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🄰 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
For more info, email english.folk.club<at>gmail.com 🄰 GERMANY - ENGLISH FOLK CLUB Update for the friends of the EFC / Info für die Freunde des EFCs As you will all know by now the EFC has been organizing Online Concerts for over a year because of the pandemic. We’re been on a summer break July – September for a number of reasons, but it's not just a summer break, it's a pause for thought too. The tenant of our venue, the KissVino, which is a winery, was till now a large health clinic, but now the city of Bad Kissingen is re-establishing the contract and it’s being renegotiated and there will very likely be a new tenant. Neither a date nor information about the possible new tenant is known. However, hopefully it will be by the end of summer at the latest. As soon as this happens, we will hopefully be able to have our EFC evenings again. That is, as long as the pandemic doesn’t raise its ugly head again. Be assured we will notify you as soon as we have the good news. If you have any questions or suggestions please let us know. Wie Ihr alle wisst, wir, der EFC, hat wegen der Pandemie seit über einem Jahr nur Online-Konzerte organisiert. Wir haben aus mehreren Gründen seit Juni eine Sommerpause eingelegt, aber es ist nicht nur eine Sommerpause, sondern auch eine Denkpause. Das KissVino befindet sich im Alten Rathaus in Bad Kissingen und gehört der Stadt Bad Kissingen. Der Pächter ist bis jetzt eine große Gesundheitsklinik, aber jetzt wird der Vertrag neu verhandelt und es wird sehr wahrscheinlich einen neuen Pächter geben. Weder ein Datum noch Information über der evtl. neuen Pächter ist bekannt. Hoffentlich wissen wir es bis spätestens Ende des Sommers. Sobald dies geschieht, hoffen wir, dass wir unsere EFC-Abende veranstalten können, aber auch was wichtig ist solange die Pandemie nicht wieder ihren hässlichen Kopf erhebt. Sei versichert, dass wir Dich/Euch benachrichtigen und Bescheid geben, sobald wir mehr wissen. Wenn DuFragen oder Anregungen hast, lasse es uns es bitte wissen. Our best musical regards https://www.facebook.com/EnglishFolkClubBadKissingen |
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‡ 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). ‡ 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 |
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‡ Jerusalem Folk Music Evening. LET’S SING TOGETHER (Virtually!) from Jerusalem, Twice monthly, Sundays. We open at 8:00 pm and the singing starts at 8:15 (Israeli time) [6.00-6.15 UK time]. We usually finish around 11pm ish Israeli time.
For the link please send an email to pgbacal <at> gmail.com We are changing our schedule, but not our link, to meeting twice a month (week will vary). It is good we are getting back to our lives, carefully, and mostly outdoors, BUT we want to continue meeting everyone and also new people. The zooms this year have saved us, and actually created lots of new friendships and opportunities to listen to wonderful performers and music and make many new friends. When this is all over and we are able to travel, we hope to visit our new friends and hope they will come to visit us. Regards to everyone, and don't forget to join us to "Sing Together Virtually from Jerusalem" [updated 17/5/2021] |
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‡ 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 🄰 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) 🄰 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’. 🄰 AMERICELTIC USA, California-based
AmeriCeltic is a user supported, non-profit service organization. Our Mission is to restore awareness, celebrate and preserve the culture and history of Celtic Americans by promoting live Celtic music, festivals, history & ancestry as well as report and comment on related current events. We maintain a public Calendar of related events here: AmeriCeltic Calendar, and a weekly newsletter here: AmeriCeltic Newsletter A weekly newsletter needs NEWS! Please submit your relevant news to us at americeltic<at>gmail.com. Read more about all our work on our About page here: www.AmeriCeltic.net/about |
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🄰 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 🄰 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 🄰 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 ‡ 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 have a lot of virtual events, see their website. |
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🄰 Old Salem in Ballad and Song by Robert E Strom
🄰 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
🄰 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] ******* SCHEDULE CHANGE IN AUG - SEE DATES above ********* - meanwhile -------- • Weekly series of ballad sings and chantey sings Sundays 2-5 EDT [= UK 7pm-10pm] • 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 --② Dates --- above. Schedule change in August - see --② 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] 🄰 ARTICLE: #FutureOfFolk: LYNN NOEL OF DIGITAL HERITAGE CONSULTING LOOKS AHEAD see Webpage: Future-of-folk 🄰 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 |
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‡ 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 |
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‡ 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] ‡ 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 list of Zoom sessions (mostly UK), see ⎈ Zoom list webpage |
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FW has 3 sections: News; also Festival & Workshop Diaries, and Folklife Traditions (articles & news) As much as possible - but not everything - will be copied online. It is a print magazine and it's not possible to exactly reproduce it online. Roughly 2/3rds - the area News pages - is on this site. UK: FW by post from Folklife: the cost of £18 includes membership = news & online Members' Directory listings International: £18 but instead of posted, as a PDF sent by WeTransfer for you to download. Contact sam@folklife.uk for international bank transfer details (no cards, no PayPal, etc). |
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This is useful for you, with Updates for News, Directory, & Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders). So we spend less time on admin/emails = more time for magazine & website. And know how many read this, & where, and so resource appropriately!
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