Celtic Music Night returns next Tuesday!

Posted on April 18, 2012 by admin

Hello my now distant friends out west!

Your roving piper has made the epic journey east, and now I am elated to write to you and let you know about this wee surprise that

Celtic Music Night at St. Andrew Church is ON for next Tuesday, April 24th, 7pm!
That’s right folks, things have been quite exciting indeed and I have many stories to share from the exciting adventures of crossing the nation and exploring this new coast, encountering new people, tunes, and places, …and just when I’m starting to feel a bit settled in and the winter snows have given way to spring flowers, I am returning to the west coast for a brief tour with Molly’s Revenge, and among the stops for me is, of course, Celtic Music Night!
Among the stops for Molly’s Revenge are a couple of great Scottish Festivals: First, our premier appearance at the Bakersfield Highland Games this Saturday April 21st, and then concerts in Paso Robles, CA, and Reno, NV, and ending up at the fantastic Sacramento Scottish Games in Woodland, CA; one of our all time favorite Scottish festivals, on April 28th & 29th… so come on out and join us in some serious Celtic music-ing revelry if you can make any of those dates…www.mollysrevenge.com
But I will definitely look forward to seeing you all at St Andrew Church in Aptos, 9850 Monroe Avenue, on next Tuesday April 24th at 7pm!
I just can’t wait to return to the beautiful bay area, and tell you about the voyage & new home turf, catch up with you all, and play some epic jam session tunes!!!
And after returning to the east coast for another stint, I will be on tour on the west coast again for the summer, kicking that off with ANOTHER great Celtic Music Night at St Andrew complete with a full cast of featured guests, includingRebecca Lomnicky and Molly’s Revenge! So mark you calendar for Tuesday May 22nd, 7pm!
A couple of other great things to tell you about:
Play an instrument and Interested in improving skills and building repertoire? Summer Camps are coming!
John Weed, fiddler from Molly’s Revenge, and myself are teaching alongside many other great teachers at the Community Music School of Santa Cruz
Celtic Music Summer Camp for Teens!
Click here to join us, or for more info: http://communitymusicschool.org/teen_camp/
Also,
Rebecca Lomnicky and myself are teaching alongside many other great teachers at the renowned all-ages Lark in the Morning World Music Camp
Click here to join us and for more info: http://www.larkcamp.com/
Both camps are going to be great summer fun– hope you can attend!
One more thing to tell you if you can’t wait until next week for a Celtic fix: past Music Night guest fiddler Deby Benton Grosjean has a beautiful new website, check it out!
Deby and another past Music Night guest, guitarist William Coulter, are doing a duo concert this Thursday evening in Santa Cruz you won’t want to miss! I might even make it if I’m not too jet-lagged… sure to be fabulous:
04/19/12  Deby Benton Grosjean & William Coulter in Santa Cruz  at the The Darling House
Time: 7:30pm. Admission: $15 Senior/Student $20 General. Age restrictions: All Ages. Box office: 831-336-9317. Address: 314 West Cliff Drive. Venue phone: 800-262-8858. Beautiful spacious home by the roaring sea. Wines available by Pelican Winery.
Info on more Celtic happenings can of course be found at http://www.celticsociety.org/  and http://www.lochlomondceltic.org/ so keep your eyes peeled!
A hundred thousand thank-you’s for all your support everyone, I couldna made it this farrr without ya!
I’ll see you all on the 24th!
Sincerely,
David Brewer
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For everything that ends, something new begins…

Posted on January 16, 2012 by admin

Dear friends of Celtic Music Night at St Andrew,

I’ve made it back to California through the snow and blizzards of the North, and am so excited to remind you about Tomorrow Nights Celtic Music Night Farewell Party!!!! It’s going to be a blast, and I really hope you can make it, as this the final stretch of days before the big adventure where I head East…. but I must say:

THANK YOU SO MUCH! All of your kind words and good thoughts have meant so much to me as I continue to prepare for the coming voyage across the country.
I regret that there is not more time to catch up with all of you individually before I go, but the time is fast approaching, and there is still so much going on in the mean time.
There is so much I want to say to everyone, but one thing especially to all is Thank you for your support! Y’all keep me going, and keep the music flourishing!
I hope you to see you all at some point over the next week, as Celtic Music Night concludes until sometime this summer when I shall return on tour…
I so appreciate all of the giftings you all have given me in our time together, and thanks for coming out last week for the final concert with Rebecca Lomnicky!

