Meeting June 2nd, 2015

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THE PROGRAM

Jim Malachi and Sam Cooper – Waltz Across Texas by Billy Talmadge

Jim Malachi  – Kathy’s Song / The Boxer by  Simon and Garfunkel

Guitar ensemble – Bourree,  G.F. Handel 1685-1759 (No video available)

Jim Malachi and Sam Cooper – Red Haired Boy (Irish song)

Bill Graham – Adelita  by Francisco Tárrega and  Evocación  by José Luis Merlín

John Swinnerton – Staffordshire # 2 and Jazz # 1 by John Swinnerton

Grant Ruiz and Dan Fellman – Libertango  by Piazzolla,  Brazil by Ary Barrosa

Joe Thompson –  Prelude and Fugue in E minor by Joe Thompson

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Francie Buckley and ​Mark Williams are looking for someone who would like to play with them in a guitar ​trio, roughly intermediate level. francie@mind.net or mark.b.williams@charter.net.

As a membership-based organization, the JCGS relies on annual dues ($20) to continue operating. We encourage all people who attend meetings, either to play or to listen, to pay dues. If everybody who attended did so, we could generate at least $700-$800 annually before any other fundraising. We’re currently up to $400 for the year.

See the evolving new website (jeffersonguitars.org) for videos of performances of the last meetings. Over time, the website will also include additional information like ongoing gigs by members.

UPCOMING GIGS AND CONCERTS (Please send updates to fiddletime@aol.com.)

Nick Temple, former student of Joe Thompson, will perform his senior piano recital at the SOU Music Recital Hall on Friday, June 5, at 7:30 PM. Admission is free.

Tye Austin will play a classical guitar concert sponsored by the JCGS on Friday June 19th, 7:00 PM at Paschal Winery. Admission is $15 at the door. See him on Facebook.

Grant Ruiz, flamenco and classical guitarist, plays at Alchemy at the Winchester Inn, Ashland, now Thursdays, 7:30 to 9:30 PM.Due Mandolini, Laurel and Milton Bloombaum, Saturday 6 to 8 PM at Julek’s Polish Kitchen, 160 N. Pacific Hwy. Talent. 541-897-4444.

Meeting May 5th, 2015

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PROGRAM MAY 5, 2015

Jim Malachi – Yesterday/In My Life (Beatles), Time in a Bottle (Jim Croce)

Bill Graham – Old Paint, Pokarekareana (Maori song)

Arturo Ville and Sam Cooper – Romance Anónimo, Mexio Lindo y Querido (Chucho Monge (1910-1964)

~ Intermission ~

Entire group – Sight reading “Song Tune” by Thomas Campaign (1567-1620)

John Swinnerton – Americana (original), Jesu’s Joyride (original, variation on Bach)

Grant Ruiz – Milongueo de Ayer (Abel Fleury), Cien Años (Rubén Fuentes and Alberto Cervantes)

Arturo Ville – My Love to You Will Never Die (original), South of the Border (Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

There will be a memorial service for Michael Olsen on Tuesday, May 12, 6 PM, Paschal Winery, Talent, with an opportunity to relate memories and lots of music, so bring your instruments. It will be a pot luck, except for wine. The Paschal bar will be open.  Purchase of the house wine is encouraged and contribution to the tip jar encouraged even if you don’t purchase wine, as Paschal’s is providing the venue free of charge. A cheese plate is also available.

We are currently in negotiations to bring flamenco dancer Andrea la Canela to Ashland in mid- to late-August.

Please remember to pay your dues! It’s $20 for the whole year (January to December, regardless of when you pay) and helps pay for the society’s non-profit fees, venue insurance, and web fees. And it’s tax deductible.

UPCOMING GIGS AND CONCERTS

Tye Austin will be returning over the summer from his guitar studies in New England and will concertize at Paschal Winery on Friday, June 19 at 7:00 PM.

James Edwards and David Rogers will perform a program entitled “Guitar in the Age of Beethoven” on Sunday, September 20 at 3:00 PM. This concert will be given under the auspices of the Jefferson Baroque Orchestra.

Arturo Ville will play Saturday May 9th, 3 to 6 PM during the Grants Pass Wine Stroll Event at Gries Family Brews, 220 SW H Street

Grant Ruiz’s weekly gig at Alchemy at the Winchester Inn has changed from Saturdays to Thursdays, 7:30 to 9:30 PM. He will also play at Paschal’s Cork ’N’ Fork on May 6, 5-7 PM. He will be joined by dancer Elena Villa and percussionist Terry Longshore at Cafe Artichoke in Portland on May 30.

Meeting April 7th, 2015

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PROGRAM APRIL 7, 2015

Mark Williams — Joachin Turina, Fandanguillo

John Swinnerton (own compositions) — Staffordshire Suite-Parts 1 and 2

Jim Malachi  —  Something in the way she moves / If you could read my mind

INTERMISSION

Bill Graham  — Etude in Em by Francisco Tarrega and Pensando en Ti (Thinking of You) by Eduardo Diaz

Arturo Ville and Sam Cooper  —   When the Bloom is on the Sage,  Nat Vincent and Fred Howard and The Truck  Drivin Man, Terry Fell

Mark Williams and Grant Ruiz – Sevillanas

Cyd Smith — Valse des Petites Filles, Trad. and El Sueño de la Muñequita, Augustin Barrios Mangoré

Grant Ruiz – Homage to Paco de Lucia (own composition), Zorongo Gitano

Arturo Ville  (own compositions) — 1. Alma Latina    2. No Te Olvides De Mí

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Grant Ruiz was elected President at the last Board meeting on March 16. As such, he will run the meetings when present. Thanks to Roma Sprung for her many years of service. Sam Cooper continues as Secretary, and newly elected Board member Mark Williams will take up Treasurer duties later in the year.

Grant stressed the importance of paying dues to maintain annual logistical costs such as venue insurance for concerts, state non-profit dues, website fees, and also to generate revenue to pay for venues for small acts who play for the door.

Paschal has been a very gracious host to the JCGS, and meeting attendees are strongly encouraged to support them by buying glasses and/or bottles of wine, joining the wine club, or at least leaving a generous tip for those like Cheryl who give up their evening to keep the tasting room open.

Webmaster Arturo Ville volunteered record people’s performances during the meeting to give players the option of putting them on a YouTube channel  for the JCGS. He recorded many of the evenings performances, which can be viewed by clicking the links above in the PROGRAM list.

Former JCGS member Jaxon Williams has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship for a year’s study in Spain. We wish him well!

Mark Williams suggested we consider adding lectures or lecture/demo sessions to future meetings, e.g., on historical guitar figures, strings, musical periods, etc. Please contact jeffersonclassical@gmail.com to make a proposal to do so.

In a future meeting, perhaps starting in May, the guitar society meetings will include a short sight-reading ensemble session where guitarists in the audience can try out easy guitar parts, with more experienced sight readers leading.

UPCOMING GIGS

Arturo Ville will perform May 2 at the Grants Pass Wine and Stroll event.

Grant Ruiz will perform with Dan Fellman at Belle Fiore Winery on April 9 and with flamenco dancer Elena Villa on April 25 and 26.

Andrew York and Alex DeGrassi will perform April 18 at the SOU Music Recital Hall as part of the GAIA Project.