Irish Traditional Music Session at the Landmark, 8Pm Wednesdays: Sunnyside Singers Club in Woodside, Queens, 8Pm 3 Sun Chantey & Folk Song & Music Session; John St
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Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. Dec. 2017 vol. 52 No. 11 December Mondays: Irish Traditional Music Session at the Landmark, 8pm Wednesdays: Sunnyside Singers Club in Woodside, Queens, 8pm 3 Sun Chantey & Folk Song & Music Session; John St. Ch. 3 Sun Woody Guthrie Brooklyn Hoot, 4pm, Good Coffee House 6 Wed Folk Open Sing; 7pm in Brooklyn 8 Fri FMSNY Birthday Jam and Sing 7:30pm at OSA Hall 10 Sun Upper West Side Song Swap at HINY, 58pm 11 Mon FMSNY Board of Directors Meeting; 7:15pm; see p. 5 13 Wed Sunnyside Singers Club; performer Bob Malenky, 8pm 16 Sat Hanukkah Party with Elissa Weiss, 4pm in Queens 16 Sat Jeremy Aaron + Gloria Matlock & Michael Nix, co sponsosred with the Peoples' Voice Cafe; 8pm 17 Sun Shanty Sing on Staten Island, 25 pm 22 Fri Triboro; West Side location; 7:30pm 23 Sat Holiday Singing at Regal Heights, 25pm, in Queens 28 Thur Newsletter Mailing, 7pm in Jackson Heights, Queens January Mondays: Irish Traditional Music Session at the Landmark, 8pm Wednesdays: Sunnyside Singers Club in Woodside, Queens, 8pm 3 Wed Folk Open Sing; 7pm in Brooklyn 7 Sun Andy Statman 4pm, Good Coffee House 14 Sun Upper West Side Song Swap at HINY; 58pm 21 Sun Shanty Sing on Staten Island, 25 pm 21 Sun FMSNY Board of Directors Meeting; 11am; see p. 5 Details on pages 24 Table of Contents Events at a Glance.........................1 Calendar Location Info...............18 Society Events Details...............24 Folk Music Society Info..............21 Topical Listing of Society Events. 5 Peoples' Voice Cafe Ad...............22 Weekend Scholarships & Helpers. 6 Mark Hamburgh Ad....................22 From the Editor.............................7 Susan Lee Bady Ad.....................22 Folk Process..................................7 Pinewoods Hot Line....................23 Calendar Listings..........................8 Membership Form Join Us!......24 Repeating Events.........................11 Web Page: www.folkmusicny.org 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 stop is 52nd Street on the #7 Flushing Local. Info: 7188991735. www. facebook.com/sunnysidesingersclub. Featured Performer: Dec 13: Bob Malenky/ Xmas Party Folk Open Sing: Wednesdays, Dec. 6th; & Jan. 3rd; 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. Chantey & Folk Song & Music Session, Sunday, Dec. 3rd; 2-4pm A Community Sing & singalong, usually on the first Sunday. Bring voices, instruments, and friends; raise the rafters in this historic downtown venue! At John Street Church, 44 John St. (east of Broadway, 1 block south of & parallel to Fulton), near Fulton St. subway stop. Info: 2129578386. We respectfully ask for a free will donation of any amount to help support this historic venue that is so generous in donating their space for our use. Please note venue is an historic landmark and NOT handicapped accessible – approx. 13 stairs to reach the downstairs venue (facilities are also located on the same downstairs level). Hosted by The New York Packet & cosponsored by the Folk Music Society of NY. Fifth Annual Woody Guthrie Brooklyn Hoot: Sun., Dec. 3rd; 4pm Twohour round robin songfest featuring Vincent Cross, Beth Kotkin, Joel Landy, Nancy Moccaldi, Anne Price, and Steve Suffet, all performing songs that former Brooklyn resident Woody Guthrie sang. The six performers will take turns leading songs, while providing instrumental and vocal accompaniment for each other. Please come prepared to sing along on choruses and refrains. Cosponsored with and at the Good Coffee House at the Old Stone House, 336 Third Street in J.J. Byrne Park, between 4th & 5th Avenues, Brooklyn, NY. $10 contribution. Info: fbanjo[at]aol.