5 15 121 http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/266/newsletter-43-02-2017-07.pdf 1ae661971f8dac1b84b0aacae911c97b PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Summer 2017 Reel Times visits the Stone Soup Jam! Dave Polacheck and family celebrate his 70th Birthday at the Stone Soup Jam in April �Christy Foster sings and plays a tune at the Stone Soup Jam The Austin, Texas area is blessed with several ongoing acoustic jams, many of them held every week. The AFTM website lists weekly jams for Cajun, old time, bluegrass, Scandinavian, Irish and other traditional music forms. On the third Sunday of the month, however, there’s a jam that welcomes all these genres, as well as any form of traditional music. It’s the Stone Soup Jam at the Texas Music Museum, organized by Dave Polacheck. Dave grew up in a family where folk music was played regularly, and he took up the banjo at an early age. His childhood was split between New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco, so Dave’s been around! Dave moved to Texas in the early 1970’s, and has fond memories of the early days of the Austin music scene, listening to Janis Joplin, John Clay and the Lost Austin Band, and many others. It’s Dave’s intention to keep the spirit of those days alive with a diverse, allinclusive jam. At the March, 2017 Stone Soup Jam, one could hear fiddle tunes, unaccompanied ballad singing, blues music, old country songs, and other traditional genres. The March gathering was a particularly special event; Dave Polacheck celebrated his 70th birthday, surround by family and friends! This fine jam takes place on the third Sunday of the month at the Texas Music Museum, 1009 E 11th St, Austin, TX 78702; things get rolling around 2:00 PM! Page 2 Click here to see more photos of The Stone Soup Jam! �2017 Austin String Band Festival Preview The Austin String Band Festival is one of the best-kept secrets in Texas, a music festival with small crowds, a lovely natural setting and close-in parking. Come discover the Austin String Band Festival out at Camp Ben McCulloch (right by the Salt Lick) in Driftwood.TX. Dance all night on Friday, then attend hands-on music and dance workshops under the trees early on Saturday, then kick back for a day and night of nonstop fiddles, banjos and guitars as more than two dozen bands take the stage. Sunday wraps it up with a gospel jam. Camping at its finest along Onion Creek. October 20 - 22. The campground jamming at the ASBF is some of the best to be found anywhere, as demonstrated by these four AFTM stalwarts! Go to the next page to see this year's featured performers. Page 3 �Molsky's Mountain Drifters Introducing Bruce Molsky’s brand new trio with Allison de Groot and Stash Wyslouch - Tradition steeped in possibility. Molsky's Mountain Drifters packs a punch with three of the most captivating performers in the most recent generation of Old-Time and American Roots music. The band features Bruce Molsky, (Grammy nominated, revered Old-Time music ambassador and Berklee College of Music Visiting Scholar) along with guitar genre bender Stash Wyslouch (of the Deadly Gentlemen) on guitar and vocals and master of the clawhammer banjo, Allison de Groot (of The Goodbye Girls). These striking musicians have come together for a new sound within the traditional music genre through their audacious approach. “I was looking for a new voice,” says Molsky, “a new avenue of expression using old time mountain music as the jumping-off point, but not being constrained by hard core traditionalism. Allison and Stash are showing me the way, just where the music is headed, in directions I never would have imagined when I started my own journey into the mountains a long time ago.” Page 4 �Austin area favorites Spencer and Rains Tricia Spencer is a Kansas fiddler who grew up learning the tradition of old time music from her Grandparents. Howard Rains is a native Texas artist and a fourth generation fiddler. Together, Spencer & Rains have performed and taught nationally and internationally, preserving and building upon the traditions of their region. The husband and wife duo are known for their twin fiddle harmony, which is a product of the influence of midwestern Scandinavian fiddlers Tricia heard as a child. At the same time, Howard’s distinct repertoire reintroduces listeners to the precontest styles of Texas fiddling. That same sense of harmony is in their vocals, as well, which they pull from all manner of American folk music. Both multiinstrumentalists, they are steeped in tradition and are dedicated to the preservation, performance, and teaching of old time music. Page 5 �"Rabbit" Sanchez and Lorenzo Martinez Ramon “Rabbit” Sanchez (bajo sexto) and Lorenzo Martinez (accordion) are legendary musicians as well as some of the most versatile to come out of the conjunto homeland of South Texas. Together they have forged a sound that combines old school traditional conjunto with a progressive sensibility. Rodney Clay Sutton is a dance performer and teacher of Appalachian step dance – both flatfoot and clogging. He calls square dances and contra dances, and is a storyteller and ballad singer. Rodney offers workshops, lectures, and demonstrations catered for a range of age groups, including youth, seniors, and corporate gatherings. He is also a concert and festival producer, emcee, and stage manager. Rodney Sutton Page 6 �Missy Beth and The Morning Afters Beth Chrisman steps away from her usual role as side player, picks up the guitar and sings center stage, mixing in her original songs with gems from her favorite songwriters and heroes (Hazel Dickens, Loretta Lynn, Wanda Jackson, Ola Belle Reed). The Morning Afters are a rotating crew of Austin's finest country pickers, will lay down a collection of lonesome honkytonk and rockin oldtime tunes sure to get your feet on the dance floor. The Barn Owls, with Sharon Isaac, Caller The Barn Owls are an oldtime string band specializing in having a good time. Fiddler Trent Shepherd grew up in Austin but his family roots are in West Virginia. He and bassist Brink Melton are alumni of the Onion Creek Crawdaddies, a beergrass band that had a large and loyal following for several years. Guitarist Joe Dobbs is a librarian by day and tune collector all the time. Some of the band's more unusual tunes were unearthed by Joe. Banjoist Jerry Hagins has been on the Austin scene for quite a while, teaching banjo and playing in any band that will have him. Square dances are a Barn Owls specialty, and they'll be teaming up with Kentucky-raised dance caller Sharon Issac. Page 7 �How many strings on Dave's banjo? Clawhammer Picking on a Seven String Banjo by David Polacheck I’ve been playing clawhammer style banjo for more than fifty years, and over that time, I have often been frustrated by the fact that many tunes require notes that are below the customary low note on the fourth string of D or C. Of course, there are tunings that tak section an octave higher was unsatisfying to me because I liked the low pitch sound. Last year, I was offered a chance to “banjo sit” a six string banjo by Mike Ramsey. Now this was not a guitar banjo, but basically a five string banjo with an extra bass string e the fourth string down to a lower between the standard fourth and note, but this is often inconvenient fifth. Gold Tone has made some and can make difficulties in left hand instruments like this under the fingering for some tunes. The option model name “LoJo”. of playing the whole piece or low Page 8 �I tuned the extra bass string initially to a G an octave below the third string in standard G tuning and tried it out. Since I now had a string an octave below the fiddlers’ fourth string in standard tuning, it gave me the option of playing the low notes for pieces like “Wild Rose of the Mountain”, “Frosty Morning” and “Loftus Jones”. It also gave me a nice low pitched sound on chords. This got me to thinking about what a seven string banjo could provide in picking possibilities, since an extra bass string below the low G I was now playing, pitched an octave below the standard fourth string would allow me to play many tunes an octave lower than the standard way of playing them. This creates the possibility of playing tunes in the cello banjo range, like a Gold Tone CEB-5, but also having the standard banjo range and way of approaching the tune. The extra low bass string would also enhance the sounds of chords used for emphasis during the rendition. requested that they switch out the rim for their version of the Whyte Laydie style tone ring from the MM-150 model.) They also modified the bridge and I doubled up on two of the posts on the tailpiece. The YouTube videos I subsequently made show how well the repurposing worked out. One unusual feature of this design is the drone or thumb string which has the same scale length as the other strings instead of the traditional shorter length terminating in a “fifth string peg”. To bring the pitch of the drone string to its normal note, I used detachable fifth string capos of various designs, ultimately settling on having model railroad spikes installed. Now I don’t have to worry about sticking my thumb on the short end of the thumb string. Two other aftermarket changes included a seven string tailpiece from Thomas Saffell’s Infinity banjos and a custom made bridge by Bart Veerman allowing for the radiused fingerboard of the neck. I also chose to use a Shubb twelve string guitar capo, which works well. I am very happy I really like playing a banjo with a with the results, especially at the Whyte Laydie tone ring, and since I price, considerably lower than a “from knew that Gold Tone made a version scratch” instrument from a small shop of this design, I consulted with Wayne banjo maker would have been. Rogers about modifying one of their 12 string guitar banjos (the GT 1200) There are at least two other makers by regrooving the nut to accept seven of this type of instrument that I know strings. Only seven of the twelve of*, and it is also being used for tuning machines were used although classical style (Michael Nix has a all twelve remain in place. (I nylon string seven string instrument, Page 9 �which you can view on YouTube) as well as bluegrass style picking. The additional sounds and ways of playing the traditional songs and tunes I love has made me a enthusiastic fan of the modern seven string banjo! (Tunings I have used include gDGDGBD, gDGDGBbD, gDGDGCD, aDADF#AD, aDADFAD, gCGCGBD and gCGCGCD.) *Henning Von Ploetz of Germany and Thomas Saffell’s Infinity Banjos from Tennessee. These instruments both feature a traditional short drone string design. Page 10 7 string banjo bridge made by Bart Veerman �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 Angie Wooten, Vice President Cheryl Dehut, Treasurer Ken Tweedy, Secretary and Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Brit Irick, Outreach Coordinator Barbara Deane, Sponsorships Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Joanna Saucedo, Social Media Coordinator Dan Foster, At Large Volunteers Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. Box 49608 Click here to volunteer at the String Band Festival Click here for the AFTM website � 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 Reel Times Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Chris and Peter are first-rate pickers and singers, and have been touring nationally as a duo for twenty years. They’ve released two duo CD’s: “Canyoneers” and “So Long Arizona”. In the early 2000’s they both played in the fine bluegrass band, The Perfect Strangers. Chris Brashear plays guitar, fiddle and mandolin and sings with a gorgeous tenor voice. He toured with Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group for six years, and presently plays with the fine string band, the Piedmont Melody Makers. Peter is a uniquely gifted guitarist who has won the National Flatpick Guitar Championship at Winfield, Kansas as well as the Telluride Bluegrass Guitar Championship. He toured for six years with the Laurie Lewis Band. Seeing Peter and Chris at a festival is always a treat and to see them up close in the intimate setting of the Hillside House Concert is an opportunity not to be missed! The Austin Friends of Traditional Music is proud to sponsor this house concert at 7:30 PM on Saturday, October 7! The Hillside House Concerts are held in an elegant north Austin location, and reservations can be made at: musicgirl3205@gmail.com Page 2 �Campground picking at its finest! Doc Hamilton, Tim Wilson, Jeff Large and Robert Griffith picking in the shade at the Austin String Band Festival! Come discover the Austin String Band Festival out at Camp Ben McCulloch (right by the Salt Lick) in Driftwood, TX. Dance all night on Friday, then attend hands-on music and dance workshops under the trees early on Saturday, then kick back for a day and night of nonstop fiddles, banjos and guitars as more than two dozen bands take the stage. Sunday wraps it up with a gospel jam. Camping at its finest along Onion Creek. Presented by the Austin Friends of Traditional Music, this festival celebrates all kinds of "string band" music with lots of live performances, workshops, jams, old time square dancing, contra dancing and great food. Camping is available on a first come, first served basis. Electricity is available at most locations in the campground. Camping permits, with or without electricity, are sold in the festival ticket booth beginning at noon on Friday. October is beautiful in the Texas hill country. Not too hot, not too cold. Just right. Tickets will be available at the festival admissions gate beginning at 12:00 noon on Friday, October 20th, 2017. When online ticket sales have ended, you can still purchase tickets at the festival. For more information, and to see the festival lineup, visit the Austin Friends of Traditional Music website at http://aftm.us/ To support us and enjoy membership benefits, visit http://aftm.us/index.php/join-aftm Page 3 �Austin String Band Festival 2017 Molsky's Mountain Drifters Bruce Molsky, “one of America’s premier fiddling talents” (Mother Jones) and Grammy-nominated artist on fiddle, banjo, guitar and song is delighted to bring his new group to the 2017 Austin String Band Festival! Bruce’s previous collaborations, with Anonymous 4, 1865 – Songs of Hope and Home from the American Civil War, was released to rave reviews and was on the top 10 Billboard charts for weeks. He is also a special guest on legendary guitarist Mark Knopfler’s latest CD, Tracker and is working on his 3rd album with Andy Irvine & Donal Lunny’s supergroup Mozaik. Allison de Groot combines wide-ranging virtuosity and passion for old-time music. With her own bands The Goodbye Girls and Oh My Darling, she has played Trafalgar Square in London, Newport Folk Festival, Stockholm Folk Festival the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and Tønder Festival in Denmark. Boston-based Stash Wyslouch is one of bluegrass’ great young genre-bending pioneers. He got his start as a guitarist in metal bands before immersing himself in roots music as a member of The Deadly Gentlemen. Stash is a veteran festival performer, having played at Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Rockygrass, Merlefest, Savannah Music Festival and others. Page 4 �Austin String Band Festival 2017 Austin area favorites Spencer and Rains Together, Spencer & Rains have performed and taught nationally and internationally, preserving and building upon the traditions of their region. The husband and wife duo are known for their twin fiddle harmony, which is a product of the influence of midwestern Scandinavian fiddlers Tricia heard as a child. At the same time, Howard’s distinct repertoire reintroduces listeners to the pre-contest styles of Texas fiddling. That same sense of harmony is in their vocals, as well, which they pull from all manner of American folk music. Both multiinstrumentalists, they are steeped in tradition and are dedicated to the preservation, performance, and teaching of old time music. Page 5 �Austin String Band Festival 2017 Missy Beth and The Morning Afters Beth Chrisman steps away from her usual role as side player, picks up the guitar and sings center stage, mixing in her original songs with gems from her favorite songwriters and heroes (Hazel Dickens, Loretta Lynn, Wanda Jackson, Ola Belle Reed). The Morning Afters - a rotating crew of Austin's finest country pickers, will lay down a collection of lonesome honkytonk and rockin oldtime tunes sure to get your feet on the dance floor. Page 6 �Austin String Band Festival 2017 "Rabbit" Sanchez and Lorenzo Martinez Ramon “Rabbit” Sanchez (bajo sexto) and Lorenzo Martinez (accordion) are legendary musicians as well as some of the most versatile to come out of the conjunto homeland of South Texas. Together they have forged a sound that combines old school traditional conjunto with a progressive sensibility. Rodney Clay Sutton is a dance performer and teacher of Appalachian step dance – both flatfoot and clogging. He calls square dances and contra dances, and is a storyteller and ballad singer. Rodney offers workshops, lectures, and demonstrations catered for a range of age groups, including youth, seniors, and corporate gatherings. He is also a concert and festival producer, emcee, and stage manager. Rodney Sutton Page 7 �Austin String Band Festival 2017 The Barn Owls, with Sharon Isaac, Caller The Barn Owls are an oldtime string band specializing in having a good time. Fiddler Trent Shepherd grew up in Austin but his family roots are in West Virginia. He and bassist Brink Melton are alumni of the Onion Creek Crawdaddies, a beergrass band that had a large and loyal following for several years. Guitarist Joe Dobbs is a librarian by day and tune collector all the time. Some of the band's more unusual tunes were unearthed by Joe. Banjoist Jerry Hagins has been on the Austin scene for quite a while, teaching banjo and playing in any band that will have him. Square dances are a Barn Owls specialty, and they'll be teaming up with Kentucky-raised dance caller Sharon Issac. Page 8 �Austin String Band Festival 2017 Up Around the Sun Austin legends Tim Kerr and Jerry Hagins’ new project of old time music is called Up Around the Sun. Take old time tunes played on a banjo, claw hammer style …. add an open tuned guitar… playing a loose Irish style ….. sprinkle in some harmonica and fiddle , and you get Up Around The Sun. Also performing at this years' Austin String Band Festival The Mar-A-Lago Stragglers The Mar-A-Lago Stragglers are Dom Fisher (Wood and Wire) on guitar and lead vocals, Amanda Jo Chisholm (Frauleins) on upright bass, Matt Downing (Matt Downing) on banjo and sweet, buttery harmonies, and Silas Lowe (Silas Lowe) on mandolin. MALS play a mix of early trad grass all the way up to more modern compositions by folks like Larry Sparks. A favorite featured act at highbrow south Austin celebrations of Easter and Mother's Day, MALS is sure to provide as close an approximation of bluegrass music as they can muster! Jesse Lege, Peter Schwarz & Cajun Ramble Cajun Ramble is the new project of accordionist Jesse Lege, a member of the Cajun Music Hall of Fame and Peter Schwarz, a protégé of master fiddler Dewey Balfa. Catching Up the Slack Catching up the Slack is a new Texas band, with Britt Irick from Austin, and Margaret, April and Lloyd Wright from Kennard. Their caller is Rodney Sutton. Page 9 �Austin String Band Festival 2017 The Coffee Man returns to the Austin String Band Festival! "The Morning Dew" at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival June, 2016 After an evening of dancing, picking, and other indulgences, many campers at the ASBF wake up needing a cup of coffee more than anything else. Fortunately, Richard Moore has a “passion for filling the need”. Richard is “The Coffee Man” who offers gallons and gallons of free coffee to campers at the ASBF, as well as six other acoustic music festivals throughout the year! This all started back in ’06 or ’07 when Richard was camping at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and realized one morning that his neighbor in the campsite had no coffee. Richard was happy to share, and enjoyed that experience so much that he expanded on the idea and created the Meadow Park Coffee Cooperative, a one-man operation that runs the Morning Dew community supported coffee shop at various festivals around the country. Richard admits to enjoying being “the center of attention” and has found that “it’s more fun being generous than being selfish”. So, Richard gets up early and makes twenty to twenty-five gallons of coffee each morning and makes it available to campers on a selfserve basis from 7:00 AM until 9:00 AM or so. The coffee is absolutely free, but coffee drinkers need to supply their own cups. Real coffee cups are the best, of course, but recyclable paper cups are OK, also. Richard does put out a tip jar, but all the proceeds go to the festival organizers, Richard doesn’t collect a cent! Tent campers are usually in greater need of coffee than campers in RV’s, so Richard prefers to set up his operation near the tenters. At ASBF this year, he plans to set up near the playground area, convenient to the tent campers along Onion Creek. In addition to providing coffee to all comers, Richard works a volunteer shift at the front gate and has been particularly successful in selling AFTM memberships to festival attendees! So, at the Austin String Band Festival in October, be sure to stop by the Morning Dew Coffee Shop and thank Richard for his generosity. While you’re there, pour yourself a cup of coffee, it’s on the house! Page 10 �A Panoply of Pickers at Sam's Town Point Sam’s Town Point is the new location for the AFTM Monthly Meeting & Jam, and the August and September meetings have already taken place there! This monthly meeting and jam take place outdoors, weather permitting, and there’s plenty of room inside when the weather doesn’t cooperate. Sam’s Town Point is a wonderful neighborhood bar and music venue, located at 2115 Allred Drive in Austin, just off Slaughter Lane near Manchaca. Singer/songwriter Ramsey Midwood is a coowner of Sam's, and live music is featured most nights. The monthly AFTM meeting and jam takes place on the second Sunday of each month; the meeting starts at 12:30 PM and the jam gets going around 2:00. October 8 will the next date! Page 11 �A New Home for the AFTM Midwinter Festival! The beloved AFTM Midwinter Festival, which sadly didn’t happen in 2017, has found a new home for 2018 - Life In The City UMC at 205 E Monroe St in Austin! The fact that the AFTM was unable to present its annual Midwinter Festival in 2017 was very sad news for Austin's traditional music community, and the AFTM board set to work to find a new venue, to insure that