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They host Old Time Music gigs and have a Sunday <a href="https://www.theangelsshare.live/event/ctba-bluegrass-jam-at-batch/2024-10-13/">CTBA sponsored bluegrass jam</a>. 3220 Manor Road Austin, Texas 78723 512-401-3025 info@batchatx.com Archive Org Audio archiveorg_audio_embed BachInternationalNight-2026-03-25 Internet Archive Link https://archive.org/details/BachInternationalNight-2026-03-25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Batch International Night, 2026-03-25 Description An account of the resource Another great International Music Night thanks to Darrel, Batch, and AFTM on March 25th, 2026. 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Title A name given to the resource Reel Times - Volume 53, Number 1 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Aaron and Adam Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available AFTM Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2026-02 http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/324/NewReelTimesV52N01.pdf 7c92807acdfb27f532f30302e75eb2d7 PDF Text Text OTAF REEL TIMES SUMMER 2025 drop thumbs not bombs �REEL TIMES SUMMER 2025 EDITED AND WRITTEN BY ADAM BRODKIN AND AARON ZISCHKALE AFTM CALENDAR FRESH SHELLAC.............................................................3 THE DUCK RIVER DISPATCH.....................................4 STARGAZERS WHO CALL THE SHOTS....................5 MAYDAY AT THE WOOTEN'S......................................6 THE GREAT DRONE MYSTAGOGUE........................9 BATCH STRING BAND SHOW CASE.........................11 EMAIL US AT REEL.TIMES.AFTM@GMAIL.COM 1 14 �guitar for an unusually sweet Dock Boggs tune, the wistful old ballad "Papa Build Me a Boat." Rose Grifﬁth completes the group, lending lovely harmonies to Carter Family tunes and bringing a powerful holler to Hazel Dickens' hard-luck number, "Busted." A mainstay of the Show Case has been BYK, a power trio consisting of Joslyn Boyer (upright bass), Zephyr Yellman (ﬁddle), and Tim Keough (ﬁddle and guitar). They forged their sound from summer morning jams (I'll never forget hearing a phone recording of their twin-ﬁddle harmonizing on the old PT Bell tune "Mace Bell's Civil War March." The audience thrills every time Joslyn draws her bass bow from a h on the instrument and bellows a melody. The three of them have curated a fantastic set, and I'm still blown away at how deftly Zephyr twists the pegs of his ﬁddle in and out of rich open tunings to lend each piece a unique sound. The highlight this set was the twisty, BYK serenade at Batch (L to R, Joslyn Boyer, Zephyr Yellman, Tim Keough) winding "Dusty Miller" from Missouri's Gene Goforth, a tune Tim heard a few years back at CROMA from Steam Machine's AJ Srubas. Zephyr wound up winning a ribbon at Clifftop with the tune, and it wowed again at Batch. By this time of the night the place was packed, and I squeezed through the line at the counter for my instruments for the last set. Near the front door, Los Fandangeros played an impromptu happy birthday for a beaming girl, with the crowded room stomping their feet behind the semi-circle of musicians. As the Slaughter Creek Drought Busters, Adam and I atttempted to end with a nightcap, soothing the room with a meditative acoustic drone, bathed in violet light he had rented for the show. Using unique open tunings for ﬁddle and banjo, we conjured a long take on a West Virginia tune learned from Dwight Diller, "Piney Woods." The tune unwound over a sonic texture of bowed banjo (on loop from a guitar pedal), and a shruti box operated in turns by Lindsey Zischkale and Heather Brodkin. Another great night at Batch - huge thanks to Darrel Mayers with AFTM, and Adam and Henry Brodkin for doing the hectic job of running sound, and Gabriel Lit for giving us the space to share our music! 13 REEL TIMES SUMMER 2025 Howdy all you pickers and bowers, singers and shouters, clawhammerers, dulcimer hammerers, you noisemakers of all kinds! Reel Times is under new management, with Adam Brodkin and myself ﬁlling the big shoes Gary Mortensen left. So we're gonna bring you the Old-Time word, wherever banjos, ballads, yeah even bodhrans, sound off. From Austin, Texas, around the world, and back again. We'll print big events, new tunes, voices from the community: all about homemade acoustic roots music and the folks who make it. This issue we'll kick things off with a few great albums we've been spinning all summer, check in with our festival correspondents, get a peek at the twenty-sixth year of a great shindig out in Hill Country, hear from one of our regular pickers at the Tuesday night jam, lose oureslves to the drone, and ﬁnish with a report on the latest String Band Showcase at Batch out off of Airport. And don't forget that This October is our big Austin String Band Festival, so SAVE THE DATE and come on out to Camp Ben McCulloch in Driftwood, October 17 - 19. Bring your jam tunes and get ready for a great lineup: we've got Guy Forsyth's 78 Special, Brandi WallerPace, the Here & Now Band, Spencer & Rains, and the Lost Keys, Missy Beth & the Morning Afters, Mariachi Las Altenas, Luke Moody, Everett Wren, BYK, Corey McCauley, Steel Grassy, and the Austin City Quicksteppers! There'll also be a SILENT AUCTION!! Please donate items (musical instruments, books, artwork, etc.)! Contact Lee Thomas (817-480-5561) for pick-up or bring items to the festival kitchen on Saturday morning, Oct 18. SEE Y'ALL THERE! 