2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 1 PAGE 2 www.farmfolk.org 2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM WELCOME to FARM 2011! If this is your first FARM Gathering, welcome home! We’re so happy to have you here. The past three years in Bolingbrook, IL have brought us more and more first-timers along with all the FARM regulars who never miss a gathering. Everyone’s an old friend, the minute you walk in the door.
We hope it will be obvious that a lot of love goes into creating this conference as each year a small band of volunteers works extremely hard to bring you an event which raises the bar from the previous. This year is no exception. We’ve got another stellar batch of artists - including those on stage under the bright lights and those playing their hearts out in every corner of the hotel. Luminaries and emerging artists, world travelers and hometown favorites – we’ve got’em all.
For the first time this year, FARM has opened a small number of rooms for Private Showcases. Along with our Official Showcases, DJ Showcase and Performance Lane, there will be no shortage of great music being heard.
Our Planning Committee this year was the tops! Cindy Morgan, VERY Special Thanks to our our volunteer coordinator, works for weeks in advance to 2011 FARM Gathering Sponsors: ensure we have enough help to make everything run smoothly. We’ve got ‘greeters’ and ‘enforcers’ and who will be on hand to make sure you have what you need. Just look for the folks Wheatland Music Organization wearing a black FARM T-shirt. Ben Hassenger did another LilFest/Nancy Emrich terrific job organizing an impressive collection of workshops and Maple Street Chapel panels. Jan Krist organized our Mentor Sessions, Smitty Smith helped with PR and the program and Bob Hofbauer, whose Ten Pound Fiddle contributions are many, so let’s just call him the guy who when Blissfest Org you ask, “Can you help with ___?” always said “YES”. Andina & Irabagon Andina & Rich Thanks also to Lilli Kuzma of WDCB who corralled the DJs for Bob & Pat Hofbauer (West Bethesda Concerts) our second Midwest Folk Radio Presents showcase, to Stephen Susie Keat/SQD Arts Management Lee Rich who scheduled our Performance Lane and all of our WDCB (Lilli Kuzma) board members for their consult and support along the way. WNUR (Sue Kessell) WFMT (Rich Warren) Finally, we can’t say enough about our 2011 Registrar, Sue Fink, who handled this challenging task with every bit of her unique A3Radio.com (Tom Saunders) & lovable charm. radiowayne.com World Class Tapes It’s really important to us that you have a productive, The Ark entertaining, educational, inspirational and joyful weekend filled Madison Songwriter’s Guild with music and friendship. Please don’t hesitate to let us know if Inside Out Recording Studio there is anything at all we can do to make your time here better and we’ll do our best for you. Board of Directors / Elections News We present your 2012 Board of Directors: This year, we held our first on-line election. Thanks to those of you Annie Capps, President who took the time to vote. With the annual growth in FARM we Bob Hofbauer, Secretary felt the need to increase the number of directors from 5 to 7 and we Lola Tyler, Treasurer modified our By Laws accordingly. There were an equal number of Nancy Emrich, Director nominees as seats so all were elected without contest. Sue Fink, Director Jan Krist, Director Our great appreciation goes to out-going board members; Stephen Dudley “Smitty” Smith, Director Lee Rich - who volunteered to fill a vacant seat 2 years ago and has served as Secretary with his usual humor and good nature; and especially to Sandy Andina. Sandy, as many of you know, has been a FARM Board Member for 8 years in the role of Registrar and President. She has seen FARM grow from about 50 attendees to over 200, was instrumental in the institution of formal showcasing and has given of her time and energy in countless ways, contributing to the evolution of FARM as it is today. Sandy has written her own historical recollection which is up on our website. We all owe her our gratitude and a hug!
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 3 Celebrating 39 years of music traditional& arts
24TH ANNUAL 39TH ANNUAL Traditional Arts Wheatland Weekend Music Festival May 25 - 27, 2012 September 7 - 9, 2012 Remus, Michigan Remus, Michigan
www.wheatlandmusic.org
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9/22/2011 9/23/2011 9/24/2011 9/25/2011 Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
9:00 AM Buffet Buffet
Brunch Brunch Peer Group Brunch
10:00 AM Breakfast BOD Meeting
Meetings Mentor Sessions Continental 11:00 AM Membership Meeting Workshops Workshops 12:00 PM
1:00 PM Workshops: 1:15 - 2:45 Workshops: 1:15 - 2:45 2:00 PM s 3:00 PM DJ Reception Mentor Sessions
4:00 PM Performance Lane Performance Lane 4:00p - 5:20p 4:00p - 5:20p 5:00 PM Mentor Session Mentor Dinner in Pool Area Dinner in Pool Area 6:00 PM Welcome Reception In Hallway 7:00 PM Keynote Speaker Awards
8:00 PM Registration Check In Check Registration Midwest Folk Radio Official Showcase Official Showcase 9:00 PM Presents
10:00 PM
11:00 PM Open Mic Performance Lane Performance Lane
12:00 AM Private Showcases Private Showcases Private Showcases 1:00 AM Jams Jams Jams
Traditional Jams / Sing Along / Play Along / Song Swaps / Guitar Pulls 9/12/2011 rev
Index Conference Information Page 7 Workshops & Panels Page 8 - 9 Midwest Folk DJ Showcase Page 13 Official Showcase Schedule Page 14 - 15 Performance Lane Schedule Page 16 Private Showcase Schedule Page 17 - 19 Key Note Speaker Page 21 Award Recipients Page 22 - 23 Attendees By Name Page 24
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 5 presents Weavermania! Sunday October 16, 2011 – 3 pm “Capturing the original sound and spirit of The Weavers with Gusto” The Weavers (Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger, Fred Hellerman, and Lee Hays) were America's first successful folk singing group. Their record Tzena, Tzena/ Goodnight Irene sold two million copies in 1950, and their songs are still favorites for young and old: Michael Row the Boat Ashore, On Top of Old Smoky, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, Wimoweh, and many more. Weavermania!, conceived by Michael Smith and Barbara Barrow, has performed to enthusiastic crowds at art centers, folk festivals and music clubs in the U.S. since 1999. Weavermania! is comprised of four outstanding musicians in their own right: Michael Smith (Lee Hays’ bass parts), Barbara Barrow (Ronnie Gilbert’s vocal parts), Chris Walz (Fred Hellerman's vocals, guitar), and Mark Dvorak (Pete Seeger’s persona, banjo, vocals).
Mark your calendar and join us!
Admission: $15 (suggested donation) Location: Unitarian Universalist Congregation 221 Dean Street Woodstock, IL 60098 Reservations and/or more information: • Visit: www.woodstockfolkfestival.org • Call: 815-479-9WFF (9933) • E-mail: [email protected]
SAVE THE DATE! 27th Annual Woodstock Folk Festival Sunday, July 15th, 2012; 12:30 pm – 6:00 pm On Historic Woodstock Square.
Woodstock Folk Festival is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization. Proceeds from our concerts and events support the annual Woodstock Folk Festival.
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This is our third year at the Holiday Inn Bolingbrook and many of you know your way around. However, there are many first-timers and we’ve made some changes to the floor plan so read through this information to be sure you know what’s what and where everything is happening. Most all activities take place in or around the 3 banquet halls. The diagram below should help you find your way and our volunteers (look for the black FARM T-shirts) will be happy to help you.
REGISTRATION opens at 4pm on Thursday and 9 am - 9pm Friday & Saturday. If there is no one at the table, a volunteer should be close by to assist you with check-in. Credentials are required to enter any of the halls for any reason. Please wear your hang tags at all times.
DINING will take place in the pool area and those who paid for meals will be given priority seating at the tables. Volunteers will be checking wrist bands at the buffet line but all are welcome to hang out. Please be mindful if you’re just socializing and you see someone wandering around with a plate full of food.
DISPLAY TABLES are provided at no cost for all paid attendee to set out press kits, flyers, stickers and whatever merch you would like to share. Please be economical with your set-ups. Small CD cases are fine but no large posters or display boards and absolutely nothing hangs on the walls. We reserve the right to adjust your set-up as needed, but you should check yourself as well. As a courtesy - unless you are a venue, festival or DJ - check with the artist before helping yourself to CDs. This is an honor system, so if you don’t want attendees taking your CDs you may wish to carry them with you to distribute at your own discretion.
WORKSHOPS & PANELS are held in the the Clovers and Amaranth rooms. Please see the floor plan below for room locations. You’ll find a sign on each room listing the schedule for that room. Please use your inside voices. The walls are thin.
PERFORMANCE LANE takes place in two rooms simultaneously. This year we have 56 ten minutes slots which are filled in order of registration. We ask that performers stick to just two songs (on rare occasions a performer’s songs were so short that there was plenty of time for one more which will be given at the hosts discretion). Remember that there is another performer down the hall and just because folks leave after your first song, doesn’t mean they didn’t enjoy it. Most will want to try to catch at least one song from every performer so they’ll be racing down the hall to catch it. That’s half the fun!
MENTOR SESSIONS are scheduled for Thursday afternoon, Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon (see the schedule for times). Registered attendees who arrive on Thursday Board signed up for the “Early Bird” sessions Room in advance, however, if you missed that window and there are any open slots, you may sign up on site. All other registered attendees can sign up for Saturday sessions at the Registration. These are informal sessions and mentors are free to use the breakout rooms, lobby, board room, etc. If there is no location specified on your mentor’s sign up sheet, mentors must LOBBY meet their mentees at Registration.
There are PEER GROUP SESSIONS Private
Showcase tors scheduled on Friday morning Venues, rooms Rooms a Food (Poolside)
DJs and Touring Artists. Bath Elev Meals Enter & INSTRUMENT STORAGE is provided Here for those without a hotel room. Please see the registration desk for more information.