the Midwinter Festival would resume in 2018. Joanna Saucedo, the AFTM Social Media Coordinator, discovered the Life In The City UMC, and was able to secure the date of Saturday, February 10 for the 2018 Midwinter Festival. So, save the date, mark your calendars, cancel travel plans, etc., the AFTM Midwinter Festival is back! Page 12 �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 Angie Wooten, Vice President Cheryl Dehut, Treasurer Ken Tweedy, Secretary and Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Brit Irick, Outreach Coordinator Barbara Deane, Sponsorships Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Joanna Saucedo, Social Media Coordinator Dan Foster, At Large Volunteers Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. Box 49608 Click here for AFTM website https://www.flickr.com/photos/aftm/albums/72157680161933664 � 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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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-10 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Title A name given to the resource Reel Times - Volume 43, Number 3 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gary Mortenson http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/268/newsletter-44-01-2018-01.pdf 5bc677be00b9d62b16b2c6c7afc4b0f0 PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Vol. 44, Number 01, Winter 2018 The AFTM Midwinter Festival has a new home! The 2018 Midwinter Festival will be held on Saturday, February 10, at Life In The City. 205 E Monroe St, Austin TX 78704 �Table of Contents The Midwinter Festival is back! Ley Line The Barn Owls Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour Wilkinson's Quartet Bereket Middle Eastern Ensemble Wache AFTM board member, Joanna Saucedo Cajun Jam at St. Roch's Austin String Band Festival Review Recent musical events About the AFTM Page 2 �AFTM 2018 Midwinter Festival In 2017 for the first time in memory, the AFTM was unable to hold its annual Midwinter Festival. This was sad news for the traditional music community of Austin because, since 1974, the Austin Friends of Traditional Music (AFTM) has held annual music festivals. Originally called "Traditional Music Conventions", these festivals have featured performances, jamming, contests, and workshops, and have become a beloved feature of the Austin music scene. Around 1990, these music conventions morphed into the annual Midwinter Festival which functions as a fundraiser for AFTM and features performances by local bands, as well as music and dance related workshops. The Midwinter Festival is usually very eclectic in its choice of performers and workshops, featuring such traditional world genres as Celtic music, Balkan singing, South American dance music, Russian balalaika, African drumming, Chinese zither, along with the North American sound of bluegrass, blues, and old-time Appalachian music. The Midwinter Festival relies exclusively on local talent, and up-and-coming musicians are often featured. For example, as a pre-teen, Sarah Jarosz, performed to the delight of the audience and came back several times before moving on to greener pastures and national fame as a Grammy award winner. After scheduling conflicts prevented the AFTM from holding its Midwinter Festival in 2017, the AFTM board searched for a new venue for the festival for 2018. Joanna Saucedo, AFTM’s Social Media Coordinator, learned about south Austin’s Life In The City through former board member Elise Bright, and was able to secure the date of Saturday, February 10 for the 2018 Midwinter Festival! So, save the date of February 10, 2018! The following pages describe some of the performers we'll be featuring at the Midwinter Festival. There'll be various workshops offered and, hopefully, some jamming will be happening. Stay up to date on the specifics of the festival at the easy to remember AFTM website: aftm.us. Life in the City is located at 205 E. Monroe St, just two blocks east of Congress. Page 3 �AFTM 2018 Midwinter Festival Ley Line Ley Line is the musical merging of two duos. Austinites Kate Robberson and Emilie Basez met twin sisters Madeleine and Lydia Froncek at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 2013. Since reuniting in Austin, Texas in 2015, Ley Line has been weaving together their individual journeys into a collective vision. Through intimate live performances and multilingual lyrics, Ley Line’s music inspires connection across the peaks and valleys of the human experience. Ley Line partners with schools and grassroots organizations, offering workshops and interactive performances to promote cultural appreciation amongst diverse youth populations. They have partnered to support non-profits including Girls Impact the World, The Amala Foundation, Fuel our Fire, GirlForward, Casa Marianela, Creative Action and Livroteca Brincante do Pina. Page 4 �AFTM 2018 Midwinter Festival The Barn Owls The Barn Owls are an oldtime string band specializing in having a good time. Fiddler Trent Shepherd grew up in Austin but his family roots are in West Virginia. He and bassist Brink Melton are alumni of the Onion Creek Crawdaddies, a beergrass band that had a large and loyal following for several years. Guitarist Joe Dobbs is a librarian by day and tune collector all the time. Some of the band's more unusual tunes were unearthed by Joe. Banjoist Jerry Hagins has been on the Austin scene for quite a while, teaching banjo and playing in any band that will have him. Square dances are a Barn Owls specialty, and they often team up with Kentuckyraised dance caller Sharon Issac. Page 5 �AFTM 2018 Midwinter Festival Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour is a traditional Jewish music project, started in 2007 by Samantha Goldberg. Dylan M. Blackthorn, & Kronk (Sick). The band has traveled the world in many formations, learning many different tunes and the history and context of the development of klezmer music and Yiddish folksongs. From Texas to Manhattan, Mexico, Poland, Cleveland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ireland, and Greece, Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour has played at sold out venues, busked for a living on the street, and shared Jewish music with many people. Page 6 �AFTM 2018 Midwinter Festival Wilkinson's Quartet Wilkinson's Quartet Wilkinson's Quartet is an ensemble of up to 6 musicians who play jazz, swing and traditional country music! The core members: Candler A. Wilkinson IV : band leader/ vocals/ electric guitar Curtis Sigurd : upright bass / vocals Matt Thomas : electric guitar / steel guitar / vocals Page 7 �AFTM 2018 Midwinter Festival Bereket Middle Eastern Ensemble The University of Texas Middle Eastern Ensemble “Bereket” is a group comprised of UT students, faculty, staff and community members. “Bereket” is a word with cognates in Turkish, Arabic and Persian that translates as “abundance”, “fruitfulness”, and “divine gift”. About half of our members are from the Middle East, and all are interested in learning about the culture, history, religions and languages from these areas. The ensemble has several goals: to gain experiential understanding of the music and cultures of the Near, Middle East, North Africa, and former Ottoman territories; to foster community outreach; to work with UT language and other classes; and to create a sense of community around musical performance. Ensemble members learn to play basic melodic and rhythmic modes; to structure free-meter improvisations and semiimprovised heterophonic styles; vocal and instrumental compositions; how to organize repertoire into suite-like performance formats such as fasil, waslah and nawba. Members meet once a week for general rehearsals with occasional sectionals and/or individual coaching. Page 8 �AFTM 2018 Midwinter Festival Wache The Caribbean coast of Colombia has a musical richness that goes far beyond cumbia and vallenato. The regional variety of rhythms--porro, puya, gaita, merengue, chalupa, bullerengue, tambora--tells stories that are unknown even to many Colombians. Wache is a new musical group where the members explore and share these stories with you. Page 9 �Meet Joanna Saucedo, AFTM Board Member The AFTM’s Social Media Coordinator, Joanna Saucedo is a truly busy woman! In addition to her work with the organization’s various social media, she’s an active Austin musician, a festival coordinator, and a graduate student at UT’s School of Public Health (she’s getting her Master’s degree this semester!). Joanna is a true Texan, the fourth generation born in the state, and is of Irish and Mexican descent. Joanna plays fiddle, among other instruments, and it was while taking lessons from Howard Rains a few years ago that she learned about the AFTM. Howard booked the band she was playing with at the time to play at the AFTM Midwinter Festival, and she’s been involved with the organization ever since! She currently plays with Wache, a band playing exciting Afro-Columbian music. This year, she and fellow AFTM board member, Britt Irick, are coordinating the 2018 Midwinter Festival, which will be held on February 10 at a new venue, Life in the City, at 205 E Monroe St. in Austin. Joanna plays Cajun triangle! Page 10 �Cajun jam at St. Roch's bar in Austin Pictured above are Olivia Mori, guitar - Mike Perron, fiddle - Joanna Saucedo, triangle - Bryan Blanton, drums - Patrick Calvert, bass - Matt B, fiddle Debra Peters, piano accordion, Kirk Walker, Cajun accordion In December, Reel Times visited St. Roch’s bar in east Austin, and experienced the Cajun jam, which takes place each Saturday, starting around 5:00 PM. By that time, Mike Perron and a few others had gathered at the bar at 515 Pedernales, and the music promptly commenced. For the next few hours, the group of musicians grew in size and the tunes kept coming! Accordion, fiddle, and triangle were represented, of course, but guitars, electric bass, and drums joined in. There was even a 5-string banjo! The non-musicians at the bar truly appreciated the music, and apparently came to St. Roch’s just to listen. All in all, it’s a great jam, not to be missed whether you’re a diehard Cajun music fan, or not! Click on the photo above to see more of the jam! Page 11 �2017 Austin String Band Festival sights October’s Austin String Band Festival at Camp Ben McCulloch may have been the best ever! The weather cooperated right up until Sunday morning, and the stage shows, workshops and jamming were very well attended and received. Attendance was quite good, the weather was excellent and a good time was had by all. Click on any of the photos to view the AFTM Flickr Photostream! Page 12 �Recent events of interest The Hillisde House Concert series hosted a performance by Chris Brashear and Peter McLaughlin on October 7. Chris and Pete drew an enthusiastic crowd, and their picking and singing was a treat for all to behold! On a beautiful Saturday in early December, the third Festival of Texas Fiddling took place at the Twin Sisters dance hall in Blanco. The festival program included a symposium, presentations and showcase concerts by master fiddlers from styles across Texas. Page 13 �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 Angie Wooten, Vice President Cheryl Dehut, Treasurer Ken Tweedy, Secretary and Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Brit Irick, Outreach Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Joanna Saucedo, Social Media Coordinator Dan Foster, At Large Volunteers Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-01 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Title A name given to the resource Reel Times - Volume 44, Number 1 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gary Mortenson http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/269/newsletter-44-02-2018-04.pdf 3d452368abd86e6b789f5bda1e15223a PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Vol. 44, Number 02, Spring 2018 Different generations share the joy of bluegrass music at the Pearl Bluegrass 1st Saturday Jam and Stage Show! �Table of Contents Page 3 Pearl Bluegrass Page 4 Midwinter Festival in review Page 5 The Carper Family in Lockhart Page 6 The Double Eagle String Band in Smithville Page 8 Black Fiddlers and Texas Fiddle Music Page 19 About the AFTM Page 2 �Pearl Bluegrass Jam and Stage Show Roger Starnes & Friends entertain at the February 2018 Pearl Stage Show Click on the photo for more sights from Pearl! The Pearl Bluegrass Jam & Stage Show has been held on the first Saturday of every month for the past 18 years at the Pearl Community Center and its surrounding 5 acre property. The Pearl Community Center is a historic building that was formerly the Pearl school, which was built in 1917 after the previous schoolhouse burned down. The last graduating class at the current location was in 1956 after which the Pearl school consolidated with Evant and finally closed in 1958. Page 3 �Once the building was no longer used as a school the structure started to deteriorate. When local bluegrass musicians came up with the idea to start holding bluegrass jams at the old school they began to collaborate with community volunteers to restore the building. Musicians from all over began to gather at Pearl to jam together and listeners from many surrounding areas were drawn to hear the music. Local volunteers prepared and sold food to raise funds to help purchase materials needed to restore the school. The Pearl Community Center incorporated as a non-profit in 1997 and made and maintained many restorations and improvements since that time. Community volunteers have donated their time and skills to add a new roof, replace the windows, pour new floors, add air conditioning and heat, update the sound system in the auditorium, paint and decorate the building with all kinds of historical pictures and memorabilia, and also create RV-camping and parking areas. Music has always been a big part of the Pearl Community. We're told that throughout the years there have always been regular music jamborees, concerts and musicals held at Pearl and the principal and music teacher even led all-school sing-alongs in the auditorium each Monday morning that some of the former students still remember fondly. Thanks to the collaboration of the many Pearl Community volunteers and board members led by president, Ronald Medart, with all the musicians who come from far and wide - the Community Center has been able to be restored and maintained so that the tradition of music at Pearl can be preserved to bring free fun and happiness to hundreds who meet at this pretty place in the country each month. Page 4 �AFTM 2018 Midwinter Festival Tim Auld and Joanna Saucedo dance to the music of the Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour Click on the photo to see more of the 2018 Mid-Winter Festival! After an absence of one year, the AFTM Mid-Winter Festival was resurrected at a new location in 2018, and was considered a rousing success. This year’s edition of the festival took place at Life In The City in Austin on February 10, and featured a very eclectic performance schedule, as well as workshops, jamming, a silent auction and good food! The new venue provided an excellent performance space, with smaller rooms for workshops and jamming. Its location, just two blocks off Congress on Monroe St. So, look for the 2019 Mid-Winter Festival early next year, hopefully back at Life in the City! Page 5 �The Carper Family in Lockhart Beth, Jenn and Melissa performing in Lockhart Click on the photo to see more of this concert! Austin area fans of traditional music were sad to see the Carper Family break up when Melissa Carper relocated back to her home area in Arkansas a few years ago. Their modern take on old country sounds had made them a favorite since they first played together in 2010. Well, Melissa came back to Texas in February and joined bandmates Beth Chrisman and Jenn Miori for a couple of shows, and Reel Times was able to catch them in performance at the beautiful Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart. The women put on a brilliant show and there was absolutely no evidence of their not having played together for some time. Let’s hope there’s another “reunion” gig for the Carper Family in the not too distant future, they’re not to be missed! Page 6 �The Double Eagle String Band in Smithville Smithville, TX is the location of one of the newest and finest acoustic music listening rooms in all of Texas and, on Saint Patrick’s Day, the Double Eagle String Band played to a packed house at the Above Mosaic House Concert as they released their new CD, Monkey on a String. The Double Eagle String Band played the very first Above Mosaic House Concert four years ago and, since then, the Smithville venue has hosted numerous performances of consistently high quality. The series is called the Above Mosiac House Concerts because is takes place on the second floor, above Mosaic Art and Home, a wonderful shop featuring truly unique furniture and home furnishings on Main Street in Smithville. The Double Eagle String Band consists of Tim Wooten, Elizabeth Pittman, Angie Wooten, Walter Winslett, Robert Griffith and Nancy McClintock, The new recording contains plenty of traditional old time selections, as well as originals and a few tunes Tim learned from his fiddler grandfather. The house was packed and a wonderful time was had by all! Page 7 �The article that begins on the following page, Black Fiddlers and Texas Fiddle Music, was written by Dan Foster, well known Austin fiddler, scholar and AFTM board member. Page 8 �Black Fiddlers and Texas Fiddle Music Dan Foster, Austin TX “The State Fair grounds are illuminated by over 1,000 torches, and the grounds are lighted from the north inclosure to the race track. Five hundred ladies and gentlemen are attending the dancing going on in the State Fair Pavilion, and three hundred are at the dance in the main exhibition hall, where two negro fiddlers and one prompter are officiating.” --Galveston Daily News 5 May, 1874. You’ve got to wonder how the video clips we take of our friends and ourselves these days will appear in the distant future to those who may chance to look at them. Old snapshots of ourselves from the 50s and 60s (excuse us, kids) appear strange today even if they are only faded a little by time. Falling away, the experience lost, memory and imagination take over where they are allowed. The personal recollections inspired by the captured image must certainly be real, yet the picture itself seems strangely rigid and foreign. The effect is similar for both the subject and the stranger but it is not the same. Even those who share a common experience of a single event, take away different memories from the picture. Though it may sponsor true delights to both memory and imagination, nothing really lives in the image itself. The same might be said about music. The lifeless utility of a score does convey an enormous amount of information to the musically literate. But without an unbroken chain of instruction through personal human contact only a part of its intrinsic value can be sustained in performance beyond a single generation. Just imagine if all that some distant future civilization knew of human music was a collection of musical notation or even a few backed-up MIDI files of J.S. Bach compositions that survived from our time. Impressive, but a little dry wouldn’t they think? We could only hope that there might also be some MP3 files washed ashore inside that media-in-a-bottle - to sort of fill the thing out, give some life to the sound, you know. But what about all the music that happened before the advent of recording? Since we really can’t capture anything like the “high lonesome sound” on staff-paper or a MIDI file, we really have to wonder about the countless universes of our own music that are lost to us. Suppose that there once was a widely-shared memory of black music, the fiddle music of American slaves and freedmen, a shared sense of the deeper bonds of African tradition bourne over generations to which we all owe so much but have been obliged by time and forced by circumstance to Page 9 �forget. The voracious requirement of a dominant culture, which still refers to itself as white, necessarily entails a catalog of atrocities against black people, past and present. The exclusion of historically significant achievement is necessary for the mechanics of subjugation to forestall claims on the present. Asserting ownership of key cultural resources is foundational to further claims on real property, at least among those whose primary concern is property. Musicians are rarely noted for their extensive holdings. Among many of the classic old-time, country and early Bluegrass fiddlers there is an oftentold, special veneration for lessons learned from unnamed black musicians. The actual music of these legendary mentors has been lost for the most part. Only the faintest echoes of what came before survives and where memory fails, imagination takes over. As the romance of the fiddle is to the current popular image of white Texas music, so black fiddlers were once to the creation of the music itself. Anyone who has spent some time looking into the influences on famous early fiddlers knows well the familiar refrain concerning “an old negro fiddler” who gave the music. Accounts of the early days of Louisville, Kentucky from the family papers of Alfred Pirtle (18371926) include the story of a Christmas Eve party on the night of December 24, 1778 when a young “Negro fiddler” saved the day after the revelers decided in favor of his music over the official but stolid offering from an old French dancing master. At an earlier date and further to the South, on what was then the Georgia - South Carolina border, Gideon Lincecum was born in 1793. A cousin of the famous Texan, Jim Bowie, he served briefly in the Georgia militia during the War of 1812, though his primary occupation was exploring the uncharted wilderness, hunting and witnessing first-hand the glories of the natural world in its unspoiled condition. In 1817 he moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama., which was then known as the Falls of the Warrior. Lincecum was a remarkably gifted individual, a “rough-hewn polymath” with notable accomplishments in hunting, tracking, history, language, medicine, botany, the theory of evolution, history and politics. A free-thinker and lover of the natural world, he grew up in the company Muskogee Indians in Georgia, and eventually came to author some of the earliest accounts of Choctaw religion and the first dictionary of the Choctaw language. In 1835 he went with a party of Mississippians to explore Texas with the intent to possibly emigrate there. Among other things, Gid was indeed a fiddler. In the wonderful book Between the Cracks