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Webmaster for celticmusicnight.com here -
Just wanted to let everyone know that I have made a new page on the website titled “Thank You David.” Anyone can use this page to post a note of thanks for David that he can read while he’s getting his life reorganized on the east coast. After four years of wonderful music and comraderie, it’s kind of like signing his yearbook at graduation. We’ll miss you, David!
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Your support for the coming great voyage across the nation in the form of attendance, donations, cd purchases, volunteering to help me, leads or contacts for gigs and people to visit or stay with are much appreciated!!! All David Brewer ‘Turning Pages’ & ‘Living Tradition’ cds on sale for $10 through January at Celtic Music Night!

TOMORROW!!! Tuesday, January 17th, 7pm — THE END
Final Celtic Music Night Farwell party, silent auction of unique memorabilia, and jam!
I really hope to see you all here for a casual night raising the parting glass with stories, songs, and cheer until we meet again… Of course there will be free refreshments and an open Celtic Music Jam session!
Come One, Come All!

 

What: The final installment of Celtic Music Night & Royal Sendoff

 

Who: Bagpipe Player Extraordinaire, David Brewer AND Friends!

 

When: Tuesday evening, January 17, 2011, 7 pm

 

Where: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 9850 Monroe Ave. Aptos, CA

 

Other Particulars: Silent Auction, and Gas Can Raffle

 

A silent auction is planned to thank David for all his hard work, dedication & enthusiasm over the years to make Celtic Music Night so special for young and old alike. Please bring a gift of any kind for the auction. Kids can bake or make gifts. Be as creative as you like. We would just like to give our special bagpiper a

Royal Sendoff ~~~

(with a wee something extra in his sporrAn.)

 

Contact: Anne Swedberg

jfswed@earthlink.net

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But, a glimpse of the future is promising… coming soon, news about **Celtic Music Night Series recordings! **David Brewer Music Lessons anytime, anyplace via Skype online! **summer lessons and workshops and Celtic Music Nights! **Molly’s Revenge at Woodland Scottish Games April 28th & Topanga Fiddle Contest May 20th! **Rebecca Lomnicky, David Brewer, and surprise guest at Santa Cruz Scottish Renaissance Festival June 16th! Much more to come…keep you posted!!!

Check out all of the amazing Celtic events put on in the area by our wonderful partners who help make Music Night a success:

The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay: http://www.celticsociety.org/
The Loch Lomond Celtic Society: http://www.lochlomondceltic.org/
The Community Music School of Santa Cruz: http://communitymusicschool.org/
Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church: http://standrew-aptos.org/

Thank you all so much for your kind support and friendship over these last few years– truly.

 

Looking forward to seeing you all TUESDAY NIGHT! Much love y’all :)

 

Sincerely,

David Brewer

http://celticmusicnight.com/

www.davidbrewermusic.com

 

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Second To Last!

Posted on January 10, 2012 by admin

My dear friends of Celtic Music Night at St Andrew,

THANK YOU SO MUCH! All of your kind words and good thoughts have meant so much to me as I continue to prepare for the coming voyage across the country.
I regret that there is not more time to catch up with all of you individually before I go, but the time is fast approaching, and there is still so much going on in the mean time.
There is so much I want to say to everyone, but one thing especially to all is Thank you for your support! Y’all keep me going, and keep the music flourishing!
I hope you to see you all at some point over the next couple weeks, as Celtic Music Night concludes until sometime this summer when I shall return on tour…
But tonight would be an excellent chance!!….