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 7 2011 Workshops and Panels
FRIDAY 11:30a - 1:00pm Saturday 1:15p - 2:45p
Publicity & Imaging - the Inside Scoop (Clover 1) FOLK DJ Panel (Clover 1) Kari Estrin, Annie Capps, and Jayne Toohey All DJs invited to this panel. In a perfect world, the best time to conceptualize your new In a perfect world, the best time to conceptualize your graphics, image and publicity campaign is while planning and new graphics, image and publicity campaign is while recording your CD. Know how to attract the most attention planning and recording your CD. This fun and informative for your artistry by the way you present yourself – your music workshop will demonstrate how to translate your sound informs your choices of how to write your bio, your cover art, into to your visuals - on your cover and bio and press promo pictures and web site. How are you portrayed in your releases. We’ll discuss how sequencing may affect your social networking? This fun and informative workshop will image – and then what are the elements to create effective demonstrate how to translate your sound into to your visuals - press releases and bio’s. This will be a hands-on workshop feel free to bring your CD’s and press kits or posters. – volunteer participants’ press packages will be used to www.kariestrin.com illustrate what is working and what can be improved. www.kariestrin.com What Makes a Song Traditional (Clover 2) Sarah McQuaid, Andy Cohen, and Mark Dvorak Harmonies So Sweet! (Amaranth 1) Traditional Folk Music forms the basis of what we do, and Joe Jencks ultimately, all our “new” music derives from it, even if we try to There is nothing more sublime than good vocal harmonies. get away from it. What is it, where might we find it, and what In this hands-on workshop, Joe will lead us in singing, are we supposed to do with it, once we do? www.sarahmcquaid. and unlocking the magic of good harmonies! Participants com, www.andycohenmusic.net, www.markdvorak.com will sing together with each other and with Joe, as well as discuss how to sing harmonies in various styles, work on Small Venue 101 (Amaranth 2) blend, play with chord structures, add color notes, and Bob Hofbauer (West Bethesda Folk Music Concerts & build arrangements. The workshop will cover some basic White Kitty House Concerts), Smitty Smith (Pump House harmonic theory, as well as delve into the more visceral feel of good harmonies and the emotional impact of a Concerts), and Ben Hassenger (Music Under the Pines well sung chord. Joe Jencks holds a degree in vocal music House Concerts) performance from Millikin University, and has studied What to host a concert? Good for you. It does not take much choral conducting at Western Washington University. He effort. Your living room, a few extra chairs and friends is all has been on the road full-time for 12 years throughout you need. Living room too small? No room for parking? Not North America, and recently co-founded the harmony trio a problem. There are dozens of under-utilized buildings: Brother Sun. http://joejencks.com/ churches, senior centers, and community centers that are available. Most have plenty of space, chairs, tables and parking. And some are available at no cost. Learn what works, what Creative Touring in Challenging Times (Amaranth 2) doesn’t and why we do what we do (hint, it’s not for the money). Charlie Chester, David Tamulevich, Jan Krist With changes in the economy and reduced public funding for the arts, artists need to look creatively at where gigs can Writer’s Block? still be found and how to promote yourself in the current Buy a Capo & Start Using Alternate Tunings! (Amaranth 1) market. Musicians also have to find ways to be more John Batdorf efficient in their scheduling and reduce travel expenses - all I made my first record, “Batdorf and Rodney, Off The Shelf” in while keeping yourself sane and healthy. This workshop 1971. I was the only writer in the band and almost exclusively will explore a variety of creative ways to add income to used standard tuning. Now it was time for a second album and I a tour by cutting travel and lodging costs. Learn ways to had writer’s block. What did I do, I started making up different protect your bottom line and embrace low-cost, baggage- tunings and applied capos and a whole new world opened up! friendly, eco-friendly, convenient, and comfortable travel I heard my guitar differently and songs were written that may options. never have been written. To this day, I continue to experiment with new tunings and keep on writing new songs. If you’re interested in opening up your musical horizon, come check out this workshop. Maybe we will both learn something new! www.johnbatdorfmusic.com/
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SATURDAY 11:30a - 1:00p SATURDAY 1:15p - 2:45p
Performing Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry: Writing for Yourself (Clover 1) Seducing the Audience (Clover 1) Michael Smith Rich Warren I’ve been attempting to write songs for a long time and there Being on stage is far more than music. Performance skills are some things about songwriting that I wish someone enable you to ply your trade as musician rather than asking had said to me right at the beginning (not that I would have “do you want fries with that?” Rich Warren has recorded necessarily given them credence). Anyway, I believe I’ve got thousands of live concerts for over 40 years and in editing a small list of these things by now, and I plan on toting them those performances for radio observed what works and doesn’t all to FARM. http://michaelpetersmith.com/ work for the audience. In preparing this workshop he also collaborated with such notable performers as Tom Paxton The Frugal Folkie (Clover 2) and Ronny Cox along with other professionals in the field of Peter & Lou Berryman with Joel Mabus touring acoustic musicians. During this session Rich shares Spending less = earning more! How we make decisions twenty tips to tweak your tenure with the most important about spending money on our careers such as cutting people in your professional life: the audience. http://www. overhead and living simply to stay alive in this low-income midnightspecial.org/ but rewarding job. As Utah Phillips called it: “a living, not a killing”. www.louandpeter.com/ Rolling Out Your New CD (Clover 2) Joel Mabus Social Networking for Dummies (Amaranth 1) It pays to plan ahead. Getting airplay on folk radio, garnering Joann Murdock with Kristen Shilt some reviews in print, planning record release events, and This workshop will answer some of the basic questions taking orders by mail and on the internet all mean getting your about Facebook, such as “What’s the best way to use ducks in a row ahead of time. And what about registering Facebook to publicize my shows?” “How does this post copyright with the LOC and registering songs with ASCAP or look on someone else’s page?” “Can I control who sees BMI, and the new PRO - SoundExchange? Tips from one who my posts?” “Too much chatter on my ‘Wall’” “How can I has been there and done all that. http://www.joelmabus.com/ diminish the number of emails that Facebook is sending me?”“What is the difference between a fan page, group Catch the Aloha Sprit! page, and personal page?” and other very practical, Learn to Play the Ukulele! (Amaranth 1) nuts and bolts questions.Co-presenting this workshop is Ben Hassenger & Anna Denison Kristen Shilt, the newest agent on the Artists of Note staff, The ukulele is sweeping the country with its bright and and a digital native who brings online expertise from the versatile sound. This class will focus on basic chords and songs perspective of the musician and presenting organization. for the beginner, but will be modified to cover intermediate Kristen has produced college concerts and events and is the chords, techniques, and tunes if the composition of the hospitality and logistics coordinator for the Fox Valley Folk class permits. Bring your own uke tuned G-C-E-A (we will Festival. http://www.ArtistsOfNote.com have some loaner ukuleles on hand). And, don’t forget your Hawaiian shirt! http://benhassenger.com Everybody Loves to Sing! (The Rising Popularity of http://www.annadenisonmusic.com Community-based Singing) (Amaranth 2) Cindy Morgan & Jim Hall Songwriting CYA - Copyright Basics & PROs (Amaranth 2) Let’s sing together! This workshop will talk about - and Louise Mosrie and Peter Strand demonstrate - how a community sing works, using the Know the basics about copyrighting your songs, registering community-based singing in East Lansing as a case with a PRO (BMI/ASCAP/SESAC) and licensing. Bring a cup of example. We’ll talk about what inspired Sally Potter coffee, a notebook and the left side of your brain. Louise Mosrie to begin the Singing Festival (“where the songs are the is a touring musician and is a copyright administrator for her stars”), and other events that have grown out of it (monthly day gig www.louisemosrie.com. Peter is an entertainment and Community Sings, singing tents at other local festivals, copyright lawyer in the Chicago area, helping to protect the etc.). We’ll address practical components like song leaders, intellectual rights of musicians and other artists as a partner in instrumentation, song selection, keys, site locations, and the entertainment law firm Leavens, Strand, Glover & Adler, anything else we can think of, that contribute to bringing LLC. www.lsglegal.com. He also teaches entertainment people together to lift their voices (and their spirits) in and music law at Kent College of Law. In his pre-law life song. Time permitting, we may watch parts of the WKAR he recorded RCA Millennium Records and is still an active documentary, “A Community Sings.” www.sonicbids.com/ musician and songwriter. HallandMorgan
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 9 Mentors We’re thrilled to have a veritable pantheon of pros covering a myriad of specialties who have graciously agreed to avail themselves for one-on-one sessions at FARM. This is your chance to soak up their knowledge and wisdom. Sign up at registration (also in advance for the Thursday sessions.)
Following is the list of mentors (subject to change/additions). See their sign up sheets for topics.
Thursday (2p - 4p)
Andrew Calhoun
Kari Estrin
Jayne Toohey
Smitty Smith
Saturday (10a - 11:15a & 3p - 4p)
Dave Tamulevich
Rich Warren
Dave Humphries
Joann Murdock
Al Kniola
Lilli Kuzma
Annie Capps
Bill Isles
Smitty Smith
Jan Krist
Jim Bizer
Greg Greenway
Peter Strand
Mary Ray
PAGE 10 www.farmfolk.org 2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM Sangamon Co.Ill. release: National release: Nov. 17, 2011 Jan. 17, 2012
Tom Irwin sets a teenage farm boy’s 1893 journal to music 13 songs produced by Gary Gordon at Inside Out Studio in Sparta, Ill. performed by Robert Bowlin, Gary and Roberta Gordon, Ross Sermons, Mark Stoffel, Curtis Jay and Theresa O’Hare
Go to Kickstarter.com/projects/tomirwin until Oct 17 for pledges and rewards to join in producing the record in exchange for neat stuff from Tom Now booking Sangamon Songs as an educational and entertainment program Carry Me Home also available (Clyded Records 2007)
www.tomirwin.org [email protected] 217-725-6179 “Some folks got all the luck, but me, I got corn to shuck”
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“supremely evocative and sometimes cheekily humorous” -fRoots Magazine
OFFICIAL SHOWCASE Tom Kastle Saturday 9:15 pm Singer, songwriter, sailor, and teller of tales... ALSO APPEARING AT: Batkat’s Whodat? Thursday 12:40 Bill & Kate Isles Present Friday 12:00
NOW BOOKING US DATES: MAY 2012 • OCT 2012 www.zoemulford.com www.tomkastle.com
PAGE 12 www.farmfolk.org 2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM Midwest Folk Radio Presents
THURSDAY, September 22, 7:30pm
7 Folk DJs from the Midwest nominated an artist (or two) to present in this feature showcase. Each act will perform two songs - a perfect little sample of what they do and how they do it.