of History (1997), Francis Abernathy references the story first published as "Personal Reminiscences of an Octogenarian” in the American Sportsman 1874-75. In the Reminiscences, Gid describes “a serendipitous picnic” in 1835 near Eagle Lake, Texas and mentions that: Page 10 �“...One of the younger men told the Negro to bring his violin - which was as much as to invite the neighborhood to come.” Capt. M.J. Bonner, who came to Texas as a boy in 1854 and settled in the Dallas area reportedly learned to play the fiddle from “an old black man”. J.D. Dillingham, a fiddler and banjo player from Austin, learned the old-time repertoire from Wash Hubbard, a man of African descent. The list is long from Uncle Homer Walker, of West Virginia, who used to play a lot with white fiddlers Henry Reed, Buddy Thompson to Stuff Smith who influenced many Western Swing players in Texas and beyond. Bob Wills often spoke of the music he learned as a youngster from black musicians with whom he worked the cotton fields of West Texas. Bluegrass music owes much of its distinctive sound to Bill Monroe who was deeply influenced by the black fiddler and guitarist, Arnold Shultz, who was born in 1886. What little we know of the amusements and pastimes common among Texans in the early 19th century we owe to recounted biographies like that of Noah Smithwick, whose early travels in Texas are commemorated in the oft-cited book The Evolution of a State, (1900) Nanna Smithwick Donaldson. In one passage he fondly remembers a fiddler identified only as “Jesse Thompson’s man Mose”, manipulating a violin for a wedding in Fort Bend County back in 1827 much to the enjoyment of the party gathered there for the dance. Page 11 �Pat Earhart was a noted white fiddler who lived "Ten miles as the crow files from McDade” east of Austin Texas. According to an account published in Vol. 16, No. 7 of The Frontier Times, dated May 1939, under the pen of renowned Texas Fiddler and famous structural engineer, T.U. Taylor (after whom Taylor Hall at the University of Texas is named) in an article entitled “In and Around Old McDade”: The Blue Branch Guards were in hot pursuit of some lawbreakers and caught up with the suspects at a dance there outside McDade back in June, 1877. Taylor states that “Pat Earhart wielded his fiddle bow part of the time, but most of the time a negro, named Steve Hawkins, did the fiddling and called the figures” until the guards broke up the party to capture their man. This priceless and thrilling little vignette provides more evidence that even after the Civil War, black and white musicians together were no strangers to music making and other entertainments. Fiddling on the Open Range Like the fiddle itself, the icon of the white Texas cowboy is emblematic and the cowboy fiddler an idyllic stereotype. But the bedrock of that romance has come to be considered by many to have been a little thinner and closer to the surface than portrayed on stage and screen. Often, instead of a lanky Anglo, it was probably a freed slave who actually occupied the saddle during the short, stirring, and vividly-remembered regnum of the open range. During the Civil War, Texas Governor Francis Lubbock regarded the employment of whites in cattle driving as counter-productive to the war effort. He actively encouraged the replacement of white cowboys with slaves and freedmen. Significant numbers of African Americans went out on the great cattle drives of the late 1800s, freeing up whites to serve in the war while gaining skills and incentive for themselves to work the cowboy trade. Studies show that large numbers of black men were herding cattle in Texas by 1890 and many more by 1910. One of these was Willis Miller. Miller had ridden some of the earliest trail rides in 1870-71. He was born a slave in Milam County in 1850, he worked on the Morris Ranch near Bartlett, Texas after emancipation. There must have been countless other black cowboy fiddlers of whom we will sadly know nothing. One among those whose memory has come down to us is Jim Perry, a cowboy and top hand, the highest-ranked cowboy, on the Jim Perry – Cowboy Fiddler Page 12 �three million-acre XIT Ranch near Dalhart, Texas. Perry established himself as an expert roper, rider, bronc buster, cook and musician. “Some trail bosses didn’t like to hire a fellow who couldn’t sing,” wrote Wayne Gard in “The Chisholm Trail” (University of Oklahoma Press, 1954). “We boys would consider it a dull day’s drive if we didn’t add at least one verse. On bad, dark nights the cowboy who could keep up the most racket was the pet of the bunch.” Willis returned to Texas, singing trail songs, especially the oldest traceable version of the song “Goodbye Old Paint.” Family tradition suggests that he wrote the song. It’s possible. Sometime around 1885, Willis taught the song to Bartlett ranch hand Jesse Morris. Jess Morris was born in 1878. In 1942, folk music collector John Lomax recorded Morris’ performance for the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song. Later released on the Archive of Folk Culture album “Cowboy Songs, Ballads, and Cattle Calls from Texas”. As Patricia Benoit noted in an article for the Milam County Historical Commission: Others copied, revised and rearranged “Old Paint” over the years, few aware of its origins. Morris throughout his life gave unwavering credit to Willis Miller for the song. Coley Jones, Texas Alexander, and Saturday Suppers We will never know what the fiddling of Jess Morris, Arnold Schulz or any of the countless black fiddlers, to whom early white fiddlers were often proud to give credit, actually sounded like. It is music lost to us. Despite the profound influence of black fiddlers in Texas, their music has gone almost entirely undocumented. There are the wonderful commercial recordings of the fiddler and mandolinist Coley Jones with his Dallas Stringband, but little else to which we can turn for a chance to hear the music of that storied past. Mance Lipscomb, the venerable songster, musician and wise man from Navasota, Texas was raised in the home of his father Charles Lipscomb, who was a fiddler. Living under the cruelest oppression long past the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction, freed families like the Lipscomb’s faced unimaginable challenges and yet managed to produce music of such beauty that its effects shaped the rest of the 20th century. That so little of the actual sound of their fiddle music has survived is sadly comprehensible. The resilience of black musicians and their creative imagination is due in part to a Page 13 �sense of community that has been largely obscured by popular culture, the educational system and the effective instruments of oppression and brutality that continue up to the present day. "I could play this all night long… you know, I love that tune" -- unknown member of Coley Jones' Dallas String Band Alger "Texas" Alexander was born in Jewett, Texas, about half-way between Dallas and Houston, in 1900. He performed at picnics and parties while in his 20s, occasionally working with the famous Blind Lemon Jefferson, also from east Texas. Like many black musicians of the day, he played “Saturday Suppers”. Denied access to restaurants, dance-halls and theaters, black people living in or near small towns often organized their own country entertainments, perhaps on a tract of land someone owned. Tickets were sold for 25-cents and the Supper was organized. Beyond the edge of town, in wooded groves, bed-sheets were hung for shade, table-cloths spread for makeshift buffets where delicious foods were set out. A band played music while families gathered, some (men) retired to the woods to enjoy an afternoon of sport and stronger refreshments available in the glade. In the evening there would be a dance. "Saturday night Country Suppers. Sometimes they were called “country balls.” Often times, just to get to the country ball, some packed their dress-up clothes in a waterproof slicker and swam the Yegua or Brushy creeks or the San Gabriel River. When the fiddler, the guitarist, banjo and piano players struck up a sad blues tune, or jazz number, those who wanted to dance did the “barrelhouse”, Charleston, tap dance, buck dance, two-step or wopsy were popular. Music was more or less a natural for many of these musicians were self-trained and played by ear, or according to their feelings, cares and woes." --Miss Susie Piper Rockdale, Texas (Milam County Historical Commission) Ms. Suzie Sansom Piper, former Principal of old Aycock School in Rockdale, Texas, recounted to me that often people would come from miles away to get to the Country Suppers near the unincorporated communities of Coxes Providence and Liberty Hill (not the same place as the current city of Liberty Hill). These were the kinds of affairs Texas Alexander might have played. He went on to make blues records with Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang, Clarence Williams, and King Oliver while still in his 20s. On one of his most famous recordings, the Frost Texas Tornado Blues he is accompanied by the Mississippi Sheiks’-Lonnie Chatmon, with Sam Chatmon on guitar, and Armenter Chatmon aka Bo Carter Page 14 �on fiddle. As much as I like Bo Carter’s fiddling on those records, I always wanted to know what the music actually played at one of those “Country Suppers” in Texas might have sounded like. Little did I know, that I was to get that chance after all. Music from the Rural: Teodar Jackson, Tommy Wright, the Nelson Brothers Oscar "Preacher" Nelson was born near Cameron, Texas, Milam County, in 1901. He was an oldtime fiddler. His younger brother, Newton "Hoss" Nelson played guitar and also fiddle. Their father, Oscar Nelson was a fiddler and taught the music to his sons. Preacher said that he also learned from an older man, Richard Bailey who came from around Milano, Texas. There were many other black musicians around Cameron playing the old music in those days. Among those Preacher Nelson remembered hearing were the Craytons, a family band who played around Liberty Hill. Their music survived only in Preacher's memory, even though one family member, Connie Curtis Crayton, went on to enjoy fame and a long career as an R&B and blues musician under the name Pee Wee Crayton. Tommy D. Wright was born in Luling, Texas, south of Austin in 1903. He was raised into the music. The youngest member of the Wright family band, he grew up playing music around Luling. The band, which at one time had nine members, included clarinet, guitar, mandolin, and of course the fiddle. Juneteenth 1900 – at Eastwoods Park, Austin Texas. Grace Murray, Austin History Center They were very popular from the 1920s to the 1950s. Tommy recalls learning some from his uncle. Tommy's style featured an insistent head-strong beat, a trait in common with other musicians from Central Texas, like the late Mance Lipscomb of Navasota. It may have been the kind of music known among its practitioners as "West Texas style", according to Dr. Gary Smith of Austin. Tommy, like Preacher and Page 15 �Hoss were recorded by the late Tary Owens in 1965-66. The sound of their music is priceless – affording us perhaps the only reliable chance to actually hear echoes of the fiddle music of black rural communities in Texas. Being called upon to play music for any occasion from his childhood on, the youngest member of the Wright family band was the last of them to play requests here on Earth. Tommy died in 1984. "Ah, those memories, how they throng around me." -- Noah Smithwick In March of 1965 the legendary barrel-house piano player Robert Shaw, then living in Austin, led Tary Owens to record the fiddler, Teodar Jackson. Teodar was accompanied by his son T. J. Jackson on guitar. Born in Gonzales County in 1901, Teodar Jackson played a variety of styles. But it is the old-time dance tunes he played on that day in March, some 50 years ago that stir the imagination. In his playing we have among the best chances ever afforded to listen back across time to the music of distant generations, to hear some of the signal concepts at the core of country fiddling, black and white. In a delightfully driving piece he called “Old Aunt Jesse, Get Up In the Cool”, Teodar gouges out the rhythm with a perfectly ragged syncopation and a relentless beat. Under the constant stream of improvisation, there is a sweet, harsh, primitive vitality that echoes back across time as surely as its incidental lyric might have bounded off the rattling clapboard walls of more than lamp-lit cabin, in more than one isolated grove in the thick of a Saturday night: "…old sow'd whistle and the little pig’d dance; I'm gonna whup me an' ol tin pan; yellow-gal-yellow-gal, git up in the cool." Thanks to Owens’ recordings, the echo of their music has been saved for us, and now present for perhaps the first time an opportunity to listen back to the actual refrain of an occurrence about which much has been conjectured but almost nothing known. Whether or not the importation of slaves to North America began with an ill-fated vessel involved in a still controversial Virginia ship-wreck in 1619, there can be little doubt that as the Page 16 �population of enslaved Africans increased, so did the interaction between black and white musicians from the earliest times. Misshapen by political design and obscured by selective education, our common knowledge of social interaction during the period demonstrates a stunted recognition of the necessary complexity of roles and relations under the duress of the era. In his book, A Renegade History of the United States (2010), Thaddeus Russell offers research based on criminal court records from the 18th century to demonstrate the high degree of social interaction between races in the lower rungs of post-colonial society, in which the overwhelming majority of the whole population was to be found. Music was most likely part of that shared experience. How many of the music-themed paintings by the renowned American landscape artist, William Sidney Mount depict both black and white subjects in their settings? Paintings like “The Power of Music” (1847), “Dance of the Haymakers” (1845) and the now iconic “The Banjo Player” (1856). The last was used by Rounder Records for the cover of the record album “Altamont: Black Stringband Music From The Library Of Congress” (#RR-0238). This LP featured the music of Nathan Frazier, Frank Patterson, Albert York, and John Lusk originally recorded in Tennessee in 1942. Right and Left – William Sidney Mount (1850) Mount’s work offers compelling evidence. The character of these paintings further attest to a rich and long-standing interchange between black and white musicians over the centuries. Now, whether “Turkey in the Straw” or “The Arkansas Traveler” themselves represent the grounds for hope of further creative synthesis or instead function as the centerpieces of arguments about cultural appropriation, I’m not sure. Those are important questions no doubt, but are perhaps of less interest to fiddlers than the more familiar one: “..how does that tune go…?”. Newton “Hoss” Nelson was born in 1907 and played some fiddle, like his older brother Oscar who was better known as “Preacher” in the area south of Cameron, Texas. In an interview Hoss recalled that their father had taught both of them as youngsters in the 1920s, and that he had learned guitar near the freedman’s community of Griffin Chapel. Among his first tunes were “Out and Down” and Page 17 �“West Texas Blues”. He also remembered how he and his brother played “all around the country, all over…country balls, Jones Prairie, Rockdale…” house dances for black folks and white folks. When asked what kind of music was played for those different occasions he answered without hesitation: “…about the same thing.” The recordings of the Newton brothers, Teodar Jackson and Tommy Wright will be made available in an upcoming releases in association with the Briscoe Center for American History Music Archives and the Field Recorders Collective, for distribution sometime in 2018. Page 18 �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. 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For nearly forty years, the Austin bluegrass scene has been enhanced by the fine banjo playing of Dave Seeman. Dave’s musicianship, tasteful playing and great attitude have made him one of Austin’s most popular bluegrassers. Reel Times spent some time with Dave recently and learned the story behind his life with the banjo. A Houston native, Dave’s first exposure to playing music came in seventh grade. The braces on his teeth prevented him from taking up the trumpet, and Dave was “assigned” to play the upright bass in the school orchestra. It was not a good fit; Dave has unpleasant memories of hours spent playing scales on the upright bass in a sweltering junior high practice room, and soon left the orchestra. Meanwhile, the early 1960’s gave birth to a folk music revival in the United States, and Dave remembers a specific hit song that infected him with desire to learn to play the banjo. That song was “Washington Square” by the Village Stompers, which reached #2 on the national charts in late 1963. Around the same time, Dave was watching the weekly ABC TV show, Hootenanny, which exposed many young people to bluegrass, among other folk genres. Dave promptly acquired a banjo and fooled around with it for a year or so. A neighbor, John May, played some banjo and gave Dave lessons, as did a musician named Bill Palmer. By this time, Dave was listening to all the bluegrass he could, and remembers being particularly taken with the playing of Rual Yarbrough and Don Stover, two fine southern players who Dave feels haven’t received the acclaim they deserve over the years. Like most American cities in the 60’s, Houston had a burgeoning folk scene, and Dave spent considerable time at the Sand Mountain Coffeeshop, which no longer exists, and Anderson Fair, which is still a very active music venue in Houston. Dave was a serious visual artist in high school and, after graduating, he enrolled at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville to study art. Page 3 �He played in a jug band there but still spent a lot of time at the clubs in Houston, at one time living next door to Anderson Fair. At one point, Dave met a guitarist named Tony Tichenor, who liked Dave’s playing so much that he talked Dave into moving to California to start a band. Not one to pass up a good opportunity, Dave took Tony up on the offer and they moved to La Honda, California, where they formed a band called the Low Rent Boys. A third member of that band was Richard Somers, a fine bluegrass mandolinist who lives in Austin today. Making a living as a musician is challenging, of course, and Dave relocated to Houston to find a way to earn a living using his artistic skills. He found a position as an apprentice to the stained glass artist, Ludwig Schermer, and also worked for Texas Art Glass for a while. Dave was an active musician in Houston, and he started a band with Becky and Malcom Smith, Pat Fowler and Zeke Zuelke called the Cypress Swamp Stompers, who were well known in the Houston area. They played monthly at Anderson Fair, and Dave remembers that their band set attendance and beer sales records for that venue! Another Houston memory is playing a street concert with Country Joe McDonald, a folk legend after his legendary Woodstock performance. One more Houston band Dave played with was Paul Langston and the Big Sandy River Boys. The lure of Austin was irresistible, though, and Dave relocated there around 1980. He took a day job at Renaissance Glass, still working in the stained glass field. Since his move to Austin, Dave has played with many bands from the area - he played with Buck and Ben Buchanan in Manchaca for fifteen years and, more recently, Dave played with No Strings Attached, with Aubrey Skeen, Steven Crow and Gene Carson. Looking back over his life in music, one crazy memory sticks with Dave: One year he was hired to play for the American Dental Association National Convention where he took center stage and played Foggy Mountain Breakdown while two “cowboys” strolled down the aisle having a gunfight! Apparently the organizers wanted to give the visiting dentists a rich Texas experience! Health issues have recently limited Dave’s participation in the Austin bluegrass scene but if you’re ever at a jam and see a tall, distinguished gentleman with a bushy mustache and a banjo, be sure to pick some tunes with him. Dave’s a great musician and a great guy! Page 4 �Prime Volunteer Spots Now Available! The Austin String Band Festival isn't that far away. This year it happens on October 19 - 21, and the sign-up for the coveted Prime Volunteer Spots has begun. Volunteers filling any of these Prime Spots receive a weekend pass to what many consider the most fun festival in Texas! Just click on the above photo of Jenn and the Corn Ponies playing at the ASBF and you'll be transported to our sign-up page! Page 5 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Wood and Wire It's been five years now since Wood & Wire sprouted out of the rich musical soil of Austin, Texas. In that time, they've written music, recorded albums, and performed at some of the most notable festivals and venues across the country. In the often tightly defined genre of bluegrass music, Wood & Wire's "band-style" ethos are not unheard of. Nor are the elements of song crafting, so often associated with their Texas home, that permeate their sound. That said, what comes out of the Wood & Wire blender is something entirely its own. Page 6 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Clara and the Broken Barrel Band Click on the photo for a great video of this band! Clara and the Broken Barrel Stringband is an old-time/ classic country band lead by Clara Delfina, that is made up of Jake Blount, Haakon Oyen, and Landon George. These young folkies came together over a love of the culturally diverse musical tradition that comes from early America. They love nothing more than singing dark old ballads, heartbreaking country songs, and fiddle tunes that'll force you out of your chair and on to the dance floor! Page 7 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Felipe Perez and Rabbit Sanchez Ramon “Rabbit” Sanchez (bajo sexto) and Felipe Perez (accordion) are legendary musicians as well as some of the most versatile to come out of the conjunto homeland of South Texas. Together they have forged a sound that combines old school traditional conjunto with a progressive sensibility. Page 8 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Click on the photo for a great video of this band! The Onlies with Vivian Leva The Onlies began as a trio of lifelong friends and musical collaborators who realized early on that they shared a fascination with