Making Waves:
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Hitting the Airwaves All Over the World |
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Marley's Ghost Recording 8th CD with Van
Dyke Parks |
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Notes from The Wintergrass Festival
and
our Wintergrass Coloring Contest Winners |
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Streaming Audio Coming Soon to the Sage
Arts
Website |
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Colossal Record Collection Moves In |
Events:
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Dan Wheetman's
It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues
through May 8
Seattle Repertory Theater
Seattle Center
206-443-2222
www.seattlerep.org |
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Marley's Ghost
Seattle Folklife Festival
Seattle Center
-Friday, May 28, 7:15-9 pm; Fountain Lawn Stage
-Sunday, May 30, 2:20-2:50 pm; Rainier Room as part of the live
Community Radio Broadcast Project. The performance can be heard live on
the following FM stations:
-Olympia and Tacoma, WA
KAOS 89.3
-Seattle and Bellevue, WA
KBCS 91.3
-Everett and Lynnwood, WA
KSER 90.7
-Bellingham, WA
KUGS 89.3
-Portland, OR
KBOO 90.7
Solo Performances at the EMP Liquid Lounge:
-Dan Wheetman; Saturday, May 29, 4:20-4:50 pm
-Ed Littlefield, Jr; Saturday, May 29, 5:00-5:30 pm
-Mike Phelan; Monday, May 31, 5:30-5:55 pm
www.nwfolklife.org |
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Hank Bradley
Plays Greek music at
Georgia's Greek Restaurant
323 NW 85th, Seattle, WA
6-10pm
Selected Friday and Saturday nights.
All ages welcome, no cover.
206-783-1228
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SAGE ARTS PERSONNEL
Ed Littlefield, Jr.
- President and founder
Daniel Protheroe
- Chief Engineer
Matthew Gephart
- Sound Engineer
Trevor Wheetman
- Uberschlep
Julia Derby
- Editor and Chief Goddess
Jeff Ramsey
- Marketing and Promotions
Peggy Wendel
- Wordsmith, Sales and Office Diva
Catherine Alexander
- Webmaster and Designer |
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Here's
the Buzz...
Welcome to the Sage Arts Newsletter, 1st edition.
Spring is in full bloom here at Sage
Arts. It's snowing pale pink cherry petals all over the purple azaleas,
red rhodies and yellow primroses. Bees and hummingbirds are buzzing in
the bushes.
Our workers are just as busy as they
continue the task of rebuilding Sage Arts recording studio after a
November flood. We didn't lose equipment, but floors and walls were
trashed and must be reconstructed. The work crew has been at it since
winter, putting in a heated floor and digging in a super drainage
system so flooding won't happen again.
It'll be really sweet when the studio
is done June 1. Our soundmen can't wait to get out of construction and
back to recording music. "We'll be busy until November with all the
things we have on our plates to finish up," said chief engineer Daniel
Protheroe.
Sage Arts is being rebuilt on other
levels as well. There's a fresh new push to get Sage artists' music out
into the big bloomin' world: on the radio, on the Internet and on
people's stereos.
Our newsletter rounds out the music we
create with behind the scenes news and photos of the people who make
the music. In this edition, Ed Littlefield, Jr. explains how Sage Arts
began and gives us a few notes of interest regarding the power of music
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TIME, PLACE AND MUSIC
Ed Littlefield
talks about the connections |
 GOING TO THE WEST
A Long Time Coming
Ed Littlefield, Jr. didn't set out to
start a recording studio. He just wanted to have artistic control over
his music. He wanted to be able to look in mirror and see who was
responsible for his album. This is the story of a small idea that
grew.... continued on page 2
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 JOY OF OLD TIME
MUSIC
Ed's rant on playing music in the home
Before the Victrola, radio,
television, and the CD, it was common for ordinary people to make their
own music in their homes for their own enjoyment and for the enjoyment
of their family and friends.
In some remote locations, people might
go for months and not hear any music. When they finally did get to hear
folks playing music, the effect could be astonishingly powerful,
reducing hardened loggers, miners, sailors, and cowboys to burst into
ecstatic tears and do some considerable blubbering. We are so used to
music on demand 24/7 that we may not fully appreciate the power of
music... continued on page 3
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 MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY
We play country music...
We don't necessarily specify what country
I believe that music evokes some kind
of a mood, a certain theme.
Country music got its name because the
music resonated with a country or rural existence. When I think of
people playing fiddle tunes, it invokes an old timey, rural setting:
drinking whiskey and beer and playing on the back porch or in the
kitchen.
When you play jazz, you don't think of
cows... continued on page 4
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