Robin Greenstein (Sue Kessell - WNUR) Mike Ball (Tom Saunders - A3Radio.com)
Emily Pinkerton (Steve Jerrett - KOPN)
Greg Trafidlo (Mike Kelsey - WFHB)
Adrienne Frailey (Al Kniola - WVPE)
Jason and Ginger (Mike Kelsey - WFHB)
David Hawkins (Lilli Kuzma - WDCB)
Barb Barton (Maggie Ferguson - WXOU)
Dan Hazlett (Tom Saunders A3Radio.com)
Jaime Michaels (Lilli Kuzma - WDCB) Scott Cook (Maggie Ferguson - WXOU)
Heather Styka (Al Kniola - WVPE)
Greg Greenway (Steve Jerrett - KOPN)
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 13 Official Showcase Artists & Schedule Friday, September 23
RJ Cowdrey - 8 pm Always a late bloomer, in a time when Sally Spring and The Ted Lyons Experience - 9:30 pm most folks are thinking about retirement, Sally Spring’s a treasure!” (Gene Par- Ohio native Rj Cowdery found the nerve sons, The Byrds). Her Americana folk to change her life. After years of working CD recently charted #1 in Europe / #2 in health care and writing on the side, worldwide on Americana radio; #2 on she decided to focus more on making Folk DJ chart. Spring’s “transfixing, gor- music her career. Rj’s been making up geous alto” (Sing Out!) is her own “like for lost time ever since, racking up major that of Emmylou Harris and Natalie songwriting awards and impressing fans with her performances Merchant.” (Das Rock, Germany). Her at venues across the country. Her new release IN THIS LIGHT voice, her “first-rate compositions” (No on Blue Rock Artists label is a collection of 11 intimate songs that Depression) along with Ted Lyon’s eclec- highlight the warm resonance of Rj’s voice. This vocal and acous- tic, edgy, rhythmic resonator give this couple a tear-at-your-heart, tic guitar-driven album illustrates how Rj draws you in deeper “emotional complexity” (NetRythms UK) that’s mesmerizing and with each song...like a secret that you’ve just been given privy to. “generates emotional heat that is white hot” (Americana UK).
Twangtown Paramours - 8:20 pm Sarah McQuaid - 9:50 pm The music of The Twangtown Paramours Renowned for her warm, engaging stage presence, Sarah Mc- has been called “Sophisticated Ameri- Quaid is a versatile and beguiling per- cana”, and is a hybrid of the Nashville former. In addition to her own elegantly and Austin music scenes. In 2010, their crafted originals, she interprets tradi- debut album was in the top 100 on the tional folk ballads, 1930s jazz numbers, Folk DJ chart for the year. In 2011, they surprise covers and lively guitar instru- were named one of the Artists on the mentals with panache. Born in Spain and Verge by the Bluegrass Special magazine, raised in Chicago, Sarah now lives in and were chosen as Kerrville finalists. England. She has recorded two critically MaryBeth Zamer sang background vocals for Eva Cassidy, and acclaimed solo albums (released in the Mike Lewis sometimes plays upright bass for Jimmie Dale Gilm- US as a double CD that was No. 1 on the Folk DJ chart in Febru- ore. They are proud to have been picked to do formal showcases ary 2010), with a third album due out early next year, and is the at FARM and at SWERFA this year. author of The Irish DADGAD Guitar Book.
Jen Cass - 8:40 pm Spuyten Duyvil’s - 10:10 pm If Bob Dylan and Mary Chapin Carpen- Spuyten Duyvil’s (“Spite + N Dive +L’s”) original alt/trad sound ter had a lovechild who was raised by wanders the last 100 years of Roots the Indigo Girls and frequently visited music. Their barn burning live shows by the ghost of Phil Ochs, she would earned them main stage appearances sound eerily similar to Michigan’s Jen at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (by Cass. A regular on the Folk Circuit and audience vote) and the American Roots Folk Charts since her 1996 debut, Jen Music Festival at Caramoor. Their 2011 is anxiously awaiting the release of her CD, New Amsterdam, received airplay fourth CD, “Cannonball Girl” in 2012. on over 165 stations, was nominated For more info, visit www.jencass.com! for Best American Roots Album by The Alternate Root TV and remained on the Americana Music Association Airplay Top 100 Albums for 14 Dennis Stroughatt & et l’Esprit Creole - 9:00 pm weeks. “One of the best bands to emerge on the Americana music Fingers and bow flying, Dennis scene in the last year… Downright Irresistible” John Platt, WFUV Stroughatt takes listeners on a musical odyssey into French Creole culture of “old upper Louisiana” . All through his college years, Dennis spent long week- ends in Creole communities around Ste Genevieve, Missouri, where he learned their language, stories and fiddle tunes, mostly by ear. Weekend “bouillon” parties gave Dennis the opportunity to understand the strong, driven nature of the music and its people, an experience shared by few others in the world. A vibrant blend of Celtic, Canadian and Old Time sounds, this music bridges the gap between contemporary Canadian and Louisiana Cajun styles.
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Zoe Mulford - 9:00 pm Carol Montag - 8 pm A set by American songwriter Zoe Performing singer/songwriter Carol Mulford is like a small volume of short Montag, a native of Ames, IA, has stories - evocative, beautifully crafted, been described by folk music leg- and endlessly varied. By turns power- end Tom Paxton as a “genuine dis- ful and funny, her songs may consider covery” and “the best thing to come anything from Franklin’s doomed out of Iowa since Bonnie Koloc.” polar expedition to the neglected veg- She has recorded three solo albums etables in her refrigerator. She grew up and two Christmas CDs with the near Philadelphia and learned to play trio known as Tribute. Carol has in the picking circles of North Caroli- opened for or shared the stage with na. She now lives in England and tours on both sides of the Atlantic. Arlo Guthrie, Jim Post, Greg Brown, David Wilcox, John Gorka, This warm and engaging performer draws on the traditional music John Stewart, and Cliff Eberhardt. She was commissioned by of the US and the British Isles to make sense of the modern world. Ballet Iowa to write music about the farm crisis and performed at the 2010 World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony. Harpeth Rising - 9:30 pm Billed as an “Americana Sensation” by John Batdorf - 8:20 pm WSM 650, this group of young classi- Some may ask, what is it about cally trained musicians is making an the qualities of John Batdorf that immense impact wherever they play. set him apart from other excel- The quartet brings an exciting and dis- lent singer-songwriters… It’s his tinctive sound to the Americana genre. vulnerability: his complete opening With a banjo and fiddle, you might the door to his heart. John invites think they’re traditional bluegrass, the listener into his soul and shares but think again: cello and hand drums a couple hours, open and trust- round out the group, creating a truly ing as he sings of love and hope: new sound. A little bit bluegrass, a little bit folk, a little bit classical transforming despair to hope, hate and whole lot of original, Harpeth Rising is a band to watch. to love and fear/ignorance to tolerance/acceptance. We share his understanding, forgiveness and are filled with compassion Louise Mosrie - 9:50 pm when the song is done. When you hear John sing live for the Louise Mosrie creates a world of lush first time, you’ll understand why his music has meant so much detail and wide-open emotion draw- to his fans that have now spanned nearly four decades! ing on the sensual imagery of the Deep South.Compared to Nanci Griffith and Bill & Kate Isles - 8:40 pm Patty Loveless, she’s shared the bill Bill & Kate Isles are a nationally- with Joe Ely, Jonatha Brooke, Allison touring singer/songwriter duo Moorer, Greg Trooper, Malcomb Hol- based in Duluth, MN. In 1993 Bill combe, Mindy Smith & Diana Jones. was a rare survivor of Sudden “...this Nashville-based singer/song- Cardiac Arrest. Instead of ending writer blew us away with her in-store his life, it jump-started his creative performance. Like listening to Patty Griffin and Susan Tedeschi at energies, resulting in a 150 show- the same time. Highlight of the 30A Songwriter Festival.” - Central per-year itinerary, presenting his Square Records, Seaside Florida profoundly meaningful songs. He is joined by his wife of seven years, Lake Folk - 10:10 pm co-writer and musical collaborator, Kate. Her gentle presence, Lake Folk is a dynamic 5-piece indie- luscious vocals and intuitive harmonies have endeared her to folk group from Ann Arbor, Michi- audiences. Words like “Transcendent” and “Mesmerizing” and gan. With their debut release “Feel “Slapstick” are among the descriptions of their concerts and Like I’m Home”, the quintet (cello, fans of all ages tell of listening to their albums again and again. banjo, guitar, bass, drums) combines genres to create richly textured songs that reach for new ground in indie- folk. Lake Folk’s unique blend of roots, traditional, and folk-rock forms their “dark, bizarre, and wonderful” twist on indie-folk that they call “Roots Noir”. Whether energetic and driving, dark and sorrowful, or bittersweet, Lake Folk’s soulful lyrics and distinct arrangements tell stories from the past and pres- ent as part of the next generation of folk and traditional music.
