Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08

Subject: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: open mike
Date: 05 Jul 08 - 11:21 PM

Tom is planning a West Coast Tour in Sept. and Oct. 2008.
I would like to help him book some gigs then. He was one
of the original members of the New Lost City Ramblers and
I am hoping to find some places for him to play this fall.
*It would especially be great if he could play at the Old
Time music event or the Hardly Strictly Blue Grass event.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Paley
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx6mSRM4JW0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9beYvEO_DM (intro in swedish)

if any cats would have any ideas on venues or gigs,
please contact me at veraloe at gotsky dot com

thanks! Laurel

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: open mike
Date: 06 Jul 08 - 02:45 AM

other mudcat thread on Tom
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=61155#981700

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: GUEST,Mary Katherine
Date: 06 Jul 08 - 10:29 AM

When the tour is finalized, please post details here? Thanks!

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Suzy T.
Date: 06 Jul 08 - 02:24 PM

Arghhh!! I wish I had known about this several months ago, we would have been delighted to have been able to have Tom perform at the Berkeley Old TIme Music Convention. But we have been booked up for awhile now.

I have called Laurel and talked with her about this and made some suggestions about other possible Bay Area venues.

Incidentally, Tom is indeed in the New Lost City Ramblers film which Chris Strachwitz and Yasha Aginsky are making under the auspices of the nonprofit Arhoolie Foundation. Arrangements were made to film Tom playing and to do an interview, all of this taking place in London. Some of this music and interview is in the film, along with many archival photos from the 1950s and early 60s and recordings of the Paley-era NLCR.

The film started off as a student project, and in that stage of development, Tom was not in the film. We are glad to have been able to remedy that omission and we thank the Mudcatters who encouraged us to do so.

We also thank the Mudcatters who have helped us to find archival photos, posters, etc. We hope the film will be done by the end of the year.
Best,
Suzy Thompson

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Francy
Date: 06 Jul 08 - 02:59 PM

Hi Laurel.....Give me call and we'll try to have Tom here in Toledo....Frank of Toledo

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: open mike
Date: 06 Jul 08 - 03:31 PM

Keep in touch y'all...some dates are shaping up around this tour.
Any suggestions are appreciated!!

Laurel

p.s. so far he has sept. 27 gig in the central valley of calif.
and oct 11 on the coast between fort bragg and eureka.

anyone down south (san diego?? amos??) have any possible gigs for him?

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 06 Jul 08 - 06:04 PM

the first youtube link doesn't work.

( you need to put in the "http://")

Tom Paley performing "Sporting Life Blues"

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Francy
Date: 07 Jul 08 - 11:13 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: GUEST,masha goodman crawford
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 12:00 PM

Tom will be playing a house concert at our place in Pine Grove, up in Amador County, California, on Sept.27th, 2008. Fiddle, banjo, guitar, ballads, blues, humorous songs, hoedowns, waltzes, and rags, award-winning Swedish fiddle, political polemic, rowdy reminiscences, and more. We're 2 1/2 hours from San Francisco, 45 minutes from Sacramento, 1 hour from Lake Tahoe. This is an amazing chance to hear Tom in a very small, intimate setting (my living room or, if the weather is as beautiful as it usually is that time of year, my backyard).

The weekend of the 26th/27th is also the Jug Band festival here in Sutter Creek (15 minute drive). So come enjoy the jug bands all day, join us for potluck dinner & Tom's concert, jam with the jugs all night, stay at one of the great b&b's nearby, lather, rinse, repeat.

Tom played here in '06, and he is a delight. Amazing musician, very, very funny (if you don't mind non-stop puns!), and full of fascinating stories. This is a man who played in a duo with Woody Guthrie, gave guitar lessons to Ry Cooder, was a major influence on Dylan, was one of the original New Lost City Ramblers, and has been a major influence on American music for over 50 years.

To reserve a seat, email masha at banjodancer.com.

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 10:08 PM

Hi Laurel,

If Tom gets as far north as Seattle, let me know.
I might find a gig for him here, or if nothing else,
the Pacific Northwest Folklore Society
might give him a house concert.

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Stewart
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 10:16 PM

Aaagh! I keep losing my cookie on this computer.

That was me, Stewart

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: open mike
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 02:37 AM

please contact him direct, since my house burned down
i am having trouble organizing anything...including my own life..

let's see where did i put his e-mail address??
he is one of the only people on the planet who has a
compuserve numeric e-dress!

