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ith less than one week until MerleFest 2018, the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, N.C. is buzzing with activity. The festival, presented by Window World, kicks off next Thursday, April 26, at 2:30 p.m., and runs through Sunday, April 29; an estimated 75,000+ participants will gather at this year’s annual homecoming of musicians and Wmusic lovers to celebrate the world renowned MerleFest. | April 24, 2018 theloaferonline.com With over 120 artists performing on 13 stages spread across campus, MerleFest fans have come to expect the unexpected. Late night jam sessions, band competitions, special guests onstage, impromptu dance parties and one-time-only musical collaborations are all a part of the fabric of MerleFest – and a testament to the enduring vision of Doc Watson and the Watson family. A key part of this vision is Doc’s love of “traditional plus” music, a moniker he created to describe a unique mix of music based on the traditional, roots-oriented sounds of the Appalachian Mountain region, including bluegrass and old-time, and expanded to include Americana, country, blues, rock and “whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.” Today, this spirit means that country music star Jamey Johnson will rub shoulders with bluegrass visionary Rhiannon Giddens, folk legend Kris Kristofferson will play the same stage as the Steep Canyon Rangers and Steve Martin. As the nation’s largest roots and Americana festival, MerleFest has room for all those who treasure musical tradition. “The programming this year is incredibly diverse in both musical styling, origin, culture, and gender. We have artists/bands from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Ireland, Cuba, and the United States on our 2018 lineup and we couldn’t be more excited to showcase that talent on our 13 stages. Thursday kicks off with the Kruger Brothers and follows with Kris Kristofferson, Robert Earl Keen, and The Mavericks and continues through the weekend with Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Jamey Johnson, Sam Bush, Mandolin Orange, Jerry Douglas and Tommy Emmanuel, Rhiannon Giddens, Alison Brown, and Steep Canyon Rangers with Steve Martin, just to name a few. It’s sure to be a great year of music, moments, and memories!” states MerleFest Artist Relations Manager Steve Johnson.
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SKIES THIS SKIES WEEK T Saturn andMars ontheother arm. sideourGalaxy the early darkness and will be part of our Summer evenings. Late-nighters after 3 am will see Jupiter on one side of the Milky Way and The pre-dawn sky if filled with planets straddling the Milky Way. Looking south Friday, April27 horizon, makingits swan song. southwest the skirting is Sirius, sky, the in star brightest The laboratory. bay cargo in days 10 for busy astronauts seven keptthat STS-55mission Spacelab On this 1993 date in space history, Space Shuttle Columbia was launched on the Thursday, April26 being plunged intheatmosphere destruction. to afiery important most the before left years few a just of has Hubble man, by built instruments One scientific Hubble. amazing the of life the lengthened into orbit 450 miles above the Earth. Five service missions by Shuttles have when Space Shuttle Discovery deployed the telescope with a 96-inch mirror 1990 in date this on was It Telescope!Space Hubble birthday 28th Happy Wednesday, April25 anchoring trips to theMoon. two occupied spacesmall stations women, haveand announced forplans spacepermanent a station two and men nine orbited already has that program satellite.first their launching escalated spaceby an manned has Today, China On Tuesday, April24 Celestial intheskiesfor events theweek of Apr. 24-30,2018ascompiled for TheLoafer by MarkD.Marquette. this 1970 date in space history, China became the fifth space-faring nation fifth the became China history,space in date 1970 this Leo the Lion high overhead, the Big Dipper in the north and kite-shaped Arcturus high in the east. After sunset, Venus blazes intoblazes Venus Aftersunset, east. the in Arcturushigh kite-shaped and north the in Dipper Big overhead,the high Lion the Leo hough the Moon is waxing to full phase this weekend, it is still a great time to look at the bright star of prominent constellations like
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George University’s State Tennessee East sophisticated and timeless trains from the age of of age the on April28. from trains operatestreamliningHeritageatminiatureformwill Day in timeless and periods, sophisticated interesting most railroading’s of one onsidered ongoing programs. Heritage Day is held the last Saturday of each and room, children’sactivity a layouts, railroad model includes and p.m., 3 to a.m. 10 from Saturdays open is Museum Railroad be operational for thisevent. model will layouts all though action, fourin featuretrains will these operating layouts the of Two visitors. day’s the trains benefit not-often-seen to and personal of mix a in bringing National some the of Chapter Carter Railway Historical L. 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Franklin of Drive, Ross 176 to State east continue and Drive Vest from Jack onto Road campus Building. ETSU’s Center enter Campus should the Visitors to entrance back the at signal information, visitwww.memrr.org orwww.glcarternrhs.com. more Forcoordinate exhibits. MEMRR the and Historical Society Members of the George L. Carter Chapter of the National Railway www.etsu.edu/railroad. visit information, more For programs. In days. an oral event history archive being established as part of during the museum’s tours guided researchlibrary,and growing a is there displays, the to addition for open be will which ET&WNC, the “Tweetsie”line, the todedicated addition newest month. 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path toward my current passion for jazz was Ramsey Lewis’ 1965 funky piano instrumental version of Dobie Gray’s “The In Crowd.” Shortly after LET’S APPRECIATE this I was introduced to flautist Herbie Mann and became entranced by his renditions of pop standards. And then I began to understand that many of my favorite pop musicians, from the Doors and Blood, Sweat, and Tears, to the Allman Brothers and Chicago, were in effect jazz musicians. The only drawback at the time was I didn’t have anyone from which I could learn any jazz licks or chord substitutions other than the “Pointer System” chord lessons that came with my Hammond Organ. And thank goodness for these
