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Young Musicians WHAT’S INSIDE: YOUNG MUSICIANS TO Showcase Again at November SHOWCASE AGAIN AT NOV. 28 COFFEEHOUSE PG. 1 28 Coffeehouse PERFORMING DUO “JIM’S RED PANTS” AT by D. Boston Look for more details COFFEEHOUSE OCT. 31 PG. 1 For the third year in in an e-mail a row, the Columbus announcement in TWO EDUCATIONAL EVENTS: Folk Music Society is November. MUSIC “REALITY” WORK- proud to showcase SHOP SERIES & “ALIVE In addition to INSIDE” DOCUMENTARY PG. 3 young musicians at its hearing music from the November FolkSide musicians, you’ll enjoy OPTIONS TO CONSIDER Coffeehouse. The delicious refreshments THIS THANKSGIVING performers featured will as well as the chance to SEASON PG. 4 be varied in age and Micah Gunn, one of the performers at the event. Fluent pick up “signature” CALENDAR OF EVENTS we’re sure you’ll find on the piano and acoustic guitar, he also composes, writes goodies at our annual them delightfully filled and sings. In July of 2015 he released his ﬁrst CD album Bake Sale table. The AND ANNOUNCEMENTS PG. 5 with talent. The evening entitled, “Unless.” Listen to Micah: https:// proceeds will benefit begins with the www.reverbnation.com/micahgunn PETER & PAUL WITHOUT the 2016 Central Ohio MARY: A REVIEW PG. 6 traditional Open Jam Folk Festival. So bring (6-7 pm) followed by a shortened Open your “extra change,” your appetite, your FUNNY STUFF PG. 6 Mic session (7-7:30 pm). From 7:30-10 pm welcoming spirt and your usual good various young musicians will perform with cheer! CFMS MEMBER the last hour bringing a “featured HIGHLIGHTS PG. 7 performer.” See Young Musicians - page 2 Performing Duo “Jim’s Red Pants” at Coffeehouse on Saturday, Oct. 31 Interview by Bill Cohen Hillary and Rick Wagner have Bill Cohen: OK, let’s get this out of performed original, traditional roots the way from the very first because it’s music for over 16 years and have probably on many people’s minds. demonstrated their talents on Your names are Rick and Hillary, but instruments varying from guitar, you call your group “Jim’s Red Pants.” hardanger fiddle and nyckelharpa to What’s the story here? the mandolin, bouzouki, penny whistle and banjo. Hillary Wagner: Jim was my granddad. He was a real character and Hillary is an outstanding fiddler and a quite the ladies’ man. His favorite color rare player – equally at home on harmonic twists and the fiddle tunes “Maid Behind the Bar,” as she is he writes for Hillary are exciting was red and he wore it almost daily. playing in a string quartet or sitting in tunes not heard anywhere else. What One Father’s Day we had a really hectic the pit orchestra. Rick is an inventive follows is an interview Bill Cohen did day so we arranged to take him out for composer. His waltzes are stunning, with Hillary about the band. breakfast. We had my 8 year old niece elegant melodies with interesting See Duo “Jim’s Red Pants” - page 2

Young Musicians - from page 1 These young musicians are excited to CFMS LOOKING FOR A TREASURER. . . perform for us, so let us in return show our support and how much fun the The Columbus Folk Music Society CFMS can be! Everyone welcome! (CFMS) is currently looking for someone Details on page 5. to serve as Treasurer. Duration is Remember customarily 1 year. the Bake If you, or someone you know, are Sale on interested in finding out additional November details, please contact CFMS President, 28! Mike Hale, at: [email protected] or call 614-354-5586.

