Phil's On National TV, Brown Barn, & More Bluegrass News
Michael Hall
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7/18/06
- Phil's Fish Market On Food TV Network Tonight
- New Local Festival: Brown Barn In San Martin
- Bluegrass By The Bay: In Color, More Content
- NCBS Volunteer Party Set For August 26th
Plus, Cabin Fever/Sidesaddle At Sam's This Week
and the rest of this week's bluegrass news below.
Always Thinking: "Our Kind Of Fun" At The GOF
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Moss Landing Bluegrass Venue "Phil's" on Food Network TV Tonight
TONIGHT at 10:00pm on Cable TV near you: Phil's Fish Market will be
featured on the Food Channel as a part of the show "Road Tested." The
new show focuses on the best local food across the USA. We know Phil's
best as the home of bluegrass music in Moss Landing. We like the fish,
too. On most local systems: Channel 35.
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NEW NEXT WEEKEND: Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival, July 29-30
The brand new "Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival" will be held at the
Country Park in San Martin on Saturday-Sunday, July 29-30. MaCrae
Brothers, Mighty Crows, Carl Pagter & Friends, Lone Prairie, The Three
Stoolies & more bands. Same location as last year's Wolf Mountain
festival (just north of Gilroy). Our genial host will be Kentucky's
Pride: Jake Quiesenberry. $30 gate/$28 advance. Sounds like fun.
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Live & In Color: The NCBS "Bluegrass By The Bay" Magazine In PDF
Tired of reading a black & white magazine that is only 12 pages long?
NCBS members can easily switch to a color magazine that prints out on
your home printer and contains as many pages as our hard-working editor
can fill. Plus, it comes early every month! NCBS members can sign up --
for free -- on the club website: http://ncbs.us . (Hey, it don't cost
nuthin', ya see?)
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NCBS Volunteer Party Set For Saturday, August 26 -- Invitations Out
Soon
The Bluegrass Party Of The Year -- aka, the NCBS Volunteer Party -- has
been set for Saturday, August 26 at an undisclosed location. Very soon,
everyone who has volunteered this past year in any capacity for any
Society project, plus any band that has played at an NCBS event, will
receive the deeply meaningful, rare, valued, treasured and
highly-sought-after Official Invitation. Get a lawn chair and sit close
by your e-mail inbox, anxiously, but confidently, waiting for the
mailperson to come by. Good things happen for those who volunteer!
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This Week's Bluegrass News:
- Every Tuesday & Wednesday night, Sam's BBQ, 1110 South Bascom, San
Jose hosts FREE bluegrass music from 6:00-9:00pm. The BBQ is not free,
but it is dern good. This week, Cabin Fever plays tonight and
Sidesaddle & Co. plays Wednesday night. http://www.samsbbq.com .
- Al Knoth & "The Cuzin' Al Bluegrass Show" appear on KPIG-FM, 107.5FM,
Freedom, CA., on KPIG-AM, 1510 AM, San Francisco (and on the web at
http://www.kpig.com) every Sunday evening, 6:00-9:00pm. We hear (ahem)
that the current KPIG format *needs your support* right now more than
ever! Yup, it is just about this stark and about this simple: Support
stations like KPIG that play bluegrass, or...you know (gulp!!!).
- Excellent article about former SCBS/NCBS member Alison Brown in the
Nashville Tennessean yesterday. http://www.tennessean.com , under
Business News.
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Always Thinkin' At The End: Our Kind Of Fun!
I am always pleased and always (yes, *always*) surprised at the annual
surveys turned in by the audience at the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass
Festival. They say things I can hardly believe, like "best festival of
the year" and "more fun than IBMA, Strawberry or Grass Valley."
Awshucks, folks, that good? These are MAJOR events that we all love,
and have storied histories, great bluegrass wine cellars, white
tablecloths, 4-Star Michelin Ratings, spiffy waiters, and top
international bluegrass culinary reputations.
The Good Old Fashioned has a modest 13-year history, a modest but
valuable artistic goal, 2 buck chuck, four bald tires, red-checkered
plastic tablecloths and a growing rep that reaches (well, almost) all
the way to the Kern County line. But we DO really like it that our
customers are having fun.
Actually, so are we.
One of our favorites hobbies is answering inquiries from Nashville
bands: "Sorry we only book California bands at the Good Old Fashioned
Fest; have you heard about our other events like the San Francisco
Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival?, the Brookdale Festivals, etc."
The GOF was founded to support California bands. It has become a
favorite of people who really understand that *really good musicians*
can choose a lifestyle involving a day job, that musicians can be
*absolutely incredible* onstage without national fame, and -- most
importantly -- that these California musicians are the *true base* of
our day-to-day bluegrass experience.
The GOF is an "artistic" success by having achieved its goal of
supporting local bands for 13 years. It has also been a success in
another way by being modestly profitable for 13 straight years -- a
better record than a lot of "commercial" bluegrass festivals. We are
glad you like it. Mark your calendars for July 13-15, 2007. We will be
there -- hope you will be, too!
The GOF may well be the most unconventional bluegrass festival on the
planet, but it is still "OUR kind of fun."
Thanks for your support!...mh
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