2 �FRESH SHELLAC Rhiannon Gidden's staccato old-time banjo pierces the warm summer drone of 17-year cicadas, alongside the driving bow of her old Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson. They bring us the impromptu energy of a back porch jam with eighteen tunes begging to be learned and shared. From killer takes on chestnuts (“Ebenezer”) to intriguingly titled obscurities (“Duck’s Eyeball”), this record is packed with energy and will have your ﬁngers itching to pick. Not a ton of blockbuster ﬁlms reference Charley Patton, Geechie Wiley, and Rocky Road to Dublin, so hopefully old-time fans caught Sinners in theaters, a story of Black resistance and joy in the Jim Crow-era South that director Ryan Coogler spins into a universal statement about a deeply human relationship to music, pleasure, and spiritual danger. The album isn’t your usual oldtime fare but is well worth a listen for actor Miles Caton’s gorgeous rendering of delta blues (he impressively learned slide guitar for the role), and an exclusive cut from Rhiannon and Justin. 3 West Virginia and Pennsylvania natives The Wild Shoats released their ﬁrst proper album, full of both original ﬁddle tunes that would ﬁt nicely in a jam, and achingly emotional songwriting. Just tuck into the opening strains of “Clara” and be taken away as the band applies the pulse of traditional ﬁddle to sorrowful bury-me-not lyrics inspired by Lonesome Dove. When singer and ﬁddler Mary Linschield brings the last refrain up an octave, it has me breaking out in goosebumps. Gorgeous version of "Moonshiner" (and great imagery about his breath) with buzzy baritone harmonies from bandmate Augustus Tristch. This was a huge help as I took to the board to double-chug some ﬂatfoot steps during the Dog Day String Band's set, to a certain possum-themed tune that just happened to be mentioned in our Duck River Dispatch section. The Dogs include myself (ﬁddle and mandolin) and Adam (upright bass and banjo), with Britt Irick ﬁddling and whacking out rhythms on a banjo uke (the shrink-dried version of the banjo). He also picked up 12 �BATCH CRAFT BEER AND KOLACHES STRING BAND SHOW CASE MAY 10, 2025 This past May marked the third String Band Show Case at Batch, an AFTM-hosted event in which Austin old-time players take to the indoor stage in various string band incarnations for an evening of raucous acoustic tunes. Frosty pints of beer ﬂow and kolaches sweet and savory are devoured to melodies from Appalachia and beyond. THE DUCK RIVER DISPATCH Intrepid correspondents journey from Austin's cozy jam scene to the wide world of festivals. They bring back tunes and stories from the road. This issue we check in with Britt Irick and Rose Grifﬁth, who back in April drove 7 hours up the 35 corridor to the The Greenleaf Old Time Music Festival in Braggs, Oklahoma. The clear weather was perfection, beﬁtting of the state park's name, and the jam circles formed easily throughout the day. The attendance is still fairly small, around 320 people this year. "Everybody knows everybody," Britt remarks, "cause a lot of people are CROMA refugees." With the Colorado festival now defunct, Greenleaf has become a new meeting spot. "Jams are pretty magnetic there," he says, "start a jam, people see you and join in." Of course the ﬁrst question you've gotta ask the weary travelers is, "new tunes?" And they certainly brought back a keeper, learning "The Old She Possum Skating on the Ice" from Tricia Spencer, a great cut from a Jimmy Triplett CD. Los Fandangeros de Austin (L to R): Joanna Saucedo, Chris Ledesma, Rodrigo Leal, Carlos Salazar, Marino Miranda, Erik Salinas, Jerónimo James Sexton Macias The energy out of the gate was propulsive as Los Fandangeros de Austin took the stage. Six string-slingers strummed jaranas of various sizes and types, with Joanna Saucedo seated at the marimbol, thumping out bass lines. Their music hails from Veracruz and features a powerful call-and-response structure, a social call to dance and sing ("made for convivio"). When not at the marimbol Joanna tapped out dance steps on a wooden platform (a humble cube of 2x4s that I patched together during the height of the pandemic, when learning some ﬂatfooting steps). Quick-thinking Joanna slid a yoga mat under the box to keep it from sliding across Batch's tile ﬂoor! 11 Rose, as a trusty backup guitarist, focuses less on tune names and more on the company and song. "I don't necessarily learn the names of the tunes. But I will say I was pretty blissed out for the entire week." One morning she joined Marge Mullaney and Bob Atchinson and sang a "dynamite" version of Long Journey Home, "one of the saddest songs in country music." There were workshops and vendors aplenty, and Britt stopped by the Beautiful Music Violin Shop booth, in from Kansas. "I was trying to avoid it, because I knew if I went over there I would walk away with something." He picked up a Hopf violin and "it played itself", so he didn't leave without it. So get out next year to Greenleaf for tunes, friends and ﬁddles, April 12-18, 2026 4 �STARGAZERS WHO CALL THE SHOTS The Tuesday night jam at Stargazer, Springdale Station, attracts folks from all over Austin. Let's get to know em! This issue we catch up with Tristan Walling. Q: Hey Tristan! Tell us how you found the jam A: I met Britt at my drawing meetup and he had a tattoo of a banjo, and I was just starting to play banjo. He invited me out to the jam. Q: What are your strings of choice? A: I have a Deering Goodtime that I usually bring [that night he also brought an old Gibson L3, on which he’s learning an old Bo Carter tune, "The Lead's All Gone"] Q: Best tune to play at a