I want to help 3RFS and 2021 Member Application the Tumblweed Music Your membership gives you voting rights in Folklife Y e s ! elections, $2 off most concerts, and is tax deductible! Festival Roll on! You’ll even get a nifty membership card to show your friends and neighbors! I would like to contribute at this level: A Newsletter for Columbia, Snake, and Yakima River Folk ___ $1000.00 ____ Individual ($20) or ____ Family ($25) Renewal? Y N ___ $250.00 Name______$100.00 Address ______Vol. 32, Issue 1 August 2020 ___ $50.00 City______State ______Zip ______$______Other Phone ______E-mail ______Please keep my gift anonymous. (Donor names will be Please send Folk Talk by (choose one) US Mail ____ Email ____ Both ____ listed in next year’s program unless you indicate you wish to remain Tumbleweed Music Festival VIRTUAL 2020! anonymous.) I can help 3RFS with: The pandemic has turned the enter- known for. See the listing of perform- away you wish could come to the fes- Name ______Refreshments at concerts ___ Setting up chairs ___ Fund raising tainment world upside down. We all ances here in the newsletter. ti val with you? This year is a unique Address______Taking admission at events ___ Folding newsletters ___ Coffeehouses miss gathering together for concerts, 2. Choose your place. One of the opportunity to share Tumbleweed with City ______State ____Zip______Serve on Board of Directors ___ Publicity ___ Song circles coffeehouses, workshops, and of advantages of a “virtual” festival is them. Introduce them to your favorite ___ Demonstrating folk arts ___ Membership Phone Number______course, Tumbleweed Music Festival the ability to watch or listen from any- performers, take a workshop togeth- ___ Tumbleweed Music Festival ___ Other E-Mail ______in Howard Amon Park. where using your electronic devices! er, and sing and dance together while Send check to: Three Rivers Folklife Society,P.O. Box 1098, Richland, WA 99 3 5 2 . So, what is the best way to experi- Stay in your air-conditioned home and apart! ence Tumbleweed Music Festival this watch on the larger computer screen; Roll On. Continued from page 1. 5. Support the festival and the per- $99.00, you will receive the formances from 3RFS concerts. year? Virtually, of course – for 2020, or, take TMFVirtual2020 outside with formers. There will be opportunities in the mail. above plus a free pass to the For a contribution of 250.00 we’re “TMFVirtual2020!” And the you, to your deck or backyard, or to support the individual performers For a contribution up to Saturday night concert. or more, you’ll receive all of the best part is, you’re almost certainly take it on the go with you. Some folks through links to their tip jars and $ 5 0 . 0 0 , you will be listed on For a contribution of $100.00 - above plus a TMFVir t u a l 2 0 2 0 already ready to be there! You can might even take the festival with them websites, where you can purchase attend on your device of choice - our website and receive a sou- $2 4 9 . 0 0 , you will receive all of T-shirt (specify size and color: to Howard Amon park, for a “social- their CDs or downloads. There will computer, laptop, phone, tablet. You ly-distanced” yet familiar experience. also be an opportunity to support the venir TMFVirtual2020 button. the above plus a 'Front Row men’s charcoal or tan, or can attend at the place of your choice 3. Choose your time. Much of the festival through ticket sales for the For a contribution of $50.00 - Seat' CD featuring live per- women’s purple.) - home, deck, backyard, or on-the-go. festival has been pre-recorded. You Saturday night concert, the Sunday And, until NEXT August, you can can watch those performances at any Contra Dance, festival merchandise attend at the time of your choosing! time that is convenient for you – for sales, and of course, direct donations As always for Tumbleweed, most of once, you’ll have no worries about to the festival. Your support will help the TMFVirtual2020 Festival will be your favorite performers having their defray the costs incurred this year, as FREE, and it will be On-Demand! sets on different stages at the same well as work toward next year’s BIG Here’s how it’s going to work: time. How is this different from 25th anniversary festival. 