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CFMS Celebrates Grassahol performs at the Big 20! January FolkSide Coffeehouse The Columbus Folk Music Society Interview by Bill Cohen celebrates 20 years of existence! Technically, its 22 years, but we're January will be a time to get out taking the 1993 date of our Articles of of the house and enjoy the warmth of the “FolkSide” – with Incorporation as the starting point (at good music and good company. least for the purpose of this year’s Join us at our coffeehouse on celebration.) Saturday, January 25 at 8 p.m. to hear Grassahol. Mark your calendar for Saturday, “Their songs are a reflection of November 30. If you're in town, please the many musical influences of seriously consider attending our the band members themselves – bluegrass, Americana, folk, blues, coffeehouse that evening for a very jazz and even rock. Bluegrass special celebration. There will be an Unlimited magazine called their Grassahol is a popular favorite at the Central Ohio hour and a half of open mic music, ‘original, contemporary Folk Festival. Photo by Linda McDonald. bluegrass at its finest.’” performers (some of whom will be new faces to the CFMS) followed by an Bill Cohen interviews all five Scott Brooks:! We have tried, with limited band members in the article success, to verbally describe our music to hour and a half of open jamming. below. Additional concert details booking agents and have come up with We'll have a memorabilia table with on page 5. phrases like roots-based, acoustic music CFMS "artifacts," old photos, an influenced by bluegrass, folk, blues, anniversary cake, our traditional bake Bill Cohen:!!How would you describe the minstrel, swing, country, rock and jazz. sale AND just plain good camaraderie music you play, and what adjectives would But, the fact is that the five instruments: and musical fun. Our 2014 CFMS you use to describe your performances? banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and bass calendar will also be for sale. Chas Williams: We play a mixture of make such a perfect combo that when you Bluegrass, old time, swing and modern add some voices you have a musical palette We hope to see you there! tunes in a bluegrass setting.! It's rare that from which you can create a variety of Grassahol will play two songs that sound musical ideas. And that's what we do. We the same back to back.! Our performances See Grassahol ! page 4 are fun and intense, and emotional all at the same time.! Bluegrass and its!songs are primarily expressions of straight forward emotions, much like country music, just WHAT’S INSIDE: not as self-absorbed.! That's what I like Seasonal notes Pg. 2 about it.! It's right up front.! You always “Folk’s Family Feud: know where you stand in Bluegrass music, Traditionalists vs. whether it be dead and floating down a Songwriters” Pg. 2 river, going up to meet the creator, riding that midnight train, or drinkin' dark CFMS Meets Simply whiskey.! It's all good. Living Pg. 5 Heidi Haupt:! If we all like the song, it’s Calendar of fair game.! We’ve strayed from traditional Events Pg. 5 Bluegrass without disrespecting the “The Amazing Rakes: original form.! True to their name” Pg. 6

check or money order can be made payable to The Seasonal Columbus Folk Music Society (please add $2.00 S&H) and sent to: The Columbus Folk Music Society, P.O. Box 20735, Notes Columbus, OH 43220. Thank you for your support! * * * * The Staff of “A Different Strummer” wish you and yours the best during the coming holiday season. Also, if you're looking for a Christmas gift with a folk music twist, please check out the CFMS “FolkSide Shop” on We will “see you again” with the February issue (a polite the web at Cafe Press. Click on http://www.cafepress.com/ way of saying there will be no January newsletter). folksideshop. Clothing, mugs, tiles, totes and more – all with * * * * our logo and a saying. Its also a great way to "spread the word" about the CFMS! The Columbus Folk Music Society now has its 13-month full-color 2014 folk calendar available. Please consider getting calendars for your family or friends for a Christmas gift or for any kind of gift for that matter. You can even check out the calendar on our website. Suggested donation of $10. All proceeds support the CFMS. Calendars will be available at the monthly coffeehouses beginning in November. For mail order, a

