Oregon family band steals show at Bitterroot Scottish Irish Festival

Stealing the stage...IMPORTANT:  I WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THIS ACT! BERATING ME COULD RESULT IN SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH!  On a serious note, our last appearance turned out quite well, both in attendance and performance.

 The Order of Epona.  There was some awesome sword-play towards the end of the show, even though things started out a little slow.  Perhaps they were still feeling a little stiff-necked. ;)

My favorite horse

The jousting was pretty good, although it had a kinda bad effect on me...

While hiking in the Bitterroot Mountains the following day, I had the sudden urge to start lancing things...how strange.

The girls do not want to be recognized as having written this post.  Therefore, I am supposed to sign my name.

~Noah

Booher Family Music Camp 2011

We closed our July with a week at Booher Family Music Camp. Once again, we had an awesome time, which by no means can fully be captured on camera. A little taste of our week follows...

We headed south a day early so we could go the the Booher family reunion concert. It was a mish-mash of different combinations of the family and instruments, and it goes without saying, very fun! Here are six Booher brothers (minus Ned and Meriwyn) and our lovely hosts, Mama and Papa Booher!

Back by popular request, The Musical Spasm topped off the reunion concert. Can you tell who's playing what????

So, a entire week of music and fellowship commenced in this lovely valley.

There are no pictures of the classes as we were too busy learning to think about a camera! Kathrina learned several fiddle tunes a day, Noah and Dad worked on chords and strumming patterns, Mom persevered through hours on the bass, Sarah spent all week in the company of diminished chords and boogie woogie riffs, and Krista drifted between the piano and fiddle classes, learning tunes on her recorders. Janna stayed back at camp and practiced for her upcoming harp gigs.

There is a concert of some kind most evenings, including family night, where all the family units get up and perform. Someone usually steals the show, and this year it was this little guy on his fiddle!

Not to be outdone, these friends worked up their own version of the musical spasm!

Our family shared two songs, including our arrangement of the song we helped write for in the piano class last year. And no, Jamie is not part of the Bisceglia family, but she is Italian and plays the cello beautifully, so we adopted her as an extra sister for this performance!

Another evening we all look forward to is Band Scramble night. Students are randomly combined in to bands, each led by a teacher, and expected to arrange a performable song in two afternoons! Janna joined one of the bands with her harp.

Noah's band scramble "Bob's Blind Brother's Boogie Woogie Band" played a boogie woogie, with lyrics, sunglasses and everything!

How often do you see two Sprinter vans next to each other?

On the last evening, the made the teachers do a band scramble, where they had to randomly draw instruments out of a hat, and couldn't get the instrument they taught that week! Do you see the concerned looks on their faces?

This was the most hilarious moment of the entire week! Who knew that professionals could sound so awful?!

To redeem themselves, all the teachers had to take back their instruments and play us a tune the way it was meant to be played!

Some of the best times are the hardest to capture, such as singing and jamming together in the evenings.

A heart felt thank you to the teachers who made the week possible! God bless you!

~Sarah

We're famous...

...locally at least!  An article about us and our upcoming concert came out in the Clackamas Review today! Read it here.

Hayden's Helping Hands Promotional Video

Here is the trailer I put together for the Hayden's Helping Hands benefit concert we are doing August 20th.  I hope this video will inspire you to come!

~ Janna