Fwd: FW: World Sound Healing Day 2010

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World Sound Healing Day 2010
"The Sound Heard Around the World"
Feb. 14, 2010
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Dear Sound Friends:
Help make make this year's World Sound Healing Day the most extraordinary frequency shifting event that has ever manifested for planetary peace! The following is a press release that's gone out to stimulate awareness of World Sound Healing Day, Feb. 14, 2010. If it resonates with you and you feel so inclined, perhaps you could share it with others. This is a co-creative experience we all need to participate in. Thanks so much for your support of World Sound Healing Day.
Blessings of Light & Love through Sound!
Jonathan
Jonathan Goldman
www.healingsounds.com <http://www.healingsounds.com>
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WORLD PEACE TONING AND CHANTING: A SONIC MEDITATION FOR PEACE ON EARTH
Join thousands throughout the planet for the 8th Annual WORLD SOUND HEALING DAY on Sunday, February 14, 2010. At 12 noon Eastern Standard Time (EST--New York Time), soundforth for 5 minutes with the "AH", created and projected with the energy of compassion and love, sending a sonic valentine to Gaia, our Mother Earth. At that time, please go to templeofsacredsound.org to enhance the vibratory effect as we sound together for planetary peace and harmony. Please visit this link: healingsounds.com for more information.
 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 28, 2010
Contact: ANDI GOLDMAN
(800) 246-9764 / (303) 443-8181
 
"There is a prophecy leading to 2012 thatsuggests when people sound together withtheir voice as a singing prayer for worldpeace and harmony, it can have a significanteffect in restoring peace on earth. The sonicmeditation of World Sound Healing Day is soimportant for the healing of our planet.World Sound Healing Day energizes the peaceand transformation that all people seek forplanet Earth. With our wisdom and intentionalsound, we can affect dire 2012 predictions ina helpful way - The Way of Compassion, Loveand Lasting Peace," says Healing Sounds pioneer Jonathan Goldman.

Goldman believes people making sound together can help create peace on the planet. On February 14th, thousands like-minded individuals will send a Sonic Valentine to the Earth - "World SoundHealing Day." For five minutes, meditators,peace activists, sound healers and manyothers throughout the planet will project theheart sound "AH" filled with the intention ofpeace and love!
"The "AH" is a universal, non-denominationalheart sound that when projected with focusedenergy is extremely powerful and effective,"Goldman says. He has found that creating aglobal sound such as "AH" will create atransformational wave of energy that willpositively affect the entire Earth.
An internationally acclaimed author(including HEALING SOUNDS , THE 7 SECRETSOF SOUND HEALING and the forthcoming THE DIVINE NAME: The Sound That Can Change The World), as well as anaward winning musician(including "Chakra Chants", "The DivineName", "Ultimate Om" and "2012: AscensionHarmonics" ) Goldman has found that soundcoupled with intention has the ability toheal and transform: He notes that "TheGlobal Consciousness Project at PrincetonUniversity has measured the effects of globalmeditations and found a correlation betweenpeaceful activities on the Earth and thesemeditations. We've added sound to this inorder to enhance the effects of globalmeditation." Here is a link to the outcome of last'syear World Sound Healing Day: www.healingsounds.com.Goldman <http://www.healingsounds.com.Goldman>  adds: "The results are impressive.There is a reason most sacred prayers are chanted aloud. Sound amplifies the power ofconscious prayer: it's that simple!" 
 


This 8th annual World Sound Healing Day, like its predecessors, will consist of both individual and group sound activities occurring throughout the planet. Thousands of people, not only in the United States, but also in many countries in Europe, Asia as well as Australia, will be sounding with the intention of creating peace and harmony on Earth. Goldman has created the world's first interactive website www.templeofsacredsound.org <http://www.templeofsacredsound.org> , where visitors can hear themselves sound along with others throughout the planet. Goldman says: "This website enables people throughout the world to sound together. It really enhances the affect of the sound that is created."
For more information on Jonathan Goldman and World Sound Healing Day, please visit: www.healingsounds.com <http://www.healingsounds.com> . There you will find a "Planetary Healing Sounds" section with articles on suggested sounds, visualizations and toning techniques as well as well an "AH" sound you can download and tone along with. Connect with us on MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Contact Andi Goldman at 800 -246-9764 / (303) 443-8181 or via email: info@healingsounds.com. 

Jonathan Goldman is available for interviews 
 
Contact Information
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email: info@healingsounds.com

phone: 303-443-8181

web: http://www.healingsounds.com

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Fwd: The Songs and Stories of Bob Horan

The Songs and Stories of Bob Horan

Feb. 11, 12 & 13 at 8pm

About the show: A veteran folksinger of Greenwich Village, Bob Horan was part of an era in folk music. He sang with Pete Seeger, for Joni Mitchell and at Gerde's Folk City, where Bob Dylan became a legend. Born in the bronx and raised in Queens, Bob has been a professional musician in NYC for 45 years, and he has seen it all. 

Join Bob as he tells stories and sings of his personal journey through the 60's and 70's folk movement in NYC, and learn what happened when the era ended...

UNDER St. Marks

94 St. Marks Place btwn 1st and A

By Subway: 6 to Astor Place

Tickets: $15

For tickets visitwww.smarttix.com

or call (212) 868-4444

Brought to you by the Wunderkind Consortium.
For more information on Bob, visit www.bobhoran.com

The futility of war, as explained by Phil Ochs

From: John Pietaro <leftmus@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Subject: The futility of war, as explained by Phil Ochs
To: "leftmus@earthlink.net" <leftmus@earthlink.net>


Sisters and Brothers,

Last night, like most of you, I watched as the president I'd worked hard to elect spoke out in West Point and loaded guns into the arms of future military recruits. This president who was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize, who'd served the people as a community organizer, who stood in union halls and told workers that they mattered, THAT president last night spoke words that could have come from Truman, Johnson, even Reagan (not Bush; this at least was eloquent) and drove us deep into war-mode.

Friends, we knew that he was going to focus on Afghanastan but that was before the numbers of the unemployed had climbed so high, when we thought we'd have universal healthcare and an Employee Free Choice Act. We thought he'd have the troops in Iraq home before this. Faced with the alternative of McCain-Palin, one can only imagine the state our nation would be in had that scenario played out....yet we cannot stand by as promises--not only campaign promises but the promises of a new day and outlook--are broken. There is NO military answer. As we have before in times of a liberal-leaning Democratic officials, we need to let President Obama know that his base is good and pissed off right now. As the quagmire-to-be thickens with crushing heartache, I am reminded of the lyrics of a Vietnam-era Phil Ochs song which spoke of the futility of war:

"One More Parade" by Phil Ochs

Hup, two, three, four, marching down the street
Rolling of the drums and the tramplin' of the feet
Generals salute and mothers wave and weep,
Here comes the big parade
Don't be afraid
Price is paid
One more parade


So young, so strong, so ready for the war
So willing to die upon a foreign shore
All march together, everybody looks the same
So there is no one you can blame
Don't be ashamed
Light the flame
One more parade


Listen for the sound and listen for the noise
Listen for the thunder of the marching boys
A few years ago their guns were only toys
Here comes the big parade
Don't be afraid
Price is paid
One more parade


So young, so strong, so ready for the war
So willing to die upon a foreign shore
All march together, everybody looks the same
So there is no one you can blame
Don't be ashamed
Light the flame
One more parade


Medals on their coats and guns in their hands
Trained to kill as they're trained to stand
10,000 ears need only one command
Here comes the big parade
Don't be afraid
Price is paid
One more parade


So young, so strong, so ready for the war
So willing to die upon a foreign shore
All march together, everybody looks the same
So there is no one you can blame
Don't be ashamed
Light the flame
One more parade


Cold hard stares on faces so proud,
Kisses from the girls and cheers from the crowd
And the widows from the last war cry into their shroud
Here comes the big parade
Don't be afraid
Price is paid
Don't be ashamed
War is a game
World in flames
So start the parade


-------------The futility of war continues to haunt the decisions of our leaders, even those who should know better. An excellent piece on this was published in today's edition of 'the People's World', written by that paper's editorial board. It, along with Ochs' lyric, says more about this issue than I ever could:

http://www.peoplesworld.org/jobs-not-bombs/

In Solidarity,
John Pietaro - www.flamesofdiscontent.org

Sing Out! Magazine needs help

Pete Seeger is asking us to join together to help a folk music institution! Since 1950, Sing Out! Magazine has been one of the most
effective and respected ways for musicians to share and learn. As Sing Out! heads towards its 60th anniversary next spring, its
non-profit parent -- which also produces "Rise Up Singing," Sing Out! Radio Magazine, and Pete's newly revised autobiography "Where Have
All the Flowers Gone" -- is fighting for survival. Throughout its existence, Sing Out! has always operated close to the bone
financially, but recent economic conditions, along with the current state of the print trade and periodicals, have come together to put
the very existence of the magazine and organization in real danger. If you care about folk music, and want one of its community's
strongest voices and allies to survive, I urge you to check out Pete's message at: <http://www.singout.org/donate.html>. (You can
help by passing this message on to others you think should know about this too!)

P.S. For anyone who isn't on one of our regular mailing lists and hasn't seen the campaign, you can use the link to see a video appeal
and letter from Pete.
_____________________________________
Mark D. Moss / Sing Out!
P.O. Box 5460 (for UPS: 512 E. 4th St.)
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Ph: 610-865-5366 610-865-5366 x203 (cell: 610-533-4506 610-533-4506)
Fx: 610-865-5129 (efax: 215-895-3052 215-895-3052)
Toll Free (orders only!): 888-SING-OUT 888-SING-OUT
E-mail: mark@singout.org
Web: http://www.singout.org

More info about Concert for Veterans, Sat, Nov 7, 7pm

More information about Lisa Dudley's Concert for Veterans

Saturday, Nov 7^th, 7pm

 

Johnson Ford has signed on as another sponsor.  They are donating a brand new Mustang to an active-duty soldier.  Families are invited to go the Johnson Ford and put their soldier's name in a hat.  Drawing is in December.  The car will be on display the night of our concert, on the front lawn of St John's Episcopal Church, 207 Albany Ave., Kingston.

 

Great news, Darraine Scoffield and Larry Federman are joining Gil Toro and Ed Kenney to play in Lisa Dudley's Prairie Dog band.  Darraine and Larry are in the hot country band, Thunder Ridge.  Yee-Ha!

 

Oh, and don't forget the flag ceremony.  It's gonna be great.  The VFW is sending a color guard and so are the Girl Scouts.  We're hoping to hear from the Boy Scouts!

 

You can still get tickets online at www.lisadudley.com or at Burt's Electronics in Kingston.  Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door.  Even if you can't come, please buy a ticket and help us help the veterans.

 

Profits benefit Fisher House, a home-away-from-home for families of wounded soldiers.

 

For more information call 845-757-3314.

Sat., Nov. 7th: BROAD OLD RIVER 2 CONCERT. CD release

WHO:   

The Hudson River Sloop Singers of the sloops Clearwater and Woody Guthrie, including:

Lydia Adams Davis / Peggy Atwood / Jan Christensen / Mel Healy / Bob Killian 

 Mel and Vinnie / Rick Nestler / Rik Palieri / Pete Seeger / Steve Stanne and others

WHAT:   

BROAD OLD RIVER 2 CONCERT

CD Release

WHERE: 

Beacon Sloop Club, Beacon train station parking lot, Beacon, NY

WHEN:  

Saturday, November 7th, 2pm

Admission $10

This is a concert for the re-release of the BROAD OLD RIVER Cd, with all the original 12 cuts plus 5 more and one story.  Originally released in 1986 as a vinyl record, the songs stand the test of time, and are as stirring as ever.  I am proud to have been one of the original co-producers, with Steven Stanne, and John Guth as engineer working his magic on fragile tape way back then.  The current incarnations have been organized by Mel Healy, who is preserving this wonderful slice of Clearwater history.

CONTACT:

Mel Healy

845 399 4630 / melhealy@yahoo.com

www.broadoldriver.blogspot.com, 

Fwd: HVFG 30th Anniversary Shows

Hi Bob,

 

I know you are very active with blogging and I was wondering if you might help us get the word out in the blogosphere... 

 

Here's the pertinent info:

 

Hudson Valley Folk Guild 30th Anniversary Concerts

At the Cunneen Hacket Cultural Center

Oct 23 & 24 at 7:30pm

 

Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at door, group rate $8.00 (4 or more)

Box Office:  845-229-0170

 

Directions and info: www.folksymphony.com or hudsonvalleyfolkguild.org

 

Concert Line ups:

 

Friday Oct 23

 

Hudson River Folk Symphony (premiere, written by Kevin Becker)

Melissa Holland

HVFG Chapter Singers

Hudson Valley Ramblers

Helen Avakian

 

Saturday Oct 24

 

Hudson River Folk Symphony (premiere, written by Kevin Becker)

John and Luanne Martucci

HVFG Chapter Singers

Linda Breithaupt and Harmony Fire

Denise Jordan Finley and Daniel Pagdon

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Kevin Becker

Happy Diwali from pres obama

happy Diwali (Festival of Lights)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuiAW_6XKVM

DCC Music School class on Music of Hudson River Valley

MUX725- TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY FROM HENRY HUDSON TO THE CLEARWATER

 Mondays: 11/2 & 11/9  6:30-8PM at Dutchess Community College

 In two sessions, the instructor, Bob Lusk, will discuss the history of traditional folk music in our region, and will illustrate with performance of songs, accompanying himself on banjo and guitar, as well as authentic recordings. Class participation (singing, bringing instruments) is optional.

 Tuition is $35 with a HALF TUITION of $17.50 FOR SENIORS.

 Please call Dutchess Community College Music School for info and registration: 845-431-8916.

Fwd: Oct 1st Pickin' Circle

From: DAKIN MOREHOUSE <dakinwm@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:06 AM
Subject: Oct 1st Pickin' Circle
To: DakinWM@gmail.com


October already Pickers!
And we'll be down at the ol' Phoenicia RR station with our fingers on the heart strings of the songs in our hearts.
Might you be joining us?
It might be our last at the station for a while as we have another event scheduled at the Station for next Thursday (Oct 8).
So we'll probably be moving back to Harry's Ski Lodge then (just a mile West up the same road).  Look for next week's 'Pickin' Post' e-m.
But we'll most likely return in the late Spring when Harry's Tubing Season opens again - but we still have several great performances coming up this month and through the winter at the station.  I'll keep y'all posted.
So, hope to see you under the great wooden dome, one more time - tonight.

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 *[  dakin  ]*

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Directions to the Phoenicia RR Station .. (Empire Railway Museum) 

*Driving West on Rt 28 = Take the First Right (1/4 mile) after the Phoenicia Diner (on your left).
     This is Lower High St and the Phoenicia RR Station is the first building on your Right. 

*Driving East on Rt 28 = Pass the Shandaken Eagle and take the next left turn at the 'Y'.

     Then the next Right turn onto Lower High St.      

     The Phoenicia RR Station is the 3rd building on your Left.

*From Main St. in Phoenicia (and Rt 214) = Turn South (toward the river) on Bridge St. 
     Cross the bridge AND the RR track turning immediately Left onto Lower High St.
     The Phoenicia RR Station is the 3rd building on your Left.

Fwd: FW: Indian Classical Concert at Ridgely October 11

--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Pravrajika Gitaprana <gitaprana@ridgely.org> wrote:

From: Pravrajika Gitaprana <gitaprana@ridgely.org>
Subject: Indian Classical Concert at Ridgely October 11
To: "Pravrajika Gitaprana" <gitaprana@ridgely.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 10:37 AM

Dear Friends,We are very fortunate to be able to host a performance by the legendary Indian Classical violinist Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhury. Attached is the info for this concert. Sisirkanaji has never made a recoding of any of her music. All her performances are live. We hope to see you there-7:30 pm, October 11. All donations go towards the maintenance of Vivekananda Retreat
 
SISIRKANA DHAR CHOWDHURY- violin
       
SUNDAY, OCT. 11, 7:30 P.M.
Vivekananda Retreat, 101 Leggett Road, Stone Ridge
www.ridgely.org <http://www.ridgely.org>
 

Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhury is one of India's foremost violin virtuosos, who has performed frequently on All-India Radio, as well as touring the world. She received the prestigious Sangeet Natak Academy award for her contribution to Hindustani Classical music. She is a student of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit V.G. Jog. She is a visiting professor at the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music in California.

We are asking a contribution of $20 per person for this concert

please send this announcement to anyone who loves Indian music. It is a very special event.

Mighty Uke-Killian Mansfield Found. Benefit Concert

THE MIGHTY UKE CONCERT to Benefit
THE KILLIAN MANSFIELD FOUNDATION
supporting Integrative Healthcare for Children with Cancer.

• JON BRAMAN  "father of ukulele hip hop"

• MELVERN TAYLOR "the Sam Shepard of the Ukulele!"

• JIM & LIZ BELOFF "the Johnny Appleseed of the contemporary uke movement"

FRIDAY, OCT. 2 at 9PM - $20
The Colony Café.Woodstock, NY

This concert also celebrates the world premiere of Tony Coleman's film "Mighty Uke," which premiers Oct. 2 at the BearsvilleTheatre in Woodstock.

ORDER TICKETS ONLINE NOW!
http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/festival2009
OR CALL 845-810-0131
OR GO TO THE WOODSTOCK FILM FEST BOX OFFICE
13 ROCK CITY RD, Woodstock, NY

Lisa Dudley Veteran's Concert

Press Release         Contact:   Lisa Dudley  845-757-3314, Lisa@LisaDudley.comLisa Dudley to sing for Veterans
 Concert to benefit Fisher House – a home for families of hospitalized Veterans.
Sponsored by Ulster County Veterans and SCORE
 
KINGSTON,NY—DoRight Records recording artist, Lisa Dudley, will perform with her band the Prairie Dogs on Saturday November 7;  7-9pm at St. John's Church on Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY.  Cost is $10 in advance online (www.lisadudley.com) or $15 at the door.
 