jam? A: John Brown's f*****' Dream, man. Q: What's the most old-time thing you do outside of a jam? A: I grow my mustache. That’s for music too. I’m currently working on a project called The Chronicles of Cowboy Buck Q: At Genuine Joe’s, you noticed that the standup bass was vibrating through the old hardwood ﬂoors, that it turned the place into a musical instrument. You took it upon yourself to learn how to say that in Japanese mind throwing that our way? A: Q: What does the jam mean to you? 5 A: I feel absolutely freed as a musician. Came as an absolute beginner and you guys never kicked me out, y'know what I mean? I feel welcome in this whole group, man, and y’all feel like a family to me! 10 �THE GREAT DRONE MYSTAGOGUE by Adam Brodkin You can’t escape it. It’s ever present. Ubiquitous. Whether you’re out in the boondocks or in the middle of a sprawling industrial urban center. It’s there whether you hear it or not. It affects you whether you want it to or not. Sometimes subtly and sometimes overtly. Every culture, on every continent, from the very beginning, has an indigenous form of it. It can simultaneously separate your spirit from your body and drive you insane. I’m not an ethnomusicologist, or an academic, and I have no formal training in music. I have followed the drone as a guiding force in the music I have played over the years. Heavy psychedelic rock and roll, experimental music, and for the last few decades old time and other traditional folk music. It has been the mainstay of the music I play with my partner Aaron Zischkale in the Slaughter Creek Drought Busters. I’ve communed with the drone and found it to be a good thing. This small corner of Reel Times will be dedicated to the drone, wherever I can ﬁnd it. Some drones I’ve been obsessed with and would like to explore more in 2026 are Dwight Diller’s low G banjo playing, the work of La Monte Young, Isaan music of Northern Thailand, Tuvan throat singing, and the music of Sunn O))). Give in to the drone and scan the QR code at left to meet The Mystagogue and experience a sampling of the music mentioned in this article 9 MAYDAY IN HILL COUNTRY This May marked the 26th anniversary of a party held by Angie and Tim Wooten at their place out in Hill Country. It's a bit of a trek from Austin, with a couple low-water crossings that threaten to make the journey treacherous if there's been rain. But at the end of a winding road atop a hill a host of partygoers gather. The centerpiece of the evening is the maypole, where folks dance in two concentric circles, wrapping multicolored ribbons in a criss-cross around the center. On the outer orbit, a tall ﬁddle player skips in the opposite direction of the nearest line of dancers. He's Everett Wren, and has amassed years of experience. "If I move counter to them, it almost seems like it's moving faster. Little psychological thing", he grins. In clusters outside the spinning wheel a motley musical procession forms to churn out a marching step for the dancers: "St Anne's Reel", "Old Molly Hare", "La Bastringue. " Folk music circles collide as splashy Irish guitar (David Rabinowicz) plays alongside ﬁddles, trilling ﬂute, clacking bones (Rich MacMath) and a six-string clawhammer banjo (Bernard Mollberg). "It’s a happy feeling that you get when everybody’s smiling outside, moving around, instead of the way we usually are, in our heads," Angie Wooten muses. "And [the dance] puts people in their bodies and you feel you’re interconnected. Kinda like when we’re playing a tune in a circle, we’re all playing the same tune so we’re connected. In the Maypole everybody’s kind of got the same goal and they’re not thinking about anything except 'up, down, over, under…'" 6 �Tim and Angie inherited the maypole from the Lady Bird Johnson Wilﬂower Center, where they'd been providing music for the annual event. It was ﬁrst hoisted up on their new property for a groundbreaking project, and by the time the house was built, it was May again. The tradition carries on to this day, though a bit like the Ship of Theseus. Tim recalls parts being replaced over time. "Now, one year Seth, when it was time to take it up (Seth's big and strong) so when he was wobbling it to get it out of the ground he broke it in two." Every year when the pole comes down Angie irons the ribbons, until they get too ragged to keep. "It's the same maypole, we've just had the pole and the ribbons replaced," Tim smiles with a shrug. After the dance is done the night goes late with Everett playing a square dance on a homemade ﬂoor and little groups splitting off, playing around warm crackling campﬁres. Now one of the big selling points that was made to me when I ﬁrst attended a few years back was the breakfast. You play tunes until late, Britt said, and you wake up and there's crepes. Sure enough on Sunday morning there's Everett again, sharing a skill he'd picked up from French friends while living in Germany. "Our get-togethers, the focal point, almost the whole reason we got together was for a crepe specatular." His way of giving back then is this big social breakfast. What's more, Jeanne DeFriese follows this up with a huge cast iron skillet of migas with nopales (and by eleven o' clock she'd reﬁlled the huge coffee maker seven times). While folks gorge themselves on breakfast, the front porch is singing with gospel, country and bluegrass. Nancy Grifﬁth thumps out bass lines with her husband Robert singing crisp harmonies alongside daughter Rose, as it has been since she was a kid. Others join the jam,or just sit in rocking chairs watching a