dcm@duke.UUCP (David Mutchler) (01/15/85)
I am told that Bill Staines often plays the Boston area.
I will be visiting Boston this spring (date negotiable).
Does anyone up there know whether Staines will be playing
in Boston any time this spring?
For that matter, I suspect readers of this group would
enjoy seeing schedules for many folk artists. Do people
out there know schedules for anybody? If so, mail me
what you know and I will compile and post the responses.
On a third issue: I have recently purchased a compact
disc player. Alas, so far there are few (if any) folk
recordings available as compact discs. Do the major
folk labels have any plans for starting to produce
compact discs?
David Mutchler (dcm@duke)bruce@hp-pcd.UUCP (bruce) (01/17/85)
Let me introduce myself, I'm Bruce (Folkie with a CD player) Stephens. I will probably any folk CD that I can find. I can hardly wait to add some folk CDs to my collection. I realize that most folk recording label have limited budgets but eventually it will happen. -- hplabs!hp-pcd!bruce
david@varian.UUCP (David Brown) (01/18/85)
1) I have been posting local folk music schedules to net.music.folk
with a distribution of ba (San Francisco Bay Area). I don't know
if there is much interest in schedules being posted net-wide.
2) Bill Staines was out here in November; he comes about once a year.
He lives in New Hampshire, so I would expect he plays Boston more often
than that. A magazine that covers the New England folk scene pretty
well (I subscribe to it just to see what's going on) is Black Sheep
Review.
3) Compact Discs -- Bob Calin (clawhammer banjo player from Philadelphia)
was here last weekend and was discussing the record that he's currently
working on (his 3rd for Rounder). It's being recorded digitally,
and he was fantisizing about releasing the first (or nearly first)
folk CD. It's not likely to happen, just because the market isn't there.
I don't know a single person with a CD player (on the other hand,
I know very few folkies in the Bay Area with VCR's either, though when
I was visiting in LA, it seemed like everyone had them).
Bob did mention an interesting alternative though. There is an $800
attachment that allows a Sony Beta VCR to be used for digitial audio
recording and playback. The main problems with CD is the mastering
and production costs; the costs for duplicating a limited number of
VCR digital tapes would be much less.
--
David Brown (415) 945-2199
Varian Instruments 2700 Mitchell Dr. Walnut Creek, Ca. 94598
{zehntel,amd,fortune,resonex}!varian!davidsck@elsie.UUCP (Steve Kaufman) (01/22/85)
I understand he will likely be playing at "The Wild Hog in the Woods Coffehouse" in Madison, WI sometime in March. (Yet another good reason to visit that fun city.)