Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Folks Worth Saving
Folk Arts Rare Records owner Lou Curtiss was recently awarded $35,128 by the Grammy Foundation Grant Program to preserve 400 tapes of concert performances.
"It only covers a fraction of my collection, but it's a start," he says. "I got my first reel-to-reel recorder in 1957, and I have over 8000 reels of live shows." The Grammy Foundation this year awarded a total of $650,000 to 18 recipients; the money will be used to preserve music and for research projects. The UCLA Library and the Library of Congress will be digital repositories for copies of Curtiss's tapes.
"I taped all 20 years of the San Diego Folk Festival," says Curtiss, referring to the annual event he launched at SDSU in 1967, "and a lot of Adams Avenue Roots Festivals. The local events go all the way back to the early '60s, with guys like Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and a Big Joe Williams concert I taped around 1960.... Aside from what I taped, I've acquired several collections, including one from a guy who used to follow the Duke Ellington Band and tape them in the '50s."
Curtiss says it's been a challenge to choose which 400 tapes to preserve. However, the oldest tapes aren't his biggest concern.
"The stuff from the '60s and '70s on their original reels hasn't deteriorated much. It's the tapes from the '80s that are fading [because] they were using inferior-quality components. Those are the recordings that need to be saved before they're gone forever."
Here's something you might be interested in.
Folks Worth Saving
Folks Worth Saving
Folk Arts Rare Records owner Lou Curtiss was recently awarded $35,128 by the Grammy Foundation Grant Program to preserve 400 tapes of concert performances.
"It only covers a fraction of my collection, but it's a start," he says. "I got my first reel-to-reel recorder in 1957, and I have over 8000 reels of live shows." The Grammy Foundation this year awarded a total of $650,000 to 18 recipients; the money will be used to preserve music and for research projects. The UCLA Library and the Library of Congress will be digital repositories for copies of Curtiss's tapes.
"I taped all 20 years of the San Diego Folk Festival," says Curtiss, referring to the annual event he launched at SDSU in 1967, "and a lot of Adams Avenue Roots Festivals. The local events go all the way back to the early '60s, with guys like Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and a Big Joe Williams concert I taped around 1960.... Aside from what I taped, I've acquired several collections, including one from a guy who used to follow the Duke Ellington Band and tape them in the '50s."
Curtiss says it's been a challenge to choose which 400 tapes to preserve. However, the oldest tapes aren't his biggest concern.
"The stuff from the '60s and '70s on their original reels hasn't deteriorated much. It's the tapes from the '80s that are fading [because] they were using inferior-quality components. Those are the recordings that need to be saved before they're gone forever."
Comments