The San Francisco Club Presents: The 42nd Annual San Francisco Free Folk Festival 2018 A full day of music, dance, and storytelling!

In conjunction with the Storytelling Association of California

SATURDAY JUNE 9 2018

12 noon – 10 PM Everett Middle School 450 Church Street San Francisco, CA 94114

Between 16th and 17th Streets Transit: 4 blocks from 16th Street BART, on the J Church MUNI line

• Two performance stages • Impromptu music-making • Song, instrumental, • Open Mic storytelling, and dance • Family Crafts workshop sessions • Scheduled jams Parking by Everett Middle School PTSA • Family program Facility ADA Accessible • Evening dance parties and Catered by San Francisco food trucks All Events Free! Visit sffolkfest.org for • Vendors more information

How can you help? We’re glad you asked!

1.) Volunteer on the day of the festival! With almost 100 volunteer shifts to fill, we need your help! Set-up and take-down, instrument check, kids crafts, SFFMC sales and information table, greeter jobs and more. Sign up for as many slots as you’d like! See http://sffolkfest.org/multisite/2018/volunteer.

2.) Donate or be a sponsor! Although the festival is free it costs money to put on. Any help is appreciated. For more information see http://sffolkfest.org/multisite/2018/donate and http://sffolkfest.org/multisite/2018/be-a-sponsor or email us at sffff- [email protected] , Song & Dance Camp July 27-August 4 • 2018 Music, Song & Dance Workshops Dances • Sessions • Great Food Cabins • Camping • Fire Circles Mendocino Redwoods

Technique And Ensemble For All Levels • Wael Kakish Arabic Music Ensemble - Instrumental (Oud and others), Percus- sion (Darabukka & Tambourine) and Vocal (Simple Traditional Lark Camp Staff Songs) from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan • Shira Kammen Sephardic Music For Voices And Instruments, Sing- ing Early Music • Rebecca King English Country Dance 2018 Music/Ensemble • Jennifer Kreger Listening Tools For Heal- ing And Leadership • Craig Kurumada Bulgarian Tunes For Dance Instructors All Instruments, Bulgarian Ensemble • Russ Landers African Jason Adajian Morris & Sword Dance • Tami Allen -Zimbabwean Marimba • Pam Laughlin Brazilian Choro Dance • Toby Blome & Fred Bialy Swedish Dance • Clau- Music, Swing Improvisation • Robert Laughlin Gypsy dette Boudreaux Cajun Dance • Shirleigh Brannon Irish Guitar • Wanda Law Irish Fiddle Basics For Beginners, Begin- Dance Basics For Everyone, Irish Sean-Nos Dance And Battering ning Fiddle • Georgios Leftheriotis Greek Music Ensemble For Sets • Malaika Finkelstein Beginning Swing (East Coast For All Instruments & Singers • Frannie Leopold Old Time & Charleston), Intermediate Swing (Lindy Hop) • Nydia Gon- Harmony Singing, Jam • Judy Linsenberg Medieval zalez Bailes (Dance) Regionales de Mexico: Cumbias, Ranch- & Renaissance Dance Band For All Instruments, Recorder • eras and Sones • Kat Greene Hula Ancient & Modern • Bruce Lisa Lynne Beginning/Intermediate Celtic Harp, Getting Your Hamilton English Dance • Erik Hoffman Contras, Squares, Music Out Into The World • Richard Mandel DADGAD Irish Waltzes, Couple Dances, Ham-Bone • Antonea Leftheriotis Guitar • Stuart Mason Celtic Tunes for Flatpick Guitar, Old Greek Dance • Natalie Nayun Belly Dance, Turkish Roman and For DADGAD Guitar • Summer McCall Celtic Cello, Belly Dancing with Props • Michael Riemer Irish Set Dance Rhythmic Grooves and Accompaniment For Fiddle and Cello • • Yael Schy Latin Dance, Thinking On Your Feet: Improvisa- Kevin McConnell Swing Guitar, Guitar Soloing • Ryan tion Theater Games • Adrienne Simpson Galician, Breton & McKasson Scottish Fiddle • Josie Mendelsohn Quebecois French Dance • Sue Williard Balkan Dance Session • Omar Mokhtari North African Andaluse Music & Ensemble, Berber & Chaabi Music & Songs • Martha Montoya Music, Song & Vocal Instructors Mariachi Repertoire Sones, Rancheras, Boleros and & More • Gregg Moore World Band • Amber Mueller Backup Tami Allen Cajun & Slow Jam & Rub Board, Cajun Old Time Guitar, Beginning Old Time Fiddle Old Fiddle Middle Eastern Drumming • Jim Mueller • Mark Bell • Shay Black Time Fiddle Tunes, Beginning Old Time Fiddle • Mark Nelson Irish Chorus, Sea Songs And More, Singing In A Session • Clau- Mountain Dulcimer, Ukulele Jug Band Cajun & Creole Button Accordion, Cajun • Robyn NiConney dette Boudreaux Fiddle & Guitar Bootcamp • Jim Oakden Breton Music-Dance French Songs • David Brown Jazz Guitar Soloing Standards, Tunes, Including Chording/Backup Conjunto Gypsy Style Improvisation And More, Middle Eastern Music For • Susan Peña Ensemble, Guitar, Vocals • Celia Ramsay Get Your Voice Out Non-1/4 Tone Instruments, Greek Including Syrtaki, Afghan & of the Closet, Scottish Travelers Songs Old Time more Beginning Piano Accordion • WB Reid • Lorna Brown • Christa String Band Songs, Intermediate Guitar • Autumn Rhodes Burch Bodhran • Alexandre Cadarso Gaita (Spanish Gali- Beginning Pennywhistle & Irish Flute, Intermediate Irish Flute cian Bagpipe), Galician Percussion • Carlo Calabi Old Time & Pennywhistle including Ornamentation & Technique Harmony Singing Balkan Ensemble, Accor- • Dale • Dan Cantrell Russ Intermediate & Advanced Irish Fiddle • Ty Rust Balkan dion Boot Camp, For Beginner/Intermediate Accordion Players & Klezmer Ensemble Irish Tune Swap Music Theory Boot Camp • Daniel Schoenfeld • • Eliza Cantwell • Danny Car- Erin Shrader Irish Songs & Fiddle • Barry Shultz Old Time nahan Octave Mandolin, Songwriting • Kevin Carr Quebe- Slow Jam, Old Time Fiddle Songwriting & Tune cois Fiddling, Quebecois Session Old Time 5 • Mark Simos • Heath Curdts Writing • Bon Singer Balkan Singing Technique, Balkan Songs • String Banjo • Connie Doolan Swing & Jazz Vocals • Jimmy Irish Flute, Unusual & Rare Irish Flute Tunes For Jazz Ensemble, Latin Band Ensemble For All Instru- John Skelton Durchslag All Instruments • Nils Olof Söderbäck Swedish Fiddling With ments And Singers-Afro Cuban, Sone, Salsa • Sinan Erdemsel Melody & Harmonies For All Instruments Begin- Turkish Music Ensemble Beginning Bass, Inter- • Sean Tergis • Chuck Ervin ning Tupan and Balkan Rhythms • Larry Unger Fingerstyle mediate Bass • Wade Evans Folk Tunes & Ragas, India Blues Guitar, Bottle Neck Guitar Old Time Irish Music Ensemble Irish Mandolin • John Weed • Marla Fibish • Karen Fish- Fiddle • Jim Wells Hammered Dulcimer, Jimbowing For Ham- back Making Musical Instruments Out Of Gourds For Adults mered Dulcimer, Dulcimer & Mandolin Greek Harp-Anything But Beginning, Swedish • Paul Wernick • Aryeh Frankfurter & Rebetika Music Session • Karina Wilson Contra Dance Band, & Nordic Music For Nyckelharpa And All Instruments • Scott Tango String Ensemble Piano Accordion, French Music, Hurdy Gurdy Ukulele • Kalei Yamanoha Gayman • Scott Gifford Gypsy Jazz Accordion • Vickie Yancy French Button Accordion 101, Ukenanny • Jack Gilder Irish Music on the Anglo System All Levels, French Session Old Time Music Concertina Mariachi Repertoire Sones, • Bonnie Zahnow • Nydia Gonzalez Jam, Beginning Guitar • Corwin Zekley Jazz, Swing & Gypsy Rancheras, Boleros and Polkas & More • Miguel Govea Con- Jazz Violin, Improvisation & Spontaneous Composition For All junto Ensemble, Tex-Mex & Cumbia Music, Guitarrone, Hand Instruments & Styles • Radim Zenkl Beginning & Intermmedi- Percussion • Pete Grant Acoustic Lap Steel & Dobro Guitar ate Mandolin. Bluegrass, Swing, Blues & More Mandolin • Willliam Greene Hawaiian Songs For Ukulele • Wayne Hankin Ensemble Singing, Silent Movie Orchestra, English Country Dance Improvisation, Jubo! • Erik Hoffman Contra Children’s Workshops Dance Band Lab For All Instruments • Preston Howard Irish Jessica Carew Kraft Make Your Own Nature Art Journal Uilleann Bagpipes, Uilleann Pipe Tune Favorites For Everyone • Kathy Mowdy Hill Props and Costumes For Kids’ Play • • Michael & Leslie Hubbert Old Style Cuban Son Cubano Wayne Hill Make And Play A Didgeridoo For Kids, Making Band, Vieja Trova Cubana, Cuban Songs • Greg Jenkins Greek Bamboo Flutes • Robyn NiConney Kids Guitar, Kids Fiddle • Rebetika Songs For Voice & Instruments, Bulgarian Tunes For Mendocino Woodlands Naturalist Staff Woodlands Nature All Instruments • Washtub Jerry Learn Uke Chords Using Studies, Games & Crafts For Kids • Susan Spurlock Lark Neighborhood Concept, Piano Chording • Myra Joy Cello Camp Kids Play