The concert is a benefit for Fisher House, which is a place for families of hospitalized veterans to stay, when they don't live nearby.  It's being sponsored by the Ulster County Veterans and SCORE – "the Counselors to America's Small Business."
 
Both of Lisa Dudley's parents are Veterans who served during the Korean conflict.  "I come by my love of this country honestly," she proclaims.
 
Lisa Dudley is well known for her musical association with Veterans and patriotic themes.   Her new album, Harley Girl, visits many of the issues that are dear to veterans of all wars.
 
"Harry Moore, my co-writer on many of these songs, was a Vietnam Veteran.  We wrote these songs to be a healthy catharsis for the pent-up emotions and flash backs that veterans of all wars face.  "We wanted these songs to be fun -- but deep."
 
Dudley talks candidly about her concerns for Veterans' health care and benefits.
 
"This is an incredible opportunity for me to speak out for veterans issues. After bravely serving their country, they deserve more."
 
According to Dudley, "Harley Girl" -- the cover song off her new album -- was given to her in a dream after a friend of hers, another Vietnam Veteran, died at a Harley Davidson motorcycle rally in Shreveport, Louisiana.  "We're hoping the bikers will give their support to the veterans and come on out!"
 
Lisa promises to play such popular songs as "Dangerous Curves" and "Angel on My Shoulder." 
 
"The soldiers love Angel on My Shoulder.  They say angels brought them safely home from battle."
 
Lisa Dudley is part Cherokee and part Blackfoot and she lived for years in Nashville working for the Native American Indian association.  She performs in an awesome collection of vintage cowboy boots and turquoise jewelry, singing Americana music with a touch of gospel and a pinch of country.
 
Her music can be purchased online at www.LisaDudley.com or downloaded through iTunes. For more information contact Lisa Dudley at 845-757-3314.          

This Friday--PEACE PATH 9/11

Please join us on Friday for Kingston's annual PEACE PATH 9/11, a vigil to promote peace and honor those who lost their lives in the 2001 tragedy. Bring a non-partisan, positive sign about peace or use one of ours. All ages welcomed. PEACE PATH 9/11, Friday, September 11, 4:30-6 p.m., Rte. 9W near Hannaford's, Kingston, NY. Sponsored by the Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston, NY. PLEASE DISTRIBUTE TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS & INDIVIDUALS. CONTACT: paulacorno@yahoo.com Paula Silbey
845-679-2821
PO Box 156,
Lake Hill, NY 12448

"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows." ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Fwd: BBC: British Library opens music vault / URLs

From Jan Christensen

British Library opens music vault

The British Library has made 28,000 rare recordings available free online. The collection focuses on both traditional English music and recordings gathered from across the globe by British-based scholars. The 2,000 hours of material ranges from a rendition of Any Old Iron in Birmingham, to performances by Ugandan royal musicians.

 

Full story at BBC URL below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8238428.stm

 

For the British Library's press release and the URL for the song files, see:

http://www.bl.uk/news/2009/pressrelease20090904.html

 

 

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Upcoming appearances

9/5/09 Half Moon Book Store on North Front St in Kingston, NY. Labor Day Songs 5-6 pm - free

9/6/09 Hooleyon lower Broadway in Kingston, NY - At Madden's Liquor Store with Jim Donnelly - time - tba

Eisteddfod (New Venue)

Eisteddfod (New Venue)
Friday, October 16 – Sunday October 18, 2009
at the Friar Tuck Inn, Catskill, NY 12414

The Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. announces a change in venue for this exciting Festival of Traditional Music. The festival is being moved from the Nevele (due to uncertain availability) to the Friar Tuck Inn in Catskill, NY. Located in the northern foothills of the Catskill Mountains, the Friar Tuck Inn has the facilities needed to accommodate the festival as well as all the amenities of a first class hotel and spa. It is about 40 miles south of Albany, NY and about 20 miles north of Kingston, NY.

This is the sixth festival to be held in New York after a 30 year history of festivals in Pittsburgh and Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The previous 5 were held in New York City and this is the first to be held in the upper Hudson Valley.

The festival features over 25 performers who are representatives of the traditional music of the US, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Canada, as well as other European regions . It has programs ideal for the whole family, and provides a very rare chance in New York to hear such diverse, and such high quality, performers all in a single venue. The Performers include: Claire Boucher, Paul Geremia, Norman Kennedy, Enoch Kent, Alison McMorland & Geordie McIntyre, John Roberts & Tony Barrand, Happy Traum, Bill & Livia Vanaver, George Ward, Eric Weissberg, Heather Wood, the Wreck Room String Band, and more. For a full list and details of the performers go to www.eisteddfod-ny.org.

Participants are encouraged to register for the entire weekend to stay at the hotel and experience all the music. A special registration rate has been set up with information and a booking form available at www.eisteddfod-ny.org. Information on day rates is also available at www.eisteddfod-ny.org. You can reserve online directly at: http://eisteddfod-ny.eventbrite.com/.

For information go to www.eisteddfod-ny.org or call 718-672-6399

[The word "Eisteddfod" is Welsh. It connotes a gathering of poets and musicians, and there is a large Eisteddfod every year in Wales. The name was adopted by Howard Glasser, the founder of the American Eisteddfod, when he began these gatherings of singers and musicians four decades ago.]

Enlist for Peace!

Saturday September 5^th 10-12

Enlist for Peace will be reading the names of those who died in the wars at the new Military Recruitment office on Ulster Avenue in Kingston, NY. We will also be offering alternative education materials regarding recruitment.

 

 

Mike Seeger in Hospice

Here's some unfortunate news about one of the giants of folk and traditional American music.

Mike Seeger has been in treatment for leukemia this past few years, and has just recently been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Though therapies exist, this sort of blood cancer (plasma cell myeloma) is considered incurable.

It is Mike's decision to forgo treatment and enter hospice care.

We are told that Mike would love to hear from his many friends in the music world. Email messages can be sent to him via Folklore Productions (his booking agency), where you can also send cards.

Folklore Productions
1671 Appian Way
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Fwd: Anniversaries

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Les Herring lesherring@gmail.com


I think it worth pointing out that in addition to next month being the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, it is the 50th anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival, the next addition of which will take place next weekend.  If you can't make it, kiss someone from Rhode Island!!

WOODSTOCK WOODY GUTHRIE FEST & WOODY RADICAL PROSE

From: John Pietaro leftmus@earthlink.net



Friends,

Well, if this is July it must be another Woody birthday anniversary. He would have been 97 this time around. Like many others around the world, I organize this annual salute to Woody in the world's most famous little village, Woodstock NY, and this year will be spectacular. Come on up to Woodstock early---check out the galleries, the shops, the memorobilia, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony (where Dylan had his home), the Bearsville site that was Albert Grossman's digs and Todd Rundgren's studio and where Jimi Hendrix lived for a time, and then come over to the Colony Cafe to celebrate Woody.

By the way, at the end of this announcement, look for the radical prose by Woody. I will be reciting this to the accompaniment of Laurie's bass and my own drumkit on Saturday evening....just one of the many reminders of Woody's revolutionary art!

In Solidarity,
John Pietaro - www.flamesofdiscontent.org

WOODSTOCK WOODY GUTHRIE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO COLONY CAFÉ, JULY 25

Woodstock NY:  Woody Guthrie, legendary folksinger and prototypical protest musician, will once again be celebrated at Woodstock's historic Colony Café. This is the third annual event in his honor. This July would have been the 97th birthday of Guthrie, who died in 1967 but has long been remembered not only by fans of folk song but progressive thinkers all over the world. Guthrie, who fought against racism and fascism as well as for workers' rights and a more equitable society in his lifetime, has been acknowledged as the father of the folk song revival that begat the likes of Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, the Almanac Singers, the Weavers, and their 1960s offspring, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and numerous others.

This year's event will feature not only some of Woody's most powerful songs but also his poetry, prose and even a member of his family. The Keynote Address will be given by ANNA CANONI, Woody's granddaughter and the Outreach Coordinator for the Woody Guthrie Archive. The Festival is very pleased to present Ms. Canoni in Woodstock for the first time.

A special feature will include guest speakers who are both journalists: DAN MARGOLIS, New York Bureau Chief of the People's Weekly World newspaper who will discuss Guthrie's contributions as a columnist for the Daily Worker, and GARY ALEXANDER, Music Writer with the Woodstock Times.
Music will be provided by festival hosts THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT who perform 'alternative protest song', folk expansionists HOPE MACHINE, Mexican revolutionary musician ZENOTE SOMPANTLE, and Labor singer JOHN O'CONNOR.  And there will also be recitation of Guthrie writings by performance poet PATRICIA MARTIN.

THE WOODSTOCK WOODY GUTHRIE FESTIVAL 2009
When: SATURDAY, JULY 25, 8 – 11PM
Where: The Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock NY, (845) 679-5342
Admission: $10.
For more info: www.flamesofdiscontent.org or www.colonycafe.com
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Art is a weapon and as deadly as steel cannons or exploding bombs.
It is the job of poets to untangle all of the knots, wipe away all of the clouds and fog.
It is the job of all artists, painters, dancers, writers, singers, sculptors, musicians, critics, actors, everybody everywhere, to join hands with the workers and root out, expose, and kill out the fascist enemy everywhere. Words must be turned against the Nazis like red hot machine gun bullets, mowing their poor, misled soldiers to the ground like brutes and monsters, blowing their factories and munitions dumps into 10 million pieces. Unless words do this job, they are useless……

I carted my paints and my water color brushes today down the street two short blocks and painted some fancy leafs and weeds and stems all around the edge of the window of the Communist Party.
I painted, "Join the Communist Party" on a strip of wrapping paper and "Kill the Taft-Hartley Slave law" on some more strips. "Lets Have a Low-Cost Housing Project in Coney Island" and "Read Your Daily Worker". Gwen, my 11 year old daughter from Texas helped me clean, sweep, scrape and paint and fix the windows of the Party office and book shop.
When we got it all done, I went in next door to a little eat shop and the soda jerker told me, "Your work is just one big, gigantic smudge!"
I didn't even say one single word. Just drunk my coffee and walked out.

I drew pen sketches for the Peoples World and Daily Worker and learned all I could from the speeches and debates, forums, picnics, where famous labor leaders spoke. I heard William Z Foster, Mother Bloor, Gurley Flynn, Blackie Myers.
I heard most all of them and played my songs on their platforms…….
Art is a weapon and as deadly as steel cannons or exploding bombs.
-Woody Guthrie

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

At http://www.parttimemusician.com about Glenn Donnellan, violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC, making an electric violin from a baseball bat.

Catskills Irish Arts Week!

There's SOOOOO MUCH MORE than classes

at the

CATSKILLS IRISH ARTS WEEK

 

CD Launches! Lectures! Tunes!

 

Céilithe, Seisiúns, Concerts

EVERY NIGHT!

 

Some Highlights:

(see the current IRISH VOICE for detailed schedule)

 

Monday 13 July, Weldon House 4:00

"From Shore to Shore:

Irish Traditional Music in New York City"

screening & discussion presented by Pat Mullins (filmmaker)

 

Tuesday 14 July, Weldon House 4:00

Paddy O'Brien's compositions & work

Book Launch

presented by Eileen O'Brien Minogue

 

Wednesday 15 July, Weldon House 4:00

Tribute to Mike Rafferty

Lecture presented by Don Meade

 

Wednesday 15 July, Shamrock House 4:00

Mrs. Crotty's Legacy

Led by Edel Fox with Caitlinn Nic Gabhann

 

Wednesday 15 July,Bernie O's 10:00

"THE OLD BROOM"

CD Launch / Listening Room Seisiún

Mike Rafferty & Willie Kelly 

 

Thursday 16 July, Weldon House 4:00

"Unskirting the Issue"

Pivotal Irish American women in Irish traditional music

Lecture presented by Earl Hitchner

 

Thursday 16 July, Shamrock House 9:00

"PRIDE OF NEW YORK"

CD Launch / Céilí

Brian Conway, Brendan Dolan,

Joanie Madden, Billy McComiskey

 

Friday 17 July, Weldon House 4:00

Irish music in the Catskills

Lecture presented by Brendan Dolan  

 

Friday 17 July, Shamrock House 4:00

Tunes & Chat

James Keane & Antoine Mac Gabhann

 

Friday 17 July, Quill Festival Grounds 7:30

Tribute to Joe Madden

Concert featuring Joanie Madden, John Nolan,

James Keane, Billy McComiskey & many, many more

 

Friday 17 July, Gavin's 10:00

GIRSA

CD Launch

 

These events alone make the week worth the short drive to East Durham! If you cannot be there for the full summer school, consider heading there for a few days at the end of the week. Something for Everyone!

 

Andy McGann Traditional Music Festival

Saturday, July 18th

Noon ~ 7pm

1-800 / 434-FEST

 

www.irishvillageusa.com

 

For more info: 

518 / 634-2286   or   contact@irishartsweek.com

 

Slán,
Maureen
www.my.calendars.net/ceolagusrince

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Fwd: An Exciting Event this Saturday

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cara Cruickshank <cara@catskillwoodlandcamp.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:07 AM
Subject: An Exciting Event this Saturday
To: boblusk@gmail.com

Camp Woodland: 1959 An Evening of Stories and Songs Saturday, July 11  7:30pm At the Pine Hill Community Center 287 Main St., Pine Hill Free Admission A Legendary and Historical Event Camp Woodland was a summer camp in Phoenicia, N.Y. from 1939-1962.  Interracial and progressive, it helped to preserve much of the folklore of the Catskills. Alumni Sue Rosenberg, Pat Gordon Lamanna, Karl and Greg Finger, and (possibly) Eric Weissberg will give a Camp Woodland Multi-Media Presentation through photos, stories and songs. (After-Party and Music Jam at Cara's House) For more info. call: 845-452-4013, email: patla@hvc.rr.com orinfo@pinehillcommunitycenter.org www.pinehillcommunitycenter.org

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Fwd: WORKSHOP ATA HARTFORD

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Debashish Bhattacharya <debashishguitar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Subject: WORKSHOP ATA HARTFORD
To: boblusk@gmail.com

-          Broad-spectrum finger picking and left hand movement

-           Raga Music Workshop with Pt. Debashish Bhattacharya

In

Hartford, CT, USA

 

 

Gurus: Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya and Sri Subhasis Bhattacharya

 

Detailed and extensive knowledge of the following topics will be imparted in this 5 day long residency/workshop program.  The workshop will conclude with a full-length concert by Pt. Debashish Bhattacharya and Sri Subhasis Bhattacharya at Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford.  All participants will be able to attend this concert by invitation.

 

* An Overview of Raga Music:

            - Raga music interpretation for both the beginner and advanced level students.

            - The historical and philosophical perspective with an emphasis on the aesthetics and literature of      Raga Music.

            - The inherent capacity of Raga music to express and interpret human nature, along with different moods and emotions.

            - Compositions and Performance

            - How to amalgamate Raga Music in your own work.

 

*  Rhythm Structure in Indian Music:

            - Different rhythmic cycles and various rhythmic structures

            - The synthesis of rhythm and melody in Indian music

 

*  The Impact of technology and modern life on ancient art of Raga Music.

 

* Raga Music in context with the slide guitar, regular guitar, and other Western and Indian instruments.

            - Slide guitar techniques and practices.

practices

 

* Indian melodic chanting and rhythmic vocalizations.       

 

 

Other details

Place: 34 Hilltop Drive , Weatogue, Connecticut

Date: October 12th, 2009 – October 16^th, 2009

Concert of Pt. Debashish bhattacharya:  October 17th, 2009

For Registration and further inquiry Please contact: bsumkol@gmail.com

debashishguitar@gmail.com

Phone No: INDIA    +919830204542

Phone No: USA 1 901 757 4567

 

 

Participants are requested to bring their individual instruments and sleeping bags.

 

--
With Best Regards,
Sannati Talukder

Bhattacharya's School of Universal Music
Kolkata, India
Phone:  +91.33.2428 6882
                  +91 9830204542
e-mail:   debashishguitar@gmail.com
visit at:   www.debashishbhattacharya.com

Seeger Banjo

Here is an article on a Pete Seeger style banjo bridge that used to be on the internet. I can't find it anymore - I believe the design is copyright free. If you click on the articles, they will get larger.

Fwd: Bob Horan-NY1 Video

From Bob Horan!

 

Hello!
Springtime greetings to all!
I decided to enter the video contest promoting our local "NY 1" news station here in Manhattan.
It was suggested by my wife Peggy to bring daughter Colleen's boyfriend Phlip Wilson to do the hearing impaired signing, along with my singing the NY 1 theme song. We had much fun shooting the video; and NY 1 has accepted our entry to be judged as the possible winner.
I invite you all to check it out at the following link.
http://contest.ny1.com/videos/56

 

*The more hits it receives the more likely We get "most viewed video status".

Thanks -  Bob Horan                                            

---

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Polka

From Les Herring

The Grammys have announced that they will no longer present an award in the polka catagory.  Too bad for Jimmy Sturr--who, incidently, is mostly Irish.

Fwd: Music and Torture - Fri, 5/15 - Bard College

The Human Rights Project and the Center for Curatorial Studies
at Bard College invite you to join us at a one-day conference on

MUSIC AND TORTURE

to be held in conjunction with the opening of, and taking place at, Olafur
Eliasson's "Parliament of Reality" installation, on Friday 15 May.

Schedule of speakers

10:30AM  Opening remarks

10:45AM  Chloe Davies, Reprieve and ZeroDB (London)
       on music torture

11:30AM  David Peisner, SPIN Magazine
       "Bring The Noise: How music found its way into American
       interrogation booths"

12:15PM  John Hamilton, Comparative Literature, NYU
       "Torture as an Instrument of Music" (on the brazen bull of
       Phalaris)

1:00PM  LUNCH  +  ZeroDB silent protest recording session

2:00PM  Thomas Levin, German, Princeton University
       "Diabolus in Musica: A Playdoyer for Painful Sounds"

2:45PM  Branden Joseph, Art History, Columbia University
       "Biomusic"

3:30PM  Keynote address by Mark Danner, Chace Professor of Foreign
       Affairs, Politics, and Humanities

4:15PM  Roundtable discussion moderated by Suzanne Cusick, Music, NYU

5:00PM  Closing remarks

In the event of rain, all events will take place in the Multipurpose Room,
Bertelsmann Campus Center.

