Wednesday 2 May 2012 8-10pm TUNE IN AND SUPPORT WTJU

Alex Caton and I will be spinning for the Teej Folk Marathon from 8-10pm on Wednesday 2 May 2012, trying to raise dollars to help them keep doing what they do.  Please do tune in and call 434-924-3959 to donate.  You can also donate online, but we want you to call during our show to help us meet our goal and prove ourselves better djs than the other guys.

The show, called The Cuckoo's Nest, will feature a few cuckoo songs and other works by artists like Hazel Dickens, Shirley Collins, Ola Belle Reed, Bert Jansch, Paul Brady, Alasdair Roberts, Andy Irvine, Espers, Mellow Candle, and even a bit of early Palace.  The common denominator is the link to the very old music of the British Isles.

So I testify: I didn't realize how much I missed good radio during the seven years each I lived in Birmingham, Alabama, and Baltimore--radio wasteland, 'alternative' stations obviously spinning for grease, obviously doling out mandatory playlists, repeating tunes until you want to vomit--until I moved back to Charlottesville.

WTJU is my constant companion.  True freeform radio.  Listen live or explore archives.  Try an archived edition of The Broadcasting System with Tyler Magill.  Or an edition of The Early Music show.  Those two shows both air on Mondays, and I hate to miss them.

And please do tune in on Wednesday 2 May 2012 at 8pm to 91.1 WTJU.

Ned Oldham with Jonathan Wilson 16 May 2012

Ned Oldham and band will play an opening set for Jonathan Wilson at the Southern Music Hall in Charlottesville on Wednesday 16 May 2012. 

Tuesday, February 7: WTJU and CFOOT Shows

Ned Oldham, Matty Metcalfe, and Nathan Salsburg will perform in Charlottesville's WTJU studio between 1 and 2 on Rebecca's Tuesday afternoon show, Walk Right In.

Later that evening, between 8pm and 10pm, Nathan, Ned, Matty and Alex Caton will perform at the CFOOT (Charlottesville Friends of Old Time) Studio at 1106 West Main Street in Charlottesville.  Tickets are $10 ($5 for CFOOT members).  CFOOT studio is a nice, homey place above the Studio Art Shop; it seats about fifty people.  Free coffee and cookies with the price of admission.

This unamplified show will feature mostly traditional music.  Ned, Alex and Matty perform as a trio with some duo and solo moments.  Nathan has worked with the Lomax Archives and as a DJ for Root Hog or Die.  His new album, Affirmed, just released on No Quarter Records, is solo fingerstyle acoustic guitar music.  There is a good interview with Nathan Salsburg here.

Three of One; Quarter Dozen of the Other: Old Calf at Tea Bazaar January 24 and Ned Oldham and Alex Caton with Nathan Salsburg February 7 at CFOOT Studio

We are more of a quarterly concern.  We don't like to vie for your attention unless we have something to say.  Which doesn't mean we haven't been hard at work on new songs and new arrangements of olde songs.

Old Calf duo of Ned Oldham and Matty Metcalfe will kick new acoustical jams on a January 24 bill with Dare Dukes and Mister Baby at Charlottesville's  Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, with Alex Caton fiddling and singing out in the second half of the set.

Then in a fortnight on February 7th, please come for a special coffeehaus engagement with No Quarter Recording Artist the fingerstyle guitarist Nathan Salsburg, whose just-released album Affirmed is a steel string odyssey of wooden guitar.  Ned Oldham and Alex Caton have been working up a set of vocal duets made of traditional and traditional-ish tunes, and welcome Matty Metcalfe as a musical guest on bouzouki and accordion.  No website (three cheers!) for CFOOT: it's above the studio art store on Charlottesville's West Main, not far from the University.  You walk in the front at 1108 West Main, straight up the stairs and keep going back until you run into CFOOT Studio.  You will smell the coffee, which is on us.

The photo of Old Calf in Brooklyn last summer is by John Ruscher.

Please Help I Used to be Darker Kickstarter before August 13!

Sorry so long between posts; I'm still not sure exactly why we are put on this earth, but I'm pretty sure it is not to blog.  However, Time is of the essence today: I am acting in a film that is being shot right now in Baltimore.  It is a great project by Matt Porterfield, entitled I Used to be Darker; check out Matt's discussion of the project during a live tattoo cut HERE.

Our Kickstarter deadline is Saturday, August 13, 2011.
Please consider giving what you can... there are some great rewards, including Ned Oldham and Anomoanon vinyl.  Check it out HERE.