Alternate Thursdays       March 11, 2010     March 25, 2010	Musical Bookings at the Decatur Library 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur.  7:00-8:00 pm show, doors open 6:30.  Free. Contact Karen Skellie at 404-370-3070 x2264.  Alternate Thursday evenings.  See www.dekalblibrary.org/component/option,com_events for information.  Tom Fisch - March 11 - To describe Tom's music is like describing a favorite recipe - the first ingrediant is tasteful acoustic guitar playing.  Second, add Tom's rich vocal style.  Combine with the heart and soul of traditional folk and country tunes, and you've cooked up some extraordinary and innovative entertainment. Jeff and Vida Band - March 25 - Unclassifiable but terrific: The Jeff & Vida Band is a bluegrass-influenced duo with a bluesiness at its core, and a powerful stage presence.  Vida's powerful vocals and driving guitar with Jeff's rock-n-roll approach to mandolin and guitar gets crowds tapping their feet.
3/11/2010   4/8/2010   5/13/2010	Catacombs Coffeehouse 2nd Thursday of each month - 7:30pm, Mt.  Carmel United Methodist Church, 5100 South Old Peachtree Rd., Norcross, GA 30092.  See www.mtcarmel-umc.org/ for more information.   3/11 - Harm's Way -   http://www.myspace.com/harmonandfriends 4/8 - Kathy Reed & Lonesome Redwing www.myspace.com/lonesomeredwing 5/13 - Tom Godfrey and On the Cool Side http://www.myspace.com/onthecoolside www.otcoolside.com
April 3, 2010	34th ANNUAL WRFG PEACHBLOSSOM BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL       WRFG is pleased to announce the 34th Annual Peachblossom Bluegrass Festival will be held Saturday April 3, 2010. The festival will take place at the Clarkston Community Center, located at 3701 College Avenue, Clarkston Georgia, exit #40 off Interstate 285. The doors will open at 10:30 AM, with the music starting at 11 AM and running continuously until 9:00 P.M.  Tickets for the annual fundraiser are $10 general admission in advance through WRFG, $12 at the door the day of the event, WRFG members $10, seniors and students age 6 and older, $6.  Children under age 6, admitted free of charge.   Jerry Butler, John Wade & The Blue-J's headlining the 34th annual Peachblossom.   Our local and regional bands include DejaBlue Grass Band, Cedar Hill, Counterpoint, Johnny Roquemore & The Apostles of Bluegrass, Steel String Session, Highway 41, The Nashvillain Family Band, The East Dixie Boys, Whoa Nelly, Hicks with Picks, and The Mars Hill Porch Pickers.   The 34th Annual WRFG Peachblossom Bluegrass Festival is an indoor festival- -no need to worry about the weather, and there is plenty of parking. Bring your instruments for the always fun and popular parkin’ lot pickin’. Come on out, bring the family, and enjoy great music, food, crafts, and fellowship. All proceeds go to help cover operating expenses for Atlanta’s only volunteer, non-profit community radio station, WRFG 89.3FM. For additional information or tickets, please call the WRFG office at 404-523-3471, or visit the WRFG website at www.wrfg.org.
March 20, 2010	Bill Staines in concert - First Presbyterian Church, 520 E. Washington Avenue in Savannah, GA. 8:00 PM - The concert tickets, available at the door, will be $8 adults and $5 students/children. For over forty five years, Bill has traveled back and forth across North America, singing his songs and delighting audiences at festivals, folksong societies, colleges, concerts, clubs and coffeehouses. A New England native, Bill became involved with the Boston-Cambridge folk scene in the early 1960's. Bill quickly became a popular performer in the Boston area. In 1971, after one of his performances, a reviewer for The Phoenix stated that Bill was "simply Boston's best performer." A decade later, both in 1980 and 1981, the annual Reader's Poll of The Boston Globe selected him as a favorite performer. In 2001 , Bill entered his fifth decade as a folk performer with an international reputation as an artist. Singing mostly his own songs, Bill weaves a magical blend of wit and gentle humor into his performances, and as one reviewer wrote, "he has a sense of timing to match the best stand-up comic." A number of Bill's songs have been recorded by other artists including, Peter, Paul, & Mary, Makem and Clancy, Nanci Griffith, Mason Williams, The Highwaymen, Glen Yarborough, Jerry Jeff Walker, Grandpa Jones, Priscilla Herdman and others. Bill has recorded twenty-two of his own albums, fifteen of which are still in print. Additionally, Bill's songs have been published in four songbooks, If I Were A Word, Then I'd Be A Song, River, Music To Me, The Songs of Bill Staines, and All God's Critters Got A Place In The Choir. Two of the books contain nearly one hundred of Bill's songs. Radio and TV appearances have included A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, The Good Evening Show and a host of local programs on PBS and network TV. Bill continues to drive over 65,000 miles a year, doing what he loves, bringing music to people. These modest prices are made possible with support, in part, by a grant from the Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs under the Grassroots Arts Program (GAP). GAP is supported by the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) through an appropriation of the General Assembly. GCA is a Partner Agency to the National Endowment for the Arts. For further information, call 912-786-6953 or on the web, see www.savannahfolk.org.