Duo “Jim’s Red Pants” - om page 1 years. I started fiddling and just loved influenced Rick’s love for the Irish with us. She was a girly girl who it. I quit teaching school and instead bouzouki. Many other old-time and always wore matching outfits. When began to teach privately and play violin country blues artists also influenced we arrived to pick him up at 7:00 in the and viola for some orchestra and Rick. quartet jobs. I also teach fiddle students morning he met us on the street Bill: Give us some examples of the and do some workshops; I play and wearing bright red pants, an olive cities and towns in which you’ve teach green shirt with giant fuscia pink played. How widely and how long flowers on it and salmon colored shoes. have you toured, and what kinds of He was blinding! Rick wrote a song we venues have hosted your named “Jim's New Red Pants,” then we performances? titled our first CD the same. Later we kept it for our band name but the pants Hillary: Rick and I have played in were no longer new! such a wide variety of venues. We met playing at the Canal St. Tavern in Bill: How do you describe the style of Dayton, we’ve played ArtSong and music you play together? EdenSong in Cincinnati, Moon Over Hillary: Rick and I play any style of Aullwood, Ohio Chautauqua, Dayton music that catches our fancy. Folk Celtic Festival, Central Ohio Folk music is the broadest description, mandolin Festival, Cincinnati Irish Festival, followed by fiddle music to narrow it and I founded and direct the historical events like Tall Stacks, Feast down not at all. We love doing our Centerville Mandolin Ensemble. I of the Hunters Moon, Mississinewa original songs and tunes. We play a lot loved my teacher, Conny Kiradjieff, 1812, Kalamazoo Living History of Irish music, English and Morris and try to be as kind a teacher as he Show, the last stop of the Lewis and tunes, Scandinavian, American folk was. Some of my favorite fiddlers are Clark Bicentennial, and others I’ve and fiddle tunes, and a few from all Kevin Burke, Liz Carroll, Annbjorg forgotten about. We play most often in sorts of other places. One thing that we Lien, Bruce Molsky, Aly Bain and Ohio and Indiana. Johnny Cunningham. do when we play [the] music of all of Bill: Give us your best sales pitch. these is we to try to make them our Rick has written and performed in Why should people come out to see own. We try to be respectful of the acoustic bands for almost fifty years and hear you October 31 at the traditions but we also adapt the tunes now. He played guitar, claw hammer Columbus Folk Music Society monthly so that they reflect our sound. banjo, mandolin and fiddle in a string coffeehouse? band he founded in 1975 called the Bill: What are each of your music Hillary: I’m hoping that folks will backgrounds and what famous “Two-Step Tunesters,” then played solo, and eventually joined with Dave find it a treat instead of a trick to come performers have influenced you the spend Halloween evening with us! We most? and Kay Gordon. Artists who have influenced him are his now deceased play many different instruments Hillary: I was raised playing mostly uncles who played jazz and swing and including hardanger fiddle, fiddle, classical music. I started violin late – in his grandmother and grandfather who bouzouki, dad-gad guitar, mandolins, high school. I went to the College at met while performing in the same claw hammer banjo and who knows the Conservatory of Music in Vaudeville troupe. Michael Holmes of what else we’ll bring! Cincinnati then taught school for a few Dervish and Andy Irvine have

PAGE 2! WWW.COLUMBUSFOLKMUSICSOCIETY.ORG A DIFFERENT STRUMMER NOVEMBER, 2015 Two Upcoming Educational Events. . .

Music “Reality” (aka Music Theory) Workshop Series Launches November 8 Are you interested in three part workshop series as a furthering your musical skills or service to our members. even just curious to learn more Workshop space is limited about what makes up the and you must pre-register. universe of music? Details are below, including a The Columbus Music link for registration. The Society, alongside with the registration fee includes the use Columbus Songwriter’s of a MIDI keyboard and Association, is co-sponsoring an computer to aide the learning inexpensive (and extensive!) process.

SUNDAYS, NOV 8, 15 & 22 Stirring Documentary on the 4 - 6:00 PM Power of Music as Therapy Columbus Songwriter’s by Bill Cohen Association (CSA) & As folkies, we already know conversation with a loved one, from firsthand experience how something they haven’t done Columbus Folk Music Society (CFMS) music energizes us and stirs our for years. emotions and memories. Now, Thursday, November 5th, the PRESENT: a 2014 film documentary shows 78-minute film will be shown, how nursing home residents followed by a panel discussion suffering from Alzheimer's, by experts who know about Music “Reality” dementia, and depression can various kinds of “alternative” be, at least temporarily, brought therapies, using pets, spiritual out of the shadows and issues, laughter, yoga, art, and Workshop awakened from their usual music. Lunch is also served. coma-like trance. An RSVP is requested. To “Alive Inside” won the reserve a spot, contact Julie with Instructor Bill Hilt, Audience Award at a recent (composer & multi-instrumentalist) Wasserstrom at 614.559.6214 or Sundance Film Festival and for [email protected]. good reason. It shows the magic All are welcome. LOCATION: Jazz Academy space, that can sometimes occur when the earphones of simple audio Whether you attend this event 769 E. Long St., Cols (4th ﬂoor, Lincoln Theater) playback machines are placed or not, seeing this compelling on the heads of lethargic movie might just prompt you to $40 total for three 2-hr sessions nursing home residents and pick up your guitar, banjo, or favorite songs from their youth other instrument and head to a are played. For the first time in nursing home to do your REGISTER: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/csa-cfms- “musical thing.” Even without workshop-featuring-bill-hilt-tickets-18964917579?aff=CFMS. months or years, the residents open theirs eyes, tap their feet, professional training as a Interview with Bill Hilt about the workshop: Newsletter Oct 2015 clap their hands, smile, laugh, therapist, you’ll no doubt witness how many residents “. . .pure intuition, instinct, and feel are necessary, but not sufﬁcient. We and even sing along. For a few also need some structure, some understanding of the fundamental minutes afterwards, a few do will “come to life” while principles that make music work, in order to take our art to the highest something else that is just as hearing you perform the music level.” Noa Kageyama, Ph.D., Julliard faculty remarkable – they carry on a of their youth.

