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(ADVANCE EDITION.... news feature # 1 is complete in this early version; the rest of our listed content will be included in the full edition, to be published in a few hours... or before Wednesday evening, anyway.)
Tuesday night through the weekend, and a bit beyond, here's your Guide for making your own place of refuge.
It's so hot out that many folks are looking for excuses to stay indoors. Yep, even into the evenings when you get in from work and all you want to do is get the windows open at home and hope things cool down outside -- since many Angelinos, especially denizens of coastal areas, never got air conditioning.
Now, if the budget permits, you can get thee to some frigidly delightful venue to sup, imbibe, and partake of tunes. But it's more likely that, before this hot spell is played-out, you'll need to just fire-up the fans, deposit yourself on the couch, and hope for something worthwhile on TV. (By definition, "something worthwhile" means none of mainstream media's cable news singularity of breathless drumbeating and browbeating for the coup they're so determined to foment, in spite of America being a land of laws and modest trappings of civilization.)
Of course, we are all concerned for southeast Texas and eastward arc of the Gulf Coast -- for the people, critters, lands, dwellings and workplaces there. And for the petrochemical pollution that is sure to come from inundation -- not to mention the exploitation by Big Oil that will use any excuse, good or bad, to screw everybody at the gas pump.
But enough of all that. Send a nice donation to a good charity that's working on the ground in the flood areas. If someone is organizing a relief convoy, send blankets, decent clothes and towels, and canned food. Do not send bottled water all the way from California to Texas, because the transport cost of all that weight makes no sense, and plenty of clean water is available much closer to where it's needed. (We saw the lunacy of that one, first hand, when we volunteered in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.)
That bit of social and societal responsibility is brief but heartfelt. This edition is about Tuneful TV, so let's get to it.
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Contents / In this Edition...
1) Tuesday TV
2) Alphabetical Listings -- Our Picks of Music-on-TV, into early September
3) Festivals -- Labor Day Weekend, through All of September
4) Concerts and Events Picks, Labor Day Weekend, and Before 'n After
Let's get started!
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# 1 news feature...
TUESDAY TV
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is running 24 hours of the films of MARION DAVIES, paramour of William Randolph Hearst and frequent fixture at Hearst Castle. Davies acting and crooning skills are often underestimated. The latter point is largely because many of her films are from the silent era. The TCM lineup has good representatives of both her silents and talkies, and most notably for us, two of her musicals. Dip into TCM as soon as you read this and you'll catch even more than we spotlight here. We're also excited that some very early sound shorts of music performances bracket tonight's features. Here are our picks, ALL tonight on TCM.
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7:15-8:39 pm "SHOW PEOPLE" (1928) brings Marion Davies and William Haines in a 3-star-rated comedy about a Georgia girl who gores to Hollywood in its earliest days of filmmaking. A great silent comedy.
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8:39-9 pm "GUS ARNHEIM & HIS COCONUT GROVE BOYS" (1928) is one of film's earliest music shorts (think "music video" in modern parlance) and it features four tunes/songs, including Irving Berlin's "I Can't Do Without You."
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9-11 pm "MARIANNE" (1929) is the night's feature and one of the earliest musicals (along with "The Jazz Singer," made the same year). It stars Marion Davies and Lawrence Gray.
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11-12:47 pm "BLONDIE OF THE FOLLIES" (1932) is a story of two girls who win fame on Broadway, and is cited as "First-rate entertainment, thanks to fine acting and direction." Stars Marion Davies and Billie Dove.
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12:47-1 am (Wed.) "FREDDIE RICH / MIRRORS" (1934) is a music short that brings the combination of talents of Freddie Rich and His Orchestra with the Eton Boys Choir and songstress Vera Van.
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1-2:49 am (Wed.) "PAGE MISS GLORY" (1935) wraps-up the tribute to Marion Davies, bringing Davies and Dick Powell in the comedic tale of an unattractive chambermaid who is transformed into a dazzling beauty.
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# 2 news feature...
ALPHABETICAL LISTINGS -- OUR PICKS OF MUSIC-ON-TV, INTO EARLY SEPTEMBER
(This is the ADVANCE EDITION. Only news feature # 1 is complete in this early version. This feature story will be included in the full edition, to be published a few hours, and it'll be clearly labeled when it goes up.)
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# 3 news feature...
FESTIVALS -- LABOR DAY WEEKEND, THROUGH ALL OF SEPTEMBER
(It'll be in the full edition, to be published a few hours.)
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CONCERTS AND EVENTS PICKS, LABOR DAY WEEKEND, AND BEFORE 'N AFTER
(It'll be in the full edition, to be published a few hours.)
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In answer to Bugs Bunny and his usual question,
"What's up, Doc?"
We didn't want you to miss Tuesday evening's TV just because we haven't completed our picks and listings for later in the week and the weekend and beyond.
The Guide will have a very massively complete
MUSIC NEWS edition, coming your way soon.
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PLENTY MORE is archived, back to when Lassie was a little bitty puppy dog, Napoleon was a private, and banjos only had four strings.
The entire history and past content of the Guide, since we moved the archival editions to Blogspot years 'n years ago, is searchable at the basic url:
http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com
Seriously: Go get lost in acoustica esoterica and memories of past albums, festivals, concerts and events, whenever you're bored with the pop pablum that infests mainstream media.
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See you next time!
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As always, we invite you to join us and to let us know what YOU are listening to, and what artists or bands just sent you swooning and need to be shared with others.
That's your part, so you'll know that a whole lot more is always coming soon — including fresh MUSIC NEWS, PREVIEWS & REVIEWS, and more additions to our massive guide to the MUSIC FESTIVALS of 2017.
Meantime, with everything happening through these festival-packed, arrival-of-summer weekends? Go get tuneful!
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LEGALESE, CONTACTING US, 'N SUCH...
Boilerplate? Where's the main pressure gauge? And the firebox?
What "boilerplate"? Who came up with that goofy term for the basic essential informational stuff...
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♪ The ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC GUIDE endeavors to bring you NEWS — and views of interest to artists everywhere — more specifically to musicians and the creative community and music makers and fans of acoustic and Folk-Americana music. That includes both traditional and innovative forms. From the deepest roots to today’s acoustic renaissance, that’s our beat. We provide a wealth of resources, including a HUGE catalog of acoustic-friendly venues (now undergoing a major update), and inside info on FESTIVALS and select performances in Southern California in venues from the monumentally large to the intimately small and cozy. We cover workshops, conferences, and other events for artists and folks in the music industry, and all kinds o’ things in the world of acoustic and Americana and accessible classical music. From washtub bass to musical spoons to oboe to viola to banjo to squeezebox, from Djangostyle to new-fangled-old-time string band music, from sweet Cajun fiddle to bluegrass and pre-bluegrass Appalachian mountain music to all the swamp water roots of the blues and the bright lights of where the music is headed now.
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The Acoustic Americana Music Guide. Thanks for sittin' a spell. The porch'll be here anytime you come back from the road.
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