Hello everyone,

On June 15 I lost a close friend and band mate to Leukemia.
Denise Marie Stein had been living with Leukemia for the last 4 years.
Denise and musical partner Maggie Ferguson contributed the song
'Tide and the River Rising' to the CD produced by the
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Benefit CD Group.

Pamela Campau also has her song 'Simple Pleasures' on the CD and
lost her battle to Leukemia this year.

The CD is available from the artists and from CD Baby at:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/llsociety

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) provides a lot of information
and access to help for patients and their families on their web site
http://www.lls.org/hm_lls

On Saturday, October 17 at 8 pm MAMA's Coffeehouse is presenting a
benefit concert in memory of Denise and Pamela.  All door proceeds
go to benefit LLS.  Several of Denise and Pamela's friends will
perform at the start of the show just after the doors open at 7 pm.

MAMA's Coffeehouse is in the Birmingham Unitarian Church on Woodward
just north of Lone Pine in Bloomfield Hills.  More info here:
http://www.mamascoffeehouse.org/

Performances by:
Matt Watroba, singer/songwriter and and host of Folks Like Us on WDET
http://www.folkslikeus.org/watroba/home.htm

Josh White Jr, Michigan's own national folk treasure
http://www.joshwhitejr.com/

Stewart Francke, Detroit's award-winning blue-eyed-soul singer/songwriter,
himself a leukemia survivor
http://www.stewartfrancke.com/

Denise Stein's band Floyd King & the Bushwackers
http://www.FloydKingMusic.com

Attached are several posters and photos.  The Hi-Res posters are most
suitable
for printing.  The Lo-Res more suitable for emailing.
The photo of Denise is by Annette Kingsbury.  The photo of Pamela was
supplied
by Jeff Campau.

Thanks,
Dennis

[Part of an email from Judy after Thumbfest]

Just a little aside that i thought i'd pass along to you:   This was one of
those "moments in time" that just happens.  A simple thing that probably most
people paid no attention to but will always stick in my mind.

This was during the Hootenanny at the end of Thumbfest.   You were singing (and
darn it, i can't remember what song it was) [It was Wagon Wheel - Dennis] but it
was one that a girl, young woman really, near us found very danceable.  We were
in a bit of an open area off to the side of the stage.   She started to kind of
dance, then couldn't resist really getting into it.  She put down whatever she
was holding and danced the song away.

I wish i was a poet and could describe this better......in fact, if i was
capable, i'd write a song.  But i'll try to express why this rather typical
scene hit me as song-worthy, although i'm not really sure why.   Maybe it was
like the perfect storm.   All things came together just right.


This young woman was dressed like a hippie, for lack of a better word.  (Shows
my age and my era.)  Hippie-ish boots, long skirt, tank top.   She had long hair
pulled back in loose pigtails, wrapped in some strange, interesting,
"hippie"-ish way.   She might have had some background in dance.   She moved
gracefully, twirling and circling with her arms, perfectly to the
music......letting the music move her.   She wasn't your typical concert-goer
who decides to get up and dance, making everyone around them want to yell
siddown!!

But the best part of this whole thing was......... the man standing next to her.
haha   He was a man probably in his 60s.....he just happened to be standing
there, watching the concert like everyone else.    He noticed her moving next to
him when she started to dance and he looked her way.   Then looked back at the
stage, then back at her, then at the stage, then back at her.  Pretty soon, you
guys were pretty much out of the picture for him.  haha   He couldn't take his
eyes off her.

This whole episode seemed to be suspended in time, like it went on forever.   
When the song was over, she went over to the people she was apparently there
with who were a ways away.    He followed her with his eyes, wherever she went.
She eventually came back (with her big, beautiful dog) and i couldn't hear him,
but i could tell he was telling her how much he liked what she did.  There's no
big ending to this.    He turned to look at the stage and when he looked back,
she was gone.

