[ From Butch Ross ] Purple Fiddle in West Virginia; Harmony Harvest; and a return to the Leo in Cincinnati.

[Butch Ross]

Upcoming Shows:
Sep 17, 2009 -- 11am State of Franklin radio interview,
listen online: http://thedetour.us/player/live/flash.html
Sep 17, 2009 - Thomas, WV (US) @ Purple Fiddle 8pm -- www.purplefiddle.com$5.00
Sep 18-20, 2009 - Lancaster, OH (US) @ Harmony Harvest Dulcimer Festival --
www.harmonyharvest.org $10.00
Sep 20, 2009 - Cincinnati, OH (US) @ Leo Coffeehouse --
qcbleo.wordpress.com$3.00

I love my job when I can look at all the upcoming dates and KNOW it's gonna
be a good time.

The Purple Fiddle: imagine the Brick from Northern Exposure set in West
Virginia. Places like this should not exist in places like that, but they do
and that rocks.

Harmony Harvest: For 4 years the folks at Harmony Harvest have been trying
to get me to come play their shindig, because of multiple scheduling
conflicts, it's taken forever, but it's finally happening. Plus Jerry
Rockwell is gonna show me a prototype stand up dulcimer he's been working
on. For me THIS ALONE is worth the price of admission.

Finally the Leo. The Leo will always have a special place in my heart, it's
where i got my second ever standing ovation (the night after getting one in
Columbus, Ohio) and one of the first cities to truly embrace me and whatever
the heck it is that I do. Plus the Leo Coffeehouse is a true blue folkie
club with well over 30 years of real-deal folkie sentiment and music. I'd go
just to hang out with these folks.

More news
If you pre-ordered "A Long Way From Shady Grove" you should have it by now
(if you ordered the book you should have a CD, tho' not the book). If you
haven't write me @ butch[at]butchross[dot]com and I'll get it too you, with
my apologies, post haste.

Hey, have you gotten on the Butch Ross snail mail list yet? If not, what are
you waiting for? It's true that I've said I'd start doing newsletters and
such, and that that's not happened yet (stupid real life) but people on my
snail-mail list get offered things that are exclusive to the list (I got a
great one planned for Christmas this year). it's free, takes like 3 seconds
to fill out and won't add to the amount of email you already get from me?
What do you have to lose?

Help Me.
Two things I'd like to get some feedback on (reply to
butch[at]butchross[dot]com subject line "feedback")

1. Twitter: I have a Twitter account; twitter.com/butchross (natch) while
it's hardly important that you know every little stupid detail about my life
(I like pie!) I like the idea of micro-blogging (the online version of
keeping my fool mouth shut) and the idea that we can community build in
little micro-bursts (hey free download for the next hour!) is this
ridiculous, ingenious, neither? you tell me.

2. In three weeks I'm going to Europe, anyone who had any suggestions for
hosting house concerts, finding gigs or super-cheap airfare drop me a line
(butch[at]butchross[dot]com subject line "UK") and show me what you got.
Also, soon I will be posting those tour dates on my website. The UK s
awesome when it comes to walk-in crowds and fans of music in general. So I'm
not looking to bolster my draw per se. But if you have UK (and Ireland) fans
of the mountain dulcimer, let 'em know I'm coming. and tell 'em to come say
Hi! (more on all this in a week or two.

wow! this is way longer than I thought it would be. here's those shows
again.

Sep 17, 2009 11am State of Franklin radio interview, listen online:
http://thedetour.us/player/live/flash.html
Sep 17, 2009 - Thomas, WV (US) @ Purple Fiddle 8pm -- www.purplefiddle.com$5.00
Sep 18-20, 2009 - Lancaster, OH (US) @ Harmony Harvest Dulcimer Festival --
www.harmonyharvest.org $10.00
Sep 20, 2009 - Cincinnati, OH (US) @ Leo Coffeehouse --
qcbleo.wordpress.com$3.00


C-ya out there.

-Br

"Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like" —Jake Shimabukuro