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Louis F Curtiss
(July 2, 1939 – July 8, 2018)
A remembrance and appreciation
Louis F Curtiss has passed away at home at age 79.In 1972, a few months after I arrived by thumb in San Diego from my native New England, I was on a city bus and saw a sign, "Hoot Night Tuesday" in a shop window. So I screwed up my courage and returned some Tuesday soon after, played a few songs, and was asked by the proprietor to come back and do a weekend concert and, later, play in the locals first night concert at the San Diego Folk Festival. That was Lou at his store, Folk Arts Rare Records. He and his wife, Virginia, his essential partner in all things, kind of adopted me, giving me the third chair in The Old Home Town Band like so many young players before and after me. They introduced me to Sweet's Mill and encouraged my musical pursuits in countless ways.
TITLE: PAUL BROWN
ARTIST: PAUL BROWN
LABEL: TIKI-PARLOUR RECORDINGS
RELEASE DATE: APRIL, 2018
I received my copy of Paul Brown’s eponymous DVD/CD release with Tiki-Parlour Recordings (the brainchild of David Bragger and Rick Hocutt) in the mail last week and fired up the DVD player immediately.I was watching it, trying to come up with profound words to describe it, like “homey” and “mellow”, but in the intro to the set, celebrated novelist and writer on American music, Tom Piazza sums up Brown’s first solo banjo and fiddle outing by saying “It’s the understatement of the year.”
STRIKING IRON: THE ART OF AFRICAN BLACKSMITHS
Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths, is an international traveling exhibition that combines scholarship with objects of great aesthetic beauty to create the most comprehensive treatment of the blacksmith’s art in Africa to date. The exhibition includes over 225 artworks from across the African continent, focusing on the region south of the Sahara and covering a time period spanning early archaeological evidence to the present day. Borrowed from American and European public and private collections, it features wood sculptures studded with iron, blades, and currencies in a myriad of shapes and sizes, diverse musical instruments, body adornments, an array of ritual accoutrements, tools and weapons, and other important objects that enabled Africans to forage and hunt, till the soil, and assure their own protection and prosperity.
JUNE 3 – DECEMBER 30, 2018
Fowler Museum at UCLA - UCLA North Campus
405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095
310-825-4361
July-August 2018
Your Second Album
Inspired by a comment made by a DJ friend after reviewing countless CDs submitted for air play, as well as reflections of my own journey—mea culpa!Section One - Reflecting:
OK. After years of career and business making a living and raising a family and trying to be true to the dream, it’s time. The horizon is clear, and the future is now a luge chute aimed at golden time. A time to reflect on a life well lived. Kids? Launched. You and your spouse at peace or permanent truce. Time to exhale.
THE WORK OF PETE SEEGER: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING?
GRAMMY MUSEUM EXHIBIT REVIEW
ON PETE SEEGER’S 99TH BIRTHDAY - MAY 3, 2018
The Grammy Museum has thwarted the twisted un-American ambitions of Red Channels~ the primary instigator of the notorious blacklist that destroyed the careers of the Weavers and Pete Seeger during the late un-great red scare of the McCarthy era in the “Silent Generation” of the 1950s by mounting a glorious tribute to Pete on their fabled 4th floor, enshrining the man that poet Carl Sandberg called “America’s Tuning Fork” in the definitive home of the very best in American music.Read more: THE WORK OF PETE SEEGER: HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING?
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441 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai, CA 92023
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Presented by Ojai Concert Series
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2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
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9:30am - 2:30pm URBAN SOLACE BLUEGRASS BRUNCH
every Sunday
3823 30th St., San Diego, CA 92104
10:30am - 12:00pm HOUSE OF IRELAND TRADITIONAL IRISH SESSION
every Sunday
House of Ireland
665 Pan American Plaza, San Diego, CA
12:00pm CLIFF LATIMER & LAURA OSBORN
fourth Sunday
900 Riverside Dr., Burbank, CA 91506
1:00pm - 5:00pm BASC BLUEGRASS JAM
fourth Sunday
24424 Vanowen Street, West Hills, CA 91307
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Jeff Fleck 310-390-4391 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
1:15pm - 4:00pm TOM BALL AND KENNY SULTAN
every Sunday
5995 Stagecoach Road, Santa Barbara, CA
1:30pm - 4:30pm SAN DIEGO FOLK SONG SOCIETY
fourth Sunday
Serra Mesa-Kearny Mesa Branch Library
3:00pm - 8:30pm COSTA MESA TRADITIONAL SONG CIRCLE AND JAM (SONGMAKERS)
fourth Sunday
Debby and Terry Koken's house
1778 Kenwood Pl., Costa Mesa, CA 92627
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every Sunday
71 S Pine Ave., Long Beach, CA 90802
4:00pm - 7:00pm ACOUSTIC FOLK MUSIC (OPEN SESSION)
fourth Sunday
492 N. Central Ave. #B, Upland, CA
4:30pm - 7:30pm SANTA BARBARA TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION
every Sunday
1112 State St., Santa Barbara, CA
5:00pm - 9:00pm WEST L.A. HOOT & POTLUCK (SONGMAKERS)
fourth Sunday
West L.A. (Contact via email or website)
www.songmakers.org, West L.A. , CA 90025
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7:30pm - 11:00pm O'BRIEN'S IRISH MUSIC SESSION
every Sunday
O'Brien's Irish Pub and Restaurant
2226 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90403
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DANCE
6:00pm - 9:00pm LAGUNA INTERNATIONAL DANCERS (FOLK)
every Sunday
Clubhouse 2
24112 Moulton Pkwy., Laguna Woods, CA
Miriam 949-680-9946
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