"Tom Paley" <[e-mail]>

this is an excerpt from a message from Tom:

So far, my schedule on the West Coast states looks like this:
Sept 21: Concert in Bellingham, WA
Sept 24: House Concert in Mountain View, CA for Daniel Steinberg
Sept 27: House Concert in Pine Grove, CA for Masha Goodman
Oct 1-3:   Possible gigs in LA (not yet certain)
Oct 8:       Concert at 'Strings' for Joey Lent.(Oakland/Berkeley CA)
Oct 9 or 10    another gig in the bay area, possible concert in Eric   
             Schoenberg's shop in Tiburon, CA and Searle Whitney
       has contacted me about doing another Bay area house-concert
Oct 11:    Concert in Fortuna, CA
Oct 13:    Possible appearance on David Garelick's program
Oct 15-20 I'll probably be in Oregon (including a visit to Anne      Duston and, possibly, a house-concert at her place)
Oct 21---> a couple of days in Washington before heading for Midwest.

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: open mike
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 12:21 PM

i hope some catters will be able to hear Tom..
and I will try to get the info on his midwest itinerary, too.
Does anone have the info?
I donot see his website these days...

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: open mike
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 01:20 PM

here is more on the performance in Fortuna
http://fortunaconcertseries.com/schedule.htm

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 01:23 PM

We'll be keeping a sharp eye out for those L.A. area dates...

~ Becky in Tucson (and half the weekends in L.A.)

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: astro
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 03:42 PM

You might try to see if McCabes guitar shop (a well know gig site) in Santa Monica or Boulevard music in Culver City as possible venues. We would love to see him here.

Astro in LA....

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: open mike
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 03:57 PM

Additional Tom Paley dates:

A concert at the 'Rock House' in Reed's Spring, MO on
November 15. see: http://myspace.com/rockhouse41highst

(He is hoping to line up a few more Midwest gigs)

Also look for him in Florida for a couple of weeks.

Jacksonville on November 22 http://www.foff.org/content/view/129/70/
andSuwannee Old Time Music Weekend at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in White Springs, FL, December 5-7.
www.folkfiddle.com/suwanneeweekend.htm
(He is open for a few more jobs in that area, as well)

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Mary Katherine
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 05:21 PM

Any news about Southern California dates yet? Hope he makes it to the L.A. area. Please keep us posted.

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Booklynrose
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 09:47 PM

We just heard Tom at the Park Slope Old Time & Bluegrass Jamboree. He outshone the other (excellent) acts. He is just so masterful as a singer & instrumentalist.
If you have the chance to hire him, do so!

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: open mike
Date: 15 Sep 08 - 11:03 PM

i wish that he could have been included in the old - time music fest.
in the east bay area (berkeley, ca) but he contacted me after the acts
had all been booked. i also wish he was in the s.f. free festival
hardly strictly bluegrass, but same problem, not enough time. Also it
would have been grand if he was in some of the New Lost City Ramblers
reunion festivities, concerts, films, etc. I try to keep the organizers of such events reminded of his presence, but since being in U.K. and Sweden so many years, they have lost track of him.

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: open mike
Date: 16 Sep 08 - 12:21 PM

If any of you have concert ideas in the times and places
where it looks like there is room in his schedule...
please do what you can to make it happen...don't wait
for someone else to do it! Tom travels by bus and can
use all the support we can offer!!

venues? presenters? your house for a concert?

go for it!

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Mary Katherine
Date: 16 Sep 08 - 02:11 PM

In addition to Astro's suggestions above, you might try The Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena (a suburb of Pasadena, not too far from L.A.).

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Mary Katherine
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 09:38 PM

I've just learned that Tom Paley will be doing a house concert in Long Beach, CA at the home of Chris and Diane Gruber on Friday, October 3. For address, directions and details send an email to: [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 12:58 AM

Shoot! We'll be in Long Beach that weekend, but we have tickets to see Odetta at McCabe's that night! Dang! And other stronger words!

~ Becky in Tucson
(and astro in Long Beach)

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: open mike
Date: 18 Sep 08 - 01:04 AM

That is excellant news..Chris is a wonderful fiddler in the Swedish tradition, i hope they will do a few tunes together!! If anyone goes there, tell Chris Hi for me...i go to some of the same swedish music camp and festivals where he plays..there are likely to be some polska
tunes at that performance!

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: astro
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 06:52 PM

Well, Becky my dear, we are going to the House Concert at Chris' house. It is all confirmed! We will see Odetta another day....

