Bluegrass Association
of North Dakota
To preserve and promote acoustic Bluegrass music.
Bluegrass Association of North Dakota
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B.A.N.D. Requesting Early
Membership Renewals to Fund
Anthology Recording
Here’s How You Can HelpAt the September B.A.N.D. Board meeting John Andrus gave an update on the B.A.N.D. Bluegrass Band Anthology CD recording being finalized in the next few weeks. Groups represented on the recording include Cotton Wood, The Missouri River Boys, Flickertail Holler, Spiritwood Creek, Moose Creek, Stoney Run, Light at the River, Crossroads, The Charley Family, and Family Ties.
The project is a fundraiser for the Association. The CD’s will have approximately 18 selections and will sell for $15 each. Production costs and mechanical fees for the 500 CD-order total around $1500, about $3.00 for each CD. We will also be sending a CD to each of the approximately 100 public libraries in the State.
It was noted that our current Association finances are not quite sufficient to pay these up-front expenses. Most of our Association income is in the membership renewals which become due in December. At the Board meeting it was approved to invite our members to renew for 2012 early (renewal cost is $20) to help with the cash flow shortage and allow the order to be completed this fall.
Fifty early renewals would do it. If you can help us out, please use the renewal form linked to the Membership Page of this Website. Thanks!!The President’s Farside Chat
by B.A.N.D. President Terry SchwartzOnce upon a time, long long ago, in a Kingdom far away, the King was terribly bored; so he offered a huge reward for anyone who could entertain him well enough to make him smile. The downside was whoever tried and failed would be banned from the Kingdom. There was a man named Joe who fastened a flatsided stick to a large gourd and strung it with hair from a horse’s tail. He didn't know what to call his new instrument, but he took it before the King and played a frailing tune. The King held his ears in astonishment and cried, " Take and BAN JOE!" Now you know the "farside" history of the banjo.
HEAR YE! HEAR YE!
Linda and I have finally proved we can
successfully raise cattle together;
so to celebrate that fact, we are planning a
BLUEGRASS JAM FESTIVITY,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH, 2-5 PM
AT SPIRIT-INN LAKE RESORT
on Spiritwood Lake in SE North Dakota.Come and settle in with some good music.
B.A.N.D. Video Online
Check out the new arTView program introducing our association to cable TV viewers.
The program, created in collaboration with Dakota Media Access and Dakota West Arts Council, will air periodically on Bismarck Cable Channel 12 for the next 18 months. It also can be viewed on demand.
ArtView host Dr. Daphe Ghorbani introduces viewers to a short history of bluegrass music and the Bluegrass Assocation of North Dakota in an interview with Dr. John Andrus and Pat Headrick.
To view the program on demand go to
http://www.dakotamediaaccess.org/channel12/program-information/artview/ scroll down the page and select Bluegrass Association of North Dakota
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