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Dear Celtic Music Fan,

The Tannahill Weavers are heading back to the USA! We will have CDs, t-shirts, and (hopefully) Roy's new book on sale at all shows. Info on all gigs is available at https://tannahillweavers.com/live-shows - hope to see you at a concert soon!

Oct 6 : Auburn AL
Oct 7 : Augusta GA
Oct 8 : High Point NC 
Oct 9 : Black Mountain NC
Oct 12 : Olympia WA
Oct 13 : Port Townsend WA
Oct 14 : Bellingham WA
Oct 15 : Seattle WA
Oct 16 : Langley WA
Oct 18, 19, 20 : Ocean Shores WA
Oct 21 : Portland OR
Oct 22 : Corvallis OR
Oct 23 : Lincoln City OR
Oct 25 : Ashland OR (tbc)
Oct 28 : Auburn CA
Oct 29 : Pasadena CA
Oct 30 : Carlsbad CA
Nov 1 : La Veta CO
Nov 2 : Colorado Springs CO
Nov 4 : Houston TX (more seating added!)
Nov 5, 6 : Austin TX
Nov 8 : Rumford ME
Nov 9 : Lancaster NH
Nov 10 : Freeport ME
Nov 11 : Bangor ME
Nov 12 : Camden ME
Nov 13 : Exeter NH
...more shows coming in 2023, check our website...

 

More from the Pasadena Folk Music Society (This isn't the whole of the newsletter - I recommend subscribing if you want to hear about other stuff going on in the area).

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We'll soon slip into February, and the Folk Music Society has two shows in this short month. We start with Honey Whiskey Trio, three young women who have been turning heads with their harmonies, and dramatic body percussion and movements, on Saturday, February 2, at 8:00 PM in Beckman Institute Auditorium.

Courtney, Ann Louise, and Christina develop and arrange their own stirring harmonies and body percussion (hand clappin', finger snappin', leg slappin', and foot stompin') with synchronized movements. On some songs, they play guitar, mandolin, banjo, and shruti box (come find out what that is!). They create, arrange, and explore music from the front porches, music halls, and hymn books of early America, sharing it with adults, students, and life-long music lovers across the United States. Lisa Forkish, of the A Cappella Association wrote, "They always leave you sitting at the edge of your seat, waiting with bated breath for each new beautifully executed phrase." Hear them sing their namesake song, Sweet Honey Whiskey and hear a good sampling of what they do here. These women give their all with their singing, and they just might steal your heart in the process!

 

Tickets for this show are $20 for adults, and $5 for children and Caltech students. You can purchase tickets at the Caltech Ticket Office, 1200 E. California Blvd (southeast corner of Wilson Avenue and California Blvd) between 10:00 AM and 4:30 PM Monday through Friday. You can buy tickets in person without a service charge, or by phone with a service charge at (626) 395-4652. Outside of visiting the Ticket Office, this is the best deal if you want to buy them in advance, because a single service charge applies to all tickets purchased in the transaction, including for multiple shows. You can also buy them online (a service charge per ticket and a per-order charge are applied) here until the end of Thursday, January 31. And you can buy them at the door for cash or check (no credit cards at the door.)

 

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Whew - been so busy lately I wound up missing the Tannahill Weavers performance. :(  Though I suppose the fact that the kid and I were sorting out Mom's effects that weekend counts as a forgivable distraction.  I hope those who went enjoyed it!!  Anyway, the latest newsletter had a ton of things going on in the Pasadena area as well as the Caltech specific ones, so I have just put up the latter, with the assumption that anybody really interested is subscribing themselves by now.

On to the news:

Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Jeni Hankins is returning to Caltech in less than 2 weeks, on Saturday, October 6 at 8:00 PM  in Beckman Institute Auditorium ("Little Beckman.")  Jeni Hankins spent 10 years touring and recording with Billy Kemp as Jeni & Billy, including 2 shows here at Caltech.  Their music focused on Jeni's roots in Jewell Ridge, Virginia, the mines, the textile industry and life in that region.  Jeni’s father passed away in 2016 and she and Billy have parted ways. Now, Jeni has migrated to London!  Her new British home is influencing her new songs, but her Southern roots are still very much a part of her.  She has just released her first solo recording, The Oxygen Girl and you can read Art Podell’s glowing review here. Now, her stories come from a broader geography, ranging from England to Las Vegas and places in between. They also reflect the emotions and insights following the passing of her father.  See her sing Sleeping in Doorways (pardon the camera angle) and hear her song, Will I Always Wander?, both from her new recording.  She says she's "bringing her guitar, autoharp, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, flatfooting shoes, the voice the mountains gave me, and the stories my family taught me."  We're glad to know she's treating us to some  flat foot dancing once again, and we hear she is going to perform with a sewing machine in this show! We will likely hear some of the old songs, plenty of new ones from The Oxygen Girl,, and probably a few brand new ones as well. You will want to be here! See her web site Jenihankins.com

 

