Re: [Harp-L] bluegrass at SPAH

[Emile Damico <oatss_oatflakes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cara
  I'm not a bluegrass player but was in a bunch of productions of 
Big River. I even wrote a kinda bluegrass tune. Please check it out and
tell me if I'm good enough to jam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t03heiBASbY

Me in Big River LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STsJbR_hsZA&NR=1

Thanks 
 See Ya at SPAH

--- On Thu, 7/14/11, Cara Cooke <cyberharp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Cara Cooke <cyberharp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] bluegrass at SPAH
> To: "harp-l" <Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, July 14, 2011, 5:12 PM
> My best information is coming from a
> local: Thomas McCraig. It sounds like
> they are pretty generous people, as long as we are as
> generous and
> polite/respectful, etc. He would be the best one to
> answer your question.
> 
> You have a good start on some good common tunes.Â
> David's CD has some good
> ones that are not on your list that are also pretty
> common. As long as you
> have some common tunes to offer all practiced up and you
> are polite and
> respectful of the others in the jam, keep your background
> playing in the
> background, use the melody as a road map for the tunes you
> do not know as
> well, etc., you should be fine.
> 
> Different jams are different to beginners than other
> jams. In most cases,
> it seems that they are comfortable helping string players,
> but not with
> helping harmonica players, and that is what creates a
> problem. But your
> approach shouldn't cause that much concern, except where
> chords are
> concerned, since you wouldn't be much use vamping a
> mandolin chop on a
> chromatic in more than possibly two keys. As long as
> you know your
> instrument and can handle that part, being a beginner on
> the tunes shouldn't
> bother them that much. Everybody starts somewhere,
> and nobody knows
> everything.
> 
> cara
> 
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:47 PM, <sheltraw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > David
> >
> > I was really hoping to talk with you at SPAH. I have
> been learning some
> > Bluegrass tunes for chromatic harmonica and developing
> my own style. Oh
> > well. Maybe next year?
> >
> >
> > Cara
> >
> > I have only been playing harmonica for about 15 months
> and have just a
> > few bluegrass tunes in my repertoire (Read Haired Boy,
> Cripple Creek,
> > John Hardy, Amazing Grace, Sweet Georgia Brown, and
> Old Joe Clark).
> > Some bluegrass jams are welcoming to beginners and
> some are not. Do
> > you have a feel for how tolerant these jams are with
> respect to beginners?
> >
> > I really appreciate you working on this.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > We'll miss you, too. Maybe next year.
> > >
> > > Cara
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Richard Hunter
> > > <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> > >
> > >> David Naiditch wrote:
> > >> <What a bummer. Cara Cooke is
> graciously arranging all these great
> > >> bluegrass jams, and it appears I wonât be
> <able to make SPAH this year.
> > >>
> > >> Ditto and likewise. The lineup for this
> year's SPAH looks amazing, and
> > >> I
> > >> will be unable to attend.
> > >>
> > >> Regards, Richard Hunter
> > >>
> >
> >
> >
>