traditional fiddle music. Leo Shannon, Samantha Braman, and Riley Calcagno started making music together at age seven (2005), and quickly became immersed in fiddle music and tradition in their home of Seattle, down the West Coast, and across the world. In recent years, they have developed their sound with the addition of Vivian Leva, an acclaimed talent of oldtime, country, and Americana. The Onlies have developed an individual sound, with original songs that “demonstrate an enviable ability to move beyond the immediacy of their lives to touch at deeper truths, and...covers of traditional songs and tunes (that) harken to the original but are unleashed with the kind of wild, free abandon that only youth provides!” Page 9 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview The Frauleins The Frauleins are Austin’s newest roots trio, playing old-time, bluegrass and country with sisterlike harmony, a two-stepping beat and banjo to boot. This collaboration from longtime friends features: Jenn Miori Hodges - guitar, Beth Chrisman - fiddle & banjo, Amanda Jo Chisholm - bass Page 10 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview The Double Eagle String Band The Double Eagle String Band plays old-time music from Texas to Appalachia. With guitar, bass, fiddle, banjo, harmonica and mandolin, they’re handing down the tunes and songs they inherited from their musical elders. Page 11 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview The Barn Owls The Barn Owls play Old-Time music from the Appalachian region of the US, circa late 1800's and early 1900's. These fiddle-based tunes were heavy influences on the bluegrass, folk and acoustic scene of the mid-1900's. The tunes were often the backbone of a community square dance, where a 'stringband' would provide the music for a dance caller to coach the to and fro. Additionally, the tunes lived and breathed in the remote areas of the Eastern United States and were passed down through generations by ear, before recording technology existed. The instrumentation includes all acoustic instruments: Trent Shepherd on fiddle, Jerry Hagins on 5-string banjo, Joe Dobbs on guitar, and Brink Melton on standup bass. Page 12 �Music we've heard... Zenen sings and plays the jarana while Victor Murillo looks on Julia Del Palacio dances as Zenen and Victor accompany her The exciting son jarocho music of Veracruz, Mexico came to Austin in July when the group Radio Jarocho from New York City teamed up with highly-regarded son jarocho musician Zenén Zeferino of Veracruz, who comes from a legendary son jarocho family.The musicians played a concert and workshop at the Central Presbyterian Church in Austin. Page 13 �Music we've heard... New Orleans based singer and guitarist, Albanie Falleta, came through Austin in early June, and played a show with Austin musicians, Lauren and Ryan Gould at The Little Darlin' in South Austin. Albanie plays and sings jazz music of the early 20th century, and writes tunes in that style. Page 14 �The Barn Starting in August 2018, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam will take place at a new venue, The Barn, located at 6218 Brodie Lane. The Barn is a soulful south Austin music venue with highly regarded food trailers, cold beer, and a friendly staff! Many Austin area musicians made their first visit to The Barn in July when the Central Texas Bluegrass Association held their annual Band Scramble and Jam there. Also, a monthly Celtic Song Circle happens at The Barn on the first Sunday of each month at 2:00 PM. As always, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam happens on the second Sunday of each month – the meeting commences at 12:30 PM and the jam starts around 2:00 PM. In August, that means Sunday, August 12. See you there! Page 15 �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 Angie Wooten, Vice President Cheryl Dehut, Treasurer James Seppi, Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Brit Irick, Outreach Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Joanna Saucedo, Social Media Coordinator Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Dan Foster, At Large Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. Box 49608 Austin, TX 78765 Click here for Click here for AFTM website https://www.flickr.com/photos/aftm/albums/72157680161933664 Membership info � 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 Reel Times Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-08 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Title A name given to the resource Reel Times - Volume 44, Number 3 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gary Mortenson http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/271/newsletter-44-04-2018-10.pdf 23086f3e7e85a054d4f5cddfd9c0bb05 PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Vol. 44, Number 04, Fall 2018 Wood & Wire The Onlies, with Vivian Leva Performing at the thirteenth annual Austin String Band Festival Camp Ben McCulloch, Driftwood, TX October 19 - 21 �Many Volunteer Spots Still Available! The Austin String Band Festival is almost upon us! This year the festival takes place on October 19 - 21, and the sign-up for volunteer slots has begun. Regular volunteers get a one day pass to the festival, for either festival day! Just click on the above photo of Jenn and the Corn Ponies playing at the ASBF and you'll be transported to our sign-up page! Page 2 �Some thoughts about the ASBF So, why do so many acoustic music fans love the Austin String Band Festival? Because the ASBF has so much going for it! If your idea of a fun festival experience is sitting in a comfortable setting listening to great string music performances, the ASBF is for you. But, if you’re more inclined to hang at your campsite and make your own music with friends, you’ll have a lot of company and meet new pickers at the ASBF. Perhaps dancing is your thing - the ASBF has dancing every night, with great live bands providing the music and fun dance callers. Are you an RV or tent camper? Camp Ben is a truly beautiful setting, and the October weather is sublime. There are plenty of shaded campsites with electricity and all kinds of tent camping along the creek. Trees are everywhere and Onion Creek should be at its bubbling best. If you don’t have time to shop for groceries or for preparing meals at your campsite, you can eat delicious, healthy food all weekend long at The Café, run by Sara Weber. Maybe you’d like to learn more about playing your instrument or about traditional music itself? There’ll be a great variety of workshops held on Saturday afternoon. If your mobility is limited, you’ll be pleased to note that the performance venue is just a few steps from the parking area. For Austin area residents, Camp Ben is just minutes away, though some ASBF regulars drive hundreds of miles each year to enjoy the festival. And, if you’re on a budget, ASBF tickets and camping fees are very, very reasonable. Page 3 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Wood & Wire It's been five years now since Wood & Wire sprouted out of the rich musical soil of Austin, Texas. In that time, they've written music, recorded albums, and performed at some of the most notable festivals and venues across the country. In the often tightly defined genre of bluegrass music, Wood & Wire's "band-style" ethos is not unheard of. Nor are the elements of song crafting, so often associated with their Texas home, that permeate their sound. That said, what comes out of the Wood & Wire blender is something entirely its own. Page 4 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Click on the photo for a great video of this band! The Onlies with Vivian Leva The Onlies began as a trio of lifelong friends and musical collaborators who realized early on that they shared a fascination with traditional fiddle music. Leo Shannon, Samantha Braman, and Riley Calcagno started making music together at age seven (2005), and quickly became immersed in fiddle music and tradition in their home of Seattle, down the West Coast, and across the world. In recent years, they have developed their sound with the addition of Vivian Leva, an acclaimed talent of old-time, country, and Americana. The Onlies have developed an individual sound, with original songs that “demonstrate an enviable ability to move beyond the immediacy of their lives to touch at deeper truths, and...covers of traditional songs and tunes that harken back to the original but are unleashed with the kind of wild, free abandon that only youth provides!” Page 5 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Felipe Perez with Rudy Calderon and Virginio Castillo Felipe Perez, Rudy Calderon and Virginio Castillo are legendary musicians as well as some of the most versatile players to come out of the conjunto homeland of South Texas. They have forged a sound that combines old school traditional conjunto with a progressive sensibility. Page 6 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Clara and the Broken Barrel Stringband Click on the photo for a great video of this band! Clara and the Broken Barrel Stringband is an oldtime/classic country band lead by Clara Delfina, that is made up of Jake Blount, Haakon Oyen, and Landon George. These young folkies came together over a love of the culturally diverse musical tradition that comes from early America. They love nothing more than singing dark old ballads, heartbreaking country songs, and fiddle tunes that'll force you out of your chair and on to the dance floor! Page 7 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Cory McCauley and His Evangeline Aces, with Peter Schwarz Cory McCauley plays traditional Cajun music going back to an era when musicians would gather together for house dances or just to play. The name "Evangeline Aces" is a combination of the names of two of McCauley's favorite bands, Austin Pitre's Evangeline Playboys and Lawrence Walker's Wandering Aces. The vocal and musical styles of The Evangeline Aces evoke an earlier era, but the sense of commitment and feeling the group brings to their music makes the songs come alive for listeners today! Page 8 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview The Frauleins The Frauleins are Austin’s newest roots trio, playing old-time, bluegrass and country with sisterlike harmony, a two-stepping beat and banjo to boot! This collaboration of longtime friends features: Jenn Miori Hodges - guitar, Beth Chrisman - fiddle & banjo, Amanda Jo Chisholm - bass Page 9 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview The Double Eagle String Band The Double Eagle String Band plays old-time music from Texas to Appalachia. With guitar, bass, fiddle, banjo, harmonica and mandolin, they’re handing down the tunes and songs they inherited from their musical elders. Page 10 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview The Barn Owls The Barn Owls play Old-Time music from the Appalachian region of the US, circa late 1800's and early 1900's. These fiddlebased tunes were heavy influences on the bluegrass, folk and acoustic scene of the mid-1900's. The tunes were often the backbone of a community square dance, where a 'stringband' would provide the music for a dance caller to coach the to and fro. Additionally, the tunes lived and breathed in the remote areas of the Eastern United States and were passed down through generations by ear, before recording technology existed. The instrumentation includes all acoustic instruments: Trent Shepherd on fiddle, Jerry Hagins on 5-string banjo, Joe Dobbs on guitar, and Brink Melton on standup bass. Page 11 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Ryan Gould and the Little Kings Over the last fifteen+ years, JD Pendley, Lauryn Gould, Erik Hokkanen, and Ryan Gould have collaborated numerous times to create some of the most endearing and exciting danceable art. Each draws from a wide variety of musical explorations; each deeply devoted to serving and cultivating the great spirit of music; each honoring the others and all those who participate in the exchange. Page 12 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Rollfast Ramblers The Rollfast Ramblers dial it back to a time when people came out to dance to music. Describing their music as Western Swing isn’t descriptive enough for the Ramblers. They get back to the roots of Western Swing, pre-1940’s. The whole idea is to take the same approach those as those country folks in the early 20th century trying to play Jazz, Blues, Conjunto, Swing mixed with Appalachian Folk and Pioneer Fiddle Tunes. But, Rollfast Ramblers is not music that you have to study to enjoy. Let’s all hum a tune, clap, tap our feet and most of all let’s all dance! Page 13 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Square dance callers T-Claw from Louisville, KY Sharon Isaac from Austin, TX Page 14 �2018 ASBF Schedule Friday October 19 Dance 'til You Drop Night 7pm Clara and the Broken Barrel Stringband with T-Claw, caller Southern square dance with fun old time music 8:30pm Roll Fast Ramblers Vintage western swing, Lockhart favorites 9:45pm The Onlies with T-Claw, caller Killer Square Dance with hard driving Young Old Time Saturday, October 20 2pm Ryan Gould and the Little Kings Exciting dance music of 1920s- 30s jazz and swing 3pm Double Eagle String Band CD Release Celebration of old-time, old country/western, ballads and breakdowns 4pm Cory McCauley and His Evangeline Aces, with Peter Schwarz The best of traditional Cajun dance music of SW Louisiana 5pm Clara & The Broken Barrel Stringband Tight-knit old time and country music from a well traveled young band 6pm The Frauleins Old time, bluegrass, & country, with tight sister harmonies 7pm The Barn Owls with Sharon Isaac, caller Austin’s beloved old time square dance band and caller 8pm Felipe Perez with Rudy Calderon, Virginio Castillo Legendary traditional conjunto accordion, bajo sexto, & tololoche artists from San Antonio 9pm Wood & Wire Outstanding Austin hard driving bluegrass with country flair 10pm The Onlies Expert traditional old time songs and tunes unleashed with wild, free abandon that only youth provides! 11:15ish Crazy Late Night Square Dance with The Onlies and Clara’s Broken Barrel buddies, with T-Claw calling Stay up late for this super fun thing, and dance like crazy! Chaos Rules! Music - Dancing - Good Eats Mini-Sets between all acts both days Workshops, Big Jams, Little Jams, Slow Jams Lots of picking late into the night Page 15 �Something new at this year's String Band Festival Instrument Swap Shop! Do you have an acoustic instrument that you'd like to sell or trade? There will be an area set up on Saturday at the Austin String Band Festival to do just that. Sellers will be responsible for tagging the instrument with a price and contact information so that potential buyers can get in touch with you at the festival or afterwards. Bring an instrument stand to display it -there may be some table space but it will be limited. You'll also need to pick up your instrument when the Swap Shop closes Saturday evening -- we can't be responsible for your instrument overnight. 5% of the sale will go to AFTM for hosting the event, and all transactions will be between the buyer and seller. To participate, each seller must take a one-hour shift staffing the shop to make sure the instruments are secure -- you won't have to be involved in any sales. Contact Jerry Hagins at 512-632-7926 or jwhagins@sbcglobal.net and he'll coordinate details and schedules. Hours of the Swap Shop will be determined by how many sellers are participating. Page 16 �2018 Austin String Band Festival Preview Sara Weber If you’ve attended any of the Austin String Band Festivals over the past eleven years, you’ve likely enjoyed the delicious food available in the “Café” at Camp Ben. The person responsible for these tasty offerings is Sara Weber, who has run the food service from the beginning and was instrumental in making the String Band Festival a reality back in 2005. Sara’s interest in traditional music is through contra dancing. Although she enjoyed the performance-based activities the AFTM had been presenting, she and others felt a festival event would encourage a more diverse and younger audience. As the inaugural String Band Festival was being planned in 2005, Sara’s culinary skills prompted her to volunteer to take on the food service responsibility - and she’s been running the Café at the String Band Festival ever since! From the beginning, Sara wanted to provide a complete meal service so that people could attend the festival and eat all their meals at the Café. The menus show an emphasis on quality and fresh ingredients with some concessions to high quality “comfort food” as well. The menus accommodate as many dietary restrictions as possible. Like all the tasks involved in putting on the String Band Festival, Sara’s work is 100% a volunteer effort and she depends on a volunteer staff to help with food preparation, order taking, and all the tasks involved with running the food service. Sara feels that many festival attendees may not be aware that the food service is not a for-profit venture, but is strictly a volunteer effort and that all the proceeds go to the AFTM. Often, she needs more volunteers than are available, which can create an unnecessarily stressful situation. Hopefully, the 2018 Austin String Band Festival will see an increase in the number of volunteers. Sara welcomes volunteers with no food service experience. Many volunteers have commented that working at the Café is a great way to see old friends and meet Page 17 �Page 18 �The Barn Starting in August 2018, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam has taken place at a new venue, The Barn, located at 6218 Brodie Lane. The Barn is a soulful south Austin music venue with highly regarded food trailers, cold beer, and a friendly staff! Many Austin area musicians made their first visit to The Barn in July when the Central Texas Bluegrass Association held their annual Band Scramble and Jam there. Also, a monthly Celtic Song Circle happens at The Barn on the first Sunday of each month at 2:00 PM. As always, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam happens on the second Sunday of each month – the meeting commences at 12:30 PM and the jam starts around 2:00 PM. In October, that means Sunday, October 14. See you there! 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 Angie Wooten, Vice President Cheryl Dehut, Treasurer James Seppi, Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Brit Irick, Outreach Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Joanna Saucedo, Social Media Coordinator Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Dan Foster, At Large Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018-10 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Title A name given to the resource Reel Times - Volume 44, Number 4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gary Mortenson http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/272/newsletter-45-01-2019-01.pdf aa5b445639f1ccdfb24c805161bc0a17 PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Vol. 45, Number 05, Winter 2019 The Hardanger Fiddle in Austin �Table of Contents Mira Dickey - Hardanger Fiddler Page 3 2019 Midwinter Festival Page 5 Instrument Swap Page 6 AFTM Barn Dance Page 7 Central Texas 5 String Forum Page 8 4th Annual Festival of Texas Fiddling Page 10 Batch - New AFTM Meeting & Jam Venue Page 11 About the AFTM Page 12 Page 2 �Mira Dickey, Austin's Hardanger Fiddler Austin fiddler Mira Dickey remembers the first time she heard the sound of the Hardanger fiddle. It was an online audio track that she stumbled upon, and she was transfixed. “I fell completely in love with the sound of it, it was enchanting to me!”, she remembers. The sound Mira heard, Hardanger fiddle, is a traditional Norwegian music, played on an instrument with significant differences from a conventional violin. The Hardanger fiddle has four main strings, like a fiddle, but also has an additional five strings which are not fingered, but run under the fingerboard and vibrate sympathetically with the other strings. The name Hardanger comes from a district in western Norway, where the music is believed to have originated. Page 3 �Mira was no stranger to violin music, having been born and raised in Austin in a musical family; her mother is a classical violinist and her father plays Mexican and South American folk music. Mira started violin lessons at age four but never had the passion for classical music and stopped playing the violin at age seventeen. A few years later, she became intrigued by old time music, initially playing the mandolin before switching to fiddle, and using the skills she had developed as a child. Mira prefers learning music by ear rather than by reading music, and felt right at home absorbing the old time styles and techniques. Her exposure to Hardanger fiddle, though, encouraged her to start attending monthly Scandinavian dances in Austin, where a friend told her of an actual Hardanger fiddle in Austin. Mira was able to borrow the instrument and begin the process of learning to play in the traditional Norwegian style. Her interest in Hardanger fiddle has led to her study Swedish fiddle tunes, as well. Mira has learned the Norwegian music primarily by ear, but has taken Skype lessons with an instructor in the Washington, D.C. area, and attended Scandinavial music camps, as well. Mira is a very active Austin musician, with her Scandinavian fiddling, playing in a rock band, and exploring Irish music, while remaining active in the old time scene. At last year’s AFTM Midwinter Festival, Mira played a set of Hardanger tunes, to the great delight of the appreciative audience! Happily, she will perform again at the upcoming Midwinter Festival, to be held for the second year at Life in the City, 205 E Monroe St, in Austin on February 9, 2019. Page 4 �AFTM Midwinter Festival February 9, 2019 Click on the photo to see volunteer opportunities! As it was last year, the annual AFTM Midwinter Festival will be held at Life in the City, 205 E Monroe St, in Austin. The date for this coming year's MWF is February 9,2019. The MWF features performances by Austin area traditional music performers, with an emphasis on the diverse cultures represented in our area. Workshops on various instruments, dancing, and singing go on all day long, and jamming is encouraged! Volunteers for this year's festival are needed - click on the photo above to get to the volunteer page! Check the AFTM website, aftm.us, for specifics about the performers and workshops offered this year. This year's Midwinter Festival is sponsored in part by a Core II Grant from the City of Austin! Page 5 �Instrument Swap!!! This year's Midwinter Festival will feature something we've never done before: an