(I moved this post to the top to feature it a little better. We've had more people confirm and we need to start listing them)
in addition to the main stage where Chris Mackenzie makes things happen, we're doing a smaller stage this year out on the ridge (Glenn is setting that up for the Jason Wilber songwriter workshop and after that he'll keep it going) plus we want to get this Kerrville Folk Festival campground playing thing going in several areas. We need a lot of players for that. It would be great if musicians would circulate themselves around to where people get several chances to hear you and meet you. Gypsy style. We want musicians not to be waiting to play but to do as much playing as they can. Glenn and I are emailing each other back and forth with all the players who have committed so far and we'll post that list here pretty soon. In the meantime, make a comment to throw your hat in the ring so we'll know to include you in the planning. Just do it, you'll love it.
Here's a VERY partial list of who's playing:
Mitch Webb
Glenn and Kim
Molly Allan
The Lavens
Jason Wilber
Laura Marie
Mike Fletcher
Phonolux
Parke Hedges
Arte Harpman
Poopy Lungstuffing
The Poopy and Flakey Show
Patrice Villastrigo
Sean Pallen
Kelli King
The Old Crow Boys
Various Whipples
Mississippi Brad Hurt
Dr. and Mrs. Billy
Kevin Smith
Thoze Guyz
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If I could just hitch a piano to my back! I guess I'll have to learn to play the guitar by May 3!!! Count my voice in folks!!!
Patrice
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Bring an electric keyboard, we need one of those!
Molly Allan
Art Guillermo, Jr. just called. His new project Phonolux will be playing their debut gig here. He says they've been rehearsing specifically for the Woodzie. Art is one of the top recording engineers in town, a really sharp guy. The Guillermo's are super good friends of ours - so glad he's coming. They're all camping so that's good. The more campers, the more fun it is.
So... add these 4 musicians playing a short set as a band plus they're each acoustic guitar players so they'll play with any and everybody here there and everywhere all night.
Art said he's bringing a real nice 88 key weighted action keyboard for the backline and it can stay up there and be used all night.
Dave Novak - Guitar, Drums, Bass
Buddy Calvo - Drums, Piano, Guitar
Art Guillermo - Bass, Drums, Piano
Miguel Romero - Guitar, Piano
Coach Lowry and the Network For Young Artists are going to get a group out there. And the truck with some of the same type of stage from the Tejas Records VIP Party
The Tex Pistols would like to throw their collective hat in the ring. We are a Sex Pistols tribute band composed of musicians of which some have more than 27 years of experience playing live. Would love to play the Woodzie. We can be contacted at www.myspace.com/texpistols
Tex Pistols... The Woodzie might not be ready for post modern British punk. We're more post modern Woody Guthrie. I'll message you directly to let you know more specifically what's going on.
Hmmm...Punk and Karaoke...
I hope they wear sensible shoes.
wow... be careful walking in the woods. Wood nymphs and muses and tex pistols.... oh my!
Wood nymphs and muses and tex pistols.... oh my!
Wood nymphs and muses and tex pistols.... oh my!
we're off to see The WOODZIE!!!!
Funny! Jimmie was talking last night about the Hippie description attached to this thing. She said that has to mean something a little or a WHOLE lot different to every single person who hears it.
Here's one of mine: if you're moving up in years like us and may need a hip replacement some time in the foreseeable future... you're a hippie.
Will the Tex Pistols be re-enacting the Randy's Rodeo appearance?
Can they do acoustic versions??!!?
That would be so cool.
Si Bueno!
I talked to Chapo and he said he's pretty sure that "Thoze Guyz" will be here with their bajo and accordion. I've told a bunch of people, if you're an Americana songwriter and want to have some Tejano/Conjunto juice on your next record, they'd be a great choice. Even though they live in West Texas, it's almost easier to get them to show up to a recording session than half the San Antonio players. They're just completely into it and willing to try anything. Something good is going to happen with them, I just don't know when.
But, as of right now, they're on line to be here and they can slip a conjunto groove behind you so quick and slick that you'll think you've been doing it forever.