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 15 Performance Lane Schedule
FRIDAY AFTERNOON TIME ROOM 1 ROOM 2
4:00 Kira Small Sigrid Christiansen 4:10 Brad Cole Judy Insley 4:20 Wayne Green Kevin Conlin 4:30 Jason and Ginger Barb Ryman 4:40 Tim Southwick Johnson Katie Dahl 4:50 Hall and Morgan David Hawkins 5:00 Mark Dvorak Bill Bynum 5:10 Clark Paterson Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys
FRIDAY NIGHT TIME ROOM 1 ROOM 2
11:00 Red Tail Ring Trevor McSpadden 11:10 Greg Trafidlo Emily Pinkerton 11:20 Joe Peters and Linda Hicks Sue Fink 11:30 Greg Klyma Ben Hassenger 11:40 Patty Stevenson and Craig Siemsen Tom Irwin 11:50 Lee Murdock Patti Ecker and Louise Brodie
SATURDAY AFTERNOON TIME ROOM 1 ROOM 2
4:00 The Ya Yas Martine Locke 4:10 Andy Young Jaime Michaels 4:20 Heather Styka J. Oscar Bittenger 4:30 Andrew Calhoun Kristin Cotts 4:40 Donna Herula Tony Nardiello 4:50 Chris Bargmann Tracy Kash Thomas 5:00 Jane Godfrey Marshall Hjertstedt 5:10 Scott Cook Dean Wiers-Windemuller SATURDAY NIGHT TIME ROOM 1 ROOM 2
11:00 Barb Barton Ben Sage 11:10 Jim Bizer Joe Jencks 11:20 Dan Hazlett Derek Daniel 11:30 Mike Ball Tom Kastle 11:40 Mark Young Jenny Bienemann 11:50 Robin Bienemann Amy Dixon-Kolar
PAGE 16 www.farmfolk.org 2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM Private Showcase Schedules This being our first year presenting “private” showcases we feel the need for a some ‘fine print’. First we want to thank all of our hosts for hosting. They all have plenty of experience and know how to do it right. The hosts have their own rules so the following is for audience and spectators.
RULE #1. PLEASE BE COURTEOUS! We certainly want you to be enthusiastic but remember that there are performers right next door or across the hall and we want everyone to have the best opportunity to be heard. We ask that you take your pre- and post-set networking and socializing to the lobby or conference area which is only a few steps away.
RULE #2. PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL! Hosts are responsible for the condition of their rooms. Snacks and beverages are allowed, however, if you partake in a room’s offerings, not only do we expect you to clean up after yourself, we trust you’ll stay for at least one showcase!
RULE # 3. PLEASE HAVE FUN!! We trust you’ll have a hard time deciding where to go, but make sure you schedule in some acts you’ve never heard before. Discovery is the best part of any conference!
Songwriters Anonymous Showcase Room 106 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 12:00 Ben Hassenger 12:00 Judy Insley 12:00 Annie & Rod Capps 12:15 Sigrid Christiansen 12:15 Kathy Weiland 12:15 Derek Daniel 12:30 Joel Palmer 12:30 Tracy Kash Thomas 12:30 Mike Ball 12:45 Mike Ball 12:45 Mike Ball 12:45 Judy Insley 01:00 Maggie Ferguson 01:00 Derek Daniel 01:00 Dan and Sigrid 01:15 Jan Seides 01:15 Sigrid Christiansen 01:15 Jen Cass 01:30 Barb Ryman 01:30 Dan Hazlett 01:30 Red Tail Ring 01:45 Jan Krist and Jim Bizer 01:45 Barb Barton 01:45 J. Oscar Bittenger
Kari Estrin Management Room 107 Thursday only 12:00 Barb Ryman 12:15 Louise Mosrie 12:30 Annie Capps 12:45 Heather Styka 01:00 Sarah McQuaid 01:15 Ruth & Max Bloomquist 01:30 Twangtown Paramours
The Folk Fringe Room 107 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY See Kari Estrin Management above 12:00 Barb Barton 12:00 Heather Styka 12:20 Brad Cole 12:20 The Ya Yas 12:40 Patti Ecker and Louise Brodie 12:40 Jen Cass, Joe Jenks & Greg Greenway ITR 01:00 Andina & Rich 01:20 Jan Seides 01:20 Barb Ryman 01:40 Wayne Green 01:40 John Sherman & Randy Clepper
Batkat’s Whodat? Room 109 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 12:00 Butch Ross 12:00 Barb Ryman 12:00 Sally Spring 12:20 Ruth & Max Bloomquist 12:20 Rj Cowdery 12:20 Jaime Michaels 12:40 Zoe Mulford 12:40 Twangtown Paramours 12:40 Jan Seides 01:00 Wayne Greene 01:00 Jason & Ginger 01:00 Tom Irwin 01:20 Greg Greenway 01:20 Hope Dunbar 01:20 Adler & Hearne 01:40 Jan Krist & Jim Bizer 01:40 NikThomasma 01:40 Barb Barton
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 17 Private Showcase Schedules
Not From Around Here Room 111 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Nothing scheduled 12:00 Kira Small 12:00 The YaYas 12:15 Andina and Rich 12:15 Dan Hazlett 12:30 Robin Greenstein 12:30 Patti Ecker and Louise Brodie 12:45 Jaime Michaels 12:45 John Batdorf 01:00 Tom Irwin 01:00 Kira Small 01:15 Amy Dixon-Kolar 01:15 Sally Spring 01:30 Jen Cass and Greg Greenway 01:30 Rj Cowdrey 01:45 Jen Cass and Greg Greenway 01:45 Jan Krist and Jim Bizer
The Bank Room 112 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 12:00 Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys 12:00 Randy Clepper & John Sherman 12:00 Lakefolk 12:25 Scott Cook 12:25 Red Tail Ring 12:25 Randy Clepper& John Sherman 12:50 Trevor McSpadden& Co. 12:50 Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys 12:50 Red Tail Ring 01:15 Nicholas James Thomasma 01:15 Scott Cook 01:15 Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys 01:40 Jen Cass 01:40 Trevor McSpadden& Co 01:40 Nicholas James Thomasma
Two Way Street Coffee House Room 115 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 12:00 Emily White 12:00 Greg Klyma 12:00 Lee Murdock 12:30 DennisStroughmatt – solo 12:30 Joe Jencks 12:30 Annie & Rod Capps 01:00 Harpeth Rising 01:00 Heather Styka 01:00 David Hawkins 01:30 Red Tail Ring 01:30 Mark Dvorak 01:30 The YaYa’s
Bill & Kate Isle Room 116 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 12:00 Bill & Kate Isles 12:00 Bill & Kate Isles 12:00 Bill & Kate Isles Sarah McQuaid Ruth & Max Bloomquist Tim Grimm Sally Spring Zoe Mulford Chuck Pyle Joel Mabus 12:30 Bill & Kate Isles 12:30 Bill & Kate Isles Twangtown Paramours Katie Dahl Brad Cole Adrienne Frailley
01:00 Bill & Kate Isles, 01:00 Bill & Kate Isles 01:00 Bill & Kate Isles Jane Godfrey Barb Ryman John Batdorf, Butch Ross Adler & Hearne Louise Mosrie Emily White 01:30 Bill& Kate Isles, 01:30 Bill & Kate Isles, Andrew Calhoun Red Tail Ring Annie Capps TBA
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The Pitcher’s Mound Room 117 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Nothing Scheduled 12:00 Amy Dixon-Kolar 12:00 Sue Fink 12:30 David Hawkins 12:30 David Hawkins 01:00 Mark Dvorak 01:00 Mark Dvorak 01:30 Lee Murdock 01:30 Community Sing
Lilfest Presents Room 118 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Nothing Scheduled 12:00 Dave Hawkins 12:00 Emily White 12:20 Sally Spring 12:20 Jan Krist & Jim Bizer 12:40 John Batdorf 12:40 Amy Dixon-Kolar 01:00 Jan Krist & Jim Bizer 01:00 Tim Grimm 01:20 Marshall Hjertstedt 01:20 Heather Styka 01:40 GregTrafidlo 01:40 Dave Hawkins
Pump House Concerts Room 119 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Nothing Scheduled 12:00 Jen Cass 12:00 Greg Klyma 12:15 Clark Paterson 12:15 Lindsay Lou & Joshua Rilko 12:30 Adler and Hearne 12:30 Martine Locke 12:45 Louise Mosrie 12:45 Brad Cole 01:00 Sally Spring 01:00 The YaYas 01:15 Butch Ross 01:15 Scott Cook 01:30 Bill Bynum 01:30 TBD 01:45 Dave Boutette 01:45 Hope Dunbar
Local 1000 - Showcase Free Zone! Board Room
The SFZ is a traveling mini union hall, providing refreshments, breathing room and the chance to share songs (or request or pass) within two themed circles per night. Although it was developed for our members, we keep it open for those who would like to know more about the Local and also for presenters who might wish to hear new or favorite performers in a relaxed and pressure-free setting.
Those of you who are already L1K members, come on in--the SFZ will be up and running during private showcase hours on Friday & Saturday nights. Those of you performers who are not yet members, check us out and see what we can do for you.
NOTE: While we do not anticipate this, we have been informed that there is at least one circumstance under which we may have to relocate one or more Private Showcase. If that happens, and we sincerely hope it doesn’t, we’ll provide corrected versions of these pages as needed.
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 19 PAGE 20 www.farmfolk.org 2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM Michael P Smith - 2011 Key Note Speaker Michael Peter Smith was born in South Orange, New Jersey in September of 1941 and raised in the area, attending Catholic schools later referenced in a few of his songs. He bought his first guitar at age fifteen (for $5) and was soon playing in a group called The Kalypso Kids, whose first and only recording is lost in antiquity. College in Florida brought a quartet dubbed the Wanderers, with gigs on the beach and at local coffeehouses, then touring in The Talismen, a duet. It was Folk Music, and Folk Music was happening.
Three years at The Flick in Miami followed, six nights a week. There he met Barbara Barrow, who would become his wife, and they traveled with a quartet called the Baker Street Irregulars, signed a contract with Decca under the group name Juarez, and produced an eponymous vinyl recording that you can still sometimes find in the ‘used’ bins of obscure record stores. The couple’s next recording was called Mickey and Babs Get Hot, followed by an acoustic recording of an evening at The Raven Gallery in Detroit (where they briefly resided), called Zen.
Steve Goodman had recorded “The Dutchman,” and Chicago music lovers were discovering other of Smith’s songs. Michael and Barbara relocated to the windy city and became regulars at venues such as The Earl of Old Town, Somebody Else’s Troubles, Holstein’s, No Exit and Orphan’s. They played the Philadelphia Folk Festival, worked with Corky Siegel and John Prine, taught at the Old Town School of Folk Music, organized a benefit in commemoration of their friend Gamble Rogers, and separately and together continued to record. In the late 1980’s Michael was asked to write the music for the Steppenwolf production of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, and he toured with that production for two years: Chicago, La Jolla, London, England, finally Broadway, (the Cort Theatre— where the Marx Brothers played) and was thrilled by two Antoinette Perry awards (Tonys) for that production.