Lark Camp • PO Box 1176 • Mendocino, California 95460 (707) 964-4826 email [email protected] Lark Camp Website http://www.larkcamp.com THE FACILITIES CAMP TWO has 5 areas: DEPOSITS Lark Camp CAMP ONE has 46 four- Area D-By Cabin 27, Area No white gas or propane bed cabins. Each cabin is E-By Old Swimming Pool stoves or lanterns are Lark In The Morning Music equipped with a fireplace, (not functional), Area F-By allowed. No cooking in the & Dance Celebration was closet and balcony. The Cabin 26, Area G-By Dance cabins. Break the fire rules-- started in 1980 to provide cabins are clustered in three Hall, Area H-Towards The $250 fine and out you go. a venue to allow traditional groups, with a hot-water Dam. CAMP THREE has 4 musicians and dancers to shower/toilet facility in each areas: Area I-In The Grove, MEALS get together and share their group. The kitchen adjoins Area J-In Camp Three CAMP ONE has a kitchen music & dance (A music two dining halls with a large Meadow, Area K-By Park- and . & dance party with highly fireplace in each hall. Addi- ing Lot, Area L-Near Long CAMP TWO has a kitchen educational overtones). tionally, Camp One has an Term Parking. and coffeehouse. This event is an open forum 1,800 sq. ft Dance Hall with When registering for camp CAMP THREE has the for musicians, singers & a stone fireplace. you may request tent camp- Middle Eastern Coffee- dancers to exchange ideas CAMP TWO has 34 cabins. ing by area in a certain camp house. and learn without being in a These are wood structures and we will try and accom- rigid school structure. with screened windows and modate your request. If The kitchens in Camp One a closet in each cabin. The the camping area that you and Camp Two will offer A Celebration Of Music kitchen adjoins a dance hall requested is not available a similar menu and have And Dance • Imagine idyl- which has a large fireplace we will assign you space 3 meals a day. If you are lic days & nights in the at each end. The hot water as close as possible to your housed in Camp Two you Mendocino Woodlands shower/bathroom building request. will be scheduled to have magical redwood forest is located near the dance your meals in Camp Two. If filled with all the music, hall. The cabins are clus- VEHICLE CAMPING you are housed in Camp One dance, and good times you tered in four groups with a Each of the camps have your meals will be in Camp could possibly stand, and cold water toilet facility in space for vehicle camping. One. If you are housed in that’s kind of close to what each group. The Pavilion is You may bring a camping Camp Three you will be Lark’s Music & Dance an enclosed tent for indoor vehicle. If your vehicle is scheduled for meals either Celebration is like. You workshops and sessions. over 20’ long call for space in Camp One or Camp Two. are free to take as many or CAMP THREE has 16 availability and surcharge If your meals are scheduled as few of the workshops four-bed tent cabins, with rates. No hook-ups are avail- in one camp and you want offered as you like; jam a wooden floor and canvas able. No motorized vehi- to have dinner in the other sessions 24 hours a day, tents over a wooden frame. cles or trailers in the Camp camp, you will be able to big dances every evening. The Middle Eastern Coffee- One meadow, only tents. make arrangements with the Plenty of good food, new house has a large fireplace If there is no place left for kitchen. friends, and musical stimu- and is used for dancing, your camping vehicle in the lation. Truly a unique total events and workshops. There requested camp you will be WORK immersion into the joys of is a fire circle that is used assigned to vehicle camp in nature, music and dance. SCHOLARSHIPS for drumming workshops. one of the other 2 camps. A Food service contact: Many workshops for the There is a central hot water tent attached to a vehicle is professional as well as the Rosemary & Jed Goudy shower/restroom building. not a part of the vehicle and [email protected] beginner! Check out Lark’s The tent cabins are clustered will not be allowed. Due to favorite camp photos http:// in three groups with a cold limited space vehicles with www.larkcamp.com We Registration, (these are full water toilet facility in each more than one person may at the moment with a wait- may add some of yours. group. be given higher priority. All Send them to Mickie at reg- ing list) Set-up and Clean-up All of the cabins and tent trailers at camp must be pre- crews contact: [email protected] cabins are equipped with approved. Jpeg or Gif files only please Mickie Zekley cots and mattresses (no bed- [email protected] or better yet if they are on ding). WHERE DO I WANT the net send us the URL. TO STAY? TENT CAMPING We suggest that you request THEMES There are designated tent lodging in the Camp that There are 3 camps divided camping areas in each of the most closely fits your inter- by the following criteria 3 camps. Each of these areas ests. We will try and accom- Come with workshops, sessions, allows a limited amount of modate your lodging needs dances and events in all 3. tents; we cannot exceed this as best we can. If requests Join Us Location subject to change. limit. NO tent camping is are too detailed (such as I CAMP ONE British Isles, allowed in other areas. Once only want this and not this if Eastern , , an area is full no further tents this and that) we may have For Our Sweden can be placed in that area. to accept simpler registra- CAMP TWO Latin & North All tenting is pre-assigned. tions first due to our time 39th Year America, Galicia, France Due to limited space, tents constraints, which may jeop- CAMP THREE Middle with more than one person ardize your being able to East, Greece, Drumming, may be given higher priority. come to camp. Please keep Africa, North Africa CAMP ONE has 3 areas: it simple. Area A-Meadow, Area FULL CAMP OR B-Below the Lower Road HALF CAMP from near the meadow to Full camp is 8 nights and below the lower dance half camp sessions are floor, Area C-Lower Gate. either the first 4 nights or the last 4 nights. Most Complete Informtaion workshops are designed to run the full length of camp. Lark Camp Website http://larkcamp.com If you are coming for half Lark Camp PO Box 1176 Mendocino, CA 95460 camp you will be taking (707) 964-4826 • email partial workshops. [email protected] the folknik Vol. LIV, Number 3 Page 2 May/June 2018 The San Francisco Folk Music Club is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the enjoyment, preservation and promotion of in individual, family, and community life.

