Channel One is at: Jiggers in San Antonio, Texas on: Friday, July 24th! 21+ Here's the map: http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&q=jiggers+san+antonio,+texas&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&cid=17557902150070967616&li=lmd We're giving out our new record "Pose & Posture" to everyone at the show! Doors at 9pm! Jiggers is under new management, and the owners are kick ass to the bands - so come support! For some reviews of our new album: http://amusicfan.blogspot.com "These guys have the chops to hang with the heavy hitters in US ska scene but also have a fresh and accessible enough sound to cross over to new listeners..." or here: www.phillyska.com (scroll down) "It is something a little different, yet also familiar. In short time the album rose to become one of my favorite releases so far this year with a secure position on my playlist..." or here: http://www.musicaloccupation.com/ "If there’s one album that stands out as different this year, it’s Channel One’s Pose & Posture..." thanks!

You're invited! Come have a beer with us! Friday, May 22nd! @ Flamingo Cantina on 6th St. in Austin. Doors @ 9pm We're playin with Ryan Scroggins & The Trenchtown Texans and Informant (Dallas). We're celebrating the release of our new album "Pose & Posture" Go here to see a review: http://amusicfan.blogspot.com "These guys have the chops to hang with the heavy hitters in US ska scene but also have a fresh and accessible enough sound to cross over to new listeners..." or here: www.phillyska.com (scroll down) "It is something a little different, yet also familiar. In short time the album rose to become one of my favorite releases so far this year with a secure position on my playlist..." or here: http://www.musicaloccupation.com/ "If there’s one album that stands out as different this year, it’s Channel One’s Pose & Posture..." thanks!

It was truly great. Lots of great talent, lots of food, lots of fun. We had a big crowd, felt to me just about the perfect number of people. The projection screens, the giganormus BBQ pit, the new stage setup: the Whipple Woodzie puts the pic in nic. Song circles went past 4:00 a.m., The Swindles, The Lavens, Thoze Guys, Stephen Inglis... the music all day was great. Actually Stephen Ingles was PHENOMENAL!! Casey did a great job on the stage.

three or four people have already sent photos from their camera.... please get them to me in one form or another soon so I can add them all together to make the slideshow that we're going to create and then leave up here all year. Here's some that have come in so far.

Renee in the sunglasses (who drove in from Silver City, New Mexico), Ann/Mom (in the red hair) Grace standing and Deirdre... and their friends around them.



Poppy Lungstuffing from Super Happy Funland in Houston. Lots of us, including me, are major fans of hers and I'm always honored that she comes to play every year. She and Dad played ukes together for a long time out in the woods.



Lots of people are just really, really, really into the spirit of The Woodzie and Robyn is one. It's not just from a handful of organizers, it's the energy from hundreds of people that The Woodzie runs on. Everybody adds their excitement to the air, and everybody's is a little different. Besides the music and friendship and food etc.... she totally gets that part of it is the nature experience. You just feel alive out in the raw Hill Country.

At midnight on 2 September, 1752, 11 days were summarily dropped from calendars throughout the English-speaking world. People went to sleep and, when they awoke the next morning, the date had changed to September 14. There were riots in rural villages--people thought that George II had stolen 11 days from their lives. [He was just trying to catch up with the rest of the world, which had long abandoned the Julian calendar for the Gregorian--but don't confuse us with facts! : ) Point is, there's abundant precedent for what I'm about to propose...] Be it known amongst all the Citizenry that a motion is hereby brought before this Assembly, to whit: that the following dates and days shall forthwith, forever, and without regret be deleted from this present year of 2009: 16 & 17 April; 20-24 April; and 27-30 April. Also, to hell with 1 May. (Be it noted that only weekday/workday dates are to be disappeared--we shall most assuredly need all remaining weekend days betwixt now and 2 May to string guitars, gather wenches, chop cedar, macramé hammocks, behead hogs, and pray for rain.) Upon affirmative vote of this Assembly, we may then begin to Woodzie 5 days hence, with nothing standing in the way but a brace each of Saturdays and Sundays, all extraneous days having been banished.
What say ye, Good People? Can I get an Amen?!!!?

If you also do FaceBook please look up the Woodzie there and RSVP. Entering a search for "The Woodzie" will find the event page.
Here in two parts is the email that went out to family and friends there:

You RSVPed that you'll be attending this year's Woodzie. AWESOME! Looking forward to us all spending the first weekend of May together.


We've just started this website: http://whippleworld.com/woodzie2009/ so please visit it - make comments, ask questions. There will be updates at that site just about every day about performers, special events, ideas, advice etc.


We don't advertise the Woodzie, it isn't a public event it's more like it's based on a max of a few degrees of separation between friends. Meaning our friends passing the word to their family and friends and encouraging them to come. It's worked for five years; we've been able to walk up to anybody and ask how they were invited and we would know the people. It's cool, we're really proud of how it's worked. But each year is a new year and we have to get those invites pulsing out there for it to happen. We could use your help with that. It's 23 days away so now is the time to start.


The idea is that if you are invited you can invite people you know who are cool. If you find another family you know would completely understand this thing and they come and have a great time that makes it all work. People come to The Woodzie and wonder where this really cool vibe comes from... it's from that process. Everybody there has been invited because somebody knew they had the right spirit for it.


A really great thing that some people do is get a couple of families to come together and setup their picnic spots next to each other and have a get together within the over all get together. There is so much room, this is perfect for that. Hell, have a family reunion on us! There is only one main motivation for The Woodzie... fun. Yours and ours and as much of it as we can stuff into 24 hours.

Happy Birthday to Us! My BD was yesterday.
Keep us posted on the Woodzie dates:)

Hey guys! I smell a Woodzie coming soon. And it smells like a campfire, some marshmallows and great music. Can't wait to see everyone again. Let me know if I can help with anything.
Hearts!

If anyone wants to play on the main stage at the Woodzie - please submit a set list consisting of the number of songs you would like to play - the estimated length of your set - and your preferred time of day to play.
Please also let me know if it will be just you or if you will need to set up a whole band before hand - thanks! Casey

So that's how it goes!

I'm already tired of this ass bitin' cold weather.....
I'm thinkin' Woodzie 2009!

Hey Woodzie Folk,
We're thrilled to host award winning songwriter,Drew Nelson, from Michigan, this weekend, 12/6. Although Drew has played the Kerrville Folk Festival a few times and in Austin and Dallas, this will be his first gig in SA. Please help us welcome him. Let me know if you want more info.

Janet