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Show Bluegrass at Trolley Square by Lonnie Hockett May fifth marked the date of our Impromptu Bluegrass Concert (sounds better than "jam session") at Trolley Square Mall, in celebration of Worldwide Bluegrass Month 1990. The two hour performance provided publicity for the !.A.M.A., and lots of good entertainment for the thronging crowds. Trolley Square was an excellent host, providing us with a good stage and a PA system. Many thanks to the musicians who performed. As nearly as I can recall, they included Ron Spears (fiddle, banjo, guitar), Bangs Tapscott (bass), Tom Stetich (mandolin), Kevin McCusker (guitar, banjo), Ron Mileur (guitar), Caroline Kueneman (autoharp), Tim Fisk (fiddle), Bill Moore (banjo), Jim Tetro (banjo), Paul Hansen (guitar), and Lonnie Hockett (guitar, dobro). Pretty nearly everyone participated in the vocal duties, but -as you might expect-the main lead vocalists were Spears, Stetich, and Kueneman. Special thanks to them. ... And at Fashion Place Mall by Bangs Tapscott On May 19th we did it again, this time at Fashion Place Mall. Apparently they've come to like us, since they gave us considerably better facilities than last year: this time a raised stage, chairs for audience to sit on, 4-mike sound system ... real uptown stuff. We gave away lots of newsletters and flyers, talked to many enthusiastic passers-by who had never hear of the lAMA before, and garnered tons of applause from the listen-ers. A very satisfactory day, both for them and for us. lAMA thanks (once again) to the musicians who showed up to perform: Mark Anger (banjo, dobro ), Nancy Shaw (bass), Lonnie Hockett (guitar, dobro), Anton Speters (mandolin, guitar on "Dueling Banjos"), Richard Schmeling (guitar), little *me* (guitar), and Special Guest Artist Joe Veltri (guitar & vocals) who showed up in the audi- . . . And at Layton Hills Mall by Eldrin Fzot As of press time we have no official report from attendees at the May 26th session at Layton Hills. However, our spies tell us that it was a polished, riproaring performance carried off mainly by IAMA-ers from the north end of the AJ Bigler/Westvision Recording 20 years experience 24/8 track recording We bid album projects 263-9378 "The Acoustic Recording Experts" These sessions are a lot of fun. There is something very satisfying about pickin' and grinnin' and doing a fine job too. I might add that Trolley Square was extremely pleased with us. They welcome us back! There is a possibility to do some pickin' at Trolley Square if there are any musicians interested, once a month during lunch time or so. Look for more on this subject later on. Again, many thanks to all members for supporting out effort to keep bluegrass alive and popular . ence and got press-ganged into doing a few tunes. The mall manager, Doug Ihavehislastnameheresomeplace, is himself an acoustic musician (4-string banjo, jazz & ragtime) and gave us much help and splendid treatment. They are certainly happy to have us back whenever we choose to be there. Thanks to him, and the musicians, and the audience, and to anyone reading this who joined up as a result of the program . state (Davis, Weber & Cache counties for the most part). One spy indicated that it looked & so }nded more like arehearsed performance than a jam session. The audience ate it up. If those three performances aren't a proper celebration of Worldwide Bluegrass Month, I can't imagine what would be. support bluegrass! Take a Musician to Lunch! 7 |
