2nd Munich Banjo-Camp

Adiaha Bürkmiller from Munich reminds us that the 2nd Munich Banjo-Camp takes place 7th to 9th November 2008. The 5-String-Intensive-weekend's teachers are Rüdiger Helbig (GER) and John Dowling (GB).

There are only a few places available still, so if you want to participate, you have to act quickly!

Further information may be found on www.banjocamp.de or by phone +49.176.23 64 07 02 (Adiaha Bürkmiller).

Mastergrass Society at Zoeterwoude, the Netherlands

The MasterGrass Society meets at the Café de Meester, Zuidbuurtseweg 57, 2381 AE Zoeterwoude, the Netherlands. Their first bluegrass jam session of 2008 takes place on Wednesday 9 January at around 9.30 p.m.

Their 10th Midwob Festival will be held on 7 May as part of European World of Bluegrass Month 2008. If you’d like to see again a bluegrass band that has previously played at Midwob, you can ask through the Mastergrass website before 1 March, or at any meeting of the MasterGrass Society at Zoeterwoude. For more details, contact the Mastergrass Society by 'phone (+31 (0)71-5801537) or e-mail.

A pick with Tom Wolf: 5 December

Rick Townend reports:

On 5 December 2006 Grassroots are holding a special picking session to welcome back Tom Wolf to the UK. Tom is remembered affectionately by many in the British bluegrass world from the time in the 1970s and '80s when he was studying at Sussex University, and came along to bluegrass events all over the country; he even put on some concerts and ran his own band (the Wolf-Pack) for a short time. Now he spends most of his time between his home in the USA and his work in Kenya; however, he'll be spending a week here at the beginning of December, and hopefully visiting some of our regular bluegrass venues. Tom plays guitar, banjo, and mandolin.

Players and audience are all welcome to the 5 December session, which is at Grassroots' regular venue - the Eight Bells pub, at Hawkhurst in south-west Kent (near the A21 London-Hastings road); the pub is just a mile south of the town centre. Details are on the Grassroots website.