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Music Night at Howies' Corner Coffee House

March 6, 6-9 p.m.

Hosted by the Wahkiakum Acoustic Guitar Society. Come and enjoy an evening of acoustic guitar music. No cover charge. If you have an acoustic guitar and would like to play some songs, bring it.

Getting started in 2010

Wahkiakum Acoustic Guitar Society is still rolling along at the start of 2010.

Convergences (our meetings) are Feb. 24,  7 p.m., at the residence of Rob and Diane Stockhouse, 62 W Birnie Slough Road, Cathlamet. We're scheduled to converge again March 3, 7 p.m. at the Skamokawa Grange Hall. Under the leadership of Jerry Ledtke, we're meeting the first Wednesday of the month at the Grange and the last Wednesday of the month at a member's home.

WAGS will have a coffee shop night at Howie's Corner Coffee House in Cathlamet on March 6, 6 p.m.

Members will also provide some entertainment at the Wahkiakum County Fair Valentine's Dinner Sat., Feb. 13.

Guitarists of all levels are welcome to WAGS. Sharing songs is lots of fun, and hearing others play is inspirational. Come on out!

Summer Schedule

Greetings, WAGSters,

 
A summer schedule is developing for WAGS gatherings:

 
Wednesday, June 25, 7:30 p.m., Pioneer Community Center (aka Pioneer Church), Cathlamet

Wednesday, July 2, 7:30 p.m., residence of Rob and Diane Stockhouse, 62 W Birnie Slough Rd., Puget Island

Sunday, July 27, 2 p.m., residence of Kathleen Morgaine, Twin Gables Bed and Breakfast, Skamokawa

Wednesday, Aug. 6, 7 p.m., Pioneer Community Center

A couple of impressive guitar videos

First, a contribution from a friend of Randy's -- the four handed guitar solo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4BYMvVvMg0

Then a bit of unadulterated 10 string guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2BOApUvFpw&NR=1

In any event, WAGS at the Inn at Lucky Mud this Sunday afternoon!

See you there!

A great time at a great place (with great people!)

Greetings, WAGSters,

 
1. We had a great time at our latest session January 20 at the Inn at Lucky Mud. Sunrise reviewed some of the songs he played at his 1/19 concert, and we sampled leftovers from the party.

2. Next meeting Jan. 30 at Joyce Orr's, 284 Greenwood. We're going to try at least one weekend session per month and will try to get the schedule firmed up.

3. WAGS members agreed to perform a concert March 15 at the River Rat Tavern in Cathlamet. Stay tuned for more details.

4. We had a great time December 23 when Bob Nelson and company played at Lucky Mud. They requested a copy of Spanish Flang Dang, and a pdf of that piece, should anyone want to attempt, is here Download spanish_flang_dang.pdf .

 
5. Bob also talked about the Seattle Folklore Society and its website:
seafolklore.org. Check it out: You'll find information, photos, history, resources and links and so on.

WAGS at Ruthies!

Members of the Wahkiakum Acoustic Guitar Society converged at the Downtown Coffee Shop Saturday, November 24, to put on a program after Cathlamet's Holiday Lighting Festival.

Randy Williams led off with with a set of folk songs. New member Dale Costich followed with another folk and blues set. Rick Nelson threw in a rumba and some flamenco. Sunrise Fletcher led a blues jam, and novice Joyce Orr gave us a folk song. Doug Sheresh followed with some bluesy numbers, and Sunrise closed the show with four songs off a CD he has produced. We ended with a raucous version of Feliz Navidad and headed to the River Rat for dinner.

We have another convergence this Wednesday, November 28, 7 p.m. at Lucky Mud. We convene again the following Wednesday, December 5, at Joyce and Bob Orr's house on Greenwood Road.

 

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...a bit of Rumba, a bit of Hotel California

The first meeting of WAGS at the Pioneer Community Church building was focused on discrete bits of education in guitar playing. Rick first took us down the wild and woolly path of playing Rumba-style...it seems simple enough (hah!) with just a tap, upstroke with the fingertips, downstroke with the fingertips, upstroke with the thumb, and then repeat...nothing to it, right?  (hah!) Give it a go, then once you have your rhythm down, try changing between chords while maintaining the rhythm, then try doing it at a fast pace.   

But, don't take my word for it, grab Rick's instructions and try it! Download Rick's Basic Rumba Techniques.pdf

Randy took us down another path, providing the chords (& lyrics) to "Hotel California", and walking us through the chords he is using (many bar chords instead of the open chord versions). A bit challenging but fun, and once we had the chord pattern down he started demonstrating the related lead riffs to go with it.

Beyond that point we went off on various tangents (movable jazz chords with up and down sliding notes), and random bits of fingering techniques.

This next week WAGS meeting will be at Rob and Diane Stockhouse's pavilion (59 West Bernie, on Puget Island) -- (the same location as the Two Islands Farmers Market that is held every Friday afternoon, but another 100 feet further back...) Send me email  if you have questions on how to get there [Wednesday, July 25th, 7-9pm].