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Sug-Sept 2021 The Aug/Sept 2021 A publication by the Southwest Bluegrass Association SWBA BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Bluegrass Soundboard STAFF President Vice-President Terry Brewer Marc Nelissen Managing Editor Terry Brewer 661-364-9321 909 289 8730 661-364-9321 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Associate Editor Treasurer Secretary Sheila Brewer Paula De Bie Missy Lyn Gibson 951-934-3478 774-248-4128 Regular Contributors [email protected] [email protected] Phoebe Leigh-Suelflow, Rod Tripp, Bert Luontela, Ann Smith, Membership Connie Tripp Patty Sullivan, Chris Jones, Wayne Erbsen, Gary Reid, Tom Isenhour Sheila Brewer 661-305-1554 Distribution 661-364-7415 [email protected] Flo De Bie, Carol Lister, Frank & Patsy Abrahams, [email protected] Susan Brown, Ella Carter, Paula De Bie Louie De Bie Patty Sullivan The Bluegrass Soundboard Deadlines 951-934-3478 909-762-2848 [email protected] [email protected] DECEMBER JANUARY issue November 1st FEBRUARY /MARCH issue January 1st Robert Wheeler APRIL MAY issue March 1st 949-395-0687 JUNE JULY issue May 1st [email protected] AUGUST SEPTEMBER issue July 1st OCTOBER NOVEMBER issue September 1st COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS ADVERTISING RATES Soundboard & Web manger Social Media Single Issue Yearly Full page $65 $350 Terry Brewer Terry Brewer, Patty Sullivan, Half page $35 $190 Julie Ann Evans $25 $130 SWBA Host Quarter page Card size $10 $60 Sheila Brewer Advertising Missy Lyn Gibson, Terry Brewer Foe more information concerning advertising Jam Host (including special rates and discounts) Contact Terry Brewer 661-364-9321 [email protected] Howard Doering, Marc Campout Hosts Nelissen, Mark Shutts, SWBA Membership Paula De Bie, Sheila Brewer René Baquet, Robert Wheeler, For member information, change of address, phone and emails. Dave Candlish, Scott Dordick, Contact Sheila Brewer 661-364-7415 [email protected] SWBA Trailer Phoebe Leigh-Suelflow, Patty Louie De Bie SWBA DIRECTORY Send $10.00 check or money order Sullivan, Eric Pittman made payable to Southwest Bluegrass Association SWBA School Program to SWBA Directory,PO Box 55 Mira Loma CA 91752 Camp & Strum Scott Sandoval, Bill Inger, Scott Dordick, Patty Sullivan TREASURER'S REPORT Send $5.00 to Treasurer Report, Mike Johnston, Art Tate, PO Box 55 Mira Loma CA 91752 Marina Kranz, Toni Clegg BOARD MEETINGS: All members are encouraged to attend board meetings. To attend, call a board member for the date, time and place. The information in this publication is supplied by an all-volunteer effort and SWBA works hard to keep it accurate and up-to-date. We encourage those whose events listed in this publication to keep your information current – if you have any changes, additions or edits, please let them know by submitting an updated event info. Neither the Southwest Bluegrass Association nor the people involved in providing information on this website can be held responsible for VISIT US ON THE WEB AT any result stemming from errors in information found on the Southwest www.southwestbluegrass .org Bluegrass Association website. Please check with the actual venue before traveling long distances to bluegrass events. Views expressed in these pages are not necessarily those of The Bluegrass Soundboard, Southwest Bluegrass Association, it's Board of Directors or the Editorial Staff. The Southwest Bluegrass Association, is dedicated to the preservation Pickers and grinners promoting Bluegrass and promotion of Bluegrass music, has been designated by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Contributions are deductible for music and those involved in it. Federal or State income tax purposes. Scott Sandoval will take over the Music In Schools program, hopefully this year. COVID restrictions may still postpone the program until it is safe for the kids. The Great 48 Hour Jam is January 6th through the 9th, 2022 at the Bakersfield Marriott at the Convention Center 801 Truxtun Ave, Bakersfield, CA 93301. The CBA is still working out the details, like when you can reserve your Hello SWBA members and friends, I room and other important stuff, more info to come in the hope this newsletter finds you well! near future. Well the election is over and the votes We plan to have a SWBA booth at Summergrass, Blythe counted! And the SWBA Board Of and Bluegrass On The Beach. Looking for volunteers to Directors welcomes new Board members help in the booth. Contact me if your interested. Robert Wheeler and Patty Sullivan. Hope to see ya at Summergrass! Officers will be nominated and voted for at the first board Best Wishes and God Bless ~ Terry Brewer meeting on Aug. 3rd. The newsletter was delayed a few days, hoping to hear back from the park about our event application for the fall campout Oct 14th-17th. Should have heard something on July 14th and was told sorry for the delay you should hear from us by the end of the week, still waiting. Anyhow the newsletter needed to go out and after its printed, they will get back to me. Starting to sound like a broken record, will update everyone by email and in the next newsletter. Recently I sent out an email blast to former and current SWBA members about a new event in So. Cal. Excited to help get the word out, I guess I realy didnt take the time to read all the details. So it didnt take long till serveral where asking for details and a few were upset with me. So I am truly sorry and owe you an apology. Serveal were involved in the planning of this event, including a few SWBA members. I’m sure this will be a sucessful event and a great time for all who attend. The last blast was to get info on jams in your area and with little responce lead me to believe that theres still not many jams. Some are still sorta private with only a few starting back up and serveral waiting for times to get better. You will notice as you flip through the pages that the Lets Go Jamming page is gone and a new page called Camp & Strum has been created with campouts, jams, park jams and live music. SWBA members live in serveral states and Canada. They travel to other states and maybe looking for a campout, jam, or event. If you have info please let us know by contactig me, Robert Wheeler or Patty Sullivan. In June, Eric Nordbeck retired has a teacher and our Music In Schools program Chairman. For the last 15+ years Eric has introduced bluegrass music to so many kids in the classroom and has taken them to perform on festival stages such as Clalico, Route 66, Huck Fin and ARTIN PRESS concerts in the comunity. He plans to stay active in the PRINTING AND DESIGN SOLUTIONS bluegrass comunity and recently was one of the EmCees Quality printing for today's freshest designs at the Susanville Bluegrass Festival in June. If you see him at Summergrass tell him thank you for all he has done 958 N. Grand Avenue, Covina, CA for SWBA and the kids in his comunity. I wish him well on 626-915-4255 www.artinpress.com his future advensures! INTERVIEW WITH LUKE ABBOTT, MUSICIAN AND STRUM MACHINE CREATOR By Phoebe Leigh-Suelflow Luke Abbott was bit by the Bluegrass bug at age 11 when he and his family went to their first Bluegrass festival in Hollister. They had been playing music at home for years, but they weren’t connected to a musical community. Going to the festival and seeing how “jamming” worked was a revelation. The Abbotts soon acquired all the Bluegrass instruments, started going to lots of festivals and jams, and formed a family band. Luke became a sought-after sideman, playing in many Santa Cruz-based bands over the years, and has performed with Keith Little, Kathy Kallick, Laurie Lewis, Molly Tuttle, and others. His solo album, “Take Me Home” was released in 2010. He and his wife Bronwyn moved to San Luis Obispo shortly before the pandemic hit. In Santa Cruz, Luke was teaching up to 30 private music lessons a week. He felt it was important for his students to have backing tracks for the songs they were learning, so he recorded guitar tracks for them to play along with. The problem was that he had to record every song separately, at Strum Machine and to share it with their friends. There is multiple speeds, and sometimes in multiple keys. Not only also a Community Forum where users can share their charts did this take up a lot of his time, but the student was limited and lists. by the tracks he was able to provide for them. He kept wishing Luke has been working to improve the program for the past someone would build a backing-track generator that he could five years, first as a “side hustle” and now as his main focus. recommend to his students; the other tools that he found Many new features have been added over the years, and were either hard to use or sounded fake and uninspiring. He he has pages of ideas that he still wants to explore. One wanted something that was flexible, where you could easily project he’s tackling this summer is to re-record all the change the speed or key, loop troublesome phrases, or type sounds, a daunting task. He wants to add more strumming in your own chord progressions. After two years of searching patterns for the guitar, such as more dynamic Bluegrass for this tool, he thought, “Let me see if I can put something strumming and jazz/swing strumming styles. He would also together.
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