Thanks for visiting this website during it's makeover - a couple of updates for MAY, in green of course, are included below. While getting it's "content management" retrofit (using Joomla) - which will include a new calendar, bio, pictures, blogs and other blarney - consider this page as one of those multi- vane signposts with arrows pointing to destinations near and far. Please visit any or each.
- Dublin Station offers "Arrivals & Departures in Celtic & American Traditional Music" - DS is a contemporary travelogue of tales and tunes combing Celtic influenced music with "the American in me*" and Accordionista Laruan Bittinger.
- ...Sample the "Dub Stat sound" and catch our current performance schedule at: MySpace.com/DublinStation
- ...Dub Stat are in the studio magnetizing new songs and tunes. We'll combine them with selections of a live performance captured in the Summer of last year... We're looking to have discs and downloads available at our Foundry Hall Concert in South Haven, MI - May 15, 2009!
- Speaking of hearing what you've heard about - visit Octoberday.com to purchase downloadable music created or recorded for one of my music projects
- We may have met while I was playing with Oxter/Mahone. That group is now in retirement.
- Speaking of retirement, due to interest generated on "the internets," a revival is afoot to "Bring Back the REAL Folk Bros!"
- The Folk Bros band are busy recording NEW and updated tracks which sound pretty darn upbeat and current! ("Field Recordings" - a musical history of the band - may be available as a companion project at the same time.) Though no release date has been set, the ball is in motion.
- Before The Folk Bros., Oxter/Mahone and Dublin Station I formed Pillar of Fire (Ver I of which was named The Pillar of Fire Society) a band that spanned the late 80's early 90's. The band played 85% original songs that strattled what we now call "80's music" with glimpses of the "Americana" styles present in today's rock & country music. As we uncover usable recordings from Pillar of Fire, look for them on OctoberDay.com
- THESE JUST IN: I'm concurrently recording tracks for discs/downloads of my pop-rock and singer-songwriter "faces". Mostly comprised of new songs - some tracks will be updates of "lost recordings" of "The Time It Takes" - a record abandoned during the close of the last millennium...
- AND maybe this will be the year that I finally finish the "Winter to Spring" CD that collects the best of songs I've wrtitten for "A Winter's Tune" too.
- A Winter's Tune - a benefit concert that features local and regional Michigan songwriters in a showcase of "NEW and Traditional Songs for the Winter Holiday Season".
- Lambs Retreat for Songwriters is a great gift to songwriters of all abilities. John D. Lamb started it 14 years ago as a retreat for a circle of friends to set aside time to write. It's grown to two different weekends in November at the lovely Birchwood Inn near Harbor Springs, MI. You come in Friday and get assignment, and you go home Sunday with a new song. While fantastic for connections it's not a business conference, but totally an artistic retreat. Great food, music, and place to hang out. '
- An avid "recordist" since I got my first Wollensak cassette, I began a role several years ago as "audio documentarian" at Lamb's Retreat. Since then I've recorded (or been on the "audio crew" recording) several intimate and large live music and other events. More info at "Retreat Recordings" links will be available soon, too.
Eventually there will be a feed, et. al but for now consider joining the OctoberDay mailing list for updates
Cheers,
=J. Oscar
* cf Steve Forbert album title