it was tough at first, because nobody took you seriously. The first people who played Folk’s Family Feud; at Club 47 in Cambridge, for instance, they all tried to play just like [Southern Traditionalists vs. Songwriters traditional musicians] Doc Watson or by Scott Alarik Clarence Ashley. I mean, imitating them was like a stamp of authenticity, and The following article is a reprint intolerant traditional purists. Since then, songwriters were looked on as weird, from Scott Alarik’s book entitled songwriters and traditional folk musicians upstart-type people.” “Deep Community: Adventures in have been a-feudin' and a-fussin'. the Modern Folk Underground” John Roberts and Tony Barrand are and was originally published in Like most enduring myths, it is not among the most respected of singers of June of 1999. Alarik says of the entirely true. Dylan played all the songs he traditional British folk songs in this article now: “The traditionalists had intended to that August night and country. Barrand, who grew up in vs. songwriters story is one of was, for the most part, enthusiastically England, also teaches folklore and my favorites in the book. Since so received. In fact, he was brought back for psychology at Boston University, and said much of it is the history of that two encores. he believes most of the animosity, at least feud, it's still true. But the feud originally, came from traditionalists. has died down a lot in recent But also like most enduring myths, it years. Many in the younger endures because it is built upon a bedrock “The singer-songwriter thing was seen generation of both of truth. The worlds of traditional folk as a rejection of this amazing traditional traditionalists and songwriters music and the acoustic singer-songwriter material, this heritage,” he said. “I don't see it at all – to them, it's all folk music, all people's have not quite been armed camps, but a music.” very cold war has raged between them since the dawn of the 1960s folk revival. The popular mythology says that the “I think there was always a gulf folk wars began at the Newport Folk between songwriters and traditional folk Festival in 1965. Singer-songwriter Bob people,” said Eric Andersen, who rose to Dylan appeared with an electric guitar, stardom with the first wave of '60s singing obscure, introspective songs, and songwriters, which included Dylan, Tom was booed off the stage by hordes of Paxton, and Phil Ochs. “For a songwriter, See Folk’s Family Feud ! page 3

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Folk’s Family Feud ! "om page 2 performers. She songwriters aim their animosity at one said she recently another. remember being at folk clubs in England ruminated with in the '60s, and the purists – these people “I'm sure that television and radio Greenwich Village who were just then intensely discovering have helped to escalate the split. Folk gets folk patriarch the old songs – saw it almost as a travesty so little airplay and almost no television, Dave Van Ronk to create songs when there were so many and it tends to be the most popular [now deceased] great traditional singers to listen to and performers, the ones closest to the pop about why so little imitate, and all these amazing old songs to mainstream, who get what little attention traditional music learn.” there is.” as been part of the As the folk revival gained commercial current folk Christine Lavin This strikes at the central tragedy of viability, however, the traditional artists got revival. the schism for David Tamulevich, whose left by the wayside. At coffeehouses like Fleming-Tamulevich is the nation's largest “He said, ‘Look, if you go to a Club 47 and major festivals like Newport, folk management and booking agency. He bluegrass festival, you'll see 10-year-old the constant, seductive hum of what Joni also performs in the smart traditional and kids with little cowboy hats and banjos Mitchell called “the starmaker machinery” contemporary folk duo Mustard's Retreat. who can name all the bluegrass players could be heard. But then as now, pop from the beginning of time and play all “I think the real gulf opened when the wanted its stars young, hip, attractive – the standards. Folk music today does not media decided folk was going to become a and singing contemporary songs. have that.’ four-letter word,” he said. “In the '70s, Steve Tilston, who sings both pop culture moved away from the folk “And he's right; singer-songwriters traditional and original songs, came of age revival toward other things, and basically