Additional support for the conference provided by the Goethe-Institut New
York.

Please let me or Danielle Riou (riou@bard.edu, x 7110) know if you have any
questions.

- Tom Keenan

My recording reissued!

My CD recording “Slainte from Ulster County N.Y. Irish Music of the Catskills” from 20 years ago has now been reissued! If you are interested in getting a copy, contact me at bobluskmusic@gmail.com The price is $15 (includes shipping).

Bob Cohen's NEWEST PROJECT: A 4-CD SET FOR ALL OUR GRANDCHILDREN

From: ROBERT COHEN rcohen4@hvc.rr.com

Friends:

 

Attached is the story of and the list of songs on my newest CD project: "Grandson Beecher & Grandpa Bob's Songbook for All Grandchildren Everwhere" - that's GBGBSAGE in case you like to say it all in one breath. I have sung all 131 songs in the Reader's Digest Children's Songbook which is a favorite of our grandson, Beecher Woods Robbi.  The songs range from Sesame Street, Wizard of Oz and Disney movie pieces to nursery rhymes, folksongs, and novelty numbers.  I accompany myself on piana, guitar, autoharp and accordion (but not all at once!)  It is a fun filled informal rendering (mistakes included) that should get your grandchildren singing, dancing, and laughing.

 

I am making it available for $25 plus postage ($2.53) for anyone who wants to gift their grandchildren with these wonderful songs, or even enjoy it with your own inner-grandchild. The 3-page listing of songs and the story of how this CD came to be (see the attached) will be sent along with the 4-CD set.   

 

I don't have fancy-shmancy ways for you to pay, so if your interested (look over the song list) you can send a check, made out to me, to P.O.Box 651, Hurley, NY 12443 and I will mail it out to you post-haste.

 

You are the first, aside from our grandchildren, to know about this.  May I wish you a joyous and loving Pesach (Passover) and Easter and a prayer for a warm and peace-filled Spring in which the new green of the season will stir the green in our wallets and our country will, as it always has, meet the challenges that lie ahead.

 

Shalom, Bob

845 338-6180 or cell: 845 309-3041

 

P.S. The cover page of the program notes has colorful pictures of me, Beecher, and me & Beecher.  It was too complicated to send out into cyberspace but you will have it with the set.  Our dear friend, Estelle Nadler designed it.  Another dear friend, Bruce Berky recorded the whole megillah, and one other dear friend, Bill Ayton who designed my website - www.cantorBob.com posted it there. Of course, Pat and the grandchildren were the inspiration throughout.

 

Songbook Order Form & CD song program attached.

Musicians wanted

From Jim Marzano -

Dear Hudson Valley Folkies~  Anyone wishing to participate in our "Songs of the Hudson Valley" Open Mic night please get in touch as we still have a few openings.  Our "Open Mic" is not like any other as we like to present about 6 acts with a 20-30min set each.  The food is great & I always share the door with the musicians, so if you can get out your base, the better we do, the better you'll do.
keep lookin up...jbo~*(:-)>
 
 Contact Jim Marzano -

A.I.R. Studio Gallery
(Artist-In-Residence)
71 O'Neil St, Kingston, NY
http://www.AirStudioGallery.com/

Remembering the Women's Orchestra of Birkenau

Music in Desperate Times: Remembering the Women's Orchestra of Birkenau

One night only

Host:	Ars Choralis
Type:	Music/Arts - Concert
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, March 28, 2009
Time:	8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location:	The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
Street:	1047 Amsterdam Ave.
City/Town:	New York, NY

Phone:	2123167490
Email:	YakketyAct@gmail.com

Description

Ars Choralis (the group I sing with) presents "Music in Desperate Times: Remembering the Women's Orchestra of Birkenau," conceived and conducted by Barbara Pickhardt. "Music in Desperate Times" is a choral concert interweaving orchestral music with spoken memoirs of the World War II women's orchestra and songs of hope, peace and resistance.

Based on memoirs and histories of survivors of the only women's orchestra to play in World War II concentration camps, this concert recreates the unusual instrumentation of the orchestra: violins, mandolins, accordion, recorder, flute, cello, piano, percussion, and singers. The story is told through readings, choral music and representative orchestral music.

For tickets, visit:
http://www.stjohndivine.org/DesperateTimes.html

North American Urban Folk Music 1940-1960

You are invited!

North American Urban Folk Music 1940-1960
Saturday

March 28, 2009

1:00-10:00 PM

Elisabeth Irwin High School
40 Charlton Street

Between Varrick Street and Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10014

Sponsored by New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club
(Folk Music Society of New York, Inc.)

Hosted by Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School
(LREI, Inc.)

Come celebrate the North American urban folk music community of the 1940s and 1950s,

and pay tribute to the people who were part of it.

Schedule of events
1:00 - 1:55 PM: The Urban Folk Music Community: an Overview
2:00 - 2:55 PM: Women of the Folk Community
3:00 - 3:55 PM: Families of the Folk Musicians
4:10 - 6:00 PM: The Songs We Sang
6:00 - 7:30 PM: Dinner break
7:30 - 10:00 PM: Evening Concert

Participants (partial list)
Prof. Ray Allen
Oscar Brand
Anna Guthrie Canoni
Rochelle Goldstein
Dottie Miller Gutenkauf
Richard Hawthorne
Lori Holland
George Pickow
Jon Pickow
Jean Ritchie
Tony Saletan
Roger Sprung
Dr. Anna Lomax Wood
Hal Wylie
plus others TBA 

All event general admission: $40.
NY Pinewoods members and LREI faculty, staff, parents, and alumni: $30.
Children and F/T students under 23: $20.

Afternoon only or evening concert only general admission: $25.
NY Pinewoods/LREI: $20.
Children and F/T students under 23: $ 15.

For more information please visit the website www.folkmusicny.org or call 718-672-6399.

Lincoln symposium

From Les Herring

For those of you as batty about history as me, there will be a daylong symposium on Lincoln at Bard College on Friday march 13.  It will feature the Lincoln scholars Harold Holzer and james Oakes and cover several topics.  It runs from 10am to 5pm in Olin Hall on campus.  www.bard.edu.

Books for troops

I usually don't post stories like this, but I'll be playing at Donna's bookstore, the Hudson Valley Guild on 3/13 at 7:30.  Come on by and help celebrate the birthday of this remarkable woman.

 
From: Donna Favicchio brighidscove@optonline.net

I thought this was a great human interest story. ... As all of you know by now I have been trying to get rid of some books in order to make room new stock, well I hooked up with 'Operation Paperback' to send books to the troops; but on the whole, it is individuals collecting books and mailing them and/or raising money to mail them. So I, as one of those individuals, would be hanging on the those books for awhile, because our entrepreneurial shoe-string budget really wouldn't afford that postage right now. ...

 

Then a friend suggested donating them to the prison system, and went so far as to find me all of the contact information so all I had to do is compose an e-mail. ...Before I contacted NYState prison system,  I contacted Sue Story, founder of 'Operation Paperback' and told her I had all of these books I couldn't afford postage for, plus piles of hard-covers, and I had an opportunity to donate them to the prisons. ... She thought by all means that these books should go to the prison libraries instead of sitting in storage; and that to put a book in an inmate's hands could be part of a transformation.

 

So I contacted the prison. I was initially told that they wanted the books and they would make arrangements to pick them up. I was ecstatic!  So Tom Testo, Senior Librarian at Hudson Correctional Facility, contacted me, and when hearing that I had so many paperbacks and hardcovers as well, he decided they didn't have room for them afterall. ...He was very nice and in conversation I mentioned how I originally wanted to send the paperbacks to troops and have him take only the hardcover; but that I couldn't afford the postage. ... When he hung up said he would see what he could do and get back to me. I wasn't sure what he meant. ...

 

Less than 24 hours later he called back and said the inmates had collected $200.00 for postage for me to send the paperbacks to the troops! Not state money, money that they make or is given to them. I was so touched by this.

 

...If you want to donate anything to this cause go to http://www.operationpaperback.org/ All monies go directly for postage. Just a few dollars will put a book in the hands of one of our troops.

Fisher Poets Gather for Verse, Song and Stories

From Jan Christensen

    A fascinating story of the annual meeting of poets and singers in
Astoria, Oregon. Use the URL below (free New York Times registration
may be required) to hear and see the interactive feature of poems and
songs, and view the slide show.
Jan

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/us/04poets.html?hp

Fisher Poets Gather for Verse, Song and Stories

Dave Densmore, on his boat, wrote his first poem as a joke in the
1970s. Now he studies writing.

By WILLIAM YARDLEY

Published: March 3, 2009 (The New York Times)

ASTORIA, Ore. — Work, sometimes just the memory of it, is what brings
the fisher poets to this faded port at the mouth of the Columbia River
for a weekend each year.

  Stuart Isett for The New York Times

Max Broderick reads his poem. His father, Jon, helped start the Fisher
Poets Gathering in 1998.

They might wax about the versatility of a deck bucket or of romance in
rubber boots, but they also describe a livelihood that can kill those
who pursue it. And at a time when industries everywhere are in
decline, this year some said that increasingly restrictive fishing
laws had long ago taught them about struggle.

"The bailout is there for bankers," said Jon Campbell, a former
fisherman from Rhode Island, reading Saturday night from what he
called a work in progress, "but they're out to sink the fleet."

That line met rousing applause here at the annual Fisher Poets
Gathering. First held in 1998 with a few people standing on a stage in
a bar, the event now fills a weekend with verse, song and storytelling
across four sites. Given the economy, attendance was somewhat lower
this year than in the past. Then again, populism played particularly
well. Camp converged with oceangoing cred. Old salts dazzled
California transplants. Even a bad day of fishing, it seems, can
produce a decent rhyme. Or not.

"I have to set aside my English-teacher hat now and then," said Fred
Chancey, recently retired from Chemeketa Community College in Salem,
Ore., who showed up for the second year in a row, just to listen. "But
a lot of it is really good stuff. I like the blue-collar school of
poetry."

The gathering generates what Mr. Chancey called "friction," a
constructive tension between those who have accumulated real
experience at sea and those who are drawn to them. Looks can be
deceiving. Some participants seem more city than seaworthy but can
recount years on deck. Others look the part but mostly like the lore.

A few performers, like Mr. Campbell, have Web sites. Others, too busy
fishing, write only when the gathering presents a deadline. Still
others face parental expectations.

Max Broderick, 20, a junior at Humboldt State University who is
majoring in natural resource planning, has fished his family's
commercial site on Bristol Bay in Alaska each summer since he was 13.
On Saturday night, he recounted one dreamlike haul:

As it turns out, this set saves the day,

Because the fish train hits

and now we're being highly paid.

With each jag that comes over the roller of kings, reds and chums,

This business of fishing has instantly become more fun.

Mr. Broderick's father, Jon, teaches English and other subjects at
Seaside High School, just south of Astoria and helped start the Fisher
Poets Gathering. Jon Broderick said he was motivated by an interest in
storytelling and because "work was a better subject than love."

For a few fishermen, the event has helped introduce them to a new
audience. Dave Densmore, 62, of Knappa, Ore., said he wrote his first
poem as a joke while hung over one morning in the 1970s. He read it to
fellow fishermen over a VHF radio off Kodiak, Alaska. Now Mr. Densmore
gets calls to perform on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., in the middle of
salmon season and has to decide what to do. He says he chooses
fishing.

"Those are the people I want to talk to," Mr. Densmore said of the
affluent coastal residents who have shown a steady interest in his
stories. "Not that I want to benefit, but I want the industry to
benefit. We're being managed to death."

Mr. Densmore grew up on the Aleutian Islands, where his parents were
missionaries. Writing was not an early interest; now he studies with a
teacher from the local community college.

On Saturday morning, he held an "open boat," inviting attendees of the
gathering into the galley of his salmon fishing boat, the Cold Stream.
Retirees in trim weatherproof jackets marveled at his hard-work hands.

"This is the closest I've been to a boat like this," said Ted Osborn,
an architect who, with his wife Wendy, is waiting for their new
retirement home overlooking the Columbia to be completed. "We lived
for 30 years in Southern California, where pretentiousness is king.
This place is much more real."

The Clatsop County Historical Society is preparing for Astoria's
bicentennial celebration in 2011, two centuries after John Jacob
Astor's Pacific Fur Company established a trading post here. Timber
and fishing followed the fur trade. Struggle came when other ports
rose, dams were built and resource industries faded. The population,
about 10,000, has been flat for decades, though downtown is shifting
toward art and espresso. Victorian houses clutter hillsides, some
brightly renovated, others falling apart.

The most striking legacy of the past is the pilings that rise
everywhere out of the river, with no apparent purpose. They used to
support scores of salmon canneries. Now the new Cannery Pier Hotel
rests on one century-old set beneath the Astoria-Megler Bridge, which
crosses the river to Washington State.

Of course, fresh fish from the region is favored now, not canned.
Entrants in the gathering's "on-site" poetry contest on Saturday night
were told barely 24 hours earlier that submissions had to be at least
eight lines, take less than a minute to read and include the phrase
"you might be missing fish."

Rob Seitz, who cycles nearly year round through cod, whiting and
Dungeness crab seasons on his 80-foot steel boat, placed third with
these verses:

If your son is not intimidating

On the line of scrimmage,

If your daughter's report card

Is not the brightest image,

If your children are not turning out

As healthy as you'd wished,

Perhaps on your dinner table

You might be missing fish.

Mr. Seitz, 42, said he wrote only once a year, on gathering weekend in
Astoria. But he does prepare.

"On the boat, I don't have a TV," he said. "We just read."

Congratulations to me!

After 2 1/2 years of study at the Swaranjali Hindustani Classical
Music School I finally finished the first year, (level 1, Bal
Sangeet, by Pandit Vinayakbua Patwardhan). This by the way is a class
that young children do very well in. The instructor, Anjali Nandedkar
is a very patient dedicated teacher. www.swaranjalimusicschool.com

Dance Flurry

Was only able to go to the Saratoga Dance Flurry for the day. What a
wonderful time! Played dobro at some unlikely jams including Waltz,
Cape Breton and Old Timey. Cape Breton not that much of a stretch as
there has always been a strong C&W influence there. (But ow, the key
of A).

Also had a good workout on the fiddle and concertina, saw so many old
friends. Next year we're there for the weekend.

Then back to Saugerties to the Democratic Party party/dance with
Doctor Romo and the group "Too Much Fun" at the old Sach's Lodge -
Total Tennis. After not dancing at the Dance Flurry, Michelle
actually got me out on the floog for a few whirls and waltzes. Happy
Valentines!

Tomorrow Shape Note Singing.

Valentines Day Dance

VALENTINE'S DAY DANCE
SATURDAY FEB. 14, 2009
AT
TOTAL TENNIS CLUB
1811 OLD KINGS HWY.

SPONSORED BY SAUGERTIES DEMOCRATIC COMMITEE.

DANCING, RAFFLES, DESSERTS, COFFEE, TEA, CASH BAR

MUSIC BY TOO MUCH FUN*

TOO MUCH FUN plays a mix of Bluegrass, Old Time, Cajun/Zydeco, and Americana.

Jerome Cimino: Guitar, vocals
Mira Fink: Mandolin
Doctor Romo: Fiddle, Accordions, Vocals
Jim Sullivan, Banjo, Bass, Vocals
Special guest appearance: Vida Nathanson: Fiddle/percussion

The event is from 8pm- 11 pm

Contact Harriet: 845-246-1138

Romo

SAUGERTIES, NY

Who needs books?

My new favorite site -

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/

Traditional Music of the Hudson River Valley

 

 

DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

MUSIC SCHOOL

SPRING 2009

 

Traditional Music of the Hudson River Valley

 

 

mUX725 Traditional Music of the Hudson River Valley

(2 Sessions) This course will cover traditional regional and historic music of the Hudson River Valley. No musical experience is required, but experienced musicians and singers will have a chance to increase their repertoire with "Home Grown" music of the corridor from Albany to New York City. We will study the major local collections of music including, colonial songs from the Allison family, songs of Henry Backus "The Saugerties Bard" from the 1850's and songs and dances from Camp Woodland in the 1950's. Examples will include songs of the railroaders, quarrymen, lumberjacks, steamboat captains, and apple growers. We will also include 20th Century songs by folksong writers such as Grant Rogers, Les Rice, William Geckle, Ken Gonyea, Mark Fried, Rich Nestler and Pete Seeger.

 

Fee free to bring instruments to the class

 

Instructor: Robert Lusk

5005          10     7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.           (W) 2/11/09 – 2/18/09           $35.00

 

For additional information contact Julie Wegener, Director,

DCC Music School at 845-431-8916

 

OFFICE OF COMMNITY SERVICES

53 PENDELL ROAD

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY    12601

 

To Register: call 845-431-8910

 

 

REFUND POLICY

Refunds for withdrawal from non-credit courses will be given if requested prior to the end of the business day preceding the day the course starts. If a refund request is approved for a course, a $5 processing fee will be deducted from the refund. Full refunds will be given for all courses that are cancelled by the College.

 

Gigs

I'll be teaching Wednesday 2/11/ and 2/18/09 at Dutchess Commuinity College -Music of the Hudson River Valley from 7-8:30 pm. No musical experience is required, but experienced musicians and singers will have a chance to increase their repertoire with "Home Grown" music from our area. We will study the major local collections of music including area colonial songs from the Allison family, songs of Henry Backus "The Saugerties Bard" from the 1850's and songs of the steamboat captains, and apple growers.
We will also include 20th Century songs by folksong writers such as Les Rice, William Geckle, Ken Gonyea, Rick Nestler and Pete Seeger.

2/20/09 I'll be singing at the Muddycup in Kingston doing pure unabashed "Folk Music" 7:30 pm donation.

