BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML WPForms//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Feeds v3.11.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Off Square On Air | Pilot Show | Hybrid Event! X-WR-CALDESC:Off Square Music X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20220313T080000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20220313T080000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Off Square On Air | Pilot Show | Hybrid Event! DESCRIPTION:Off Square On Air is brought to you by Off Square Music and the Woodstock Opera House\n\n\n\nOff Square on Air is a series of two-ho ur concert/interview shows. We are excited to invite you to this pilot f or what we hope will become a major real-time and online contribution to great music. \n\n\n\nOur first concert\, Wednesday\, September 7\, 7:00 pm CDT brings you Don Stiernberg and John Parrott (see below for more i nformation).\n\n\n\nHosted by Joe Pesz\, each event in the series featur es a performer or a group of performers bringing us what we love -- thei r music. But there's more! \n\n\n\nAs host\, Joe Pesz chats with perform ers between songs\, drawing out their unique stories\, thoughts\, experi ences\, and tips. The live audience is invited to become co-creators\, a dding to the experience with their own questions\, comments\, and storie s. Zoom attendees -- you too are invited to join in via Chat!! \n\n\n\nS hows are ticketed events in person and for live-streaming on Zoom. Reser ve in advance for live shows as well as to receive the Zoom link for the live-stream. \n\n\n\nCheck back to this page for new information - conc ert-related sales and possible contests or giveaways!\n\n\n\nTickets –  \;Purchase Here (bottom of this page)\n\n\n\nAttend at Stage Left.& nbsp\;Tickets are \;$15.00/pp to attend the live event \;at Stag e Left Cafe. \;Get your tickets for the live event here\, at the bot tom of this page.\n\n\n\nAttend via Zoom. \;You can also enjoy the c oncert from home! Tickets are \;$10.00/pp to attend via Zoom. \; Get your Zoom tickets here\, at the bottom of this page. Prior to the ev ent\, we’ll send an email with the Zoom link to everyone who purchased tickets.\n\n\n\nFollowing live shows\, events are edited to one-hour we bcasts and made available as a webcast in the Off Square Music website V ideo Gallery.\n\n\n\nOff Square on Air presents Don Stiernberg &\; Jo hn Parrott \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDon Stiernberg \n\n\n\nDon recently began his fifth decade as a working musician. Along the way he has been involved in many musical activities: performing\, writing\, recording\, producing \, and teaching\, but is best known for his mandolin playing. \n\n\n\nBo rn and still based in Chicago\, the mandolin found Don as he grew up “ out in the woods” in the nearly-rural suburb of Wauconda\, Illinois. A desire to make music with his banjo and guitar playing brother led Don to appropriate a mandolin that had been given to him. \n\n\n\nThings cam e into focus both mandolin and life-wise when his parents sent Don to st udy with Jethro Burns\, famous comedian (Homer and Jethro) and the great est mandolinist of his time. From the very first lesson\, Burns was more than a teacher. He was role model\, hero\, mentor\, and friend\, and St iernberg was hooked and hooked bad on the mandolin. His earliest profess ional experience was in a bluegrass band with his brother (The Morgan Br os.) and a bit later in The Jethro Burns Quartet.\n\n\n\nCurrently Don i s regarded as a leading exponent of jazz mandolin style\, and a respecte d teacher. \n\n\n\nThe most recent of his nine recording projects is “ Good Numbers\," a collection of standards and jazz tunes played by his w orking band\, The Don Stiernberg Trio. Also released in 2016 were three online video instructional courses for Soundslice.com. \n\n\n\nThe trio has performed coast to coast as well as in Germany and Brazil. Don conv eys his love of the mandolin and music at events such as The Mandolin Sy mposium (CA)\, The Swannanoa Gathering (NC)\, Django in June (MA)\, Mand olin and Guitar Camp North (MA)\, Steve Kaufman Acoustic Camp (TN)\, Riv er of the West Mandolin Camp (OR)\, Cape Cod Mandolin Camp (MA)\, Ashoka n Swing Week (NY)\, Accademia Internacionale di Mandolino (Italy)\, Euro pean Mandoline Akademy (Germany)and Momento Rio Bandolim (Brazil).\n\n\n \nJohn Parrott \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn is "a superb rhythm guitarist based in Wisconsin. He performed with Jethro Burns after Homer Haynes passed a way. John's great rhythm playing can be heard on many recordings\, inclu ding 'The Swing Sessions' with Don Stiernberg and Jim Cox." ~ Editor's N ote on a piece about Freddie Green by John Parrott: https://www.freddieg reen.org/technique/parrott.html\n\n\n\nJohn "is a rare species in the va st genus of acoustic guitarists. He plays the archtop rhythm guitar in a style that was common from the 1930s to the 1950s (think Count Basie\, Frank Sinatra\, and Bob Wills). For forty years he's applied his skills\ , sensibilities\, and adult chords to the field of String Jazz\, backing up such luminaries as John Hartford\, Vassar Clements\, and Steve Goodm an. John is especially noted for his many years of laying down the swing ing pulse for the great jazz mandolinists Jethro Burns and Don Stiernber g. John currently works and records with Milwaukee musicians Chris Hanso n\, Robin Pluer and an assortment of jazz and swing artists." ~ From Ist hmus Jan. 7\, 2020\n\n\n\nJohn is "'Guitar George'…he knows all the ch ords…” (Sultans of Swing) ~ From Rich Prezioso\n\n\n\nOff Square on Air host\, Joe Pesz\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoe is a well-known figure in Woodsto ck music circles. He is on the board of Off Square Music and as part of it involved in organizing and promoting music in the area. \n\n\n\nJoe w as part of a well-known and much-loved band in the Woodstock area\, the Stage Leftovers. The Leftovers (Pete Jonnson\, George Koester\, Brian Mu rphy\, Laurel Palma\, Joe Pesz\, Rich Prezioso\, Les Urban\, and Joe Wad z) played twice monthly for more than 12 years at Stage Left Cafe. \n\n\ n\n\n\n\n\nInterviewing experience? Joe got lots of it chatting with mus icians as host of Woodstock Roundup\, a radio program modelled on Prairi e Home Companion that he introduced on Harvard Community Radio.\n\n\n\nW e hope to see you at Stage Left Cafe or on Zoom and look forward to your feedback on this pilot program.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPurchase Tickets Here URL;VALUE=URI:https://offsquaremusic.org/cal-events/off-square-on-air-pi lot-show-hybrid-event/ UID:urn:uuid:7c0b7db9-5972-4061-a75f-28c71e8c1891 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260430T084017Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220907T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220907T220000 LOCATION:125 W. Van Buren St. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR