From butchross at butchross.com Tue May 1 13:14:35 2018 From: butchross at butchross.com (News, info and tourdates for Butch Ross) Date: Tue, 01 May 2018 17:14:35 +0000 Subject: [ From Butch Ross ] Just a quick reminder of where I am this week (Louisville and Richmond, IN) Message-ID: Just a quick reminder of where you all can find me this week (buy that I mean tonight) Tonight 7:30pm Leading the jam at the Louisville Dulcimer Cub St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 4700 Lowe Road Louisville, KY . I’m gonna show you guys some tunes too.. Wednesday, May 2nd Full day of Workshops with the Richmond, Indiana Club 9:30am Dulcimer Workshop - From tune to arrangement 11am Ukulele Workshop - Insanely Useful Chord Progressions 1pm All instruments workshop - Jam session survival skills. Contact Brian Doggett for more information: dldoggett51 at aol.com C-ya out there. -- -Br www.butchross.com “Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.” —Jake Shimabukuro From butchross at butchross.com Mon May 28 22:27:15 2018 From: butchross at butchross.com (News, info and tourdates for Butch Ross) Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 22:27:15 -0400 Subject: [ From Butch Ross ] In Pittsburgh this weekend for PHILLTER IMF (I'll explain) Message-ID: This weekend ....well starting Wednesday really. The Phillter International Music Festival. Various locations in the greater Pittsburgh area. festival.philtter.org or https://www.facebook.com/PHILLTERmusic/ Where we'll all be Wed: The Starlite Lounge at Moondogs in Blawnox (featured on Triple D With Guy Fieri...if such things matter to you) Thurs: Carnegie Library and Music Hall, Carnegie and also at the Market Square Farmers Market in the morning. Fri: The Living Room at Hambone's in Lawrenceville Sat: Three Rivers Arts Festival (and then later) Mr. Smalls Funhouse in Millvale Plus a late night Beatbox set and a women-loopers-who-kick-butt-set earlier in the evening. Phillter stands for "The Performance & Human Interactive Live Looping and Technology Education Renaissance" but it's just a big umbrella to encapsulate the wide world that is live looping. If you've seen me or Bing Futch or maybe Ed Sheeran then you've seen the concept of looping: Recording a musical part and then "looping" additional musical ideas over top of it to create a wall of sound. But if you've ONLY seen me or Bing Futch or even Ed Sheeran, then you really have no idea how good people can get at this stuff. These guys are the experts. But one of the other things I love LOVE about this festival is the sheer diversity of musicians and genres. From Alternative Pop to Hip Hop to New Age to whatever it is that I do, there a part of it in this festival. Kids with Ukuleles, Singer-Songwriters, Beat-boxers and Human A Capella Groups, it's all the noise that one human can make at a time on a stage, somewhere all over town. Let's put it this way: Image watching an 60-ish Indian doctor playing "Pachebel's Canon" on violin, playing each part layer upon layer, using pitch shifting pedals to recreate the various Cello and Viola parts until you have note-for-note recreating of the entire orchestral piece. Now imagine someone leaning over to you and saying "You know, this guy replaced the fiddler in that Irish band 'Gaelic Storm' while she was pregnant?." "Wait? What? The band from the movie Titanic?" you say "Yup, that one" they say. Well, I don't have to imagine it; that actually happened to me last year. It's that kind of festival. Go. Most shows are $12 at the door but you can get all-fest passes starting at $35. You can learn more here festival.phillter.org C-ya out there. --Br www.butchross.com "Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like" —Jake Shimabukuro