1. Choose your device. You can find YouTube? The performers have put We look forward to “seeing” you the festival on any internet-connected together sets specifically for online! The festival website will be at device: computer, laptop, smart phone, Tumbleweed, there will be MCs www.TumbleweedMusicFestival.org, or tablet. Go to the festival website: announcing their sets, and the lineup from September 3rd, and will remain www.TumbleweedMusicFestival.org. of performances is all on our easy-to- up until about 2 weeks before There you can choose from numerous navigate festival website. #25thTMF, in 2021. “stages” to watch and listen to the 4. Share TMFVirtual2020 with fam- great variety of music Tumbleweed is ily and friends. Are there people far- Roll On, Tumbleweed, Roll On! We can’t sing enough praises for the different this year. Because we are not ye a r , more than ever, we need to rely team making TMFVirtual2020 happen. live-in-the-park, we have reduced on our generous patrons. The vision of coordinator David expenses (no facility, stage, equipment Please consider a financial donation Carson and his planning team is amaz- rentals or performer travel stipends), to help 3RFS and Tumbleweed Roll On. ing and the online festival will be even but added new expenses for website Enclosed is a Roll On donation enve- more so.The festival will Roll On as a development, digital licensing and lope, or you can contribute directly totally enjoyable, memorable event. communications. We also face a much via our PayPal account, tumbleweed Speaking of Roll On…that’s what lower projected income with no raffle chair@ gmail.com. We have several we call our annual appeal for patron or silent auction, limited grants and ca t e g o r i e s of thank-you gifts based on donations to sustain Tumbleweed sp o n sorships by businesses due to the your donation. If you’ve already donat- and Three Rivers Folklife Society. The covid virus, uncertain product sales, ed , thank you, you’ll receive your gift finances of Tumbleweed look very and loss of fund raising concerts. This Continued on Page 4, See Roll On. 2 3

Jonathan Lay and Gordie Euler at TMFVirtual2020! so there TMFVirtual2020! Schedule as of 8/17/2020 We Have of Shanghaied on the won’t be a separate SSSSS next Workshops Too! Willamette. month. North Stage Les Strompettes - Sam Rasmusson - C o m m u n i t y David Maloney - Julie Reddick: The Contra Dance is Sunday, Mike Buchman - Although TMFVirtual2020 is Big A c t s / Hurdy Gurdy Divas ATeacher/ Center Stage Songs from Still Writing Great Who Has Seen the 6 September, 8:00pm – 9:30pm. Big Names B e l l e s / B l u e s / Wind? made up of largely prerecorded and Their Beaux Songwriter/Singer Deep in the Well Songs Suggested donation is $8.00. Someday... We’ll Be Fine Company - William Pint & Eyer Family Band B l u e g r a s s Thaddeus Spae - Shanghaied on the Hank Cramer: content, we will have some live Links to all events will be Folk Songs Old and Felicia Dale - Ro c k i n ' Cute kids + folks Troupe Du Soleil- Old Man Shouts at Wi l l a m e t t e - Songs Plun- Chilly Winds events: our Workshops! Together... Middle Eastern and found at the festival website, New Music of the Sea A Family Band Clouds dered from Land & Sea The workshops will be held via The good