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[jenny4dulc]

The Rising Sun Band (England), line-up - hammered dulcimer, fiddle, concertina and guitar, now has a website with mp3s of the band and other info. Have a look and a listen at www.risingsunband.com/
jenny4dulc.

[Dick Glasgow]

Cool Jenny ~ I see you have Kevin Costner in your Band!





;D ;D ;D

Let me know when you guys get yourselves a MySpace, so that I can post a link here.

Good Luck with the band.

Cheers
Dick

[jack]

Great stuff Jenny. It's good to see the band still on the go. I've still got the tape you gave me. You make it sound as if these tunes were written for the dulcimer.

ps I hope you don't mind, I've put the Andy Fagan Interview that you transcribed online here - Andy Fagan Interview


Jack

[jenny4dulc]

Thanks for the kind words Jack; and it's a really great idea to put the Andy Fagan interview up for everyone to read.
Jenny4dulc

[jenny4dulc]

And thanks Dick. We've been a bit slow getting around to all this technological stuff!
My friend Angelika would like Kevin and the rest of us to go and play in Germany. So we just need the invitation! (And a bit of assistance).
Angelika is a friend of Nikita - as you'll see from this email I had from her last night -
"Last weekend Nikita Pfister was here for a ball/dance night on Saturday and he didn't forget to give your regards to me. In fact he did it in the first 15 minutes after his arrival at my house."
Jenny4dulc

[Nikita]

Hi there !
great site - and great sound, Jenny
the week-end at Angelika's place was wonderful : nice playing, nice band... I even discovered the schwebische food... if you get the chance, do go there ! ;D
And if you do, tell me ! Switzerland isn't that far from Stuttgart, and I might be able to get you 1-2 gigs over here.
Angelika produced books with tunes (mostly scandinavian, she's a great nyckelharpa player, as well as hackbrett !), very nicely arranged with 2 voices... ;D ;D ;D

[jenny4dulc]

Hello Nikita,
I'd certainly like to get the band over there; I'll have to work on it. We'd probably need to get an event (or festival) which would give us the scope for doing some English music and dance workshops as well as playing for some dances. Any suggestions???
I've been corresponding quite regularly with Angelika since October, and we've exchanged some of our favourite tunes so we can play them together next time we meet up. I have one of her tune books "TanzMuzik (2001) which I bought from her at the CWA festival in Appenzell in 2003. I also have a couple of other hackbrett books - "Appenzeller Hackbrett-Buechli"- Johannes Fuchs, Walter & Jakob Alder, and "Hackbrett-Fibel" - Karl-Heinz Schickhaus.
Jenny.

[dulcimike]

Nice site, Jenny.

[Nikita]

Well Jenny, there are quite a few festival and Concert possibilities around. If you get to know the time you could be overe here, let me know, I'll forward your site adress and the dates to the organisers I know and try to find you a few gigs. It might be easier in the dance circles.

[jenny4dulc]

OK Nikita. It won't be this year; what's the best time of the year to find most festivals with dances and dance workshops?
Jenny.

[Nikita]

Here - like everywhere, I guess - the best time for Festivals is Spring and early summer... I'll have to ask for the german part of the country.
there's a very nice festival in september though, all about dancing : 2 days of flokdance workshops and balls - nearly no concert, but a lot of sessions everywhere (that's where Angelika and me met...) ;D. But the thing is they don't have money , and the groups go there nearly for free (we'll be going there with my Celidh Band)...

[jenny4dulc]

What is the name of the September Festival and where is it held? I could contact the organisers and ask about the possibilities - would they be able to offer accommodation do you think? I know about the Festival in Gooik in Belgium, but that's August isn't it?
Jenny

[Nikita]

Hi Jenny,
Here's the link to the Festival in september :
www.folkfestival.ch/index_f.php
But I'm afraid they really don't have money : we get just enough to pay petrol, and we pay the accomodation (it's cheap, but still...). There's possibilities to park a camping car fo free...
I don't know about Gooik.
In France there's the Festival of Gennetines :
gennetines.org/welcome-to-gennetines?set_language=en
in July, which is completely dance-centered

[jenny4dulc]

Thanks Nikita. I'll have to work on this with the band!
Jenny4dulc

[dizzid11]

Hey everyone

I've MADE IT INTO THE QUARTER FINALS OF UPSTAGED!!! Wooooooo hooooooo!!!!

For those of you who aren't aware, I'm in a Tv talent show called Upstaged promoting the hammered dulcimer. Its presented by Radio 1's Scott Mills!

Thank you to everyone who voted for us to get this far, but now WE NEED YOU TO VOTE AGAIN!! (every 3 mins if poss)

We will be performing for another 6 hours on this coming Tuesday 25th March so be sure to be at your computers watching us live on the upstaged
website and voting for DULCIMER DIZZI (Voting starts at 3.45 pm and ends at 9.45pm) the website is called

www.bbc.co.uk/upstaged

It is you, our hardcore voting friends that really count so please vote as often as you can! If you haven't voted before then you need to go on the upstaged website (google bbc upstaged and it will take you straight there) and register. Then you can start voting! (I have login details i can give you for anyone who doesnt want to register themselves)
You can also watch us on the live tv show Tuesday Night (at about 11.15 pm) on bbc three. We really need your support to be in with a chance of getting to the finals and showing the world how beautiful the dulcimer is!

We would also love it if any friends or family can come along to bristol to be in the audience of the live show tuesday evening to support us. If you would like to come you need to be at millenium square for 10pm

please email me to let me know if your coming and then the bbc will contact you to give you all the details.

So please please please support me by voting as often as you can.

Thanks again... SPREAD THE WORD, SPREAD THE LOVE

Dulcimer Dizzi XXXXXXXXXXX