Brian Maskew (And Friend) in Concert Coffeehouse Folk Punk
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I want to help 3RFS and 2019 Member Application the Tumblweed Music Your membership gives you voting rights in Folklife Y e s ! elections, $2 off most concerts, and is tax deductible! Festival Roll on! You’ll even get a nifty membership card to show your friends and neighbors! I would like to contribute at this level: A Newsletter for Columbia, Snake, and Yakima River Folk ___ $1000.00 ____ Individual ($20) or ____ Family ($25) Renewal? Y N ___ $250.00 Name___________________________________________________ ___ $100.00 Address _________________________________________________ Vol. 30, Issue 5 January 2019 ___ $50.00 City___________________________ State _______ Zip __________ $_______ Other Phone _________________________ E-mail ___________________ ____ Please keep my gift anonymous. (Donor names will be Please send Folk Talk by (choose one) US Mail ____ Email ____ Both ____ listed in next year’s program unless you indicate you wish to remain anonymous.) I can help 3RFS with: Brian Maskew (and friend) in Concert Name ___________________________________ ___ Refreshments at concerts ___ Setting up chairs ___ Fund raising ___ Taking admission at events ___ Folding newsletters ___ Coffeehouses and wind turbines. still his primary occupation, Brian Address__________________________________ Saturday, 19 January, 7:30 PM City _________________ State ____Zip________ ___ Serve on Board of Directors ___ Publicity ___ Song circles Initially, the calculations required sings as often as possible; he has led ___ Demonstrating folk arts ___ Membership Brian Maskew is originally from the full resources of a mainframe sea shanties in shanty singalongs and Phone Number____________________________ ___ Tumbleweed Music Festival ___ Other Yorkshire, England, where his music computer that filled a large room, but workshops, and sings at folk club E-Mail ___________________________________ Send check to: Three Rivers Folklife Society,P.O. Box 1098, Richland, WA 99 3 5 2 . consisted of singing in pubs after a later, with the rapid advance in com- Send to: 3RFS TMF, P.O. Box 1098, Richland, WA 99352 meetings. He occasionally appears on day of hiking on the North York puter power, it became possible to do stage in Hank Cramer’s sets, singing Moors or Lake District fells. In 1974 these analyses on a laptop, and just Celtic, folk and maritime songs, some 3RFS Survey Update - Please Respond! he and his wife, Maureen, packed up about anywhere. Hence, no longer of which he has recorded on three their two children, Rachel and tied down to working in an office, CDs with Hank’s help on arrange- The online survey was sent out by the 3RFS.org website and the 3RFS p?u=194&qid=15278 Jonathan and moved to the United wanting to get away from the big city ment and with voice and instrumen- email and a few replies have been Facebook page. The following link Please take a few minutes to com- States. They started out in Mountain commute, and with Rachel and tal accompaniment. Brian has been received. Please check your email and will also get you to the survey: plete the survey and join in the sup- View, California, where Brian worked Jonathan having “flown the nest,” coming to the Tumbleweed Folk support 3RFS by completing the sur- http://test.3rfs.org/wp-content/plu- port of 3RFS’s ongoing good health at the NASA Ames Research Center. Maureen and Brian eventually moved Festival since 2005 and in recent years vey. The Survey is also available at gins/civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.ph and well-being. From there Brian’s work took them to over near Winthrop, Washington, in has performed in stage sets there and Bellevue, Washington, for a job at the scenic Methow Valley, where has lead folk song workshops. Analytical Methods, a small research they had been gradually building a On vacations to the scenically gor- co m p a n y . He continued to extend and house. There, they found that folk geous and musically rich Dingle apply a fluid flow analysis computer singer Hank Cramer lived just down Peninsula on the west coast of program he had developed earlier the road. Hank quickly introduced Ireland, Brian sings a few songs in while working at Hawker Siddeley them to the Pacific Northwest’s mar- the pubs with the local musicians, Aviation in England, ultimately treat- itime and Celtic music scene, and so particularly the Blow-Ins (who have ing the flow properties about every- music became a whole new lease of performed in Tri-Cities in recent thing from jet planes to high speed life for