brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?

Subject: BS: brattleboro vermont
From: jbailes
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 12:33 PM

if i were to go to brattleboro for a week this november or december whether i could find musicians to play with. if there is a piano available i would like to do trad jazz, old blues, and primitive gospel on it. i would bring a fiddle for old-timey, cajun, irish, contra, klezmer, and blues tunes.
when michael goldfinger was alive i used to come up to warren and later montpelier to play but in brattleboro i know only my niece jennifir taking trapeze.
training up from capitol hill washington dc i would be attempting to shake post-election depression with non-stop singing, playing, dancing, and corn whiskey.
if anyone up there is interested please let me know.

Subject: RE: BS: brattleboro vermont
From: open mike
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 07:45 PM

i think this is near there..
see acoustic feedback open mike listed on
this page: http://www.flyingunderradar.com/
bellowsfalls is close to brattleboro

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 10:05 PM

How 'bout the same question for Savannah, JAW-juh?   

       (I mean other than the requisite folk societies where
         for fear of offending anyone's guitar proficiency
         the powers that be
         pretty much keep to "I'll fly awaaaaaay")


         I've been waiting for years and none of the
         offending individuals has levitated a millimeter yet (!)
         much less left for more pillowly environs...

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music
From: open mike
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 10:22 PM

maybe someone at one of these places would know?
Brooks Memorial Library (224 Main Street), 802-254-5290
http://www.brooks.lib.vt.us/ or http://www.vmga.org/windham/brooks.html
Brattlesboro Music Center
here is the NHPR radio folk calendar
http://www.nhpr.org/view_content_pfv/2404/
and here is the local music store http://www.mapleleafmusic.com/
good luck!

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music
From: Susan A-R
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 10:28 PM

Jbailes

Peter and Mary Alice Amidon and Tony Barrand do music at the Guilford Church nearby. Not sure if the Amidon children are still involved in the dance band Popcorn Behavior, or if it's in the area, but they are fun. You'd also be just a hop, skip and a jump from Northampton MA with all it has to offer. Bellows Falls isn't far. Mary Kay Brass is from Saxton's River, also not far from there, frequently playing with contra dance bands in the area.   It's also a good idea to check the VPR All the Traditions events calendar. I'll go looking for that website and post it here if I can. Great listing of all things folk. Also you are not too far from Keene NH. I expect Animaterra may chime in on this. If it's too grim, come up to Montpelier (what's a two hour drive) We have a ripping good jam session on Tuesday nights up here. There's also one on Thursday nights in South Royalton (only an hour and 15 minutes from Brattleboro)

Good luck!!

Susan A-R
(Did I play fiddle with you at the Getaway last year?)

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music
From: Susan A-R
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 10:35 PM

If you head for the Vermont Public Radio website, look under their arts and events calendar and select the All the Traditions calendar, you get dances, concerts, jam sessions and such. My guess is that the url won't help unless you want to come up within the next three or four days, but that search strategy should get you what you want.

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music
From: open mike
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 10:45 PM

http://www.vpr.net/   <----------VT public radio site

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music
From: GUEST,Paul Burke
Date: 05 Nov 04 - 07:43 AM

It won't be a piano in Brattleboro- it will have to be a harmonium, or rather an American organ (one blows, one sucks, I can never remember which).

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Nov 04 - 05:09 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music
From: jbailes
Date: 05 Nov 04 - 07:23 PM

thanks open mike for your response. i am going to investigate your suggestions and susan's.                        

    (the words "i wonder" got elided from the beginning of my first message.)                                                

susan no doubt it was i playing with you at the getaway. there was an excellent woman fiddler who knew all the tunes and was "right there" and that must have been you. we were trying to play for a dance. it was a yeatsian moment - o swelling chestnut tree, o brightening glance - how can we tell the dancers from the dance? in this case, by their absense. no one came.

more later after i explore some of the leads.

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music
From: Susan A-R
Date: 05 Nov 04 - 08:57 PM

Oh, if it isn't the week of Thanksgiving, come to Montpelier, do!! Tuesday nights are FUN!!!!

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: jbailes
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 12:14 PM

i don't know if i will make it as far as montpelier, but i am thinking of coming to brattleboro this thursday november 11 and catching roy bookbinder at bellows falls and staying maybe as long as till sunday the 19th. i would be open as to what i do and where i go but i would have a bicycle, not a car. i've contacted all the places open mike and susan have suggested and am waiting to hear from a number of them.

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: jbailes
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 06:31 PM

laurel, susan, everyone. i'm heading south instead of north cos i got an 80-dollar roundtrip train ticket from dc to new orleans, where i've never been (in the "weekly specials"). i may be able to find more barrelhouse piano opportunities there then in brattleboro. but i have a lot of good notes about brattleboro now, so i'll try to make it up there another time! i appreciate all the help, support, and interest. thanks!

