Ripples Across The Pond Linkup - Newtchaser

Recorded live at Pickin' Lunchtime jam session in The Retreat Pub, Reading, UK on Feb 1st 2009.

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Ripples Across The Pond Linkup
Sunday 1st Febuary 2009

Bringing together The Retreat Pub's Pickin' Lunchtime jam session in Reading UK with The Raconteur Bookshop's jam session in Metuchen, New Jersey, USA in a simultaneous two-way live broadcast.

Thanks to advances in webcam technology that comes with any new laptop or PC; thanks to Google Gmail's very excellent and free chat features using VOIP; thanks to our local college Thames Valley University (TVU) for loaning us projector and screen; thanks to Bernie and Jane of The Retreat for such a hospitable venue; thanks to Eric Mintz (former Pickin' Lunchtime regular who has since returned to the States and who dreampt up this project) and who in association with The Raconteur Bookshop in Metuchen, New Jersey organised the American side; and not least my own small part over here; do we bring together this transatlantic jam session with participants 3460 miles apart!

If you are not familiar with the significance of this occasion allow me to explain. Since many of the early settlers to The New World came from England, Scotland or Ireland most of their traditional music to this day is from that source. It therefore comes as little surprise that we have a rich musical affinity that transends lost generations. Hitherto those of us over here who are devotees of Old Time American music, and who meet up regularly at jam sessions such as our Pickin' Lunchtime, have striven in isolation to savour the nuances of our American cousin's music. That is now history, for the first time ever on Sunday 1st Feb 2009 we all sat down and played live in unison 3460 miles apart.




Despite these technological advances we still do miss Shelley Mintz home baked cornbread. Our experts are working day and night on TOIP (Teleportation Over Internet Protocol) and until then I guess we'll just have to go without.

On Behalf of the Ripples Across The Pond Linkup Team

Colm Daly
184 Liverpool Road, Reading, RG1 3PH
colmdaly@ntlworld.com
M: +44 (0) 7776 373 906
T: +44 (0) 118 967 7408

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