“Music can change the world, because it can change people.” — Bono

Musical Meetings Musical meetings of the San Francisco Folk Music Club are held every second and fourth Friday at Cyprian’s ARC, 2097 Turk Street (at Lyon), San Francisco. There is plenty of street parking, but if you can’t find anything closer, you may park in the blood bank lot at Turk and Masonic. Cyprian’s asks that if we park in the lot, we use a parking pass. Parking passes are stored on the info table right inside the front entrance of the church. You can pull up to the front entrance and step inside to get one before you park. You can keep it in your car for future use since they are not dated. Singing and jamming start at 8:00 pm; we start clean-up at 11:30 and need to leave by midnight. Two of the rooms require earlier leaving times. Bring finger-food snacks and beverages if you can. Guests are always welcome, and no one is expected to “perform”. Cyprian’s charges us rent; we ask those who can to donate $5 to $10 per evening, but if you can’t donate, we still want you to join us! In consideration of our members’ allergies and other concerns, only service animals are permitted at SFFMC events, and all our events are fragrance-free. The wearing of perfumes or heavily-scented products is not permitted. If a situation arises that cannot be easily remedied, members may be asked to show responsibility by taking their pet home or going home to change out of clothing that has picked up the offending scents.

May 11 May 25 Jun 08 Jun 22 Setup 1, 7:30 p.m. Bob A Debbie K Joe R Debbie K Setup 2, 7:30 p.m. Debbie K Forest McD Susan E Glen V Host 1, 8-9 p.m. Greg B Glen V Greg B James B Host 2, 9-10 p.m. Tes W Ellen Ed H Greg B Singing Room John K Greg B Estelle F Ed H Theme Remembering & Forgetting Humor Sun / Sea / Sky Hobos & Trains Cleanup Glen V Glen V Ed H Rick M

If you have constraints and contingencies that make it hard to sign up in advance, think of ways to help: when you can come by you can bring food, or pitch in with set-up and clean-up, or both!

Board Meetings   Next folknik Fold-In and Sing: The SFFMC Board meets on each second Tuesday — potluck 6:30 p.m., meeting 8:00 p.m. All Club members are welcome to attend potluck dinner and meeting. Sunday, June 24, 2018 at noon May 8: Home of Marian Gade Bob Helliesen’s home, 398 Vassar Ave., Berkeley, CA 94708 (510) 528-0334 136 Highland Blvd., Kensington, CA June 12: (510) 524-9815 Mary Hill’s home, 149 Santa Maria Ave. San Bruno, CA 94066. (650) 274-6413  

Julie Bidou (1918 – 2018) From 1980 to 1994 she hosted folk performances at her by Hali Hammer venue, “Julie’s Place”. When the series became too big for her living room, she moved to larger local venues such as the Berkeley UU, Julie Bidou, an icon of the Bay Area folk Albany Community Center, and the First Congregational Church in community and beyond, passed away peacefully at the Oakland (which seated 300-400 people). Many luminaries of the age of 100 on March 18 at Granada Residential Care national folk scene performed at Julie’s Place, including The Facility in Pinole where she’d been living since July Limelighters, Dave Van Ronk, Leon Rosselson, Tom Paxton, Utah 2016. Friends from the and the Buddhist Phillips, Rosalie Sorrels, and John McCutcheon. She also did a lot of community sang with her regularly until her passing. behind-the-scenes work for music festivals and more in the Bay Area. Julie was born on January 10, 1918, to a Julie sold her house but remained in Berkeley, moving into French American mother and a French father. She had Strawberry Creek Lodge, where she continued to provide monthly four older step-siblings and a younger sister, grew up music events for the residents for many years, and organized caroling on a ranch in Manteca, California, then attended Junior parties through the halls at Christmas time. She led groups from there College in Modesto and got an office job through the to demonstrate regularly for peace and antiwar causes and was National Youth Administration, a New Deal agency. involved with women’s groups. To celebrate her 90th year, she She graduated right before the bombing at Pearl Harbor released a CD, Timeless French Songs & Favorites, of music she’d and in 1944, at 26, joined the Women’s Army collected and performed throughout her long life. She performed at Auxiliary Corp (WAAC). Her first experience with care facilities and volunteered at a women’s shelter in West Berkeley, folk music was at the WAAC camp in Asheville, North sang for Bread & Roses and at the San Francisco Free Folk Festival. Carolina, and she carried that love with her throughout Aside from her musical interests, Julie was also very active her life. Near the end of WWII she became the editor for many years in the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists of Ashville’s camp newsletter. (chairman of their coffee house from 1968-70) and had a deep After discharge, she moved to the Bay Area commitment to Buddhism, attending weekly meetings and silent and spent the next 21 years teaching first and second retreats for many years. Julie was awarded a Certificate of Recognition grade in Oakland. In the late 1940s, Julie was accused from the Berkeley Commission on the Status of Women on May 10, of being a member of the Communist Party and needed 1995, honoring her as a Folk Music Pioneer. She was very proud of 12 people to vouch for her in order to keep her teaching officially becoming a wise old woman at a croning ceremony at a Folk job. She hosted a children’s music show on KPFA Club Memorial Day campout. from 1953-55 and was in charge of a weekly program Julie’s Celebration of Life will be held at the Berkeley UU, presented by the San Francisco Folk Music Club on 1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita) from noon to 4 pm on Saturday, June 2. KPFA in 1970. Check the Harmony e-list or e-mail for details. the folknik Vol. LIV, Number 2 Page 3 May/June 2018 Ellen Furman Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering By Holly Tannen On Saturday, February 10, Ellen Furman--long-time SFFMC member, I’ve gone to the Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering for the singer, dulcimer player, and universal past two years, first as a student and then as a teacher. It’s craftsperson--passed away peacefully at the seamlessly organized, with well-taught classes, instruments you can borrow, time for hanging out, and a Dulcimer care facility where she had been living Orchestra followed by a jam session. intermittently for the last year or so while I recommend it for anyone who’s ever thought about dealing with a series of strokes and ovarian playing the mountain dulcimer. cancer. She is survived by her loving husband Jeffrey and her son Michael. No services are **************************** planned at this time, but perhaps she can be 6th Annual Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering! remembered at the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend Campout. Both Ellen and Jeff May 4 -7, 2018 enjoyed being part of the folkie community-- and her signature dishes of Caesar salad, **************************** Chinese chicken salad, and taco casserole will The Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering is for anyone forever be a part of the East Bay Folk Eaters interested in playing the mountain dulcimer. This American legacy. folk instrument is enjoyed by beginner and master alike, easily accessible to new players and adaptable to all genres of Jeff met Ellen in 1966, when she music. Young and old can play a tune right away! arrived at the University of Arizona for her At the Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering you choose 3 out junior year in music education. Ellen of 12 classes taught by 5 teachers, with subjects including serenaded Jeff with Child Ballads on her repertoire, dulcimer history, and technique. We’ll also have nylon stringed guitar. They married in 1970 Mark Walstrom, owner of Timbre Folk & Baroque in and lived in San Diego until moving to the Berkeley, to help with evaluation and repair of your dulcimer. Bay area in 1974. Ellen and Jeff joined The day is planned for maximum time in community, with more than 50 mountain dulcimer aficionados. Some dulcimers SFFMC soon after. Through the Club, Ellen will be available for loaners and to purchase. discovered the Mountain View Folk Music Registration entitles you to 3 classes, participation in Club meetings and there met many musical the Dulcimer Orchestra Grand Finale, and the Afterglow Jam. friends, including the core of the East Bay Events this year: Folk Eaters Club. They welcomed Ellen and