Wednesday 3/4/09 and 3/11/09 Dutchess Commuinity College - Vocal Toning 7-9 pm. Toning is very old and basic to many traditional cultures. Much of religious chant involves toning. It consists of non-verbal conscious elongation of sounds, using the breath and voice, similar to sighing, moaning, chanting yawning and humming. It has applications for meditation, healing, musical performance, personal transformation and spiritual journeys

Singing Festival

Singing Festival Posted by: "sallypotter100@aol.com" sallypotter100@aol.com Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:06 pm (PST) To folks who love to sing: Just a short message to remind singers of the existence of the seventh annual Mid-Winter Singing Festival taking place next weekend, Feb. 6-7, 2009?in East Lansing, Michigan. (www.singingfestival.com) It is?a weeknd where 1000+ people get together to sing. Just to sing. That's it. Song leaders lead. Everyone has the lyrics (no music). The songs are the real?stars of the whole weekend. Personally, I dream of every folk community having an event where everyone can participate. Why not? Over?the past few days, the discussion has centered around folk music (what is it, what are it's roots, etc...). This Festival eliminates the need, and?desire to care about?any of these definitions. All weekend long, we sing great songs...songs?which?are good for eveyone to sing along with: Motown, Tin Pan Alley, The Hit Parade, Old Time, Protest Songs, Top 40...you name the genre and over seven years, we have tapped its best songs. Song leaders are wonderful musicians who can lead songs (not 'perform' these songs - at least not in this setting). On Friday and Saturday nights we hold two huge 500-person Community Sings. On Saturday afternoon we hold 12 singing workshops, each with a different theme, led by the evening?song leaders and additional folks from the community.? Please check out the web site and if you don't already, think about producing such an event in your neck of the woods. ?If you have any questions, please feel free to email me or give me a call (I'm in the book - Lansing, MI). As we say at the Singing Festival, "Without you, there is no sound." Thanks for reading, Sally Potter www.singingfestival.com sallypotter100@aol.com

Charlie King on Politics and the "Power of Song"

 

Charlie King on Politics and the "Power of Song" Posted by: "George Mann" georgeandjulius@att.net   georgeandjulius Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:09 pm (PST) The great folksinger and songwriter Charlie King (http://www.charlieking.org) presented these thoughts at a Peoples Music Network gathering last week and I'm reprinting them here.... powerful stuff from a committed singer/activist-- G I'm imagining political music on a spectrum with the Freedom Singers at one end and the Capital Steps at the other. The variable is advocacy: Which Side Are You On? I like political songs that take sides, name names and fight for very specific goals. Every time the Freedom Singers sang they were moving along the cause of freedom and justice. I like songs that build bridges, songs that open people's minds to new possibilities. I like songs that help me look at some reality in a totally new way. Political songs should build community among the people who hear them and the people that sing them. They should strengthen solidarity and bring out the best in every person they touch. We should sing each other's songs. All of us on this panel sing each other's songs. We should sing traditional songs that that tell our history. I used to sing and record mostly my own songs. I was a lot lonelier because of that and my repertoire was a lot leaner. Our union, Local 1000, builds community. Some of the best work I've done as a political performer has been helping to build Local 1000. Utah Phillips tells us that the long memory is our most radical resource. I like songs that remember our history and make us hopeful about the future. Appleseed's recording of songs of the Spanish Civil War does that. Michael Smith and Jamie O'Reilly also did a fine recording of those songs. Karen Brandow and I have been doing scripted performances of songs from the Civil Rights Movement, 1955 to 1967. We do a similar piece on the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. These historical memories shine a powerful light on the present and offer ideas, strategies and hopes for the future. I like songs that are useful. Some times a quick parody that hits the nail on the head or celebrates the local heroes is better than a well-crafted song that floats above the fray. Concerts aren't the best environment to use music for good political purpose. There are competing demands. I'm supposed to be entertaining, I want people to like me, my ego gets in the way. Here are some settings where I do better work: The Journey of Hope is an annual pilgrimage against the death penalty. Karen and I travel with it for as long as 17 days at a stretch. We become part of the Journey, part of that community. We do lots of different work – drive people around, carry boxes, get petitions signed. Steve Earle does this kind of work too. And every time we sing the music has a purpose: to refresh and encourage the community of travelers; to open up audiences to alternatives to capital punishment; to put a human face on the men and women on death row. School of the America's Watch. I don't know any other movement around today that uses music as thoroughly and effectively as SOAW. Every time they put a speaker they follow it with a song. We hit the mic's 10 or 12 singers at a time. The focus is on the song, not the singer. We're singing to energize 10,000 people who've traveled from all over the country and are standing in blazing sun or pouring rain for 5 hour vigils and demonstrations. When the demonstration is over for the day they send us around to non-violence training centers, special interest caucuses, meetings of people on their way in or out of jail. The music is always connected to the issue at hand. Labor Struggles. The United Farm Workers taught me the politics of music over 30 years ago. Labor struggles change people's lives. For many American's it's the most powerful they will ever feel, the most democratic exercise they will ever do. Even when they lose, as they did in the Hormel strike at Austin MN in the mid-80s, their lives open up and change and they look back with few regrets. It's easy for a singer to become part of a labor struggle. The issues are clear, the targets are big, the heroes are your friends and neighbors. People are so used to having their lives trivialized by our culture, so when you sing a song that celebrates their lives, that takes them seriously it's an amazing event. It's good work and it's thrilling. I like to sing in hospice settings, especially one on one. I sit at someone's bedside, chat, figure out their age, try to sing a song that was popular when they were in high school, try to sing a song that looks at death, loss, leaving – honest and compassionate songs. The most amazing and powerful things have happened when I sung in hospice. I've never felt more useful as a singer. I think that's very political. -- George Mann and Julius Margolin http://www.georgeandjulius.com http://www.georgemannmusic.com http://www.aunionman.com Labor and protest music in the finest tradition

Seeger and Obama

 

From  http://dacurmudge.livejournal.com/

 

04:36 pm - "Music sends a message to America" (article from LA Times) reporting on the 1/18 Inaugural Concert

This past weekend I spent some time reading different reviews of the 1/18 Inaugural Concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.  Now I hadn't planned to spend so much time reading, but the more I read the more uncomfortable I became.  Across the country it seemed as if America's problems and possible solutions were seemingly being ignored by so many journalists. 

A major opportunity was missed when these writers chose instead, to focus on the entertainment ("feel good") value and superifically pay homage to the celebrities present..  What seemed truly ironic was that the one voice- that of Pete Seeger was present but for the most part ignored.  The one man who has been saying for so many years if only "we the people" could work together we could resolve our issues.

One newspaper (from a large West Coast city) ran a picture of Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen. To assist the reader who might not know which was whom, when you moused over the performer his name popped up. So, not too surprisingly, mousing over Bruce Springsteen resulted in his name popping up.  However, when you moused over Pete Seeger he was also identified as Bruce Springsteen.  Moving along, another (this time a major East Coast city) newspaper forgot to mention Pete Seeger at all. 

The majority of the press articles read this weekend made it sound almost as if Seeger and Springsteen were an up and coming folk rock group. The Presidential Inaugural Committee listed a number of performers for the event but in all fairness to the committee they did acknowledge it was not a complete list (and did not include Pete Seeger).  CNN led off their coverage with a description of the roaring crowd and ...high energy acts such as U2, Mary J. Blige, Usher and Beyonce.

All but missing was any awareness that Pete Seeger has been singing to presidents about issues of economy, healthcare, peace, taking care of our military for more than 68 years.  March, 1941 he was invited to perform for Eleanor Roosevelt at the White house honoring US military serving in WWII. 

It was bittersweet to read repeatedly of Pete Seeger being asked to join (as in back up) Bruce Springsteen on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the the singing of "This Land is Your Land." originally written by Woody Guthrie and performed initially by the "Almanac  Singers" in 1940, a folk quartet later black balled by the U.S. Senate.  Today only one person from this infamous quartet remains alive- Pete Seeger. 

The redeeming aspect of the concert was provided by(then still) President-Elect Obama when he joined Pete to share an intimate exchange between two great men from different generations both of whom have worked so hard on behalf of all of us.  With Pete's grandson Tao Rodriguez-Seeger present, one could not miss the significance of history being made- Obama and Seeger talking on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with Martin Luther King, Jr day being celebrate the next day.  Among his many accomplishments Pete Seeger also Marched with Martin Luther King, Jr.

So what can we do today?  One suggestion- go to:  http://www.nobelprize4pete.org/resources.html click the link on the left that says "sign the petition" and become one of only 23,000 people so far to sign the petition requesting that Pete Seeger be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.  If Pete Seeger doesn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize then who does?  If not awarded to Pete Seeger perhaps the Nobel Peace Prize should be retired as no longer relevant in a greed driven corporate America.

Bob Lusk on Imprint

My version of "Mary's Wedding",  "Kathy's wedding" is on this weeks' edition of the radio show Imprint. Imprint can be heard daily on Catskill Community radio www.catskillradio.org and Saturdays at 5pm on WUOW 104.7FM Oneonta Community radio www.wuow.org.

NYC event 3/28/09

 

North American Urban Folk Music 1940-1960 A Celebration and Tribute Saturday • March 28, 2009 1:00-10:00 PM To be held at Elisabeth Irwin High School 40 Charlton Street Between Varick Street & Sixth Avenue New York, NY 10014 Sponsored by the New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club (Folk Music Society of New York, Inc.)  Come celebrate the North American urban folk music community of the 1940s and 1950s, and pay tribute to the people who were part of it. Schedule of events 1:00 - 1:55 PM: The Urban Folk Music Community: an Overview 2:00 - 2:55 PM: Women of the Folk Community 3:00 - 3:55 PM: Families of the Folk Musicians 4:00 - 6:00 PM: Song and Story Circle 6:00 - 7:30 PM: Dinner break 7:30 - 10:00 PM: Evening concert Participants (partial list) Prof. Ray Allen Oscar Brand Anna Guthrie Canoni Rochelle Goldstein Dottie Miller Gutenkauf Richard Hawthorne Lori Holland Matt Jones George Pickow Jon Pickow Jean Ritchie Tony Saletan Roger Sprung Dr. Anna Lomax Wood Hal Wylie plus others TBA  All event general admission: $40. NY Pinewoods members and LREI (Little Red School House - Elisabeth Irwin HS) faculty, staff, parents, and alumni: $30. Children and F/T students under 23: $20. Afternoon only or evening concert only general admission: $25. NY Pinewoods/LREI: $20. Children and F/T students under 23: $ 15. For more information please visit the website http://www.folkmusicny.org or call 718-672-6399.

Pete Seeger-Bruce Springstein "This Land"

It brought chills to my spine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5KnYADCSms

Inaugeration Springsteen/Seeger

Supposedly Bruce Springstein and Pete Seeger will be singing This Land is Your Land together on the HBO inauguration show, Sunday 7-9 pm

Canadian Morris Dancing

For those of you who don't understand why I would find this so amusing, I used to dance with the Pokingbrook Morris Team about 30 years ago.  Pokingbrook stood for Poughkeepsie, Kignston and Millbrook and they are still dancing near Albany.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK--MQh2Lxk

Eric Levine

A tribute page to my friend Eric Levine at http://www.goldensbridge.org/GBsite/Home.htm

Rick Nestler at Kiersted House 1/18/09

Heritage Folk Music Launches Sea Shanty Program
 
 Whether you are an avid sailor or landlubber, an interest in local history and folk music is all one needs to appreciate an afternoon of historic sea songs and shanties set to launch at the Keirsted House in Saugerties on January 18 at 3pm. Rick Nestler, regionally known as the "Hudson River Balladeer", will perform songs and tales that have been collected and preserved from the 19th century through the days of steam ships in the first half of the 20th century.

"It's amazing how sailors created work songs by synchronizing the power of their muscles and voices to repetitive movements to complete the most tedious aspects of nautical life," says Bob Lusk, concert organizer. "Sailors also sang a type of shanty for relaxation called "forecastle songs" to alleviate the boredom of long voyages, so there was a significant social element to these songs as well."

A Coast Guard licensed Master, actor, singer and songwriter, Nestler learned the art of shantymen while working aboard vessels including the sloop Clearwater and the schooner Voyager. With five albums to his credit, he is best known for the Clearwater's anthem, "The River That Flows Both Ways", which was recorded by Pete Seeger.

Nester's collection of sea chanties is the first concert of the 2009 Hudson River Quadracentennial Celebration organized by the Heritage Folk Music, Inc., a not-for-profit group that highlights regional and historic folk music, folklore and oral history of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River Valley. Admission is $8.00. For more information, please contact Bob Lusk at (845) 594-4412. heritagefolkmusic@gmail.com
(This concert is made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Quadracentennial Commission.)

A New Years Day Community Harmonic Choir with Amy McTear

A New Years Day Community Harmonic Choir with Amy McTear

Joining together in heartfelt chorus with the crystal singing bowls to call forth whole and liberated living.

  We are music.  The pure tones of the crystal singing bowls have the ability to travel below the cognitive level and restore harmony.  Toning, a simple practice of wordless singing, can stir a deep remembrance of a limitless Self.  Meeting one another in the heart, we begin to heal the rift in our collective soul.

*Entering a river of sound, lingering in spaces of emptiness and silence*

Thursday January 1st, 2009  4-5:30PM
At The Living Seed in New Paltz  $10

kate clinton's organizing to "sage" the whitehouse

OK, it's not folk music -  "Saging", BTW refers to burning sticks of the herb sage to ward off evil spirits.

Kate Clinton said the idea grew from hearing about shamans who cleansed the area around Machu Picchu of evil spirits by saging after George Bush visited. 

"We are going to meet in Washington at 6PM on January 19th at the new White House visitor's center," Clinton said in a new interview. "We'll mill around there for a little bit. And then we're just gonna walk over towards the White House, or as close as we can get, with our little sage sticks and try to get out the bad spirits. So, we can clear out the bad spirits in time for the new Obama administration to come in on the next day."  (hundreds have signed up!)
http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/12/19/saging-the-white-house/

above strategy superseded -

new meeting place & plan.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG_9bGSYVV8

Becker/Keyes video to air on Saugerties TV

"The Sounds of the Hudson River Valley," featuring Kevin and Carol Becker with Rich Keyes, will be airing on Saugerties Lighthouse TV, channel 23.

The videocast, which runs 1hr 24mins, was recorded in Saugerties at the Dutch Arms Chapel. It features tunes such as "Apple Pickers Reel," "Erie Canal," "Hudson River Steamboat," and "The Burning of Kingston" among the 20 Hudson Valley themed songs.

The video was produced by Ernie Mortuzans in conjunction with the Heritage Folk Music Series organized by Bob Lusk. A DVD of the video is available.

Dates for the airing are as follows:

Friday, January 2nd, 7-8:24pm
Tuesday, January,6th, 8-9:24pm
Saturday, January 10th, 7-8:24pm






     

Happy Holidays

From my friend, musician and nurse Tom Heilein.  

These folks went on the road, and got all these musicians to play on the same recording session. When I say on the road, I mean: Europe, America, Africa, Asia etc. All playing the same simple and wonderful old song written by Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller.  It is absolutely Awesome!!!

Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A_ma2h0idk

"Music is a higher revelation
than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music is the electrical soil
in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."
~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~

Tom Siblo passes

My good friend Tom Siblo Landsman passed away Friday evening.  Tom was a tireless fighter for peace and justice in the mid hudson valley.   The funeral will be at the Woodstock Jewish Congregation on Wed.  Please check in the paper for time and more information.

 

Bob Lusk

Winter Solstice

12/21/08 Winter Solstice at the Muddycup on Partition St in Saugerties. 7-9 pm. I'll be playing songs and tunes on the guitar, mohan veena and mandolin.

Bank Letter

 

Dear Sirs, In view of what seems to be happening internationally with banks at the moment, I was wondering if you could advise me correctly.If one of my checks is returned marked "insufficient funds," how do I know whether that refers to me or to you? Yours truly, Bank customer

Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya nominated for Grammy

Dear Friend,

 

We are glad to inform you that Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya has been nominated for this year's Grammy Award for his album "Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey". The album published by Riverboat Records / World Music Network has nominated for Best Traditional World Music Album.

 

Best regards

 

Pramod Sharma
(For Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya)
Bhattacharya's School of Universal Music
204/1 Regent Colony P.O. Regent Park
Kolkata - 700 040 India.
Phone no.     : +91 33 2428 6886 / 2471 7822
Fax no.          : +91 33 2471 3250
Website        : www.debashishbhattacharya.com
e-mail            : info@debashishbhattacharya.com

Holiday Caroling in Saugerties

The caroling should be  a lot of fun.  I just got word that Girl Scout Troop 117 from the Saugerties Methodist Church will be joining us!

12/14/08 Holiday Caroling in Saugerties. Bring your voices and instruments. Meet at the Dutch Arms Chapel on John St in Saugerties and then stroll through the streets singing seasonal songs, meeting back in the Chapel for a pot luck supper and more singing! Starts at 3:00. at the Dutch Arms Chapel in Saugerties, NY.

Songs of the Earth Concert

 

Songs of the Earth

A Special Pasta Dinner and Concert Featuring Evan Pritchard, James Krueger, TG Vanini and Julie Parisi Kirby Saturday December 6.  5 - 6 Dinner; 6 - 7:30 Concert; $10 - $15 suggested donation.

Pine Hill Community Center, 287 Main Street, Pine Hill.  845-254-5469 or www.pinehillcommunitycenter.org for more info.

 Celebrate the great beauty of our planet while helping the Pine Hill Community Center raise funds to make our building more energy efficient.  Proceeds from this concert will help the Center do much needed work on our building to help us lower our carbon footprint and save on energy costs.  Less money to the utility companies means more for community programming, so invest in your community today!

 

Native American scholar, author and performer Evan Pritchard, local songwriter James Krueger, and Julie Parisi-Kirby and TG Vanini of the Princes of Serendip will present an early evening of fine music that honors the earth. Evan Pritchard has authored numerous books on Native history and spirituality, including Native New Yorkers and No Word for Time. Described as an "extraordinarily talented writer with a real talent for poetic imagery", James Krueger has released five solo CDs and is a two-time honor award winner in the Great American Song Contest.  Lyrical, whimsical, socially conscious and downright silly, Julie Parisi-Kirby and TG Vanini's music entertains and edifies, conjuring images of an old time cabaret.

