The finish line on Saturday is at Motlow State Community College.
Cyclists start pedaling in from 2:00 p.m. - on; there are some
exceptional athletes who will arrive before noon, but that is the exception; most
arrive between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m., where they park their bikes,
shower, take advantage of a massage, and relax before taking a shuttle bus to
the Jack Daniels distillery for a BBQ dinner and program. Some
cyclists camp on site at Motlow (looks much like a tent city), others stay at
Tullahoma hotels, where we provide a shuttle bus to and from Motlow. If there are any wayward dulcimer players in the Tullahoma area who
would like to play at Motlow on Saturday afternoon, from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00
p.m., we would welcome them.
3) On Sunday, October 7, we get everybody up and do it all again in
reverse. Cyclists leave Motlow and head back to Page High School in
Franklin. For whatever reason (tailwinds, "it's all downhill"- I've heard
several different explanations) the ride on Sunday is usually faster than
Saturday. We are hoping to have dulcimer music at the finish line at
Page on Sunday from 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. There will be a live band
playing for an hour or so at some point (I think around noon), but again,
the dulcimer music can be wherever the live band is not; inside the
cafeteria, where Monell's will be providing lunch, for instance.
In summary, here are the three spots available in priority order - 1) the Fire Academy
on Saturday, 2) the finish line at Page on Sunday, and 3) the finish
line at Motlow on Saturday.
Other information for you:
Anyone who volunteers for both days is invited to the party on the
hill sponsored by Jack Daniels on Saturday evening. As I told both of
you, because of space requirements (the Pavillion at the distillery can
only accommodate a certain number of folks) we restrict attendance to
cyclists and two-day volunteers (and we still have close to 1,000 people
at the party; quite a crowd!)
Hotel information: the following hotels in Tullahoma are offering
discounted rates for us:
- * Excutive Inn, 1410 N. Jackson Street, phone 931-455-4501 rate
$48 (mention Jack and Back)
- * Jamison Inn, 2113 N. Jackson Street, phone 931-455-7891 rate $65
(mention Jack and Back)
additional Tullahoma hotels include:
- * Hampton Inn and Suites, 1922 N. Jackson Street, phone
931-461-5222 (regular rate)
- * Lynchburg Country Inn, 423 Majors Boulevard Route 55, Lynchburg,
phone 931-759-5995 (regular rate)
Of course, if you have any campers, they are more than welcome to pitch
a tent at Motlow. We try to make it as comfortable as possible for
everyone; there will be shower facilities available, we have access to the
gymnasium and restrooms, and breakfast on Sunday morning will be
provided by Miss Mary Bobo's.
As someone who has lived with MS since 1992, I sincerely appreciate you
thinking about joining us; I know you will add so much to the ride!
....Thanks!, Kathleen Cullen, Jack and Back Coordinator
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< l i > September 22 - Mountain Dulcimer for Beginners with Stephen Seifert
at the Renaissance Center (www.rcenter.org ) in
Dickson, TN, 10 am-4pm - Learn about holding, stringing, tuning, strumming
and fretting the mountain dulcimer. Stephen will cover a number of simple
songs. There will be a lunch break 1-2 p.m. Cost $55. To register call
615-740-5533.
September 28 & 29 - 31st Annual Great American Dulcimer Convention, Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Pineville, KY, 606-337-3066
Saturday, September 29, 9:00 a.m-4:30 p.m. Central Time - Cumberland Dulcimer Club, presents Mountain Dulcimer Workshops by Joe Collins at the Fairfield Baptist Fellowship Church, Fairfield Glade, TN., Workshops for novice and above.
For more information, contact Carolyn Miller at cardan@frontiernet.net or call 931/456-4465.
October 12-13-Autumn Acoustics, Jefferson College, Hillsboro, Missouri, website http://www.autacoustics.com/
October 13-Second Annual Red Hill Music Festival, United Methodist Curch, Sumner, Illinois. A number of workshops will be offered and hour-long classes will start at 9:00AM. Registration fee is $10.00. Tull Glazener, Chris Carlisle and Bob and Sherry King will teach classes in all levels of mountain dulcimer playing. Marilyn Barrett will offer auto-harp classes, Doug Hawf will teach guitar, and Dylan Hawf, fiddle. Bo Rice will introduce students to the banjo. For more information, contact Jerry Pacholski at (618) 943-5610, or Brad or Jennifer Schilt at (618) 936-9038.
October 18-21 - Dulcimer Chautauqua on the Wabash, Hotel: 1-800-782-8605, ask for Sherrie. E-Mail Maureen Sellers at maureensel@aol.com.
November 9, 10, 11 - Smoky Mountain Dulcimer Retreat, Townsend, TN, Reservations - Valley View Lodge 1-800-292-4844, Nancy Basford 865-483-1121, jbasford@netstarcomm.net
November 15-18 - Annual NGFDA Fall Festival at UNICOI State Park
Lodge, Helen, Georgia, contact Mike VanDemark (404-822-3666)
April 4-5, 2008, "FARTHER ALONG" - A Conference on the Southern Gospel Convention-Singing Tradition - Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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