Celebrate International Guitar Month with the perfect guitarist, Claude Bourbon, who comes to California Saturday, April 28 at 8:00 PM in Beckman Institute Auditorium ("Little Beckman").  Claude, a world class guitarist, is Swiss, was born in France, and now makes his home in England.  He regularly tours the U.S, so he definitely fits the "international" label.  Click on his original composition, Lawrence Gibson, and if the device you are reading this on allows it, come back and read our brief description as you listen.  Tour a wide range of musical traditions with Claude, including blues, classical, Spanish, Middle Eastern and more.  Claude’s inimitable style incorporates all five digits on each hand, dancing independently but in unison, plucking, picking and strumming at such speed and precision that his fingers often seem to melt into a blur.  Hear a bit of his singing (and whistling) on C'est Dimanche.   The BBC wrote that he, “offers tender, compelling performance through highly developed precision. His sound instantly creates ambiance – from haunting Spanish moods to lyrical, romantic jazz."   Claude Bourbon provides ... a rich evening of music for lovers.”  Claude will be making his debut in our series and we hope you will join us!  

Tickets for this show are $20 for adults, $5 for children and Caltech students.  You can purchase tickets at the Caltech Ticket Office, 1200 E. California Blvd (southeast corner of Wilson Avenue and California Blvd)  between 10AM and 4:30 PM Monday- Friday, or by phone with a service charge at (626) 395-4652.   You can buy them online (also with a fee) here.  If you haven't been to one of our shows for awhile, since the parking locations changed a bit, read the 4th paragraph on our web page here.

I've been a mite sick lately, though back on now, so here's the latest Pasadena post...  I can't go but you might want to!

February is here and the Pasadena Folk Music Society will present An Evening with Peter Yarrow in Ramo Auditorium next Saturday at Caltech Feb. 10 at 7:00 PM (an hour earlier than our usual start time).   We have been mentioning this show for awhile and we want to make sure that you know about it, as tickets are running low.   Peter Yarrow has long bridged the gap between popular music and activism, starting with Peter, Paul and Mary in the early 1960's, as well as his many performances and projects apart from the group.  Hear him sing lead on his song, Puff the Magic Dragon, from a PP&M concert way back in 1965.   Then listen to one of his later songs,  Music Speaks Louder than Words, recorded 3 years ago, along with his son, Christopher Yarrow, who will also join him at Caltech for our show, playing washtub bass and doing some singing.  Peter will sing plenty of familiar songs and talk about the wide range of important moments in his life.  We hope you will join us!

Tickets for this show are $30 for adults, $10 for children and Caltech students.  Just over 50 tickets remain, so buying your tickets in advance is advisable.  You can buy tickets at the Caltech Ticket Office, 1200 E. California Blvd (southeast corner of Wilson Avenue and California Blvd)  between 10AM and 4:30 PM, Monday-Friday or by phone with a service charge at (626) 395-4652.  You can also buy tickets online until next Thursday night here.  Ramo Audiotorium is a 3-4 minute walk from our usual Beckman Institute venue, east to the large wedding cake-like Beckman Auditorium, then right, at the far end of the building on the left.  On this map, it is building 77.We will let you know in an email near the end of next week where things stand and whether there will be any tickets available at the door on the tenth.  

Another reminder, parking at Caltech has changed a bit recently:  There will be the usual limited parking right behind the large Beckman Auditorium, but the parking lots between Michigan and Wilson have been greatly reduced (a new building will soon begin construction), so we want to make sure that you know about two parking structures across the street from campus on Wilson Avenue.   One structure is just south of Del Mar Boulevard on Wilson Avenue, and the other, 405 S. Wilson, is just south of the first.   Rest assured that after 5PM on weekdays, and all day on weekends, you can park for free in these structures, despite signs that allude to the more restrictive parking rules during the day on weekdays.   You can even park at slots that have names on them!  There is also parking on Wilson Avenue.  From the structures, walk either way around the large lawn to the passageway between the Beckman Institute buildings, follow the fountains/water pools to Beckman Auditorium (large wedding cake), turn right, and go to the far end of the building on the left side.

From the Pasadena Folk Music Society's update.

We have finished another year of concerts and this should be our last message for 2017.  We hope you were able to attend and enjoy a few of these events.  2018 will also be a year with plenty of great music and we've been scrambling to get tickets\ set up for all of these shows, just in case you want to give concert tickets as a gift during this holiday season.  We don't mean to be blatantly commercial about this, but we honestly think that the Folk Music Society and the Office of Public Events have lined up a great season in 2018 and you might want to share this music with special people in your life.  And you can save money on processing charges by ordering all of your tickets at once, because on phone orders the basic fee is charged per order, not per ticket or show.  There is never a service charge if you buy your tickets at Caltech's Ticket Office in person.  Online ticket sales will be set up a little later.  Peter Yarrow, Old Blind Dogs, the New Kingston Trio, Tannahill Weavers, and John McCutcheon are just some of the names.  Wait till you find out more about the ones we didn't just mention above!  You can see the whole year at our web site, here.  Click on a show and get a brief description and a link to a video of each performer.  All shows are Saturdays, except Old Blind Dogs, which is on a Friday.

 

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