 

The Pine Hill Community Center - Serving the People of the Central Catskills

287 Main Street

PO Box 647

Pine Hill, NY 12465

845.254.5469

info@pinehillcommunitycenter.org

www.pinehillcommunitycenter.org

 

You know I don't post a lot of You tube videos, but I liked this on from friend Rik Palieri-

These days you just never know when you are going to pop up on You Tube.
I just came across this by chance. It's a video of a show back in July, when Pete Seeger,
His grandson Tao and Blues man Guy Davis asked me to join them in a song.
Hope you will enjoy this.

Best Wishes
Your Banjo picking Pal
Rik

http://www.youtube.com/v/qBXKzlJmVeg&hl=en&fs=1"

 

From Ray Corona

        From Ray Corona
 

MUSIC INTERVIEWS plus FREE MUSIC @ www.raykorona.com! Our web site now has an INTERVIEWS section where you can hear interviews I've given on radio stations around the country about music related subjects. For example: why perform political songs; racism and music; making a difference in the world; fight-back stories; speaking out; music and activism on the internet; hip hop and other genres; the media and getting the message out; using music in a peace march; musicianship; songwriting techniques; musical inspiration; environmental activism and music, etc. Soon I hope to begin adding a selection of interviews from other musicians as well. www.raykorona.com/interviews.htm Our band continues its tradition of posting songs on current social justice issues for free listening and download @ URGENT SONGS on the web site. Hear songs about electronic voting machines, universal health care and more. www.raykorona.com/urgent%20political%20songs.htm BRIDGES OF PEACE – CONCERT AND MORE! Bridges of Peace is the organization that inspired Pete Seeger and I to write and record Toys for Peace. It's now not only providing toys to children in war-torn countries, but raising money for a "House of Hospitality" to assist women in NJ upon their release from prison, among other projects. To support these efforts, Sharon Abreu and Gina Tlamsa will join me to play some songs in a fabulous benefit concert featuring Gary US Bonds and other great acts on Sunday, Nov 23, at 3 pm, at The Headliner in Neptune, NJ. For details and tickets, go to www.bridgepeace.org. If you live far away or can't make the concert, please consider giving Bridges a tax deductible contribution. You can also support Bridges by purchasing a copy of The Cost of Freedom, the coffee table style book on peace activism endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, Harry Belafonte, Ralph Nader, Thom Hartmann, and others. The publisher gives Bridges a substantial contribution for each copy sold on its web site. An article I've written about Bridges and the lyrics to Toys for Peace are included in the book along with scores of accounts and photos of inspiring peace actions. Get it here: www.bridgepeace.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=18 That's it for now. More soon. In Musical Solidarity! Ray

Fwd: "there's no one as Irish as Barack O'bama" Song

From Maya and Preema-

"Theres no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama"  - Hardy Drew Irish Obama Song

this is sweet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xkw8ip43Vk

No one as Irish as Barack Obama

 

O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

 

You don't believe me, I hear you say But Barack's as Irish, as was JFK

His granddaddy's daddy came from Moneygall A small Irish village, well known to you all

 

Toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a lama There's no one as Irish As Barack O'Bama

 

He's as Irish as bacon and cabbage and stew He's Hawaiian he's Kenyan American too

 He's in the white house, He took his chance Now let's see Barack do Riverdance

 

Toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a lama There's no one as Irish As Barack O'Bama

 

From Kerry and cork to old Donegal Let's hear it for Barack from old moneygall

From the lakes of Killarney to old Connemara There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

 

O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

 

From the old blarney stone to the great hill of Tara There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

 

2008 the white house is green, their cheering in Mayo and in Skibereen.

The Irish in Kenya, and in Yokahama, Are cheering for President Barack O'Bama

 

O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

 

The Hockey Moms gone, and so is McCain They are cheering in Texas and in Borrisokane,

In Moneygall town, the greatest of drama, for our Famous president Barack o Bama

 

Toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a lama There's no one as Irish As Barack O'Bama

 

The great Stephen Neill, a great man of God, He proved that Barack was from the Auld Sod

They came by bus and they came by car, to celebrate Barack in Ollie Hayes's Bar

 

O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

 

Toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a lama There's no one as Irish As Barack O'Bama

Toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a lama There's no one as Irish As Barack O'Bama

Used Guitar String Project

In the current issue of "the folknik," Faith Petric wrote:

When visiting a restaurant in Cuba, we noticed that the entertainer's guitar had strings with knots tired in them to repair breaks. One of our members gave the player a set of new strings, which he received with tears of gratitude. And even at home, I have seen Doc Watson recover and rewind to take home mandolin strings that we discarded by someone who had changed them.

Used guitar strings (complete sets) can be sent to Kevin Deame, 28 Lad Road, Ellington, CT 06029. These are truly needed and appreciated. Project  organized by Darryl Purpose and Kevin. More information at  <http://secondstringsproject.org.>http://secondstringsproject.org.

Hoot Wings!

BOB - many are not aware of this technicality: A Hootenanny during the day is called a Wing Ding. I learned this from Pete around 1947 when I used to go to his apartment on Macdougal street for Saturday morning wing dings and sit at the feet of and listen to the likes of Woody, Leadbelly, Brownie and Sonny, Cisco Houston etc.   Eric Weissberg

Hootenanny/Auction November 16th

NEWS RELEASE

Media Contact: Bob Lusk

Email: Heritagefolkmusic@gmail.com Phone: 845-594-4412

 

 Gathering of Regional Folk Singers to Highlight Heritage Music at Hootenanny

Hootenanny Scheduled for November 16,  3-6 pm

 

KINGSTON, NY (November 5, 2008)Over 30 notable regional  folk singers will be jamming together in one place this week. A Hootenanny, scheduled for November 16 at the Unitarian Fellowship on Sawkill Road will be celebrating the art of singing together. 

 

"It's a Hoot, not a concert" said Bob Lusk, from Heritage Folk Music. "Many wonderful performers can only perform solo or when their material is tightly rehearsed.  The magic of a Hootenanny is that performers are coming together to spontaneously share their folk traditions on stage in front of a live audience, who is also singing (and perhaps playing) along with them."

 

According to Lusk, the event will include notable singers and musicians including, Mark Anderson, Rich Bala, Karen Brooks, Jim Donnelly, Denise Jordan Finley, Bob Horan, Pat Keating, Terri Masardo, Melissa Ortquist, Norm Wennet, the Virginia Wolves, and special guest the Woodstock Pipes and Drums bagpipers.

 

In addition to the music, the event will include an auction with many of the artists donating instruments, CD's, vintage folk music magazines and other memorabilia.

 

An amazing variety of donations have come in for this event including instruments, songbooks and recordings. Most recently, local musician Mark Anderson donated an antique 12-string bowl-back mandolin built by the famous Franz Schwarzer zither company in Washington, Missouri.

http://franzschwarzer.blogspot.com/

 

Many local music stores have made donations to the auction including Alto Music, Barcones Music, Saugerties Music Works, Reservoir Music, Ernie Sakar Guitars , and Woodstock Music

 

Two websites have been established for this event which includes a full list of performers along with items for auction and can be found at

http://heritagemusicauction.blogspot.com/

http://hootenannyperformers.blogspot.com/

 

The Hootenanny/Auction is scheduled for November 16 from 3-6 pm at the Unitarian Universal Church Hall on Sawkill Road in Kingston. For more information you can reach Bob Lusk at (845) 594-4412 or heritagefolkmusic@gmail.com.

 

 

Performer's e-mails

Cavanaugh & Kavanaugh  music@cavandkav.com music@cavandkav.com

Jim Daniels  Applause MusicDJs@aol.com

 

Bob Horan   BHoran0002@aol.com

David Howells  twosword@earthlink.net

Denise Jordan Finley and Daniel Pagdon backwatermusic@yahoo.com 

Pat Keating  tigzig48@yahoo.com

Bob Lusk  boblusk@gmail.m

Ernie Mortuzans and Jean Weiss  ernie_mor@yahoo.com   AMB372000@yahoo.com

Melissa Ortquist  mortquist@hvc.rr.com

Norm Wennet  norme@earthlink.net

Elly Wininger  ellywin@hvc.rr.com

Folk Auction 11/16! update

Auction item list as of 11/4/08
Bruce Ackerman - Autographed poster (vintage)

Alto Music - item coming

Mark Anderson - 12-string bowl-back mandolin built by the famous Franz Schwarzer zither company (needs restoration). For more details go to http://franzschwarzer.blogspot.com/ Mark is also donating his CD.

Rich Bala - Complete set of autographed recordings including CD's.
Oscar Brand's "Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads" (Vol. 2) LP
"Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem" songbook from 1968.

Barcones Music - item coming

Joan Castka - LP's

Cavanaugh & Kavanaugh - CD

Jim Daniel - Santa Claus collectable figures from the "Clothtique" collectables.

James Krueger - Live in Denver, NY CD

Bob Lusk - One beginning lesson in guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, cittern, vocal toning or autoharp.

Rebecca Martin - LP's

Ira & Laurie McIntosh - CD

Music Works - item coming

Reservoir Music - item coming

Ernie Sakar Guitars - A new "A" style mandolin!

Woodstock Music - item coming

Anonymous Donors - Large collection of vintage 45's, songbooks, LP's, cassettes, CD's, artwork and instruments.

1000 sitarists - 20th, 21st & 22nd November, 2008

Utsav + Brahmnaad + Pranayam Dhyan: Sitarists wanted for Guiness Rec

Posted by: "Gurpreet Singh" gurpreetsingh147@gmail.com   gurpreetsingh147

BRAHMANAAD

For the first time in the world, a grand symphony of 1000 sitarists… (In aid of Bihar relief & rehabilitation)
Titled Brahma Naad, the concert is based on the ancient ragas mentioned in the rare Gandharva Veda, which says that classical music has the power to transform and harmonise lives through its ragas. Ragas mean colours; and that which brings colour to life is music.
The concert, steeped in the science of musical vibrations believed to soothe and heal and to spread the message of peace across the world, hopes to raise funds which shall be employed in the rehabilitation of lakhs of people who are braving the fury of the Kosi. This Anahad Naad - the soundless sound, has been mentioned by Guru Nanak, Kabir, Raidaas, Bulle Shah, and Meera as the music that exists in and can be heard from the depth of one's being.
On the authority of the ancient texts, it is accepted that music and chants embody positive energy. The creation of the universe and all its creatures, comes from the primordial sound – Brahm Naad.

VISION

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of the Art of Living Foundation, which is the largest volunteer based Non-Government Organisation (NGO) in the world, has conceptualized this concert to capture the very essence of the universe and reinforce the supreme energy of music.In keeping with His vision and mission of a stress-free, violence-free planet, where ndividuals  contribute towards the goal of a One-World Family, this initiative resonates with a two-fold purpose. It endeavors to uplift the practitioners of the musical discipline, and to simultaneously revive this ancient legacy of India. Moreover, it is intended to epitomize the universality of music, a discipline that can cut across boundaries and countries, to spread the message of peace and harmony through the unifying power of its vibrations.

THE EVENT: 2 DAYS – 1000 SITARS – 1 STAGE

For the first time ever, 1000 sitarists will play together, on one platform, in a two-day concert. This 1000-piece sitar orchestral ensemble will have the participation of national and international sitar players from all over the country and the world. The initiative is being spearheaded by Art of Living singer, Ms. Chitra Roy, M.Phil in classical music from Delhi University with a gold medal, who has also received advance training at the Gwalior gharana.
The instrument of emphasis in this symphony, the sitar, embodies the rich ad regal musical heritage of India. A 1000 sitarists, accompanied by musicians on the flute, tabla, dholak, sarod, sarangi, pakhawaj, veena, keyboard, mrudangam and ghatam, will fuse skillful composition with artistic expression to create a potent symphony.
OBJECTIVE

This live concert will provide a platform for world-renowned as well as budding, international as well as local exponents of this Indian art, on a platform that will facilitate enhanced exposure, awareness and appreciation of the rich legacy of India's ancient and diverse culture. Through the sheer energy and power of music, this first-ever 1000 sitar ensemble shall endeavour to transcend narrow prejudices, to overcome chaos, to celebrate the joy and the power of the multi-ethnic cultural vitality of India, and to spread the message of peace and harmony throughout the world.

DATES & VENUE
*20th, 21st & 22nd November, 2008
Sector 32 Grounds, Noida, Delhi NCR.

http://www.artoflivingfaridabad.org/missiongreen.html
*--
http://www.utsavdelhi.blogspot.com
http://www.help-biharfloodvictims.blogspot.com
http://www.bawandinesh.name

Message from Pete Seeger to Vote Row E

I received this too late to post it timely for the election, but my instincts must have been working because when I was standing in the voting booth, I voted Row E!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD6mUc2FTkI

Vote for Obama and our local candidates on Row E, the Working Families Party (WFP).

 

Folk Music Auction - more

A bunch more items have been donated to the 11/16 folk music auction - for details go to http://heritagemusicauction.blogspot.com/  One of the more interesting is a 12-string bowl-back mandolin built by the famous Franz Schwarzer zither company in Washington, Missouri. It is nicely inlaid and, while in need of serious restoration, is still a joy to see. It is complete except for the fingerboard.
Regarding Schwarzer, see:

http://www.historicmarkers.com/Missouri/Franklin_County_Missouri/Franz_Schwarzer_MO8/

http://www.zither.us/?q=node/31

Furthermore, this mandolin was owned by Jackson C. Frank ("He's the most famous folksinger of the 1960s that no one has ever heard of.") 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_C._Frank

Here is a lesser-known 8-string (restored) going for $285.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Antique-1890s-Champion-Bowlback-Mandolin_W0QQitemZ140277283017QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20081025?IMSfp=TL081025101009r28546

If you wish to donate items to the auction, e-mail  heritagefolkmusic@gmail.com

 

 

Auction

Ernie Sakar Guitars just donated a new "A" style mandolin to the Heritage Folk Music Auction to be held on 11/16/08 - go to http://heritagemusicauction.blogspot.com/

Folk Music Auction needs donations

Auction of Folk Music Memorabilia!
November 16th 2008; 3-6 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church Hall, Sawkill Road, Kingston, NY (Near the Kingston Thruway Entrance)

We are having a folk music auction as part of our fall Hootenanny.  This is a fundraiser for the Heritage Music Foundation.  Our mission is to bring the historic and regional folk traditions of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson River Valley back to the people from whence it came through concerts, workshops and community events.

We would welcome donations of and type of memorabilia including LP's tapes, CD's, songbooks, posters, even instruments.  An artists' own recordings of course would be especially welcome.  Items may be new or used. If you can't come that day, but wish to donate an item, contact us for pickup.

You can see the current list of donated items at http://heritagemusicauction.blogspot.com/

Thank you!

Bob Lusk
Heritage Folk Music Foundation
61 Wurts Street, Kingston , New York, 12401
(845)594-4412
http://heritageconcerts.blogspot.com/
 heritagemusic@gmail.com

 

FHK Hosts Talk on Historic Kingston Boatyard

From: Patricia Murphy

To: Friends of Historic Kingston

Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 3:17 PM

Subject: FHK Hosts Talk on Historic Kingston Boatyard

Contact:  Jane Kellar (845) 339-0720                      

 

FHK HOSTS TALK ON HISTORIC BOATYARD

  

     The Feeney boatyard, the lone survivor of an industry that once flourished along the banks of the Rondout Creek at Kingston, will be the topic of an illustrated talk on Saturday, November 8  at 4 pm. in the Friends of Historic Kingston Museum Gallery.  Retired City Judge Edward T. Feeney will trace the evolution of the family's involvement in maritime activity which dates back to the days when his great-grandfather Bernard Feeney operated boats on the Delaware and Hudson Canal in the nineteenth century. From those roots sprang the boat building and repairing business, founded by his grandfather Thomas R. Feeney, which four successive generations have carried on in the same location on the Rondout for more than a century. Judge Feeney's talk will be illustrated with a DVD with vintage photos of Feeney-built tugboats and barges, and film footage of boat launchings at the boatyard shot by his father Bernard A. Feeney, Sr.

     Judge Feeney is a graduate of Kingston High School, Fordham University and Albany Law School.  He founded the Kingston law firm of Feeney and Bruhn with current County Court Judge Michael Bruhn.  Judge Feeney created the City of Kingston Drug Court which has received statewide recognition and has served as the model for other programs throughout New York State.

    The public is invited to the event and there is no admission fee. The Friends of Historic Kingston Museum is located on the corner of Wall-Main Streets in uptown Kingston.  For more information call (845) 339-0720; www.fohk.org.

Northeast Tionol Concert October 25th

From:    Liam O'Neill <liam@HVC.RR.COM>

On Saturday, October 25, 2008, the East Coast Pipers, a non-profit 501c(3) musicians' association, presents an evening concert of Irish traditional pipe and fiddle music at Gavin's Golden Hill Resort in East Durham, New York.  The concert, which will begin at 7:30 pm,  features an international cast of higly-regarded traditional Irish musicians, including Mick O'Brien, Cormac Cannon and Breda Keville from Ireland; Debbie Quigley and Patrick Ourceau from Toronto; and Ivan Goff, Cillian Vallely, and Patrick D'Arcy, all originally from Ireland but now living in the U.S.   Tickets are $15 at the door.

The public concert is the highlight of the Northeast Tionol, an annual weekend gathering and workshop for players of the Irish uilleann pipes and fiddle.   About sixty amateur musicians of all levels are expected to attend the music worskhops, led by the instructors who will perform in the concert. This event, which has been taking place annually in the Eastern U.S. for more than two decades and is now in its fourth year in the Catskills, will draw student pipers and fiddle players from as close by as Schenectady and from as far away as St. Paul, Los Angeles, and even England and Ireland.

For more information on the concert or the weekend workshops, or for detailed biographical infromation in the performers, contact Kara Doyle, or visit www.eastcoastpipers.com.

