Fun at Slow Jed's

My first performance at Slow Jed's in Averill Park was more fun than a barrel of drunken monkeys. I'll be back there on April 27, so mark your calendars. It's a great little coffeehouse and worth the trip.
 

Old-Time Guitar Workshop March 24

 

Old-Time Guitar Workshop

With Bill Ackerbauer

 

An introduction to old-time country flatpicking guitar

for beginning acoustic guitarists and more experienced players

who are new to the old-time genre.

 

,    The infamous “boom-chick” lick

,    Carter-style backup and solos

,    Flatpicking fiddle tunes

,    Put some roots in your repertoire!

 

When:  Noon, Saturday, March 24th

Where:  Arthur’s Market, 35 N. Ferry St., Schenectady

Cost:  $10

Open Old-Time Jam to Follow at 2 p.m.

For more information or to RSVP, e-mail:  smokinbill@aol.com

Upcoming music events

A few music-related things are on the calendar for March:

Saturday, March 10: "Fulton's Finest" at the Glove Theatre in Gloversville, N.Y. I'll be one of the performers in a variety show fund-raiser for a Fulton County Regional Chamber of Commerce Performing Arts Scholarship. For more info, see www.glovetheatre.org.

Thursday, March 15: Solo acoustic gig at Slow Jed's Mudhouse, a hip coffee joint in Averill Park (outside Troy). For directions, etc.: www.slowjeds.com.

Saturday, March 24: Old-time flatpicking guitar workshop at Arthur's Market in Schenectady. I'll be teaching some Carter-style roots guitar stuff. The workshop starts at noon and will be followed by a jam for all old-timey instrumentalists at 2 p.m. I'll post more information here and at my MySpace site when the details become available.

Stay in touch! Feel free to drop me a line at smokinbill@aol.com.

Live Audio from Arthur's

 

Tuesday's show in Schenectady turned out to be an intimate affair, which is a nice way of saying very few people showed up ... but on the plus side, Roland and I had fun and managed to record a few numbers for posterity. Check them out here (files are in .mp3 format):

Hesitation Blues

The Roving Gambler

Handsome Molly

The painting above is a product of today's "Arts n' Crafts" time with my boys. I guess I'll call it "The Frailer." We're still working on our Piranha Pinata.

See you in the Stockade

Don't forget to catch my show Tuesday night at Arthur's Market & World Village Cafe, 35 N. Ferry St., Schenectady. The music starts at 7 p.m. The cafe serves coffee, tea, desserts and vegetarian dishes. They also are rumored to have supply of the excellent Barrett's Pineapple Ginger Brew.

I will be joined for a set by my friend Roland (aka The Bard Rocks!) on guitar, banjo and whatever else he brings along. There's no cover, but I'll have my medicant tip jar in full effect.

If you need help finding Arthur's, click here for a MAP.

A Jamaica Tale

The Albany-based e-zine MyStoryLives has published one of my pieces of non-fiction, a short memoir about a bus trip in Jamaica. 

 

You can read it at the following link:

 

http://mystorylives.blogspot.com/2007/02/ride-to-port-antonio.html

 

Hope you like it!

 

Feeling surreal today

We had family arts n' crafts time quite early this morning (before breakfast, in fact), which might explain why I painted this ...

What should I title it? If you have suggestions, leave a comment by clicking the link below.