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Virtual Festival 2020 – J Oscar & Octoberday

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J Oscar & Octoberday video of a live performance of “Hot Night“ sometime between 4:30 and 5:30 As with “physical” Festival of the Arts, there’s always something to see! Click for schedule

J Oscar & OctoberDay at Salt of the Earth September 27, 2020

Salt of the Earth – J Oscar & OctoberDay

Salt of the Earth TICKETS

An evening of folk-rock and Americana, with an eye to spring. TWO BANDS with related moods and grooves: • THE FAR SHORE (Rebecca Pfeiffer Wierks, Brant Satala) • J OSCAR & OCTOBERDAY (Mark Hugger, Chris Ranney, Brian Morrill, J Oscar) A bit of Celtic flavor brushed on for “the Irish season”… Tickets are $20, reserve […]

A Winter’s Tune – Rebooted!

123 Ionia Ave. SW Grand Rapids, MI 49503

$12 - Click to Buy (also available at door)

“The Concert of NEW and Traditional Songs for the Winter Holiday Season” returns!NEW LOCATION – Studio Park’s LISTENING ROOM! Though Listening Room event page only shows info for J Oscar, ALL the following folk are performing! AWT 2019 ARTISTS: Lexi Adams, J Oscar Bittinger, Ralston Bowles, Robin Connell, The Folk Bros (Steve Aldrich, Bruce Zeeuw, J […]

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I never wear white
White is for virgins
Children in summer
Brides in the park… 
My color is black black black
Black is for secrets
Outlaws and dancers
For the poet of the dark

Snow Day

Snow Day

Listen to a LIVE version of  Snow Day from A Winter’s Tune 2011!

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J Oscar Bittinger – solo

Streaming / Song Circles / Solo Shows

JOB playing solo, with machines, or in rounds with other performers - on a stream or in person

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The Folk Bros

The Folk Bros

Rousing and S'Real, the Folk Singers Three

The Folk Bros, three!

The Folk Bros. play rambunctious and vibrant music, handmade for unplugged thrashing. On guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, and acoustic bass they embrace and extend the folk tradition.

Taking their cue from Hootenanny style presentation they break folk music down to it's vital essence and inflate traditional tunes to Zeppelin-esque proportions.  They may put the boot in with a  topical sing-along or bring an audience to tears with an original fingerpicked ballade.

Should a booking one of modern folk music's most enduring and cranky groups be your idea of a good time, send sid@octoberday.com an email - and he'll try to roust the roustebouts...

Now stand back and give 'em lots of room to move!

Group Members:

  • Bruce Zeeuw - guitar/mando/zouk/vocals
  • Steve Aldrich - bass/banging/caterwauling
  • J Oscar Bittinger - guitar/vocals

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Pillar of Fire [v3]

POF v3 - Modern Pop-Rock, Americana

Developing

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Glorious Ordinary Day

© 1996  J. Oscar Bittinger

Standing at the window drinking coffee Twenty stories up Friday morning and the streets full Watch the people 'Scurrying 'round, 'round, 'round, ('round, 'round, 'round) On a park bench in the sunshine Sit the mothers And the nannies minding children What a thrill then climbing up high And sliding down, down down (down, down, down)

BRIDGE 1 Sailboats bob upon a dappled bay Busses hurry by and new leaves sway Isn't it a Glorious Ordinary Day?

In the office telephones ring Paper shuffling Get to your next meeting on time Gotta deadline Deals at lunchtime Going down, down, down (down, down, down)

BRIDGE 2 Warships sail across an oil slicked bay Read all about it as your taxi speeds away It's another Glorious Ordinary Day

RAMP Runners wearing headphones Don't hear drug dealers or dogs bark A tearful soldier salutes the names on the monument In the park lovers laze Late afternoon haze Cover's them until dark

In the kitchen supper's ready Smells so good The waitress offers coffee To the traveler Bartender smiles Sun is going down, down, down Down, down, down  
1996: Spring

Lyrics

At Christmas Time

© 1998 J. Oscar Bittinger

They say it may snow
They said might freeze
At Christmas Time, Christmas Time
Better go out
Cut yourself down a tree
At Christmas Time, Christmas Time
Plastic wreath on the door, fake log on the fire
A nip in the butt for the drunk in the choir
The minister’s tired
But he can’t retire
At Christmas Time, Christmas Time

You better not cry
It’s best not to pout
At Christmas Time, Christmas Time
All of the family stories
Come out
At Christmas Time, Christmas Time
Cute children hang stockings with innocent greed
Presents too small to wrap aren’t too small to need
And merchants will ship them
With internet speed
At Christmas Time, Christmas Time

Gra’ma don’t throw out the leftover spread
We’ll drop it down at the shelter instead
Then stay up to see same old specials again
Cause we’re too sugared up
To go to bed
……Hear the bells?!

These Scrooge-like complaints
You’ve heard them before
At Christmas Time, Christmas Time
But just like the preacher
I’ll say it once more
At Christmas Time, Christmas Time
The man on the street may not be your friend
But if He returns He may be one of them
And if that’s just a dream
We’re all dreaming then
At Christmas Time, Christmas Time
….Hear the bells?!
(They toll for thee)

Low tech, high hurry demo - riff/tune + SONG
KEY EB (Chords Eb Ab Bb / Cm Gm Ab Bb) - [Played in C - Capo 3 - C F G / Am Em F G)
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KEY EB (Chords Eb Ab Bb / Cm Gm Ab Bb) - [Played in C - Capo 3 - C F G / Am Em F G)

Lyrics
Oxter/Mahone

Oxter/Mahone

Celtic Roots, American Rhythms

Band members

  • J Oscar Bittinger - guitar/vocals (v1-v3)
  • Lauran Hardin - accordion/vocals (v1-v3)
  • Bruce Zeeuw - mandolin, bouzouki, fiddle/vocals (v1-v3)
  • Janet Shelby - mandolin/zouk/vocals (v1 & v2)
  • Robert Mulligan - percussion/guitar/recordist (v2)
  • Jim Spanlink - bouzouki/mandolin/hurdy-gurdy/harp/vocals (v3)

More soon...

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Like Kerouac

Call me Jack! Like Kerouac Forget the map Let's just drive Windows down Music loud Ain't it good just to be alive

Lyrics
by Ted Bergin
by Ted Bergin

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Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec – convert and test codecs – lots of control and “industrial strength” http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/FraunhofNat/
Full price $435
Educational discount : $235 (maybe they’d qualify)

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