Upcoming Performances 2010
• Sat. Sept. 18: private engagement, 6:30 pm, CT
• Fri. Sept. 24: Huntington St. Café, Shelton CT
We're back at Huntington Street! Sandwiches, desserts, coffees/beer/wine served.
8 - 11 pm. 90 Huntington St., Shelton CT.
No cover. (203) 925-9064.
www.huntingtonstreetcafe.com
• Sun. Sept. 26: private engagement, 3 pm, CT
• Sat. Oct. 2: Benefit concert, Somers NY
St. Luke's Church, 7 - 10 pm
• Sat. Oct. 9: Fall Festival, Warren CT
Warren Woods, aka Fiddler's Pond. Sponsored by Warren Vol. Fire Co. 11:30 am - 3 pm.
• Sat. Oct. 9: private engagement, 7 pm
• Sat. Oct.
16: NY State Sheep & Wool Festival, Rhinebeck NY
Dutchess County
Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, NY. 11 am - 4 pm.
www.sheepandwool.com
Sun. Nov. 14: The Firebox Restaurant, Hartford CT
Sunday bluegrass music series. 5-8:30 pm. No cover. Hosted by Nick Novia & Joe DeLillo. 539 Broad St., Hartford. 860-246-1222.
www.fireboxrestaurant.com
2010
• Sat. April
16: Acoustic Cafe Coffeehouse, Milford CT
Wadleigh Memorial Library, 49 Nashua St. 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm. Admission free.
www.wadleighlibrary.org
What's New with Too Blue
Guitarist Jim Hurst trading licks with Betsy at the Westchester Bluegrass Club.
Jim Hurst with Michael Sassano. Darts, anyone?
Jerry Oland, Michael Sassano and Buddy Merriam onstage at the 25th Joe Val Bluegrass Festival.
Banjoist Tony Trischka (Joan's former banjo teacher) and Joan, having a banjo moment.
CD
Release
Our debut CD,
A Little On the Blue Side, is available. Featuring 13 all-original
vocal & instrumentals, with guest fiddler Joyce
Andersen and liner notes by Jim
Hurst, IBMA Guitarist of the Year, 2001 & 2002.
"Too Blue makes an auspicious debut with this CD, offering clever songs, good singing, strong instrumentals and great flatpicking in a well-recorded package."
– Dave McCarty, Flatpicking Guitarmagazine, Sept./Oct.2002" From all aspects, "A Little On The Blue Side" is a class production from a contemporary bluegrass band that knows how to put swing into their bluegrass."
– Les McIntyre, Bluegrass Unlimited magazine, Oct.2002
Send check or money order
for $15 + $2 S&H per CD to: Too Blue, 35 Heritage Dr., Woodbury,
CT 06798. US orders only; foreign orders please email
for price.
Reviews
* Click here
to read the CD review by Joe Ross on the California Bluegrass Assoc.
website, Aug. 2003
* Click here
to read the CD review in Taconic Weekend, 2/6/03.
* Click here to read the CD review in Flatpicking
Guitar magazine, Sept/Oct 2002.
Download free 30-second mp3 samples by clicking on highlighted tracks.
1. The
Leaving Kind
2. Blue Side
3. Two Dogs
4. Start All Over
5. Three Rivers
6. When the Bloom Is Off the Rose
7. Too Good To Be Bad
8. Morning Dew
9. Too Little Too Late
10. Brand New Blues
11. Emma's Dilemma
12. Bad News
13. Full Time Job
~ Too Blue will perform in a showcase at the 2010 Joe Val Indoor Bluegrass Festival, hosted by the Boston Bluegrass Union. Lots of great artists & workshops, one of the best bluegrass festivals in the U.S. More info to come... Check out the festival: www.bbu.org/jv_schedule.htm
~ Too Blue is currently in the studio, recording our next album project. Recording is going well -- we hope to release in 2010.
Mailing
List
Send us an email
with your name, address and email address, and we'll keep you up-to-date with
our latest news & events.
Links
Here's some sites
you may want to visit:
ibluegrass.com -- bluegrass
news, reviews, interviews
Mockingbird Music
-- Glenn Nelson, luthier in central MA; Joan plays a Mockingbird banjo. See
Joan's profile here.
Flatpicking Guitar Magazine
-- great flatpicking guitar site
NY Bluegrass -- NY/NJ/CT regional
calendar & info
Hudson Valley BG Assoc.
-- jam sessions, events in the Hudson Valley NY area
Boston Bluegrass Union -- info
about New England bluegrass events
International Bluegrass Music Assoc.
-- trade organization for bluegrass music
Rosendale Cafe -- acoustic
venue and vegetarian cuisine, Rosendale NY
The Guitar Specialist
-- Doug Proper, luthier in S.Salem NY, also a fine jazz guitarist
Out to Lunch -- great
band in NY state, featuring our own Michael Sassano
CTBMA
-- Connecticut Bluegrass Music Association, info about CT bluegrass scene
Darwin Davidson -- bluegrass photographer
& radio personality, WERU-FM, Deer Isle ME
Contacts
Joan Harrison
Betsy Rome