Events

Date: April 17, 2010
Time: 1:00PM-2:30PM
Cost: $35.00
Place: The Acoustic Musician 648 East Union Square Sandy, Utah 84070 801.748.2616

Improvising – It Doesn’t Have To Be So Scary!

Ever wonder if there were some tricks of the trade when it comes to improvisation? National champion and professional bluegrass fiddler Megan B. Lynch will share them with you in this workshop. Learn how to play over chord changes, how breaks and solos are created, and last but not
least, learn when and when not to play! Megan will reveal systems that will makeyour jamming and improvisation fun and successful. Also, learn how the bowing arm makes all the difference in your playing. Megan will show you several great techniques to immediately improve your bowing. This workshop is best for beginning through intermediate fiddlers who would like to improve their musical interactions with others. Recording is encouraged.

Date: April 17, 2010
Time: 7:00PM
Place: The Acoustic Musician 648 East Union Square, Sandy, Utah 84070

Bill Evans and Megan Lynch Concert
$15 in advance, $18 at the door
Since teaming up as a touring duo two years ago, San Francisco Bay
Area and Nashville bluegrass mainstays Bill Evans & Megan Lynch
have toured widely through the United States, Canada, the United
Kingdom and Ireland. Spanning a thirty-five year professional
performing career, banjo player and Banjo For Dummies author Bill
Evans has performed with Dry Branch Fire Squad, Peter Rowan, David
Grisman, Hazel Dickens, Laurie Lewis, Jody Stecher, Kathy Kallick,
Bluegrass Intentions and his own Bill Evans String Summit. His two
CDs “Native and Fine” (Rounder Records) and “Bill Evans Plays
Banjo” (Native and Fine Records) topped critics’ lists and the
Bluegrass Unlimited charts. Folks know Nashville resident Megan
Lynch from her National Championship fiddling credentials and from
her performances with 3 Fox Drive, Due West, Dale Ann Bradley, Tony
Trischka, Chris Jones, Roland White and Jim Hurst.

Together, Bill Evans & Megan Lynch make music that’s going to
surprise you. It’s much more than a fiddle and banjo duo. While
virtuosic instrumental work is to be expected from these musicians,
it’s the outstanding lead singing of Megan and the pair’s rich duo
vocal sound that is a revelation. Drawing on singer-songwriter and
alternative rock sources as much as traditional old-time and
bluegrass music, the duo creates music that’s intensely intimate
but truly difficult to categorize. While rooted in bluegrass
tradition, Bill Evans and Megan Lynch display a natural and
unassuming sophistication that reflects their wide-ranging interest
in many kinds of contemporary and popular music.

 
Date:  April 17, 2010
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Place: The Acoustic Musician 648 East Union Square Sandy, Utah 84070

Intro to Singing Bluegrass with Confidence (Bill Evans and
Megan Lynch)
cost: $35
Are you nervous about singing? Are you scared of jumping in and
trying to grab a harmony part on the chorus? Do you stand in the
back of a jam and hum quietly to yourself? Well, it’s time to get
in the singing game! Bill & Megan will help you figure out the
right kinds of songs for you, what keys are good choices for your
voice, and where on earth to find those darn harmony parts. Bring
your voice, and a recording device to help you remember some great
new tricks of the trade that will get you singing in jams without
fear. OK, maybe not WITHOUT fear, but definitely with a whole lot
more confidence!

This will be a practical, easy to understand “hands-on, bring your
banjo and let’s pick” kind of workshop that’s open to all players
but ideally designed for musicians with one or more years of banjo
playing experience. We’ll cover practical and easy to learn
techniques that you can put to immediate use to hold in your next
band rehearsal or jam session. Topics to be discussed include
movable chord shapes for vamping, up-the-neck backup using the F
and D shapes and the “In The Mood” roll, down-the-neck backup using
forward rolls and target tones, how to use Earl Scruggs’ great
backup licks to enhance your sound, how to “hear” chord
progressions, using the capo and back-up aesthetics (when to do
what!), fiddle tune and slow-song backup and much more. Tab
examples will be presented for everything that will be covered in
the session but it’s not necessary to read tab well to get a lot
out of this workshop. Audio and/or video recording is encouraged.

Jim plays one of his originals at the Jam.

Danny Stark, Bill and Tami entertain the crowd at the party. Thanks guys.

Paul Hansen, Klaus, and Sherylanne entertain the crowd with The Auctioneer. Great job everyone. Thanks Paul

Another song at the Thursday Night Jam. Kathy McKeller play Clinch Mountain Backstep on the banjo.

Stop by the store any Thursday evening from 7:30 – 10:00 for our Acoustic Jam. Everyone is welcome. Come to play, or to watch.
Heres a clip of Dave Nay playing Ole Slewfoot on the Upright Bass.