Instrument Swap! Local banjo player and instructor, Jerry Hagins, came up with the idea of an instrument swap for the Austin String Band Festival last October, but the iffy weather prevented us from trying it at that time. Here's how it will work: Each seller will be responsible for tagging the instrument with sale price and contact info, and also will provide an instrument stand for each instrument. The sellers will also need to pick up the instruments when the table closes, probably around 8:00 pm. Each seller will be required to staff the table for one hour minimum, and would be responsible for making sure no instruments "walk". The number of participating sellers will determine for how long the Instrument Swap is open. Sales would be negotiated directly between buyer and seller, so the person staffing the table won't have to deal with the transaction or keep track of money. The person staffing the table will call or text the seller, and they will meet up and do the deed. Pretty much all musical instruments will be elibible for the Instrument Swap, and musical accessories such as preamps and D. I. boxes will be accepted, as well. The AFTM is requesting that each seller would donate 5% of their sales to the AFTM. If you're interrested in contributing an item to the Instrument Swap, we ask that you contact Jerry Hagins in advance, so we know how much space to allot. He can be reached by email at: jwhagins@sbcglobal.net Page 6 �The AFTM Barn Dance! Click photo to see more photos from the November 16 AFTM Barn Dance! The November 16 AFTM Barn Dance at Life in the City was a great success! Check the AFTM website, aftm.us, for the date and location of the next Barn Dance. Page 7 �The Central Texas 5-string Forum Chuck Middleton welcomes the group at the October, 2018 gathering The Central Texas 5-String Forum was started in October 2017 and has held four meetings since then. It grew from an idea that the great Alan Munde discussed with Chuck Middleton in early 2017. The last meeting was in October 2018. The group aims to meet quarterly, and the next meeting will be held on February 24, 2019. The mission of the CT5SF is simple. The CT5SF encourages its members to give presentations on anything related to the 5string banjo. Then the members jam afterwards and welcome players of other instruments to join us. Meetings are held at members’ homes in the Central Texas area (up until now Austin and Wimberley, but they would love someone to host in the San Antonio area the in future). Page 8 �Alan Munde demonstrates how he develops ideas on the banjo The most recent gathering of the CT5SF took place in October at a member’s residence in Austin. Chuck Middleton welcomed the group, Al Morgan gave a presentation on the banjo styles of Tony Ellis, Alan Munde demonstrated how he develops new ideas on the banjo, and Eddie Collins spoke about his participation in the induction ceremonies at the American Banjo Museum and Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. The CT5SF welcome all types of 5-string players, including bluegrass, clawhammer, melodic, newgrass, single- string and classical. They especially want to reach out to folks who play clawhammer banjo in the AFTM old-time scene! For information about the upcoming February 24 meeting or to get on the CT5SF mailing list, email Chuck Middleton at clydemiddleton68@gmail.com. Page 9 �4th Annual Festival of Texas Fiddling The AFTM was proud tp be a sponsor of the 4th Annual Festival of Texas Fiddling, held at the Twin Sisters dance hall in Blanco, TX on December 1. It was a wellattended and highly successful event with dance sets, showcase concerts, and workshops held throughout the day by master fiddlers playing Old Time, Western Swing, Contest Style, Texas Polish, Huapango Arribeño, Creole, Neo-Traditional, Texas-Argentine, Cajun, and TexasMexican (Tejano). Bobby Flores and the Yellow Rose Band capped off the Festival with a Western Swing dance on Saturday night. Page 10 �Batch Starting January 13, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam will take place at a new venue, Batch, located at 3220 Manor Road in Austin! Batch Craft Beer and Kolaches is an Austin, family-owned and operated kolache bakery, taproom, and retail craft beer shop. The pastry chefs at Batch elevate the classic Central Texas Czech pastry to gourmet status by teaming up with Micklethwait Craft Meats and local fruit vendors. Additionally, Batch offers a full espresso and coffee program through a partnership with Greater Goods Roasting. As always, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam happens on the second Sunday of each month – the meeting commences at 12:30 PM and the jam starts around 2:00 PM. In January, 2019 that means Sunday, January 13. See you there! Page 11 �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 Angie Wooten, Vice President Cheryl Dehut, Treasurer James Seppi, Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Brit Irick, Outreach Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Joanna Saucedo, Social Media Coordinator Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Dan Foster, At Large Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. Box 49608 Austin, TX 78765 Click here for Click here for AFTM website https://www.flickr.com/photos/aftm/albums/72157680161933664 Membership info � 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 Reel Times Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Volume 45 Number 1 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-01 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Title A name given to the resource Reel Times - Volume 45, Number 1 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gary Mortenson http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/273/newsletter-45-02-2019-04.pdf f709c73b653578e5a82212c21eec7ccf PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Vol. 45, Number 02, Spring 2019 Erica Braverman AFTM's "Volunteer at Large" �Table of Contents Page 3 Erica Braverman, AFTM volunteer Page 5 AFTM Midwinter Festival, 2019 Page 6 Fiddler's Green, AFTM supporter Page 8 AFTM Barn Dance Page 9 Batch, home of AFTM's monthly meeting and jam Page 11 Save the date! Page 2 �Erica Braverman dances to the Irish music of Chris Buckley and Jeff Moore at the 2018 AFTM Midwinter Festival “Volunteer-at-large”, that’s how Erica Braverman describes her role at the AFTM. Most recently in that role, she worked behind the scenes and helped produce the very successful Midwinter Festival, held this past February. The way Erica became involved in traditional music is quite a story! Erica’s not a native Texan, having grown up in the Detroit area. Though she studied violin and piano as a child, neither instrument really intrigued her. One summer during middle school, Erica and a friend decided to participate in a three-day traditional music camp, and it was there that she Page 3 �was first exposed to flat foot dancing. Erica continued to attend similar music camps through her high school years, developing her dancing skills. Clogging and flat foot dancing fascinated Erica and, to this day, she’s an active dancer in the Austin traditional music scene. Before coming to Austin, Erica received her undergraduate degree in Spanish at the University of Michigan and an M. A. degree in education at Wayne State, in Detroit. While teaching part- time in Michigan, she heard about opportunities offered by the Americorps program, and her Spanish language proficiency made her a perfect fit for a program called the 4-H CAPITAL AmeriCorps Project here in Austin. Though she had lived all her life in Michigan, she promptly moved to Austin and has been here since! Erica has really enjoyed her time in Austin and encouraged that same childhood friend from her first music camp to move here. The friend needed assurances that there was an active traditional music scene in Austin, and with the guidance of Google, Erica reached out to the AFTM. Her inquiry drew prompt responses from Sharon Isaac, Barbara Dean and Cheryl DeHut. Encouraged by their welcoming enthusiasm, she started attending old time jams at the old Rio Rita location. There she met more AFTM regulars like Tim and Angie Wooten and, although she was wearing sandals at her first flat footing opportunity, she quickly retrieved her tap shoes from her parents’ home in Michigan. Erica has very diverse interests in traditional music and has studied Irish music at the Blas International Summer School run by the University of Limerick, as well as Balfolk TTU, which is a dance event for folk dance and folk music held by the Vernacular Music Center at Texas Tech in Lubbock. Erica’s current instrumental “weapon of choice” is the concertina, which she learned about from Michelle Hedden at the Fiddlers Green music store in Austin. Erica takes lessons on that instrument from an instructor in Chicago via Skype. Perhaps the one characteristic of the Austin traditional music scene that Erica most appreciates is the open-mindedness she finds in local jams. "I am so thankful that I have been welcomed into the oldtime and Irish jams and grateful for all the friends I have made there. My study abroad advisor always said that "the music is just an excuse" and we are really all there to see our friends, which I believe to be true!" Page 4 �AFTM Midwinter Festival February 9, 2019 For the second consecutive year, the AFTM Midwinter Festival was held at Life in the City, just off South Congress in Austin. The Midwinter Festival has settled into its new home, and again this year featured performers from various world cultures. Dance from Africa and Hungary, fiddle music from Ireland and Scandinavia, Pakistani and Appalachian traditional music, and workshops ranging from making puppets, to playing banjo, to making your own washtub bass! Click on the above photo of the Csardas Hungarian Dancers to see more photos from the festival! Page 5 �Fiddler's Green Austin's traditional music resource It’s probably true that most AFTM members play an instrument of one kind or another, and that most of those instruments are of the stringed variety. Austin is fortunate to have a music shop that specializes in string instruments, that sells all the accessories needed to play those instruments, and offers instruction on just about every folk instrument, as well! That shop, of course, is the Fiddler’s Green Music Shop at 1809 W 35th St. in Austin. The owner, Clay Levit, moved his Fiddler’s Green Music Shop to Austin from its original location in Memphis about ten years ago. Clay wanted to relocate to his native Texas, and brought with him Ben Hodges to manage the shop. Fiddler’s Green offers instruments for sale ranging from very affordable entry-level ones to exquisite, hand-made axes of the highest quality (and priced accordingly). For the beginning musician, as well as the player wanting to improve his skills, sixteen different instructors offer lessons on guitar, banjo, fiddle, and mandolin, and several other less common instruments. Recently, Fiddler’s Green helped support the AFTM Midwinter Festival, for which we’re very grateful! If you’re an AFTM member who hasn’t visited Fiddler’s Green recently, you owe it to yourself to stop in and see this fine music shop for yourself! Page 6 �Photos from a recent visit to Fiddler's Green Page 7 �The AFTM Barn Dance! Click photo to see more photos from the November 16 AFTM Barn Dance! Starting on April 19, 2019, the AFTM Barn Dance will be held at Life in the City every other month on the third Friday of the month. The dance runs from 8:00 pm until 10:00, and admission is $10.00. Life in the City is located at 205 E Monroe Street in Austin, just east of South Congress. Page 8 �Batch Starting in January, 2019, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam has taken place at a new venue, Batch, located at 3220 Manor Road in Austin! Batch Craft Beer and Kolaches is an Austin, family-owned and operated kolache bakery, taproom, and retail craft beer shop. The pastry chefs at Batch elevate the classic Central Texas Czech pastry to gourmet status by teaming up with Micklethwait Craft Meats and local fruit vendors. Additionally, Batch offers a full espresso and coffee program through a partnership with Greater Goods Roasting. As always, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam happens on the second Sunday of each month – the meeting commences at 12:30 PM and the jam starts around 2:00 PM. In April, 2019 that means Sunday, April 14. See you there! Page 9 �Jamming at Batch, 2019 Page 10 �Save the date! Looking ahead to the fall, the dates for this year's Austin String Band Festival are October 18 through the 20th. At this early date, booking the lineup is still in its early stages, but we can state with confidence that the festival will be a fantastic event, and the good news this year is that the weather forecast is most excellent! Page 11 �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 Angie Wooten, Vice President Cheryl Dehut, Treasurer James Seppi, Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Brit Irick, Outreach Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Joanna Saucedo, Social Media Coordinator Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Dan Foster, At Large Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. Box 49608 Austin, TX 78765 Click here for Click here for AFTM website https://www.flickr.com/photos/aftm/albums/72157680161933664 Membership info � 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 Reel Times Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Volume 45 Number 2 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-04 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Title A name given to the resource Reel Times - Volume 45, Number 2 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gary Mortenson http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/274/newsletter-45-03-2019-07.pdf 11aab2f1128816fa5a9d420d37f1a00f PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Vol. 46, Number 03, Summer 2019 Lloyd and April Wright get ready for The 2019 Austin String Band Festival ! �Table of Contents Page 3 Lloyd and April Wright, 2019 Austin String Band Festival Performers Page 6 Chip Bach, new AFTM board member! Page 9 AFTM Barn Dance, August 19 Page 10 Batch, home of the monthly AFTM meeting and jam Page 12 Save the Date (for the ASBF, of course) Page 2 �Lloyd and April Wright at their home in Kennard, Texas Lloyd and April Wright, the East Texas duo who will perform at the Austin String Band Festival in October, are lifelong Texans from musical families. April was born in Crockett and raised in Kennard, where the couple now lives and, for a brief time, both Lloyd and April attended the same elementary school in Crockett, where Lloyd’s mother, Margaret, was the music teacher! April grew up with a father who played fiddle, and she still performs with him every Sunday morning at the Larry Bruce Gardens in Kennard. Lloyd grew up in Houston and discovered traditional old-time music in 1994 on a family vacation to Mountain View, AR, where a visit to the Ozark Folk Center made an indelible impression. Lloyd returned home with a mountain dulcimer and quickly acquired substantial playing skills – he was the Mountain Dulcimer National Champion in 2000! Lloyd’s family played and performed old time music through the 90’s in the Houston area, and has recorded three CD’s of old-time music. After Lloyd met April, he was introduced to more gospel music to add to his old-time repertoire. They’ve performed secular music as well, and their band the Sawmill Vagrants played at the ASBF a few years ago. Page 3 �"The family that plays together" A recent performance finds Lloyd playing with his mother, Margaret on bass, his brother, Hollis on mandolin, April on guitar and April's father, Larry on fiddle! They’re regulars at the Palestine Old Time Music and Dulcimer Festival each March, and it was there that they first learned about the Austin String Band Festival after meeting the AFTM’s Jeanne DeFriese. Lloyd and April really enjoy the ASBF and have launched their own festival modeled after the ASBF. Their festival, the Old Mill Music Festival, is held in November every year near their home in Kennard. Both Lloyd and April perform throughout east Texas, and Lloyd is often heard playing with Pipp Gilette, proprietor of the famous Camp Street Café in Crockett. Page 4 �Lloyd and April Wright pick a tune on the stage of the Old Mill Music Festival, which they host every November in Kennard, TX Music is a family venture with Lloyd and April. At a recent Sunday performance at the Larry Bruce Gardens in Kennard, Lloyd and April were joined by Lloyd’s mother, Margaret on the upright bass, Lloyd’s brother, Hollis on mandolin and April’s father, Larry Bruce on fiddle. The wonderful music of Lloyd and April Wright is yet another reason to save the dates of October 18 through the 20th, 2019, for the 14th annual Austin String Band Festival held at Camp Ben McCulloch in Driftwood, TX! Page 5 �New AFTM board member, Chip Bach Chip Bach at home, with his mandolin Page 6 �Chip Bach exchanges licks with a fellow mandolin player at the monthly Pearl Bluegrass Jam & Stage Show Like a lot of musicians with a demanding full-time career, Chip Bach always planned to get more serious about his music once he retired and could put in additional practice hours on his instrument. Well, Chip followed through with that plan in a big way and just a bit over a year after retiring won the 2019 Texas State Mandolin Championship held in Farmers Branch, Texas! The story of how Chip came to Texas is an interesting one. Chip had planned to spend his retirement in Charleston, SC where his son’s family was living, but Chip and his wife Chris needed to sell their home in Palm City, FL first. Their home had been on the market for quite a while without a sale and then, one month before Page 7 �their home finally sold, that same son in Charleston took a job in Austin. Subsequently, Chip and his wife Chris (both being proud grandparents) decided that Austin, TX would be a pretty nice place to retire, and moved here in late 2017. Chip is an east coast guy, having grown up in VA and attended college in NC. As a teenager and young man, Chip played guitar and banjo and had played with Red and Murphy Henry in Florida. Preparing for a festival performance there, Chip was asked to learn the mandolin on short notice. He caught the mandolin bug at that time. Except for a few years in CO, Chip’s life has been spent on the east coast, living in NC, SC, and FL, in addition to his childhood in VA. Chip has especially fond memories of his year and a half in Asheville, NC where Chip and Chris’ daughter was born, he won the 1980 Bele Chere Mandolin competition, and he enjoyed the great jamming at the Shindig on the Green, a summer-long musical event in Asheville. Chip’s greatest musical joy is playing with others, and after moving to Austin he wasted no time getting involved with several of the area’s jamming opportunities. He plays both old time and bluegrass mandolin and guitar styles and wishes those two musical communities were more interconnected. Chip is a member of several traditional music organizations in our area and plays with the Austin bluegrass band One Eye Open. He can be seen at many Austin area bluegrass and old time jams. Chip has recently joined the AFTM board as Promotion Coordinator. Chip’s skills and work ethic will make a great contribution to the AFTM. Welcome to the board, Chip! Page 8 �The AFTM Barn Dance! Click photo to see more photos from the November 16 AFTM Barn Dance! Don't miss the next AFTM Barn Dance, which will be held on Friday, August 16, at Life in the City! The dance runs from 8:00 pm until 10:00, and admission is $10.00. Life in the City is located at 205 E Monroe Street in Austin, just east of South Congress. Page 9 �Batch Starting in January, 2019, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam has taken place at a new venue, Batch, located at 3220 Manor Road in Austin! Batch Craft Beer and Kolaches is an Austin, family-owned and operated kolache bakery, taproom, and retail craft beer shop. The pastry chefs at Batch elevate the classic Central Texas Czech pastry to gourmet status by teaming up with Micklethwait Craft Meats and local fruit vendors. Additionally, Batch offers a full espresso and coffee program through a partnership with Greater Goods Roasting. As always, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam happens on the second Sunday of each month – the meeting commences at 12:30 PM and the jam starts around 2:00 PM. In July, 2019 that means Sunday, July 14. See you there! Page 10 �Jamming at Batch, 2019 Page 11 �Save the date! Looking ahead to the fall, the dates for this year's Austin String Band Festival are October 18 through the 20th. At this early date, booking the lineup is still in its early stages, but we can state with confidence that the festival will be a fantastic event, and the good news this year is that the weather forecast is most excellent! Page 12 �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 Joanna Saucedo, Vice President Angie Wooten, Acting Treasurer James Seppi, Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Brit Irick, Outreach Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Dan Foster, At Large Chip Bach, Promotions Coordinator Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. Box 49608 Austin, TX 78765 Click here for Click here for AFTM website https://www.flickr.com/photos/aftm/albums/72157680161933664 Membership info � 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 Reel Times Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Volume 45 Number 3 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-07 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Title A name given to the resource Reel Times - Volume 45, Number 3 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gary Mortenson http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/275/newsletter-45-04-2019-10.pdf a9125453f8a6633e0d2ef56158139925 PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Vol. 45, Number 04, Fall 2019 Steam Machine headlines the 2019 Austin String Band Festival! �Table of Contents Page 3 Steam Machine Page 5 Lone Piñon Page 6 Big Cedar Fever Page 7 Jesse Lége and Bosco Stomp Page 8 Pace and Barber Page 9 The Here and Now with Tony Davoren Page 10 Lloyd and April Wright Page 11 The Stovetop Rangers Page 12 The Barn Owls Page 13 Festival Information Page 14 ASBF Schedule of Performers Page 15 Food at the ASBF Page 16 AFTM Barn Dance Page 17 Photos from ASBF 2019 Page 18 The Westbank String Shop Page 20 The AFTM at Batch Page 22 About the AFTM Page 2 �Steam Machine Steam Machine is a band that bridges the old-time bluegrass divide. These four young Midwesterners