October 22nd, 2006........ Sunday, of course. :)
We had an excellent show and a wonderful day with Jason Wilber on June 11. Here's the site from that show. What better choice than to have his friend, someone he is recommending to us, as the next guest artist. Jason told us Tim was really good and told Tim we were cool so he put us together.
A quick word on the Jason show. Those of us who knew about him had a blast watching people seeing him for the first time as they tried to wrap their minds around how good it was - there were several songwriters in the crowd with eyes wide as saucers.
Tim Grimm is another songwriter like that. He's one of the best straight up American folk music writers out there. Below here I'll paste in some of his recent recognition. I had a nice long talk with him this morning and I can tell that he's a good person. I think we're in for something really exceptional so start helping us talk it around. One easy thing to do to start to help is to forward this URL to people you know who would be interested.
We'll have a lot more to post about Tim before the concert as well as details about the San Antonio aritsts who will share the stage and be a major part of the experience.
BEST SONGWRITERS of 2005
(Freeform American Roots DJs):
James McMurtry
John Prine
Mary Gauthier
Rodney Crowell
Eliza Gilkyson
TIM GRIMM
TOP 20 ARTISTS in Folk Radio, 2005
(Folk DJs charts):
Eliza Gilkyson Tom Russell
Bob Dylan Dar Williams
Tracy Grammer Greg Brown
Tim O’Brien TIM GRIMM
John Prine Pete Seeger
Nanci Griffith David Francey
Kate Campbell Dave Carter
The Duhks Richard Shindell
Alison Krauss John McCutcheon
Cheryl Wheeler Lucy Kaplansky
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
for interactive directions
from your location right to the door of the show, click here then click "get directions". Here's the basics: Off of N.W. Military Dr. inside Loop 1604, turn east on Cliffside. The house is on the left and there will be a sign at the driveway.
Catching up
Things are going well with the house concert series. We've taken everybody's advice and started this blog for the series instead of starting a new one for each show. We'll keep this URL and change the stuff in the sidebar with the info on the next scheduled event.
Some of you have been following this deal for the past year but most are probably new; Parke and Donna Hedges and Jimmie and I have this concept of having house concerts with all or mostly San Antonio musicians to help them expand their fanbase and sell albums. We're trying to perfect a way to make admission be tied to the purchase of the albums. It's a work in progress.
People see music as national and global but our real responsibility is to support music in our neighborhoods. It's a lesson from what's good about Tejano. This isn't a sudden passion, a lot of our family and friends, Mitch and Glenn and everybody, have been doing things along the lines of our old bumper sticker slogan "Support Live Music In San Antonio" as best we could for decades. It's just about plugging away at it.
We've now done these Sunday House Concerts with all San Antonio artists and we've done it with a bigger headliner and both have been attended about the same. We're experimenting to see what works and what doesn't work. It is nice to have someone from the national scene for our guys to share the stage with but that's going to be the exception and not the rule. After this Tim Grimm show the next one will mostly likely again be all San Antonio artists. After that we hope to see additional shows happening at other people's houses and expand the list of San Antonio artists who want to participate.
We're not gonna be heartbroken if it doesn't expand the way we think it can, lord knows we have hundreds of other projects going on, but you know..... it's moving in the right direction.
Parke and Donna Hedges are the heroes of this deal, they've been great.
Some of you have been following this deal for the past year but most are probably new; Parke and Donna Hedges and Jimmie and I have this concept of having house concerts with all or mostly San Antonio musicians to help them expand their fanbase and sell albums. We're trying to perfect a way to make admission be tied to the purchase of the albums. It's a work in progress.
People see music as national and global but our real responsibility is to support music in our neighborhoods. It's a lesson from what's good about Tejano. This isn't a sudden passion, a lot of our family and friends, Mitch and Glenn and everybody, have been doing things along the lines of our old bumper sticker slogan "Support Live Music In San Antonio" as best we could for decades. It's just about plugging away at it.
We've now done these Sunday House Concerts with all San Antonio artists and we've done it with a bigger headliner and both have been attended about the same. We're experimenting to see what works and what doesn't work. It is nice to have someone from the national scene for our guys to share the stage with but that's going to be the exception and not the rule. After this Tim Grimm show the next one will mostly likely again be all San Antonio artists. After that we hope to see additional shows happening at other people's houses and expand the list of San Antonio artists who want to participate.
We're not gonna be heartbroken if it doesn't expand the way we think it can, lord knows we have hundreds of other projects going on, but you know..... it's moving in the right direction.
Parke and Donna Hedges are the heroes of this deal, they've been great.
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