I went to an event at Molly's HS last night (Mac). It was half a dozen original acts performing in the auditorium, being recorded for a CD release. (BTW John, Cheryl Ann and Chuck were handling the recording.)
So Molly played solo and did a great job. She got a little nervous and flubbed her guitar part some , but her vocal was awesome as usual.
So, Woodzie Alumni, remember the bagpipe kid from the first Woodzie? Ian, Molly's "boyfriend" at that moment? He had the most kick butt ska band, they rocked!
Anyway, my only point here is that I gave Molly a stack of flyers to hand out to her musician buddies at school to come play.
I'm afraid we're going to have to rustle up someone else to lead a drum circle; my friend from Denton cannot make it. I have asked her to forward the invite to other drummers from around here so I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Hi! My name is Patrick Sigel. I plan to be there (my tent already is)and I would like to play, too. :)Thanks!
Pat, you're such a goober!
Hey D, Molly is working on her drummer, HS Band directtor to lead the drum circle. She's going to give him a "title" to entice him.
yeah Pat, you're so far into this thing you ain't never getting out!
Everybody needs to know, once you've come to the Woodzie you're expected to come every year. It's a fraternal commitment for a lifetime.
In the ploughshares-out-of-swords/ain't-gonna-study-war-no-more department, we hereby submit for your approval The Gong of Song. This chunk o' brass began life as the casing for a 105mm round launched downrange at Dona Ana, NM by a Fox Trp. 2/3rd ACR M60A1 main battle tank in '82. The thoroughly disgruntled young Cavalry Scouts detailed to hump ammo for those goat-smellin', godforsaken tankers that week felt deserving of a little lagniappe, a pelon pequeno, if you will, for their long, thankless--nay, Job-like labors, so a likely dune forthwith was hollowed out, and several dozen of these babies therein were cozily cached. This one's the last of my cut, the rest having either been gifted away or transubstantiated into anejo and Lone Star along the trail. The Gong now begins life anew as a gathering bell at the Woodzie site, there henceforth to abide for so long as it is deemed good within the sight (and sonorous within the hearing) of almighty God and of the Whipple clan, not necessarily in that order. Selah.
It's a truly beautiful thing.
Sounds good too.
Having you get into this thing has been one of the highlights so far this year, Pat. The town square bell you constructed is great.
Everyone is going to see it and hear it when you get up here. When it clangs, come to the main stage... either something like the pig is being lifted out of the pit or a major performance is getting ready to start.
For those of you who didn't live in San Antonio in the 60's and 70's, military items repurposed for peaceful use was something we did all the time. We loved to do it and we were proud of it. It was the hippie thing to do. What a different world that was but the bell is a connection back to it. San Antonio musicians used ammunition boxes culled out from those on their way to Vietnam to carry our guitar cables, military test equipment cases were our mic stand cases, a small handful of aircraft landing lights were our light shows. At the time of the first Woodzie the war in Vietnam was still going on. We were all expecting to get drafted. Until that day we were going to rock and roll. There were no Anvil cases or affordable portable light shows - if you wanted it, you went to the military surplus dealer and found the raw materials to make it. Army and Air Force surplus because it was cheap and plentiful in S.A., one of the largest military towns in the world. No-one back then even imagined anything like a Home Depot. Music stores didn't sell P.A. gear, all of this easy and cheap "semi-pro" stuff you have now was decades in the future. But it was a great time; there were lumber yards, hardware stores and military surplus stores and you found something that fit the bill or built it from your imagination.
So... nice link to the past. It would be a wasteful loss of it's unique character to even think about bleaching the military history out of the San Antonio musical hippie experience.
P. Willie definitely wants to play! C all y'all Saturday!
and thanks for all the great music. Jason Wilber was wonderful. Thoze Guyz, The Lavens, Glenn and Kim... everybody did a great job. And Chris made it all sound great.
Even though, in the big picture, most of the music was played around the campfires, it did turn out to be impossible to lure a lot of the players and audience out of the mindset of the main stage. And it's partly because it's right next to the food. It just causes a problem with such limited time, we need a pressure release. We've got all year to take a close look at how to make that better. I apologize to all those who wanted stage time but didn't get it. Specially Casey.
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