Jeff to join the East Bay Club regardless of When: Friday night, May 4, 7:30 p.m. their residence in Mountain View. This social What: Faculty Concert, featuring Karen Mueller, Steve bond strengthened over the years at many Eulberg, Deborah Hamouris, Holly Tannen, Dusty potlucks at SFFMC campouts, local festivals, Thorburn and the Berkeley Dulcimer Orchestra. and fold-ins. Where: The Back Room Ellen had a lifelong interest in music, 1984 Bonita Ave., Berkeley, CA starting in her teens taking piano and classical https://backroommusic.com/ Cost: $13 advance/$15 door guitar training. Ellen’s formal music education extended through junior college into the university. As a music education student, Ellen elected a piano major; however, When: Saturday, May 5, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. What: Classes, with faculty Karen Mueller, Steve Eulberg, the program required beginning classes for all Holly Tannen, Deborah “DJ” Hamouris, Dusty categories of instruments: Ellen’s struggles Thorburn. For a detailed decription of all with the viola, flute, and trumpet were workshops, visit frustrating and endearing. Years later at a www.berkeleydulcimergathering.com. SFFMC campout, Ellen would become Where: Freight & Salvage charmed by the mountain dulcimer and 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA eventually own several (…in order to avoid Cost: $90 retuning.) Ellen could recall seeing a dulcimer concert of Richard and Mimi Fariña in junior college. Ellen’s musical adventure in recent When: Saturday May 5, 4:30-6:30 p.m. years was taking up the ukulele and attending What: Afterglow Jam the Silicon Valley Ukulele Club. Where: People’s Café 61 Shattuck Square, Berkeley, CA Ellen enjoyed needle arts and crafts as well: macramé, beading, embroidery, needlepoint, knitting and crocheting, and When: Sunday, May 6, 12:30-3:30 p.m. sewing garments — especially the long- What: Workshop with Karen Mueller sleeved shirts of busy prints. Where: Freight & Salvage I will miss Ellen for the things we’ve 2020 Addison St., Berkeley, CA done together and the places she took me on Cost: $45/$55 separate registration fee her journey. Jeff Furman the folknik Vol. LIV, Number 3 Page 4 May/June 2018 The Music of Story, the Magic of Music, Part III by Robert Rodriquez If music, whether vocal or instrumental, is and has been reported that folks in and around the mission part and parcel of global folklore and the oral traditions and tales could hear the ghostly sounds of trumpets and of various folk long since before recorded history, then it is drums as they regularly played the fanfare over equally true that both music and history have been inextricably and over again detailing the final hours of the interwoven with one another across the global landscape and down battle. the centuries of time since actual history has been recorded. Just The infamous Confederate prison camp how music came to various cultural groups is itself inset with its of Andersonville, located in southwestern own group of myths and legends, but this is narrative grist for a Georgia, was the scene of unimaginable horrors story mill of its very own and will be dealt with at another time. during the last year of the Civil War. For years But for now, let music and history strut together and take center after the end of the conflict, folks in the vicinity stage woven into a magical tapestry all its own. swore they could hear the sounds of ghostly In the year 1242 CE, the city of Krakow was about to be singing by Northern soldiers imprisoned there, invaded and sacked by the Tartars who had conquered much of detailing their desperate and hellish day-to-day Russia and invaded Poland. Standing atop the tower of the Church existence at the hands of their southern captors. of St. Mary, a young trumpeter played a musical fanfare known as On Sunday afternoon, June 25, 1876, five the Hejnal, which gave warning to the local citizens, and thus companies of the Seventh Cavalry under the allowed them to mount a stout defense, eventually causing the command of Colonel George Custer met their Tartars to retreat and withdraw. Such was the heroic nature of this destiny at the Little Big Horn in Southeastern event that even today it is recalled in a daily ceremony in which Montana. It was said that forty years after, the local fire companies repeat the fanfare several times a day, ghostly sounds of “Garryowen,” the Seventh’s recalling one of the truly important moments in Polish history and marching song, could be heard on the anniversary ongoing Polish traditions. of that tragic Sunday afternoon. In the year 1664, during the second Anglo-Dutch naval If war and strife have left their sinister conflict, a British fleet sailed into the harbor of what was New mark where music is concerned, it is equally valid Amsterdam. Now, the last governor of the colony, Peter that the opposite is just as true. Two events from Stuyvesant by name, had in his employ a young trumpeter named the 20th century are excellent examples. The first Anthony whose main job was to warn the good burghers if was the improbable and spontaneous Christmas enemies approached by land or sea. Unfortunately for the citizens, truce of 1914 during the First World War, in the trumpeter was at that moment engaged in a race across a which soldiers on both sides, while the guns were narrow treacherous body of water with no less a personage than silent, shared letters and memories from home, the devil himself. Eventually the body of water would become food and drink, and sang carols of the season to known as Spuyten Duyvil, the name by which it is still known to one another, denoting peace on earth and this day. Anthony lost the race and no doubt his body and soul goodwill to all men. This is powerfully and were whisked off to the infernal regions while the British fleet poignantly described in John McCutcheon’s song, took New Amsterdam which would become New York. “Christmas in the Trenches,” with its vivid Everyone knows the tradition that the Emperor Nero is imagery of the event. said to have fiddled while Rome burned, but in reality Nero’s On January 27, 1938, at a place called favorite instrument, in which he became quite proficient, was the Teruel in Spain, Paul Robeson stood between two Roman bagpipe known as the tibia uticularis, and it is said that hostile armies. For several hours, the madness and delighted crowds cheered when he played this instrument. No insanity of war stopped while he performed an wonder his reputation took such a dive as far as history is extraordinary concert, singing songs in a dozen concerned. languages, songs calling for peace, social justice, Richard Lionheart, who ruled England from 1189-1199, human equality and dignity and the brotherhood once invaded Sicily in order to rescue his sister Joanna from the of man. clutches of her cruel rapacious husband, King William II. While in So thus history and music have gone Sicily, after he had dispatched the nasty fellow to his well- down the road of time, hand in hand, both for deserved reward, he made the acquaintance of several local good and for ill. From the biblical tale of the musicians, one being an exponent of the Sicilian bagpipe known miraculous downfall of Jericho, as told in the Old as the zampogna. So taken was Richard with the sweet sound of Testament book of Joshua to the spirited Red this instrument, that when he returned to England, he arranged to Army songs bolstering the Russian spirit during bring a few pipes back with him. It is said that both their charm the darkest days of the German occupation of the and their musical excellence delighted members of the English Soviet Union, to the historic music engendered by court and most especially several high born ladies who took to the civil rights movement in the United States in them quite nicely. For years after the utter destruction of the the 1950s and 1960s, the landscape of history is Highland Clans at The Battle of Culloden Moor in early 1746, it so dotted with musical examples that one could was reported that folks could hear the eerie and spectral sound of create an entire academic curriculum through a pipes on the anniversary of the battle to signify the tragic demise simple listing of songs that depict history at its of the Highland way of life, as the British began the final conquest best and its worst. of Scotland and the end of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s attempt to As Spartacus said to singer-poet retake England for the Stuart cause. Antoninus, “There was a time to fight and a time And speaking of spectral music and its manifestations at to sing.” This should act as a beacon for all historic sites, war and strife, sad to say, often take center stage people who love and appreciate music at its best, where music is concerned. When the Mexican army stormed the or perhaps as Tom Lehrer says in his song, “The Alamo mission early on the morning of March 6, 1836, before the Folk Son g Army,” “Ready, Aim, Sing!” final assault, the regimental trumpeters and drummers played a military musical fanfare known as the Deguello which announced to the Texan defenders that no quarter would be given and none would be asked. For a long time after the Texan defeat, it was the folknik Vol LIV: No. 3 Page 5 May/June 2018

