Hi everyone, I would like to know the exact date/details of the 2009 Bones Fest. I don't know where my latest Bones magazine is, I e-mailed Steve Wixon and...
... This was in an email from Scott Miller of www.bonedrymusic.com today: Bones Fest XIII is August 28-30, 2009 Mark your calendar for the weekend of August 28...
... Bones Fest XIII is August 28-30, 2009 Mark your calendar for the weekend of August 28 to 30 in Louisville, Kentucky. Details in the Rhythm Bones Society...
Below is a YouTube link where you can see 70-year-old John Bridgwood (no "e" in Bridgwood) play the bones on Britain's Got Talent. John is from Manchester in...
Anyone going to be at the Mystic Seaport "Music of the Sea" symposium Friday/Saturday (CT/USA)? I ask because I'll be there and giving a paper on WS Mount's...
John is pretty good. I suspect I would be cancelled too. Playing and entertaining are two different worlds. I'm trying to be more entertaining. Let's find...
... I just hung up the phone from Kenny Wolin who is, at this moment driving to the Seaport. He'll be performing in the kids area today I think & tomorrow for...
... That was cool Mike. I might just go rent the video. -- Doras Cúil Travel--Your one-stop travel source Do you like to travel? How about wholesale, AND...
Sounds like a lot of fun. I wish they had scheduled it on the East coast this year, since last year's was in the midwest. With the cost of air fare and much...
I can appreciate keeping cost down. I need to also. Anyone interested in splitting a room? If they have two double beds then half of 80 sounds a whole lot...
At the risk of sounding snarky (so imagine there's a sly grin on my face as you read): Bones Fests move around according to who volunteers to host them. Most ...
Yes, I know about that. I actually wanted to see if I could organize such a thing this year, but I had no idea that it was happening this early. Last year, I...
I am offering an incentive to share a room, besides financial. I have a pair of Parker Waite aluminum sticks, signed and numbered, hand polished, that I'll...
A special message for Bones Fest attendees: Please try to get your registrations in as soon as possible -- the hosts need to have the T-shirt orders in by...
Hi, I am trying to figure out a bones shuffle rhythm that is on the below video; Hoss on the Rattle Bones 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RGMUEGlSpk I am...
Peter, My two cents on this is that Hoss is doing a double tap, not a rattle which is 3, but duple in two and accenting the tune with the occasional triplet....
I agree with the double instead of triple. To get a double you have to really loosen up. Try thinking back to the days when you first started and had trouble...
I know most consider eating out for meals during the fest. I propose an alternative for some of us: gill it ourselves at Cherokee Park. The park is right...
Visited my friend Dan Ludemann and we had some time jamming earlier this year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhXsuoEisoM Video and sound not too great, but...
Just wanted to be neighborly and say hi. I am from Baltimore, MD, and have been playing the bones for about 3 months. I have found that I can practice easily...
Fred, Welcome to this fraternity of bone playing, not just this site, but a world wide family of bone playing fanatic's. Sounds like you're hooked and hopfully...
Welcome Fred, I'm in Cincinnati. See if any other New Englanders are willing to have a mini Bones Fest. Please don't practice playing two hands and drive at...
I'd take up Mike's suggestion for a mini-Bones Fest. I am in the Boston area... On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Mike Passerotti <mikepasserotti@... ...
I'm in Middletown, MD, I'd probably be up for it. Attendance, however, is highly dependent upon my time commitments with my daughter just starting HS band...
My wife and kidz were going to Bones Fest but plans changed. So if you want to attend Bones Fest and save on housing, I will be happy to split the cost of a...
Thanks! BTW- Good advice on the two-handed playing....the insurance deductables are KILLING me......; ) I would like to get together with some folks in the...
Mike, I know you have good intensions, but if you think Maryland is in New England you are about 8 or so hundred miles off. Good luck Fred in getting together...