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Thanksgiving An Opportunity to Concert: Songs of Share via a Local Gratitude Thanksgiving Dinner We have so many things to be thankful for – friends, for the Underserved family, freedom, nature, love, music, art, and more. And what better way to celebrate those gifts than singing about them? The Annual Community Outreach Thanksgiving Day Dinner was established approximately 31 years ago by That’s what Bill Cohen will do on the day after various churches on the west side of Columbus, Ohio. Thanksgiving, as he sings songs of gratitude inspired by a wide variety of folks: John Denver, Don McLean, Phil The dinner is held at St. Aloysius Church Family Ochs, the Weavers, Richard and Mimi Farina, the Center, 2165 W. Broad St. on the Hilltop, a very Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Appleseed, TV’s disadvantaged area. The purpose of the dinner is to bring Golden Girls, and others. families in the community together for fellowship and to provide a hot meal on the holiday. Many would go “We’ll be doing this program on Black Friday, a day without a meal on this day because Thanksgiving falls at when many people will be on a buying frenzy at the the end of the month, funds have been exhausted, and shopping malls and will still be recovering from a day of local food pantries and soup kitchens are closed for the over-eating,” says Bill. “Our concert is meant to be a day. In 2014, about 500 meals were served and the kind of alternative to that commercial and materialistic crowd grows steadily each year. excess, with the song lyrics focusing on the more lasting and deeper gifts we can be thankful for.” Last year a number of CFMS musicians graciously entertained folks at the Thanksgiving Day dinner. The WHEN: Friday Nov. 27 from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. musicians were very much appreciated by the guests and WHERE: Maynard Avenue Methodist Church volunteers alike and brought much joy to many who 2350 Indianola Avenue rarely experience live music. CFMS musicians are invited to perform again this $10 per person donations are suggested at the door. year. If you are interested in contributing your musical Proceeds will go to help pay for an annual trek that Bill’s talent, please contact Terry Keller at: wife Randi and their daughter Hannah make to the [email protected]. Dominican Republic. There, they serve as translators for a team of volunteer doctors and nurses who provide basic Another need is for donated, cooked turkeys (sliced medical care to impoverished villagers. or not). If you would like to contribute, cooked turkeys may be dropped off at the St. Aloysius Family Questions? Contact Bill at (614) 263-3851 or Center (W. Broad St. at Midland Ave.; center is behind www.SpiritOfThe1960s.com the church). Drop off times are: Wednesday, Nov. 25 from 4-6 p.m. and Thursday, Nov. 26 (Thanksgiving morning) from 7-8:30 a.m. There are not facilities to Speaking of Thank Yous. . . bake turkeys on site. All turkeys are baked /donated by individual donors. We want to offer a hearty thanks to Brian Szuch, Terry Keller, Dave Clutter and Mike Hale for playing at the 2015 All turkey donations must be confirmed 10 days Columbus Marathon. The “gig” is a CFMS event which prior to Thanksgiving Day to ensure enough for service. garners a remuneration to the Columbus Folk Music Please e-mail or call coordinator Sandy Bonneville at: Society. [email protected] or 614-875-5669. The four musicians played for the runners at Mile Information article at: http://www.dispatch.com/ Marker 18 on the uphill grade for 3 hours, with a 15 mph content/stories/faith_and_values/2013/11/29/hilltop- head-wind (brrr). Without these hardy and committed church-feeds-needy-on-thanksgiving.html. musicians, it wouldn’t have happened! Thank you!!

