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Our thanks to the Museum for permission to use this image.

Free publicity - we welcome "International" folk enthusiasts!   sings, Zoom, performers, services!
* folk music * cerddoriaeth werin * musique folklorique ​​​​*

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ɸ Opt in to our emailed Folklife Newsletter (1 or 2 a month) at foot of page - so we can make the best use of our resources (saves us admin time)
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⎈ Summary of regular events      ⎈ Dates    ⎈ News 
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​------------ Summary of regular events -----------------------
This is a summary,  for full details with weblinks,   see by Country below (scroll down) or see our "Virtual-Folk" webpage
​
-----International Calendars summary
Ireland:  * ​FONN TRADITIONAL MUSIC & SONG: ​SESH SEARCH Ireland
USA:     * VIRTUAL SESSIONS: SONG CALENDAR USA, UK, and more
            * COUNTRY DANCE & SONG SOCIETY'S ONLINE EVENTS CALENDAR mainly USA and Canada
           * SOME ALTERNATIVE ROOTS: DIARY, LISTINGS, AND MORE USA and world
​------Day Varies summary
USA:           Varies     •LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, Boston (signup via website)
------Sunday summary
USA:           Weekly • LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE BALLAD or CHANTY SING, Boston (signup via website)
Israel:        Weekly • LET'S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!), Jerusalem (email)
USA:           1st •       Virtual SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM’s SEA CHANTEYS & MARITIME MUSIC, NYC (signup via website)
------Saturday summary
​USA:          2nd •      NH, PMFF CHANTEY SING, Portsmouth (direct link)
Germany: Last •     Bad Kissingen ENGLISH FOLK CLUB online Concerts (FB)
USA:         Monthly* • NY, SYRACUSE PUB SING, NY (email)
USA:         Monthly* • CA. SF MARITIME ASSOCIATION CHANTEY SING, San Francisco (direct link)                 [ Monthly* = once a month, week varies*¨]

​------------ Dates ---------------------------------------------------------

At least 3 weeks notice for dates, please - we can circulate in our 'Folklife Newsletter'.    By email please - we can't easily copy info from Zoom chats

ɸ   Bad Kissingen    ENGLISH FOLK CLUB.  Online Concerts, the last Saturday of every month
See below for next concert 24th April 2021 20:00 (Germany time), musicians who would like to appear are welcome to send their contributions of home videos made especially for the evening no later than 18th April 2021.

​ɸ  USA   Boston: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,  
     includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern​
​APRIL
  • Sunday, April 11: Ballad Sing (host Phillip Nimeskern)
  • Thursday, April 15: Lynn Noel and Nora Rodes - Eloise Linscott's Folk Songs of Old New England
  • Sunday, April 18: Chantey Sing 
  • Friday, April 23-Sunday, April 25: NEW ENGLAND FOLK FESTIVAL (NEFFA)
  • Saturday, April 24: NEFFA Ballad Sing 
  • Sunday, April 25: DARK (NO BALLAD SING) - Come to NEFFA!
MAY
  • Saturday, May 1: May Morning - Sing Up the Sun 5;30-8:30 am EDT
  • Sunday, May 2: Tavern Sing
  • Saturday, May 8: Strong Songs, Strong Women with Janie Meneely
  • Sunday, May 9: Ballad Sing  (host Phillip Nimeskern)
  • Sunday, May 16: Chantey Sing
  • Thursday, May 20: Alex Sturbaum in Concert
  • Sunday, May 23: Ballad Sing
  • Sunday, May 30: Open Sing

International folk news pages below

News pages from FW: Folklife West magazine: news items from International sings/sessions, mostly folks we met whilst out a-Zooming. Including Zoom sessions links.  Some enthusiasm that we thought would be of interest to our readers.
​The NEWS PAGES below cover:  --- Venues  --- Performers   --- Media   --- Services  --- Workshops Providers
    --- for  Folklife Members:  Festivals & Workshops, adverts and fully-detailed diary listings  - see our Festival & Workshop webpage
    --- for  Folklife Societies, Folklife Studies & Institutions, Seasonal Celebrations - see our Folklife Traditions website

