Hudson Valley Folk Guild Newsletter
If you have any items for the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Newsletter, please send them to me by 8/10/06. This includes gig listings. Thanks - Bob
Folkloric goes Country!
Just had a wonderful time playing country music at the Hudson Valley Senior Residence in Kingston. Joining me were Cecilia St. King on guitar and vocals and Lee Eaton on fiddle. Wish you could have been there.
Bob
Bob
Bob Horan Concert
DCNY Presents
A Special Live Folk Concert
BOB HORAN
and
BOB BATCH
With
BRONAGH O'ROURKE
Original Contemporary Folk Music
By Veteran Folk Musicians
When: Sat. July 8 at
Where:
(corner of
The Laurie Beechman Theatre
Downstairs At The
Cover: $20.00 At The Door
For Early Reservations
Call 212-695-6909
Dancing on the Air
Hi listeners,We're proud to announce that Robert Bruzgo, the webmaster and creator of dancingontheair.com, has just just completed a major updgrage of the site. We love it.Improvements include:- a great new look- improved audio files- a new Macromedia Shockwave/Flash player that makes it fun and easy to create playlists using songs from any of our past shows in whatever order you like.- an online tutorial to help you get the music playing, just click Help or Get Started...Listeners can quickly get a song playing, then search by Show, Artist or Title and continue tocreate their playlist. Once you start digging into DOTA the combinations are endless.Check it all out at http://www.dancingontheair.com/.We hope you enjoy the new features and the new look!!!Happy listening,Jay & Molly
Ellenville July 4th Parade
Hi Friends:
Come join the Catskill Peace Alliance on Tues. July 4th, 11:30 am as we march in the Ellenville parade. Line up is 11:30 in the High School parking lot on Maple Ave. The suggested focus this year for our signs and banners etc. is Health care, especially the need for health care for Veterans. Other themes are also welcome on the progressive agenda: Peace, Justice , End the War, and all the rest of it. Try to keep it nonpartisan is the only caveat [we got into a spot of bother over this a couple of years ago] but we have always had a WARM RECEPTION from the People of Ellenville, if not from the reviewing stand. Please come and let your voice be heard during this celebration of Freedom from Tyrany. Musicians welcome. Bring water, sunscreen, candy to throw to the kids, costumes, sound systems and sound tracks, etc.
Love,
Sarah U.
Come join the Catskill Peace Alliance on Tues. July 4th, 11:30 am as we march in the Ellenville parade. Line up is 11:30 in the High School parking lot on Maple Ave. The suggested focus this year for our signs and banners etc. is Health care, especially the need for health care for Veterans. Other themes are also welcome on the progressive agenda: Peace, Justice , End the War, and all the rest of it. Try to keep it nonpartisan is the only caveat [we got into a spot of bother over this a couple of years ago] but we have always had a WARM RECEPTION from the People of Ellenville, if not from the reviewing stand. Please come and let your voice be heard during this celebration of Freedom from Tyrany. Musicians welcome. Bring water, sunscreen, candy to throw to the kids, costumes, sound systems and sound tracks, etc.
Love,
Sarah U.
Old Songs Festival
Old Songs Festial was wonderful as usual. Sold the Larivee guitar, bought a fiddle. Went to yodeling, ukelele, & banjo workshops. Its wonderful to be part of an event where everyone is participating.
Benmarl Winery
We had a wonderful time playing at Benmarl Winery - http://benmarl.com/events.html- on Saturday. Barbara and the staff were very hospitable and from our wine sampling, they have a great product. The view of the Hudson Highlands and the Berkshires is not to be missed. The lovely Regina Sheff was musically on top of everything with her fiddle, Rusty Boris was our rock solid bass, jumping Jim Donnelly, resident leprechan, charmed the crowd and I just sat back and sang any song that came into my head. We were able to play some mellower music than in a pub - the setting seemed to be made for ballads and love songs. Thanks to Terry McCann for getting us the gig - catch his group sometime if you can - the Mystic Minstrels.
Old Songs Festival
I will be working at the Musical Instrument Exchange at the Old Songs Festival in Altamont, NY this weekend, June 23 to 25. [More info here- http://www.oldsongs.org/festival/index.html] Drop by and say hello. A good place to recycle old fiddles, banjos, guitars, etc. Also, I will have for sale there -a wonderful Larrivee SD-60, rosewood, 12 fret acoustic guitar.
Celtic Session
BTW, the Celtic session on Wednesday nights at New World Home Cooking in Woodstock is moving to Monday nights on June 26th! It's a great session. Posted time is 7:30, but things sometimes don't get going til 8 or 9. (Woodstock time). For directions to New World Home Cooking call (845) 246-0900
Folk question of the week answered
Pat Sky on his "Talking Undertaker Blues" had a line "Formaldahyde and alcohol, we'll pickle you in Haticol...". I always wondered what "Haticol" was. I remember asking my Grandmother, who I thought was the source of all things old and folkloric - she had no idea. This morning in the whirlpool at the YMCA in Kingston, I was talking to a fellow John who is 20 years older than I am and in lots better shape. Somehow the topic came up and he told me that it was a patent medicine in the 1940's and the 50's that was especially popular in the south. It had large quantities of alcohol and perigoric in it. There was a Haticol Jungle Band and googling it today, I see that Waylon Jennings is quoted as saying:
"I don't need a wheelchair, I don't use make-up, Viagra, Geritol or Haticol! I just don't want to be on the road as much as I was. I don't have Chronic Fatigue, I can't even spell it. The only thing I've retired from, and am tired of, is the road and the bullshit! Get it right."
