Welcome Jaybirds visitors! We're glad you stopped by to hang out with us
in cyberspace. Here's where you can get all the latest news about the Jaybirds, read old newsletters, peruse the scrapbook, find song lyrics…

Below are newsletters from the past year or so. We'll always post them here after they've gone out electronically to our fans and friends.

If you want to be on the e-mailing list to receive the newsletter hot off the virtual press, just drop us a note at: . Put "Add Me" in the subject line, and we'll do the rest.

Enjoy, and thanks again for visiting!
Your Jaybird Pals,

John, Trisha, Greg, Nick and Jim

 

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SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER

September 15, 2008

Greetings Jaybirds Fans, Friends, Family,

We hate to admit it, but it appears summer is rapidly running down the clock. Here are some latest signs of the times:

Nick tells us he enjoyed his two weeks of Jaybird shore-leave splitting and stacking seven cords of wood. We’re not sure if that’s a flat seven or a major seven cord of wood, or whether he used two or three fingers doing it…but we know he’s been pretty busy.



Trisha tells us she’s done harvesting all berries on the Gagnon farm and now well underway with jam production. We’re not sure if she used two or three fingers picking blackberries, but we’re positive every one of them was kissed (by the sunshine, of course). She says to bring your sweet tooth to upcoming Jaybirds shows. It was a record harvest.




And in anticipation of the start of the school year, Greg’s working on his dual thumb Blackberry (the other kind) skills. Sadly, no sweet tooth required there.

We’re all looking forward to a very busy fall with dates everywhere from Tennessee to northern Alberta and everywhere in between. We’re especially excited to be sharing the stage with Ralph Stanley this October in Seattle. Check our website for updates (www.thejaybirds.com).

As always, Greg and Jim appreciate visits to their websites: www.jimnunally.com and www.gregoryspatz.com.

Here’s where we’ll be in the next little while. Come on out and see us, and send along this announcement to anyone you know who might enjoy a Jaybirds show.

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Your Jaybird Pals,



Greg, John, Trisha, Jim, Nick

Mid-summer Newsletter

August 9, 2008

Greetings Jaybirds Friends, Fans and Family:

This message comes to you LIVE, on the road, from Camp Jaybird at The Edmonton Folk Festival. We are thrilled to be up here, enjoying the balmy northern weather, wonderful company and excellent performer hospitality. Delighted to be sharing stages with old and new bluegrass pals including Alison Brown, Dan Tyminski, and Jayme Stone.

Since this is coming to you from on the road, we thought you might enjoy some candid shots (thanks to Jamie Wiens) from our most recent show, prior to Edmonton, in the hamlet of Ymir, BC. Here we had the honor of sharing the stage with David Grisman. We notice Grisman’s presence has a decided effect on the audience’s response and choice of attire—see if you agree (we are under the tent, behind the dancers)….



And here are three new, young Jaybird fans.



And, of course, John dueting with Dawg himself!



Most importantly, here is our schedule for the next few weeks. Come on out and see us if you can, bring your crazy hats and dancing shoes (or none at all), and pass this message along to anyone you know who might be in driving range. We especially look forward to our return to the BC Bluegrass Workshops at Sorrento Centre later this month—already gearing up for the all-night picking marathons!
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Your Jaybird Pals,


Trisha, Greg, John, Jim, Nick

Summer newsletter

 

June 26, 2008

Happy Summer! We hope wherever you are you’re enjoying the extra daylight hours and warmth. And just remember: nothing enhances fun times and fine outdoor summer activities better than a good bluegrass tune playing at a high volume in the background…especially if the outdoor activity happens to be down at your local swimming hole, and especially if the bluegrass tune playing in the background is one inspired by an actual swimming hole and played by The Jaybirds, like, say…Cleo Belle or Bash Bish Falls. Swim responsibly! Don’t let the banjo chimes distract you.

A few things we’re looking forward to in the upcoming month:

We’ll be making return appearances at some of our all time favorite festivals – the Mission Folk Festival, Stevenson Bluegrass Festival and the Vancouver Folk Festival. The Vancouver Fest should be especially fun. We get to reprise our face-off with the traditional Chinese folk group, Red Chamber, and share the stage with Bela Fleck and the Sparrow Quartet, both at the same time! Whoa. And earlier in July we’re playing our first ever show in Horsefly, BC (just up the road from Likely). It’s an outdoor gig so we’re just hopeful that the name is only a name, not a description of the local wildlife.

Other news:

Jim’s now got easy purchase links through his website for his terrific new instructional DVD, “The Art of Rhythm Guitar.”



Check that out at www.jimnunally.com.

Greg is excited to be visiting Inuvik, NWT, with his wife Caridwen in June-July, team-teaching fiddle with her for “Strings Across the Sky.” If you look at the map of North America, go north and just keep on going north pretty much until you can’t go any further, you’ll see it, right there by the Arctic Ocean on the balmy McKenzie Delta. Talk about lots of daylight hours! Check his website (www.gregoryspatz.com) for pictures in a week or so. We’re told the mosquitoes up there are bigger than…horseflies. Likely? Maybe more like hummingbirds.

Here’s a complete listing of where you can come hear us, and when, through July. Come on out if you can. And as always, feel free to stop on by at our website for a virtual visit – get lyrics to your favorite Jaybirds songs, look at pictures, read old newsletters and more.
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Your Jaybird Pals,



Greg, John, Trisha, Jim, Nick