ABOUT THE SONGWRITER

Fred Maslan is a Seattle member of the SFFMC and joins us for New Year’s camp. He wrote “Why I Refuse to Say Goodbye” on page 6 after reflecting on his many experiences at various music camps. “I go to as many as I can afford,” he said.

The idea for “The Wolf” on this page came to him after reading about the diminishing wolf population, now being hunted again. Wolves are pack animals and so are not usually lonely, he notes. In creating this song about the current wolf predicament, he adapted a 1907 poem about wolves that he had read years before, added a refrain and the last verse, and wrote an evocative melody. the folknik Vol LIV: No. 3 Page 6 May/June 2018

______The folknik song pages are produced by song page co-editors Barbara Millikan and Jas. Adams. Please email or text us with any comments and your song suggestions. To submit your song for consideration for publication in the folknik, send words, chords & melody and an audio file to: Barbara Millikan,(503)434-8003, [email protected]; and to Jas. Adams, (503)349-0840, [email protected]. Songwriters/composers/lyricists retain all copyright privileges. the folknik Vol. LIV, No. 3 Page 7 May/June 2018 Festivals ’n’ Such Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering May 4-6 Jazz Camp West June 23-30 The Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering is for anyone interested in An 8-day jazz immersion program for adults and teens playing the mountain dulcimer. There’s a concert on Friday 15 and up--held in the beautiful redwoods of La Honda night, workshops all day Saturday followed by an in Northern California. All levels welcome. info available “afterglow” jam. For info, go to: at . San Francisco Folk Music Club July 4 Camp June 29-30 Berkeley Bluegrass Festival May 18-20 Boulder Creek Scout Reservation, near Boulder Creek, Bluegrass Festival at The Freight-- this year you can CA. Musical jams, open mics, workshops, swimming, purchase a 3-day pass in advance or purchase tickets for tent cabins. Two nights only this year! INFO: individual events. For info, see: , click on July 4 & Labor Day camps. Held at the Jones Gulch YMCA Camp in LaHonda, CA. 46th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival May 25-28 Music, dance and calling workshops and classes for Held at the Seattle Center, the Northwest Folklife Festival is every ability. Camper band and jams, learn to compose the place to learn, to dance, to play, to try something new, tunes and write dances, arts and crafts, dance and to discover arts and cultures that inspire celebration of photography and more. Aptos, CA. INFO: one another and our big neighborhood. From yodeling to beatboxing, square dancing to Bollywood, – the Northwest Festival of American Fiddle Tunes July 1-8 Folklife Festival celebrates the global traditions of local, Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA. Featuring independent artists. INFO at: fiddling in a variety of styles. INFO: < NEW LOCATION: At Mt. Madonna County Park, California Coast Music Camp July 8-14 and July 15-21 Manzanita Group Camp with the Country Roads group. Held in Placer County, California. CCMC summer camp Jamming, singalong, open mic, evening concert, gospel offers 1-2 weeks of small-group classes in vocals, guitar, sing, potluck. banjo, bass, fiddle, mandolin, ukulele, songwriting, Rates: $18-20/night, plus event fee of $10 per person for the percussion, and more; styles include folk, blues, swing, weekend. Children free. Pay fees at camp, NOT at the jazz, bluegrass, rock, old-time, Brazilian, Celtic, and entrance kiosk. RSVP Jan Looney, 1-925-934-3364. more. Don’t delay! Week one has a waitlist already. INFO: e-mail . Also see article p. 1. info at San Francisco Free Folk Festival June 9 California World Fest July 12-15 12 noon to 10 p.m. – Everett Middle School, 450 Church Held in the Sierra foothills at the Nevada County Street, San Francisco. Workshops, , dances and Fairgrounds, Grass Valley, CA. Featuring 8 stages of more. For details and information see page 1 and: music from around the world, camping with family and Grass Valley, California, with camping under the pines at Lark Camp July 27-Aug 4 the Nevada County Fairgrounds. The camp includes numerous and varied elective classes, jamming, workshops, A week-long world music and dance celebration set dances, concerts, fun! Also includes Old-Time Music among the redwoods of Mendocino Woodlands. A Gathering. For details: . family camp with workshops, concerts, sessions, jams, dances and parties. Cabins, camping, dining halls and Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival June 14-17 beautiful nature. For more info: 42nd Annual Father’s Day Festival presented by CBA at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, CA. A legendary bluegrass, old time and gospel music festival. Puget Sound Guitar Workshops July 28-Aug 17 More info at < http://fathersdayfestival.com/>. Three, separate one-week guitar workshop sessions for 11th Northern California Pirate Festival June 16-17 all levels in a wooded setting about 1½ hours southwest Vallejo Waterfront Park, 298 Mare Island Way, Vallejo, CA. of Seattle. INFO: Nautical music, sword fighting, sailing, cannon battles, From Women’s Hearts & Hands Guitar Camp Aug 3-6 theater, mermaids, maritime crafts, food and drink, or just Mendocino, CA. Excellent guitar instruction by and for shopping for pirate booty. Costumes encouraged. Info at women in a supportive, beautiful environment. Beginner - 866-921-YARR (9277) or Advanced Intermediate. Folk, Blues, Jazz, Fingerstyle, Celtic, Brazilian, Chord Melody, Theory, Alternate Mendocino Folklore Camp June 16-23 Tunings, Performance Opportunities. Song Circles. Mendocino Woodlands, CA. A week of international folk Delicious, nutritious catered meals. Info: dance and music workshop classes with themed parties or every night. Info: (415) 225-9956, 707/869-9642. 15th Annual Centralia Campout Aug 11-20 Kate Wolf Memorial Music Fest June 28-July 1 Camping and jamming for a full week in Centralia, Black Oak Ranch, Laytonville, CA. A stellar lineup of Washington – midway between Portland and Seattle performing artists with four days of concerts, jamming, Info: workshops, storytelling, kids’ area. Info at:

