{"id":183,"date":"2008-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-04T17:04:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T22:04:29","slug":"ukes_dylan_newcastle_and_house_concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/ukes_dylan_newcastle_and_house_concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukes, Dylan, Newcastle, and House Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6801\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-183-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/music\/misc_audio\/released.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/music\/misc_audio\/released.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/music\/misc_audio\/released.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/music\/misc_audio\/released.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=183-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/music\/misc_audio\/released.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"released.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>I had a great run up to northern CA a few weeks ago, playing a couple of times in Nevada City (including an hour on <a href=\"http:\/\/kvmr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">KVMR<\/a> as a guest on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvmr.org\/personalities\/w_robertson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wesley Robertson&#8217;s &#8220;Rockin&#8217; and Stompin'&#8221;<\/a>) and as the opener for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/archives\/182\" target=\"_blank\">Rick DiDia and Aireene Espiritu<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concertsinyourhome.com\/house_concert_hosts\/CA.html#AcousticBarn\" target=\"_blank\">The Acoustic Barn<\/a> house concert series in Newcastle. Really nice people up that way. Had a wonderful weekend bouncing from Nevada City to Roseville and back and forth a couple of times, finishing the weekend at the house concert. It was also our first trek up to that part of the country. We&#8217;ll get back there soon, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>For photos of the concert at The Acoustic Barn check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/gallery\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gallery<\/a> page. Below is a pic of me closing my set:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/michael_uke_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/music\/misc_audio\/released.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click to hear &#8220;I Shall Be Released&#8221; (and the big shaker solo)<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That &#8220;little guitar&#8221; I&#8217;m holding is an old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catfish1952.com\/favilla.html\" target=\"_blank\">Favilla ukelele<\/a> that was restored by my pal <a href=\"http:\/\/duhdog.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maddog<\/a> (yes, I have a friend named &#8220;Maddog&#8221;.) It&#8217;s a barritone, so it has a nice bottom end, but it&#8217;s tuned like a soprano, so it really supports the voice well. Since Rick and Aireene also play ukes, I closed my set with the Favilla and a reggae turn on Dylan&#8217;s &#8220;I Shall Be Released&#8221;. The unsuspecting front row was drafted to add percussion with shakers for a little audience participation.<\/p>\n<p>Being the audio pack-rat that I am, you can rest assured that I recorded most of the goings on over the weekend, including both my and Rick\/Aireen&#8217;s sets and a short interview with The Acoustic Barn&#8217;s Kevin Odell, for a future podcast on this cool little phenomenon knowns as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/House_concert\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;house concert&#8221;<\/a>. (It&#8217;s really the best of both worlds for both the performer and the audience &#8211; who are all there for the music &#8211; and it&#8217;s a labor of love from the folks who host these events.)<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fukes_dylan_newcastle_and_house_concerts%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great run up to northern CA a few weeks ago, playing a couple of times in Nevada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}