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:
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
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
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!
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
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.
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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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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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