don't have that deep, long connection to in the waning days of the British folk declared it dead. Folk people get all the traditional music. My theory is that to revival and remembers how hardened emotional about that, but, you know, it's begin to play folk music, you only need to attitudes had become by the early '70s. an impersonal industry, as all capitalist know two or three chords. You don't have industries are. They want quick money, no “I still remember a few faces looking to learn to play other people's stuff first, investment, and they're always moving on daggers at me,” he said, “wondering, ‘Why just to get the technique. You don't have to to the next thing.” am I paying money to hear this post- go to teachers, who would tell you about adolescent sing about the fact that his He is convinced that there is as large a latest girlfriend's buggered off ?’ I suppose David Tamulevich is potential audience for folk music now as that's forever to be the case, and it seems convinced that there is there was in the '60s. As an agent, he is even more so in America. I know a lot of as large a potential forever helping grass-roots organizations people resent the singer-songwriter, see audience for folk start their own folk venues, watching music now as there was them as using the resources that were built in the '60s. . . . happily as word spreads from friend to up and maintained by people in the “Audiences want those friend, neighbor to neighbor, that folk traditional scene. So when I come up to roots and welcome music still exists. the States, I sense a bit of resentment that them when they find “Audiences want those roots and the folk scene is so swamped with singer- them,” he said. “They want all the things welcome them when they find them,” he songwriters.” that folk music offers; said. “They want all the things that folk that feeling of As the folk revival dissolved in the connectedness and music offers; that feeling of connectedness wake of the disco and punk waves of the inclusiveness and and inclusiveness and tradition. But they '70s, the music went underground, tradition. But they don't know they want it until they see it, maintained in small coffeehouses by the don't know they want it and they simply don't see it in the media most ardent activists and lovers of the until they see it, and today. It's like the industry and the media they simply don't see it form. But it was not only traditional in the media today.” just pulled the curtain on it. And that's not people who fought that hard, good fight. the fault of anyone in folk music; it's not Passim, the descendant of Club 47, for the songwriter's fault and it's not the example, was run by Bob and Rae Ann the masters who came before and have traditional artists' fault. It's the media's Donlin, who were devoted to literate you study their music, the way they do in fault and the music industry's fault.” singer-songwriters. On tiny stages like other forms, whether it's bluegrass or Eddie From Ohio is actually a quartet theirs, the folk movement rebuilt itself, but opera. In folk, you can just take off on from Virginia, among the hottest new folk when it reemerged in the 1980s, it was your own. And it really is to the detriment bands. Its quirky, hilariously smart-alecky seen almost entirely as a songwriter of the form if new people come up who songs are bringing young fans to folk and a revival. don't know what came before them.” welcome spirit of fun to the often-dour Among folk's first new stars was Lavin also said she thinks it is world of the songwriter. Christine Lavin, who remains among its unfortunate that traditional folkies and wittiest and most enduring popular See Folk’s Family Feud ! page 6 www.ColumbusFolkMusicSociety.org! PAGE 3 A DIFFERENT STRUMMER! DECEMBER, 2013

Grassahol # "om page 1 I had an early interest in musical Heidi: We recently played at a retirement sing and play just about anything we like production and worked in radio, center in Westerville.! The room was and they all come out sounding like – advertising and my own recording studio. packed with folks with walkers and Grassahol.! I only moved to the performance side of wheelchairs with big smiles on their faces.! things a few years back, after picking up When we started the intro to “Tennessee Bill:!!Your members have many years of the mandolin. My primary interest is still Waltz” I heard a collective sigh from the musical experience, and some have been in singing – especially