half-dozen ﬂitting hummingbirds chase each other around the array of feeders off the porch, set against an open blue sky. "We wouldn't miss it for the world," Robert says. When prompted the trio each choose different favorites from the weekend. For Robert, "Standing Room Only" from the Stanleys, for Rose it's the Louvin Brothers' "My Baby's Gone," and Nancy picks "Stormy Waters", the one popularized by Jimmy Martin. Inside the adobe house is a buzz of activity, and Vanessa Gordon taps out bouncy ﬁddle tunes from the living room's piano. Austin newcomer and banjo player Janet Turley reﬂects on her ﬁrst Mayday. "Just enchanting, magical, all those words." There were two competing oldtime jam circles the night prior, and when one would pause the silence would bring the soft call of the Chuck-wills'-widow, and a wafting of music from the other circle. Janet's favorite moment was the jam shifting to cowboy songs, to Old Paint. Anther year with melodies and laughter on the air, with many more to come. Other choice tunes: "Callahan" in cross tuning (with that sliding high note), and one the Woots learned from youtube, "Laughing Gravy" Make sure to check out Everett's band Big Love Car Wash, who play a blend of roots music they call "erstwhile bluegrass" and by now have had an album release show at the 04 Center on June 4th 7 8 �Tim and Angie inherited the maypole from the Lady Bird Johnson Wilﬂower Center, where they'd been providing music for the annual event. It was ﬁrst hoisted up on their new property for a groundbreaking project, and by the time the house was built, it was May again. The tradition carries on to this day, though a bit like the Ship of Theseus. Tim recalls parts being replaced over time. "Now, one year Seth, when it was time to take it up (Seth's big and strong) so when he was wobbling it to get it out of the ground he broke it in two." Every year when the pole comes down Angie irons the ribbons, until they get too ragged to keep. "It's the same maypole, we've just had the pole and the ribbons replaced," Tim smiles with a shrug. After the dance is done the night goes late with Everett playing a square dance on a homemade ﬂoor and little groups splitting off, playing around warm crackling campﬁres. Now one of the big selling points that was made to me when I ﬁrst attended a few years back was the breakfast. You play tunes until late, Britt said, and you wake up and there's crepes. Sure enough on Sunday morning there's Everett again, sharing a skill he'd picked up from French friends while living in Germany. "Our get-togethers, the focal point, almost the whole reason we got together was for a crepe specatular." His way of giving back then is this big social breakfast. What's more, Jeanne DeFriese follows this up with a huge cast iron skillet of migas with nopales (and by eleven o' clock she'd reﬁlled the huge coffee maker seven times). While folks gorge themselves on breakfast, the front porch is singing with gospel, country and bluegrass. Nancy Grifﬁth thumps out bass lines with her husband Robert singing crisp harmonies alongside daughter Rose, as it has been since she was a kid. Others join the jam,or just sit in rocking chairs watching a half-dozen ﬂitting hummingbirds chase each other around the array of feeders off the porch, set against an open blue sky. "We wouldn't miss it for the world," Robert says. When prompted the trio each choose different favorites from the weekend. For Robert, "Standing Room Only" from the Stanleys, for Rose it's the Louvin Brothers' "My Baby's Gone," and Nancy picks "Stormy Waters", the one popularized by Jimmy Martin. Inside the adobe house is a buzz of activity, and Vanessa Gordon taps out bouncy ﬁddle tunes from the living room's piano. Austin newcomer and banjo player Janet Turley reﬂects on her ﬁrst Mayday. "Just enchanting, magical, all those words." There were two competing oldtime jam circles the night prior, and when one would pause the silence would bring the soft call of the Chuck-wills'-widow, and a wafting of music from the other circle. Janet's favorite moment was the jam shifting to cowboy songs, to Old Paint. Anther year with melodies and laughter on the air, with many more to come. Other choice tunes: "Callahan" in cross tuning (with that sliding high note), and one the Woots learned from youtube, "Laughing Gravy" Make sure to check out Everett's band Big Love Car Wash, who play a blend of roots music they call "erstwhile bluegrass" and by now have had an album release show at the 04 Center on June 4th 7 8 �THE GREAT DRONE MYSTAGOGUE by Adam Brodkin You can’t escape it. It’s ever present. Ubiquitous. Whether you’re out in the boondocks or in the middle of a sprawling industrial urban center. It’s there whether you hear it or not. It affects you whether you want it to or not. Sometimes subtly and sometimes overtly. Every culture, on every continent, from the very beginning, has an indigenous form of it. It can simultaneously separate your spirit from your body and drive you insane. I’m not an ethnomusicologist, or an academic, and I have no formal training in music. I have followed the drone as a guiding force in the music I have played over the years. Heavy psychedelic rock and roll, experimental music, and for the last few decades old time and other traditional folk music. It has been the mainstay of the music I play with my partner Aaron Zischkale in the Slaughter Creek Drought Busters. I’ve communed with the drone and found it to be a good thing. This small corner of Reel Times will be dedicated to the drone, wherever I can ﬁnd