The Folk Music Revival: Politics and Community

Registration Now Open!

The Folk Music Revival: Politics and Community
A Symposium by the New York Folklore Society

Clark Auditorium of the New York State Museum
Albany, NY
October 18, 2008

New York State was instrumental to the revival of folk music and folksong in the second half of the 20th  century.  Institutions such as Caffe' Lena and media outlets such as radio station WNYC helped to launch the careers of many folk musicians in the 1960s and 1970s.  The New York Folklore Quarterly devoted a conference and an entire journal issue to the subject in 1963, inviting the commentary of many noted scholars and proponents of that day.  

 

Fast Forward 45 years!

The 2008 NYFS conference, "The Folk Music Revival: Politics & Community" continues this scrutiny, through exploring the influences of and on the folk music community.  
 

Participants include Andy Spence of Old Songs, Wanda Fischer of WAMC's Hudson River Sampler, and Sarah Craig, manage of Caffe' Lena.  
"Folk Scare! Politics and the Folksong Revival," will examine the politics of the era through the
eyes of those who experienced it firsthand, including Sonny Ochs, Josh White, Jr., Oscar Brand, and Jaye Alper.

Suze Rotolo, author of A Freewheelin' Time, will deliver the keynote speech.  Suze Rotolo was 17 years old when she met Bob Dylan in 1961.  Her recently published book offers a firsthand, eyewitness account of the early days of the folk music explosion when Bob Dylan was first bursting on the folk scene.

 

Special guests include Josh White, Jr, Oscar Brand, Tony Barrand, and John Roberts.

Oscar Brand, who appeared at the 1963 New York Folklore Society conference, is a folk singer, songwriter, radio personality and author who has played alongside such legends of folk music as Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger.  He is host of the longest-running radio show, "Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival," which airs on WNYC in New York City and which celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2005.  He has twice been awarded the Peabody Award for broadcast excellence.

Josh White Jr. began his folksong career as a child, singing with his father, Josh White, who was a singer, actor, and civil rights activist.  After his father appeared before the House Un-American Committee and was blacklisted, Josh White Jr. continued to perform as a solo folksinger.  Josh White, Jr. has produced over 20 recordings in his contiuous career of more than 60 years.

Tony Barrand and John Roberts will perform a concert of the Songs of Rudyard Kipling, a series of folksongs based on the poems of Rudyard Kipling.  These folksong inspired pieces were first commissioned and performed by Roberts and Barrand at the re-opening of Kipling's house, Naulakha, in Dummerston, Vermont.  Tony Barrand and John Roberts are well known
for their annual performances of "Noel Sing We Clear" and for their frequent appearances at the
Old Songs Festival in Altamont, NY.      


For registration and information, visit our website at  http://www.nyfolklore.org/progs/conf2008.html.
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Our postal address is
PO Box 764
133 Jay Street
Schenectady, New York 12301
United States

Pete Seeger on Letterman tomorrow night!

Just a heads up that Pete Seeger will be David Letterman's musical guest on Monday (September 29). Letterman airs from 11:35 pm to 12:35 am EST - Pete will be on last, around 12:30.

Also great video of Pete at http://eastfishkillhistoricalsociety.org/seeger-l.html

Sweet Georgia Brown med traktorkomp

From Dakin Morehouse

OK, this is sumpin else! Who needs a percussionist when you have an .. .. old tractor .. ? (or a hit-or-miss engine)
Enjoy this French? farm version of 'Sweet Georgia Brown',
Don't forget to turn your sound on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ThSi1wbqU

Folk Guild Fall Schedule

·        Saturday, Sept 20 at 7:30pm – Feature is Raggedy Crew
·        Saturday, Oct 18 at 7:30pm – Feature is Yankee Rose
·        Saturday, Nov 15 at 7:30pm – Mike and Emmy Clarke
·        Saturday, Dec 20 at 7:30pm – Helen Avakian
·        Saturday, Jan 17 at 7:30pm – Kevin & Carol Becker w/ Rich Keyes
·        Coffeehouse at Unitarian Fellowship, S. Randolph Ave. Poughkeepsie
·        Admission $5, $4 members and seniors – Info 845-849-1775

Kingston Chapter Coffeehouse (1st Saturday of the month)

·        Saturday, Oct 4 at 7:30pm – Feature is Vince Sauter
·        Saturday, Nov 1 at 7:30pm – Feature is Scott Berwick
·        Saturday, Dec 6 at 7:30pm – Feature is Bruce Blair
·        Saturday, Jan 3 at 7:30pm – Features are John and Nancy DeNicolo
·        Coffeehouse is at Unitarian Universalist, Sawkill Road, Kingston
·        Admission $5, $4 members and seniors – Info 845-340-9462

Friends of Fiddler's Green Chapter Concerts

·        Friday, Oct 10 at 8pm – Scott Alarik
·        Friday, Nov 7 at 8pm – The Short Sisters
·        Friday, Dec 12 at 8pm – Seasonal Invitational Concert
·        All concerts at Hyde Park Methodist Church, Rt 9 and Church St
·        Admission $8, $6 members/seniors/students - Info- 845-483-0650

 

Buy a song for Oboma

Hi,

Nineteen singers and musicians from the Hudson Valley in New York State have gotten together to produce a song, 'Step Up America'.  

It's available as a download with all of the profits going to the campaign.  Please pass this on.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/marcblack6

Cheers,

marc black (marcblack.com)
tim kapeluck   
bruce milner 
jules shear
joe veillette  
michael veitch
georgie kronfeld
jean bratman
pam gerson
julie last
jill stevenson
kelleigh mcKenzie  
vickie russel 
nick petrie
scott petito
eric parker
larry packer
nick petrie
mark dann

PEACE PATH 9/11

It's that time of year again---PEACE PATH 9/11 takes place on Thursday, September 11th from 4:30 – 6 p.m. in Kingston across from Firemen's Park on Washington Avenue. For the fourth year, UUCC members will stand in vigil to promote peace and honor those who lost their lives in the 2001 tragedy.

This is an intergenerational activity where children and adults are welcomed. Just bring a non-partisan positive sign about peace. Make up a poster with your own wording or use a slogan like "PEACE NOW" or "KIDS FOR PEACE." Stop by for all or part of the vigil.
PEACE PATH 9/11 originated in Baltimore on the first anniversary of the attack and continues every year.  There thousands of citizens from all walks of life and all religions stand along eleven miles of Charles Street from the Inner Harbor to the city's outskirts.

Come out on September 11 and join PEACE PATH 9/11.

Paula Silbey
Lake Hill (Woodstock), NY

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson

I'll be there with my banjo - Bob

6th annual Harp Guitar Gathering

Hello Doolin Guitars Fans - I'm happy to announce that I'm hosting the 6th annual Harp Guitar   Gathering here in Portland, this October 11-12, at Marylhurst   University. It's a fantastic weekend of performances, instrument   exhibitions and concerts, all centered around the harp guitar.   Featured performers will include Don Alder, Muriel Anderson, Nancy   Conescu, John Doan, Mike Doolin, Stacy Hobbs, Brad Hoyt, Carter   Lancaster, Gregg Miner, Jeff Titus, and Andy Wahlberg. Exhibiting   luthiers will include Michael Dunn, Jeffrey Elliott, Rich Mermer,   Benoît Meulle-Stef, Duane Noble, Tone Powell, Stephen Sedgwick, Kathy   Wingert, Jim Worland, and of course, yours truly. Registered participants can attend daytime presentations on the   history and construction of the harp guitar, and special performances   by  today's top harp guitar artists. The Saturday evening and Sunday   afternoon concerts are open to the public. The entire event will be   held in Marylhurst's lovely St. Anne's Chapel, with their magnificent   pipe organ serving as backdrop to the dozens of vintage and modern   harp guitars on display. (And yes, I'll have several of my instruments   there, and will play them!) If you've ever wondered what harp guitars are all about, this event is   for you! Over a dozen master harp guitarists will show what all those   extra strings are for, creating some of the most beautiful music ever   to come from wood and strings. Please see http://www.harpguitars.net/hgg/hgg6/hgg6.htm  for more information, registration, and concert tickets. Hope to see you there - Mike Doolin

Musical taste "defines personality"

Musical taste "defines personality"
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Fans of classical music and jazz are creative, pop lovers are hardworking and, despite the stereotypes, heavy metal listeners are gentle, creative types who are at ease with themselves.

So says Professor Adrian North of Scotland's Heriot-Watt University who has been studying the links between people's personalities and their choice of music.
"People often define their sense of identity through their musical taste, wearing particular clothes, going to certain pubs, and using certain types of slang," North said.
"It's not surprising that personality should also be related to musical preference."
In what North said was the largest study ever conducted into individuals' musical preference and character, researchers asked 36,518 people from around the world to rate how much they liked 104 different musical styles before taking a personality test.
"Researchers have been showing for decades that fans of rock and rap are rebellious, and that fans of opera are wealthy and well-educated," North said.
"But this is the first time that research has shown that personality links to liking for a wide range of musical styles."
The study concluded that jazz and classical music fans are creative with good self-esteem, although the former are much more outgoing whereas the latter are shy.
Country and western fans were found to be hardworking and shy; rap fans are outgoing and indie lovers lack self-esteem and are not very gentle.
Those who like soul music can take heart as the research concluded they are creative, outgoing, gentle, at ease with themselves and have a high self-esteem.
And if you've ever wondered why people driving expensive sports cars often have music blaring from their vehicle, North could have an explanation.
Those who choose to listen to exciting, punchy music are more likely to be in a higher earning bracket, he says, while those who go for relaxing sounds tend to be lower down the pay scale.
North is still looking for volunteers to take part in the research. Details on http://www.peopleintomusic.com/
(Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Steve Addison)

Meditative Music this Saturday

This Saturday, 9/6/08, I'll be playing  Meditative music on the Hindustani slide guitar-veena, and perhaps some other instruments  at Alternative Books on North Front Street in Kingston. 5-8 pm. Free.  I'll be joined by the lovely with Arjuna Blue on percussion.  This is part of the Kingston 1st Saturday Art Opening.

Singers Wanted - Kartuli Ensemble

The Kartuli Ensemble is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the folk song and dance of the country of Georgia. At present it consists of a loose conglomeration of men's choruses scattered across the US and elsewhere that occasionally come together for concerts. Rehearsels are currently held in Kingston, NY NotR@bestweb.net Glenn Knickerbocker 112 E. Chester St. Kingston, NY 12401-4132 845-331-5857

Peggy Seeger Obama song

Rich Balla sent this in -
HELLO ALL - this is a mass mailout, sent en masse to all of my mailing list. The attachment contains a song entitled "Obama is the One for Me". It is intended to help Obama's campaign for the presidency. The song is light, a bit over-idealistic and expresses my preference for the the person I feel is the best of the only two candidates that are running for the office. I don't normally push my political preferences via e.mail - so if you are absolutely against even hearing it, just delete the whole e.mail (although you might find yourself singing along with it: it's kind of catchy). If you do hear it and like it and feel that it could be of use to Obama's campaign, please
1) send it anywhere, to anyone, especially the media
2) sing it yourself in any style whatsoever
If you chance to record it yourself please put the first two lines of the credits below on the recording. Also, I'd love to hear what you do with it.
The credits for THIS recording are as follows, and the credits should follow the song wherever it goes in THIS form:
words, music, © Peggy Seeger
administered by Harmony Music
vocals: Peggy Seeger (lead) and Cathy Fink (harmonies)
arrangment: Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer and Peggy Seeger
all instruments played by Marcy Marxer
further information from www.pegseeger.com
If you would like a CD of the 'Obama is the One for Me' which includes original artwork, a karaoke version (without lead vocals so you can sing it yourself) and a text in .pdf. Please send $5 (or a check made out to Peggy) and a good shipping address to:
Peggy Seeger
91 Paul Gore #1
Jamaica Plain
MA02130
Please allow a week or so for delivery.
You can also listen at www.pegseeger.com & www.myspace.com/peggyseeger
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Child: "Mom, when I grow up I'd like to be a musician."Mother: "Well honey, you know you can't do both."www.pegseeger.com

The Singing Revolution

From Mark Rausher-

I just saw a fascinating documentary (at the Rosendale Theater, playing for the next 2 nights for those local) called The Singing Revolution. I strongly recommend it, to see how a culture can unite and inspire a nation (as opposed to American culture, which divides, pacifies and causes feelings of hopelessness and despair). It also shows the power of song to bring about unification, change and lifted spirits in the face of terrible odds and almost-certain defeat. If you can't find it playing near you, go to www.singingrevolution.com to learn more, and hear some native music--    Peace and Solidarity---   

Macintoshes on Saugerties tv

"From the Mountains To The Valley, The Macintoshes". Laurie and Ira sing songs of the Catskill area and tell some tales and stories of the region. Video by Ernie Mortuzans. Time: 1 hr 22 minutes

Tuesday, August 26th, 7-8:21pm
Thursday, August 28th, 8-9:21pm
September 1st, 4-5:21pm

Also, requests can be made to have additional showings.

Artie Traum

YouTube has a short clip of the memorial service tribute for Artie Traum on July 24:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8C3XZ1OhyM

Mike Hecht

Tom Jones

 From Joe Stead-

 

'Doc I can't stop singing The Green, Green Grass of Home'

'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome.
'Is it common?'

'It's not unusual.'

Wailin' on Wall Street

From Elly Wininger. On Saturday, 8/2/08, there is a jazz festival in Kingston. There will be a free jazz workshop on Sunday at noon at Backstage Productions, 323 Wall Street. Bring an instrument!

Statler Brothers

From the Johnny Cash list.

Subject: Burma Shave Signs

Finally, for those of you who didn't know what Burma Shave signs were. I grew up with them in Western New York.

Burma Shave with the Statler Brothers:

You may need to watch it twice; once to watch the Burma shave signs change and once to catch all the pictures plus listening to the music of the Statler Brothers. THIS IS REALLY GREAT.

For those of you too young to remember 'too bad you missed it!'
http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm

The Statler Brothers

Saturday morning serials, chapters 1 through 15
Fly paper, penny loafers, Lucky Strike Green
Flat tops, sock hops, Studebaker, Pepsi please
Ah, do you remember these?

Cigar bands on your hand, your daddy's socks rolled down
Sticks, snow floats and aviator caps with flaps that button down
Movie stars on Dixie Cup tops and knickers to your knees
Ah, do you remember these?

The hit parade, grape Tru-Aid, The Sadie Hawkins Dance
Pedal pushers, duck tail hair and peggin' your pants
Howdie-Doodie, Tutti-Frutti, the seam up the back of her hose
Ah, do you remember those?

James Dean he was keen, Sunday movies were taboo
The Senior Prom, Judy's mom, rock and roll was new
Cracker Jack prize, stars in your eyes, as daddy tore the keys
Ah, do you remember these?

The boogey man, lemonade stand and takin' your tonsils out
Hindenburg and wait your turn and four foul balls you're out
Cigarette loads and secret codes and savin' lucky stars
Can you remember back that far?

The boat neck shirts and fender skirts and crinoline petticoats
Mum's the word and a dirty bird and a double root beer float
Moon hub caps and loud heel taps and he's a real gone cat
Ah, do you remember that?

Dancin' close, little moron jokes and cooties in her hair
Captain Midnight, Ovaltine and The Whip at the County Fair
Charles Atlas Course, Roy Roger's Horse and Only The Shadow Knows
Ah, do you remember those?

Gable's charm, Frog in your arm, loud mufflers, pitchin' woo
Going steady, Veronica and Betty, white bucks and Blue Suede Shoes
Knock Knock jokes and who's there, Dewey Dewey who
Do we remember these, yes, we do.

Ah, do we do we remember these?...

Jack Hall The Matchstick Man

From Jack Hall's son Tony.  Several clips with different kinds of music.

Hi Bob,

 

I hope all is well with you.  A little out of the blue I expect, but I just wondered if you might like to be made aware that my father's matchstick instruments can be seen being played on this YouTube link:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w2VNdDV6Vzo 

 

Best regards,

 

Tony

Happy International Folksingers' Day!

I may have posted this last year - can't remember. Next year won't someone
remind me to take the day off? - Bob

From "Stephen & Marilyn Suffet" <Suffet@worldnet.att.net>

Greetings:

By my decree, today is...

INTERNATIONAL FOLKSINGERS' DAY ...in honor of Woody Guthrie, who was born on
July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA... and also in honor of all
folksingers worldwide!

IT'S WOODY'S BIRTHDAY!
Tune: Ten Little Indians (traditional)
Words: Stephen L. Suffet © 2001

I'm taking off, it's Woody's birthday,
You're taking off, it's Woody's birthday,
We're taking off, it's Woody's birthday,
We'll be back to work tomorrow!

I'm taking off, it's Bastille Day,
Vive la France, it's Bastille Day,
Storm the walls, it's Bastille Day,
And it's also Woody's birthday!

We need a day off, we're folksingers,
Banjo pickers and rafter ringers,
Guitar pickers and real humdingers,
Besides it's Woody's birthday!

We'll sing for Pete and Leadbelly,
Of Jesse James and Ned Kelley,
Of Barnacle Bill and Little Nellie,
Hey, it's Woody's birthday!

I'm taking off, it's Woody's birthday,
You're taking off, it's Woody's birthday,
We're taking off, it's Woody's birthday,
We'll be back to work tomorrow!
[Spoken: If we still have jobs!]

Have a happy day, whatever you call it!

--- Steve

Old Fashioned Hymn Sing

The Hymn sing is going really well. Please join us in 2 weeks.

Jesus as Vishnu
Old Fashioned Hymn Sing and Song Circle
Sunday July 27th - 6:30 - 7:45 Free!

Hosted by Cory Smith & Bob (Bhaav) Lusk

An informal singing group, gathering to sing old and new songs of praise and worship. Repertoire includes but is not limited to hymns, spirituals, folk songs, meditative songs, chants, bajans, and plainsong. We come from a variety of Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Hindu traditions. All are welcome.