Michael began to record for Flying Fish, initially produced by Anne Hills, whom he had met when he was playing bass for Bob Gibson. He began to tour more frequently doing exclusively his own material and continued to write songs, now increasingly being recorded by other artists. He created essentially a one-man show entitled Michael, Margaret, Pat & Kate, which played at the Victory Gardens in 1994 and garnered four Joseph Jefferson awards, Chicago’s equivalent of the Antoinette Perry. This was Michael’s musical autobiography, and it won every Jeff it could but one.
With Jamie O’Reilly, Michael created, performed and recorded Pasiones: Songs of the Spanish Civil War, followed by Hello Dali (songs about art), Scarlet Confessions (with Anne Hills), and years later, a holiday CD/show collaboration of The Gift of the Magi. All enjoyed runs at various theatres. Michael self-produced an album of his songs called There in 2000 with the able assistance of Pat Fleming, then, with spouse Barbara Barrow, created Weavermania, celebrating the works of the Weavers. A highlight, if not the pinnacle of the Weavermania experience was a concert where Pete Seeger played onstage with them.
More albums followed, including Live at Dark Thirty, Such Things Are Finely Done, Just Plain Folk (recorded with John McDermott), Michael Peter Smith-Anthology One, Love Letter on a Fish, and, in 2008, the soundtrack to a childrens’ production he wrote and performed in called The Selfish Giant, which featured the puppet wizardry of Blair Thomas.
Amidst all of that, he composed the score for a production of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, in which both he and Barbara performed beginning in 2006 and enjoying additional runs in subsequent years at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, under the direction of Frank Galati.
Michael Smith continues to travel, playing concert halls house concerts, clubs and festivals, and his prolific songwriting has never waned, with now close to 500 original tunes in his impressive catalog.
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 21 Folk Tradition in the Midwest Awardee Bob Blackman Bob Blackman is probably best known as host of The Folk Tradition, the radio show he hosted virtually every Sunday evening for over 27 years until he retired last April. But he has channeled his passion for folk music into many other activities as well.
A lifelong resident of the East Lansing, MI, area, Bob discovered folk music in the late Sixties, starting with Peter, Paul and Mary, Pete Seeger, and Tom Paxton. He started doing radio as part of the “DJ Club” at his high school, playing records over the PA system during lunch hours. Bob went to Kalamazoo College in fall 1970, working at the student radio station and managing the school’s folk coffeehouse throughout his three years there.
Bob returned to East Lansing in 1973 to finish his B.A. at Michi- gan State, and -- aside from three semesters studying folklore at Indiana University -- he has stayed in the area ever since. In the mid-Seventies, Bob became involved with three of the organi- zations that have most shaped the area’s folk scene, and with which he is still affiliated today.
In 1974, Bob began his long association with WKAR Radio when they invited him to create a weekly folk show called The American Tradition. He hosted several different programs for WKAR, including a nationally-syndicated series of concerts recorded at the Ten Pound Fiddle (circa 1981-2). Bob’s longest-running show, The Folk Tradition, aired on Sunday nights from March 4, 1984, until April 24, 2011. Although he retired from the grind of a weekly show, he’ll continue doing occasional special programs for WKAR.
Bob also co-founded the Ten Pound Fiddle concert venue, whose first concert was in January 1975, and served as booking manager for several of the early seasons. He still emcees several concerts a year, including their annual Mid-Winter Singing Festival.
A few years after Elderly Instruments opened in East Lansing in 1972, Bob was hired to help type up their first mail-order catalog, and (after returning from IU in late 1976) he became manager of their record department. He left Elderly in 1982 to pursue a career as a computer programmer, but returned in 1993 to become the store’s Com- puter Systems Administrator, which is still his “day job.”
Bob has contributed almost two hundred articles, reviews, and columns to various music publications. Most of his work has been in Sing Out! magazine, where he wrote the “Songfinder” column from 1977 to 1984, later served as a record reviewer, interviewed Peter Bellamy, and authored a major article on the Copper Family. Bob also wrote regular columns for Folkscene and Come For To Sing magazines; contributed liner notes to albums by Stan Rog- ers, Joel Mabus, and Sara Grey; and composed a song that the Short Sisters have recorded.
Among Bob’s other folk music activities, he served on the Music Selection Committee for the National Folk Fes- tival’s three-year run in East Lansing (1999-2001), and he continues to be a music advisor and emcee for its suc- cessor, the Great Lakes Folk Festival, produced by the MSU Museum. Since 2003, Bob has served as one of the administrators of folkdj-l, a listserv for folk radio hosts all over the world.
Bob lives in Haslett, MI, with his wife Karen, a physician at MSU.
PAGE 22 www.farmfolk.org 2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM Lantern Bearer Awardee Lou & Peter Berryman Lou and Peter Berryman write songs of inventive and intelligent humor, blending midwestern cul- ture with street smart savvy. They been compared to Will Rogers and Dorothy Parker, and to Burns & Allen and their influences are as diverse as Woody Guthrie, Gilbert & Sullivan and Jacques Brel.
Their friendship began in 1964, when they discovered their mutual love for folk music and formed what was to be the first of many musical groups. Since then they’ve married, divorced and re- married other people, but remain the best of friends, and in about 1975 began performing as a duo. They have released 18 recordings and 3 songbooks, have played everywhere from A Prairie Home Companion to the Wisconsin state coroners’ convention, from the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC to the Sheboygan Bratfest. Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage, The Ark in Ann Ar- bor, and New York’s Caffe Lena have hosted them regularly and they continue to tour year-round.
Lou & Peter’s unusual take on the world has led to creations that are unlike any others. They are admired by, not only thousands of music fans, but by some of our greatest living songwriters:
“Rhymes that rhyme! I love your material, and if I were still performing, I’d steal it!” --Tom Lehrer “When it comes to being funny, I think I’ve spent the first thirty years trying to be as funny as Tom Lehrer and the last part will be trying to be as funny as the Berrymans”...Tom Paxton
Originality and invention pervades the careers of these two, as, in addition to writing words and music, they run their own (not) mom-and-pop musical enterprise, handling booking and tour arrangements, scheduling, promo- tion, recording, artwork, layout and record distribution themselves.
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 23 ATTENDEES BY NAME
Lynn Adler Mike Ball John Batdorf Robin Bienemann P.O. Box 979 9548 Main Street 22653 Michale St. 1153 Highland Winnsboro, TX 75494 Whitmore Lake, MI 48189 West Hills, CA 91304 Oak park, IL 60304 H 903-365-2713 H 734-449-5700 H 818-888-1188 H 708-660-9100 C 214-952-6086 C 734-649-6223 C 818-486-2822 C 708-253-7491 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.adlerandhearne.com http://seamonkeyband.com. johnbatdorfmusic.com www.robinb.org Adler & Hearne Dr. Mike & The Sea Monkeys John Batdorf J Oscar Bittinger Eric Anderson Sarah Banks Michael Beauchamp PO Box 68012 414 W. Summit St #3 Spuyten Duyvil 305 W. Vine #4 Grand Rapids, MI 49516 Ann Arbor, MI 48103 54 Hillcrest Ave Kalamazoo, MI 49001 [email protected] C 216-496-3245 Yonkers, NY 10705 [email protected] www.joscarbittinger.com [email protected] [email protected] www.redtailring.com www.lakefolkband.com Spuyten Duyvil Red Tail Ring Jim Bizer Lake Folk P.O. Box 250710 Chris Bargmann Lou & Peter Berryman Franklin, MI 48301 Sandy Andina PO Box 5 Box 3400 H 248-626-4650 1235 W. Glenlake Ave. Plato, MN 55370 Madison, WI 53704 C 248-310-5168 Chicago, IL 60660 H 320-864-3546 W 608-257-7750 [email protected] C 773-973-3130 C 612-709-3428 [email protected] www.jimbizer.com [email protected] [email protected] www.louandpeter.com Yellow Room Gang www.sandyandina.com broomhildamusic.com MAMA’s Coffeehouse Andina & Rich Jenny Bienemann FARM Board; Local 1000; Barb Barton 1153 Highland Chicago Songwriters’ Collective 1500 Indiana Ave. Oak Park, il 60304 Lansing, MI 48906 H 708-660-9100 C 734-576-8427 C 708-253-7490 [email protected] [email protected] www.barbbarton.com www.jennybienemann.com
