Re: S P A H 2003 !!!

[Douglas Tate <dougtate@xxxxxxxxx>]

Many thanks to Larry Eisenberg... the Iceman, for some great comments.

Wasn't it the same Iceman who organised the entertainment for the fabulous 
1998  Convention??? :))   Perhaps some of that groundbreaking  rubbed off.

This year we were lucky enough to have Tom Ellis of the HOOT club to act 
as  talent gatherer for the Thursday and Friday nights... he extended this 
to cover the wonderful 'teach-in'sessions organised by Joe Filisko.  Tom 
has extensive contacts in 'the business' and this has proven invaluable.

SPAH insisted that the Dallas Trio should be included before anyone else 
was chosen or thought of!  And also that they would also play on Saturday 
with their newest member young member (making three generations of one 
family in the  group)

Norton Buffalo was on everyone's list of 'who shall we have?'

SPAH had been working on Mike Turk to come back for quite some time after 
his all too short appearance a couple of years ago.

Apart from Mike and the Harmonica Hotshots I think this is an all new 
talent year!!

Be there!!!

Douglas Tate

At 21:06 02/06/2003 -0400, IcemanLE@xxxxxxx wrote:
>This year's SPAH Convention looks like a winner.
>
>Thanks to Douglas Tate and SPAH for lining up Fata Morgana and Norton Buffalo.
>
>A very special thanks to Tom Ellis and the HOOT Organization for 
>developing and constantly updating the SPAH 2003 Website, the initial 
>contact with Mike Turk, and for booking Jerry Adler, Dallas Harmonica 
>Trio, Mark Ford, Mark Graham, Harmonichords, Paul Harrington, Kirk 
>"Jellyroll" Johnson, Jimmy Lee, Gregoire Maret, Sam Myers / Anson & The 
>Rockets, Paul Osher, and Phil Wiggins.
>
>The last time a SPAH Convention looked this exciting was the legendary 
>1998 gathering.
>
>The Iceman
>