it. Some drones I’ve been obsessed with and would like to explore more in 2026 are Dwight Diller’s low G banjo playing, the work of La Monte Young, Isaan music of Northern Thailand, Tuvan throat singing, and the music of Sunn O))). Give in to the drone and scan the QR code at left to meet The Mystagogue and experience a sampling of the music mentioned in this article 9 MAYDAY IN HILL COUNTRY This May marked the 26th anniversary of a party held by Angie and Tim Wooten at their place out in Hill Country. It's a bit of a trek from Austin, with a couple low-water crossings that threaten to make the journey treacherous if there's been rain. But at the end of a winding road atop a hill a host of partygoers gather. The centerpiece of the evening is the maypole, where folks dance in two concentric circles, wrapping multicolored ribbons in a criss-cross around the center. On the outer orbit, a tall ﬁddle player skips in the opposite direction of the nearest line of dancers. He's Everett Wren, and has amassed years of experience. "If I move counter to them, it almost seems like it's moving faster. Little psychological thing", he grins. In clusters outside the spinning wheel a motley musical procession forms to churn out a marching step for the dancers: "St Anne's Reel", "Old Molly Hare", "La Bastringue. " Folk music circles collide as splashy Irish guitar (David Rabinowicz) plays alongside ﬁddles, trilling ﬂute, clacking bones (Rich MacMath) and a six-string clawhammer banjo (Bernard Mollberg). "It’s a happy feeling that you get when everybody’s smiling outside, moving around, instead of the way we usually are, in our heads," Angie Wooten muses. "And [the dance] puts people in their bodies and you feel you’re interconnected. Kinda like when we’re playing a tune in a circle, we’re all playing the same tune so we’re connected. In the Maypole everybody’s kind of got the same goal and they’re not thinking about anything except 'up, down, over, under…'" 6 �STARGAZERS WHO CALL THE SHOTS The Tuesday night jam at Stargazer, Springdale Station, attracts folks from all over Austin. Let's get to know em! This issue we catch up with Tristan Walling. Q: Hey Tristan! Tell us how you found the jam A: I met Britt at my drawing meetup and he had a tattoo of a banjo, and I was just starting to play banjo. He invited me out to the jam. Q: What are your strings of choice? A: I have a Deering Goodtime that I usually bring [that night he also brought an old Gibson L3, on which he’s learning an old Bo Carter tune, "The Lead's All Gone"] Q: Best tune to play at a jam? A: John Brown's f*****' Dream, man. Q: What's the most old-time thing you do outside of a jam? A: I grow my mustache. That’s for music too. I’m currently working on a project called The Chronicles of Cowboy Buck Q: At Genuine Joe’s, you noticed that the standup bass was vibrating through the old hardwood ﬂoors, that it turned the place into a musical instrument. You took it upon yourself to learn how to say that in Japanese mind throwing that our way? A: Q: What does the jam mean to you? 5 A: I feel absolutely freed as a musician. Came as an absolute beginner and you guys never kicked me out, y'know what I mean? I feel welcome in this whole group, man, and y’all feel like a family to me! 10 �BATCH CRAFT BEER AND KOLACHES STRING BAND SHOW CASE MAY 10, 2025 This past May marked the third String Band Show Case at Batch, an AFTM-hosted event in which Austin old-time players take to the indoor stage in various string band incarnations for an evening of raucous acoustic tunes. Frosty pints of beer ﬂow and kolaches sweet and savory are devoured to melodies from Appalachia and beyond. THE DUCK RIVER DISPATCH Intrepid correspondents journey from Austin's cozy jam scene to the wide world of festivals. They bring back tunes and stories from the road. This issue we check in with Britt Irick and Rose Grifﬁth, who back in April drove 7 hours up the 35 corridor to the The Greenleaf Old Time Music Festival in Braggs, Oklahoma. The clear weather was perfection, beﬁtting of the state park's name, and the jam circles formed easily throughout the day. The attendance is still fairly small, around 320 people this year. "Everybody knows everybody," Britt remarks, "cause a lot of people are CROMA refugees." With the Colorado festival now defunct, Greenleaf has become a new meeting spot. "Jams are pretty magnetic there," he says, "start a jam, people see you and join in." Of course the ﬁrst question you've gotta ask the weary travelers is, "new tunes?" And they certainly brought back a keeper, learning "The Old She Possum Skating on the Ice" from Tricia Spencer, a great cut from a Jimmy Triplett CD. Los Fandangeros de Austin (L to R): Joanna Saucedo, Chris Ledesma, Rodrigo Leal, Carlos Salazar, Marino Miranda, Erik Salinas, Jerónimo James Sexton Macias The energy out of the gate was propulsive as Los Fandangeros de Austin took the stage. Six string-slingers strummed jaranas of various sizes and types, with Joanna Saucedo seated at the marimbol, thumping out bass lines. Their music hails from Veracruz and features a powerful call-and-response structure, a social call to dance and sing ("made for convivio"). When not at the marimbol Joanna tapped out dance steps on a wooden platform (a humble cube of 2x4s that I patched together during the height of the pandemic, when learning some ﬂatfooting steps). Quick-thinking Joanna slid a yoga mat under the box to keep it from sliding across Batch's tile ﬂoor! 11 Rose, as a trusty backup guitarist, focuses less on tune names and more on the company