Please feel free to bring instruments

Children Welcome - Family friendly

Namaste Yoga Studio
2568 Rt 212 (Between Gallos & the A Frame Church)
Woodstock, NY

For more information, call Bhaav at (845) 338-8587

Hymn Sing

Another wonderful hymn sing last night – the next one will be in two weeks.  Please join us.  
 
Jesus as Vishnu
Old Fashioned Hymn Sing and Song Circle
Sunday July 27th  -  6:30 - 7:45   Free!
 
Hosted by Cory Smith & Bob (Bhaav) Lusk

An informal singing group, gathering to sing old and new songs of praise and worship.  Repertoire includes but is not limited to hymns, spirituals, folk songs, meditative songs, chants, bajans, and plainsong.  We come from a variety of Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Hindu traditions.  All are welcome.

Please feel free to bring instruments

Children Welcome - Family friendly

Namaste Yoga Studio
2568 Rt 212 (Between Gallos & the A Frame Church)
Woodstock, NY
 
For more information, call Bhaav at (845) 338-8587

Fw: Bob Horan Fwd:Pat Keating

From Bob Horan  - Pat Keating is playing at O'Donahues in Nyack, NY.

One for Patrick!

Go to http://www.odonoghuestavern.com/band_keating.html

New Center Stage Gazebo at Ulster County Fair to Feature Local Musicians

Contact:       Fran Palmieri
                    845-339-6839
                   
New Center Stage Gazebo at Ulster County Fair to Feature Local Musicians

The Ulster County Fair is proud to unveil the new Center Stage Gazebo which will be located in the fair midway and feature local musicians performing a variety of live music for fair goers. The Ulster County Fair is located on Libertyville Road in New Paltz, NY and opens Tuesday, July 29 and continues through Sunday, August 3. All performances are free.

Center Stage Gazebo Schedule

Friday, Aug 1

5:30pm                        Bruce Blair

6:15pm                        Deborah Martin

7:00pm                        Denise Jordan Finley & Daniel Pagdon


Saturday, Aug 2

12:00pm                      Split The Bill

1:00pm                        Kimberly

2:00pm                        Dick Vincent and Friends

3:00pm                        Fran Palmieri

6:00pm                        Kurt Henry Band



Sunday, Aug 3

1:00pm                        Jeff Entin

2:00pm                        James Krueger

5:00pm                        Erin Hobson


Performer's Bios

Bruce Blair's voice has been described as "a smooth sip of bourbon in front of the fire on a cold winter's night."  His repertoire includes songs from Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, The Beatles, traditional Scottish ballads, Broadway show tunes and everything in between.  His warm baritone voice and somewhat eccentric sense of humor will make this performance a unique and unforgettable experience.  

Deborah Martin  Deb Martin has been singing all her life.  Appearing with her sister at a community talent show at age 7, she found the spotlight appealing and that hasn't changed.  Today, she is still singing, playing guitar and writing her own blend of acoustic jazzy, bluesy, folk with a hint of country twang.  Her smooth, deep voice can reach down and tug at your heartstrings, or just make you smile.  

Denise Jordan Finley and Daniel Pagdon  "Denise can do it all – write, sing, play, and perform."  (David Roth )  A compellingly powerful guitarist, Denise Jordan Finley's string work is complemented by expressive vocals and stagecraft, all in the service of her exquisitely crafted songs.  Daniel Pagdon has been playing the contra bass since age 11 and has a lifetime of playing with the likes of Bobby Whitlock, Todd Wolfe and Rick Hazza.  

Split The Bill  With soaring harmonies, interwoven acoustic guitars, piano and mandolin, this singer-songwriter duo consists of Myra Dirnfeld and Elisa Geleibter.  Their songs have been called "compelling . . . and haunting", and the Kingston Freeman wrote that they make music in "a comfortable living room way that's been lost in recent years.  Split the Bill does a fine job of bringing real music back, as it should be."  

Kimberly   "Songs of pain and loss, redemption and renewal sung in a clear, strong voice with a  smoking edge."  (SSProductions )  Kimberly brings her life experiences into her songs and into the consciousness of her listeners.  Accompanied by her fingerpicked guitar, her music is often quiet, reflective and always tugs at the heart.  

Dick Vincent   Dick Vincent and the Big River Band will keep your toes tapping, whether it is an old jug band tune, something from the Blues, or a more recognizable "pop" tune.  One thing that is conspicuously evident is that this band of hombres is having a good time.  With dazzling lead soloists Bruce Hildenbrand and Matt Bowe, and fabulous harmonies, the Big River Band will give you both a great sound and a good deal of hokum.  But be careful with your cotton candy as you lay it down to dance, someone in the band is sure to eat it.  

Fran Palmieri has been writing songs for 30 years and thinks he may finally be getting it right.  Eclectic is a fair word for his style, with touches of jazz, country, folk, and rock all having been assimilated into his music. The lyrics aspire to poetry, retelling tales from Shakespeare, imagining partying with Van Gogh and Lautrec, and walking the woods with Lincoln.  Backing Fran are Bruce Hildebrand on guitar and Robert Muller on percussion.

The Kurt Henry Band – Among a handful of the region's "ace guitarists" (Woodstock Times) Kurt Henry "has evolved through country-rock, jazz, latin and quasi-Caribbean into his own distinctly American sound"  (Roll ).  This amazing diversity of songcraft is supported by the expert musicianship of soloists Ross Rice (organ, piano) and Kurt, as well as a rocking rhythm section featuring bassist Albee Groth, Cheryl Lambert on percussion and harmony vocals, and the producer of the latest CD, Heart, Mind & All, Eric Parker on drums.  

Jeff Entin is a Rosendale resident who's been writing and performing all his life.  He is best known for his genial stage presence, highly accomplished guitar playing, and his approach to covering a wide variety of other artists, as well as performing his own, well-crafted songs.

James Krueger Said to "probe beneath the surface of seemingly simple topics" (Rambles Magazine) , James Krueger has been called an "extraordinarily talented writer with a real talent for poetic imagery" (Great American Song Contest Judges).  Not so much telling a story as showing it to you, James' songs remind us of the mystery and beauty of nature, helping us reconnect without ever forcing us to.  He has released 4 CDs and twice won honor awards at the Great American Song Contest.  

Erin Hobson    An electric guitarist since she was a teen, Erin Hobson joined the acoustic music world 5 years ago.  Her distinct sound fuses Folk with Jazz and Latin influences, with her subtly powerful vocals expressing her own passionate, ear-catching music.  Early influences include Jim Hall, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Charley Parker.

Prehistoric Cavemen Mixed Art and Song

From: Mark Rausher/Present-Day Products

 

Turns out, cavemen loved to sing

Ancient hunters painted sections of caves where music sounded best

By Heather Whipps

 Ancient hunters painted the sections of their cave dwellings where singing, humming and music sounded best, a new study suggests.

Analyzing the famous, ochre-splashed cave walls of France, scientists found that the most densely painted areas were also those with the best acoustics. Humming into some bends in the wall even produced sounds mimicking the animals painted there.

The Upper Paleolithic people responsible for the paintings had likely fine-tuned their hearing to recognize the sound qualities in certain parts of the cave and chose to do their artwork there as a kind of landmark, perhaps as part of a singing ritual, said researcher Iegor Reznikoff, a specialist in ancient music at the University of Paris X in Nanterre.

Reznikoff will present his findings at the upcoming Acoustical Society of America meeting in Paris.

Cave dwellers used echolocation
People who lived in Europe during the Upper Paleolithic — from 10,000 to 40,000 years ago — spent a lot of time in caves, often living there or at least camping out for short periods.

"They were hunters in cold conditions," Reznikoff told LiveScience.

With only dull light available from a torch, which couldn't be carried into very narrow passages, the ancient hunters had to use their voices like sonar to explore the crooks and crannies of a newfound cave, Reznikoff explained.

"When acting in a cave in conditions similar to prehistoric ones ... the surroundings a few meters ahead are almost completely dark," he said, adding that "since sound reaches much farther than reduced light, especially in irregular surroundings, the only possibility and security is to explore the cave with the voice and its echoing effects."

Vast murals were part of ritual system
When they vacated their caves, many Paleolithic people left behind vast murals depicting bison, mammoth, ibex and other local fauna, as well as splotches of color — usually red — along narrow hallways and corners. A famous example is the network of caves at Lascaux, France, which contains several thousand figures painted across its walls.

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The cave paintings were part of a ritual system — like early religious beliefs — practiced by Paleolithic humans that likely also included singing and music, Reznikoff said. He noted that bone whistles and flutes have been found inside many of the caves.

What archaeologists didn't know was whether the paintings and music were connected.

Suspecting a possible link, Reznikoff and a team used voice resonance to study the acoustics in caves across France. Some work was done in past years and combined with the latest findings.

Checking the resonances
A trained vocalist was sent through the caves testing different sounds and pitches in various locations. Spots of maximum resonance, or places where the voice was most amplified and clear, were noted in each section and later laid over a map of the cave drawings.

The vast majority of the paintings, up to 90 percent in some cases, were located directly at, or very near, the spots where the acoustics were the absolute best, they found.

Single red spots were even discovered in the most resonant areas of tiny tunnels where people could have crawled only in the dark, suggesting that the paintings were not just coincidentally located in the biggest, best open spaces where the sound was also rich, Reznikoff said.

Some reverberations produced in the caves' resonant spots also sounded very similar to the animals painted on the walls nearby, he noted.

Sights and sounds come together
Because Paleolithic humans had a deep connection with the melodic properties that helped them navigate in a cave, they likely celebrated the unique acoustics by singing in conjunction with their painting sessions.

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"Why would the Paleolithic tribes choose preferably resonant locations for painting," he said, "if it were not for making sounds and singing in some kind of ritual celebrations related with the pictures?"

The phenomenon isn't limited to the interior of caves, either. Studies have been done at some outdoor Paleolithic sites in France and Finland, and the sound-painting connection is also strong, Reznikoff said.

At a site called the Lac des Merveilles in Provence, there is a large flat rock archaeologists have labeled the Altar Stone, covered with more than a thousand pictures.

"There by the lake, the echo answers whole melodies and it is a pleasure to sing or play at this place; one can easily imagine celebrations using voice and horns," said Reznikoff.

So here's a young me, Betty Boomer, Mary Ellen Healy and Pete. Near as I can figure, this is 1980 in Kingston at the march "From Slavery to Sanctuary". We were all singing through my battery powered "Mouse" amplifier.

Senate House Jam Returns!

The Fiddle n' Folk session at the Senat House in Uptown Kingston will be starting up again on Thursday, 7/10 from 12- 1 PM, hosted by Earl and Mimi Pardini.  Come and bring your instruments and voices.  In case of inclement weather, it will be in the Visitors Center across the street.

Fw: New Acoustic Jam Book

From Mike Walker

Hi,
I'm glad I found this site!  It's going to be very useful!
I've helped create a new site for acoustic jammers, www.hhtmp.com. It's a jamming blog and also features our new book on jamming, Play Well With Others: How to Jam Like A Pro.
Let me know where to send it if you'd like a complimentary copy.
Have a great day!
Mike Walker

Fw: songs and signs for the Ellenville Parade

From Sarah Underhill

Hi Parade marchers:

 

Please write in with the messages on the signs or banners you will  be bringing, so we can get an idea of what our message is going to look like.

So far I have :

HONOR THE DEAD/HEAL THE WOUNDED/END THE WAR

YOUTH NEED JOBS & HEALTHCARE, NOT RECRUITMENT

FUND SESAME STEET NOT WALL STREET

 And I am planning to make a few which say:

OIL COMPANY PROFITEERING IS KILLING THIS COUNTRY [AND THIS PLANET]

NATIONAL SECURITY= JOBS, HEALTHCARE,EDUCATION & AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR ALL

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY CREATES JOBS

 

As to the songs, in the past we have had a good response from the following marching songs:

This Land is Your Land

De Colores

God Bless America

Down By the Riverside

Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round

America the Beautiful

 

Please send in other suggestions

Thanks and hope to see you on Friday

Sarah

Folk Music Class at the historic Phoenica Train Station

I'll be teaching a class in historic regional folk music startingFolk Music Class at the historic Phoenica Train Station starting Wednesday 7/9 for 4 weeks! 7-8:30, pm

Traditional Music of the Catskills and Hudson River Valley Cost $40 for 4 classes. (10% of the cost goes to the Empire State Railway Museum)

(4 sessions) This course will cover traditional regional and historic music of the Catskills and Hudson Valley. No musical experience is required, but experienced musicians and singers will have a chance to increase their repertoire with "Home Grown" music from our area. We will study the major local collections of music including area colonial songs from the Allison family, songs of Henry Backus "The Saugerties Bard" from the 1850's and songs and dances from Camp Woodland in the 1950's. Examples will include songs of the railroaders, quarrymen, lumberjack's, steamboat captains, and apple growers., We will also include 20th Century songs by folksong writers such as Grant Rogers, Les Rice, William Geckle, Ken Gonyea, Mark Fried, Rick Nestler and Pete Seeger.

The course will conclude with a 5th session performance at Catskill Woodlands Camp.

Bob Lusk is a well known local folk singer and has been studying the historic music native to this area for the past 30 years.

To register, call (845) 338-8587

Directions to:
Phoenicia RR Station, #70 Lower High St, Phoenicia, NY, 12464
From Kingston, Thruway exit #19, go 23 miles West (North) on Rt. 28 -
- past the RR crossing (& Mt. Pleasant Station on your right) -
- on past the Phoenicia Diner (on your left), .3 mile to the first Right turn) -
- the Phoenicia RR Station (ESRM) is the first building on your Right.
From Phoenicia:
- Main St. turn South on Bridge St. across bridge and RR track -
- turn Left after the track onto Lower High St. -
- the Phoenicia RR Station (ESRM) is the 3rd building on your Left

Bob Horan at The Green Fair

I wish there was someway I could have this come up directly, but you will have to go to the link.   Bob is one of my favorite singers of all time.  Broadsheet DAILY/Green Fair

ELLENVILLE 4TH OF JULY PARADE - Voices needed!

From Sarah Underhill-

Catskill Peace Alliance/Rondout Valley Patriots for Peace  has been invited to march in the Ellenville parade on Friday July 4th. Lineup is a 11 am in the High School parking lot. We skipped marching last year so this might be a good year to get back into the swing of things.

 

All marchers with signs, placards, flags and banners are welcome. The theme is traditionally one of social justice: peace, health care for all, funding education and human needs instead of corporate greed, alternative energy [we may have a vegetable oil powered car  in our contingent], affordable housing, rebuilding infrastructure, stopping the war machine and war profiteering .....you know the drill!

We also hope to have live music as we march, as we have had in the past! Bring your guitars and favorite marching songs.

RSVP with more ideas and themes.

 

Sarah Underhill

underhval@hvi.net

At a Roadside Vigil, an Iconic Voice of Protest (Pete Seeger) - NY Times

New York Times
June 22, 2008
At a Roadside Vigil, an Iconic Voice of Protest
By DENNIS GAFFNEY

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. - Pete Seeger pulled his black Toyota Highlander into the Staples parking lot here and plucked some signs from the back seat,including one with "Peace" spray-painted in large orange letters.
With that, he slung his banjo over his shoulder like an old musket and marched toward the intersection of Route 9, a bustling six-lane thoroughfare, and 9D, the "Hudson Valley P.O.W.-M.I.A. Memorial Highway." But before the 89-year-old folk singer flashed his antiwar signs to passing drivers from this no-man's land - a patch of green about an hour north of New York City on the Hudson River - he bent over again and again, picking up litter. "This is my religion now," said Mr. Seeger. "Picking up trash. You do a little bit wherever you are."

Mr. Seeger, the man behind the founding of the Clearwater Festival, being
held this weekend at Croton Point Park, is scheduled to appear there on
Sunday. But for the last four years, most Saturdays he has been keeping his vigil in Wappingers Falls, usually not recognized by the hundreds of drivers
who whiz by. It is a long road from 1969, when to protest the Vietnam War he sang John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" at the foot of the Washington
Monument.

"After two minutes, thousands were singing," he recalled. "After three
minutes, four minutes, a hundred thousand were singing. At the end of eight
minutes, all five hundred thousand were singing."

These days, fewer than a dozen protesters usually participate, while nearly
as many who support the war in Iraq hold a counterdemonstration across Route
9. Mr. Seeger, a political activist who has traveled the world, rarely
ventures farther than the few miles from here to his home in Beacon, N.Y.

On this particular Saturday, Mr. Seeger chatted easily with Chris Miller of
Poughkeepsie. "He's an ex-Army member," Mr. Seeger said, "and they're trying
to send him over again."

Mr. Miller, 38, served as a therapist for four years before receiving an
honorable discharge in January 2006. But on Dec. 22, 2007, he said, he
received orders to return to Iraq, although he is appealing that decision.

Mr. Miller said he had spent countless hours listening to Mr. Seeger's
stories, like the one about how his car windows were shattered in Peekskill
in 1949 as he and his family left a performance he had given with the singer
Paul Robeson, who was thought to have Communist sympathies, as was Mr.
Seeger. Or the one about the Vietnam veteran who said he had come to a
concert in the Catskills to kill Mr. Seeger because of his antiwar stance,
but was turned around by the performance and made his way backstage to tell
of his transformation.

"I smiled and shook his hand," Mr. Seeger said. "I had my banjo. We sat down
and sang, 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' " Afterward, Mr. Seeger said,
the man told him, "I feel clean now."

Mr. Seeger said he wrote that song in the mid-1950s accompanied by the same
banjo he totes around today. As for Mr. Miller: "Seeing what Pete has gone
through and always standing up for what he believed in, despite the
consequences, made my decision easier to resist the war. It made me
comfortable that in the long run I'll be all right."

At one point, Mr. Seeger looked across the highway to the knot of
counterdemonstrators. "They always have more flags," Mr. Seeger said. "But
our signs are more fun." He said he crossed the street once about a year ago
and talked to a veteran.

"I shook his hand and said, 'I'm glad we live in a country where we can
disagree with each other without shooting at each other.' He had to shake my
hand. He didn't know what to say. I even picked up a little litter over
there."

