|  House Concert
with Del Rey
Saturday, April 17
(Squirrel Hill)
$50 / 7:30pm
Please contact Calliope to purchase tickets.
This event is a fundraiser for Calliope.
(412) 361-1915
Reserve tickets online
“Del Rey... channels the spirit of Memphis Minnie while maintaining a thoroughly hip,
Left Coast sense of cool.” --Santa Cruz Sentinel
Del Rey started playing classical guitar when she was four. As a teenager, she met bluesman Sam Chatmon who inspired her to become a blues queen. Her guitar playing combines country blues, stride piano, classic jazz and hillbilly boogie through the sensibility of an autodidact trailor-park esthete. Her live show is full of complex guitar grooves and sly humor.
Del Rey plays concerts world wide and also presents a concert/lecture on women musicians called Women in American Music. She collaborates and tours frequently with Austin guitarist Steve James and she plays ukulele with Ukeshack.
She is featured on Maria Muldaur's CD Sweet Lovin' Old Soul. She has contributed to projects in honor of The Mississippi Sheiks, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Johnny Cash. Del Rey also writes about music for various publications, including Acoustic Guitar.
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Ukulele Workshop with Del Rey: Blues Uke Intermediate
Sunday, April 18
10:00am-11:30am
Acoustic Music Works (Squirrel Hill)
To register: (412) 327-3834 / jcstein805@gmail.com
$25 or $40 for both workshops
Blues Uke Intermediate (be familiar with basic chords and be able to keep time).
Fingerpick melodies and accompaniment on blues repetoire suitable for the ukulele. An introduction to right hand fingerpicking, what makes a melody "blue" and songs from 1920s guitar greats like Charlie Jordan and Barbecue Bob, as well as Lemon Nash of Louisiana and Rabbit Muse of Virginia who were African American ukulele players and showmen with distinctive styles on traditional and standard jazz material. We'll listen to some of their recordings, talk about their lives and learn a song (by ear-no tab) from each in class. Bring your uke, notebook and pencil, recorders ok if unobstrusive.
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Master Guitar Class with Del Rey
Sunday, April 18
12:00pm-1:30pm
Acoustic Music Works (Squirrel Hill)
To register: (412) 327-3834 / jcstein805@gmail.com
$25 or $40 for both workshops
(Be fluent with alternating picking style of playing).
Here's your opportunity to learn from the fingerstyle guitarist Acoustic Guitar Magazine called "one of the greatest modern players of the metal-bodied resonator guitar." Boogie- Woogie bass lines combined with syncopated melodies based on piano tunes, and the playing of Memphis Minnie and Sam Chatmon in both standard and open tunings are her specialties. She has also studied the open-tuning guitar style of Rosetta Tharpe in depth. She'll answer your questions, as well as show you techniques and characteristic pieces. Bring a guitar and an unobtrusive recording device.
*Photo by Jenny Sampson
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 Pittsburgh
Songwriters Project
The Pittsburgh Songwriters Project is funded by The Allegheny Regional Asset District and is led by teaching artists Tom Breiding and Rick Malis from the Calliope School of Folk Music. The group includes student apprentices from the Calliope School.
Together, the apprentices and teachers have composed and recorded a CD entitled When We Shine: 15 Songs About Pittsburgh to celebrate Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary. The songs range in theme from historical songs about legendary Pittsburghers including composer Stephen Foster and Negro League baseball legend Josh Gibson to contemporary reflections on Pittsburgh and its people.
Copies of When We Shine are available online
When We Shine CD's and teacher guides are also available. Interested teachers should contact the Calliope office (412) 361-1915, calliope@calliopehouse.org
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Rootz: The Green City Music Festival
Thanks to all who made this event a great success!
View Photos from Rootz: The Green City Music Festival
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2008 Calliope Songwriters
Circle CD
Proceeds
from the sale of these CDs will benefit Calliope.
CD's are available for sale at Calliope events, and at cdbaby.com
Featuring music by Between Liberties, Jeff DeSantis, Bobbie Townsend, Howard Davidson, Sam Flesher, W. Randy Hoffman, John Hayes, Mark Muretisch, Bruce Hoffman, David M. King, Gil Bigenho Jr., and Peter Donovan
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2007 Calliope Songwriters
Circle CD
Proceeds
from the sale of these CDs will benefit Calliope.
CD's are available for sale at Calliope events, and at cdbaby.com
We come together once a month in the back of Pittsburgh's
Bloomfield Bridge Tavern to make ourselves heard, to support
and challenge each other, and to celebrate the intoxicating
joy of making music. We are the Pittsburgh Songwriters Circle,
a program of Calliope: the Pittsburgh Folk Music Society.
Our faces and voices and stories are as diverse as the songs
on this disc, but a shared commitment to the art and craft
of songwriting is our common thread.
This CD is the third collection of our work. Like its predecessors,
it gives us the opportunity to present our songs to the world
as we first experienced them — as a group. Each song
was written and performed by a member of the Circle, often
with the help of a few friends. It is a labor of love if there
ever was one.
Read
a Pittsburgh City Paper review of this CD!
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2006 Calliope Songwriters
Circle CD
Proceeds from the sale of these CDs will benefit
Calliope.
This album can be purchased at Calliope concerts, and at Threepenny
Opry events.
Dan Bench
Howard Davidson
Peter Donovan
Bruce Hoffman
Nancy Deckant
George Kantor
Dennis McCurdy
David Wells
Cathasaigh
Sue Gartland
Randy Hoffman
Jack Knight
George Salamacha
Another Country with DJ Danger
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2005 Calliope Songwriters
Circle CD
Proceeds from the sale of these CDs will benefit Calliope.
To purchase this CD, visit cdbaby.com
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Pennsylvania (Jonathan Ritz)
2. Last Chance Band (David Wells)
3. Bartender (Andy Tinker)
4. Thoughts of Missouri (Sue Gartland)
5. Cocaine Don't Care (Robert Wagner)
6. Sweetness (Dan Bench)
7. Naked Mole Rat (Randy Hoffman)
8. Shades of Green (Howard Davidson)
9. Richard Jewell (John Hayes)
10. Take it in Stride (George Kantor)
11. Big Time (Patti Spinner)
12. Seven or Fewer (David LaRose)
13. S.W. (Peter Donovan)
14. I'm a Walker (Jack Erdie)
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