tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253136782011-04-21T18:35:21.152-07:00For acoustic musicians - to find out where pickin' gatherings (Bluegrass, Americana, etc..) are happening in the Northampton/Amherst/Chesterfield area. Musicians can also use this site to start a get-togteher if one isn't happening at the moment. We hope this blog will be a resource for musicians who, like ourselves, have found themselves sitting around saying "I feel like pickin' tonight! I wonder where I can find some other pickers and get something GOING!" Hopefully this blog will help.Joe A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07647571990741153013noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25313678.post-1144100967713450612006-04-03T14:49:00.000-07:002006-04-03T14:49:27.723-07:00<a href="http://bluegrassamericana.blogspot.com/">Bluegrass & Americana Pickin' Parties/Jams/Musical Get-Togethers: Northampton, MA region</a><br />Hello Everyone! Welcome to the Bluegrass-Americana-find-a-pickin' party/jam/musical get-together blog. As stated in the title area, we started this blog as a way for pickers to have a central place where they can communicate, with the goal of finding people to play with. My wife, Tara, plays mandolin (a Kentucky) and I play guitar (Martin DH28). We love to pick and get together with our musician friends and play. We like to play a range of music, primarily, but definitely not limited to, the bluegrass vien. I love the classics as well as Old and in the Way, John Hartford (a la Steam Powered Aereoplane), the Band, etc... I mean, I love a lot of music and I love to play it all (put it this way: I get a thrill from Bill Monroe's music and I get a thrill from hearing Acoustic Syndicate play their version of the Who's "Baba O'Reily" - incidently, I also write and play originals and love to hear other original music). So, anyway... Tara and I have sat around on more than one occassion, feeling like we wanted to get out of the house and pick with some other musicians, but have not always been able to find folks. We have friends we play with, but sometimes we feel like pickin' in between the regularly scheduled jams we have with them. And with schedules and busy lives being what they are, sometimes you just find yourself with a night free when your friends aren't, which brings us to this blog.<br /><br />We hope that as more pickers in the Northampton/Amherst and, yes, Chesterfield (where we are) area learn about this blog, the more they will log on, talk about their musical interests and express a desire to get together. Hopefully enough people will log on regularly so that on any given night, you'll be able to find some like minded musicians who feel like getting together to pick. Ideally (again, with enough people logging on), you could find pickin'/playing opportunities any night you wanted. And that's the point of this blog. <br /><br />So, I'm going to start to spread the word about it. And hopefully, before too long, it will be a means of creating more and more musical opportunities for the musicians in this area. Please let your pickin' pals know about <a href="http://bluegrassamericana.blogspot.com/">http://bluegrassamericana.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />Thanks! Looking forward to the music!<br /><br />Joe A.<br />Chesterfield, MA <br /><br />Joe A. in Chesterfield, MA<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/25313678-114410096771345061?l=bluegrassamericana.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Joe A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07647571990741153013noreply@blogger.com24