Colin Alder
From:
Santa Cruz, California, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2007 10:44 pm |
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I want to update youall on the project I'm doing with Freddie Roulette.
I met Freddie last year at the stunning first annual Slide and Steel workshop at the Centrum campus in Port Townsend, WA. (They're taking reservations for this June and I recommend it highly-- www.centrum.org)Since last summer, David Siegler and I have met with Freddie a few times to discuss producing material that would make his unique playing style and technique accessable to other players. We wanted to know what he does and how he does it. We thought we might try to make a straight teaching video, but we ended up settleing on more of a interview, rehearsal, concert format. We will be shooting his hands on the guitar rehearsing/teaching his regularly performed material with a new band.
We will then present Freddie and the band, in concert with Patti Maxine, Bruce Wandmayer, Bill Leff, And Charlie Wallace at The Kuumbwa Jazz center in Santa Cruz on April 6th. Lapstravaganza is designed to present the range of the lapsteel to the audience, as well as to highlight Freddie as the blues inovator that he is.
Checkout our poster on the CruzTone website. Send me an email if you want a poster.
Request: Does anyone have any Nick Manoloff steel guitar instruction books? Freddie says that's where he learned to play. I'd like to peruse those books. My guess is Freddie added something, though. 
Colin Alder
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