PAGE 24 www.farmfolk.org 2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM Bob Blackman Dave Boutette Spencer Cain Jen Cass PO Box 504 4427 Cornwell Lane 2555 Waters Road P.O. Box 2144 Haslett, MI 48840 Whitmore Lake, MI 48189 Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Bay City, MI H 517-339-2060 C 734-417-4740 C 989-255-4905 H 989-714-2675 W 517-334-5839 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] C 517-230-5170 www.daveboutette.net Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys www.jencass.com [email protected] Folk Tradition Lifetime Louise Brodie Andrew Calhoun Charlie Cheney Achievement Award Recipient 657 Rochdale Circle PO Box 83 620 Iroquois Dr. Lombard, IL 60148 Glen Ellyn, IL 60138 Fremont, MI 49412 Karen Blackman H 630-268-0124 H 630-534-6063 231-335-7437 PO Box 504 W 630-268-0124 C 503-753 0533 [email protected] Haslett, MI 48840 C 630-379-8940 [email protected] http://charliecheney.com H 517-339-2060 [email protected] www.andrewcalhoun.com Big Toe Tap [email protected] Patti Ecker and Louise Brodie Annie Capps Sigrid Christiansen Max Bloomquist Chris Burgess P O Box 329 18135 Hamilton Rd 1008 W. Hile Rd. 431 Cairn Cove Chelsea, MI 48118 Detroit, MI 48203 Muskegon, MI 49441 Memphis, TN 38016 H 734-433-0154 H 313-345-1225 H 231-798-3630 [email protected] C 734-330-5226 [email protected] C 231-740-4847 www.harpethrising.com [email protected] Stone House Concerts [email protected] Harpeth Rising annieandrodcapps.com www.ruthbloomquist.com FARM Board Member Scott Clauser Ruth & Max Bloomquist Band Bill Bynum 11559 North Shore Drive 2370 W. Jefferson Ave. Rod Capps Whitmore Lake, MI 48189 Ruth Bloomquist Trenton, MI 48183 P O Box 329 C 734-417-6915 1008 W. Hile Rd. C 734-552-5388 Chelsea, MI 48118 [email protected] Muskegon, MI 49441 [email protected] H 734-433-0154 Dr. Mike and the Sea Monkeys H 231-798-3630 www.billbynum.com C 734-417-8178 C 231-740-4847 Bill Bynum&Co. [email protected] [email protected] annieandrodcapps.com www.ruthbloomquist.com Ruth & Max Bloomquist Band
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 25 Randy Clepper Scott Cook Ginger Curry Gilmary Doyle-Andrews 974 Bryn Mawr Dr. 3 Meridian Road 9950 W. Gardner Rd. 101-A S. Euclid Gahanna, OH 43230 Sherwood Park, Alberta Bloomington, IN 47403 Oak Park, IL 60302 C 614-648-9514 C 780-695-3474 H 812-825-4111 H 708-386-3794 [email protected] [email protected] C 812-606-4387 C 708-829-0982 www.randyclepper.com www.scottcook.net [email protected] [email protected] John Sherman & Randy www.JasonAndGinger.com www.gilmarymusic.com Clepper Rosanna Copiaco Jason and Ginger 8501 Old M-78 Betsy Ducote Andy Cohen Haslett, MI 48840 Katie Dahl 115 walnut dr 95 North Evergreen [email protected] PO Box 412 streamwood, IL 60107 Memphis, TN 38104 Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 H 630-372-9543 H 901-725-6976 Kristin Cotts C 612-889-6664 C 630-915-3541 C 978-460-2033 6719 Meade Place [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Downers Grove, IL 60516 www.katiedahlmusic.com coffeehouseconcerts.yolasite.com www.andycohenmusic.net C 773-386-3737 CoffeeHouse Concert Series Folk Alliance [email protected] Derek Daniel Highland Avenue Church of the www.kristincotts.com 200 S. West Street #2 Brethren Elgin, IL Brad Cole Royal Oak, MI 48067 415 N Lasalle Rj Cowdery C 248-767-4165 Hope Dunbar Chicago, IL 60610 5313 Broadview Rd [email protected] 305 Colorado C 312-451-4486 Columbus, OH 43230 Utica, NE 68456 [email protected] C 614-208-3792 Anna Denison C 402-641-4948 www.bradcolemusic.com [email protected] 5105 Fleetwood Circle [email protected] www.rjcowdery.com Knoxville, TN 37921 www.hopedunbar.com Kevin Conlin C 865-604-2589 The Auditorium 101 Tahoe Dr David Curry [email protected] bolingbrook, IL 60440 9950 West Gardner Rd www.annadenisonmusic.com Mark Dvorak C 630-697-8750 Bloomington, In 47403 PO Box 181 [email protected] H 812-825-4111 Amy Dixon-Kolar Brookfield, IL 60513 C 812-606-4397 512 Lincoln Ave. H 708-442-0823 [email protected] Fox River Grove, IL 60021 W 630-557-2742 Bloomington’s H 847-516-1841 C 312 315 4273 C 847-989-8863 [email protected] [email protected] www.markdvorak.com www.amydixonkolar.com
Kerrville New Folk Winner Mountain Stage NewSong Winner 2011 FARM Wild Flower Music and Arts Festival Winner Rocky Mountain Folks Fest Songwriter Showcase Finalist (runner-up) SHOWCASES
OFFICIAL SHOWCASE Friday 8pm
BATKAT WHODAT? 1220am Friday Room 109
NOT FROM AROUND HERE Saturday Produced by Billy Crockett 130am Room 111
“There is no possible way to listen to Rj Cowdery’s music and not feel deeply. The tone of her voice, the clarity of her guitar and spot on emotive lyrics plumb the depths of human hope and struggle. These are not just songs, they are arrows shot directly to center of the heart.” -Joe Crookston, Performing Songwriter
“Every Rj Cowdery song is a quiet thrill - a shotgun seat on a ride of the heart.” -Billy Crockett, Producer
“Rj Cowdery struck me like lightening when I first encountered her at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Unassuming, honest, deeply emotional, self-deprecatingly charming and funny, Rj has just crafted a beautiful album that any fan of contemporary folk should put on the top of their wish list.”” -Amy Speace, Performing Songwriter
rjcowdery.com 614.208.3792 batkatmusic.com 303.973.3687
PAGE 26 www.farmfolk.org 2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM Dean Dwyer John Enger Jason Fickel Robinlee Garber P O Box 8223 3324 Xenia Ave. N 1108 E. University St. 317 Iowa Ct Janesville, WI 53547 Minneapolis, MN 55422 Bloomington, IN 47401 Carol Stream, IL 60188 H 608-752-2229 H 763-537-0447 H 812-323-8375 H 630-752-1723 W 608-931-8199 [email protected] C 812-360-0455 C 630-306-2589 [email protected] www.radioavenue.com [email protected] [email protected] www.porchboard.com Radio Avenue www.JasonAndGinger.com Jason and Ginger Danielle Gartner Patti Ecker Kari Estrin 414 W. Summit St #3 1472 E Algonquin Road PO Box 60232 Sue Fink Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Des Plaines, IL 60016 Nashville, TN 37206 4064 N. Lincoln Ave., #211 [email protected] H 847-803-9669 H 615-262-0883 Chicago, IL 60618 www.lakefolkband.com [email protected] [email protected] C 773-230-0654 Lake Folk www.pattiecker.com www.kariestrin.com [email protected] Patti Ecker and Louise Brodie suefink.com Louis Geser Jack Ferguson 54 Hillcrest Ave John Elder 2360 Oaknoll Adrienne Frailey Yonkers, NY 10705 PO Box 282 Auburn Hills, MI 48326 P.O. Box 706 [email protected] Philo, IL 61864 H 248-338-9389 315 N. Main St. Spuyten Duyvil H 217-684-9920 [email protected] Milford, IN 46542 W 217-398-5956 The Campfire Compadres H 574-658-9122 Jane Godfrey C 217-840-4670 Paint Creek Folklore Society [email protected] 1921 Virginia [email protected] Live! From the Living Room www.adriennefrailey.com St. Louis, MO 63104 Champaign Urbana Folk and C 314-606-8339 Roots Festival Maggie Ferguson Joy Frailey [email protected] 2360 Oaknoll P.O. Box 706 janegodfreymusic.com Nancy Emrich Auburn Hills, MI 48326 315 N Main Street 711 Lake Av H 248-338-9389 Milford, IN 46542 Jordana Greenberg Wilmette, IL 60091 C 248-860-2307 H 574-658-9122 943 Jackson Bridge Rd. H 847-251-1100 [email protected] W 574-658-5115 Bowling Green, KY 42101 C 847-256-0000 Floyd King & the Bushwackers C 574-325-0524 C 812-320-1541 [email protected] Paint Creek Folklore Society - VP [email protected] [email protected] www.lilfest.com Live! From the Living Room The Fraileys / Adrienne Frailey www.harpethrising.com ChickenFat Klezmer Orchestra Harpeth Rising LilFest/LilFest Concerts
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 27 Serena Greene Tim Grimm Dan Hazlett Anna Hinkley 8725 Southwestern Blvd #1331 7070 S 650 W 2377 Denby 5680 Nollar Rd. Dallas, TX 75206 Columbus, IN 47201 Waterford, MI 48329 Ann Arbor, MI 48105 [email protected] C 812-603-3503 H 248-674-4610 C 248-881-2519 www.radiowayne.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] radiowayne.com www.timgrimm.com www.danhazlett.com Tim Grimm Marshall Hjertstedt Wayne Greene Lindy Hearne 936 S Scarsdale Ct 8725 Southwestern Blvd #1331 Jim Hall P.O. Box 979 Arlington Heights, IL 60005 Dallas, TX 75206 7937 E Spicerville Hwy Winnsboro, TX 75494 H 847-394-5477 C 318-773-6917 Eaton Rapids, MI 48827 H 903-365-2713 W 312-258-0530 [email protected] H 517-663-1788 C 817-600-1267 C 312-953-1104 www.waynegreene.com C 517.282.8539 [email protected] [email protected] radiowayne.com [email protected] www.adlerandhearne.com sonicbids.com/HallandMorgan Adler & Hearne Bob Hofbauer Robin Greenstein Hall & Morgan 14880 US Hwy 20A 216 W. 89th Street Donna Herula Montpelier, OH 43543 Apt. 10C Ben Hassenger 254 Rose Terrace H 419-485-3200 New York, NY 10024 2401 Indian Hills Lake Forest, IL 60045 C 419-630-5424 H 212 877-2662 Okemos, MI 48864 W 847-938-4307 [email protected] C 917-822-8809 C 517-896-4025 C 847-269-4357 westbethesda.org/wbconcerts.htm [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] FARM Board www.robingreenstein.com www.benhassenger.com www.donnaherula.com West Bethesda Folk Music Concerts Ben Hassenger Greg Greenway Linda Hicks Pat Hofbauer PO Box 1311 David Hawkins 2335 N 650 W 14880 US Hwy 20A Orleans, MA 2653 500 Thorn Valley W Lafayette, IN 47906 Montpelier, OH 43543 C 617-821-3223 Lake Bluff, IL 60044 H 765-583-2514 H 419-485-3200 [email protected] H 847-615-0997 C 765-414-0135 [email protected] www.greggreenway.com C 224-279-7972 [email protected] www.westbethesda.org/wbconcerts.htm Face Productions [email protected] West Bethesda Folk Music Concerts Brother Sun www.hawkmanmusic.com
