The Next Murkworks Jam: March 26th!

[annathepiper]

It has been decided! After considering the answers that came in off my poll post as well as over the murkjam-l mailing list, the next Murkworks Jam has been SCHEDULED!

When: Sunday, March 26th, roughly 2pm until Pie (which will likely be between 4:30ish and 5, depending on how long we play)

Where: MurkSouth. mamishka has graciously consented to host. ^_^ Prior Jam attendees on my Friends list, please to note that since solarbird and I no longer live in the main MurkSouth house space, the Jam will be down in the living-room-type space next door to Mimi's apartment! Please to note also that MurkSouth is in the U-district, and sometimes parking is adventuresome there. You may want to plan your arrival time accordingly.

If you need directions to the house and/or pointers on how to find the Jam space, send me email. My address is on my userinfo page, visible to anyone on my Friends list.

What you need to bring: Yourself, instruments, sheet music and/or chords and tabs for songs you might want to play, tuner if you have it, picks, etc. Also, we need a volunteer to bring PIE!

RSVP?: Yes please, so that the aforementioned volunteer will know how much pie to bring. Drop a comment on this post, or email me.

If you can't make this particular Jam, not to fret. If this one goes well there will likely be more! Questions? Sing out!

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Gaaah! Can't make the 25th! *sigh* next time...

[annathepiper]

Keep watching this space for further details. We'll see how April works out. :) (Though April will also be entertaining due to Norwescon!)

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Yes it will, in large part due to runnerwolf's efforts at getting the Filk track on... track... :)

[annathepiper]

I am not acquainted with runnerwolf! Should I be?

[solcita.livejournal.com]

You should! runnerwolf is quite keen.

[annathepiper]

And I see on her userinfo that she has another person I know Friended, pauldf. It's a small Internet, ain't it? ^_^

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

"Should" is a relative term... she's into Filk, Andean shamanism, and is poly. Further than that, I'll let you be the judge.

[annathepiper]

Heh! Hrmm. If she worked Norwescon, I wonder if solarbird has met her...

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

She did Registration for quite some years before taking last year off...

[annathepiper]

Dara says the LJ name doesn't ring a bell offhand, but hey. :) There are a lot of people that work the con!

[solcita.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, drat. I'll be driving back from Salem that day, after a gig with Gaia Consort. Sadness. Next time, though!

[annathepiper]

Ah darn! Watch this space for further details, anyway. :)

(Though I will for the sake of full disclosure, since you go out and play in front of actual people, that after nearly three years of us not playing together, we are likely to--what's the word?--oh yes. SUCK. ;)

However, we'll have PIE!)

[solcita.livejournal.com]

Bah. =) I went a good 4 years without playing hardly at all (except for doing dance music at quarterly SCA events, which were sort of silly and brainless). I'm down with all different skill levels. =) Besides which, I never learned to improvise worth a crap -- they don't teach classical musicians how to do that!

And yes, you will have PIE. Which I will not. Woe!

[annathepiper]

That's one of the many reasons I adore GBS so much--they are responsible for breaking a years-long musical silence on my part. Anybody that makes me want to actually grab my own instruments to play their music gets major points on my part.

I'm not too down with improvisation yet myself, though I was able to whip up some simple piccolo parts to "Mari-Mac" and "Jolly Butcher". And though we never played it much, "Rant and Roar" as well. Not something I learned in my own musical background either--I had six years of flute playing in school, and that was primarily focused on the sorts of stuff you play in middle school band, though I went classical for the year and a half or so that I attended the Youth Performing Arts School in Louisville. I was always jealous of the people with jazz-type instruments as they got encouraged to improvise solos. :)

Mmmmm pie! Hopefully you'll be able to come to a second jam, though we'll have to see how next month goes since it'll be all weird and stuff with Norwescon, as I mentioned above!