Submissions for next folknik: Deadline: Friday June 1. Send items by e-mail to Editor-in-chief, plus appropriate page editor. Contributors to this edition of the folknik: Page 7, [email protected] Doris Atkinson Editor-in Chief, [email protected] Phyllis Jardine Calendar Editor (Pages 9-10), [email protected] Shelby Solomon Assistant Editor, Tech Support, Pg. 11, [email protected] Thad Binkley The East Bay Gang of Folders Pages 1,8, [email protected] Susan Frank, Thad Binkley Folk Club Web Page, [email protected] David Luckhardt Pages 2, 3, [email protected] Marlene McCall Web Site Provider Garry Wiegand Articles (Page 4), [email protected] Marlene McCall Membership Secretary, [email protected] Ellen Eagan Song Page Editors (Pages 5-6), Jas. Adams, Barbara Millikan Guiding Light Faith Petric, 1915-2013

the folknik Vol. LIV, Number 3 Page 10 May/June 2018 SFFMC WEB PAGE: http://www.sffmc.org 24-28 Strawberry Spring Music Festival, Grass Valley strawberrymusic.com Regularly Scheduled Events and Dancing info on page 9 24Th OSA Vocal Rush, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 MAY Dance in the May! 25-28 SFFMC Memorial Day Campout, Mt. Madonna Co Park 510-523-6533 1 Tu Dance the Sun up! Various locations starting at 5:30am bacds.org/mayday 25-28 Redwood Music Camp, Boulder Creek 831-426-9155 Women of the World, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 25F SFFMClub, Cyprian’s: 2097 Turk St, SF 8pm 510-417-7162 Tony Furtado, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 Sylvestris Quartet, house concert, Berkeley 7:30pm 510-525-9248 2-6 West Coast Ukulele Retreat, Asilomar, Pacific Grove ukuleleretreat.com Erica & Friends/Joy Drops, Berkeley 7pm themonkeyhouse.org 2 W Noche de Flamenco!, Strings, Emeryville 8pm 510-653-5700 Ghost of Paul Revere/Sam Chase, Freight, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Tony Furtado Trio, Michael’s: 2591 Main, Soquel 7:30pm 831-479-9777 Mile Twelve, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 Linsey Aitken/Ken Campbell, Casa Serrano, Monterey 7pm 831-521-4862 Michael Shay/Chris Kee, Ugly Mug, Soquel 7:30pm 408-499-9441 3-4 Meshell Ndegeocello, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 26Sa The Ladles, house concert, Berkeley 7:30pm 510-525-9248 3 Th Chris Webster & Nina Gerber, Oakland 8pm [email protected] Shemekia Copeland, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Linsey Aitken & Ken Campbell, San Jose 7pm [email protected] Dixie Dominus, Mission Cof: 151 Washington, Fremont 7pm 510-623-6920 4-6 Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering www.djhamouris.com Chris Trapper/AJ Lee, Flynn’s: 6275 Hwy 9, Felton 8pm 831-335-2800 4 F Rova Saxophone Quartet, Cyprian’s: 2097 Turk St, SF 8pm 415-454-5238 MaMuse, 390 Morris, Sebastopol 7pm 707-823-1511 seb.org Hillbillies from Mars, 91 Redhill Ave, San Anselmo 8pm 27Su benefit for Breast Cancer Prevention, Freight, Berkeley 7pm 510-644-2020 Dylan Foley & Eamon O’Leary, Larkspur 8pm [email protected] Shook Twins, HopMonk: 224 Vintage Way, Novato 6pm 415-892-6200 5 Sa Thompsonia, Poplar Playhouse, Berkeley 8pm 510-697-4097 MaMuse, Unity in Marin: 600 Palm Dr, Novato 7pm 415-475-5000 Rita Hosking, Berkeley 7:30pm 510-525-9248 [email protected] 29Tu open mic, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7:30 510-644-2020 Stadler Gibbons Band, Back Room, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 30W Handmade Moments, Empress: 330 Virginia, Vallejo 6:30pm 707-552-2400 Bankhurst/Nichols, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd, Pacifica 7:30pm 650-355-1882 31Th Pacific Mambo Orchestra, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berk. 8p 510-644-2020 Hillbillies from Mars, Mountain View 8pm [email protected] JUNE Welcome summer! Linsey Aitken & Ken Campbell, house, Sebastopol 7pm 707-799-4564 1 F *** FOLKNIK DEADLINE *** Calendar e-mail to [email protected] Dylan Foley & Eamon O’Leary, house, Soquel 7:30pm 831-464-9778 other material send to [email protected] 6 Su Pete Seeger singalong w/SFFMC, Freight, Berkeley 1p 510-644-2020 Pacific Mambo Orchestra, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berk. 8p 510-644-2020 Santa Cruz Bluegrass Fair, San Lorenzo Pk 12-6 scbs.org/events/scbgfair 2 Sa Zigaboo Modeliste/New Aahkesstra, Freight, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Mary Lou’s Apartment, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7pm 510-644-2020 Mission Blue, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 Beyond Zebra!, Monkey House, Berkeley 3pm themonkeyhouse.org Mark Taylor, house concert, Santa Rosa 7pm [email protected] Rod Picott, Poplar Playhouse, Berkeley 4pm 510-697-4097 The Quitters, house concert, Davis 530-753-3472 [email protected] Sam Rudin/Bobby Black/Steel, Back Room, Berkeley 3pm 510-654-3808 Steve Palazzo/Charlie Rice, Ugly Mug, Soquel 7:30pm 408-499-9441 Hillbillies from Mars, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 7p 510-654-3808 3 Su Mouths of Babes, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7pm 510-644-2020 Linsey Aitken & Ken Campbell, house concert, Auburn 3pm 530-885-4292 Glen Phillips, HopMonk: 224 Vintage Way, Novato 6pm 415-892-6200 New World String Project, 146 Twelfth, Pacific Grove 3pm 831-224-3819 5 Tu Slaid Cleaves, Freight&Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8p 510-644-2020 7 M Kurt Ribak, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Songwriters open mic, Lost Church: 65 Capp, SF 6:30pm New World String Project, 125 Canterbury Dr, Aptos 7:30 415-275-1466 6-10 Camp Oo-Koo-Lay-Lay Lake Berryessa campookoolaylay.wordpress.com 8 Tu SFFMC Board Mtg, 398 Vassar Ave., Berkeley 6:30 510-528-0334 see p2 6 W pickpocket Ensemble, 6320 San Pablo, Emeryville 8pm 510-653-5700 open mic, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7:30 510-644-2020 7 Th river of song benefit, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Aux Cajunals, Ashkenaz: 1317 San Pablo, Berkeley 8pm 510-525-5054 8 F SFFMClub, Cyprian’s: 2097 Turk St, SF 8pm 510-417-7162 9 W Molsky’s Mountain Drifters, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berk. 8p 510-644-2020 Maurice Tani, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 New World String, SantaClara7:30 [email protected] 9Sa SF Free Folk Festival, 450 Church, SF 12-10pm sffolkfest.org Linsey Aitken/Ken Campbell, Camellia Inn, Healdsburg 7pm 707-433-8182 Vanessa Vo, Cyprian’s: 2097 Turk St, SF 8pm 415-454-5238 10-13 Madeleine Peyroux, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 510-644-2020 Elizabeth Blumenstock, house, Berkeley 7:30 510-525-9248 10Th New World String Project, Back Room, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 Red Meat, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Alela Diane, The Chapel: 777 Valencia, SF 9pm 415-551-5157 Incendio, Mission Coffee: 151 Washington, Fremont 7pm 510-623-6920 The Native Howl, Flynn’s: 6275 Hwy 9, Felton 7:30pm 831-335-2800 Michael Lanning, Menlo Park 7pm Meetup: South Bay House Concerts Molsky’s Mountain Drifters, Palms: 13 Main, Winters 8pm 530-758-8058 10-13 CBA Music Camp, Grass Valley cbamusiccamp.com 11F SFFMClub, Cyprian’s: 2097 Turk St, SF 8pm 510-417-7162 10Su EB Fiddlin' & Pickin' Potluck, 2111 Stuart, Berkeley 12-5 510-809-5611 Rachel Garlin, The Chapel: 777 Valencia, SF 8pm 415-551-5157 Motown singalong w/Tammy Hall, Freight, Berkeley 1pm 510-644-2020 Kin/Kofi Q, Monkey House, Berkeley 7:30pm themonkeyhouse.org Little Spiral/Kin, house concert, Oakland 2pm 510-652-1091 Linsey Aitken/Ken Campbell, Back Room, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 Laurence Juber, Michael’s: 2591 Main, Soquel 2pm 831-479-9777 Claudia Russell/Bruce Kaplan, 201 Martina, Richmond 7:30 310-628-9589 12Tu SFFMC Board Mtg, 149 Santa Maria, San Bruno 6:30 650-291-1630 p2 Matt Szlachetka, Los Altos 7pm Meetup: South Bay House Concerts open mic, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7:30 510-644-2020 Andy Hedges, Flynn’s: 6275 Hwy 9, Felton 8pm 831-335-2800 13W Justin Townes Earle, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Rayburn Brothers Band, Michael’s: 2591 Main, Soquel 8pm 831-479-9777 14-17 Fathers’ Day Weekend Bluegrass Festival, Grass Valley 209-588-6031 12-13 Irish Fleadh, Castro St, Mountain View svirishfleadh.com 650-964-9151 14Th Edgar Pantoja/Afro-Cuban Tribe, Freight, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 12Sa Living Room Choir, 1700 Shattuck, Berkeley 2:30p thelivingroomchoir.com Kingston Trio, Mystic: 21 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma 8:30p 707-775-6048 Amie Penwell/Pam Delgado & Jeri Jones, Larkspur 7pm insidelands.org Orkestra Kevif, house concert, Santa Cruz [email protected] T Sisters, JCC: 200 N San Pedro Rd, San Rafael 8pm 415-444-8000 Pat Hull/Dan Too/MAJK, Flynn’s: 6275 Hwy 9, Felton 7:30 831-335-2800 Rivertown Trio, 6350 Sir Francis Drake, San Geronimo 7:30 415-488-8888 15F Moonalice, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Manring, Kassin, Burr/Titus, Cyprian’s: 2097 Turk St, SF 8p 415-454-5238 Tom Freund, Lost Church: 65 Capp, SF 8:30pm ticketfly.com The Jones Gang, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd, Pacifica 7:30pm 650-355-1882 The Kingston Trio, Rio: 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz 9pm ticketfly.com Charlie Walden/Patt Plunkett, Mtn. View 2p [email protected] 16Sa Mark Hummel’s folk blues, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berk. 8p 510-644-2020 The Brothers Reed, Saratoga 8pm Meetup: South Bay House Concerts Trio Garufa, Berkeley 7:30pm 510-525-9248 [email protected] Linsey Aitken & Ken Campbell, house concert, Davis 7pm 530-753-3472 Son of Town Hall, Lost Church: 65 Capp, SF 8:30pm ticketfly.com 13Su EB Fiddlin' & Pickin' Potluck, 930 Clay St, Oakland 12-5 510-451-6796 Rick Hardin/Quinn Halley, house concert, San Rafael insidelands.org Gerry O’Connor/Richard Mandel, Berkeley 7:30pm 510-644-2135 17Su Seskin/Greeninger/Lester, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berk. 1p 510-644-2020 Samuel Roland, Monkey House, Berkeley 7:30pm themonkeyhouse.org Barrio Manouche, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7pm 510-644-2020 New World StringProject, Swedenborgian: 2107 Lyon,SF 7p 415-346-6468 Barna Howard/T.Kingman, Flynn’s: 6275 Hwy 9, Felton 7p 831-335-2800 Ashley Broder Trio, Red Poppy: 2698 Folsom, SF 7:30pm 650-731-5383 West of Erin, house concert, Auburn 530-885-4292 15Tu The Freight Singers, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 18M West Coast Songwriters, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berk. 7:30 510-644-2020 Lonely Heartstring Band, Michael’s: 2591 Main, Soquel 7:30 831-479-9777 20W Stretch Woven, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 16W Djangosphere, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Tom Rigney & John R. Burr, Strings, Emeryville 8pm 510-653-5700 Lonely Heartstring Band, Back Room, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 21Th Perla Batalla, Freight&Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 String Quake, Strings: 6320 San Pablo, Emeryville 8pm 510-653-5700 Shawn Colvin, Bankhead: 2400 First, Livermore 7:30pm 925-373-6800 17Th Todalo Shakers (Jug Band), Oakland 8pm [email protected] 22F SFFMClub, Cyprian’s: 2097 Turk St, SF 8pm 510-417-7162 Barbara Dane/Tammy Hall Trio, Freight, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Kittel & Co., Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Moynihan/Chaimbeul, Santa Cruz 7:30 [email protected] Shawn Colvin, Rio: 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz 8pm 831-423-7970 The Crooked Jades, Michael’s: 2591 Main, Soquel 7:30pm 831-479-9777 23-24 Shawn Colvin, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 510-644-2020 Jason Hawk Harris, The Palms: 13 Main, Winters 8pm 530-758-8058 23Sa Rick Hardin/Quinn Halley, house, Marin County 7pm insidelands.org 18-20 Berkeley Bluegrass Fest., Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 510-644-2020 County Line Trio, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd, Pacifica 7:30pm 650-355-1882 18F Asleep at the Wheel, Mystic Theatre, Petaluma 8:30pm 707-775-6048 Andy May/Storey&Sommers, MenloPark,Meetup: SouthBayHouseConcerts Joe Craven/The Sometimers, 390 Morris, Sebastopol 7:30 707-823-1511 Em Gurlz, Ugly Mug: 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel 7:30pm 408-499-9441 Misner & Smith, The Palms: 13 Main, Winters 8pm 530-758-8058 24Su FOLKNIK FOLDIN 136 Highland, Kensington Noon 510-524-9815 p1 Taimane, Rio: 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz 8pm 831-423-7970 Amy Rigby/Alex Lucero, Michael’s: 2591 Main, Soquel 2pm 831-479-9777 Todalo Shakers, Ugly Mug: 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel 7:30pm 408-499-9441 26Tu open mic, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7:30 510-644-2020 19Sa Rivertown Trio, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd, Pacifica 7:30pm 650-355-1882 27W Ramana Vieira, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Paul Sprawl, house, Menlo Park 7pm Meetup: South Bay House Concerts Cajun Country Revival, Santa Cruz 7:30 [email protected] Asleep at the Wheel, Rio: 1205 SoquelAve, Santa Cruz 7:30 831-427-2227 28-7/1 Kate Wolf Music Festival, Laytonville katewolfmusicfestival.com 20Su Amy Engelhardt, house concert, Oakland 2pm 510-652-1091 28Th Don Arbor, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Nancy Schimmel, Monkey House, Berkeley 7:30pm themonkeyhouse.org 29-7/1 SFFMC July Fourth Campout, Boulder Creek Scout Reservation Michael Menager, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 29F Red Molly, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 County Line Trio, Club Fox, Redwood City 6pm 877-435-9849 30Sa Fiddlekids end of camp concert, Freight, Berkeley 11:30am 510-644-2020 Kelly McFarling/Mike Gibbons/Oona Garthwaite, Novato 4p insidelands.org Guitar Shorty, Freight&Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8p 510-644-2020 21M West Coast Songwriters, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berk. 7:30 510-644-2020 Steve Poltz, Swedish American Hall: 2174 Market, SF 8pm 415-431-7578 Richie & Rosie, house concert, Soquel 7:30pm 831-464-9778 Golden Bough, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd, Pacifica 7:30pm 650-355-1882 22Tu Rodney Atkins, Mystic: 21 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma 8:30 707-775-6048 Ani DiFranco, Rio: 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz 8pm 831-423-7970 23W Peter Bradley Adams, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Thanks February Fold-in Elves! Thad Binkley, Abe & Joan Feinberg, Jeff The Ladles, Flynn’s: 6275 Hwy 9, Felton 7:30pm 831-335-2800 Furman, Marian Gade, Ed Hilton, Jane Jackson, Phyllis Jardine, Forest McDonald, Dangermuffin, Michael’s: 2591 Main, Soquel 7:30pm 831-479-9777 Jerry Michaels, Marv Sternberg the folknik Vol. LIV, Number 3 Page 11 May/June 2018