harmonies.! audience and they were all singing along in musical groups besides Grassahol.!!Can for the entire song.! I almost couldn’t each of you tell us how many years you’ve Bill: Who are your musical influences continue singing because it moved me so. been performing, how many groups you’ve and heroes ? been in, and how many instruments you Scott: I guess the time we played in the Scott: So many: the Beatles, CSNY, too each play? atrium of the Ohio Statehouse, a huge many jazz folks to mention – Miles, space with marble floors and walls. The Carl Yaffey: I started in 1962. [I’ve] Brubeck, Chet Baker – mainly cool and place sounded like a giant echo chamber probably been in 15 groups or more. I be-bop. I'm really into music from the and really made everything sound play banjo primarily but also play guitar, swing era – the Great American amazing. That, coupled with the honor of mandolin, and bass. being there and the pomp and ceremony, Chas: I have played in over a half dozen made for a pretty cool gig. musical groups, and have been playing folk Carl: Playing at a Thom McCain house music, old time, rock and bluegrass for too concert. many years to count at this point.! I started in middle school, but played piano Lacy: I agree with Carl – playing at a before that.! I play the piano, guitar, Thom McCain house concert. Those folks harmonica, kazoo (does that count?), listen close and appreciate your efforts. As mandolin, fiddle, and!banjo. I just sold my performers, we feed off that. hammered dulcimer, so I don't play that Chas: My favorite Grassahol performance anymore.! My instrument in the band Grassahol on stage at Byrne’s Pub in Grandview is any performance where we are asked to today is the fiddle (and kazoo, if that Heights. Photo by Linda McDonald. do an encore.! I am an absolute idiot counts.) Songbook. My bluegrass heroes are about encores.! Other than this, there have Heidi:! I spent my youth at the piano and Monroe, Lester Flatt, and the Bluegrass been lots of great shows.! We did a learning to sing harmonies with my Album Band and I really dig the new summer show at Buckeye Lake this year, musical family.! I picked up the guitar in a sound bluegrass is taking root in with the sun was setting over the lake, boats fingerpicking style when I wanted to start Chris Thile, Stringdusters, Steel Drivers, were floating by, folks were drinking singing at coffeehouses and bars in college.! Cadillac Sky and others. summer wine, the weather was glorious, Soon after, I met my husband (the we played great, and everyone was on drummer) while singing in a rock band.! Carl: Earl Scruggs, Jens Jruger, Chris board.! That was a Zen moment for the After hearing live the incredible quality of Thile, J.D. Crowe and Tony Rice. Band.! Finally, you can't beat the crowds at Bluegrass musicians both instrumentally Lacy: Vocally, Merle Haggard and Byrne's on the right Friday night.! Familiar and vocally I knew that’s what I needed to probably Conway Twitty and Tony Rice. faces all around and a love for the music.! be doing. !Since I am helpless with a pick On electric guitar, Albert Lee, Danny What's not to like?! in my hand, I learned to play the bass so I Gatton and George Harrison.!Tony Rice Bill: What do you recall as the worst could sing harmonies with my friends.! I is the king of bluegrass guitar in my performance situation Grassahol ever met Carl at a Bluegrass jam and Grassahol opinion.! faced ? was born shortly after. Chas:! I have so many heroes.! I love the Chas: Early this spring we played in Lacy Wright: Mom taught me how to founding fathers:! Bill Monroe, Ralph Centerburg for a city!festival that got sing harmony parts when I was six. I can't Stanley, Flat and Scruggs.! I love the rained out.! We played to 3 people.! They sing harmony in a song now without modern players, too: Tony Rice, David had fun, but we didn't.! 'Nuff said. thinking of her.! Grissman, Sammy Shelor,! Jerry Douglas, Ricky Skaggs, and Alison Krauss.! Of the Carl:! Playing outdoors near Lake Erie I started playing seriously during the 60's. fiddlers, Kenny Baker comes to mind, with the sun in our eyes and 20 billion I've played classic rock, country and oldies and!Brad Leftwich, Aubrey Haynie, Mark mosquitos feasting on us. over the years. I play guitar primarily but O'Connor, and lots of others. also play bass guitar and pedal steel guitar. Heidi: The venue will go unnamed, but I can fumble some with a banjo but Carl's My banjo hero is Carl Yaffey.! Wait, he's in we travelled quite a distance three times position isn't in jeopardy. the band.! (Does that count?)! on the promise that the sound reinforcement had been improved.! Bad Scott: Music for me, started in my family, Bill: Please give us an example of what sound takes away all the joy. singing around the piano. Everyone in my you consider the best and most satisfying family played a band instrument and sang. performance Grassahol ever did. See Grassahol ! page 7 www.ColumbusFolkMusicSociety.org! PAGE 4 A DIFFERENT STRUMMER! DECEMBER, 2013

