July Music Updates
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. JULY 4, 2011
2. UPCOMING SHOWS AT-A-GLANCE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2011
3. TOUR DATES TO FILL
4. TEAMING UP WITH PAT WICTOR
5. NEWS
-TYKE’s NEWS
-OLIVER DI PLACE
6. SORTA NEW SECTION! TRIVIA CONTEST!
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July 4, 2011
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
UPCOMING SHOWS AT-A-GLANCE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2011
Let’s get right to the schedule:
*with John Roberts
July 30-31, 2011 – Lubec, ME (US) @ Cobscook Bay Music
Aug 2-4, 2011 – Pictou, NS (CAN) @ Sounds of Nova Scotia
Aug 4-7, 2011 – Lunenburg, NS (CAN) @ Lunenburg Folk Harbor Festival
*Sep 10, 2011 – Bath, ME@ Maine Maritime Museum
As always more dates are added on a continual basis so please check
for up-to-date performances
TOUR DATES TO FILL REDUX
Sept. 8, 9 and 11, ME
Oct. 14-Portland, OR
Oct. 16, 17, 18-Portland-Eugene, OR
TEAMING UP WITH PAT WICTOR
I happened to phone up my good friend, Pat Wictor who is also 1/3 of the trio Brother Sun with my pals Greg Greenway and Joe Jencks. Pat has some time in September (as do I) and we decided to se if we could do some performances in the Northeast. We’re looking for anything in the Southern New England, NY, NJ areas. So if you would be interested in hosting Pat and I in a house concert, please let me know.
TYKE’S NEWS
The UK folk scene has a lot of regional folk music publications. In West Yorkshire, there is Tyke’s News which has been going for a lot of years now. For their Summer issue, John Roberts and I appear on the first-ever full colour cover of Tykes’.
When John and I were on tour, we stopped in at Leeds City College and spent the morning with the students from Nigel Schofield’s media Studies Classes. The students were engaged and interested in what we had to say and genuinely loved the music. After a preliminary interview by Nigel, he then turned it over to the students and John and I took their questions. Three of the students submitted their articles to Tyke’s News; thus a feature article along with photos. If anyone would like a copy of the article, I’ll scan it and make it available. Send me an email.
OLIVER DI PLACE
I still haven’t figured out the ins and outs of this blog. It’s called Oliver di Place, but the guy who writes it is named Darius Rips. Nevertheless, I had sent him my CDs and he has been extremely generous in including tracks from my recordings into his blog and pod. Check out the blog and some of the other tracks that are featured. It’s folks like this that help us indie musicians to get a wee bit ahead in the game.
SORTA NEW SECTION! TRIVIA CONTEST!
I only had three takers last month for the trivia contest, so let’s see how we do this month:
With the same group mentioned last month, the EZ Pickin’ Band, I recorded a jazz standard written by Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, and William Tracey. It was published in 1930 and was recorded by Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Zoots Sims and more recently Nnenna Freelon. Name the song and you’ll receive an MP3 of me singing it. Email your answers to me: dcowan@DebraCowan.com and put “Trivia Response” in the subject line.
Again, thanks for reading. Keep checking the website. I am also on Twitter, Facebook, and Reverbnation. You can purchase music from iTunes, CDBaby, Bandcamp and of course from ME!
Hope everyone has a peaceful and pleasant July.
Debra
