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Show The Intermountain Acoustic Music Association P.O. Box 520521 Salt Lake City, 'utah 84152. .A non-profit organization ', June 1994 Volume 11 No.6 ·Board of Trustees Leonard Coulson Mel Gause Lonnie Hockett Scott Iverson · Barbara McCusker Paige Meriwether , Sharon Mitchell _ David Norton Megan Peters _ Dave. Pinelli . Tony Polychronis Bri·an Salisbury Richard Schmelling · J_ay Toups Gillian Tufts Dieter Wachtel Steve Wesson General Officers Frolll the Bridge ... J)avid Pinelli, president, iAMA To all the members of lAMA who have . expressed concern about the newsletter; I thank you. We have once again redoubled our efforts to get it out in a timely :p1ann€tr. In appreciation of your p~tience, IAMA'will add one month to all renewing memberships through May_oL1995. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: lAMA h~s_ jpitiated a fund raising progr?m top~- . chase desktop publishing hardware and · software:~Although the exact system to -fit our needs, has not yet been deterrtlined,. w~ will require a late mode( Macintosh, full · -page black and ~hite monitor, a . · - LaserWriter, and software for general word _..._ • ' ,.. j'- processing~ newslett~r set_ up, conversion of DOS files as well as a modem. Seed money in the amount of $2000 has bee~ planted by Rex: Loker on behalf of the Unitarian Coffee . · Ho.use. On I?ena]f ofiAMA we thank Rex;· .' _ Gu_Y, Benson ali' the folks who have sup- · ported the Coffee House over the years. , VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH: lAMA recognizes TIM FISK for liosting the mall gigs in celebration of International -_ Bluegrass Month. Tim's efforts helped en- , h~anc~ lAMA's presence in the comm~ity through his excelleht work at thes~ events. Saaaalute! - ~- -David Pinelli ~ . _Blu egr~ssc_ c lipptngs· ..... raked .by -Bangs Tapscott E>avid Pinelli, president phone: 801/943-6521 ~ David No-rton, vice president . Gilliao Tufts, secretary · . · Anne Ibach; treasurer . , - - · - · · - Concert pr-omotions: Laurie Lewis Siglitings: By. the last the audien~e ''What happened to-Ame~ican Tony Polychronis 801/468-23~2 'week of April,Laurie was back on stage,. - Mu.SlG shop?," arid Jerry said the-band quit, lAMA Concert & Comment Hotline: · performing a d~o~appearance with ~athy bec~use it'Ya~ htffiing into Hee H~vy.Bq,nd S01/468-7664 - Kalleck at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage. As regulars included-Douglas artd Mark Messages pic~ed l.lP daily . of this w~iting (mid-¥ay), her stili~healing O'Connor. Magazine staff neck injury is keeping her fro!TI playing her Local-BG aficionados· take note:-Mark David Eskelsen, editor -· fiddle, ot even from playing gyitar with • W~dnesday, June 1~ on your calendar~ for Carla Eskelsen, associate editor · · phone: 801 1451 _7076 ~ , shoulder' strap. However', her singing voice. tne IAMA double-bill concert featuring t~e - . 1;3usiness manager:· Leonard Coulson· is unimpaire~, and the baitq is ~urrently Lost c$z: Fol!TI.d, and Traditional Grass, .at · Mailing: Sharon Mitchell back.on the circuit, with dobroist Sally Van Social ~ork Auditorium on tbe'U of U Distribution: Lonn-ie Hockett ~et~r filling. in f~r m_andolinjs~ Tom Rozu~ campu.s. you_ do NOT w'ant to rtuss -this Printing: Copyright Prin-ting Contributo-rs to this issue:_ -wh<_?.is still recovering from many broken concert. '(And a special note-to those of you Lonnie Hockett, David ~()rtOn, Larry Pattis, _,,bones and other serious injuries sustaine9- ll: who- frequently complain that there ~uen' t , . Dave Pinelli, Tony Po!ychronis, Bangs Tapscott their acCident. ·- - enough bluegras-s events: we'll be expecting lntermountflin Acoustic 'Musician is .pi,Jb- Further Bluegrass Ailments Etc.: j~s~ as to see Each & Every One' of You at this·con-lished monthly by the Intermountain Acoustic ' . 'Laurie ·was getting back.on stage, Ron cert. We know who you,are, and ~e know Muslc -Association, a ' non-profit, tax-exempt - Thomasa~ of the DriBranch Fire Squad· was ·where you live.) - organization dedicated tO-the preservatioo, fur- · getting himself into a car wreck: in which he Grass Valley Festival:) un~ ~6 to 19, therp.nce and spread of acousti<? music, including bluegrass, British-Isles, folk, -old-time arld _re- busted-the steering wheel _with hfs nose, and - _1994 at the N~vada County Fairgro~ds in lated forms, by means_of concerts, community vice versa. Car and nose were both totalled. Gra~s Valley, California _(off Highvya:y 49, performances,_w orkshops, jam sessions and Reconstructive surgery took pl~ce in early _·: nort~east, of Aubm~n and Sacramento) · other musical activities, and by dissemination '. May, and ifall goes as expected he should Featuring: California (18-19), Johnson ·· of musical information through the pag~s of this · . magazine. . be sin~g through i_t agaif:t quite-nicely by _ Mountain Boys (18-19), Jim & Jesse a,nd the Deadlines: fsth of the monlh prior · now. Virginia Boys (18-19), The Del !vfcCoury to publication ·for~advertising and ~nny O~b~rne was off the circuit for · Band (16-17),.Traditional Grass (17,.18), Lost editorial material. Articl-es may be, several weeks this Spring, due to ba<:k sur- and Found (16-17), C_ountry Ha'rn (17-18), - submitted by mail to ~he editors: -gery: No_word· orr causes, but 'one can sp~cu- -· I? rushy Peak, Bluegrass Patriots (18-19), 8765. 50 East, Fannington, UT 84025. late that it has something to do w.ith 30-odd New Vintage Bluegrass (16-17), Sally Van Advertising: $6.50 per column-inch. - years_ of toting an:umpty-pound banjo Meter Ban~ (16-17), others. For information about discounts, call~ . a~ound on stage. The grizzl~d one is _now Th~ festival is held in a pine-covered QC>1/451-7076 . -back with the band, and -doing fin~. area with lots ,of good p1aces for-camping Member, ·American Music Shop is History: The and with jams everywhere. The sound is . International TNN show, one of thefewplacestosee ·usually excellent. :food concessions are Bluegrass Music Association bluegrass on tc~evee with any regularity, has reasonable and pretty good. New showers · .-and- gone where the goQd doggies go. According were added last year. "My favorj:te blue- Folk Alliance, . to Jeff Miller,they may still make some re- grass fe?tival,"' .says Steve Goldfield. , the North American folk musiC runs, but there won't be any more new ones. and dance alliance . When Jer,ry Douglas appeared in Boston a few weeks ago, s?meone shouted out from 2 Intermountain Acoustic Musician, June 199-4 _ continued on page 14 · |