meeting will be worthwhile, with a group that has hundreds of Shining the Light interesting, and fun. members, much organizing

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! ! on the CFMS with !We’ll meet in the old Clintonville community. Community Resources Center at 14 Hootenanny & W. Lakeview at 6:30 p.m.! Folks from each group will talk about what their What is the origin of the word Talk – Friday Jan. 10 group does.! Then, we’ll have a Hootenanny? Simply Living is a unique discussion and question-and-answer According to Wikipedia, Pete Seeger, in community group that aims to show session.! Light refreshments will be various interviews, said he first heard the people how they can lead simpler, less served, and we’ll end the informal word hootenanny in Seattle, Washington stressful, and more meaningful lives evening with a brief folk music sing- in the late 1930s. It was used by Hugh along.! The Folk Ramblers (Carl by consuming less, downplaying the DeLacy’s New Deal political club to rat race for money, doing more Yaffey on banjo and Bill Cohen on guitar) will lead the hootenanny, but describe their monthly music fund raisers. people-oriented things, and protecting After some debate the club voted in the the environment.! everyone from the CFMS is invited to lend their singing voices and join in word ‘hootenanny,’ which narrowly beat !Each month, activists from Simply the discussion.! out the word ‘wingding.’ Seeger, Woody Living have picked another Guthrie and other members of the community group to meet with, !The more, the merrier.! Let’s show Almanac Singers later used the word in network with, and socialize with.! And Simply Living how much energy, New York City to describe their weekly spirit, and fun we often generate ! for January, Simply Living wants to rent parties, which featured many notable meet with our members in the !The entire meeting won’t last more folksingers of the time. In a 1962

Columbus Folk Music Society. than 2 hours, but we think it could interview in Time, Joan Baez made the ! ! !Our two groups share some help us make some new friends and analogy that a hootenanny is to folk common values, so we think the perhaps lead to future partnerships singing what a jam session is to jazz.

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The Saturday Music Jam at the Friday, January 10 – Columbus 614-354-6172; Bill Cohen at Worthington Farmers! Market has Folk Music Society is special guest [email protected]. relocated to The Shops at at Simply Living!s Monthly Social. Worthington for the winter months. 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Simply Living folks Saturday, January 25 – 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. All are welcome to seek to learn more about the CFMS FolkSide Coffeehouse come play. Consider bringing a chair. and to share a little about themselves. 6:00 p.m. Open Jam Bill Cohen (and other interested 7:00 p.m. Open Stage Saturday, November 30 – CFMS members) will have the 8:00 p.m. Featured Performer: FolkSide Coffeehouse (Special opportunity to talk about the CFMS Grassahol. Columbus Mennonite Schedule) and the diverse folk music traditions in Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue (just 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Open Stage central Ohio. Bill & Carl Yaffey will East of High St. & one block North of 8:30 - 10 p.m. Open Jam. Columbus also lead the group in a Sing-a-long – E.N. Broadway), Cols, OH. Suggested Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Hootenanny style. All are invited. donation: $7.00; Avenue (just East of High St. & one Location: Clintonville Resources CFMS members block North of E.N. Broadway), Cols, Center, 14 W. Lakeview Ave, $5.00; students OH. $7.00 donation; CFMS members Columbus 43202.!Contacts: Chuck at $5.00 under 12 $5.00; students $5.00; under 12 free. [email protected]!or free.