PAGE 28 www.farmfolk.org 2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM Blair Hull Tom Irwin Steve Jerrett Beth Kaufman 225 WIlmot Road 6656 West State Route 97 4358 W. Country Hill Drive 54 Hillcrest Ave Deerfield, Il 60202 Pleasant Plains, Il 62677 Columbia, MO Yonkers, NY 10705 C 224-558-9022 H 217-725-6179 W 573-874-7712 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] C 573-819-4829 Spuyten Duyvil stainedglasscoffeehouse.com www.tomirwin.org [email protected] Urban H2O Stained Glass Coffeehouse Brewhaus www.sundaymorningcoffeehouse.org Illinois Times (wkly newspaper) Susie Keat Dave Humphreys Tim Southwick Johnson 711 Creekstone Lane Two Way Street Coffee House Bill Isles 422 Campbell St. Chelsea, MI 48118 1047 Curtiss St 4519 Oneida St. Lake Geneva, WA 53147 C 734-883-1450 Downers Grove, IL Duluth, MN 55804 H 262-248-6445 [email protected] H 630-968-5526 H 218-340-4404 C 262 203-6062 Crazy Wisdom Bookstore C 630-319-5528 [email protected] [email protected] & Tea Room [email protected] www.billandkateisles.com SQD Arts Management www.twowaystreet.org Tracy Kash Thomas Two Way Street Coffee House Kate Isles 8205 Alexa Drive Mike Kelsey 4519 Oneida St. Commerce Twp, MI 48390 713 W. Seventh St. Nadene Isackson Duluth, MN 55804 C 248-320-9024 Bloomington, IN 47404 P O Box 8223 H 218-340-4404 [email protected] H 812-333-6513 Janesville, WI 53547 [email protected] tracykash.com W 812-331-2298 H 608-752-2229 www.billandkateisles.com [email protected] W 608-931-8199 Tom Kastle WFHB Community Radio [email protected] Joe Jencks 5111 St. Cyr Road www.porchboard.com 108 Keeney St. Apt. 4-Rear Middleton, WI 53562 Sue Kessell Enroute Music Evanston, IL 60202 W 608-204-2882 4046 N. Kildare Ave PorchBoard Bass C 206-619-4104 C 773-575-7244 Chicago, IL 60641 [email protected] [email protected] H 773-545-1839 Judy Insley www.joejencks.com wwww.tomkastle.com W 847-674-5120 1125 Kewadin Drive Chinquapin Folk Music [email protected] Waterford, MI 48327 & Storytelling Festival/ WNUR The Folk Show C 586-805-6789 Chicago Maritime Festival [email protected] www.judyinsley.com
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 29 Save the date for the 32nd Annual Blissfest Music Festival! July 13-15, 2012
Follow your Bliss on Upcoming Concerts Facebook and Twitter! Listen online all year long at Magnificent 7s • Saturday, October 29 www.blissfestradio.org Ragbirds • Saturday, November 12 Alan Gerber • Saturday, November 26 Solstice Show with Seth and May Sunday, December 18 All shows are held at the Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey and start at 8 pm. 2000 M119 ~ Petoskey, MI ~ 49770 ~ 231.348.7047 ~ www.blissfest.org
Greg Klyma Rob Krumm Mark Lavengood Ted Lyons 59 Raymond Ave. c/o Artists Of Note 917 W. Irving Park, apt. 3F P.O. Box 1906 Cheektowaga, NY 14227 PO Box 11 Chicago, IL 60613 Kernersville, NC 27285 C 716-903-5596 Kaneville, IL C 616-485-6855 H 336-768-7404 [email protected] W 630-557-2742 [email protected] C 919-920-6004 klyma.com [email protected] www.marklavengood.com [email protected] www.creolefiddle.com Trevor McSpadden & Co. www.sallyspring.com Al Kniola Dennis Stroughmatt et l’Esprit Honky Tonk BBQ Sally Spring and The Ted Lyons 5364 South Fairfax Court Creole Experience South Bend, IN 46614 Mike T. Lewis C 574-360-6423 Christine Kuhn P.O. Box 158251 Joel Mabus [email protected] 1047 Curtiss Street Nashville, TN 37215 po box 306 www.wvpe.org Downers Grove, IL 60515 W 615-730-7665 Portage, MI 49081 88.1 WVPE Public Radio H 630-969-9720 twangtownparamours@ H 269-321-6160 [email protected] insideedgemusic.com [email protected] Brenda Koenig www.twowaystreet.org www.twangtownparamours.com joelmabus.com 608 W. Washington Two Way Street Coffee House The Twangtown Paramours Champaign, IL 61820 Jay Mafale H 217-351-6409 Lilli Kuzma Brian Leo PO Box 733 C 217-621-6409 c/o WDCB Public Radio 10721 West gateway Drive Mohegan Lake, NY 10547 [email protected] College of DuPage Frankfort, IL 60423 [email protected] www.cufolkandroots.org 425 Fawell Blvd. [email protected] WeAreTheYaYas.com Champaign-Urbana Folk and Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 Trinket The YaYas Roots Festival H 815-744-1341 W 630-942-4200 Martine Locke Bryan Mayer Jan Krist C 815-341-8727 261 2 Audubon Rd 414 W. Summit St #3 443 French Ave [email protected] Indianapolis, IN 46219 Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Fort Wayne, IN 46807 www.WDCB.org [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Folk Festival / 90.9fm WDCB www.martinelocke.com www.lakefolkband.com www.jankrist.net Sun-Times Lake Folk
PAGE 30 www.farmfolk.org 2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM Sarah McQuaid Jaime Michaels Jana Misener Zoe Mulford Bejew Cottage PO Box 873 222 S. Edgewood 88 Jackson Crescent St Buryan Santa Fe, NM 87504 Memphis, TN 38104 Manchester, England Penzance, Cornwall C 505-699-9301 [email protected] [email protected] H +44 1736 810807 [email protected] www.harpethrising.com www.zoemulford.com C +44 7999 868758 jaimemichaels.com Harpeth Rising [email protected] Joann Murdock www.sarahmcquaid.com Catherine Miles Carol A. Montag Artists Of Note PO Box 733 3206 Timber Valley Ct. NE PO Box 11 Trevor McSpadden Mohegan Lake, NY 10547 Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 Kaneville, IL 2104 W Belmont #2 [email protected] H 319-393-4755 W 630-557-2742 Chicago, IL 60618 WeAreTheYaYas.com C 319-310-7090 [email protected] C 312-339-3904 The YaYas [email protected] www.ArtistsOfNote.com [email protected] www.carolmontag.com www.trevormcspadden.com Mark Miller Trevor McSpadden 54 Hillcrest Ave Cindy Morgan Lee Murdock Yonkers, NY 10705 7937 E Spicerville Hwy c/o Artists of Note James Meigs [email protected] Eaton Rapids, MI 48827 PO Box 11 54 Hillcrest Ave www.spuytenduyvilmusic.com H 517-663-1788 Kaneville, IL Yonkers, NY 10705 Spuyten Duyvil W 517-381-8821 W 630-557-2742 [email protected] Urban H2O [email protected] [email protected] Spuyten Duyvil sonicbids.com/HallandMorgan www.LeeMurdock.com Suzyn Mills Hall & Morgan Rik Mercaldi Unitarian Church of Hinsdale Ten Pound Fiddle Tony Nardiello 54 Hillcrest Ave 17 West Maple Street 254 Rose Terrace Yonkers, NY 10705 Hinsdale, IL 60521 Louise Mosrie Lake Forest, IL 60045 [email protected] W 630-985-2330 810 Winthorne Ct. W 224-544-3429 Spuyten Duyvil [email protected] Nashville, TN 37217 C 224-343-6600 www.acousticren.com C 615 426-1142 [email protected] Acoustic Renaissance Concert Series [email protected] www.donnaherula.com www.louisemosrie.com
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 31 John Neidhart Joe Peters Mary Ray Lani Richardson 54 Hillcrest Ave 1724 Maywood Drive PO Box 1105 10928 North Main Yonkers, NY 10705 West Lafayette, IN 47906 Golden, CO 80402 Rockton, IL 61072 [email protected] C 765-414-2457 H 303-973-3687 C 815-543-7627 Spuyten Duyvil [email protected] C 303-345-1854 [email protected] www.myspace.com/joedaiwarriors [email protected] www.snapshotmusic.com John Nipper Songwriters Assoc. of Mid-North batkatmusic.com Snapshotmusic 414 W. Summit St #3 Indiana Batkat House Concerts Ann Arbor, MI 48103 WBAA’s Acoustic Blend, NPR at Barbed Wire Books Karen Rigotti [email protected] Purdue U 421 3rd Street www.lakefolkband.com Rebecca Reed-Lunn Wilmette, IL 60091 Lake Folk Emily Pinkerton 1120 Chestnut St. H 847-251-5236 314 McKinley Ave. Bowling Green, KY 42101 C 847-903-5781 Joel Palmer 2nd floor [email protected] [email protected] 1911 Catalpa Ct. Pittsburgh, PA 15202 www.harpethrising.com Ferndale, MI 48220 H 412-732-9576 Harpeth Rising Joshua Rilko H 248-414-5887 C 412-999-3443 119 N. Foster Ave. C 248-506-1985 [email protected] Stephen Lee Rich Lansing, MI 48912 [email protected] www.emilypinkerton.com 3321 Thorp St. C 989-798-1449 joelpalmermusic.com SongSpace at First Unitarian Madison, WI 53714 [email protected] H 608-204-7188 www.lindsayloumusic.com Clark Paterson Laurel Premo C 608-354-8831 Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys 1032 Mansfield ave 305 W. Vine #4 [email protected] Nashville, TN 37206 Kalamazoo, MI 49001 www.andinaandrich.com Lindsay Rilko C 773-263 5145 [email protected] Andina and Rich 119 N. Foster Ave [email protected] www.redtailring.com Madison Songwriters Group Lansing, MI 48912 Red Tail Ring C 906-396-3023 Simeon Peebler Josh Richardson [email protected] 1445 N Cleveland Unit B Jamie Price 10928 North Main www.lindsayloumusic.com Chicago, IL 60610 261 2 Audubon rd Rockton, IL 61072 Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys H 312-573-9635 Indianapolis, IN 46219 H 815-543-7627 C 312-848-9733 [email protected] C 779-300-3461 [email protected] www.martinelocke.com [email protected] www.simeonpeebler.com Martine Locke www.snapshotmusic.com Snapshotmusic