So thanks John and Waylon and send your Folk questions to boblusk@hvc.rr.com!
"I don't need a wheelchair, I don't use make-up, Viagra, Geritol or Haticol! I just don't want to be on the road as much as I was. I don't have Chronic Fatigue, I can't even spell it. The only thing I've retired from, and am tired of, is the road and the bullshit! Get it right."
So thanks John and Waylon and send your Folk questions to boblusk@hvc.rr.com!
"Smoke Goes Everywhere"
Just added lyrics to the King's Kids version of my song "Smoke Goes Everywhere" at http://boblusklyrics.blogspot.com/. If anyone wants CD copies of this public service announcement, contact me.
Enlist for Peace
The vigil was not as intense this week. Again there were 3 of us, myself, David Bruner and Joan Keefe as Jay was away. I toned while David and Joan read the names and handed out literature. I won't be able to be there for the next 2 weeks - a gig and Old Songs Festival, but hopefully we can spread the word and get a few more souls to join us in supprt. Please come by between 12-1:30, join us, or just smile as you walk by. This is at the Army recruiters in Kings Plaza (where Marshalls is) between CVS and the pizza place.
Recipe for Peace?
I’ve been adding some recipes my grandmother,
Florence Lusk's poetry site. http://bobluskflorence.blogspot.com/.
More to come.
Also have added lyrics to some of the songs at the Catskill Mountain/Hudson Valley Song site http://bobluskcatskills.blogspot.com/ Again more to come.
I expect to be outside the Army recruiters again this Saturday, 12 noon, at the Kings Mall in Kingston with Joan Keefe, David Bruner and hopefully others. We will be reading the names of the soldiers who died in Iraq. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace and Enlist for Peace.
Florence Lusk's poetry site. http://bobluskflorence.blogspot.com/.
More to come.
Also have added lyrics to some of the songs at the Catskill Mountain/Hudson Valley Song site http://bobluskcatskills.blogspot.com/ Again more to come.
I expect to be outside the Army recruiters again this Saturday, 12 noon, at the Kings Mall in Kingston with Joan Keefe, David Bruner and hopefully others. We will be reading the names of the soldiers who died in Iraq. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace and Enlist for Peace.
Wedding Bells
Congratulations to friends Frank (Dr. Romo) Romano and Vida Nathanson on their recent marriage! I couldn't wish them enough happiness.
Just came back from the weekly vigil outside the Army recruiters at the Kings Mall in Kingston. There were only 3 of us, Jay Wenk, David Bruner and myself. Jay read the names of the American soldiers who had died in the Iraq war and I toned while he read. David handed out literature and brought some signs and pictures. It takes 1 1/2 hours. There was a children's birthday party at the Pizza parlor next door. They were very upset and called the police - they felt we were disturbing the peace. They asked us to keep the volume down, but didn't seem inclined to arrest me for "humming".
Obviously the pizza parlor proprietor did not tell the people about the prayer vigil when he booked the party. This vigil has been going on weekly for a long time.
Anyway, we could use some friendly faces there. Please come by between 12-1:30, join us, or just smile as you walk by.
Obviously the pizza parlor proprietor did not tell the people about the prayer vigil when he booked the party. This vigil has been going on weekly for a long time.
Anyway, we could use some friendly faces there. Please come by between 12-1:30, join us, or just smile as you walk by.
New blogs
Just added some of my old poetry to the end of my Song Lyrics blog.http://boblusklyrics.blogspot.com/ Also have a new site for my grandmother, Florence Lusk's poetry http://bobluskflorence.blogspot.com/.
And am working on a Catskill Mountain/Hudson Valley Song site http://bobluskcatskills.blogspot.com/ Boy this is fun!
And am working on a Catskill Mountain/Hudson Valley Song site http://bobluskcatskills.blogspot.com/ Boy this is fun!
Sir, No Sir!
I expect to be outside the Army recruiters at the Kings Mall in Kingston on 6/3/06 with Jay Wenk and Joan Keefe. I will be vocal toning while they read the names of the soldiers who died in Iraq.
I am a little bit broken up after seeing the film "Sir, No Sir!" the other night. (see http://www.sirnosir.com/) It brings back a lot of memories and fills in the gaps of some missing information in my life. See it if you can. There is probably a lot of military people working against the current war that we don't know about! I only shudder to think what is happening inside the US military stockades.
I am a little bit broken up after seeing the film "Sir, No Sir!" the other night. (see http://www.sirnosir.com/) It brings back a lot of memories and fills in the gaps of some missing information in my life. See it if you can. There is probably a lot of military people working against the current war that we don't know about! I only shudder to think what is happening inside the US military stockades.
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