and song. "I don't necessarily learn the names of the tunes. But I will say I was pretty blissed out for the entire week." One morning she joined Marge Mullaney and Bob Atchinson and sang a "dynamite" version of Long Journey Home, "one of the saddest songs in country music." There were workshops and vendors aplenty, and Britt stopped by the Beautiful Music Violin Shop booth, in from Kansas. "I was trying to avoid it, because I knew if I went over there I would walk away with something." He picked up a Hopf violin and "it played itself", so he didn't leave without it. So get out next year to Greenleaf for tunes, friends and ﬁddles, April 12-18, 2026 4 �FRESH SHELLAC Rhiannon Gidden's staccato old-time banjo pierces the warm summer drone of 17-year cicadas, alongside the driving bow of her old Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson. They bring us the impromptu energy of a back porch jam with eighteen tunes begging to be learned and shared. From killer takes on chestnuts (“Ebenezer”) to intriguingly titled obscurities (“Duck’s Eyeball”), this record is packed with energy and will have your ﬁngers itching to pick. Not a ton of blockbuster ﬁlms reference Charley Patton, Geechie Wiley, and Rocky Road to Dublin, so hopefully old-time fans caught Sinners in theaters, a story of Black resistance and joy in the Jim Crow-era South that director Ryan Coogler spins into a universal statement about a deeply human relationship to music, pleasure, and spiritual danger. The album isn’t your usual oldtime fare but is well worth a listen for actor Miles Caton’s gorgeous rendering of delta blues (he impressively learned slide guitar for the role), and an exclusive cut from Rhiannon and Justin. 3 West Virginia and Pennsylvania natives The Wild Shoats released their ﬁrst proper album, full of both original ﬁddle tunes that would ﬁt nicely in a jam, and achingly emotional songwriting. Just tuck into the opening strains of “Clara” and be taken away as the band applies the pulse of traditional ﬁddle to sorrowful bury-me-not lyrics inspired by Lonesome Dove. When singer and ﬁddler Mary Linschield brings the last refrain up an octave, it has me breaking out in goosebumps. Gorgeous version of "Moonshiner" (and great imagery about his breath) with buzzy baritone harmonies from bandmate Augustus Tristch. This was a huge help as I took to the board to double-chug some ﬂatfoot steps during the Dog Day String Band's set, to a certain possum-themed tune that just happened to be mentioned in our Duck River Dispatch section. The Dogs include myself (ﬁddle and mandolin) and Adam (upright bass and banjo), with Britt Irick ﬁddling and whacking out rhythms on a banjo uke (the shrink-dried version of the banjo). He also picked up 12 �guitar for an unusually sweet Dock Boggs tune, the wistful old ballad "Papa Build Me a Boat." Rose Grifﬁth completes the group, lending lovely harmonies to Carter Family tunes and bringing a powerful holler to Hazel Dickens' hard-luck number, "Busted." A mainstay of the Show Case has been BYK, a power trio consisting of Joslyn Boyer (upright bass), Zephyr Yellman (ﬁddle), and Tim Keough (ﬁddle and guitar). They forged their sound from summer morning jams (I'll never forget hearing a phone recording of their twin-ﬁddle harmonizing on the old PT Bell tune "Mace Bell's Civil War March." The audience thrills every time Joslyn draws her bass bow from a h on the instrument and bellows a melody. The three of them have curated a fantastic set, and I'm still blown away at how deftly Zephyr twists the pegs of his ﬁddle in and out of rich open tunings to lend each piece a unique sound. The highlight this set was the twisty, BYK serenade at Batch (L to R, Joslyn Boyer, Zephyr Yellman, Tim Keough) winding "Dusty Miller" from Missouri's Gene Goforth, a tune Tim heard a few years back at CROMA from Steam Machine's AJ Srubas. Zephyr wound up winning a ribbon at Clifftop with the tune, and it wowed again at Batch. By this time of the night the place was packed, and I squeezed through the line at the counter for my instruments for the last set. Near the front door, Los Fandangeros played an impromptu happy birthday for a beaming girl, with the crowded room stomping their feet behind the semi-circle of musicians. As the Slaughter Creek Drought Busters, Adam and I atttempted to end with a nightcap, soothing the room with a meditative acoustic drone, bathed in violet light he had rented for the show. Using unique open tunings for ﬁddle and banjo, we conjured a long take on a West Virginia tune learned from Dwight Diller, "Piney Woods." The tune unwound over a sonic texture of bowed banjo (on loop from a guitar pedal), and a shruti box operated in turns by Lindsey Zischkale and Heather Brodkin. Another great night at Batch - huge thanks to Darrel Mayers with AFTM, and Adam and Henry Brodkin for doing the hectic job of running sound, and Gabriel Lit for giving us the space to share our music! 