We're always glad to hear from enthusiasts who'd like to join us at Folklife magazine (3 per year), for your news plus your Directory listings.
Annual Membership is £18 a year, for posted UK (but £2 credit for this smaller issue), or for PDF via WeTransfer worldwide, see foot of page. 
ɸ --- News from: Germany, Ireland, Israel, USA. More countries welcome!
​        USA: ---- calendars & resources --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        then news from (so far): ---California--- ---Mass--- ---NH--- ---NY--- ----Ohio---

​------------ Germany ---------------------------------------------------
ɸ   Bad Kissingen    ENGLISH FOLK CLUB.  Online Concerts, the last Saturday of every month, with musicians and singers. An entertaining, varied and highly entertaining evening.  See www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen
As long as there is still. a Conona-shut down at the venue we try to put on a Public Viewing in the old City Hall.  [added 3 Nov 2020]
        2020 gave us the Online version of the English Folk Club (EFC), which kept the EFC philosophy active 'A platform for all kinds of musicians, whether young or old either beginners, semi-professionals or professionals to entertain on a stage and feel the magic of playing in front of an audience.'
This gave an opportunity for musicians not only from German but also from India, Turkey, Slovakia, Africa, the USA, and England to play in spite of the Corona restrictions.
It will be a while before the EFC Venue, KissVino, opens again, but patience is indeed a virtue.
In Facebook and YouTube you can see the photo album 2020..
   The March English Folk Club session is now uploaded in Facebook and Youtube. 
   The April Online edition of the English Folk Club in Bavaria will be streamed and can be seen Live in 
Facebook and Youtube and Linked on the 24th April 2021 20:00 (Germany time)
      Musicians who would like to appear are welcome to send their contributions of home videos made especially for the evening no later than 18th April 2021.
      For more info, email english.folk.club<at>gmail.com
      Our best musical regards
https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen

​------------ Ireland -------------------------------------------------------
ɸ   FONN TRADITIONAL MUSIC & SONG: SESH SEARCH  Sessions in Ireland   http://fonn.online/index220.htm
   The Fonn website covers traditional music and song --  fonn is the Irish for an air or a tune. But it can also mean desire or enthusiasm. This website is enthusiastic about airs and tunes – traditional music and song.
   The Sesh Search provides information on events in which audience members take turns to perform (events where audience members simply listen to featured performers are indicated in a Gig List).

ɸ   Brendan Kennedy has been singing traditional/folk songs for many years and is well known in the singing clubs in and around Dublin, such as “An Góilín”, “The Clé Club”, “Croonerista” and many others. Originally from Dublin but now living in Maynooth, he was introduced to folk singing by Phil Callery of The Voice Squad in the 1990’s when Phil was a regular attender at traditional sessions in Áras Chrónáin Cultural Centre, where Brendan was a member.
       In 2019 he recorded his first CD “In Good Company” which includes a mixture of folk songs from Ireland, England and Scotland. Older, traditional songs such as “Matty Groves” and “The Limerick Rake” are included alongside more recent songs such as “The Lifeboat Prayer” and 2 original songs, “One More Day With You” and ”Mary Woods”. A host of talented musicians that he has met over the years provide accompaniment on mandolin, fiddle, guitar, bouzouki, flute and bodhrán while he is also joined on vocals on 2 tracks by Niamh Parsons.
      For further information contact Brendan at  brendan12k34kennedy <at> gmail.com

​------------ Israel ---------------------------------------------------------

​ɸ  Jerusalem. LET’S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!) from Jerusalem, Every Sunday 8:15 to 10:30pm Jerusalem time  [6.15 to 8.30pm UK time].  For the link please send an email to pgbacal <at> gmail.com      [added 28/10/2020]
​As well as these NEWS pages .............  we have an online DIRECTORY giving FULL LISTINGS for our FOLKLIFE MEMBERS.
​We have some members outside our 'usual' area, listed in our Directory; no international members as yet - more members welcome!

