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Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. June, 2018 vol. 53 No. 6 June Mondays: Irish Traditional Music Session; Landmark, 8pm Wednesdays: Sunnyside Singers Club in Woodside, 8pm 6 Wed Folk Open Sing; 7pm in Brooklyn 10 Sun Upper West Side Song Swap; at HINY, Upper West Side, guest David Massengill 11 Mon FMSNY Board of Directors Meeting; 7:15pm; see p. 5 17 Sun Shanty Sing; Snug Harbor, Staten Island, 25pm 20 Wed Sunnyside Singers Club; perf. Jeremy Aaron, 8pm July Mondays: Irish Traditional Music Session; Landmark, 8pm Wednesdays: Sunnyside Singers Club; Woodside, 8pm 3 Tue Newsletter Mailing, 7pm in Jackson Heights, Queens 4 Wed Folk Open Sing; 7pm in Brooklyn 9 Mon FMSNY Board of Directors Meeting; loc. tba, see p. 5 15 Sun Shanty Sing on Staten Island, 25 pm 18 Wed Sunnyside Singers Club; perf. Mike Agranoff, 8pm Details on pages 23 Table of Contents Events at a Glance.........................1 Repeating Events.........................11 Society Events Details...............23 Festival Listings..........................14 Topical Listing of Society Events. 3 Falcon Ridge Ad..........................20 From the Editor.............................4 Folk Music Society Info..............21 Bernie Stolls Memoriams..........45 Ashokan Acoustic Guitar Camp..22 Donatge with Amazon, et al..........5 Mark Hamburgh Ad....................22 Calendar Listings..........................6 Pinewoods Hot Line....................23 Calendar Location Info.................8 Membership Form Join Us!......24 The Society's Web Page: www.folkmusicny.org facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FMSNY/ 1 Irish Traditional Music Session: every Monday, 8-11pm Tenor banjo, harmonica and fiddle player Don Meade and friends get together every Monday night for an Irish traditional music session in the back room of this historic Hell’s Kitchen bar/restaurant. Free admission; food and drink are available. Musicians, singers, and listeners welcome. At the Landmark Tavern, 626 11th Avenue (on 46th St), Manhattan; cosponsored with and led by Don Meade; for info 2122472562 or www.blarneystar.com/ Featured Performers: to be announced Sunnyside Singers Club: every Wednesday, 8-11pm Come join us every Wednesday at 8pm for a 3hour pub style singaround. All songs are welcome, as are acoustic instruments. Cosponsored with, and held at the Aubergine Cafe, 4922 Skillman Avenue at the corner of 50th Street in Woodside, Queens. Occasionally there is a featured guest performer for part of the evening. Yummy desserts, sandwiches, salads, coffee, tea, wine, and beer are available. Free admission; a voluntary contribution is requested on guest nights. The nearest subway is 52nd St. on the #7 Flushing Local. Info: 7188991735. www. facebook.com/sunnysidesingersclub. Featured Performers: June 20; Jeremy Aaron, July 18, Mike Agranoff Folk Open Sing: Wednesdays, June 6th & July 4th; 7-10pm Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for an open sing. Bring your voice, instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. Drop by for a couple of songs or the whole evening. At the Ethical Culture Society, 53 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn (near 2nd St.). (If door is locked, ring the BSEC bell.) Directions: F or Q train to 7th Ave.; 2 or 3 train to Grand Army Plaza. Hosted by Ethical Culture Society, Folk Music Society of NY/NYPFMC, Alison Kelley, Frank Woerner, and Tom Weir. Info: 2126955924. Upper West Side Song Swap; Sunday, June 10th; 5-8pm The Upper West Side Song Swap is organized by FMSNY and PMN. Bring your voices and your songs, poems, stories, jokes, etc., for our regular round robin songswap. At Hostelling, International New York, 891 Amsterdam Avenue at 103rd Street, Manhattan 10025. Contributions welcome to help cover costs. Everyone is welcome. The special guest at this swap will be David Massengill. For more information call John Ziv at 2126626575. We will be taking the Summer off after this swap. See you in the Fall! Shanty Sing: Sunday, June 17th; 2-5pm We cosponsor the Shanty Sing on the 3rd Sunday of every month. The William Main Doerflinger Memorial Sea Shanty Sessions at the Noble Maritime Collection (to give the official title) are from 2 to 5pm at the Noble Gallery, Building D, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island. Snug Harbor is accessible by the S40 bus from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and by car. For more information about the Noble Collection, go to http://www. noblemaritime.org continued on next page 2 Events Details, continued from previous page click on "Visitor Information" for directions. For further information contact Bob Conroy: RConroy421(at)aol.com or 3472679394. See the documentary made of