have a vast repertoire that pulls from the fiddle traditions of Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky, interspersed with rare early country and bluegrass songs. While serious about old fiddle tunes, Steam Machine also carries forward the power and glory of the old stuff with widely appealing drive and relevance. Clean, powerful fiddling, rolling three finger banjo, and classic brother-style duets over a driving, rock-solid rhythm section combine to form a big sound on stage and square dance floor alike. All four band members are actively involved in perpetuating roots music and dance traditions as players, teachers, and organizers in their home communities and on the road. AJ Srubas has played and taught fiddle for over 20 years, from the Augusta Heritage Center to the Berkeley Old-Time Page 3 �Music Convention. Early in his fiddling years he met Chirps Smith who introduced AJ to the lesser known old-time repertoire of the Midwest. Other influences on his old-time playing include Dwight Lamb and Al Murphy who in turn played with Cyril Stinnett, Lyman Enloe, and Gene Goforth. Banjo player Aaron Tacke is known for his unique style of fingerpicking. In addition to playing and teaching, he works as a luthier at Hoffman Guitars. Rina Rossi first came to old time music as a clogger and then square dance caller, performing across the midwest and Europe with the Wild Goose Chase Cloggers. Always a lover of rhythm, she later took up bass and guitar. She enjoys laying down a strong and steady beat as a foundation for fiddle and banjo. Born and raised in Stillwater, Oklahoma, bassist Nokosee Fields tours with the country band Western Centuries. As a teacher, he has taught at the Augusta Heritage Center and has been involved with Dancing with the Spirit—an Alaska-based youth and community music program that aims to re-inspire fiddle and dance traditions in indigenous communities throughout the region. Page 4 �Lone Piñon Lone Piñon is an acoustic conjunto from Northern New Mexico whose music celebrates the integrity of their region's cultural roots. Multiinstrumentalists Noah Martinez and Jordan Wax use the fiddle, bajo quinto, accordion, quinta huapanguera, mandolin, guitars, and bilingual vocals to play a wide spectrum of the traditional music that is at home in New Mexico. Tanya Nunez will be playing bass. Page 5 �Big Cedar Fever Big Cedar Fever is a string swing band out of central Texas that specializes in classic western swing and jazz. Three part harmonies and tight musical arrangements draw listeners in, only to be taken away by the classic style and lyrics that recall another time and place. Formed in January of 2018, the trio includes Georgia Parker on jazz-box guitar, Ian Lee on fiddle, and Nick Lochman on the upright bass. With all three sharing vocal duties and trading instrumental solos, this is a group whose constant harmony is right up there with their prowess as a dance band. The up-and-comers have played host to crowds of Lindy hoppers, Texas two-steppers, and Western swing dancers. In their short time together they have also been at home in listening room environments, providing intimate sets that showcase a true love for the history of the music. Page 6 �Jesse Lége & Bosco Stomp One dance hall at a time...That is the life work of Jesse Lége: to bring traditional, foot-stompin’ Cajun dance hall music from the dusty back roads of southwest Louisiana, coast to coast and around the world. Jesse Lege defines traditional Louisiana dance hall music. His unmistakeable hard driving style of accordion play and his powerful voice will get even the most staid listener up on the dance floor. Whether he is performing with Bayou Brew or his many friends, Jesse can crank up any old tune to something new and very different than you have ever heard before. Page 7 �Pace and Barber Pace & Barber's sound draws from American roots music, with stripped-down vocal harmonies accompanied by banjo and guitar. Their partnership began in the Dallas-Fort Worth area after Dean Barber received an email from Brandi Pace, looking for a banjo teacher. What started as a lesson developed into a duo and the rest, as they say, is history. Page 8 �The Here And Now with Tony Davoren Chris Buckley grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He’s been a student of the violin since the age of 3 and began studying Irish fiddle at the age of 14. His classical training culminated with a degree in viola performance at the University of Minnesota and graduate work at UT Austin. Rob Forkner claims he was born on a paddle-wheel gambling boat in Louisiana. Moving away from the boat a short time later he was fortunate enough to spend time living in many parts of the world. While living in Alaska, he discovered Irish music after a friend gave him an old cassette tape. He decided to learn how to play the bodhran after hearing the playing of the great Johnny McDonagh. From Tara, Co. Meath in Ireland Niamh moved to Austin in August 2014. As a child Niamh took lessons with the infamous Antoin McGabhann and still quotes him as one of her biggest influences. Niamh has enjoyed a varied career as a musician having toured extensively with notable acts such as Riverdance, Project West, The Dhol Foundation, John Williams and many more to boot. Prior to moving to Austin, Niamh lived in London where she carved out career as a recording session musician while also undertaking a masters in Music Therapy. Niamh now works as a contract music therapist and session musician in Austin and is excited about the prospects for The Here & Now. Though still a young man, guitar-player Joseph Carmichael has already collected an impressive resume. His primary project Flashpoint -- a contemporary Irish trio -- has recorded two albums, and performed at concerts and festivals throughout the southern US and has shared the stage with top-flight Irish music groups FullSet and the legendary Solas. Page 9 �Lloyd & April Wright Dulcimer champion, Lloyd Wright, picks a tune on the stage of the Mill Fest, accompanied by his wife, April Lloyd and April Wright hail from the town of Kennard in east Texas, and were featured in the summer edition of Reel Times. Their music is a blend of traditional string band music, with old time country and gospel influences. They're regulars at the Palestine Old Time Music and Dulcimer Festival every March, and have started their own music festival, Mill Fest, which will take place this year on November 1 & 2. Page 10 �The Stovetop Rangers Many of the countless Stovetop Rangers fans feared that they'd never again hear the frequently dulcet tones of this fabled Austin oldtime string band, since one member moved to Atlanta and another to Oakland. The appeal of the Austin String Band Festival has proven to be so powerful that the lads have briefly reunited and will be staging a musical reunion on stage. To miss this performance would be to miss out on history... Page 11 �The Barn Owls The Barn Owls are an Austin area oldtime string band specializing in having a good time! Fiddler Trent Shepherd grew up in Austin but his family roots are in West Virginia. He and bassist Brink Melton are alumni of the Onion Creek Crawdaddies, a beergrass band that had a large and loyal following for several years. Guitarist Joe Dobbs is a librarian by day and tune collector all the time. Some of the band's more unusual tunes were unearthed by Joe. Banjoist Jerry Hagins has been on the Austin scene for quite a while, teaching banjo and playing in any band that will have him. Square dances are a Barn Owls specialty, and they'll be teaming up with Kentucky-raised dance caller Sharon Issac. Page 12 �Volunteer at the String Band Festival! Volunteers are essential to the success of the festival and volunteering is a great way to meet like-minded string band enthusiasts, as well as saving on admission fees. Click on this box to go to the volunteer signup page! Buy advance tickets online! Click on this box to go to the ticket purchasing page! Camp Ben McCulloch is located Near Austin on FM 1826, 11 miles southwest of US 290, right across the road from the Salt Lick BBQ Page 13 �ASBF 2019 Schedule FRIDAY OCT 18 Dance ‘til you Drop Night - all dances taught 7pm Flat Earth Rounders with Rich Macmath, caller Festival Kick-Off Square Dance with great local old time band and caller 8:30pm Lone Piñon with Larry Edelman, caller Lively traditional group and couples dances of Northern New Mexico 9:45pm Steam Machine with Larry Edelman, caller Killer Square dance with premier Old Time band and caller SATURDAY, OCT 19 All Day until Late Night Stage Shows and Dances 2pm Pace and Barber traditional old time string band music, Ft. Worth,TX 3pm Lloyd and April Wright traditional/old time/gospel Kennard,TX 4pm The Here & Now with Tony Davoren Fast-paced traditional Irish music Austin, TX 5pm Stovetop Rangers Old Time Appalachian, pre-war country and blues Austin, TX 6pm Big Cedar Fever Classic Western Swing and jazz for your dancing and listening pleasure Austin/Wimberly/Boerne, TX 7pm The Barn Owls with Sharon Isaac, caller Fiery local favorite Old Time/Square Dance Band and Caller Austin, TX 8pm Lone Piñon Traditional, lively acoustic conjunto of New Mexico and the Southwest, Native American fiddle music for dancing and listening Albuquerque, NM 9pm Steam Machine Hard-driving Old Time meets Bluegrass with clean, powerful fiddling, brother-style duets over rock-solid rhythm All Over the Midwest,USA 10pm Jesse Lége & Bosco Stomp (with special guests!) Authentic High-Energy Cajun dancehall music of SW Louisiana that packs the dance floor Austin, TX 11ish pm Crazy Square Dance Grand Finale Square Dance with Steam Machine and Guests, Larry Edelman, caller Insanely fun and well worth staying up for! SUNDAY, OCT 20 10am Gospel Sing and Festival Farewell Come sing old timey gospel songs and maybe even a few shape note hymns Page 14 �Delicious food at the ASBF ! In addition to the great music and camping at the ASBF, festival goers in recent years have enjoyed the delicious food offerings at The Café, as prepared by Sara Weber and her crew. When we learned that Sara would not be able to continue her excellent food service, the AFTM board searched for suitable food options and, thanks to new board member Rachel Brown, we’ll have three fine food vendors this year! John Imperial will be working in the Camp Ben kitchen, with offerings from both his businesses, The Coffee Guy and Villarina Fine Food and Pasta. He’ll be serving all kinds of coffee products as well as several types of lasagna (served with a fresh baguette and salad), empanadas, eggplant Parmesan, and pastries! He’ll be joined in the kitchen by Angie of Angie’s Fried Pies, who will serve quiches in the morning, and her famous fried pies the rest of the day! Finally, Linda of Come and Crepe It will bring her food trailer and will be serving crepes, omelettes and croissants in the morning and an extensive menu of sweet and savory crepes throughout the day! Also, vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options will be available. Although some festival goers enjoy cooking all their meals at Camp Ben, it’s great to know that you can attend the ASBF and not worry about doing your own food preparation, there’ll be great food available from our vendors! Page 15 �AFTM Barn Dance Check at www.aftm.us for information on future AFTM Barn Dances Page 16 �Photos from last year's ASBF Page 17 �Featured sponsor The Westbank String Shop Click on the photo to visit the website of the Westbank String Shop! The Westbank String Shop, located at 6301 Manchaca Road in Austin, is a true fiddler's paradise, with instruments galore and accessories such as bows, strings, stands, rosins, cases, etc. Founded by Dr. David Sloan, Westbank has grown and expanded over the last 22 years and today Westbank String Shop is operated by the founder’s son, Todd, a gifted musician and multi-instrumentalist himself, trained in instrument restoration and repair. The Austin String Band Festival is proud to have the Westbank String Shop as a sponsor, and we're excited that they will again have a booth at the festival, with instruments and accessories for sale, as well as a mobile repair shop for any fiddle issues that arise at the festival! Page 18 �Ausdtin area fiddle great, Howard Kalish, examines an instrument from the Westbank String Shop's inventory, as owner Todd Sloan looks on. There are always plenty of fine instruments on hand at the Westbank String Shop! Page 19 �AFTM at Batch Starting in January, 2019, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam has taken place at a new venue, Batch, located at 3220 Manor Road in Austin! Batch Craft Beer and Kolaches is an Austin, family-owned and operated kolache bakery, taproom, and retail craft beer shop. The pastry chefs at Batch elevate the classic Central Texas Czech pastry to gourmet status by teaming up with Micklethwait Craft Meats and local fruit vendors. Additionally, Batch offers a full espresso and coffee program through a partnership with Greater Goods Roasting. As always, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam happens on the second Sunday of each month – the meeting commences at 12:30 PM and the jam starts around 2:00 PM. In October, 2019 that means Sunday, October 13! Page 20 �Jamming at Batch, 2019 Outdoors, if it's pleasant, Indoors, if not... Page 21 �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 Joanna Saucedo, Vice President Angie Wooten, Treasurer Rachel Brown, Secretary James Seppi, Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Britt Irick, Outreach Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Chip Bach, Promotions Coordinator Dan Foster, At Large Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. Box 49608 Austin, TX 78765 Click here for Click here for AFTM website https://www.flickr.com/photos/aftm/albums/72157680161933664 Membership info � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-10 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Title A name given to the resource Reel Times - Volume 45, Number 4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gary Mortenson http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/276/newsletter-46-01-2020-01.pdf 6140b4a8d9520e84d22635ea05e08f62 PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Vol. 46, Number 01, Winter 2020 Old time music in Austin Kellie Allen, Gene Young and Pete Peterson experiencing the joy of playing old time music! �Table of Contents Page 2 Table of Contents Page 3 Gene and Marynell Young, new to Austin old-time music scene Page 7 The Buffalo Gals at the Hillside House Concert Page 8 Janie's Jumpstart, old-time music instruction comes to Austin Page 9 Evie Ladin and Keith Terry, neo-trad kinetic folk duo comes to Austin Page 10 The 2019 Austin String Band Festival Page 11 Photos of the 2019 ASBF by Tom Delaney Page 12 5th Annual Festival of Texas Fiddling Page 13 The AFTM at Batch Page 14 AFTM group photo Page 15 About the AFTM Page 2 �Gene and Marynell Young Austin's newest old-time musicians! Gene and Marynell, at a recent AFTM old-time jam at Batch Recent transplants to Austin, Gene and Marynell Young, have spent their lives learning and playing old time fiddle music. Both Gene and Marynell grew up in the Texas panhandle, Gene in the town of Borger and Marynell in Phillips, a town that no longer exists. Marynell Young fondly remembers the time when, at the age of eight, she and her family traveled from their home to the big city of Amarillo to have her grandfather’s fiddle set up by the legendary Eck Robertson! Page 3 �Both of Marynell’s grandfathers were fiddlers; Marynell began taking violin lessons in Borger, TX when she was in the fourth grade, but didn’t stick with it. In those days in Texas, the fiddle was considered a “man’s instrument” and she was teased about being a girl who played the fiddle. She switched to saxophone, which she played for eight years, through high school. Marynell is still in touch with some of her fellow saxophonists from her school days. Gene Young was born in San Angelo, TX, lived in Ballinger, TX, and moved to Borger when he entered the ninth grade. Gene and Marynell met when she was seventeen - Gene asked her to attend a Bo Diddley dance (an enormous event for little Borger, TX), Marynell said yes, and the rest is history! Gene’s guitar playing has its roots in visits to an older brother who attended the university of Oklahoma in Norman. On one visit he saw a Flatt & Scruggs performance and another the Kingston Trio. Gene was bitten by the guitar playing bug and has played ever since. Gene found a fan in Marynell’s father, who was mightily impressed with Gene’s guitar playing. Her parents would take Gene out to eat and invite him over after dinner to accompany Marynell’s father playing fiddle tunes! Gene’s career in higher education got off to a bit of a rocky start at the University of Texas. Playing music and socializing took up most of his time and he flunked out after one semester. His grades that semester were four F’s and one D. The bright spot was his D in English, and he would return to that subject in later years! Gene fondly remembers Austin folk clubs, the Eleventh Door and the Id, where he spent much of his time during that semester. By this time, Gene was already obsessed with music and spent many hours learning fingerstyle guitar, playing blues, ragtime, and folk music. However, the war in Viet Nam was heating up and Gene enlisted in the Air Force. He became a navigator on a B-52 and flew over sixty combat missions in Southeast Asia. By the time Gene’s tour of duty was over, Gene and Marynell were married and they moved to Knoxville, TN. Gene resumed his college career at the University of Tennessee, ultimately earning a PhD in English, while Marynell taught technical writing at a local trade school. During their years in Knoxville, they were exposed to Appalachian string band music, and met musicians such as Frank George and J. P. Fraley. They remember listening to performances by such artists as Bobby Fulcher, the Red Clay Ramblers, Jean Ritchie, Mike Seeger, John McCutcheon and, especially, the very influential Highwoods String Band. Still without a fiddle in the house, Marynell happened to attend a Knoxville furniture auction, intending to buy a chest of drawers for their young children. Instead, she came home with an old fiddle! Marynell resumed playing fiddle at that time and she and Gene formed a band, the Hardin Valley String Band. Gene initially played guitar with the band and took up the fiddle himself a year later. Page 4 �Now fully immersed in old time music, the Youngs relocated to College Station, TX in 1978 where Gene taught American Literature at Texas A & M. While living in College Station, they formed a new band, the King’s English String Band, which was made up of eight English professors! They played around College Station and performed every year at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio. The Youngs lived in College Station until 1984 when Gene accepted a faculty position at Morehead State College in Morehead, KY. Not long after arriving in Morehead, Marynell applied for a grant from the Kentucky Oral History Commission to document, collect and preserve the careers of nine traditional Appalachian musicians. The fruits of her labor, the Vintage Fiddlers Oral History Project Collection, consists of audio and video interviews of fiddlers from Eastern Kentucky recorded by Marynell in the summer of 1985. The collection contains interviews and music samples of traditional folk musicians Alfred Bailey, Virgil and Clela Alfrey, Chillson Leach, J.P. and Annadeene Fraley, David Sizemore, Hiram Stamper, and Clyde Davenport. Included with the interviews, are black and white photographs of the musicians taken by David Bartlett. Originally on VHS tape, the collection was digitized in 2000 and is available at https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/fiddlers_oral_history_project/ These audio and video recordings are so well known within the traditional fiddle community that Gene says, “My only identity in the larger old-time community is as the husband of Marynell Young.” Marynell and Gene were in “music heaven” in Kentucky but felt a need to return to Texas as their parents aged. Gene joined the faculty of Sam Houston State University in 1992, and the Youngs lived in Huntsville, TX for twenty-seven years. Their musical activities continued, of course – they led a weekly jam for twenty years and formed a family band, the Young Family String Band, with their two fiddler daughters, as well as another band in Huntsville, the No Foolin’ String Band. When they both retired from teaching just a year and a half ago, they moved to Austin, as they had planned. They had purchased their house in Austin several years earlier, knowing they would retire here one day. Their three children and five grandchildren live within one square mile, so the Young Family String Band is still active! Most recently, the Youngs have formed a new band, the Silver Alert String Band, which includes AFTM board member, Chip Bach. They attend the monthly AFTM jam at Batch, and were especially fond of the old Rio Rita jam, which has relocated to the Aristocrat Lounge on Burnet Road. And, although they play about five hundred different tunes, they’re not done learning new material; their latest “obsession” is learning blues and rags in the key of F. Gene and Marynell are a great addition to the traditional music scene in Austin, and they couldn’t be nicer people; make an effort to meet them and hear their music! Page 5 �Marynell displays some of the results of her musical research Marynell and Gene play an old-time tune with Chip Bach and Sharon Isaac Page 6 �The Buffalo Gals in concert at The Hillside House Concert Sunday, January 19, 2020 4:00 pm until 7:00 pm The Buffalo Gals are Rebecca Patek and Melissa Carper. We fondly remember Melissa from her years in Austin, as part of the Carper Family! They will be performing repertoire from their soon to be released new album 'Where the Heart Wants to Go' For more info and to reserve a seat email Elise at musicgirl3205@gmail.com Suggested donation $15 Page 7 �Janie's Jumpstart comes to Austin! Janie's Jumpstart Traditional Music Weekend Camps Camp Director: Janie Rothfield janerothfield@gmail.com The goal of Janie's Jumpstart Camp is to help you get to the next level in playing old time music and, of course, to have a lot of fun! Special attention will be paid to techniques to play and sing better including rhythm, intonation, musicality and make your music come to life no matter your skill level or genre. Small Classes, Fantastic Teachers, Delicious Food, House Concert and tons of jamming! January 31-February 2, 2020 Austin, TEXAS Click here to register Old Time Weekend Janie