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And ! .............  our  FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS website has ARTICLES and an ARCHIVE.
IN THIS ISSUE: ARTICLES:   ◊ ‘The Leaving of Liverpool’, by Roy & Lesley Adkins.   ◊ ‘A New York State Folk Tale’, from Catherine LaBier  by Gwilym Davies.  
◊ ‘Y Ferch o’r Scêr’ / ‘The Maid of Sker’’,  Welsh traditional tune, and song, Arr. Helen Adam.
Plus Book reviews, Folklife Societies news & diary, Books and Recordings announced.
​​
​------------ USA -----------------------------------------------------------

​ɸ ---  firstly, Calendars & resources,   then news by state:  California, Mass, NH, NY, Ohio

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​------------ USA: calendars & resources ----------------------
ɸ  CALENDAR of VIRTUAL SONG SESSIONS   An invaluable resource for USA, UK, & more bostonsongsessions.org​/virtual-sessions  (as pictured on rlght) 
​    A calendar of online (mostly zoom-based) pub sings, chantey sings, & ballad sessions that have started up under the Coronavirus lockdown. 
    Unless your browser is confused, times should display in your timezone. Note that some of the sessions require registering in advance. 
    Some of them also have an associated tip jar of some sort. The location listed for an entry is a rough indication of where the founders are based. It's maintained jointly by Clara Jordan (Sheffield, UK) & Jeff Keller (Somerville, MA, USA). For individual session queries, contact  that session.
        Please send corrections, additions, and suggestions to: virtualtradsession gmail.com

ɸ COUNTRY DANCE & SONG SOCIETY'S ONLINE EVENTS CALENDAR CDSS, mainly USA and Canada
Check out the Country Dance and Song Society’s online events calendar There are dozens of virtual events posted every week for traditional singers, musicians, and also dancers. Most of the events are hosted by Americans & Canadians but anyone can join and there are some events hosted by enthusiasts from other parts of the world as well. 
Country Dance and Song Society’s online events calendar (https://www.cdss.org/community/events-calendar)

ɸ SOME ALTERNATIVE ROOTS: DIARY, LISTINGS, AND MORE   Resources: USA and world   www.somealternativeroots.com
      Resources website, with webpages ‘Listen’, ‘Watch’. ‘Support’, ‘Participate’, ‘Learn’.
The ‘Participate’ webpage includes virtual events: www.somealternativeroots.com/participate
and is a gateway to more pages, including virtual ‘Dance’, ‘Play’, ‘Sing’, “Festivals’, ‘Concert Calendar’.
ɸ   and also see Ireland calendar from Fonn
​​
​------------ USA: California ------------------------------------------
ɸ RICHARD ADRIANOWICZ 
   We were impressed by Richard's fine performance of quite a number of shanties previously unknown to us.  His website www.walkashore.com includes very comprehensive notes about individual songs, and lyrics.
    I've been singing and playing since the late 1960s. Born in Germany, grew up in Chicago, moved to California in the late 1970s. Folk music is such a broad description - I am mainly interested in traditional song although I do some more modern stuff.  I used to play a lot of Irish music, something I've given up recently. I play guitar, tinwhistle, and fiddle. I've performed with several bands over the years. Around 2000 I started focusing on sea shanties, recorded a solo shanty album in 2002, Time Ashore is Over. After that Peter Kasin and I formed a duet and we recorded four shanty albums together: Boldly From the Westward, Cast Off Each Line, With Shipmates All Around, and We'll Haul & Sing Together.  Peter Kasin leads our local shanty (chantey) sing at Hyde Street Pier, part of the San Francisco National Historic Park. Peter and I have performed at Mystic Seaport several times and we have performed all around the SF Bay Area. Oh, and I've been to the Chicago Maritime Festival - if you search YouTube for Richard Adrianowicz you will find a video of me leading the shanty Mister Stormalong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb8LT0sBg1Y
www.walkashore.com