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Butch Ross Tom Saunders John Sherman Kira Small 856 Oak St., Apt. A 10329 Cedarcrest 410 Clinton Heights Ave. 7051 Hwy 70-S Box #307 Chattanooga, TN 37403 Whitmore Lake, MI 48189 Columbus, OH 43202 Nashville, TN 37221 C 423-779-6624 C 734-604-5347 H 614-263-9501 C 615-480-1166 [email protected] [email protected] C 614-266-3482 [email protected] butchross.com www.glendowermedia.com [email protected] www.kirasmall.com A3radio.com, FOLK IT! www.jshermanmusic.com Dave Rudolf John Sherman & Randy Clepper Maurice Smeets 8 Brookside Rd Loretta Sawyer Studio A Recording and Sound Park Forest, IL 60466 2017 W. Eastwood Ave. Kristen Shilt Batavia, IL 60510 H 708-481-5914 Chicago, IL 60625 401 South Edgewood Avenue W 630-269-9668 C 708-481-7179 C 312-391-7605 Lombard, IL 60148 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] C 518-518-7602 Studio A Recording and Sound www.davrudolf1.com lorettasawyerpromotions.com [email protected] Publicist/Public Relations/ Plank Road Folk Music Society Dudley (Smitty) Smith Barb Ryman Promotion Two Way Street Coffee House 737 Chittenden Dr. 4504 York Ave S East Lansing, MI 48823 Minneapolis, MN 55410 Jan Seides Dick Siegel W 248-521-8569 W 612-926-0640 7311 Bucknell Drive 723 Gott St C 517-927-2100 C 612-306-9036 Austin, TX 78723 Ann Arbor, MI 48103 [email protected] [email protected] H 512-627-2115 H 734-995-0981 facebook.com/pumphouseconcerts www.barbryman.com [email protected] W 734-395-8772 Flush Button janseides.com [email protected] Pump House Concerts Ben Sage NeWorlDeli/Thrice Café dicksiegel.com 707 N. Edgelawn Drive Gerry Smith Aurora, IL 60506 Erin Shellman Craig Siemsen 737 Chittenden Dr. H 630-892-3978 414 W. Summit St #3 P.O. Box 11542 East Lansing, MI 48823 W 630-276-6049 Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Milwaukee, WI 53211 C 517-256-1276 [email protected] [email protected] H 414-476-8192 [email protected] www.LoveBenSage.com www.lakefolkband.com C 414-491-3980 Pump House Concerts Lake Folk [email protected] pattycraig.com Patty Stevenson & Craig Siemsen
2011 FARM GATHERING PROGRAM www.farmfolk.org PAGE 33 Michael Smith Patty Stevenson Randy Styka Jayne Toohey 1347 West Early Avenue P.O. Box 11542 4N165 Wood Dale Road 433 South Avenue Chicago, IL 60660 Milwaukee, WI 53211 Addison, IL 60101 Media, PA 19063 H 773-728-8818 H 414-476-8192 H 630-941-7224 H 610-566-4932 [email protected] C 414-491-3981 W 630-941-7767 C 610-299-4845 KEY NOTE SPEAKER [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] pattycraig.com Two Way Street Coffee House www.2Ephoto.com Sally Spring Patty Stevenson & Craig Siemsen Photographer P.O. Box 1906 David Tamulevich Naked Folk Calendar Kernersville, NC 27285 Steve Stokes 408 Westwood Avenue H 336-768-7404 2631 W. Division St. 2R Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Greg Trafidlo C 919-929-6004 Chicago, IL 60622 H 734-622-8337 4050 Bluebird Lane [email protected] [email protected] C 862-206-9231 Salem, VA 24153 Sally Spring and The Ted Lyons www.stevestokes.us [email protected] H 540-384-7770 Experience Trevor McSpadden www.mustardsretreat.com C 540-915-8915 Mustard’s Retreat [email protected] Martin Stansbury Dennis Stroughmatt The Roots Agency gregtrafidlo.com PO Box 326 c/o Artists of Note Penzance, Cornwall PO Box 11 Nicholas Thomasma Lola Tyler C +44 7977 470498 Kaneville, IL 60144 1134 DeBoer P O Box 22 [email protected] H 630-557-2742 Grand Rapids, MI 49509 Remus, MI 49340 www.sarahmcquaid.com [email protected] C 616-304-8788 W 989-967-8879 Manager - Sarah McQuaid www.creolefiddle.com [email protected] [email protected] Dennis Stroughmatt et l’Esprit NicholasJamesThomasma.com Wheatland Music Org Bill Stevens Creole Nicholas James & the Band- FARM Board Member P O Box 8223 wagon Janesville, WI 53547 Heather Styka Radio – WYCE Dionne Ward H 608-752-2229 2550 N. Seminary, #2 122 N Bosart Ave W 608-931-8199 Chicago, IL 60614 Indianapolis, IN 46201 [email protected] C 773-503-7257 [email protected] www.porchboard.com [email protected] www.martinelocke.com Enroute Music heather.styka.com Martine Locke PorchBoard Bass
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Please see our flyer for the 2011-2012 season at MSC Folk Concerts
Chris Waring Dean Wiers-Windemuller 113 Sycamore Drive 1151 Lafayette Ave SE Amy Dixon-Kolar - Bolingbrook, IL 60490 Grand Rapids, MI 49507 [email protected] C 616-617-4642 Singer-Songwriter www.RadioAvenue.com [email protected] southtownguitar.com FARM SHOWCASES: Rich Warren Open Land Friday night: 12:00a - The Pitcher's Mound PO Box 58 Southtown Guitar 1:15a - Not From Around Here Mahomet, IL 61853 Grand River Folk Arts Society [email protected] Saturday night: 11:50p - Performance Lane www.midnightspecial.org Andrew Wilkins 12:40a - Lilfest WFMT Radio 5301 N Lakewood Ave Chicago, IL 60640 PO Box 301, Fox River Grove, IL 60021 http://www.amydixonkolar.com Emily White [email protected] [email protected] 847.989.8863 5300 N. Glenwood Ave. #2 www.trevormcspadden.com Chicago, IL 60640 Trevor McSpadden MaryBeth Zamer C 617-835-9732 P.O. Box 158251 [email protected] Andy Young Nashville, TN 37211 www.emily-white.com 5316 N. Oketo Ave. W 615-730-7665 Chicago, IL 60656 C 615-476-5512 Kathy Wieland C 773-706-4310 [email protected] 2230 Blueberry Lane [email protected] www.twangtownparamours.com Ann Arbor, MI 48103 www.andyyoungmusic.com The Twangtown Paramours H 734-769-2849 W 734 996-0105 Mark Young Paul Zimmerman C 734-368-8496 P.O. Box 1012 1129 63rd.St [email protected] 1100 Wells St. Downers Grove, Il 60516-1863 Iron Mountain, MI 49801 H 630-235-3852 H 906-776-4357 [email protected] [email protected] www.folk.maplestreetchapel.org www.musicbymark.net Maple Street Chapel Preservation Society Maple Street Chapel Folk Concerts
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FARM 2010 Official Showcase Artists Lynn Adler & Lindy Hearne [email protected] (214) 952-6086
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Friday, Sept. 16 Friday, January 20 Opening Night Old-Time Duets - Twin Bill Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen Ann and Phil Case Cathy Barton and Dave Para Saturday Sept. 24 Second Annual Dulcimer Festival Friday, Jan. 27 Sally Rogers Ann Reed Kendra Ward and Bob Bence 7 pm Concert Friday, Feb. 3 Afternoon concerts, workshops, Saturday, Feb. 4 jams from 10 am - 5 pm, including 10th Annual Mid-Winter Wanda Degen and Doug Berch Singing Festival DALA — SEPT. 30 SALLY ROGERS — SEPT. 24 Friday, Sept. 30 Friday, Feb. 10 Dala Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas
Friday, Oct. 7 Friday, Feb. 17 Mary Flower John McCutcheon
Friday, Oct. 14 Friday, Feb. 24 Finest Kind David Francey with Craig Werth
10TH MID-WINTER SINGING FESTIVAL Friday, Oct. 21 Friday, March 2 WWW.SINGINGFESTIVAL.COM Nervous But Excited Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer
Friday, Oct. 28 Friday, March 9 Kallet, Epstein and Cicone Spring Night of Singing Sara Thomsen, song leader Friday, Nov. 4 The Ragbirds Friday, March 16 Irish Chowder and Concert Friday, Nov. 11 Finvarra’s Wren Joel Mabus JOHN MCCUTCHEON — FEB. 17 TISH HINOJOSA — DEC. 2 Friday, March 23 Friday, Nov. 18 Red Tail Ring and Dick Siegel and the Brandos Drew Nelson - Twin Bill Friday, Dec. 2 Friday, March 30 Tish Hinojosa The Yellow Room Gang
Friday, Dec. 9 Friday, April 13 Holiday Sing The Outside Track Sally Potter, song leader STARLIGHT SIX — JAN. 13 Friday, April 20 Friday, January 13 Seth Bernard and May Erlewine Starlight Six Dominic John, Rachael Davis Friday, May 11 Mike Shimmin, May Erlewine Mother’s Day Weekend Seth Bernard, Joshua Davis Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt
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October 11 - 14 Join us as we celebrate 20 Years & then some
So exactly HOW many FARM conferences have there been? The wisdom of the elders being our primary resource, we’ve determined that the first official gathering was held in Aurora, IL in 1991. We’ve been trying to continue what our dear departed board secretary, Christine Gaylord, began by collecting memories from those who were there from the start. A handful of “Recollections” are on the website now and it was the process of collecting these which found us contemplating how our 20th FARM unceremoniously came and went. To that end, we’re turning back the clock, or rather starting the clock officially in 1993 when we understand the gatherings to have become more formally organized and announcing that 2012 we will celebrate our 20th anniversary. We have big plans and you’ll want to stay tuned… May we suggestion you go ahead and mark your calendars! You won’t want to miss this one!
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