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Fsgw Midwinter Festival Volume 54, Number 6 NEWSLETTERfsgw.org February 2018 FSGW MIDWINTER FESTIVAL Takoma Park middle School • Silver SPring, MD SaTurday, Feb 3 * 12 noon To 10:30 Pm Chanteys and shape note singing, doo-wop and duets, English dance and Irish laments, banjos and bodhrans and ballads, morris dancing and more—it’s all here, joyfully filling the Takoma Park Middle School, 7611 Piney Branch Road, 20910. Two all-day dance tracks and seven workshop and performance sites, plus unscheduled hallway shenanigans—it’ll cure your winter blues! Hallways and Lobby Morris Dancers and Rappersword groups dance in the hallways, often with bells, so you can hear them coming. Bring your instruments! Ad hoc jams in the stairwells and at the end of corridors are encouraged. Retail therapy will be available, with musical instruments (through House of Musical Traditions) for sale in the Cafetorium and wonderful crafts in the hallways. We hope to have a handbell “tower” in a hallway as well as a CD Exchange. Inside: Bring a few CDs, take a few CDs! FSGW Board Members/Meetings, Editorial Policy, Newsletter Submissions Policy ................................................................2 Daytime Cafetorium Performances FSGW Election Nominations ................................................3 Concerts: Noon to 6 pm—six hours of music, thanks to Sun., Feb 4: Bill Destler & Sarah Murdoch (House Concert) .3 Mini-Fest Co-Chair, Charlie Baum, featuring Sat., Feb 17: Meneely van Sante & The Ca’Meows .............4 Fri., Feb 23: Evie Ladin & Keith Terry (Cosponsored) .......4 lively Irish tunes by The Bog Band, sea songs Sat., Feb 24: Andrew Finn Magill & Peter Mawanga ..........5 with audience participation with Washington Tues., Feb 27: Ali Dineen & Feral Foster (House Concert) ....5 Dances: Revels Maritime Voices, Django Reinhardt- Carpe Diem! Contra Dance (Cosponsored) .....................15 style swing with DC Ambiance, OCEAN Celtic Chesapeake Dance Weekend ............................................15 Contra Sonic ........................................................................15 Quintet debuting exciting new songs, the English Country Dances ......................................................13 intricate Bulgarian rhythms of Lyuti Chushki Family Dance ........................................................................15 Glen Echo International Folk Dancers (Cosponsored) ....16 (spontaneous dancing likely), and the bellows- Great American Square Dance Revival .............................16 driven versatility of The Squeezers. Sunday Night Dances ..........................................................14 Sings & Storytelling: Circle of Life Song Circle ....................................................23 Daytime Dance Gospel Sing ..........................................................................22 Open Sing ............................................................................22 The Main Gym, programmed by Chair April Blum, features many differ- Schweinhaut Song Circle ....................................................23 ent dance styles, including an Introduction to Morris Dancing, Scottish Country Shape Note Singing ............................................................22 Storytelling ..........................................................................25 Dance (taught by Ellen Terne with music by Liz Donaldson & Becky Ross), a Upcoming Events (FSGW) .......................................................25 Tango Workshop with Tango Mercurio Commu- Listings by Type nity Orchestra, a Scandinavian Dance Work- Classes ..................................................................................12 shop (taught by Dan Kahn & Lynn Walker with Concerts .................................................................................8 Dances ..................................................................................16 music by Catherine Chapman), English Country Jams ......................................................................................19 Dancing (taught by Ann Fallon with music by Open Mics ...........................................................................21 Participatory Performing Groups ......................................21 Red and Well Fed), and a rollicking Barn Dance Sings .....................................................................................22 (taught by Kim Forry). Storytelling ..........................................................................25 Upcoming Events ................................................................26 Venues ..................................................................................27 Midwinter Festival continued on page 6 ISSN 0015-5950 Heather Livingston, editor Folklore Society