ɸ RIGGY RACKIN: SIMPLE
  A fine singer that we’ve “met” on Zoom; his website www.riggy.com contains some interesting and thoughtful writings, as well as details of his recordings etc.  His latest album is "Simple” - simple, well-chosen and relatively unfamiliar folksongs, with sparse concertina accompaniment. Here’s the tracks:
    Up in the Morning Early.  Scots parlor song, from Nancy Koch.    Drown it in the Bowl. Art song (W. D. Biggs,  1802), good advice: if you’re sick or sad, get drunk.   Erin Grá Mo Chroí.  I love this Irish emigration song set in New Yawk.  NY Mining Disaster. Barry Gibb never told us why his song was called that.   My Resting Place. “Mayn Rue Plats”, Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923), translated by June Tabor, now synonymous with the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire deaths of 146 textile workers.  Lassie with the Yellow Coatie. The Elliots of Birtley.  Not a girl wearing a yellow coat; she had blonde hair !     English Ale. Harvey Andrews hit the target square in the middle.   Do Li A.  A well-known and loved Newcastle camp-follower. Louie Killen.    Drink Puppy Drink from Bill Crawford, I thank him heartily!  The Bohemian Dreams.  Marla Fibish: Robert Service poem (a lazy life in 1920s Paris) with a Quebecois waltz clog.  Storms Out on the Ocean.  Eternal love that lasts in spite of it all. The Carter Family.  We Shall Overcome. A gospel song became a protest song.   All the Good People. Ken Hicks, then beautifully re-written by Carol Holdstock.   
    Download available by PayPal, details see website www.riggy.com

ɸ BEV PRAVER is another talented American we've met whilst out a-Zooming.  Jerry, who was Bev’s late husband, originally came from Cleveland Heights, Ohio (as did Eleanor!), and Bev from nearby Euclid; well known as harmony leaders and songwriters - one of their songs is on Pete Seeger's "Swords into Plowshares" album.  No folk website, but if you need cheering up, we recommend the YouTube video of their song "Velcro"!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK9NV0DdaSI&t=61s

ɸ San Francisco.  Virtual SF MARITIME ASSOCIATION CHANTEY SING.
​Monthly on a Saturday Noon to 1:30pm, Pacific time; 8pm- 9.30pm UK time. 
     Event information at https://maritime.org/evernts-home/chantey-sing/   If not leading a chantey, no registration needed.
     Day of event link to enter for live streaming: https://GikveButter.com/ChanteySing
     To pre-register to lead a chantey (fills up fast!): https://maritime.org/sea-chantey-sign-up/     Donations to the Association will be accepted during the event, which will be used to buy virtual technologies to broadcast more events from the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.




ɸ  San Francisco.
SF Folk Music Club https://www.sffmc.org
    Just as I was finishing our Newsletter, I heard from SFFMC.  They have a lot of virtual events, see their website.  I'll post more later.
8/4/2021

​------------ USA: Massachusetts ----------------------------------
ɸ  Old Salem in Ballad and Song by Robert E Strom
ɸ  Old Salem at Sea in Ballad and Song by Robert E Strom
Old Salem in Ballad and Song is a collection of ballads and songs that have roots in Salem Massachusetts’ history through the oral and the written tradition. The songs, ballads and broadsides describe events and give a hint of Salem’s past and its influence in helping to shape America, both politically and socially. The book traces the history of Salem not only through ballads and songs but vintage photographs, postcards and newspaper clippings.
​ The companion book, Old Salem at Sea in Ballad and Song is a collection of sea songs, shanties and ballads that reflects Salem’s rich maritime history and its relationship to the sea.
The books are listed on Amazon and through our website:
www.bobandjenstrom.com/news
ɸ  Boston: LIVE FROM THE MERMAID'S TAVERN ONLINE EVENTS, numerous events, day varies,  
     includes ONLINE BALLAD SING or CHANTY SING Sundays, weekly, 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm]
• Weekly series of ballad sings and chantey sings Sundays 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm] -- More details listed under Sunday, below
• Weekly houseconcerts Thursdays 7:30 EDT [= UK 12.30 at night ....]
• Special events (ballad workshop, MayDay sing, masterclass)
• Cosponsorship of livestream events for Folk Song Society of Greater Boston
For details see sites.google.com/view/lynnoel/music/mermaidstavern​ and DATES above
Ballad sing: a ballad is a song that tells a story. Bring us your ballads from renowned collections, local history, family tradition, or just ripping good yarns.
Chanty sing: sadly, latency limits harmony, so we will gather in a song circle for solo chanteys, sea songs, maritime poetry, and entertainments at least faintly damp and salty.
Transparent tech so we don’t waste valuable singing time. Zoom meetings for participants livestreamed to Facebook audience. Zoom links emailed to mailing list for security. Newsletter/blog links to other online sings and session calendars.
Watch live events, and view recordings of live events, on facebook.com/digitalheritageconsulting/live   Lynn Noel [added 9 Jul 2020]​