April 16, 2010	Bear on the Square Mountain Festival - Dahlonega, GA - See www.bearonthesquare.org Friday  “Master Class Workshops” are returning to the Bear on the Square Mountain Festival on April 16, 2010. These in depth, two hour long, music workshops will  include some of the “Music Industry‘s” top Bluegrass and Old Time musicians and instructors  available and are designed to be practical and very hands on.  The instructors include the Nashville based, David Peterson and the 1946 Band, which is, David Peterson (Vocals), Mike Compton (intermediate/advanced Mandolin), Charlie Cushman (Bluegrass Banjo), Johnny Warren  (Bluegrass Fiddle), Ron Shuffler ( Upright Bass). In addition there will also be Old Time Music Greats, Beverly Smith (Old Time Fiddle) and Carl Jones (Clawhammer Banjo).  Rounding out the list of instructors will be Guitar Wizard Curtis Jones (Intermediate/Advanced Guitar) and the National Teaching Team  of  Jim Pittman (Beginning/Intermediate Guitar) and Patsy Kline (Beginning/Intermediate Mandolin).     There will be a total of  twenty different workshops available to choose from and will be held on campus in a class room setting in partnership with  North Georgia College and State University.  Workshop times are from 10:00 am - 12:00 noon and from 1:00pm - 3:00pm Friday April 16 . The complete list of workshops and times can be seen at  http://www.bearonthesquare.org/index.php/master-classes.html     The cost for the “Master Class Workshops” are $45/one class or $75/two classes, participants can mix classes according to their preference and  availability. Pre-registration will available, However, you may also sign up the day of the workshops, as well.     Private individual Saturday lessons are also available with many of the Master Class Workshop Instructors, and can be scheduled directly with the instructor using their contact info at the Master Class Workshop page.
Weekends (Sundays Bluegrass, TBD Folk)	The Tucker Fountain is a restaurant/soda fountain in downtown Tucker, on Main Street.  Tucker Fountain has a bluegrass group performing at 6:00pm on Sundays, with a jam session at 7:00pm.  A folk night will also be taking place (on Saturday nights we think) in the same format - performance by local band/group first, then jam session).  2329 Main St.,Tucker, GA.
Various	Universal Sensations Coffeehouse at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett, 12 Bethesda Church Rd, Lawrenceville, GA.  7:30pm, Saturdays as announced.  See http://uucg.org/directions.html.
Various   April 3, 2010   May 1, 2010	Hungry Ear Coffeehouse   First Saturdays , 7:00 PM $5 donation,  Northwest Unitarian Church.  The Hungry Ear Coffee House is also a monthly food drive.  Please show your generosity by bringing non-perishable foods such as soups, tuna, crackers or grocery store gift cards. Out of the Rain - April 3 - featuring Carol Statella-Harris and Ron Hipp, plus David Leinweber. Kerry Wentworth - May 1 - plus Allen, Vinton, Godfrey, and Rahmann
Various	Various performers - Bowman House Concert Series - See <http://myspace.com/bowmanhouseconcerts> for more information about the concert series, or contact Art Bowman <bowmanhouseconcerts@gmail.com>; 770.979.1314 Concerts begin at 8:00 pm, doors open at 7pm, at 323 Wilcrest Drive SW, Lawrenceville, GA 30044-5253 - BYOB and a dish to share. $20 donation per person, all proceeds to the artists.  Reservations required.
Various	Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University in Downtown Atlanta.  See www.rialtocenter.org, or call 404-413-9TIX.  Free Parking. Eddie's Attic:  This is a great listening room!  Eddie also has a good kitchen.  If you want to see your favorite musician in an intimate setting, this is the place! See www.eddiesattic.com
March 29, 2010	Just Voices Sings Shape-Note Tunes on WABE March 29 Beginning with our premiere performance in December of 2001, Just Voices has included shape-note tunes in many of our concerts. Recordings from our past performances of these beautiful hymn tunes will be featured on The Atlanta Music Scene on WABE, 90.1 FM, on Monday, March 29th at 9:00 p.m. Selections will include traditional tunes from The Sacred Harp, such as Cowper, Idumea, and Soar Away, as well as contemporary works, including Glen Wright’s Birmingham, and three pieces by Seth Houston: Emerald Stream, Interstate, and Smear. Please join us for our radio debut! For more information on the choir visit our website: www.justvoices.org