We're heading out for our tenth or eleventh winter tour down the east coast and back. We'll be seeing many of our old friends in familiar venues but also several new places. We're excited to be playing for the Princeton Folk Music Society and for the Williamsburg Library later this week and for the Salisbury (NC) Library next week.
For our complete schedule with contact info and even maps check our schedule at http://castlebay.net/gig/
I'll post some photos and news as we travel.
Well, after fits and starts over several years I think we're finally getting our news/blog under one roof. We'll see how it goes. I won't be posting our schedule here, since it is elsewhere on the site. I will make note of anything particularly noteworthy.
remember putting out a quarterly newsletter in paper and printer days. I think we were halfway through the third issue when the Mac died. That was, I believe, in 1994. I don't even think we had email back then. Since then I have tried Blogspot, and…
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The is the 14-string guitar I built in 2022
The back and sides are jajoba, mahogany neck, figured maple details. The sound board is spruce I bought at H. L. Wild about 50 years ago. Nut and saddle are highland cow bone. I have it tuned G2,G1 - C3,C2 - G3,G2 - C4,C3 - F4, F3 - A3,A3 - D4,D4. Multi-scale 25-1/2" treble - 27" bass, there's a sound port and arm bevel, and L.R. Baggs Lyric active pickup.
There is a public supper preceding the concert. Come have some casserole and beans, desserts, and music after. What could be finer?
The poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) collected and wrote new lyrics for hundreds of traditional Scottish folk tunes which he felt were falling into obscurity. Working in both the Scots language and in English he produced many masterpieces of 18th century poetry and song. Among these are My Love is Like a Red Red Rose, Comin' Through the Rye and Auld Lang Syne, popular even today at New Year's celebrations. His short but colorful life has become the subject of both legend and scholarly documentary.
The duo Castlebay (Julia Lane & Fred Gosbee) have studied the man,the myth, and the music. They have presented lecture/performances for concert series, elder hostels, libraries, and schools in New England, Maritime Canada, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Florida. In their program romantic love songs are interspersed with lively dance tunes as well as poems and anecdotes about the Scotland's National Poet.
$18 Advance / $20 Door