Sun, Dec 16 at 8:00 pm
Solo set
Uncommon Ground
Chicago, IL – Map
I play for your tips at my favorite venue to play, so far, in Chicago. They have a nice separate listening room in the back. And they serve good food. To reserve a seat at a table, you must agree to spend $20 on food and drink, as I understand it. Otherwise you can stand.
This is my second release and draws on the guitar tunes I’ve been writing and singing in the last couple of years. Download “Wheels are Turning” and “Cross the Sea” in their entirety. I think it’s good to mention that the phrase which is the title may have originated with Ghandi. I didn’t know about the associations with George Bush Sr. when I first decided on it.
TRACK LIST
1. Cross the Sea
2. Mr. Sun
3. Chicago
4. Wheels are Turning
5. City Song
6. Mystery
7. 24 Hours
8. Highway 1
DESIGN
Design and booklet printing by Liz Tjepkema. Visit her website.
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Sat, Jan 19 at 8:00 pm
Orange Mighty Trio with special guest Dean Magraw
Cedar Cultural Center
Minneapolis, MN – Map
We are delighted to return to the Cedar, this time with a special guest we’ve met in our adventures — the amazing Dean Magraw. We’ll be cooking up some good stuff to do together.
Sat, Jan 26 from 2:00-4:00 (workshop) and 7:30 (concert)
Orange Mighty Trio
Crossings at Carnegie
Zumbrota, MN – Map
We are excited to play this cool space– a former Carnegie Library– where you can browse the interesting assortment of items between the shows.
The WORKSHOP is open to bass, cello, viola and violin students. We will cover fiddle tunes, blues, improvisation, playing well in a group, and the mysteries behind “alternative” string styles.
All ages. Workshop admission and ticket prices TBA.
“Much of Piper’s Crow’s charm is derived from the sparkling interplay between the musicians, especially the exotic bagpipes and assorted wind instruments deftly wielded by MacKenzie and master piper Dick Hensold, while Zack Kline’s fiddle weaves devilishly amongst them and Karen Mueller helps drive the entire business on guitar and bouzouki. This is wonderful stuff that’s musically provocative while rarely failing to elicit a smile or an urge to bound about the room.”
–Minneapolis City Pages, January 20, 2006.
TRACK LIST (click to stream)
1. Maria Gow’s Molasses Biscuits/Walker Street/Maid of Argyll
2. The Kirk o’ Birnie Bouzle/Jenny’s Chickens
3. MacKenzie’s Misfortune
4. The Reel of Stumpie
5. My Cape Breton Home
6. Galician March/Muñeira
7. Evidence of Flora
8. Strings of Pearl/42nd Avenue – Free Download
9. Mormond Braes/The Butcher’s Jig
10. Niel Gow’s Lament for the Death of His Second Wife/All the Night
11. Thrush in the Straw/Gables Motel Jig/Highlander’s Jig
12. My Treasure, My Delight
13. The Fertile Fields of Peebles
Stream entire album: lo-fi / hi-fi
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One latest obsession of mine is practicing vibrato and scales together, in various different ways, working on the infinitessimal shadings of vibrato that are possible.
In general we have the following types to work with: arm, hand and finger vibratos, fast, slow, wide, narrow, speeding up or slowing down.
In this exercise I’m using a specific speed combined with crescendos (what the bow does is really connected to vibrato and you have to adjust your bowing according to the type of vibrato and the ammount of shaking that may be going on…a whole lot for some of us…ok now, I’m getting silly).