them. years), thereby “picking up” a num- trains, to naval ships, racing yachts Although his fluid analysis career is ber of Irish folk songs and ballads. When he arranged some of these in a certain order for his third CD he found they formed a meandering path across Ireland and so he called the newly released CD, “A Song Coffeehouse Folk Punk Journey Around Ireland.” Songs from The Vandals, Son House, The White this album and from his first two Friday, 11 January, 7:30 PM Stripes and T-Bone Walker. Having CDs, will be featured in this upcom- J.F.K.F.C., the performers at the this produced two albums and a number ing concert. Hank Cramer will be month’s Coffeehouse, will be perform- of Eps, the band can be found play- accompanying him on guitar and will in g some good old folk punk music. ing everywhere from house concerts join in with vocal harmonies. Hailing from Richland, founding to local pubs. This performance will be held at members are Matt Ellertson on guitar, Come early to sign up for the open the Community Unitarian Devon Remsing on ukulele, and Mike mic. The coffeehouse is held at All Universalist Ch u r ch, 2819 W. Sylvester Ellertson on washboard and percus- Saints’ Episcopal Church, 1312 Kimball St., in Pasco. Tickets are $14 general sion. They all share in the vocals as Ave., Richland (go around to the lower admission and $12 for 3RFS mem- they bring their fusion of folk music parking lot in back). Suggested dona- bers, in advance at The Bookworm and punk music to the coffeehouse. tions are $8 general admission or $6 and Octopus Garden, or at the door. They found influences in such acts teens and seniors at the door. as Woody Guthrie, Blackbird Raum, 2 4 address above). The submission must tenance of our web pages; one for our Tu m b l e w e e d include a complete application, a social media feeds, especially Facebook; Happy New Yea r recording of the song performed by and one for “traditional” media and Planning New News the writer (along with others, if other public outreach activities. Contra Dancers! The theme for the 23rd Annual desired, representative of a live per- The Volunteer Coordinator is res p o n - Saturday, 26 January, 7:00 PM Tumbleweed Music Festival, to be formance) and a lyric sheet. Finalists sible for rounding up as many volun- will be informed by early July, and teers for the festival as possible, which First Friday Folkie Free-For All 7:30 PM Fri Micki Perry’s held August 30th – September 1st, Welcome to the 2019 Three Rivers Kennewick must be prepared to perform their you’ll have to agree is a most important 2019 is “Power of Song.” This is also Folklife Society contra dance season! 3RFS Board Meeting 7:00 PM Mon Richland Library the theme for the 2019 Jane Titland song onstage during a special set on task! Ed Heubach has performed this Saturday, January 26, will be the first Conference Room B Saturday afternoon of the festival activity for a number of years and, like Memorial Songwriting Contest, and dance of the year at our new location J.F.K.F.C. Coffeehouse 7:30 PM Fri All Saint’s for the 2019 Tumbleweed Music (required to qualify for the prize.) Gene, has stepped down (again with at the Trinity House gymnasium at Richland Festival Logo contest. The winner will perform their song our tremendous thanks!). So, if you’d 1007 Wright Avenue, in Richland. The 2nd Saturday Sea Song Singalong 7:00 PM Sat Round Table Pizza The theme, “Power of Song,” is in- during the Saturday evening concert. love to take on a big task with grea t live music will be provided by local Richland Tumbleweed 2019 Planning Meeting 7:00 PM Tues Dave Carson’s sp i re d by the life work of Pete Seeger, We’re anticipating some wonderful pa y o f fs, please consider taking this band, One More Time. Gary Miller work from our creative supporters! position and making it your own! who would have celebrated his 100th will be our caller. The Newcomer's Brian Maskew Concert 7:30 PM Sat CUUC birthday this year. Great songs do have There are other things that will Lesson will begin at 7, with dance surely come up that will need to be the power to change society, and the starting at 7:30. Admission is $8 for Contra Dance 7:00 PM Sat Trinity House world. Think of the songs that have done, and you don’t have to take a adults; $5 students and dancers 62 Richland done so, some of which were Pete task lead position to contribute. and older. We’ll also have our Contra Seeger’s work: We Shall Overcome; And Now a Word Tumbleweed Planning Meetings are Dance Punch Passes for sale giving Lift Every Voice and Sing; Where Have held at 7:00 PM every third Tuesday. you 6 dances for the price of 5.