Guide FAQ’s and more…

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WELCOME!
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The opening section is a "Special & temporary section…"

The editor still can’t use the computer as his recovery continues to progress from eye surgery - but he does somehow coax a coalition of the willing to keep it all going.
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WANT TO HELP keep the Guide going? GREAT!
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First, there are two benefit shows for Larry, one on Friday, Oct 23, and the BIG one on Sunday, Oct 25. Details of each follow all the FAQ stuff on this page.
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Want to help keep the Guide going? We can send info for you to format and send back to us for inclusion in the Guide! Of course, we want to include YOUR acoustic gigs in Southern Cal or at festivals everywhere (and these days, it’s really important that we receive your events ready to go in the Guide’s format).
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This update is made possible by the combined efforts of many, in many places. We continue to format the unbelievable amount of info that the editor already had in the Guide’s database, add as much as we can keep up with from all that pours in, and combine all of it. (He’s got stuff into late 2010 already.) We hope to post the remainder of October’s events soon, and keep this thing going without interruption.
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The editor thanks everyone for the cards and letters and tasty edibles and homemade treats, and for whatever well-wishes await in the mountain of emails that he can't yet read. A few at a time, we are starting to read them to him (there were over 2,700 there, waiting, the last time anybody dared to look!)
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WHAT’S WITH THE L.A. ACOUSTIC SCENE?
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Without question, the Los Angeles region now has the greatest number of live acoustic performances of anyplace in America, and possibly in the world. Much of it is simply WONDERFUL, including club and coffeehouse gigs, performing arts center and theater concerts, indoor and outdoor shows, and a steady parade of festivals that include a healthy acoustic music presence. In addition, for those planning travel and our readers elsewhere, the Guide always includes a vast variety of acoustic music festivals all over the planet.
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SO, HOW DOES THE GUIDE HELP ME FIGURE IT OUT?
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Unique to the Guide, DESCRIPTIONS are included in our extensive information, rather than simple calendar listings where you need to recognize a performer’s name to know the genre of acoustic music. How do you know if you want to go if you don’t know anything but a name and a place? Lots of other resources tell you who, where, and when. We tell you that, plus the all-important “what.” Yep, we “Guide” you through the live acoustic music scene.
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We include RECURRING EVENTS, like residencies, series, showcases, and open mics, and all these are numerous in the Southern California acoustic music universe. Some are monthly, some are even weekly! We generally add them to the Guide’s calendar one week at a time, as dates approach, because there are so many of them AND because it gives us a chance to learn who is playing all those the showcase series.
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RADIO SHOWS that regularly feature live acoustic performances are included, provided there is a way to hear them in Los Angeles. With precious few exceptions, hearing these in L.A. requires internet listening, and we give you the necessary URLs. (For example, L.A. remains the only radio market in America where no NPR music packages can be heard; no Thistle & Shamrock, the most popular Celtic music show on the planet, can’t be heard on L.A. airwaves… that’s just one example.)
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THE GREAT CONTRADICTION is revealed in each edition of the Guide: there are more live acoustic performances each week in L.A. than anywhere else in the world, and the total number of acoustic shows each week here outnumbers the COMBINED TOTAL of all other genres of music in this town. The contradiction is, of course, that local mainstream media ignores acoustic music, and it isn’t on the radio here. Go figure…
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GETTING YOUR GIG LISTED
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We welcome your feedback, and news of your acoustic Americana and acoustic renaissance music shows. Send us gig notices in our format, please; see any listed show in any edition of the Guide for an example. Please DON’T expect us to re-type info that you have locked into a jpg – send us plain text, so we can work with it! Send to us at tiedtothetracks@hotmail.com.
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WHERE TO FIND WHAT WE DO…
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WE’RE ON BLOGSPOT as the current principal cyber home of the Acoustic Americana Music Guide and the Acoustic Americana Music News. Every edition is published there with no annoying web-provider ads and we don’t need to break the Guide into segments, because they don’t impose size restrictions on us. Find us there at http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com
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WE’RE ON NO DEPRESSION and enjoy contributing on that site, the cyber vestige of the now-departed print magazine of the same name. Find us there at http://community.nodepression.com/profile/TiedtotheTracks
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WE’RE IN FOLKWORKS with the latest edition of the “Somewhere Out There” column, available online at www.folkworks.org/content/viewcategorycur/89. We contribute occasional reviews or feature stories to FolkWorks. You can read the work of many good writers there, and you can sign-up for a free FolkWorks e-newsletter, too, all at www.FolkWorks.org
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WE’RE ON MYSPACE and we DO welcome Myspace “friends.” We DO try to keep up with Myspace (especially lately), but over the long haul, it seems we don’t update the Myspace site very often. PLEASE DON’T send us anything through myspace email. It’s esoteric, it cannot be auto-forwarded into a “real” email account, and we just can’t keep up with it. (Same reason we don’t get sucked into doing Facebook or any of that other time-consuming and even more esoteric stuff.) Our Myspace page is still a good archive that proves the L.A. acoustic scene has been HUGE for a long time, and we do post occasional current stuff there, at www.myspace.com/laacoustic
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RADIO NEWS (October, 2009)
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The return from hiatus of the syndicated “Tied to the Tracks” radio show is delayed, due to the producer / host’s ongoing recovery from eye surgery. We’ll keep you posted.