news is that Three Trillium-239 - Tom Lewis - Julie Reddick - Turkish Belly Dancers Robin Embry - Deb Seymour: tumbleweedmusicfestival.org. Jane Titland Tight Harmonies British Submariner Time-tested Folk and Lyle Morse - Midwestern Song- Tropic Winds Zoom, and also livestreamed. Rivers Folklife Society is still Memorial Loose Cannons Sings Sea Songs Country Traditional and writer/Storyteller The number of direct partici- presenting Tumbleweed Music So n g w r i t i n g Mare Wakefield & Chico Schwall - Original Blues Steve & Kristi Nebel - Trillium-239: West Stage Co n t e s t pants for each workshop will Second Saturday Festival in spite of Covid-19! Nomad - American Folk Songs:Vintage Alan Kausal - Original Americana Termination Winds S i n g e r / E m c e e be limited, but everyone will The not so good news is we are From Folk to Swing Folk from Nashville S o n g w r i t e r s and New Duo Wes We d d e l l be able to watch the live- Sea Song Singalong still uncertain about when we Heidi Muller & Cecelia Eng - and In Between Mike Murray: Burgundy Pearl - Little Bit Patrice Webb: st re a m e d version, which will be Due to COVID-19, 3RFS can- will be able to be together in Bob Webb - Original Science Fiction Michael “Hawkeye” Country, Little Bit Range Fire Rich Vocals Mingling Cold Winds of Winter Folk from Joseph, OR Fantasy Filk Music He r m a n - Awa r d - w i n n e r , Rock’n’Roll rec o r ded and be available online celled most of our monthly person for events like concerts, Venerable Bluesman Dan Maher - Alexander James Waterbound for most of a year. Signups will activities, including the famous coffeehouses, contra dances Hank and Claire - Kay Miracle - The Go Janes: Participatory Folk Adams - Original The Rootsters - Four Strong Winds Zestful Sweet Benton City’s Prodigal Who Can Name open for the workshops soon. Second Saturday Sea Song and singalongs. We have held a Fantasy Folk American Roots Blues Harmony Duo Songwriter the Wind He r e’s the schedule (Times PDT): Singalong (SSSSS), typically few Second Saturday Sea Song Harmony Ridge - Tom Rawson - Sam Rasmusson: Dan Maher: Mike Murray - Jerry Callahan - David Prince - Saturday, 5 September held at Roundtable Pizza in Singalongs on Zoom. They Eclectic Folk Trio User-friendly Songs Cherry Tree Breeze They Call the Wind Award-winning Songs Singer/ Songwriter/ Singer/Songwriter/ Mariah 11:00am–12:00pm “C h o r d Richland. Beginning in June, weren’t perfect, but at least we Guitarist Storyteller Pennies on the Tania Opland: Tom Rawson: Science for Songwriters” by we started a virtual version of can see and hear each other Rob Kneisler - Arts Gallery Kerry Grombacher - Track - Colorado Silver Lining - The River Blowin’in the Wind Songwriter/ St a g e Chico Schwall. SSSSS using Zoom Web. While and visit a little. Thanks to Jim Folk Trio Original Retro Folk New Orleans Cowboy Fingerstyle Guitarist Mixed Media 1:00pm– 2:00pm “Capoeira Zoom is not ideal for music, it Honeyman for that! Hank Cramer III - Kay Miracle: Patrice Webb - Early Birds and the Larry Lotz - S u n d a y Traveling Folksinger Badger Mountain Dry I Love the Wind Martial Arts Workshop” by works well enough to share Unfortunately, we in the Tri- Award-winning Worms - Mountain Band - Progressive Country Folk Night Contra from Winthrop D a n c e “Find Your Center” of Pasco. songs between friends. The Cities are still in Phase 1.5 of Original Songwriter Dulcimer Music Bluegrass Band Americana SeaStar - Original Jeffrey Minnick: S u g g e s t e d 2:30pm–3:30pm: “Flamenco software is free and runs on the reopening plan. We can’t Wes Weddell - Mark & Cindy Carl Christensen - Celtic Folk The Wind in This Donation $8.00 More Singer/ Storytelling Dance Workshop” by “Find PC, MAC, iPhone, or Android get