TONIGHT! Tuesday, January 10th, 7pm
Glenfiddich fiddle champion, Rebecca Lomnicky, with David Brewer!
Just as Celtic Music Night began all those years ago with her as our first official featured guest, Rebecca Lomnicky returns to perform as the final official guest of this amazing run of music! This is sure to be a wonderful night of Scottish fiddle and pipe music for you to enjoy, and it is our hope that you will come and fill up with enough tunes to last you until we return to tour as a duo this summer! Rebecca will be performing solo Scottish fiddle tunes from her title winning performance at Blair Castle, as well as from her album the Call, and together we will be performing music from Turning Pages and Inspired, as well as other new tunes. Of course we will follow the presentation with free refreshments and an open Celtic Music Jam session, and if you are interested in a fiddle lesson with Rebecca, let me know because that just might be a possibility! Hope to see you there!
Your support for the coming great voyage across the nation in the form of attendance, donations, cd purchases, volunteering to help me, leads or contacts for gigs and people to visit or stay with are much appreciated!!! All David Brewer ‘Turning Pages’ & ‘Living Tradition’ cds on sale for $10 through January at Celtic Music Night!

And Tuesday, January 17th, 7pm — THE END
Final Celtic Music Night Farwell party, silent auction of unique memorabilia, and jam! I really hope to see you all here for a casual night raising the parting glass with stories, songs, and cheer until we meet again… Of course there will be free refreshments and an open Celtic Music Jam session!
Come One, Come All!

 

What: The final installment of Celtic Music Night & Royal Sendoff

 

Who: Bagpipe Player Extraordinaire, David Brewer AND Friends!

 

When: Tuesday evening, January 17, 2011, 7 pm

 

Where: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 9850 Monroe Ave. Aptos, CA

 

Other Particulars: Silent Auction, and Gas Can Raffle

 

A silent auction is planned to thank David for all his hard work, dedication & enthusiasm over the years to make Celtic Music Night so special for young and old alike. Please bring a gift of any kind for the auction. Kids can bake or make gifts. Be as creative as you like. We would just like to give our special bagpiper a

Royal Sendoff ~~~

(with a wee something extra in his sporrAn.)

 

Contact: Anne Swedberg

jfswed@earthlink.net

********************************************************************************************************************************************
But, a glimpse of the future is promising… coming soon, news about **Celtic Music Night Series recordings! **David Brewer Music Lessons anytime, anyplace via Skype online! **summer lessons and workshops and Celtic Music Nights! **Molly’s Revenge at Woodland Scottish Games April 28th & Topanga Fiddle Contest May 20th! **Rebecca Lomnicky, David Brewer, and surprise guest at Santa Cruz Scottish Renaissance Festival June 16th! Much more to come…keep you posted!!!

Check out all of the amazing Celtic events put on in the area by our wonderful partners who help make Music Night a success:

The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay: http://www.celticsociety.org/
The Loch Lomond Celtic Society: http://www.lochlomondceltic.org/
The Community Music School of Santa Cruz: http://communitymusicschool.org/
Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church: http://standrew-aptos.org/

Thank you all so much for your kind support and friendship over these last few years– truly.

 

Looking forward to seeing you all TUESDAY NIGHT! Much love y’all :)

 

Sincerely,

David Brewer

http://celticmusicnight.com/

www.davidbrewermusic.com

 

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Oh No! Say It’s Not So!

Posted on December 30, 2011 by admin

My dear friends of Celtic Music Night at Saint Andrew, I do beseech you to read this.