rudimentary lessons that showed me how chords form the foundation for | April 24, 2018 theloaferonline.com musical performance. Everything I perform today is a testament to the influence of those slender blue books filled with chords. nearly let Jazz Appreciation Month pass me by, so I want The essential thing about learning to appreciate jazz is to listen to as to catch what little is left of it before we make our journey many examples as possible and then picking out what you like and don’t like, Jazzinto May. Of course, I believe we should celebrate jazz every understanding of course that what you dislike today may turn out to be your month. Before we begin our exploration, however, let’s agree favorite thing tomorrow. I remember very strongly disliking Dizzy Gillespie Ion a working definition, while keeping in mind an observation when I first heard his bop renditions. I simply couldn’t understand how anyone attributed to Louis Armstrong that if you need to ask what jazz is could like stuff like “Salt Peanuts.” Today, after listening to countless jazz you will never know. For me, jazz is the musical equivalent of performances, I love Dizzy Gillespie and appreciate what he is doing. There are C. S. Lewis’ oft-quoted statement that “You can’t change the jazz performers I like better than Dizzy, but at least I have found an appreciation beginning, but you can start where you are and change for something I didn’t care for at all “back in the day.” There is no excuse today for the ending.” Jazz is basically learning to do something not giving yourself a jazz education. After all, you carry the world’s greatest jazz new with what you have been given and refusing to performances around in your pocket every day. Your smartphone is the world’s follow the directions. largest and most complete jazz club, and it is a crime not to take advantage of Although we probably are born with a sense of all this abundance. How can you not love a world that contains the joy (and the rhythm, we are not born with a preference for any sadness) offered by people like Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Billie particular type of music. Like most things in life, we Holiday, Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock, Wes Montgomery, Ella Fitzgerald, learn to have preferences, and we are products of Sarah Vaughn, Shirley Scott, Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Art Farmer, and our choices. I can’t pinpoint the moment when countless others. Just take a look at Art Kan’s iconic 1958 photograph, “A Great I was introduced to jazz. Obviously becoming Day In Harlem,” and witness the “Big Bang” of jazz history. This picture is the Kelly’s Place a musician was a start, and from the time my jazz equivalent of the quintessential Beatles’ parents bought a Hammond Organ, music “Sgt. Pepper” album cover. By Jim Kelly has become the underlying soundtrack There are those who like to tell us that jazz is dead and no longer relevant. And since 1989 for my life, especially these same people will tell us that the obituary for jazz was written in the early jkelly@ after I heard Earl 1960s. Needless to say, I don’t believe this, and can disprove it by referring you Grant’s incredible to my AppleMusic playlist, which contains all sorts of music in addition to my theloaferonline.com Hammond extensive jazz curations. If you believe jazz is dead, take a listen to a few of the performance recordings release during the last two or three years--a list that includes, among of “Swingin’ many other fine examples, Esperanza Spalding, Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra, Gently” Scott Bradley’s Postmodern Jukebox, Mike Clark and Delbert Bump’s “Retro (before you Report,” Brad Mehldau, “After Bach,” Hush Point, The Nels Cline 4, Detroit read another Jazz City, Albare, the Vijay Iyer Sextet, and Diana Krall (who is married to Elvis word of this Costello, a whole genre all by himself). And, while you’re at it, take a listen to column, listen guitarist Bill Frisell’s award-winning new album “Music IS.” A wondrous joy to to this right now!). behold. Maybe my writing a Jazz is therefore a perpetual blending of the old and the new, And we have research paper on the never had the ability like we do now to sample every significant recording in music of J.S. Bach in jazz’s long history. In the finest and most thought-provoking meditation on the my high school English meaning of jazz, Geoff Dyer’s BUT BEAUTIFUL: A BOOK ABOUT JAZZ (1996), class was an influence, we come across this eloquent and suggestive passage about the symbiotic because from that relationship between the old and new in jazz: “The ongoing influence of the paper I discovered tradition ensures that past masters are present throughout the music’s evolution that Bach improvised and development. Old recordings, meanwhile, are digitally remastered and many of his organ repackaged to make them sound and look like new, and some of the newest- preludes and service sounding music is that which is most saturated in the past. Ideas of forward and music; that, by backward, the sense of the past and present, of old and new dreams, begin to definition, makes dissolve into each other in the twilight of perpetual noon.” Couldn’t the same him a jazz musician. be said of all music (and art, literature, etc.)? 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