! FOLLOWING OUR OWN. . . Thursday, December 5: Grassahol –!! Friday, December 13: Grassahol – Mudﬂats Bar & Grill, 31 W. Columbus Byrnes' Pub, 1248 West 3rd Ave., St., Galena, OH 7:30 - 11:30 P.M. Columbus, OH 7 - 9 P.M. Free (740) 965-5700 614-486-4722 www.ColumbusFolkMusicSociety.org! PAGE 5 A DIFFERENT STRUMMER! DECEMBER, 2013

Folk’s Family Feud ! "om page 3 songwriters and pop singers?’ And you WELCOME TO OUR NEW AND Robbie Schaefer, who writes many of could say that, but to me, the overview is RETURNING MEMBERS: the group's songs, wonders if the schism is that they are carrying on one of the oldest traditions ever, because there have always Fred Bailey been singer-songwriters. There have been George Bennett troubadours going back thousands of Linda Bolles Diane & Kathleen Boston years, and they had songs for everything Tom and Patti Burkett family that happened in people's lives. I mean, Joanie Calem songs are written by singer-songwriters; Dr. Lee & Tinya Cherney family that's how they've always been written.” Dan !Clarke Robert Dunham For Andersen, though, the gulf is a Ruth & Hugh Stanton-Farthing permanent feature of the folk terrain. Charlie Flowers & Denise Bronson People who discover its vast fields are Karen Fries EddieFromOhio band members. naturally going to be drawn to different Suzanne Koebel $ww.eddie"omohio.co% corners, though he made it clear it's not Steve Hopkins as wide as many folkies think. He is only the traditionalists who think the scales Peter Insabella constantly being warned about “folk police” may have tipped a tad too heavily toward Terry & Dee Keller family Jim Luckhaupt the songwriters these days. or even “folk Nazis,” traditional purists bent Linda & Richard McDonald family on assailing young neo-folkies like himself. “I was in that first wave, when there Art & Sharon Mittenbergs family But he has never met one and, in fact, has were maybe six songwriters in Greenwich Steve Moore (Opossum) felt warmly welcomed in even the most Village,” he said. “Now it's like there's Larry Myers traditional folk venues. Hal Pepinsky & Jill Bystydzienski more songwriters than there are ATMs, 7- Pam Raver “The experiences we've all had tell me Elevens, churches, and Wal-Marts put Shelbiana Rhein the gulf might not be as large as a lot of us together. But I don't know if this is a gulf Allen & Mary Rubnitz family think,” he said. “I think people who grew that needs to be narrowed. I mean, it's like Rick Schlegel up with folk music probably guard it saying swing music should get closer to Stephen Seiple jealously, as they should. It is a precious free-form jazz or bebop. Maybe the Cathy & Steve Sheets family differences are good. That's what makes Larry Staats thing, and it takes nurturing, especially Margaret Swisher nowadays. As a fan, you really have to seek the form so vital.” – Reprinted Jane VanAuken it out, seek out the CDs, the shows, to be with permission. Sandra Vitek really proactive. This is not a passive form of entertainment. What I think the newer stuff is doing is drawing younger people The Amazing mid-1960’s Beatles (Here Comes the into folk music who would never have Sun), 1970’s soft rock (Dance with Me), listened to it otherwise – and may not Rakes:! True to 1930’s Cowboy music (Cowboy Sweetheart), modern-day country pop by Bill Cohen (Would You Go With Me), and other “. . . to me, the overview is their Name musical genres. that they [singer- #“We never meant to be a performing songwriters] are carrying band.”! That’s how bass player and !Nearly every song highlighted on one of the oldest harmonies that popped as clear as a bell traditions ever, because vocalist Heidi White describes the 6- there have always been member Amazing Rakes.!! But on and instrumental solos that you wanted singer-songwriters. There November 9, more than 100 folks were to applaud right then but didn’t, because have been troubadours delighted that the Rakes performed it would have drowned out the going back thousands of anyway. compelling music that you wanted to years, and they had songs keep hearing.!! for everything that The scene was a food pantry happened in people's fundraiser at an old church on The audience could tell from the way lives.” Steve Tilston Columbus’ south side, and the rafters these musical veterans smiled, laughed, echoed and rang with the Rakes’ tight 3, and interacted with each other on stage, realize they're listening to it now. And I 4, and even 5-part vocal harmonies.! Plus they simply love making music together.! think that's a great thing. Somehow, people there were the many instruments the Perhaps that’s why Heidi hints that have to get their first exposure to the band played seemingly effortlessly: guitar, performing publicly as a group is just the music.” mandolin, fiddle, bass, banjo, and drum. frosting on the cake.! Both Lavin and Tilston said they feel !At first, the Rakes presented a !If you ever get a chance to hear the more connected to folk tradition than some somewhat bluegrass sound.! But quickly, Amazing Rakes, do it.! I think you’ll! purists might give them credit for being. they showed an amazing versatility.! agree that adjectives like refreshing, They did their own unique takes on early joyful, energizing, and entertaining only Tilston said, “I'll hear people say, ‘Well, 1960’s rock (Under the Boardwalk), begin to describe them. what's the difference between these singer- www.ColumbusFolkMusicSociety.org! PAGE 6 A DIFFERENT STRUMMER! DECEMBER, 2013