together in groups of more Songwriter,Teacher, Lemaire - Great Country Citizen Guitar and Harmonies S o n g w r i t e r s Singer/Songwriter Live music by Your Center” of Pasco. devices with a camera and than 50 (socially distanced) To o Many for Lynette Hensley: South Stage Chris Baron - Woman Alive - La u r e n Appaloosa - Contraversitile 4:00pm-5:00pm “Lead Guitar until Phase 4. This puts future One Stage! Solo Flight microphone. If you’d like to Traditional Folk Po r t l a n d Curren -Acoustic High Desert Caller Mo Mack - Ma d e Easy” by Steve Peterson. join in, send a request to Jim 3RFS events on hold until we and Nautical Si n g e r / S o n g w r i t e r Si n g e r / S o n g w r i t e r Americana Duo David Gloor Folksinger/Songwriter Michael Henchman: Sunday, 6 September Honeyman at jhoneyman2b@ can meet safely. The health and Tania Opland & Megan Cronin - Waterbound - Mr. Sunshine - Saddle the Wind S u n d a y Mike Freeman - Heart-felt Northwest Melody Magic with Acoustic Singer/ 11:30am-12:30pm “Western Swing charter.net to receive an invita- safety of our members and fol- Deb Seymour - Night Shanty Acoustic World Music Songwriter Mando and Au t o h a r p Songwriter for Guitar” by Patrice Webb. tion to the Zoom session each lowers is our first priority. Since Folk Music Whimsy Lynn Graves: S i n g The Drunken Dan Weber - Bella Rose - Hank Cramer IV - Trying to Stop the 1:30pm-2:30pm “Bottleneck month. If you need help getting the majoritiy of our audience Maidens - British and American Country Rich 3-Part Contemporary Wind Hosted by Shanghaied Meander - Slide Guitar” by Stanislove. the Zoom software running on members are in a vulnerable American Harmonies Folk Harmonies Colorado Acoustic Rock on the Willamette Innovative Modern Ron Dalton: 3:30pm-4:30pm “Running a your system email Jim. We also age group, we need to stay home Barbara & Flip Breskin & Zeke Michael Henchman - Folk S a t u r d a y The Wind and I David Denz - Progressive Folk Hoskin - Bellingham’s Zoom Music Event” by Chris livestream the session to and stay safe. We miss the com- Elbridge Fletcher - Night Concert F r i d a y Eclectic Celtic Favorite Duo Emcee-Dan Maher Night Yo u t h Glanister. Facebook beginning at 7pm, if munity we have developed as Folk American David Ingerson - River Stage The Sun Shakers - S u g g e s t e d S u n d a y C o n c e r t But wait! We have two more you just want to watch. Search Three Rivers Folklife Society Donation $15.00 Acapella Songs of N o - A g e Eclectic Irish Folk Night Concert Released from Quiet- “ Wind” Theme Reilly Frank live, real-time events during for SSSSS or check Jim Honeyman and hope that we can be together the Irish M u s i c The Go Janes - Acoustic Blues/Rock Chucky Charles Band TMFVirtual2020! The tradition- Live feed on FB to view it live soon. We all need to work to- The Blowins - Micki Perry - ATrio of Songbirds Duo Micki Perry: Dawn Madison An Irish Pub Band Storysongs and and Songwriters al Shanty Sing after-party and at 7:00pm on the 2nd Saturday gether now towards that goal. Betsy Wellings - October Winds Desert Rovers from Ireland Dancealongs Songwriting Contest our Contra Dance with a live of each month. For September; Stay home! Stay Safe! Stay Smooth and Poignant Alex Baird The Whateverly Dave: The Man with Winner and Prize Or i g i n a l s Bella Rose: Burbon and Bellows band and caller! The Shanty we’re having a Sea Shanty sing healthy! Stay sane! And don’t Brothers - Broad the Green Hat (D a v i d An n o u n c e m e n t s Hickory Win d s Chainsaw and the Sing is Sunday, 6 September hosted by Shanghaied on the for get to wash your hands! Spectrum Folkies Ma l o n e y ) Fine Particulates from 6:00pm – 7:30pm, led by Willamette on Sunday, the 6th, Join us at TMFVirtual2020!