OK, you're probably wondering why i even bothered telling you this non-story.  
I don't know.......i just loved watching the whole thing.   It was a statement
on human behavior in so many ways, but what made it so interesting and so cool
and so beautiful was it all occurred without words and without intent.   Neither
of them have any idea of this work of art they displayed.    Mother Nature in
her purest form.  Like i said, i wish i had more poetic ways to describe the
greatness of the simplicity here.

Judy

[Thanks Judy! - Dennis]

Floyd King & the Bushwackers are appearing
on the AnnArborAlive a3Radio.com Folk It! program
on Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 6 pm.

You can be in the audience or listen on the Internet.
Take it from me, being in the audience might be easier -
see FIGHTING THE BLOB below.

To make reservations, go here:
http://www.annarboralive.com/FolkItReservations.html

To listen over the Internet choose your connection type
and choice of player (MP3 or Web player - don't choose
Windows Media Player) then click on 'BEST OF' here:
http://www.annarboralive.com/A3Radio/Radio.php

Note: you might have to click on some messages to allow
the file to download.

If you don't hear the signal in a few seconds, try a different
player.  It that doesn't work, then you are...

FIGHTING THE BLOB

There are several things you can try to connect to a3Radio.

If you have iTunes, start that and select 'Advanced'
then 'Open Stream'
enter or copy/paste one of the following depending if you have
high speed (first one) or modem connection:
http://a2scsi.a3radio.com:10340
http://a2scsi.a3radio.com:10411
then click 'OK' and you should start receiving.

If you have another mp3 player such as QuickTime,
you can do the same thing once you find where to enter a URL.
That might be in the menu File, Open URL

Here's the choice that works in winamp:
http://a2ide.a3radio.com/play.epl?streamid=411

Finally, if you have read this far and nothing works either
get in your car and come to the studio, or
follow these instructions:

1. navigate to http://www.annarboralive.com/A3Radio/Radio.php
2. chose your line speed - FAST or SLOW
3. chose MP3 Player
4. click on 'BEST OF'
5. make the necessary clicks to download the file
6. save the file to hard disk
7. do steps 4 and 5 again, when the save file window opens:
8. right click on the file in the window and choose
9. open with
10. now find your MP3 player in the list of options

If you tried all that and still nothing, get in your car
and come to the studio.

You will be glad you did.

See you there.

Dennis K

Maggie Ferguson has a strong voice that works equally well solo or in the brilliant harmonies she so effortlessly devises. An accomplished finger-style guitarist, she creates the melodies that accompany her husband Jack's lyrics, which distill his observations of nature and life. An active member of the Paint Creek Folklore Society, in 2004 Maggie added disk jockey to her resume with the Old Front Porch Radio Show at Oakland University's WXOU.

Denise Marie Stein devotes herself to traditional American music.  A vocalist who excels at harmony, she is also a versatile musician, playing hammered dulcimer, Autoharp and piano.  Denise teaches dulcimer and leads sing-alongs at Dulcimer Fun Fest in Evart, MI.  She also gives workshops and performances at libraries and schools.

Jim Bizer is an accomplished songwriter, guitarist and vocalist.  A three-time finalist in the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk contest and a grand prize winner in the Great American Song contest, Jim is getting national attention. He studied at the University of Michigan School of Music but earned his degree on the stages of the Goat Farm and other venues around Southeast Michigan

Dennis Kingsbury is founder of Floyd King & the Bushwackers.  Some say he IS Floyd King.  Some say Floyd is taller and more mysterious. What we do know is Dennis came out of his early years in rock and roll an energetic performer. His original songs vary from blues ditties to stories of his Iowa farm home.  Dennis makes movies with words and burns up the stage with his Dobro and mandolin.

Dennis would like to thank these other extraordinary performers for their contribution to the Bushwackers, in historical order:  Karen Kay, Lucy Webster, Michael Krieger, Rachel Alexander, Annie Capps, Rod Capps, Melanie Hayes and Patrick Niemisto.