Words cannot express how much I have enjoyed being the host of this wonderful event and seeing you all every week as our wee community of Celtic Music lovers has grown and flourished… And as we are about to kick off another new year, I am writing this newsletter with feelings of excitement and bittersweet sadness. This announcement may seem like a bit of a shock to some of you, though it has been in the works behind the scenes for a wee while now– I have decided to relocate to the East Coast. I have come to this point in my life and musical career where I feel it is time to follow leads, dreams, and collaborations that have been calling me in that direction…and I am very excited about the opportunities awaiting me there, and as of this February I will be gone. This is however, a big step toward “expanding,” not “trading spaces”– because I love the West Coast so much and I would miss you all so terribly, I will be touring back through the West through the coming summer months and through the winter holidays…more on that below… but I hope that as fans, friends, & family you all will continue your kind support of my endeavors into the future… THANK YOU! And of course, I think we all, but especially me, owe a huge thanks to St Andrew Church for being such wonderful hosts to us, and supporters of the tradition… THANK YOU! This is the beginning of a new chapter of a very cool book– not the end by any means…and with a bit of luck and your support, there will be more Celtic Music Nights down the road.

With that, I am very excited to announce the FINAL Celtic Music Night Series (for now..) — The Late Winter Series… Starting this Tuesday!!!
This week, Tuesday January 3rd, 7pm, David Brewer– bagpipe & whistle music, and retrospective look back over a decade of Molly’s Revenge history…A Farewell to Pete Haworth. As you probably know, Pete (aka “the Admiral“) Haworth is retiring from Molly’s Revenge– the band he and I co-founded eleven years ago.  There will be an official farewell concert for Pete on Wednesday, January 4th at the Kuumbwa in Santa Cruz (visit www.mollysrevenge.com for tickets & more info.) and will be his last performance with the band– the last performance of the original Molly’s Revenge. Myself, fiddler John Weed, and guitarist Stu Mason will be continuing on touring at festivals this summer as the Molly’s Revenge trio with a cast of special guest performers. Intermixed through one of my last solo presentation here on the West Coast, at this Music Night I will be glancing back at the history of the now well-known band’s history with stories and little known facts… Of course we will follow the presentation with free refreshments and an open Celtic Music Jam session! Hope you can make it! Your support for the coming great voyage across the nation in the form of attendance, donations, cd purchases, volunteering to help me, leads or contacts for gigs and people to visit or stay with are much appreciated!!! All David Brewer Turning Pages and  Living Tradition cds on sale for $10 through January at Celtic Music Night!

Tuesday, January 10th, 7pm Glenfiddich fiddle champion, Rebecca Lomnicky, with David Brewer! Just as Celtic Music Night began all those years ago with her as our first official featured guest, Rebecca Lomnicky returns to perform as the final official guest of this amazing run of music! This is sure to be a wonderful night of Scottish fiddle and pipe music for you to enjoy, and it is our hope that you will come and fill up with enough tunes to last you until we return to tour as a duo this summer! Rebecca will be performing solo Scottish fiddle tunes from her title winning performance at Blair Castle, as well as from her album The Call, and together we will be performing music from Turning Pages and Inspired, as well as other new tunes. Of course we will follow the presentation with free refreshments and an open Celtic Music Jam session, and if you are interested in a fiddle lesson with Rebecca, let me know because that just might be a possibility! Hope to see you there!

And Tuesday, January 17th, 7pm — THE END. Final Celtic Music Night Farwell party, silent auction of unique memorabilia, and jam!I really hope to see you all here for a casual night raising the parting glass with stories, songs, and cheer until we meet again… Of course there will be free refreshments and an open Celtic Music Jam session! …but until then, that’s all she wrote… …for now… ;)

But, a glimpse of the future is promising… coming soon, news about **Celtic Music Night Series recordings released & available for purchase (pending negotiations with artists, and portions of proceeds going to artists, Music Night fund, and St Andrew Church deacons fund)! **David Brewer Music Lessons anytime, anyplace via Skype online! **summer lessons and workshops and Celtic Music Nights! **Molly’s Revenge at Woodland Scottish Games April 28th & Topanga Fiddle Contest May 20th! **Rebecca Lomnicky, David Brewer, and surprise guest at Santa Cruz Scottish Renaissance Festival June 16th! Much more to come…keep you posted!!!

CMN’s Late Winter Season STARTS THIS TUESDAY NIGHT, January 3rd, at 7pm… This will be the last Celtic Music Night “Series,” so I sure hope to see you there!