ɸ  ARTICLE:    #FutureOfFolk:  LYNN NOEL OF DIGITAL HERITAGE CONSULTING LOOKS AHEAD 
     see Webpage: Future-of-folk

ɸ ​ Digital CD release: "Gulf of St Lawrence", Lynn Noel
Atlantic Canada is rich in traditional song and sense of place. From Newfoundland to New Brunswick and from Nova Scotia to PEI, I've been exploring both the region and its music since the 1970s as a camp counselor, park naturalist, touring artist, and author with Breakwater Books. My song "Topophilia" (love of place), originally released on Crosscurrents and reissued on A Woman's Way, grew from this roots music.
This is a collection of campfire songs, learned and sung around the fire from Gros Morne National Park on Newfoundland's west coast to Camp Discovery in Cape Breton and Kouchibouguac National Park on the New Brunswick Gulf shore. French culture is interwoven with English, Scots, Gaelic and Micmac in this region, as you'll hear in the Maritime Mouth Music Medley. You'll find songs of the fishery and the lumber mills alongside songs for tramping, dancing, and yarning in the ballad and tall tale traditions. I hope that listening to these songs takes you back down home as much as singing them takes me.
More details and to buy: see https://crosscurrentsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/gulf-of-st-lawrence
​
​------------ USA: New Hampshire --------------------------------

​ɸ ​ NH - PMFF CHANTEY SING. 2nd Saturdays, 8-10 PM London time
An open chantey & maritime zoom-based sing with organizers and regulars of the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival.
Shortly before each sing, we'll post zoom info on our website (http://www.pmffest.org/) and in the corresponding calendar entry at https://www.bostonsongsessions.org/virtual-sessions
​
------------ USA: New York -------------------------------------------
​ɸ ​ SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM’s monthly SEA CHANTEYS AND MARITIME MUSIC, New York City, continues - virtually.   
1st Sundays, 2-4pm EST, this is 7-8pm UK time.  
From our living rooms and kitchens, and even from the deck of Wavertree, join us for our round-robin of shared sea songs, featuring members of The New York Packet and friends. Listen in, lead or request a song, and belt out the choruses for your neighbors to hear. Hosted by singers from the New York Packet.  The event is FREE.  
    Sign up on southstreetseaportmuseum.org/chanteysing to receive the Zoom link 24 hours prior.   The song-leader's list fills up in advance, but of course you are still  welcome to register and enjoy singing along.   If you'd like to lead a song, be sure to register at least a week before the sing.  [added 2 Aug 2020]

​ɸ ​ SYRACUSE PUB SING, Syracuse.  Saturday, monthly, week varies
Pub Sing: happens once a month on Zoom on a Saturday from 3-6 PM NYC time.  For exact dates and details on registering email Karin Howe at syracusepubsing <at> gmail.com ​

------------ For our full list of virtual sessions (mostly UK), see Virtual-Folk webpage

​------------ USA: Ohio --------------------------------------------------
ɸ ​ ​DAVE MASON  
currently based in Cincinnati, Ohio 
I was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne but grew up in Johannesburg, SA. I learned to play bagpipes at school and guitar during time in SA. Started writing my own songs 1980’s influenced by Cat Stevens, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Simon, Rodriguez, Shawn Phillips and SA artists like Fiona Tozer, Nibs van Der Spuy / Landscape Prayers, David Kramer, Koos du Plessis. Played various folk clubs and festivals in SA and UK 1990’s. Recently started writing and singing again after a 20 year hiatus. Busy working on my 6th folk album, I also have three books of bagpipe compositions available for free download. 
    Folk Music:     davemason.co.uk , 
            https://davemasonmusic.bandcamp.com
    Bagpipes         https://tummelyerwilkies.com  
    Contact me     ionasdad<at>gmail.com ​

​------------ more countries welcome ---------------------------

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