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August Review - September Event Looming

From Wardjrz on 9/13/2012 11:50:06 AM

Hi Fellers

Well I’ve finally got over the excitement of the second Wakefield Banjo Club event, so it’s time to write a short review and line up our next meeting.

It was great to see numbers on the rise with the promise of more people attending next time.

For this event I think we played 7 different tunes a number of times through with people staying in as long as they wanted to or were able. We had some people playing chords and some playing melody and it even sounded great some of the time.

Once we’d played each tune a few times we decided to increase the tempo and see how long we could go, again with people dropping out and picking back up as they were able to.

Tim Howard played guitar to help with the tempo and to provide a background for us. He also ran a short workshop session too and we had a few essentials courtesy of Hobro Music on sale.

We decided to add Old Joe Clark to the playlist for September:

That gives us quite quite a few to go at next time:

Blackberry Blossom

Wildwood Flower

She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain

Little Maggie

Cumberland Gap

Lonesome Road Blues

Cripple Creek

Old Joe Clark

The Group pick seems enjoyable for everyone so we’ll be keeping that and there were a couple of suggestions for the format going forward:

A slow pick – to warm everyone up and so that anyone, whatever ability level can come along and join in.

A spotlight session for anyone who wants to do a solo. 

If you have any ideas keep 'em coming.

Different people are taking their banjo journey in different directions and there is room for all at the Wakefield Banjo Club. In fact most of us are keen to hear where each other are going for example by further developing three finger Bluegrass tunes, playing non traditional Banjo tunes, getting into chords, even looking at clawhammer or frailing.

It’s all good and we’re all keen to learn and share.

Our next event is the last Tuesday in September – the 25^th, from 8 o’clock.

Post here if you want to add something to the playlist and then everyone will see it. Let me know if you can or can’t make it please.

Keep Pickin’

John

6 Comments
andrewp says: 9/13/2012 2:59:02 PM Hi John Sorry I wont be able to get to the next meeting. Will be there in October all being well. Hope it goes well. Keep pickin' Andrew
Wardjrz says: 9/17/2012 10:05:38 AM Thanks for letting me know Andy. Numbers looking low fellers I've already got three apologies. Anyone planning to attend?
	Lonesome Len says: 9/24/2012 4:59:22 AM Wish I was around for banjo club. currently in Morocco laid up with bad stomach after meal which cost 350 Dirhams !!
Wardjrz says: 9/24/2012 9:21:40 AM That's a shame Len. You're not going to miss anything here though. Unfortunately no-one has confirmed that they are available to attend and I have had three people say that they aren't available so regretfully I am going to cancel this months event.
	Lonesome Len says: 9/30/2012 7:03:36 AM Never mind - I think I am going to make a full recovery from the meal although no chance of getting the dirhams back! Already looking forward to October banjo club. Did we agree what tunes we were going to do at the next meet??
Wardjrz says: 10/4/2012 11:28:23 AM Len Glad you're feeling better. It was a shame about September but hopefully October will be better. The playlist for September would probably be a good place to start: Blackberry Blossom Wildwood Flower She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain Little Maggie Cumberland Gap Lonesome Road Blues Cripple Creek Old Joe Clark Unfortunately I will be on holiday for October so won't be there. I have been contacted by another player who is interested in joining us so we need to keep it going. It's growing slowly but we are getting there. John
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