Adam Miller—Folksinger, Storyteller, and Autoharp Virtuoso Folksongs travel through History. History travels through Folksongs.

Dear Friends, Every day spent at my Oregon homestead is a countdown until the “Running away from home” is a departure for the next tour. And every day concept that never goes out of style. Our on the road is spent anxiously counting the folk songs and literature are full of stories nights until I return home. I think that’s about children (and adults) running away probably true for a lot of folks in the from home. It seems to be one of the traveling life. It’s one way to constructively kernels of American identity. Perhaps this channel all that running-away-from-home is because so many of our ancestors really energy into an intentional (and sometimes were running away from home when they even profitable) Great Escape. first came to North America. Mark Twain said, “Travel is fatal to As a child, I harbored dreams of prejudice, bigotry, and narrow- escaping the expectations, anxieties, and mindedness, and many of our people need responsibilities of life at home and, like it sorely on these accounts. Broad, Huck Finn, leaving it all behind. I think it’s wholesome, charitable views of men and perfectly natural to fantasize about running things cannot be acquired by vegetating in away from home. Some folks actually try it. one little corner of the earth all one's Some folks pull it off. And some of us turn lifetime.” it into a profession. Many of my programs are free to the In so many traditional folk songs, the public. I hope to see you at one these protagonist is either at home (and wishing shows. Thanks for your support! they were away from home) or away from home (and wishing they were home, -Adam Miller again). As an itinerant entertainer, I have Folksinger, Storyteller, and Autoharp spent most of my adult life running away Virtuoso from home. Every morning, I awaken at P.O. Box 951, Drain, OR 97435 sunrise in an unfamiliar motel room, get in (650) 804-2049 my rental car and flee to the next location. [email protected]

ADAM MILLER – TOURING SCHEDULE 2018—California only

July 8 2:00 p.m. Belmont Public Library, Belmont, CA 94002 July 10 5:30 p.m. Portola Valley Library, Portola Valley, CA 94028

Here’s a link to a complete list of my upcoming performances: http://www.folksinging.org/calendar/

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Make checks payable to “SFFMC” and mail to: 10-16-2017 SFFMC — Dues, c/o Ellen Eagan, 149 Santa Maria Ave., San Bruno CA 94066 the folknik Vol. LIV, No. 3 Page 12 May/June 2018

Here is the regional map that shows the general location of Mount Madonna County Park and the turnoffs from Highways 1 and 101 to reach the park. San Martin is just south of Morgan Hill, which is about 10 miles south of San Jose.