13 REEL TIMES SUMMER 2025 Howdy all you pickers and bowers, singers and shouters, clawhammerers, dulcimer hammerers, you noisemakers of all kinds! Reel Times is under new management, with Adam Brodkin and myself ﬁlling the big shoes Gary Mortensen left. So we're gonna bring you the Old-Time word, wherever banjos, ballads, yeah even bodhrans, sound off. From Austin, Texas, around the world, and back again. We'll print big events, new tunes, voices from the community: all about homemade acoustic roots music and the folks who make it. This issue we'll kick things off with a few great albums we've been spinning all summer, check in with our festival correspondents, get a peek at the twenty-sixth year of a great shindig out in Hill Country, hear from one of our regular pickers at the Tuesday night jam, lose oureslves to the drone, and ﬁnish with a report on the latest String Band Showcase at Batch out off of Airport. And don't forget that This October is our big Austin String Band Festival, so SAVE THE DATE and come on out to Camp Ben McCulloch in Driftwood, October 17 - 19. Bring your jam tunes and get ready for a great lineup: we've got Guy Forsyth's 78 Special, Brandi WallerPace, the Here & Now Band, Spencer & Rains, and the Lost Keys, Missy Beth & the Morning Afters, Mariachi Las Altenas, Luke Moody, Everett Wren, BYK, Corey McCauley, Steel Grassy, and the Austin City Quicksteppers! There'll also be a SILENT AUCTION!! Please donate items (musical instruments, books, artwork, etc.)! Contact Lee Thomas (817-480-5561) for pick-up or bring items to the festival kitchen on Saturday morning, Oct 18. SEE Y'ALL THERE! 2 �REEL TIMES SUMMER 2025 EDITED AND WRITTEN BY ADAM BRODKIN AND AARON ZISCHKALE AFTM CALENDAR FRESH SHELLAC.............................................................3 THE DUCK RIVER DISPATCH.....................................4 STARGAZERS WHO CALL THE SHOTS....................5 MAYDAY AT THE WOOTEN'S......................................6 THE GREAT DRONE MYSTAGOGUE........................9 BATCH STRING BAND SHOW CASE.........................11 EMAIL US AT REEL.TIMES.AFTM@GMAIL.COM 1 14 �OTAF REEL TIMES SUMMER 2025 drop thumbs not bombs � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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They host Old Time Music gigs and have a Sunday <a href="https://www.theangelsshare.live/event/ctba-bluegrass-jam-at-batch/2024-10-13/">CTBA sponsored bluegrass jam</a>. 3220 Manor Road Austin, Texas 78723 512-401-3025 info@batchatx.com Archive Org Audio archiveorg_audio_embed 2024-11-21_Batch_World-Music-Night Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AFTM World Music Night, Batch, 2024-11-21 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024-11-21 Description An account of the resource Ayleen Perez Cordeiro (Cuba) The Bright Leaf Warblers (AFTM) Go Yotai Klezmer Bamako Airlines (Afro-pop) Thank you Darrel Mayers for setting up these shows! The scene wouldn't be the same without all your hard work. AFTM Events AFTM World Music Night Batch Darrel Mayers http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/307/ReelTimes-v51-n01.pdf fa89352c89cdc614538b4da0cdcccb57 PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Vol. 51, Number 1, January 2025 2024 Austin String Band Festival! Photograph by Darcie Westerlund �Table of Contents Page 3 The 2024 Austin String Band Festival Page 9 AFTM World Music Night #3 Page 13 Upcoming events at Batch Page 14 Old Time Jam at the French Legation Page 18 The 2025 AFTM Camp Jam Page 19 Message from the outgoing editor Page 2 �2024 Austin String Band Festival The Joymakers performed on Saturday night Recipe for a great acoustic music festival: • Perfect weather • Fantastic lineup • Large, enthusiastic audience The 2025 Austin String Band Festival had all these elements and more, and many in attendance said it was the best String Band Festival yet! There’s not enough room to list all the great performers at this year’s ASBF – follow this link to check out the performance schedule, workshop schedule, and festival details. 2024 Austin String Band Festival We’re deeply indebted to Darcie Westerlund for photographing this year’s festival! All the festival photos in this issue were taken by Darcie, and here’s a link to hundreds more! Darcie Westerlund ASBF photos It’s not too early to save the date for next year’s Austin String Band Festival = October 17 through October 19 at beautiful Camp Ben McCulloch! Page 3 �Dancing on Saturday afternoon Cast Iron Shoes performed on Friday evening Page 4 �Jerron Paxton came from New York City to perform on Saturday evening The Out of the Blue trio played a great mini-set Page 5 �Energetic Cajun tunes from So & So and the Swamp Sizzlers Tom Duplissey assembled a stalwart group of pickers on Saturday night Page 6 �Ayleen Pérez Cordeiro & Family The Founders Duo, David Polacheck and Bernard Mollberg Page 7 �Joey McKenzie and Ridge Roberts gave a western swing workshop Two fiddlers in the crowd! Page 8 �AFTM World Music Night #3 Magical Journeys at AFTM's World Music Night by Darrel Mayers Who needs to loaf around in airports, suffering cancelled flights and delays, when you can travel around our planet in comfort at one of AFTM's World Music Nights at Batch ; - ) ) Our first ticket for the evening was to Cuba and Mexico. Ayleen Perez-Cordeiro filled the room with her passionate, melancholy vocals. Beginning with “Guántanamera,” Ayleen went on to perform tunes by Trío Los Panchos, Silvio Rodríguez and Rogelio Martínez. Our AFTM friends the Bright Leaf Warblers (Aaron Zischkale and Cody Campbell) then took us into sun-dappled, Appalachian woodlands with their introspective, old time melodies in the tradition of the Magic Tuber Stringband. Originals “Goldust” and “Salt Maiden’s Hornpipe” were a special delight. Page 9 �Our next ticket was to Eastern Europe, and the high energy klezmer quartet Go Yotai. The klezmer sound is known for its odd pairing of joy and sadness, found in the distinct Freygish scale — flattened 2nd, major 3rd. Gabriel Lit (clarinet), Wen Chang Lit (violin), Constantine Caramanis (accordion), and Bruno Vinezof (percussion) delivered heaps of both in “Odessa