this event: vimeo.com/250883513; Password: harbortown. Newsletter Mailing: Tuesday, July 3rd; 7pm Join the merry band of volunteers that sticks on the stamps and labels, and seals the pages to mail out this newsletter. Be sure to call and check before coming, as it may be changed. At the home of Don Wade and Eileen Pentel, 3541 72nd Street, Jackson Heights (Queens). Near the 74th St. Station of the #7 line or the Roosevelt AveJackson Heights Station of the E, F, M, and R trains. Info: 7186726399. Topical Listing of Society Events For details of current events see pages 23 Weekends Oct. 2628: Fall Folk Music Weekend at Hudson Valley Resort and Spa Traditional Music & Dance Camp (TradMaD Camp) Aug. 2531: Sign up now for a spot on the waiting list. see www.tradmadcamp.org Sings and Informal Jams Chantey & Folk Song & Music Session: John St. Ch., 2pm resumes in October Folk Open Sing: First Wednesday of each month, (June 6, July 4, etc.), 710 pm; Ethical Culture Society in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Irish Traditional Music Session: every Monday, 811 pm, Landmark Tavern, 11th Ave. & 46th Street; free, featured performers to be announced Upper West Side Song Swap at HINY, 891 Amsterdam Ave; 58 pm, Second Sunday of each month, (June 10, with special guest David Massengill). Then resumes in the Fall. Shanty Sing: on the 3rd Sunday, 25 pm on Staten Island, (June 17, July 15, etc.) Sunnyside Singers Club: Wednesdays, 811 pm, Aubergine Cafe, Woodside, Queens. Special guests: June 20, Jeremy Aaron; July 18, Mike Agranoff; August 15, Anne Price & Steve Suffet, September 26, T.R.Dallas Business Meetings, etc. Newsletter Mailing: Tuesday, July 3 (tentative); in Queens see page 3. Board of Directors Meeting: the second Monday (except August) at 7:15pm, June 11 at Upper West Side location. Info: Evy at 7185491344, after 11 AM. Updated FMSNY events information (online) is available on our website at: http://www.folkmusicny.org PRENEWAL Your membership expiration date is printed on your newsletter mailing label. If you send in your renewal before it expires, you will save wear and tear on Tom, our Membership Chair, and also save the club the cost of mailing you a reminder. Address to send to is on the back cover membership blank. 3 June is bursting out all over as the song says, and music is all around us. We look forward to some exciting events. The usual Irish Traditional Music Sessions continue, as does the Sunnyside Singers Club and the Folk Open Sing. In addition, we have the Upper West Side Song Swap and the Shanty Sing. June also begins a number of Folk Festivals throughout the country. Check out the Festival Listings to help you plan your summer. We have some sad news. Bernie Stolls passed away this month. We will miss him. Among his many accomplishments, Bernie put together the pickup dance band for the weekend dances, and we were able to dance to live music He was always cheerful and encouraging to instrumentalists and everyone else in general. See the articles about him. For the May issue we tried something new. The Newsletter was mailed out by a service; there were problems and the newsletter went out a bit late. We hope everything is now resolved. We are trying again with this (June) issue. If it doesn’t work out, we will be back to mailing out our newsletters the old way. Be sure to call 7186726399 to check out if the July 3rd mailing will be happening. In Memoriam: Bernie Stolls: 19362018 It is with great sadness that I write that we’ve lost another dear friend: Bernie Stolls, long time FMSNY member. Bernie passed away on May 6 of endstage heart disease after a long illness. He died peacefully while in hospice care, attended by his devoted children Amy and Eric, and his brother Jerry. His wife of 50 years, Myrna, predeceased him in 2012. He had been retired for many years after a career as a high school math teacher and math department programming chairman in Queens. Bernie was involved with music since his childhood, from his days as a young music counselor (“Bernie Banjo”) at Camp Arcady in New York …….to co authoring a banjo instruction book ……to leading and arranging music for the LITMA (Long Island Traditional Music Association) orchestra for many years…….to organizing and leading the contradance pickup band at the FMSNY weekends ……..to composing and recording many tunes, both instrumental and vocal. He was proficient on the hammered dulcimer, 5 string banjo, and dobro banjo. He was a member of the FMSNY for over 50 years and attended Pinewoods Camp regularly for over 40 years. He often led singing sessions at FMSNY weekends and instrumental workshops at various venues. In addition to his children and brother, Bernie leaves behind 4 devoted grandchildren. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.