Talkin' Bluegrass Music: August 2014

Saturday, August 23, 2014

December 30, 2014

The Claire Lynch Band

Touring Schedule Update

Website: http://www.clairelynch.com

Below are listed upcoming opportunities to see The Claire Lynch Band LIVE!

For further information click on the website below the event. We hope to see you soon!

Claire Lynch, Bryan McDowell, Mark Schatz, Matthew Wingate
Station Inn, Nashville - 2013

2015

02/20-21 Denver, CO (Northglenn) Mid-Winter Bluegrass Festival -- Ramada Plaza

http://www.seamanevents.com

02/25 Crested Butte, CO Crested Butte Center for the Arts

http://theroosterswife.org

03/05 Del Mar, CA Del Mar Powerhouse - First Thursday Subscription Series Performance

http://www.delmarfoundation.org/calendar.html

03/06 Del Mar, CA Del Mar Powerhouse

http://www.delmarfoundation.org/calendar.html

03/09 Chico, CA Sierra Nevada Brewery

http://www.sierranevada.com

03/14 Mountain View, CA First Presbyterian Church of Mountain View--Redwood

Bluegrass Associates

              http://www.rba.org

New     04/18   Venice, FL   Suncoast BBQ & Bluegrass Bash - Venice Airport Festival
                         Grounds
                        http://suncoastbbqbash.com

05/23 Church Point, NS (Canada) Marc-Lescarbot Theater

http://www.lemoulin.ca/en/index.cfm

10/15 Dauphin, MB (Canada) Watson Art Centre

http://watsonartcentre.com

10/20 Rocky Mountain House, AB (Canada) Grandview Stage Resort

http://www.grandviewstage.com

Friday, August 15, 2014

Parade Magazine's Best Main Street in America

and

One Dandy Collierville

Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Jam

Tonight we are just speechless! We've just been declared Parade Magazine's Best Main Street in America! Not too shabby! We salute all the other towns that participated in the competition!

The Historic Town Square Jam was phenomenal: A result, we guess, of the recent award, the splendid weather, and the wonderful musicians and fans who support the jam! You're ALL awesome!

It's time to let the photos do the talking...since we have already said we are speechless.

Coley, Bob and Frank

Bob, Cecil, Gerald, Peter, Bobby, Joe and Coley

Marilyn's Hammered Dulcimer

Joe, Bobby, Marilyn, Coley and Chris

Log Cabin Pickers

Joe, Marilyn and Orion

Bruce, Joe, Marilyn and Baxter

Coley, son Gary, Marilyn, Chris and Joe

Sue, Danny, Len and Judy

Danny, Len, Judy and Bobby

Danny, Len, Bobby and Bruce

Little Picker , Len and Donna

Len, Donna, Karl, Judy and Chris

Danny, New Picker, Len, Donna, Karl and Bruce

Danny

Judy, Bobby, Coley, Marilyn, Chris and Baxter

Danny, Len, Judy and Bobby

Marilyn, Coley, Chris and Baxter

Marilyn, Bobby, Chris and Little Picker with Her Mom

Marilyn with Little Picker

Danny, Len, Bobby and Bruce

Caroline, dad Jeremy, and Evelyn

Sunday, August 10, 2014

PAT FLYNN

Warming up a favorite mandolin at a gathering in Estill Springs, TN - 2011

Performing with a group of singers at a gathering of family and friends
in Estill Springs, TN - 2011

World-class guitarists are few indeed! One who stands alone for talent, versatility, range, and complete comfort in any number of musical styles is Pat Flynn. Once a member of the legendary New Grass Revival, along with Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, and John Cowan, Flynn continues to perform, record, and work steadily with young and upcoming musicians in the Nashville, TN, area.

A recent online radio broadcast of "Bluegrass Breakdown" with Dave Higgs on WPLN 90.3 (www.wpln.org) in Nashville featured a great 20-minute one-on-one with Pat Flynn. The subjects and the selections were taken from the final CD of Flynn's three-album trilogy called "reQuest,," "reVision," and "reNew". (www.patflynnmusic.com)

Higgs began the music from Flynn's "reNew" album with some great flat-top traditional songs in tribute to everybody's guitar hero, Doc Watson: "Little Rock Getaway" and "I Don't Love Nobody".

The title track on "reNew" is called "Kingdom Come". It has that 'newgrass' feel for which Flynn is easily recognized. He and Higgs discussed Chris Hillman's "Eight Miles High," mentioning that it was a monster hit until the song was labeled as a 'drug song' and stations began to drop it. Can you remember "Puff the Magic Dragon" which was popularized by Peter, Paul and Mary? The reputations of the two songs were much the same; however, through the years, the songs began to stand on their own merits.

And then there is reggae and the song "Change Yourself". Reggae? Now you're kidding, right? No sir! New Grass Revival wandered into Bob Marley territory without apologizing to anybody. Flynn went on to mention that at the time, Bela Fleck had not known anything about reggae. It didn't take Bela long to figure it out. "Change Yourself" is bluegrass done reggae-style.

You can find Pat Flynn's music at the usual online locations or at his website. You can actually find Pat himself on tour with Leon Russell when he's not working on a new project or giving of his time and talents to the students at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN.

Further information: www.patflynnmusic.com

Pick away!

Betty

Scenes in and around the Collierville

Historic Town Square

Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Jams

Lest we be accused of repeating ourselves here, let me say that some photos are just so sweet/cute/fun that we may have shown a few pictures in a previous blog or two. Writer's prerogative, you know.

We are having a splendid summer at the Square. You can easily see that. July gave us some splendid weather which nobody expected. Wasn't it wonderful? August? Well, she is turning out to be August as usual--hot and humid with popup thunderstorms. It is what it is. All we need is YOU!

The indoor scenes are from the first-Sunday-of-the-month County Line Old-Time Jam. The jam takes place at St. Andrew's Church just off the Square on Walnut Street. The church sits on the corner of Walnut and Mulberry Streets. Hours of the jam are 2:00-4:00 PM Central time. Drop by and pick a tune with the jammers. It's strictly acoustic...and almost strictly old-time.