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music
From: Midchuck
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 06:38 PM

One of the two best - very possibly the best - places in the State to shop for acoustic guitars is also in Bratt. Maple Leaf Music.

Peter.

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music
From: open mike
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 09:07 PM

well if you are travelling by bike, bringing a piano with you would be tricky, at best! I think that Louisiana in December might be great, because they have huge bonfires there...
i suggest you search louisiana bonfire festival to find out more.
or visit www.festivalofthebonfires.org/

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: jbailes
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 11:49 AM

dec 10-12, unfortunately. i am leaving tomorrow! i will try to stay warm instead pounding vacant pianos - in such places as fritzl's i hope - and find light and heat in corn whiskey. there is a long shot that i might try to come up to brattleboro in early december. but i don't know yet.
thanks midchuck for the maple leaf music suggestion. i've been in contact with a lady there.

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music
From: Susan A-R
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 10:13 PM

It is a LOT warmer in Nawlins than in VT. Single digits this morning, not great bicycling weather. Pretty good transit between Brattleboro and Northampton, and probably friendly souls headed for anything a t Guilford. Keep us posted and I'll go back and see if I can dig up some Village Harmony friends in that area who might give you a lift to events that look interesting.

Susan

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 10:31 PM

Both Maple Leaf Music and its proprietor will welcome musicians. If you are able to re-schedule the trip I suggest you call the store during business hours & ask. . .
on separate subject are you any relation to any of the Bailes Bros. (early bluegrass/late old time band of the late 40s or so)

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: jbailes
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 03:28 PM

i had a great time in nola and found a lot of music. i was trying to get over the bush election blues and it certainly helped. i'm hanging here in dc for now. the weather *was* great in new orleans, a constant bit of sea-breeze or something, and certainly more friendly to bike in than single digits sounds. susan, i will certainly get in touch with you if i have future plans to head up to brattleboro.
    thanks pete for the welcome to maple leaf music. i am no relation to the bailes brothers but i listened to their recordings in college in the 60s. when i saw that walter bailes was coming to preach a revival in winchester virginia near where i was living around 1972, i took my fiddle to the church and sat up on the pulpit with him and some singers and preachers. i came for two days and did a duet with him on "this world is not my home." unfortunately i did not know that you do not end gospel tunes with "shave and a haircut."

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: GUEST,rasa
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 03:01 PM

Re: Brattleboro - There's a piano at the Weathervane, a relatively new winebar right next to Maple Leaf music on Elliot ST. Music there on weekends (various bands) and some open sessions other nights. Also a piano at JD McCliment's Pub in Putney (next town north on RT. 5 and 1/2 mile north of Putney)) - Tue. nite sessions, bands on weekends. Moles Eye open mic Thursdays - sign up at least one week ahead, it's a busy scene. Vt. Jazz Ctr. at the Cotton Mill, south end of town by high school has Wed. nite sessions. Piano there. There are more but that's a starter.
Bellows Falls you can get some, albeit sketchy, info on Charlie's site, which you did.
Usually some house parties throughout the region on weekends, so once you get into town, you can find out what's happening.

rasa

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: jbailes
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 03:12 PM

rasa, i appreciate the info on those 3 pianos. if i come to brattleboro it will give me some possibilities of places to hang out and try to get some music going. are you around there to accompany someone on piano singing, or playing resonator guitar (if i were to bring mine) or some other get-down-hot instrument - washboard, clarinet, mouthharp?

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 07:05 PM

jbailes - not usually in Brattleboro unless I have a gig there - but post here before you journey and I'll try to catch it. or you can find me on Mandolin Cafe, where you can message me.
rasa

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: GUEST,Wally Macnow
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 12:12 PM

I miss the fine times at Michael Goldfinger's too.

We met there not too long before he died. Hope you're doing well.

Wally

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 07:14 AM

If you are going to play in Brattleboro, consider driving an hour over the mountain to Bennington to play at All Days and Onions. Great place...give them a call.

Michelle

PS. Check out the chicken curry salad!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: jbailes
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 10:34 AM

thank you, michelle, and rasa again! after i recover from new orleans i may make it up there....or maybe not for a while. i'm getting old and uxorious.
       wally, it was great to hear from you. i remember you well from the wonderful sing at michael's and at the cook's in laurel maryland singing that sea shanty where you pause so definitely inbetween lines. everything is great down here (personally) and i know you all up there must be enjoying your new warm winters. i don't know if you know these people, but we were at tom mindte's rockville studio last night recording with eleanor ellis. it was a lot of fun.

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: GUEST,Wally Macnow
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 11:14 AM

I do know Eleanor from old times at The Red Fox in Bethesda. Is she cutting a CD? Please say hello for me if you see her again.

Wally

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music ?
From: jbailes
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 11:21 AM

will do!

Subject: RE: brattleboro vermont - somewhere to play music
From: open mike
Date: 29 Jun 06 - 03:37 PM

refresh