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CONTACT INFO
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COMMUNICATE WITH US about anything related to the Acoustic Americana Music Guide and / or the Acoustic Americana Music News, at tiedtothetracks@hotmail.com.
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CAVEATS & CAUTIONS & DISCLAIMERS & WEASEL WORDS
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we get HUNDREDS of emails every week, so please give us as much advance notice as possible for your event!
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PLEASE DON’T send us anything through myspace email. It’s esoteric, it cannot be auto-forwarded into a “real” email account, and we just can’t keep up with it. (Myspace “friends” are great, and we DO welcome you there!) We don’t update the Myspace site very often anymore. It’s really just an archive of old news at www.myspace.com/laacoustic
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WHILE THE EDITOR IS RECOVERING FROM EYE SURGERY we are limited in what we can read to him (the little volunteer cadre all works for a living and we have no idea how he usually gets through all this stuff, makes sense of it, and tells everyone else about it…) So, cut us some slack, we’ll do the best we can!
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Special section…
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BENEFIT SHOWS FOR GUIDE EDITOR / MUSIC JOURNALIST / RADIO HOST LARRY WINES…
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HEADS-UP – GET TIX WHILE YOU CAN!
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Sun, Oct 25:
1-8 pm BENEFIT CONCERT for music journalist, radio host, and GUIDE editor LARRY WINES, at Topanga Community House, 1440 N Topanga Canyon Bl, Topanga CA 90290.
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Performances by:
I SEE HAWKS IN L.A.
SUSIE GLAZE & THE HILONESOME BAND
SEVERIN BROWNE
DAVE MORRISON BAND
ROBERT MORGAN FISHER
TIM TEDROW & TERRY VREELAND
STEVE WERNER (of Fur Dixon & Steve Werner)
STEPHANIE BETTMAN & LUKE HALPIN
MELANIE KAREEM BELLYDANCERS
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It’s a musical extravaganza concert / festival / benefit show for Larry Wines, producer & host of radio’s “Tied to the Tracks.” He reports on and showcases live performances from singer-songwriters and bands in the Americana, folk, cowboy, Cajun, Celtic and bluegrass traditions, and the best of today’s acoustic renaissance musicians.
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He produces the Acoustic Americana Music Guide and writes a column and the annual “Best of / Top Ten” for FolkWorks.
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After surgery for a detached retina, without health insurance, he faces an uncertain amount of time healing. The syndication of the radio show is on hold, and he cannot use the computer for that and his other work. He temporarily cannot make a living and needs our help.
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This benefit show will definitely sell-out. Order your tickets now (and that will give Larry the help he needs right away). Make checks payable to him.
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Admission to the show is $20, and all tickets are will-call at the event. Send check to
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Tied to the Tracks, PO Box 5427, Pasadena CA 91117-5427
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Questions? Need more info? Contact Marilyn Babcock at marilynbabcock@mac.com
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Fri, Oct 23:
8 pm LAWRENCE LEBO plays a BENEFIT SHOW for Larry Wines and it’s her “Anniversary Show” with DENNY CROY; they’re accompanied by PHIL PARLAPIANO on accordion, at the venue named in FolkWorks as L.A.’s best intimate acoustic listening room venue - The Coffee Gallery Backstage, 2029 N Lake Av, Altadena; reserv 626-398-7917; info www.coffeegallery.com.
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Dirty Linen Magazine raves, “She sounds like what a daughter spawned by Ella Fitzgerald and Bob Wills might have.” Expect a fine and fun eclectic evening of traditional American music, as LAWRENCE LEBO brings her hybrid blues / jazz / folk songwriting and vocals to the warm and intimate concert venue. Accompanied solely by husband/bassist DENNY CROY for part of the evening, the bass and vocal duo amaze audiences with their intricate arrangements and full sound that’s earning them the nickname of “The World’s Biggest Little Band.” Tonight’s show celebrates the couple’s 23rd wedding Anniversary and is a benefit for Larry Wines.
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The duo is joined by special guest PHIL PARLAPIANO on accordion. Folk darling Parlapiano has toured and recorded with John Prine, Lucinda Williams, Lowen & Navarro and Dave Koz. Ms. LEBO will perform selections from her album, “Don’t Call Her Larry, Volume 2,” including her sexy Christmas blues song, “(I’m Your) Christmas Present, Baby!”, as well as much loved selections from her “…Volume 1,” and selections from her upcoming new album.
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Ms. LEBO’s recordings have earned rave international reviews and college airplay, and have been featured on National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition” show, hosted by Liane Hansen, in addition to getting very complimentary ink here in the Guide.
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Larry Wines is editor of the Guide, columnist and feature writer for FolkWorks, and producer and host of radio’s syndicated “Tied to the Tracks.” Following eye surgery (and no medical insurance) he is temporarily unable to use the computer to make a living. A portion of tonight’s proceeds go to Larry’s recovery fund. (Another benefit, with many artists performing, is Oct 25 at the Topanga Community House; see the section at the end of the Guide’s listings for the last day covered in this edition.) Tix for tonight’s show, $15.
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HOPE TO SEE YOU AT ONE OR BOTH OF THESE WONDERFUL BENEFIT SHOWS!
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If you can’t be there, let us hear from you!
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Tied to the Tracks, PO Box 5427, Pasadena CA 91117-5427
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Questions about the benefit on Oct 25? Contact Marilyn Babcock at marilynbabcock@mac.com
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