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/ 2246550632238269/ continued on next page 2 Events Details, continued from previous page FMSNY Birthday Jam & Sing, Friday, Dec. 8th; 7:30pm Come help us celebrate our 52nd year with a potluck dinner and two sings. One will be a Bluegrass/Oldtimey jam and sing, led by Phyllis Elkind. People who like to take instrumental breaks are very welcome at this one, as are those who just like to sing (or play and sing.) The other will be a jam that welcomes any combination of accompanied or unaccompanied singing. It will be led by Jan Christensen. The sings will be in two different areas of OSA Hall. People can drift from one to the other as the spirit moves them. Bring a potluck dish to share (please check with Evy, president[at]folkmusicny.org, or call 7185491344 after 11 am, so we don't drown in onion dip). And it's FREE. At OSA Hall, 220 East 23rd St, Suite 707 (between 2nd and 3rd Ave's). Upper West Side Song Swap: Sunday, December 10th; 5-8pm Our new series on the Second Sunday of the month! FMSNY and PMN have joined up to start a new singaround on the Upper West Side. Bring your voices, your acoustic instruments and your ears. It’s free! At Hostel InternationalNew York (HI NY), 891 Amsterdam Avenue at 103rd Street. For more information call John Ziv at 2126626575. Celebrate Hanukkah with Elissa Weiss and Kehillat Tikvah: Saturday, December 16th; 4pm Elissa Weiss will bring us music in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino; be prepared to sing along. She is wonderful with children and adults. Elissa Weiss is a founding member of the Salomone Trio, a vocal group specializing in Jewish music and Early Music. As a soloist and a member of ensembles of all sizes, she has sung at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and churches and synagogues all over town. She plays harp, clarinet, and ukulele, and she dabbles in several other instruments. In addition, there will be crafts with Karen Wellington, dreidels, Havdalah service followed by lighting of the Hanukkah candles, and more. We will provide light refreshment, including donuts, Hanukkah gelt (chocolate coins) and more. A joyous time will be had by all. Everyone is welcome. Suggested donations, $15 per adult, children free, $25 for a family. As always, more if you can and less if you can’t. Kehillat Tikvah never turns anyone away, but we do need to meet our expenses. In the community room of 3535 75th Street in Jackson Heights, between 37th and 35th Avenues. The building has two entrances besides the main entrance. Go to the entrance closer to 35th Ave. (balloons there). On the day, call 9176975712 if needed. Pay in advance by mailing checks, made payable to Kehillat Tikvah, to PO Box 720649, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. Or online payments at http://jhtikvah.wordpress.com/ Indicate Hanukkah celebration at note to seller entry. For more information: 7186726399. Jeremy Aaron + Gloria Matlock & Michael Nix: Saturday, December 16th; 8pm Jeremy Aaron is a singer, storyteller, community organizer, bluesman, poet, guitarist, violinist, and the creator of Greenwich Village Showcase. Warm and real, his music evokes nights around the campfire with old friends. His songs, whether drawn from traditional sources or his own compositions in traditional style, tell of Ecuadorian shadows, magic lights, Adirondack evergreens, beggars’ coins, train tracks, and road trips. Greenfield Massachusettsbased music teachers Gloria Matlock and Michael Nix reach deep into the centuriesold tradition of African American song. With a powerful and authentic voice, Gloria sings gospel songs, spirituals, story songs, work songs, songs of slavery and emancipation, and present continued on next page 3 Events Details, continued from previous page day freedom songs. She also does traditional drumming. Michael accompanies Gloria's singing on his homemade banjar, the direct ancestor of the banjo, whose origins are in West Africa. Each act will perform a 55minute set. At and cosponsored with the Peoples' Voice Cafe at Community Church of NY, 40 East 35th Street (lower level), between Park & Madison, New York NY 10016. Suggested donation $20. FMSNY members or PVC subscribers $12. Doors open 7:30pm. Show time 8:00pm. For info call 2127873903. Shanty Sing: Sunday, December 17th; 2-5pm We are cosponsoring 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 5 pm at the Noble Gallery, Building D, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island.