What are your New Year plans musically?

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 10:25 PM

Keep up the fab weekly voice practice sessions I've just started doing with a friend. Keep practising alone too.

Record my new songs with the guitarist I've just met. Meet more good musicians (fiddler, pianist, guitarist) to work on performing them.

Stay open to the exciting new creative surge of songwriting that returned recently; don't be so perfectionist and self-critical, which often stops me writing. Just do it!

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: JennieG
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 09:56 PM

Getting my wrist and hand working again, with the help of physiotherapy, so I can get back to playing guitar.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: olddude
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 08:34 PM

Finish at least one of the 4 new songs that I wrote and sitting on my desktop without lyrics ... gosh I gotta get off my butt and get cranking

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 08:30 PM

For New Years Eve, weather permitting, I plan on sitting around a campfire under some trees and jamming with friends. If weather's not permitting, we'll probably do it in the barn instead, but without the campfire.

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 07:49 PM

In January I plan to start recording a new CD titled Songs from The Gate of Beautiful, the book I published last February. The book include lyrics and commentary on eleven of the gospel songs I've written and from the beginning I planned to do a companion CD of the book. I've made friends with someone who lives about six blocks from our house who has a recording studio and is anxious to get started. He'll charge a very modest fee, and I hope to get my friends from my gospel quartet, The Gospel Messengers, to sing harmony on some of the songs. At the same time, I'm reviving my moribund folk music "career," and am looking forward to getting back on the road doing folk concerts.

I think it will be a good year.

Jerry

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: michaelr
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 07:35 PM

My band Greenhouse will play our by-now-traditional (4th year) afternoon gig at Murphy's Irish Pub in Sonoma and celebrate the Irish New Year by singing Auld Lang Syne at 4 pm California time which is Midnight GST.

http://www.myspace.com/greenhouseceltic

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: artbrooks
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 07:26 PM

Make it to the occasional session with my bodhran (I've been invited, ok?).

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 07:14 PM

The Christmas season is officially 12 days long. In the afternoon of Jan 1st, we have a tradition of celebrating Epiphany (the visit of the Wise Men) by playing music, singing and feasting.

It's a great excuse for getting out the exotic drums.

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 05:58 PM

Musical New Year's party at Sinsull's.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: Rasener
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 09:54 AM

Running http://www.faldingworthlive.co.uk

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 08:49 AM

lol
sgotta play 40 mins set at the County and get out alive.

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: Mavis Enderby
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 08:47 AM

Try and get sufficiently competent on the oud to play in public by the end of the year (2010 that is...)

Ditto darbuka...

Pete

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 08:40 AM

To record, via Audacity, more of my repertoire.

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 08:33 AM

Get a new pick-up fitted in my recently-acquired Guild
   Work on some duets with Karen
Have my Avalon re-fretted---well about 5 or 6 anyway !
Go to as many festivals as possible
         Practice Cajon for an hour a day---must be disciplined about it !

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: Will Fly
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 07:40 AM

My main ambition is to progress as fast as I can on the violin. I've been playing (with lessons) since March and I'm aiming to be be competent enough to go to Ben Paley's workshop (courtesy of the Lewes Saturday Folk Club) in March 2010. I dared to play in public at a recent carol evening - where my scraping could slip in quietly among the more competent players) - but that's a far cry from a session!

So - at least an hour a day...

Subject: RE: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 06:41 AM

Working more with husband on duets.

Teaching a dev. disabled man we adore to play his autoharp the same odd way I play mine.

Finishing a re-issue of one of our songbooks.

~S~

Subject: What are your New Year plans musically?
From: mauvepink
Date: 26 Dec 09 - 06:39 AM

Well, Christmas is as far away as ever but rapidly approaching is the New Year.

What plans do you have musically in the New Year? Any musical resolutions? Visits? Wishes?

I am going to try and learn more songs fully without relying on crib sheets. I may buy another guitar, as I want a full bodied acoustic 6 string, but it will depend on the quality of any pick up I can have fitted. No actual plans musically for New Years Eve but I do want to try and get to more concerts in 2010.

Whatever you plan or do I hope you all have a great New Year

:-)

mp