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✃ The Saturday Music Jam at Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue Ohio Folk Festival. Held at the the Worthington Farmers’ (just East of High St. & one block Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Market 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. – every North of E.N. Broadway), Cols, Oakland Park Avenue, Cols. Saturday at The Shops at OH. $7.00 donation; Students $7.00 donation; Students $5.00; Worthington mall (the location of $5.00; CFMS members $5.00; CFMS members $5.00; under 12 the market and jam during the under 12 free. free. winter months) beginning in Saturday, November 28: November. All are welcome to ANNOUNCEMENT FolkSide Coffeehouse – Young play. Consider bringing a chair. Musician’s Night Please consider contributing Saturday, October 31: 6:00 p.m. Open Jam some baked goods for the Bake Sale at the November 28 FolkSide Coffeehouse featuring 7:00 - 7:30 p.m. Open Mic Coffeehouse. duo: Jim’s Red Pants 7:30 - 10:00 p.m. Special 6:00 p.m. Open Jam programming featuring a line-up Baked goods can be brought 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Open Mic of young, talented musicians. directly to the Coffeehouse that 8:00 p.m. Featured Performer This is also the evening of our evening. All proceeds from the Bake Sale benefit the 2016 Central Ohio Held at the Columbus Mennonite bake sale benefiting the Central

Folk Festival. ✃

Want to find out more about Reminder for yearly CFMS the Columbus Folk Music membership dues: CFMS membership dues are renewed Society and/or it’s events? annually and are due by September 30th. Visit: www.columbusfolkmusicsociety.org OR (This makes bookkeeping a lot easier)! you can join as a member. Benefits include: camaraderie with fellow folk music lovers in Please use the form on back of this newsletter! town, discounts on certain admissions, this If you’ve already renewed, thank you. If you haven’t, please monthly newsletter and the comfort of use the form and either mail it in or bring it to the Coffeehouse knowing that all events are family friendly! A event at the end of October (otherwise you won’t get the membership form is provided on the last page newsletter after October)! Keep folk music alive & well in of this newsletter. Columbus ! If you have joined in the past few months and paid the complete annual dues amount, don’t worry about it.

FOLLOWING OUR OWN. . .

Friday, November 6: “Spirit of the South and West of the church. Cohen – 7:30-9 p.m. – Maynard ‘60s Coffeehouse” with Bill Cohen 614-263-3851(Bill) for more info. Avenue Methodist Church, 2350

✃ – King Avenue Indianola, Cols, OH. $10 donation – 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 21: The Folk Methodist Church, 229 W. King at at door (see article on pg. 7). Ramblers – 7-10 p.m. – Java Neil, Cols, OH. Get there early for a Central Coffee House, 20 S. State good seat. Proceeds from suggested Street, Westerville. No cover. $10 donation go to the Mid-Ohio Food Bank. Refreshments (no extra Friday, November 27: charge). Free parking in lots just Thanksgiving Concert by Bill

WWW.COLUMBUSFOLKMUSICSOCIETY.ORG !PAGE 5 A DIFFERENT STRUMMER NOVEMBER, 2015 Peter and Paul, Without Mary:

A Review by Bill Cohen In folk music and many other minute. For these two 77- styles of music, two-part harmony is year old folkies to sing so pretty. But when you add a third voice well, play so well, recall and create a full chord, musical magic history so well, and have happens. so much fun together was indeed a remarkable feat That’s one reason why the music that the crowd of Peter Paul and Mary thrilled us for appreciated. On “Leavin’ more than 4 decades. When the three on a Jet Plane,” Paul veteran folkies and activists locked in Peter Yarrow & Paul Stookey in concert asked the audience to sing on a full chord, the rich sound touched Mary’s traditional part, something in our brain that made us And to underscore that, they sang a the melody, and almost everyone did. feel ecstatic. medley of civil rights songs and later But the absence of Mary Travers Mary’s death 6 years ago after a “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” meant that this concert could not battle with leukemia meant an end to They also played perhaps the achieve the impossible – it could not the trio, but Peter Yarrow and Noel biggest hit of Peter Paul and Mary: recreate a concert with Peter Paul and Paul Stookey have continued to sing as “Puff the Magic Dragon.” Peter Mary. Nowhere to be seen was the soloists since then. And they’ve also sometimes played the clown, first stunning visual image of Mary shaking teamed up to sing as a duo. That was spouting gibberish, but then making an her head to get her long blond hair out the draw October 3 in Portland, Maine, important note of social criticism. The of her face. The on-stage glances and as Peter and Paul sang to a packed crowd roared with laughter as Peter smiles the three of them would give to house of several hundred devoted fans, sang a song he’d written about getting each other were gone. The energy and some of whom fondly recalled hearing a colonoscopy. spirit that only a trio can achieve was the trio as long ago as the 1960’s. gone. And that 3-note magical chord Paul showed off his superior The music that night was good. could not be formed. finger-picking on guitar. And the duo With just one sideman adding concluded their concert just the way From the concert’s very occasional guitar, banjo, or mandolin the crowd expected them to – with beginning, Paul acknowledged Mary’s accompaniments, Peter and Paul classic tunes such as “If I Had a absence as a singer, as an activist, and strummed their own guitars and sang Hammer,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” and as an idealist. That was not only their hearts out. “This Land is Your Land.” heartfelt but also appropriate and wise. As you’d expect, they stressed Because it seemed as if everyone in Many in the audience sang along how music has often been an the audience was thinking: “if only we to virtually every song, and they gave energizing force behind movements could hear Mary’s voice once again.” Peter and Paul two standing ovations for peace, civil rights, and equality. that each lasted more than a full QUOTABLES: When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio; if all the stations are rock ‘n’ roll, there’s a good chance the transmission is shot. Larry Lujack, (1940 – ) American radio disc jockey Prodigy: a child who plays the piano when he ought to be in bed. J.B. Morton, (1893 – 1979) English humorist The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. Fred Allen, (1894 – 1956) American radio comedian Accordion Music: Noise that comes from playing both ends against the middle. Anonymous

