Celtic Music Night

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

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

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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

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