Rothfield-Int/Adv Old Time Fiddle Pete Peterson-Int Clawhammer/Finger Style Banjo Kellie Allen-Int Guitar/Old Time Songs Page 8 �EVIE LADIN & KEITH TERRY neo-trad kinetic folk duo coming to Austin! House concert in Austin - Friday, February 7, 2020 Tenacious, innovative string musicians/dancers with a quirky neo-trad heart, Evie Ladin & Keith Terry throw down soulful folk songs with an unusual live show. In 2019 they release two CDs, celebrating both of their musical sides: Evie's totally trad fiddle/banjo duets with 17 fiddlers, Riding the Rooster, and their band's adventurous originals, Caught On A Wire. Grounded in old-time repertoire, writing clever lyrics with mature arrangements, intermingling music and dance, the performance experience is a stand-out. “A truly original sound in new old-time Americana,” says fRoots, while fans remark “your show was by turns whimsical, uplifting, jaw-droppingly brilliant, hilarious, and deeply moving.” To reserve a seat, send an email to mnellyoung@gmail.com Page 9 �2019 Austin String Band Festival Steam Machine from Minnesota performs on Saturday night at the ASBF Sunny and warm! This weather forecast for the 2019 Austin String Band Festival was a welcome change, after the “difficult” weather we endured in 2018. This year we enjoyed dry, pleasant conditions for the entire weekend, and the performances and workshops were superb! We heard old time bluegrass from Steam Machine from Minnesota and traditional music of New Mexico from Lone Piñon. Jesse Lége and Bosco Stomp performed Cajun dance hall music and Big Cedar Fever put the swing back in western swing! Local favorites, the Barn Owls, played a great square dance set, as called by Sharon Isaac, and we were treated to a reunion of the Austin legends, the Stovetop Rangers. Our new food vendors, Angie’s Pies and Come and Crepe It got rave reviews from festival-goers, and they plan to return next year. We even had our own ice concession! Page 10 �Photos from the 2019 ASBF by Tom Delaney Click any of these photos to see more of Tom's 2019 ASBF coverage! Page 11 �5th Annual Festival of Texas Fiddling The 5th annual Festival of Texas Fiddling took place on Saturday, December 7 at the beautiful Twin Sisters Dance Hall in Blanco. Just like last year, the weather was fantastic and the fiddling was memorable! Page 12 �AFTM at Batch Here's the gathering at the December, 2019 AFTM jam at Batch Starting in January, 2019, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam has taken place at a new venue, Batch, located at 3220 Manor Road in Austin! Batch Craft Beer and Kolaches is an Austin, family-owned and operated kolache bakery, taproom, and retail craft beer shop. The pastry chefs at Batch elevate the classic Central Texas Czech pastry to gourmet status by teaming up with Micklethwait Craft Meats and local fruit vendors. Additionally, Batch offers a full espresso and coffee program through a partnership with Greater Goods Roasting. As always, the AFTM Monthly Meeting and Jam happens on the second Sunday of each month – the meeting commences at 12:30 PM and the jam starts around 2:00 PM. In January, 2020 that means Sunday, October 12! . See you there! Page 13 �A group of AFTM members gathered for a photo after the November meeting Page 14 �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 Angie Wooten, Secretary Rachel Brown, Treasurer Chip Bach, Promotions Coordinator James Seppi, Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Dan Foster, At Large Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. Box 49608 Austin, TX 78765 Click here for Click here for AFTM website https://www.flickr.com/photos/aftm/albums/72157680161933664 Membership info � 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 Reel Times Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Volume 46 Number 1 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-01 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Title A name given to the resource Reel Times - Volume 46, Number 1 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gary Mortenson http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/277/newsletter-46-02-2020-05.pdf 78592ba43a4a4fd2b0264bc25cafefd8 PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Volume 46, Number 02 AFTM board member Chip Bach has some great ideas for musicians dealing with social distancing! �Table of Contents Page 3 Editor's foreword Page 4 Keep on (virtually) pickin'! Page 10 Chip's gear Page 13 Cabin Fever Tunes Page 14 Terry's Tune and Song Circle Page 15 AFTM online scholarships Page 16 AFTM board Page 2 �A word from the editor In the past few months, the pandemic has changed our lives in ways we never could have imagined, and the effects of our necessary self-isolation are many. For musicians, isolation presents special challenges – performers lose their source of income, and those of us who play for the joy of it (which includes performers) lose the opportunity to play with others. For many of us, interacting with others is the most meaningful part of our musical lives, and abruptly losing that connection has been difficult to take. This special edition of Reel Times features the efforts of some Austin musicians to address this isolation in creative and exciting ways, taking full advantage of living in a digital age. Also, the AFTM’s long running scholarship program has adapted to the current circumstances, finding new ways to help young Austin area musicians continue their musical development. Stay safe and keep pickin’! Page 3 �Keep On (Virtually) Pickin’! By Chip Bach, AFTM Promotions Coordinator Recent isolation precautions have provided musicians with opportunities to hone skills, learn new tunes, transcribe, explore theory, and listen to the music we love. But for most of us, something is still missing. Playing music with friends is a tough joy to match, and even the most introverted musician needs musical interaction with other musicians. It’s part of who we are. Thank goodness for technology! During my current isolation, I have found several programs which help to ease the sense of emptiness left behind when playing music with my friends is curtailed. Although these programs don’t completely fill the need for musicians to play music together, they provide a very nice creative outlet. Here are my 6 favorite software packages, along with a brief description of each. I’m sure there are some others out there that will likely become “essential” once I discover them! I also included a description of equipment and platform needs in the section on “My Gear.” Keep picking! My Essential Software Amazing Slowdowner (ASD) by Roni Music: https://www.ronimusic.com While there are a number of slowdowner applications available, ASD was the first one I tried at the recommendation of a friend. The features ASD provides, such as tempo and pitch changing, looping, etc., can be found in several different available programs. However, the ability to import directly from Spotify is a boon. It is rare that I am unable to find even a rare or obscure fiddle tune on Spotify. Seems like all recorded music can be found on Spotify. Spotify’s library is huge. Once I have saved a tune into my “ASD” playlist within Spotify, It is quite easy to load that file into ASD for study. ASD is available for PC, Mac, Android, and iOS devices. The computer based versions are $49.95, Android version is $9.95, and the iOS version is $14.95. It is well supported. I have been a user for several years. I use ASD extensively when trying to learn a fiddle tune or mandolin break note for note. Page 4 �Strum Machine (SM) by Luke Abbott: https://strummachine.com/ SM changed the way I approached practice. For traditional music styles, SM provides the most realistic sounding computer-generated back-up I have heard. There are more than 1,000 different backing tracks already loaded, including Bluegrass, Old-Time, Celtic, Americana, and other genres. But the real beauty of SM is the ease at which chord progressions for your own tunes may be added. It is quick and easy with preview, tempo, key, time signature options available. Major, minor, seventh, and diminished chord voicing are available. Half-measures may be added for those crooked Old-Time tunes. Common (4/4), waltz (¾), jig (6/8), and slip jig (9/8) time signatures are available. Tunes may have an intro or tag line added, and a song may loop as many times as you wish. Bass, guitar, and mandolin voicings may be mixed in to the rhythm. Tune organization within the program is very intuitive. And tunes as well as groupings of tunes may be shared with other users. Be careful though! This program will tempt you to forgo your metronome practice! I love the realistic sounding backup and the ease of creating my own chord charts. SM is a subscription service. A subscription is $49 per year. I have been a user and a beta tester for SM for a couple years. Audacity by Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org Audacity is all the mixing software most home studios need. Full featured and easy to use, you can import/export tracks, or record them directly using external mics or sources. I typically use Audacity with recorded tracks from my Tascam portable recorder. The array of effects is tremendous. Audacity is open source and free, and downloads are available for Mac or PC. I have used Audacity for several years. I like its ease of use coupled with its abundance of features. Page 5 �Acapella by Mixcord: https://www.mixcord.co/pages/acapella Acapella allows musicians to create synchronized, multi-frame videos, individually, or collaboratively with other musicians. It is intuitive, and while better audio equipment will improve the sound quality in the resulting videos, decent results may be obtained with nothing more than an iPhone and the supplied earbuds (ones with a microphone built in). It is fun, and certainly helps to somewhat satisfy musical creativity needs. Resulting video files may be saved to your device, shared with friends and on social media, and even sent to others who can add their own tracks to it. Mentioned earlier, sound quality can be improved with better audio equipment. See the discussion on inexpensive audio equipment alternatives below. Unfortunately, Acapella appears to be currently supported only on iOS. Acapella is a subscription service, costing $9.99 per month or $47.99 per year. Acapella was a discovery for me since going into isolation. I really like the product that I can easily make with it. Zoom by Zoom: https://zoom.us Yup, despite the latency issues, Zoom, when used with decent (but not necessarily expensive) audio equipment can provide a decent platform for social and musical interaction. The lag produced by internet latency prevents jamming synchronously, but a song-circle Zoom session can be quite fun. With only one person un-muted at a time, others can listen or play along. Sessions such as this also provide nice social interaction between songs. Since Zoom was designed for voice meetings there are some tweaks that may be applied to improve the outgoing sound quality. This video explains the tweaks. For a nice pictorial discussion go here. With a user ID alone, a user may hold sessions for up to 40 minutes with multiple participants, or longer sessions for only two participants. A subscription allows the user to access many more features, including conferences for up to 100 participants, screen sharing, scheduling, session recording, and other features. A Zoom subscription costs $14.99 per month. It is available on all major platforms. Zoom was a discovery for me since going into isolation. Zoom is great for conducting meetings, and song circles. Page 6 �JamKazam (JK): https://www.jamkazam.com JK is the newest software in my “must have” category. Using JK with friends with whom I share low latency (~30 ms or less) is as close to real time on-line jamming as I have come. It is certainly not the same as sitting around a fire, under a starlit sky, and enjoying an adult beverage while playing music with good friends, but it is as close as I’ve come. After setting it up, I must admit, I feel a bit like an old ham radio operator! I’ve had conversations with musicians from all over the US, Canada, and Europe. Here in the Austin area, a group of techno-musicians (present author included) have set up JamKazam at our homes, and found the experience quite fun. These folks are all Austin area traditional music and bluegrass (and even a bit of jazz sax) musicians. JK is currently free to sign up. It is an Austin based company, which is pretty cool! It requires either a Windows 10 PC or a Mac (no tablets or Smartphones). A wired internet connection is required. You should be able to hook up an Ethernet cable to the back of your router. I use a cat 7 Ethernet cable, but a cat 5 or 6 may be sufficient. JK also requires some additional audio gear which I explain below. One of the local techno-musicians has put together a nice tutorial on setting up JK. It can be found here http://paulmaine.com/jamkazam/. Check the page often, as it is frequently updated. It ain’t perfect every time, but JK does fill a need for this isolated musician. I actually set up a JK account several years ago, however I have gotten it much further along since going into isolation. I like the thought of being able to make music synchronously with my friends. In fact, I look forward to the time I can enjoy a nice face-to-face jam with friends! Page 7 �My Gear I admit it. Since March, I have purchased additional audio equipment. Please don’t tell my wife! Seriously though, I have purchased a few adapters, and cables, as well as a decent condenser mic, and an audio interface. There are several equipment configurations which I found useful. These are shown in the schematics below. For the Amazing Slowdowner, and Strum Machine, a smartphone, tablet, or computer with no fancy additional audio equipment is necessary. For Strum Machine, I do enjoy an external Bluetooth speaker, to keep up with my loud playing, but the phone or tablet speakers are fine for all but the loudest players. For Acapella, I have made some acceptable videos with nothing more than my iPhone XR and the Apple supplied earbuds (configuration 1 below). For improved sound, however, an external Bluetooth microphone, coupled with headphones or earbuds is an improvement over the basic configuration. This is shown in configuration 2. Finally, on my high end, is the addition of an XLR condenser mic and a digital audio interface. This is shown in configuration 3. Configuration 3 equipment can be purchased for under $300. Zoom can be run under the simplest configurations for voice only meetings, but headphone or earbuds will enhance the experience, and an external microphone will improve your transmitted sound to others. Configuration 1 works fine for a voice meeting, but for a music meeting consider upgrading to configuration 2, 3, or 4. For JamKazam, a wired internet connection is highly recommended. Hook up a cat 5 or better Ethernet cable from your router to your PC. Also, an external audio interface reduces your internal latency significantly. Configuration 4 (or better) is necessary. Page 8 �So, my equipment purchases to support these essential software packages included: Behringer U-Phoria UMC202HD 2-channel audio interface. $130 Sabrent 4-port Usb powered hub. $17 MXL 770 Cardoid Condenser Mic. $77 Cat7 Ethernet cable 50 ft. $20 OTG Adapter for Lightning (my iPhone) (3 inputs, USB A for sound in, 3.5 mm for headphones, Lightning for charging). $18 OTG Adapter for USB C (my iPad) (3 inputs, USB A for sound in, 3.5 mm for headphones, USB C for charging). $20 I already owned various cables, mic stands, nice headphones, earbuds, dynamic mics (SM57, SM58, Beta58), a Windows (slow Intel i3 processor) PC, an iPhone XR, and an iPad Pro 11. I’ve shown four of my gear configurations in the following schematics along with when I use each. Remember though! YMMV! 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Cabin Fever Tunes https://www.cabinfevertunes.com/ When all of my gigs started canceling due to the COVID-19 health concerns and social distancing, I was looking for something to keep myself busy and connected with my peers. I have spent the past 20 years playing music and traveling the world, and have friends and fellow pickers scattered all over the globe. As we are all turning to live stream concerts to supplement our vanished incomes, I decided to host a calendar of my friends and peers here. Thanks for all your support...lets stay connected during these crazy times!!! Love, your virtual hostess, Beth Chrisman ps. If anyone feels like contributing financially to Cabin Fever Tunes, this is a one-woman operation so far and I am accepting donations for my time and research. paypal - missybethbooking@gmail.com venmo - @bethgrass Page 13 �Terry's Tune and Song Circle The AFTM's talented webmaster, Terry SoRelle, has created a virtual song circle which tales place via Zoom every Saturday afternoon at 4:00 PM, CDT. As Terry says, "The tune and song circle is our attempt to keep making music in spite or our isolation during the pandemic. Due to the limitations of video conferencing it is practially impossible to actually play together. The delayed timing throws us off. But we can share our music by performing one at time. Joining our Zoom video meeting is a simple matter of clicking the link on our main page. Just follow the prompts to install the Zoom application on your computer or mobile device. You may want to optimize your Zoom sound configuration by following the instuction on our Zoom Music Page." Here's a link with all the details https://www.2quakers.net/music/tune-and-song-circle Page 14 �AFTM SCHOLARSHIPS Helping the next generation to learn the music, not so much as a way to make a living as to make life itself worth living. Each year the Austin Friends of Traditional Music awards a scholarship to promising musicians and dancers, 30 years of age or younger, who wish to further their studies of old time music and dance. In previous years we have supported their participation in the Swannanoa Gathering’s Old-Time Music and Dance Week. Although the Swannanoa Old Time Camp is cancelled this year along with most other camps that support traditional music, your Austin Friends of Traditional Music (AFTM) still wishes to support the music education for young folks interested in traditional music forms. To that end, the AFTM is offering scholarships to learn on-line. There are several on-line learning sources to select from, some of which are listed on our On-line Learning page. Other sites or teachers may be approved after board review. Music students may select a course of study that is not listed and submit it with their scholarship application for review by the AFTM Board. Rules and requirements for the 2020 AFTM Scholarship Program: 1. 5 scholarships are available, each at a value not to exceed $200. 2. Applicants must be 30 or younger as of 6/1/2020. 3. Applicants must be AFTM members. They can go to our membership page to become a member at any time. 4. Applicants must submit an email application to AFTMTexas@gmail.com. The application must consist of a. Name, home address, email address, phone number, birthdate, b. Intended course of traditional music study, including contact information for the instructing entity, and the cost, c. Written description of your interest in traditional music, your musical background, and why you think you ought to be chosen for a chance to learn from the masters, and, d. Scanned copy of a proof of age document (birth certificate, drivers license, etc.). 5. The application and course of study shall be reviewed and approved or rejected by the AFTM board. The board will consider only applicants who have provided the information and met the requirements stated here. The board will consider the applicant’s written explanation, other items required in the application and any other factors the board considers germane. The board may request further information from any applicant to help in its decision. 