PAGE 6! WWW.COLUMBUSFOLKMUSICSOCIETY.ORG A DIFFERENT STRUMMER NOVEMBER, 2015 We’re Proud Welcome to Our of You! New and In September, CFMS member & professional Returning photographer, Linda McDonald, had one of Members: her photos published on the Rolling Stone website. The photo Andy Beyer Art and Sharon caption reads: Teresa Mittenbergs Williams with Levon Linda Bolles Tom Nagel Helm. “He was Lee & Tinya incapable of being Cherney Pam Raver inauthentic,” says Larry Campbell of Helm. Dan Clarke Beth Scherer John & Rick Schlegel Elizabeth Clear Musical Coﬀeehouse To Spark Kay Smith Howard Davis 1960’s Memories (New) Steven K. Smith Dan & Pat Epley Pamela Temple Civil rights sit-ins. Bell-bottoms. Anti- Proceeds from the suggested $10 & Michele war marches. Student Power. donations (at the door) will go to the Mid- Ruth Farthing Murphy Afros. Mini-skirts. Hippies. Riots. Ohio Food Bank. Refreshments available Space flights. The generation gap. at no extra charge. Free parking is also Charlie Flowers Jane VanAuken available in the lots just South and West Those hallmarks of the turbulent 1960’s Karen Fries Sandi Vitek will be rekindled Friday, November 6 at of the church. this year’s annual “Spirit of the ‘60’s The show begins at 7:30 p.m. in the David Fultz Lowell C. Webb Coffeehouse”: church basement, but get there early for Ralph Gordon (New) WHEN: Friday, Nov. 6, 7:30 pm a good seat. This program is suitable for Mike Hale Laura Weber WHERE: King Avenue Methodist ADULTS and MATURE TEENS. Church, 299 W. King (at Neil) It’s the 30th year of sixties coffeehouses Jackie LaMuth Dagmar Wolcott for Bill. He’s performed the show more (New) Bill Cohen will lead a candlelit, musical, Jim Luckhaupt year-by-year journey through the era, than a hundred times now at colleges, Mike & Nancy with live and familiar 1960’s folksongs, churches, synagogues, conferences, high Tom and Jan Zajano “news reports” of sixties happenings, schools, and middle schools across Ohio McCain displays of anti-war buttons and posters, and beyond. For more information, call and far-out sixties fashions. Bill at (614) 263-3851 or go to: Linda McDonald spiritofthe1960s.com. Plus, Bill will also challenge the audience with sixties trivia questions.

THE COLUMBUS FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY OFFICERS & TRUSTEES OFFICERS Linda McDonald–[email protected] President: – Mike Hale–[email protected] Sharon Mittenbergs–[email protected] 614-354-5586 Tom Nagel–[email protected] Vice-President: Art Mittenbergs– [email protected] Cindy Ramsey–[email protected] Treasurer: Debbie Shaw –[email protected] Cathy Sheets–[email protected] Secretary: Diane Boston– [email protected] Carl Yaffey – [email protected] TRUSTEES Joe Baringhaus Linda Bolles–[email protected] Central Ohio Folk Festival directors: Art and Sharon Mittenbergs – Stan & Beth Bradley –[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Membership Chair: Carl Yaffey – Dan Clarke – [email protected] [email protected] Bill Cohen–[email protected] Newsletter Editor: Diane Boston – Charlie Flowers – [email protected] [email protected] Jackie LaMuth–[email protected] Webmaster: Carl Yaffey – [email protected] Jim Luckhaupt–[email protected]

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