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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:27:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Winslow Yerxa
Subject: RE:ADMINISTRATIVE: SPAH A MUST!!

I couldn't agree more with Michael. And in my modest
assay of the benefits of SPAH membership, I omitted
mention of the SPAH convention. I'm very sorry to have
missed the 2000 convention, and am hoping I'll get to
go to 2001 in Denver.

If you love the harmonica, coming to the SPAH
convention (or should that be festival?) is a blast
that will charge your batteries for the entire coming
year. Meeting other like-minded fanatics and chatting,
hanging out and playing til all hours is stimuilating
all by itself. Getting to hear, in a few days at one
SPAH Festival - a wide variety of top players close up
in concentrated doses, could take you years in your
daily life.

The performers often give seminars and just plain hang
out, as Larry Adler did at the 1995 convention - one
of the great legends of the instrument, just casually
hanging about and conversing with all who wished to
chat him up. Robert Bonfiglio, Kim Wilson, Jerry
Portnoy, Toots Thielemans, Charlie McCoy, Joe Filisko,
Douglas Tate, Mike Turk, Richard Hunter, Kim Field, Al
Eichler and Phil Lloyd of AHN, Madcat, Charles
Leighton, Pete Pedersen, to name only a very few at
random, are the sort of stellar player and guiding
light to whom you can have access in a collegial yet
casual environment.

Everyone pays registration at the SPAH festival, but
it's your membership dollars that get the thing off
the ground in the first place - organizing an event of
this magnitude is a gigantic amount of hard work, with
thousands of details large and small.

Winslow

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