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    Scuttlebuttin' 2012

    Friday, February 17, 2012

    SF Bluegrass and Old-Time Festival Heats Up - This weekend, the 13th Annual SF Bluegrass and Old-Time Festival winds down (up, actually) with performances by the Deadly Gentlemen, the Earl White Stringband, the Crooked Jades, the Pinebox Boys, Belle Monroe, Dark Hollow, and Rita Hosking. Some great workshops, a kid's show, and a band contest are happening Saturday all day. Complete line-ups and details are right here .

    Higher Ground - Two opportunities to see High Country this weekend as they perform at Monaghan's on the Hill in Oakland tonight, and again at the Frog and Fiddle in Alameda tomorrow. Get out and support the boys.

    David Thom CD Release - This Sunday is the official CD release concert for David Thom's new solo CD, That Old Familiar. The David Thom Band will take to the stage at the Freight and Salvage this Sunday in Berkeley. The recording was produced by Laurie Lewis and features some of California's best musicians! Opening the show are Windy Hill from Menlo Park!

    Sam's Place - There's always some seriously hot 'n' spicy bluegrass music happening at Sam's BBQ in San Jose, each and every Tuesday and Wednesday night from 6-9pm, in fact. This coming week, Sam's presents Cabin Fever and Sidesaddle and Co. on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.

    Gratefully Blue - The Grateful Dudes play some mighty fine bluegrass each and every Saturday night, as they have for the past 22 years, at Vincenzo's Pizzeria in Santa Clarita.

    Be sure to send along your latest scuttlebutt to me at scuttlegrass2011@gmail.com.




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    I know it’ll be Wednesday when you read this, but as I’m writing it, it’s actually Fat Tuesday – the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, and this reminds of what? New Orleans, of course! Tonight is Mardi Gras, and having been to The Big Easy, I can tell you I would NOT want to be on Bourbon Street tonight.

    I made my first trip to New Orleans last year, and I loved it. Not because of Bourbon Street, although that was a lot of fun. Fact is, any city has some area where you can drink all night, if that’s what you like. No, what made New Orleans special is the music. How many cities have a style of music named after them? (Several actually, I’ll come back around to that.) The bands on Bourbon Street were good, but they were tourist acts, so I asked around, “Where do I go to hear the real New Orleans music?”

    I was directed to an area just off the French Quarter, and it looked a little scary. But once I crossed Esplanade and entered the neighborhood, it was magic. There was a strip of establishments featuring live music, and the quality of musicianship was superb. It didn’t matter whether the players were young, old, or something in between – they were all amazing. New Orleans is one of those towns with a concentration of fine musicians. Some are born and raised there, but a lot are musicians who emigrated to be part of the scene there.

    This isn’t unique to New Orleans, of course. All around the country, there are places that attract great musicians. Sometimes, it’s because of the area’s importance to the
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