of Greater Washington Newsletter, Volume 54, No. 6 —————————————————————— February 2018 Go to GREAT Concerts for FREE! Go to great concerts for free! Most FSGW concerts rely on volunteers: See the “Details” page of a concert on the calendar at fsgw.org to sign up to volunteer at that event. You get in for free and you get a pass for free admission to a future FSGW event of your choice (except those listed as “no passes” or “suggested donation”)—or to bring a friend! HOW TO SUbmIT A LISTING TO THE FSGW NEwsLETTER 1. Please look at this Newsletter and determine under what category your listing should appear. When submitting copy by email, put that category in the subject line, followed by the month. E.g., Classes [Month], Concert [Month], Dance [Month], and so forth. Putting the category in the subject line makes it easier for the editor to retrieve groups of events. 2. Please submit all listings in FSGW format. All information should be submitted in the following sequence: Event Title • City, State Abbreviation Day of the week, Date • start time - end time One or two sentences only. Location (+ zip code for GPS). Ticket prices. Info: Contact Name at Phone number or email/website. NB: The city and state appear in the header; do not repeat them in the body, but in this age of Droids and GPS units, you need to include the 5-digit zip code—it goes right after the street address. Submit entries to [email protected] FSGW Newsletter Editorial and Advertising Policy The Folklore Society of Greater Washington endeavors to print copy it deems relevant to its membership and purpose as stated in its by-laws: “The main purpose of the Society is to further the understanding, investigation, appreciation, and performance of the traditional folk music and folklore of the American people.” • All copy must be submitted by e-mail to [email protected] in text format in the body of the e-mail by the 8th of the preceding month. • All listings must be submitted in the format set out in the “How to Submit” Box above. The format is also on our website (fsgw.org). Just click on Newsletter and look for a paragraph in green. • The Editor reserves the right to edit or omit copy as necessary. Ad content must be approved by the Editor. Basic Ad charges: 1/4 page ads (3.4” x 4.5” or 7.25” x 2.5”): $65 for one month, $120 for two. Commercial business: $8 for 10 words. Noncommercial and individual: $4 for 10 words. 25% discount for any single ad placed in 11 consecutive issues (one year) and paid in advance. We will work with you on larger ads. Copy, with check made payable to FSGW, must be received by the newsletter deadline. Mail to FSGW, P.O. Box 323, Cabin John, MD 20818. Heather Livingston, Editor • [email protected] Design & Layout: Jennifer Woods GRAPHICS • Silver Spring, MD FSGW Board 2017–2018 April Blum, President [email protected] 301-422-0292 Molly Graham Hickman, Vice President [email protected] OARD EETINgs Jerry Stein, Treasurer [email protected] FSGW B M Kim Gandy, Secretary [email protected] Steve Roth, Dance [email protected] Tuesday, February 6 • 8 PM Mike Livingston, Programs [email protected] The monthly FSGW Board meeting will Jen Furlong, Membership [email protected] Heather Livingston, Publications [email protected] be held in Classroom 201 Arcade Bldg. at Ingrid Gorman, Publicity [email protected] Glen Echo Park, MD. All FSGW members Members-at-Large Steve Kaufman [email protected] may attend. If you wish the Board to Tim Livengood [email protected] consider a particular matter, please contact Kenneth Mayer [email protected] the appropriate Board member, or April Mini-Fest Coordinating Committee Blum by e-mail, [email protected], or April Blum, Mini-Fest Chair (Logistics/Dance) [email protected] 301-422-0292 call afternoons or evenings 301-422-0292 Charlie Baum, Mini-Fest Co-Chair (Programs) [email protected] 301-587-2286 in advance of the meeting. Washington Folk Festival Coordinating Committee Dwain Winters [email protected] 301-657-2789 2 —————————————————— Deadline March 2018 Newsletter: thursdaY, February 8, 2018 Folklore Society of Greater Washington Newsletter, Volume 54, No. 6 —————————————————————— February 2018 See Frequent Venues (page 27)FSGW for many location addresses.Concerts Visit fsgw.org for audio samples of performers Remember: All FSGW concerts are “pay at the door” (no advance sales) unless otherwise noted. This helps keeps our costs and admission fees low for you. To attend a house concert (in a private home), you must contact the host listed and RSVP in order to be given the exact address. FSGW House Concert Takoma Park, MD Midwinter Festival Encore with Bill Destler and Sarah Murdoch Sunday, Feb 4 • 12–2 PM (Brunch, 11 am) Help launch a new tradition: Two of the out-of-town guest artists at the 2018 Midwinter
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