And  all of the amazing Celtic events put on in the area by our wonderful partners who help make Music Night a success:
The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay: http://www.celticsociety.org/
The Loch Lomond Celtic Society: http://www.lochlomondceltic.org/
The Community Music School of Santa Cruz: http://communitymusicschool.org/
Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church: http://standrew-aptos.org/

Thank you all so much for your kind support and friendship over these last few years– truly.

Looking forward to seeing you all TUESDAY NIGHT! Much love y’all :)

Sincerely,
David Brewer
http://celticmusicnight.com/
www.davidbrewermusic.com

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Single Malt in Church?

Posted on December 8, 2011 by admin

Traditional Scotch carol: Fa la la la laaaa, la LAGAVULIN!!! ;-)

Happy Holidays and good tidings all, from the folk at Celtic Music Night at St Andrew!!! As Christmas approaches, the spirit of caroling is in the air, and I have a few things to tell you about to help make the season delightful and fair!
This week, Tuesday December 13th, 7pm–9pm,
Informal Celtic music jam session hosted by David Brewer (not a full Music Night presentation, just a jam)Though the next official “Celtic Music Night late Winter series” won’t start until January 3rd, 2012, I’ve decided to host an informal jam in the mean time to get one more fix of Jigs and Reels. You are all invited this coming Tuesday to bring your ax, or just come and listen and hang out, but just know I will not be kilted & there will not be a ‘concert’ portion, and I likely will not do the full setup like usual, but it’s going to be a lovely to to focus on some  good session tunes and have a chance to say hi in a very casual setting– hope you will join in!

And as Christmas is right around the corner, our ever joyously entertaining Molly’s Revenge Christmas Concerts are straight ahead! TOMORROW NIGHT!!! A quick reminder that A Celtic Christmas Celebration with Molly’s Revenge is tomorrow night!!! Friday December 9th, at Don Quixote’s International Music Hall, Felton Once again, you are invited to join the members of Molly’s Revenge and the Rosemary Turco Irish Dancers for an annual celebration of music, song, and dance associated with the festive season.  This year, we’re delighted to welcome Christa Burch on board as our featured guest vocalist.  Christa possesses a singular voice: warm, supple, expressive, intimate, and instantly recognizable. A Benefit for The ALS Foundation, Leukemia/Lymphoma Society and Aplastic Anemia/MDS Foundation.  A portion of money raised from our two Christmas albums, Winterdance and Yuledance, will be donated to these three charities which are near and dear to our hearts.  There’ll be a limited number of Yuledance copies available, so get ‘em while they last! ***This popular event usually sells out and seating is first come first serve—you’ll have a blast, but be sure to get your tickets in advance, and get there a bit early to make sure you have a good seat! www.mollysrevenge.com

Celtic Christmas Shows:
12/9 Felton, CA
12/10 Carmichael, CA (Sacramento area)
12/11 Redwood City, CA

And our gracious hosts at the beautiful St Andrew Church are hosting a number of warm, fun, and welcoming holiday events that you are welcome to attend:12/11 Community Caroling 3-5pm12/18 Christmas Pageant & Worship 10:30am12/24 Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 5:30pm12/25 Christmas Day Worship 10:30am www.standrew-aptos.org
Also, be sure to tune into the Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay website, for many many more great Celtic concerts, jam sessions, and radio show listings that go on all the time in our wonderful area! http://www.celticsociety.org/

CMN’s Late Winter Season STARTS Tuesday January 3rd, 2012 at 7pm… on into the NEW YEAR, so I sure hope to see you there!

More featured guests coming– stay tuned to the email news, and website schedule for updates…

Thank you SO MUCH for your support of our wonderful Celtic music scene of Santa Cruz everyone;
Looking forward to seeing you all TOMORROW NIGHT at Don Quixote’s! :)

Sincerely,
David Brewer
http://celticmusicnight.com/
www.davidbrewermusic.com

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