Astro in Long Beach....

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 09:05 PM

Yay!!

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: open mike
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 10:25 PM

Tom's performance in Mountain View was a pleasure to attend.
He did quite a few swedish tunes, and invited me on stage to
share a tune on the nyckelharpa. He also got us all singing
along on quite a few of the songs he sang!

Tom will be on Dave (Gus) Garelick's Fiddlin' Zone show between
8-9:30 on Mon. Oct. 13 (pacific time)
http://www.krcb.org/Fiddling-Zone-with-Gus-Garelick.html

KRCB is streaming, so you can tune in the radio show at
http://www.krcb.org/

I hope we might get a review of his other concerts along the way...
he is a national (international) treasure!

Laurel

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 10:55 PM

This Cut and Paste (Sorry!) from the UKs fRoots forum posted by Vic Smith.

"During the interval of our gig last night, Ben Paley was telling me of an email telling of an incident that happened to his dad during his current tour of the USA.

Tom was going from one gig to another by Greyhound bus and at one of the scheduled stops, Tom decided to go to the loo and by the time he came out, the bus had gone and left him......

Well, he did get his instruments and cases back and he did get to the gig and all the band laughed at the story at the time, but today I have been thinking it over. Here is a man in his eighties undertaking a tour by public transport and carrying a banjo, a guitar, a fiddle, his pack of clothes and knowing Tom, probably his big camera case as well.

My already great admiration for the man grows apace."

I've always wondered what he's got in that camera case!!
But, as Vic says. What a Guy!
Say hello from me if you bump into him (on a bus somewhere!)

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Surreysinger
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 05:50 AM

"I've always wondered what he's got in that camera case!!"
Strangely enough Ralphie - methinks 'tis a camera... I have photos of him using it in the King and Queen in May.

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: astro
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 08:54 PM

Well, Desert Dancer and I saw Tom at a Friday night house concert in Long Beach and had a great time. Met very nice folks and Tom was very enjoyable. He fiddled some nice Swedish polkas, along with Paul Johnson, which were fine.

We enjoyed his banjo playing along with his bungee cord banjo strap, very functional and available anywhere there is a high quality auto repair and parts shop available.


He had some trouble with his f's since he just lost a front tooth the night before...but, did well anyway...trooped on along..

He played for roughly two hours and we all enjoyed....

Astro...Desert Dancer....in LA

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: astro
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 12:24 AM

BTW, we did pick up his new CD "Dealing a New Hand" (from the same old deck) by his band The New Deal String Band with his son.

Has 22 tracks:

1) Hogeye; 2) Rain and Snow; 3) Didn't he Ramble; 4) Done Gone;
5) The Tenderfoot; 6) Chinquapin Medley....among the 22.

Pretty enjoyable...

Astro....

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: open mike
Date: 16 Oct 08 - 01:01 PM

those were polskas, not polkas...

bummer about the tooth. hope he is o.k.

did anyone catch his performance on
Dave Garelick's radio show on the 13th?

( i was at the hospital with my daughter
taking a tour of the O.B. wing/birth center.
she is due to give birth in a couple or few weeks)

KRCB Fiddling Zone with Gus Garelick
Did anyone record this? or is it archived?

He must be in Oregon about now...

any news or info about appearances and concerts there?

Anne Duston's?

hope he is doing o.k.

and that folks are attending his concerts!

Tom Paley's web site

I was able to order a disc from Parasol records--
it is on th4e Gravitation label from Sweden
the title was beware young ladies
http://cdbaby.com/cd/tompaley

http://foff.org/nm/publish/news_4.html

November 22, Saturday, Jacksonville, TOM PALEY at a
Poindexter house concert. 8 pm. $15.
Reservations & directions: 904.399.8444
or [e-mail].

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: Mark Ross
Date: 16 Oct 08 - 01:05 PM

Tom will be playing here in Eugene, Oregon tomorrow night at 8 PM at Tsunami Books(26th & Willamette). Admission is $10(sliding scale).
It hasn't been welll publicized so I have been calling everyone I know who might be interested. Hope to see you there.


Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Tom Paley West Coast U.S. Autumn '08
From: astro
Date: 16 Oct 08 - 04:07 PM

Hope it all goes well at these dates with Tom, we (Desert Dancer and I) had a real nice time. Tom was great and the hosts were nice.

Thanks Open mike...He was fine about the tooth, just had fun with his f's....

astro