6. The board may request recipients of AFTM scholarships to provide a post training report or participate in an interview for possible future inclusion in the Reel Times newsletter. Any costs other than tuition associated with attendance are the sole responsibility of the selected applicant. Submit your entry for the AFTM scholarship by August 21 to: AFTMTexas@gmail.com For more information about the scholarship, CONTACT: AFTMTexas@gmail.com Page 15 �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 Rachel Brown, Treasurer Chip Bach, Promotions Coordinator James Seppi, Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Dan Foster, At Large Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. Box 49608 Austin, TX 78765 Click here for Click here for Membership info AFTM website � 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 Reel Times Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Volume 46 Number 2 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-05 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Title A name given to the resource Reel Times - Volume 46, Number 2 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gary Mortenson http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/278/newsletter-47-01-2021-01.pdf 4761599a2423c0be26af5a2286443413 PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Vol. 47, Number 01, January 2021 An AFTM Picture Book for the New Year! �Table of Contents Cover Steam Machine performed at the 2019 Austin String Band Festival Page 3 A message from the AFTM president Page 4 A message from the Reel Times newsletter editor Page 5 A word about our scholarships Page 6 through page 41 Photos of AFTM activities Page 42 List of AFTM board members Page 2 �A Note From the AFTM President Serving as AFTM president is an honor and an outstanding experience – even in this strange time of Covid 19. We haven’t been able to hold any public events over much of the past year, but we have been doing our best to find alternatives and to help spread the word about traditional music in the Austin area. We have compiled and posted on our web site an excellent list of on-line traditional music training opportunities and we are providing training scholarships to a limited number of applicants. Board members Gary Mortensen (interviewer) and Chip Bach (producer) have done several great video interviews of local traditional musicians. Some of the videos include performances by the musicians. You can see the interviews and find out more about the scholarships by visiting our website: www.aftm.us. Check back to watch future interviews. Gary has also been posting great photos of interest to our members. Currently we are in the process of archiving all our past newsletters and certain other historical documents with the intent of making this information publicly available. We are also accepting nominations for our board so please let us know if you or anyone you know would like to serve. Our board is a friendly and committed group and we would like to have you. Your input is always welcome. Let us know if you have any comments or suggestions. Preliminary planning is in the works for our next Austin String Band Festival. We certainly hope that circumstances permit us to hold this festival and look forward to seeing you all there! Tim Wooten Page 3 �A Note From the Reel Times Editor Normally a quarterly online publication, Reel Times didn’t have much to report on during 2021. Subsequently, we only published two issues during the year. Hopefully, things will change for the better in 2021 and we’ll be able to host our jams, sponsor performances around the Austin area, and have our beloved Austin String Band Festival take place again. The next ASBF will be the fifteenth, which is cause for celebration in itself! To remind our members of what the AFTM does in normal times, over the last several weeks we posted an AFTM Photo of the Day at our Facebook page. These pictures were well received, so we’re kicking off the year with a picture book illustrating some of the musical activities we’ve been involved with over the past few years. Happy New year, and thanks to all our members and readers who have stuck with the AFTM during 2021! Page 4 �AFTM Scholarships Each year the Austin Friends of Traditional Music awards a scholarship to promising musicians and dancers who wish to further their studies of old time music and dance. In previous years we have supported their participation in the Swannanoa Gathering’s Old-Time Music and Dance Week. Although the Swannanoa Old Time Camp is cancelled this year along with most other camps that support traditional music, your Austin Friends of Traditional Music (AFTM) still wishes to support the music education for people interested in traditional music forms. To that end, the AFTM is offering scholarships to learn on-line. There are several on-line learning sources to select from, some of which are listed on our On-line Learning page at https://aftm.us/resources/online-learning. Other sites or teachers may be approved after board review. Music students may select a course of study that is not listed and submit it with their scholarship application for review by the AFTM Board. Visit https://aftm.us/resources/scholarships for more details Page 5 �A sizable group gathered for the monthly AFTM Jam at Sam's Town Point, in Austin - June, 2018 Page 6 �The joy of old time music, as demonstrated by Angie Wooten and Janita Thomas, at the monthly AFTM jam at Batch, in Austin - October, 2019 Page 7 �The Carper Family - Beth Chrisman, Jenn Miori, and Melissa Carper - reunited for a concert at the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart, TX - February, 2018 Page 8 �Mira Dickey plays the fiddle and Terry SoRelle, AFTM webmaster, plays the banjo at the AFTM jam - March, 2017 Page 9 �Felipe Perez gave a joyful accordion workshop at the 2018 Austin String Band Festival Page 10 �Lee Thomas, AFTM vice president, picks the banjo at the monthly AFTM jam at Batch, in Austin - December, 2019 Page 11 �Glamourous camping = Glamping! As demonstrated by these women at the Austin String Band Festival in 2017 Page 12 �Dave Polachek and family playing at the Stone Soup Sessions at the Texas Music Museum - April, 2017 Page 13 �Bernard Mollberg - maker of banjos, restorer of pianos, and great friend of the AFTM! Pictured at the 2017 Austin String Band Festival Page 14 �The wonderful duo, Chris Brashear and Peter McLaughlin perfom at the Hillside House Concert in October, 2017 Page 15 �Two fiddlers work on a tune while the kids swing, Austin String Band Festival - October, 2017 Page 16 �A great turnout at the monthly cajun jam at St. Roch's bar in East Austin, December, 2017 Page 17 �Christy Foster performs one of her songs at the Stone Soup Sessions, held monthly at the Texas Music Museum in Austin - April, 2017 Page 18 �Dan Thompson and AFTM board member Dan Foster play old time music at the AFTM jam at Batch, in Austin December, 2019 Page 19 �The Csárdás Hungarian Dancers peformed at the AFTM Midwinter Festival - February, 2019 Page 20 �Lloyd Wright and Margaret Wright give a dulcimer workshop at the Austin String Band Festival - October, 2018 Page 21 �Angie Wooten, AFTM secretary, displaying her formidable banjo prowess at the AFTM jam at Batch in Austin - January, 2018 Page 22 �Lone Star Swing, with Cindy Cashdollar, Paul Glasse, and Gary Hartman perform at the Austin String Band Festival - October, 2016 Page 23 �Marynell Young loves to fiddle, at the AFTM monthly jam at Batch, in Austin - December, 2019 Page 24 �Terry SoRelle, AFTM webmaster, shows off his guitar picking skills at the monthly Stone Soup Jam at the Texas Music Museum - April, 2017 Page 25 �The Silver Alert String Band, an old time band spontaneously formed at the 2017 Austin String Band Festival, perfom a set of music between main stage acts - October 2017 Page 26 �Brandi Pace and Dean Barber perform old time music at the AFTM Midwinter Festival - February, 2019 Page 27 �Taylor Cook and AFTM volunteer coordinatorJames Seppi dancing at the AFTM Barn Dance - November, 2018 Page 28 �Tim Wooten, AFTM president, fiddling at the AFTM jam at Batch, in Austin - March, 2019 Page 29 �Ryan Gould and the Little Kings performed at the Austin String Band Festival - October, 2018 Page 30 �The Buffalo Gals, Melissa Carper and Rebecca Patek, came from Arkansas to perform at the Hillside House Concert - January, 2020 Page 31 �Jenn & the Corn Ponies perform at the Austin String Band Festival - October, 2016 Page 32 �ABIZIHIRWA, an Austin Rwandan community dancing troupe, performed at the AFTM Midwinter Festival - February, 2019 Page 33 �The banjo section, Dan Thompson, Terry SoRelle, & Alan Holt at AFTM jam, Batch, Austin, October 2019 Page 34 �A serious moment at an old time jam, Midwinter festival - February, 2019 L to R, Britt Irick, Angie Wooten, Roy Wilhite, Tim Wooten, Jeanne DeFriese, Lloyd Wright Page 35 �Ustad Ghulam Farid Nizami leading a workshop on Pakistani music, at the AFTM Midwinter Festival - February, 2019 Page 36 �Barbara Dean and Sharon Isaac playing a fiddle duet at the monthly AFTM jam - March, 2017 Page 37 �The Mar-A-Lago Stragglers, Dom Fisher, Matt Downing, Amanda Chisholm, & Silas Lowe at the Austin String Band Festival, October/2017 Page 38 �Dancers at the AFTM Barn Dance - November, 2018 Page 39 �The AFTM has no finer members than Elizabeth Pittman and Nancy McClintock, at the Austin String Band Festival - October, 2017 Page 40 �Dancers at the Austin String Band Festival - October, 2019 Page 41 �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 Rachel Brown, Treasurer Chip Bach, Promotions Coordinator James Seppi, Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Dan Foster, At Large Austin Friends of Traditional Music Click here for P.O. Box 49608 Membership info Austin, TX 78765 Click here for AFTM website https://www.flickr.com/photos/aftm/albums/72157680161933664 � 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 Reel Times Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Volume 47 Number 1 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/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-01 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Title A name given to the resource Reel Times - Volume 47, Number 1 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gary Mortenson http://archive.aftm.us/files/original/10/279/newsletter-47-02-2021-04.pdf 2f52a7cba39f242a9c0bcbe7d938918d PDF Text Text Reel Times Newsletter of The Austin Friends of Traditional Music Vol. 47, Number 02, April 2021 Live music is coming back! Melissa Carper releases her new CD to an appreciative audience at the Sagebrush Bar in Austin! �Table of Contents Page 3 Melissa Carper is back in Texas! Page 5 The Humphries Brothers of Liberty Hill, by Dan Foster Page 9 Fascinating Folks! The AFTM Online Page 11 The AFTM Presents - The Erik Hokkanen Trio Page 12 About the AFTM Page 2 �Melissa Carper's back in town! For a music-focused community like Austin, TX, being deprived of live music for a full year has been almost unbearable. But 2021 is a new year, and things are looking up for live music in our area! For one thing, the AFTM’s great friend Melissa Carper is back in Texas, and she gave a CD release performance at the Sagebrush Bar in Austin in late March. She was joined on stage by Rebecca Patek on fiddle, her old singing partner from the Carper Family, Jenn Miori Hodges, the wonderful Emily Gimble on piano and very tasteful drumming from Jason Baczynski. Next page - The Carper Family, Beth Chrisman, Jenn Miori Hodges, Melissa Carper perform in Lockhart, TX in February, 2018 Page 3 �Melissa’s CD is titled Daddy’s Country Gold and was recorded in Nashville, where Melissa had been living before recently returning to Texas. Melissa wrote or co-wrote all twelve songs, and the recording features many of Nashville’s great pickers and singers. The recording credits include Nashville's heavy hitters - Dennis Crouch, Chris Scruggs, Jeff Taylor, Billy Contreras, the great Lloyd Green, and even Ranger Doug! Also, onetime Austinite Brennen Leigh sings backing vocal on seven of the songs. Melissa’s recording has been received very enthusiastically by the country music community, and others; In March, Daddy’s Country Gold made NPR’s Top Albums of the Week! Here’s a review of Melissa’s new CD at savingcountrymusic.com Also, here’s a nice interview with Melissa at soundandsoulonline.com Page 4 �The Story of the Humphries Brothers Band of Liberty Hill By Dan Foster Austin, Texas may have become known in the late 20th century as the Live Music Capital of the World largely as a result of the post-1960s blossoming of creative energy made possible by low-rents, easy living, the natural beauty of the place, and a little magic. But the claim may properly go a good deal further back in time. There seems to have always been plenty of music in old Waterloo and more than one music "scene" long before the first beatnik landed in River City. Lately, I've been listening to the eight 1930 recordings of the Humphries Brothers from up at Liberty Hill, Texas. I wish that there were more of those 78-rpm sides, but am grateful to be able to listen now to what we have of the clear sound and solid intonation of Jess Humphries' violin and Cecil's near perfect guitar. From before 1920 and on up until the 1950s, Jess and Cecil, their family and friends between Austin, Williamson County, and up to Llano, were busy playing gigs, working day jobs, and basically leading the life that has come to characterize Austin musicians up to the present, the pandemic notwithstanding. It is too bad that so little is known about the Humphries. While they were very much in demand around Central Texas for decades, far longer than other early recorded bands like the East Texas Serenaders, their output was smaller, consisting of only that single session for Okeh Records so they have been largely overlooked by country music researchers. About the only published information concerning the band is a scant mention by Bill Malone in his landmark book Country Music USA: ...the region around Burnet, Texas, [where they] won a large local following playing for civic functions, at fiddlers’ contests, at the annual Old Settlers’ Reunion in Round Rock, and on Central Texas radio stations (such as KUT, Austin’s first radio station, which was located at the University of Texas). … Their repertory was characterized by the eclecticism generally found among southwestern fiddle bands. Not surprisingly, “Listen to the Mockingbird” was their most-requested tune (it was almost mandatory for fiddlers everywhere to play it), but Jess also knew such tunes as “Beaumont Rag,” “Ragtime Annie,” “Black and White Rag,” and “St. Louis Tickle”. I first became aware of the Humphries while visiting friends in North Carolina. They played a great version of the brothers' St. Louis Tickle and What Makes the Wild Cat Wild. My friends didn't know much of anything about the Humphries, though. I assumed based on the sound of the tunes that the boys must have hailed from Alabama, Mississippi or some other Southern state. But after reading Malone's comments, I decided to try and find out a little more. From what I can tell, Benjamin "Ben" Humphries, who was born in Louisiana in 1864, seems to have come to Texas where he married Ella Gaston, a native Texan born 1869 in Liberty Hill, north of Austin. It appears that Ben and Ella were musical and came to have a musical family, in fact a travelling musical and comic Vaudeville show that reportedly toured the Southern states. The 1910 census lists three of the children as musicians and five as comedians. Page 5 �Jesse Edwin Humphries was born to Ben and Ella in Grayson County at White Mound, Texas on February 18, 1889. Within a few years the couple had moved south from the area near Sherman, Texas way out west to Mills County where their second son, Cecil, was born in Goldthwaite, Texas on January 19, 1891. By 1913, the family had moved to Liberty Hill north of Austin and added two new Humphries, John Franklin and Olin Gaston, to the band. Jess played the fiddle, Olin guitar, John mandolin, with Cecil on bass, though there is every reason to believe all of them may have been multi-instrumentalists. Nothing more has yet come to light about the early career of the Humphries' family band, but by the 1920s young Jess was starting to make a name for himself. The Austin American newspaper on May 1, 1926 includes a notice of Jess Humphries leading a six-piece orchestra at the Liberty Hill Mother's Club. 1913 photo of the Humphries Brothers (Thanks to Sandi Peck Millay) By 1929 both Jess and Cecil had travelled far afield to the annual Valley Fiddle Contest in Harlingen, Texas on the Mexican border to compete in December of that year. According to a newspaper account: "They were given first decision over 10 other entries from over the state and one from Oklahoma". They subsequently enjoyed the honor, along with Carl Shipp, Jim Seward, and Tom Casbeer, of performing for the Leander Chamber of Commerce as the Humphries String Band of Liberty Hill later that same year. Liberty Hill at the time had a population of just over 600. In the 1930s, the band was joined by James Bard on banjo and ukulele player Charles Stubblefield. They performed at an Old Time Dance given at Lockhart, Texas on New Year's Eve 1930 and at the Exchange Club in Austin as the Humphries Brothers Dixieland Band in February of 1931. The boys were multi-talented and later that year at horse races in Lampasas, Texas, Cecil not only won first place in the fiddle contest but Jess took first prize in clog-dancing and entertaining. Jess was living in Briggs, Texas, about eighteen miles north of Liberty Hill, when he signed a contract with Okeh Records on March 4, 1930. June 6 found Jess and Cecil in San Antonio at the studio where the pair of them cut eight sides: Raggedy Ann Rag Black and White Rag What Made the Wild Cat Wild St. Louis Tickle Sweet Bunch of Daisies Page 6 �Good Old Summer Time After the Ball Over the Waves The Black and White Rag, St. Louis Tickle, After the Ball, and Over the Waves were also released to the Mexican market with the band featured as Hermanos Humberto and the four sides: El Blanco y Negro, El Paso St. Louis, Despues del Baile, and Sobre Las Olas. This raises an interesting question about inadvertent cultural cross-pollination as a byproduct of record companies trying to boost sales back in the day. Travis County Post No. 76, American Legion will sponsor a Christmas relief dance Dec. 19 at the Driskill Hotel. Admission to the dance will be a sack of groceries or a bundle of serviceable clothing. The music, through the courtesy of Jess Humphries, will be furnished by the Humphries Brothers Dixieland Band. --Austin American Statesman, Dec. 9, 1931. By 1932, the boys seem to have been landing some pretty good gigs, including a night in downtown Austin at the famed Driskill Hotel where Senator John W. Hornsby hosted fellow lawmakers, and their ladies, reportedly enjoying "novelty selections". Soon after, on January 2, 1932, The American Legion sponsored a "Novel Fete" that featured a Battle Dance with the boys facing off against rising regional powerhouse: Bob Skyles and His Haywire Cowboys. Skyles would later go on to meteoric (at least between Waco and Dalhart) fame with his fabulous band Bob Skyles and His Sky-rockets. About that time Jess married Cynthia Stubblefield in Liberty Hill. She was also a musician and there are numerous reports of weddings and concerts they played throughout their many years together. Top row, left to right, Joe Lightsey, bass violin; Cecil Smith, violin; Walter Neal, director, guitar; Lee Farris, drums; Marvin Smith, banjo; Johnny Ross, steel guitar; and A.J. Barder, mando-bass. Bottom row, Jess Humphries, violin; Barnacle Bill the Whistling Sailor, not shown here, expects to entertain. --Austin American Statesman, thanks to Dave Bedrich. By 1935, the Humphries brothers were playing regularly in the capital city. Gigs included a big dance on July 4 at Barton Springs where the outfit appeared as The Radio Wranglers, playing both oldtime and popular music. There were countless venues in the young and thriving metropolis on the Colorado River and doubtless the brothers played many of them. Others who played in the band included Joe Lightsey, who went on to play bass for many local Western Swing and country bands and to father Jerry Lightsey, master plumber, professional clown and much beloved bass player at the heart of the Austin Bluegrass scene until his passing in 2017. Page 7 �According to the Taylor Daily Press – July 15, 1934, The 31st Old Settlers Reunion, Old Time Fiddler's Contest, etc. was headed up by J.D. Dillingham. Jefferson Davis "Dave" Dillingham was born 1866 in Florence (then Brooksville) Texas. He moved with his parents Bruce and Sarah to Georgetown when he was 6, and later a few miles more to Merrilltown, now extinct. Dave started work as a freighter with his brother Brice, driving four mules and an ox team between Austin and Brownwood, then farming and eventually worked as a brakeman on the narrow gauge A&NW railroad between Austin and Granite Mountain, west of Marble Falls. He was a singer and banjo player, though he probably spoke of himself as a railroad man first, at least in polite company. But by the 1930s, Dillingham had become associated with the Old Settler's Reunion in a big way. Along with Otis Light and his Fiddle Band from Llano, Texas, J.W. Whatley's Old Time Fiddlers from Austin, and the Hayloft Gang from Briggs they formed the core entertainment of the Reunions for several years just outside Round Rock, Texas. Jess first appeared at the Old Settlers Reunion in 1940 with Charles Skaggs on guitar and continued to play the festival at least until 1951. That year Dillingham, who had been recorded on two occasions in 1935 and 1939 by folklorist John Lomax, gave a talk entitled "Changes Since 1880". What I wouldn't give for a recording of that! At the same presentation Jess Humphries was featured playing "Ragtime Annie" and Otis Light from Llano playing "Turkey in the Straw". The brothers continued to play for many years. Jess served as County Commissioner for Precinct No. 2 in Williamson County. To all accounts, both lived long and productive lives, contributing to their community and making music for their enjoyment and the benefit of countless friends and neighbors far and wide. Cecil Humphries died at the age of sixty-nine on December 30, 1960. A former tax-assessor he had lived a life full of music in a community he loved among friends and family. Jess was still living in Liberty Hill in 1973 when his younger brother Olin passed away. Jess Humphries died February 22, 1976. He lies buried next to his wife Cynthia at Liberty Hill Cemetery having lived to all accounts a full and happy life. The Humphries Brothers foreshadowed much of scene that came to draw many musicians to Austin over the years, perhaps not so much to make a living playing music as to live where music is a vital part of life and community. The boys contributed much to Austin's vaunted reputation, most of it at a time when live music was the only kind there was. Click on author Dan Foster's photo to hear the Humphries Brothers play What Made the Wild Cat Wild Page 8 �Who are these fascinating folks? (see next page) Page 9 �For the past several months, the AFTM has been hosting video interviews with Austin area members and musicians, and it's been great fun! Since we haven't been able to get together in person, these video conversations are a way of keeping up to date with friends in music. You can check out these video interviews at the AFTM TV page: https://www.aftm.us/sounds-and-pictures/video/aftm-tv And now, for something completely different, here's a beautiful donation box, lovingly crafted by AFTM president, Tim Wooten! See the next page to learn how this beautiful object will be used to collect contributions to Caritas of Austin. Page 10 �The AFTM presents a performance by the Erik Hokkanen Trio ! Erik Hokkanen performing with Ryan Gould and the Little Kings at the 2018 Austin String Band Festival In the spirit of bringing live music performances back to the Austin music community, the AFTM will sponsor a performance by the Erik Hokkanen Trio at Central Market North. This great show will take place on Sunday, May 9, Mothers Day, from 3:30 until 6:00 pm. AFTM secretary, Angie Wooten, has worked hard to find a way that the AFTM could help address the homeless situation in Austin, and one reason for sponsoring Erik Hokkanen’s performance is to raise funds for Caritas of Austin, whose goal is to end homelessness in Austin. The AFTM will have a table (and elegant donation box) at Central Market during Erik’s performance, and will be collecting donations for Caritas of Austin. Page 11 �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 Rachel Brown, Treasurer Chip Bach, Promotions Coordinator James Seppi, Volunteer Coordinator Jeanne DeFriese, Events Coordinator Mike Savercool, Membership Coordinator Gary Mortensen, Reel Times Editor Terry SoRelle, Webmaster Dan Foster, At Large Austin Friends of Traditional Music P.O. Box 49608 Austin, TX 78765 Click here for Click here for AFTM website https://www.flickr.com/photos/aftm/albums/72157680161933664 Membership info � 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 Reel Times Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gary Mortenson Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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