Bulgarish,” “Down with the King,” and “Lalabassa,” an original by Gabriel. It was a close call, but joy - in the end - swept to victory. Mali was our final destination, and to get there we flew Bamako Airlines ; - ) This local Afro-pop group creates a vibrant, inclusive energy, and soon they were taking the whole room with them as they offered up beautiful tunes by Miriam Makeba, Tinariwen, and originals such as the infectious “Continental Soukous.” Guitarist Chris Vestre seemed to spend the whole set above the 15th fret of his guitar, as he spun tapestries of golden melodies, while singer Meera Chandrasekaran bopped and sang to the bountiful grooves of drummer Doug Marcis. Sincere thanks to Adam Brodkin for running the soundboard, and to KOOP’s Kim Simpson (“International Folk Bazaar”) for his support. Ayleen Pérez Cordeiro sang exquisite Cuban and Mexican songs Page 10 �Aaron Zischkale and Cody Campbell supplied great Old Time tunes David Myers joined Ayleen Pérez Cordeiro for a few songs Page 11 �The Go Yotai Klezmer quartet An enthusistic audience filled Batch Craft beer & Kolaches Page 12 �Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches, 3220 Manor Road, Austin, TX Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches is one of Austin's premier destinations for live music, with delicious beverages and food! The AFTM is excited to be able to present traditional music showcases at this wonderful venue. Upcoming AFTM events at Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches: Feb. 27: AFTM World Music Night March 8: AFTM Texas Stringband showcase #1 May 10: AFTM Texas String Band showcase #2 Page 13 �November AFTM Old Time Jam The monthly AFTM Old Time Jam normally takes place at Lazarus Brewing Company in Austin but, for the month of November, we were invited to bring our music to the beautiful French Legation in east Austin. This AFTM Old Time Jam was part of the French Legation's Homestead History Day. The weather was idyllic, the music sublime, and a great time was had by all! The January AFTM Old Time Jam will be back at its usual location, Lazarus Brewing Company, 4803 Airport Blvd, in Austin. The jam will run from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm on January 18, 2025. Page 14 �Britt Irick on banjo, Rose Griffith on guitar Sharon Isaac led the group in a spirited fiddle tune Page 15 �David Polacheck on banjo (7 string!), Preston Satchwell on guitar Ben Hayes on guitar, Molly Johnson on mandolin Page 16 �Betsy Hamblen - banjo, James Seppi - fiddle, Chip Bach - mandolin What a wonderful day at the French Legation! Page 17 �2025 AFTM Camp Jam The very popular AFTM Camp Jam will be happening again this coming spring! This year's dates are April 25 through April 27, 2025 - the location as always will be beautiful Camp Ben McCulloch in Driftwood, TX. The Camp Jam formula is a simple one: come out to Camp Ben, hang with your friends, make new friends, and pick some tunes! The Camp Jam is a free event sponsored by the AFTM. There's no admission charge, though overnight campers will need to pay Camp Ben the usual camping fees. Page 18 �A message from our outgoing editor Back in the spring of 2017, AFTM president Tim Wooten sent out an email to all members asking, among other things, if anyone would consider reviving the Reel Times newsletter, which had lay dormant for several years. For better or worse, I replied and volunteered to take on the job. My only qualification was being willing to work hard, though I had no editorial or graphic arts experience. Before long, I became a member of the AFTM board and, for the past two years the director of the Austin String Band Festival, as well! It's been a rewarding if sometimes draining experience, and I’ve decided that after this edition of Reel Times, I will be retiring from my various AFTM positions - Reel Times Editor, ASBF Director, staff photographer, and AFTM board member. I know the Reel Times newsletter will be in good hands going on – AFTM board members Darrel Myers and Dan Foster have volunteered to take over the editorial duties! Regarding the Austin String Band Festival (everyone’s favorite festival!) – for 2025, AFTM president Tim Wooten has crafted a leadership structure that spreads the various festival planning responsibilities among several individuals, an approach I enthusiastically endorse! ASBF planning is an enormous job, and we need some motivated individuals willing to help with preparation for this wonderful event! My New Year’s wish for the AFTM is for more participation from our younger members. The AFTM board has several openings and there are some board members who are ready to retire after many years of loyal service. We really need the involvement of your younger members. So, thanks to all who have made my years with the AFTM so enjoyable and meaningful. You’ll still see me at AFTM events, I hope to be able to pick some tunes with you! Gary Mortensen Page 19 �The Reel Times is published quarterly by the Austin Friends of Traditional Music, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Texas nonprofit corporation. Contributions are deductible as charitable and educational donations. AFTM Board of Directors Tim Wooten, President Lee Thomas, Vice President Angie Wooten, Secretary Rich MacMath, Treasurer James Seppi, Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, At Large Dan Foster, Reel Times Co-Editor Darrel Mayers, Reel Times Co-Editor David Polacheck, At Large Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. 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