Grassahol # "om page 4 How can I find out more about the In the end, we are here to make the Columbus Folk Music Society and/or Bill: When people see a Grassahol world a better place.! I can do that it’s events? Visit our website for information show, what do you want them to come with my music. at: www.columbusfolkmusicsociety.org. away with ? Lacy: If it wasn't fun I wouldn't do it. Or you can join us as a member. Benefits include: Heidi:! “Boy, that band looks like it’s And I like the challenge. For me music camaraderie with the folkies in town, discounts having a great time!”! Whenever I see is my therapy, my escape from the on certain admissions, this monthly newsletter a band like that I always have fun too. pressures of life. And my band-mates and the comfort of knowing that all events are are great! We enjoy each other and it family friendly! Chas:! What I want is for people to makes working up new material great enter my world of music.! I want fun. to!lead them willingly!into the songs, A guy has an accordion in the back seat to feel the stories, to be instructed by Heidi: I originally started playing of his car. !He drives to the Bureau of Motor the lyrics, think about their own lives Bluegrass because of the social nature Vehicles to renew his license, and he goes inside in context,!and go away with a little of the music.! Groups of people I met and gets in line. !But then, he's horrified when he "wow, that was a great show."! It's like stood in circles in the kitchen and realizes he has left his car unlocked and with the all theater.! There has to be some played and laughed all evening long.! windows rolled down -- with the accordion in full suspension of disbelief; the audience It never occurred to me to be in a view on the back seat. !He rushes out of the should forget about the world outside band until Carl asked.! Now all of the BMV but when he gets outside, he realizes he is and come into the world of great fellows who make music with me are too late. !Somebody has already left another stories told in song and once back out like my brothers.! And my favorite accordion on the back seat. in the real world feel uplifted. times are not on a stage, but in a circle, making tight exciting Carl: Feeling like they had a great harmonies together. time. And, liking bluegrass if they weren’t already. Scott: The whole experience of playing with this band is such a Bill: We all know that folk music positive social experience for me. The groups like Grassahol make big bucks band has the camaraderie of a (right), but besides the money, why do winning sports team. We support each you perform with Grassahol ? other musically on stage. And, we Carl: I love the challenge of working spend many hours together practicing out the tunes, getting the and performing our music together. arrangements right, and getting to And, we get the chance to expand our play banjo with a great group of folks. circle of friends to include the friends It’s fun! of our other band-mates and the many people who we get to know in DECEMBER’S “Name that Photo” Chas: I perform because I am a our audiences. The Grassahol Take a guess who this is. However, you’ll have to frustrated magician; because there is experience has introduced me to wait until the February issue of “A Different magic in music, because music is many cool people who I wouldn't have Strummer” to find out the answer!! God's chosen language, and because known otherwise. music well done makes people happy.! THE COLUMBUS FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OFFICERS Jackie LaMuth–[email protected] President: Art Mittenbergs – Jim Luckhaupt–[email protected]" [email protected] 614-491-0437 Linda McDonald–[email protected] Vice-President: Joe Baringhaus– Sharon Mittenbergs– [email protected] [email protected] Treasurer: Debbie Shaw– Tom Nagel–[email protected] [email protected] Cindy Ramsey–[email protected] Secretary: Diane Boston– Cathy Sheets–[email protected] [email protected] Chris Skudder–[email protected] TRUSTEES Linda Bolles–[email protected] Central Ohio Folk Festival directors: Art and Sharon Mittenbergs [email protected] Stan & Beth Bradley – [email protected] Membership Chair: Larry Drake [email protected] [email protected] Newsletter Editor: Diane Boston Bill Cohen–[email protected] [email protected]# Mike Hale– [email protected]" Webmaster: Carl Yaffey [email protected] www.ColumbusFolkMusicSociety.org! PAGE 7 The Columbus Folk Music Society P.O. Box 1233620735 Columbus, OH 4321243220

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