Folk Music Society Newsletter
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Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. May, 2018 vol. 53 No. 5 May Mondays: Irish Traditional Music Session; Landmark, 8pm Wednesdays: Sunnyside Singers Club; Woodside, 8pm 2 Wed Folk Open Sing; 7pm in Brooklyn 6 Sun Trip Henderson, Tin & Bone; 4pm, Good Coffee House, 11 Fri Soldier's Fancy, 7:30pm at HINY, 891 Amsterdam Ave, 13 Sun Upper West Side Song Swap at HINY; 58pm 14 Mon FMSNY Board of Directors Meeting; loc. tba, see p. 7 20 Sun Shanty Sing on Staten Island, 25 pm 23 Wed Sunnyside Singers Club; performer Russ Chandler, 8pm 2528 Spring Folk Music Weekend at Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, Kerhonkson, NY; see flier in centerfold 26 Sa Hilary Hawke & Christian Apuzzo; New World Folk Club, 46pm at the Scratcher Bar 31 Th Newsletter Mailing, 7pm in Jackson Heights, Queens June Mondays: Irish Traditional Music Session; Landmark, 8pm Wednesdays: Sunnyside Singers Club in Woodside, 8pm 6 Wed Folk Open Sing; 7pm in Brooklyn tba Sun ; 4pm, Good Coffee House, Brooklyn 10 Sun Upper West Side Song Swap 11 Mon FMSNY Board of Directors Meeting; 7:15pm; see p. 7 17 Sun Shanty Sing; Snug Harbor, Staten Island, 25pm 20 Wed Sunnyside Singers Club; perf. Jeremy Aaron, 8pm 30 Sa TBA; New World Folk Club, 46pm at the Scratcher Bar Details on pages 23; table of contents page 5 Spring Weekend, May 25-28 Hudson Valley Resort & Spa see flyer in centerfold or register online at: http://springweekend.eventbrite.com 1 Irish Traditional Music Session: every Monday, 8-11pm Tenor banjo, harmonica and fiddle player Don Meade and friends get together every Monday night for an Irish traditional music session in the back room of this historic Hell’s Kitchen bar/restaurant. Free admission; food and drink are available. Musicians, singers, and listeners welcome. At the Landmark Tavern, 626 11th Avenue (on 46th St), Manhattan; cosponsored with and led by Don Meade; for info 2122472562 or www.blarneystar.com/ Featured Performers: to be announced Sunnyside Singers Club: every Wednesday, 8-11pm Come join us every Wednesday at 8pm for a 3hour pub style singaround. All songs are welcome, as are acoustic instruments. Cosponsored with, and held at the Aubergine Cafe, 4922 Skillman Avenue at the corner of 50th Street in Woodside, Queens. Occasionally there is a featured guest performer for part of the evening. Yummy desserts, sandwiches, salads, coffee, tea, wine, and beer are available. Free admission; a voluntary contribution is requested on guest nights. The nearest subway is 52nd St. on the #7 Flushing Local. Info: 7188991735. www. facebook.com/sunnysidesingersclub. Featured Performers: May 23, Russ Chandler, June 20; Jeremy Aaron, Folk Open Sing: Wednesdays, May 2nd & June 6th; 7-10pm Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for an open sing. Bring your voice, instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. Drop by for a couple of songs or the whole evening. At the Ethical Culture Society, 53 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn (near 2nd St.). (If door is locked, ring the BSEC bell.) Directions: F or Q train to 7th Ave.; 2 or 3 train to Grand Army Plaza. Hosted by Ethical Culture Society, Folk Music Society of NY/NYPFMC, Alison Kelley, Frank Woerner, and Tom Weir. Info: 2126955924. Tin and Bone; Sunday, May 6th, 4-6 pm Tin + Bone is a new old time music duo featuring multiinstrumentalist Little Nora Brown, the 12yearold prodigy from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Trip Henderson, New York’s “Merry Monarch of the Harmonica”. Little Nora plays banjo, fiddle, ukulele, and accordion. In 2017 she won 1st place in the youth banjo competition at the Clifftop String Band Festival in West Virginia. Trip has been singing and playing American vernacular music in all its many forms since moving to West Virginia following high school. His style is a synthesis of the oldtime fiddle tunes and early rural blues of the Mountain State, and the barroom rhythms of honkytonk and Chicago Blues. Video of Tin & Bone: https://youtu.be/b 6fTRi3JKk, Cosponsored with and at the Good Coffee House at the Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street in J.J. Byrne Park, betw. 4th & 5th Avenues, Brooklyn 11215; $10 contribution. Info: fbanjo[at]aol.com. Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1UxthNr. Soldier's Fancy Reunites! Friday, May 11th, 7:30pm A benefit for FMSNY Marie Mularczyk, Doreen D'Amico, Jane Przbysz, and Marya Zimmet are back together for the first time in many years, singing traditional tunes old and new in tightly woven harmonies, à capella or accompanied by guitar, mandolin, banjo, continued on next page 2 Events Details, continued from previous page dulcimer, recorder, and spoons. They were a fixture on the New York Folk Scene and were featured performers in the first Annual Village Voice Festival of Street Entertainers. Come and hear them again amplify the voices and perspectives of women past and present through song. At Hostelling International, 891 Amsterdam Ave., at 103rd St., Manhattan 10025, Contribution: general public $15, members $12. Free to HI members. Tickets available at the door or online at: http:// soldiersfancy.eventbrite.com. Info: 7186726399. Upper West Side Song Swap; Sunday, May 13th; 5-8pm The Upper West Side Song Swap is organized by FMSNY and PMN. Bring your voices and your songs, poems, stories, jokes, etc., for our regular round robin songswap. At Hostelling, International New York, 891 Amsterdam Avenue at 103rd Street, Manhattan 10025. Contributions welcome to help cover costs. Everyone is welcome. For more information call John Ziv at 2126626575. Shanty Sing: Sunday, May 20th; 2-5pm We cosponsor the Shanty Sing on the 3rd Sunday of every month. The William Main Doerflinger Memorial Sea Shanty Sessions at the Noble Maritime Collection (to give the official title) are from 2 to 5pm at the Noble Gallery, Building D, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island. Snug Harbor is accessible by the S40 bus from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and by car. For more information about the Noble Collection, go to http://www. noblemaritime.org click on "Visitor Information" for directions. For further information contact Bob Conroy: RConroy421(at)aol.com or 3472679394. See the documentary made of this event: vimeo.com/250883513; Password: harbortown. Spring Folk Music Weekend: May 25th-28th Enjoy a friendly musicfilled weekend at. the Hudson Valley Resort & Spa, Kerhonkson, NY. Concerts, workshops, and classes with Scott Ainslie, A.J. Bodnar & Liza DiSavino, Michael & Carrie Kline, and special guest Russ Chandler. Comfortable rooms; plenty of opportunity for informal jamming and singing, socializing, hiking, swimming, and relaxing. Join this community of music; register now see the flyer in centerfold. Send in the coupon or sign up on line at http://springweekend.eventbrite.com. (service charge applies). Hilary Hawke & Christian Apuzzo: Saturday, May 26th; 4-6pm The New World Folk Club is an intimate, educational folk music event on the last Saturday of each month at the Scratcher Bar. Hosted by Vincent Cross, two special guests are invited to collaborate on traditional and/or contemporary folk songs. Hilary Hawke is a banjo/multiinstrumentalist and teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. She plays banjo and upright bass in several Brooklyn based bands. Christian Apuzzo, is a New York based guitarist/singer and educator who specializes in bluegrass music. The Scratcher Bar is at 209 E. 5th Street, Manhattan 10003 (between. 2nd & 3rd Ave's). Contribution: $5 Newsletter Mailing: Thursday, May 31st; 7pm Join the merry band of volunteers that sticks on the stamps and labels, and seals the pages to mail out this newsletter. Be sure to call and check before coming, as it may be changed. At the home of Don Wade and Eileen Pentel, 3541 72nd Street, Jackson Heights (Queens). Near the 74th St. Station of the #7 line or the Roosevelt AveJackson Heights Station of the E, F, M, and R trains. Info: 7186726399. 3 May (and maybe Spring) is finally here. We open the month with the Folk Open Sing, the Irish Traditional Music Sessions, the Sunnyside Singers Club and the Good Coffee House. We also have the Upper West Side Song Swap, the Shanty Sing, and the New World Folk Club. We are pleased to have Soldier’s Fancy in a benefit concert for the club—an event not to be missed. The month ends with our Spring Folk Music Weekend back at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa with a great lineup. See the flyer for details. We are sorry to tell you that Alan Friend passed away last month. He was a long time member and served on the board for many years. We will miss him very much. See more about Alan below. Thank you to the volunteers who mailed out the newsletter to you. Lynn Cole, Isabel Goldstein, Betsy Mayer, Clarice Kjerulff, Marilyn Suffet, Don Wade and Eileen Pentel. For the May issue we are trying something new. The Newsletter will have been mailed out by a service. If it didn’t work out, we will be back to mailing out our newsletters the old way. Be sure to call 7186726399 to check out if the May 31st mailing will be happening again. by Ruth Lipman We have sad news. Alan Friend died on March 28, 2018. A member for almost five decades, Alan was a positive force in our folk music club. He was generous with his time and talent—teaching, performing and serving on the Board in several capacities including president.