As he chatted, Mr. Seeger broke into "Take It From Dr. King," which he wrote
after the Sept. 11 attacks, in a voice as worn as an old phonograph
record."Don't say it can't be done," he sang, tapping out the rhythm on his
thighs as his Adam's apple bobbed to the music. "The battle's just
begun/Take it from Dr. King/You too can learn to sing/So drop the gun."

With songs like that one and "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy," an anti-Vietnam
War anthem, it is easy to assume he is a pacifist. But that assumption would
be wrong. His family tree is adorned with both Quakers and a Revolutionary
War veteran.

"Hitler had to be done away with," said Mr. Seeger, who served in World War
II.

His 1966 antiwar anthem, "Bring 'Em Home," resurrected by Bruce Springsteen
in recent years, includes the words: "There's one thing I must confess/I'm
not really a pacifist/If an army invaded this land of mine/You'd find me out
on the firing line."

Asked whether he thought that protesting by the side of the road would help
end the war, he said: "I don't think that big things are as effective as
people think they are. The last time there was an antiwar demonstration in
New York City I said, 'Why not have a hundred little ones?' "

He said that working for peace was like adding sand to a basket on one side
of a large scale, trying to tip it one way despite enormous weight on the
opposite side.

"Some of us try to add more sand by teaspoons," he explained. "It's leaking
out as fast as it goes in and they're all laughing at us. But we're still
getting people with teaspoons. I get letters from people saying, 'I'm still
on the teaspoon brigade.' "

slow session

From: Hilary Schrauf

 

Hey, Bob. The traditional Irish slow session is located at the Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 South Main Street, Voorheesville, NY. We got from 7:30 to about 9 PM with a little break in the middle. Cost is $4, which includes photocopies of sheet music. I can record and send mp3s to those who want to learn by ear (my preference!).
 
We've set it up to have a place for people learning Irish traditional music to work on repertoire. If you visit my blog (see link below), you'll see the standard session sets of tunes we've been working on. We use sheet music to learn tunes and then my intention is to have people playing the tunes without sheet music by the next month, so mostly its revisiting stuff we've been working on and learning new stuff. Sometimes we try new stuff by ear, but most people seem to be learning best with some sheet music.
 
I'm considering having the July session be a round robin, but haven't decided yet. I may keep it the same structure as usual. We'll take August off, and start up again in September.

Visit The Hudson Valley Trad for news and views on traditional Irish and world folk music: http://hudsonvalleytrad.blogspot.com/ 

New exhbit of LOST SONGS of protest, labor on laborarts.org

From John Pietaro

Sisters and Brothers...

Here's a notice from labor historian Rachel Bernstein, concerning a new
exhibit on her website www.laborarts.org : 'Play It Again, Sam' -- Lost
Chords of the Labor and Progressive Movements".

If you are not familiar with this site, you should be---it contains a great
amount of documents, art and other priceless pieces of labor and people's
history. Now, she and co-archivist Heny Foner, present an exhibit of lost
songs from our people's history. Here are some titles that remind us just
who the American Student Union was, help us to errily remember that it was
Martin Dies who founded the HUAC, and clarifies that in the face of red
scare oppression between the 1930s and early 1960s, we fought back. In
addition to seeing the complete lyrics, you can listen to these songs
performed by the inimitable Henry Foner, one of the guys who was always in
the thick of the movement and actually penned some of these songs. They'll
take you back to a smokey union hall where guys names Lefty waited for
delivery of the Daily Worker before going home each night...

In Solidarity,
John Pietaro - www.flamesofdiscontent.org

From: Rachel Bernstein <rachel.bernstein@NYU.EDU>
To: H-LABOR-ARTS@H-NET.MSU.EDU
Subject: New exhbit of old songs : "Play It Again, Sam"

We at Labor Arts/ LaborArts.org invite you to visit our newest exhbit:

"'Play It Again, Sam' -- Lost Chords of the Labor and Progressive
Movements"

The exhibit features music from that particularly fertile period of the
labor and progressive movements --the 1930s and 1940s. There are a number
of little known songs, songs that are in danger of passing, unrecognized.
into our musical history, and we have recorded some of them for this
exhibit. The are sung by Henry Foner, whose unerring memory for the lyrics
of these songs is unique.

Labor arts followers who have "lost songs" to add to our list are encouraged
to contribute notice of them to this list.

In solidarity,

Evelyn Jones Rich, Rachel Bernstein and Henry Foner

Jesus as Vishnu - Old Fashioned Hymn Sing and Song Circle

Jesus as Vishnu

Old Fashioned Hymn Sing and Song Circle

Sunday June 15th  -  6:30 - 7:45   Free!

 

Hosted by Cory Smith & Bob (Bhaav) Lusk

An informal singing group, gathering to sing old and new songs of praise and worship.  Repertoire includes but is not limited to hymns, spirituals, folk songs, meditative songs, chants, bajans, and plainsong.  We come from a variety of Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Hindu traditions.  All are welcome.

Please feel free to bring instruments

Children Welcome - Family friendly

Namaste Yoga Studio
2568 Rt 212 (Between Gallos & the A Frame Church)
Woodstock, NY

 

For more information, call (845) 338-8587

Massive New Paltz meditation

from Ethan

 

In around December 2007 a moment of inspiration came.  The vision was simple, but extremely powerful: organize a MASSIVE group meditation in New Paltz, NY on June 21st 2008 to raise individual, local, and global consciousness.  I am not doing this event affiliated with any group or organization; I am only doing it out of love and gratitude for this beautiful town of New Paltz and the beautiful Earth we live on. Right here in New Paltz, through this mass meditation event, we have the opportunity to set an inspirational example for other communities, create a positive energetic field that radiates throughout our own consciousness, the whole country, and the world, and lastly, be still in the presence of ALLOT of people!

For this to be as great as I have envisioned, your help is needed... I would like you to send this message to everyone on your email list once now, and once around 7 days before the event. The "field" has been "built," and now all we need is the people! I will send you another email in a few weeks to remind you about the event :-)

The event I have organized is titled, "New Paltz's Largest Group Meditation - Ever!" It will be held at Hasbrouck Park in New Paltz, NY on Saturday, June 21st from 6PM-8PM. I obtained a permit from the Village Hall to use the park from 6-8PM, so we wont have to worry about any baseball games going on :-).  We will be surrounded by flowers as we meditate and chant.  The meditation will take place from 6-7PM and the chanting will take place from 7-8 PM.  All are welcome to practice any type of prayer/meditation of their choice.  People don't have to stay for the whole hour of meditation (6-7PM) or the whole hour of kirtan (7-8:15PM), but can come and go as they please.  It's free, and there is no registration necessary.  It will be held rain or shine! :-) The group kirtan (chanting) at 7:15-8:15PM is also open to everyone.


Please email me at ethansisser@gmail.com or call at 516-410-1163 if you have any questions or suggestions of how to make this event as great as possible.

Thank you! With love, Ethan

Juneteenth Celebration - Fri, 6/13 - Pokeepsie

 

CELEBRATE

 

The Oldest Nationally Celebrated Commemoration

of the Ending of Slavery in the United States

 

JUNETEENTH

 

5:30pm — 8pm, Friday, June 13th

at the

Sadie Peterson Delaney

African Roots Library

FAMILY PARTNERSHIP CENTER

29 North Hamilton St, Poughkeepsie

 

PROGRAM INCLUDES:

Dr. A.J. Williams-Myers

The ReadNex Poetry Squad

A Short film on Juneteenth

Community Discussion

Refreshments

 

On Juneteenth we come together

young and old to listen,

to learn and to refresh

the drive to achieve.

 

Call 845-452-6088 x3343 for more information

Updates

A wonderful time at Health and Wellness Day in Forsyth Park this past Wendsday.  It is not too often that I get a chance to play relaxing music for 3 hours straight.  The weather was great, the people seemed to enjoy it.  Thanks to Mark from the zoo for supplying power!

 

5/18/08 Memorial Day with Veterans for Peace in Woodstock, NY. I made it up the hill again! I love singing at the top of my lungs in parades. A good time singing on the green afterwards, but it was marred by the Onteora Marching Band interupting the reading of the names of the soldiers who had died in Iraq.

 

I'll be playing at a Breast Cancer Benefit in goshen on 6/6.  It's a $20 a plate sit down dinner. For reservations call: Vita Dowdell (294-7721), Alison Fitzpatrick. (778-1437), Cheryl Winship (615-1542), Kathy Kurek (291-7295)

 

Several obits at http://folkobits.blogspot.com/  Dave Gahr and U Utah Phillips. 

 

I've added some more pictures of my instruments at http://bobluskinstruments.blogspot.com/

 

 

Utah Phillips passes

from Mark Rust

 

Utah Phillips died Friday night. He was 73. He was a great singer & activist, and I'm sure some of you, like me, learned to play guitar by learning his songs. Here's a link to a California newspaper on his passing.

 

So long Utah.

 

"...it's good though..."

 

http://origin.mercurynews.com/news/ci_9373739

 

Yours,
Mark Rust
(845)679-8213
markrust@markrust.com

Living will

OK - I usually don't post things like this, but "consistancy is the hopgoblin of small minds".

Bob

From Lynn  Hoffman -

 MY LIVING WILL  
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> Last night my friend and I were sitting in the den and I
>>>>>> said to her, 'I never want to live in a vegetative state,
>>>>>> dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle to keep me
>>>>>> alive.  That would be no quality of life at all,  If that ever
>>>>>> happens, just pull the plug.'
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> So she got up, unplugged the computer, and threw out my wine.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> She's such a bitch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <  


     

Please place June 6th on your calendar

"One Night to Remember in Goshen: June 6^th"

This certainly will be a night to remember; if nothing else but for the mere twenty dollars it will cost you! On June 6^th an elegant dinner comes with entertainment in Goshen. And it goes to an incredibly worthy cause.

The evening begins at 6:30 p.m. and the entertainment includes Rich Blauvelt & Grace Street Music – a songwriter blessed to bring many of his songs services at Goodwill Church in Montgomery, NY; Judy Songer –a Christian contemporary singer and recording artist; The Gravikord Duo – upbeat and joyful with a rhythm that refuses to be pinned down in any way; David Alpher & Jennie Litt – a cabaret duo with sophisticated, tuneful, humorous music that embraces styles from jazz to blues to faux Elizabethan and beyond; Miro Ludvik – a singer-songwriter performing acoustic, blues, and folk/traditional music ; The Wayne Fugate Trio  – a combo performing bluegrass and that is somewhere beyond or behind all musical borders; Bob Lusk – the troubadour of Ulster County …a folk music guru known for his interpretations of classic traditional and folk tunes from around the world; and Glen Macken (emcee) whose past credits include: Judas in 'Jesus Christ Superstar', Frankie in 'Forever Plaid' and Billy Bigelow in 'Carousel'.

How did this all come to be? Well, four of our local women will be hosting this dinner to benefit the Susan G. Komen 3-Day, Breast Cancer Walk. Vita Dowdell, Alison Fitzpatrick, Cheryl Winship and Kathy Kurek and have done so with great cooperation from many supporters. Besides the business community The First Presbyterian Church of Goshen sponsors the team's "One Night to Remember" in their Church Hall.

And why did this come to pass? There is a trio of local ladies known as our  "Crem de la Crem" team (named after Cremilyn Vaughan – team captain Vita Dowdell's mom) that includes Vita, Alison and Cheryl. They will be walking the Boston 3-Day (60 miles) in Boston this summer on August 15-17th.

Imagine!  All of this organizing, all of this walk training, all of their work as teachers and teacher's aides – and you have a wonderful way to support them! Come join them and celebrate the lives of those who have been touched by breast cancer.

Dinner includes a delectable fare of Chicken Francaise, Green Beans Almondine, Roasted Potatoes, Salad, Assorted Breads and Dessert. 

For reservations call: Vita Dowdell (294-7721), Alison Fitzpatrick. (778-1437), Cheryl Winship (615-1542), Kathy Kurek (291-7295)

And here is the clincher: every single penny goes to the Breast cancer Three Day.

If you would like to support this team and make a donation please access the following link:  http://08.the3day.org/goto/vita

Or, you can mail a check payable to: Breast Cancer 3-Day, and mail to: Vita Dowdell, 12 McNally Street, Goshen, NY 10924

New Folk Obit Page

Over the past few years I keep hearing about folk musicians I have known who have passed on. I have frequently put their obits on my blog, but decided it would be good to have an archive page, so I created one at  http://folkobits.blogspot.com/. If there is someone in the folk community you think should be here, email me at bobluskmusic@gmail.com.  Thank you - Bob Lusk  

Rich Bala Concert this Sunday

The Saugerties Bard
On Sunday May 18th from 3- 5 pm, Rich Bala, folk balladeer will present a program of historic music including songs of the 19th Century songwriter (1798-1861), Henry Backus. Mr. Backus was known throughout the Northeast as the "The Saugerties Bard". He was the composer of romantic, regional and historic songs such as ""My Hearts in Old Esopus" and "Explosion of Steamer Steindeer ".

The concert will be at the historic Dutch Arms Chapel, 16 John St. in the village of Saugerties, NY. Admission is $8.00.

Following are several articles about Henry Backus by John Thorn that may be found at
http://www.ulsterpublishing.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=347538
http://www.ulsterpublishing.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=348029

Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash in NYC 7/13/08

This is a great event. Steve is a real authentic folk singer - finest kind - but I'm very sorry to hear of Eric Levine's passing. Eric was an old friend of mine - taught me the melody to Abe Sammon's Applejack which had been collected in High Falls by his grandfather Norman Studer, the famous educator and Camp Woodland director. Eric too was an authentic folk singer -
hadn't heard him in a long time, but he used to play a great 12 string guitar. - Bob

From "Stephen & Marilyn Suffet" <Suffet@worldnet.att.net>

Greetings!
This is an early heads-up for an event that is two months away, the Eighth Annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash in New York City. We are dedicating it to the memory of our dear friend, comrade, and fellow MacDougal Street Rent Party member Eric Levine. As you already know, Eric passed away last week at the age of 51. He had performed in all seven of the previous Woody Guthrie Birthday Bashes, and he was planning to do this coming one as well. He had
even picked out the songs he was going to perform: Pastures of Plenty, Hobo's Lullaby, and a parody of I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night which he called I Dreamed I Saw Woody Guthrie Last Night. Unfortunately, Eric took that last song with him, so we can only guess what it said.

We know Eric will be with us in spirit if not in flesh, and we welcome you to join us in honoring his memory along with celebrating what would have been Woody Guthrie's 96th birthday.

Here are the details:

Eighth Annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash
Round Robin Songfest
Sunday . July 13, 2008
7:00 to 9:30 PM

Featuring...
MacDougal Street Rent Party (Joel Landy . Anne Price . Steve Suffet . Gina Tlamsa)

Also featuring...
Hillel Arnold . Jessica Feinbloom . Emma Graves plus Carlos Vazquez on the bass

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery . New York City
Between Houston & Bleecker Streets
$6 cover + one drink minimum.

The site is supposedly wheelchair accessible -- Eric would never have played there if it weren't -- but like most places it could be better. If you have any questions, please call 212-614-0505 for information.

Be there!
--- Steve

Bob Norman, former SO! Editor, Passes

I considered Bob to be a good friend even though I rarely saw him. I'm shocked and saddened by his passing.
From Mark Moss at Sing Out! Magazine -

Bob Norman, who edited Sing Out! from 1970 to 1977, died on Sunday, May 4th, after a long battle with prostate cancer.

A songwriter and singer, Bob had 4 recordings to his credit and a 30+ year career touring and sharing his music. His gentle and relaxed demeanor belied the passion he maintained for his family and friends, as well as the broader world around us ... always a central focus of his life's work and mission.

Bob was already editing Sing Out! when I first met him and began my involvement with the magazine (back in the summer of 1970). I know that wasn't the most popular period for Sing Out! (or folk music), but the stew of traditional music with politics that was emblematic of his tenure at Sing Out! was a real inspiration for me, and his friendship and guidance through the years, including nearly ten years serving on the Sing Out! board for the first phase of my tenure here, was indisputably one of my true guiding forces in helping to retool
what we do here. It's safe to say that without Bob's steady hand, bridging the "old" Sing Out! and the "new" one, I simply would not have been able to learn on the job or have kept things going.

He was a great friend to me, to Sing Out! and to folk music. I'll miss him.

Below is the official obit from the family:

Robert Stephen Norman, 61, of Lawrenceville died on Sunday at his home of metastatic prostate cancer.

Born in New London, CT, he was a Lawrenceville resident since 1994 after living in New York City for 30 years. Bob graduated form Columbia University in 1969 with a degree in English Literature Bob had been a copy editor for Business Week Magazine for twenty years, but his passion and true vocation was music. He was a well-known singer/songwriter folksinger locally and across the country for over 30 years. From 1970 to 1977, he was editor-in-chief of Sing Out!, and was on its board until 1990. His CD titles include: Romantic
Nights on the Upper Westside; To the Core; Love, Lust, and Lilacs; and Time Takin' Man. His music fused varied influences of blues, country, contemporary folk, and classical guitar writing about topics ranging from the streets of New York to local life in Lawrenceville.

Son of the late Victor and Francis (Sharaf) Norman and brother of the late Jon Norman, he is survived by his wife Clara Haignere, his son Samuel Norman-Haignere, his nephew Daniel Norman, and his nieces: Forest Cattich and Martina Norman Botinelli.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 11 AM at Poulson & Van Hise Funeral Directors, 650 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville. Burial will be in the Lawrenceville Cemetery. The family extends an invitation to friends to come to their home at K18 Shirley Lane, Lawrenceville after the burial. A memorial service will be held on May 17th at a time and place to be determined.

In lieu of flowers, please tax-deductible donations can be made to Sing Out! Magazine (P.O. Box 5460 Bethlehem PA 18015) or to the Westminster Conservatory Young Artist's Program. Check should include a note that it is for the Young Artist's Program in Memory of Bob Norman to Westminster Conservatory, Attn Sandra Franc, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton NJ 08540.