Hot Times at Old Town

Appearing below are selections from the hard copy Hot Times. The objective is to highlight activities at the School and in the larger community, especially those featuring or of special interest to teachers and staff. Your suggestions are welcome. Enter a comment (under any item); it will come to me rather than automatically appearing.

Recycling Music

How about recycling music to other folks at the School? Yeah, we do it all the time. But here we’re talking about songs on paper, specifically Tim Joyce’s Songbook Recycling Project.

Tim is Different Strummer Manager. Here’s what he says: “We are all eagerly awaiting the release of our brand new version of the Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook published by Hal Leonard; but as hard as we have tried, there have been a few snafus that have pushed back the release date. The hope is that the new song book will arrive near the end of the next session. As of right now though, we are in the position of deciding if we should wait it out with no songbooks or reorder a massive printing of the spiral bound version of the songbook. (Ordering a small quantity would make it too expensive for students to purchase.) ”

Tim’s suggestion:

“If you have an extra copy of the songbook lying around your house or in a old guitar case (I have at least two) please drop them off in the box at the Different Strummer Music Store. They will be redistributed/shared with the new students taking classes the next session. Beat up copy? Bring it in! Cover missing? Bring it in! Coffee/beer stains? Bring it in! Duct Taped copy? Bring it in! New-ish copy? I’ll believe it when I see it… The more we get the better. Hopefully there are enough extras out there that we can help all the students who need a copy. Thanks in advance for your help, See you in the Store — Tim Joyce. ”

(Text courtesy of the oldtownschool.org page for the Different Strummer. Never visited? It’s just one of the many nooks and crannies of the website worth exploring).

Filed under: Interesting at Old Town by Skip | April 18, 2008 |


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