New England Folk Festival April 24-26, 2009 Preliminary Schedule -- Check for updates at the Codes for All Events: NEFFA Website E - Entertainment T - Teaching featured F - Family event http://www.neffa.org/ P - Presentation D - Participatory Dancing B - Beginner level G - Group participation with a leader S - Some Experience C - Chat/Discussion N - No teaching provided X - Experienced level

Friday, April 24, 2009 Middle School Middle School High School High School High School PM High School High School Dance Hall Auditorium Dance Hall Room 125 Room 117 Room 176 Room 177 High-Energy Oli sto Horo! "Hello Neighbor" Contras Introduction to Ballads & Chanteys 7:00 Science Fiction English Country Dance Greek Dancing Contra Dancing 7:15 Filk Sing David Millstone Antonio Dominguez Bev Bernbaum Beth Parkes 7:30 Rick, Steve & Chloe DS Ensemble Aperiskeptos DB Roaring Jelly DS Dixie Butterhounds DB Richard Yospin G 7:45 M.A.S.S.F.I.L.C. GB Learn to Turn -- Israeli for All Something Old, Introduction to The Other Shaped Notes 8:00 Ballads/Parents Say No! Potpourri Scandi. Dances Something New Contras Square Dancing 8:15 Toby Weinberg, Ginny Lee Linda Leslie Tony Parkes Kania, Pfau, Noel, 8:30 Matt Fichtenbaum TB Joan & Jim Savitt DF Troll, Loper, & Marshall DS Dixie Butterhounds DB & Mattsson GS 8:45 Sue West & Friends E Ti' Acadie E Marianne's Medley Irish Set Dancing is Easy! Contra Medley Introduction to Music from the 9:00 Traditional Songs of Civil War Era Songs Marcie Van Cleave Rumblestrip NX Swing Dancing/Lindy Hop Republic of Georgia 9:15 New York State Woods Hole Folk Orch. NX Barry & Pat Callahan Hotcontrasweetwaltz 9:30 9:45 Bulgarian Dance Party Devine's Diner TB Tony & Aurelie Tye DB Iveria E Dave Ruch E The Graybeards E 10:00 Swing Songs for Dancing Bill Olson Hurdy Gurdy Concert Hard Times & Blues Greek Music 10:15 Three Cats, Some Sax Ti'Acadie DS Performance 10:30 Zdravets NS & a Drummer NS Festival Orchestra 10:45 Folk Dance Party Norwegian Folk Dance Contras & Squares Melissa Kacalanos E Outrageous Fortune E Ensemble Aperiskeptos E 11:00 Boston Anna Rain 11:15 Cambridge Folk Orch. NX Spelemannslag NS Dan Black DS 11:30

Main Entrance Sunday, April 26, 2009 Paper Bag Mummers Middle School Middle School Middle School Middle School Middle School AM High School High School High School High School High School High School Jug End Mountain Dance Hall Auditorium Room 103/104 Room 105/106 Room 108 10:00 Dance Hall Room 125 Auditorium Stage Room 117 Room 176 Room 177 Snicker Snack French Remaissance Family Contra Dance Old Country Sing Along Contra Dance History Northeast to Southwest 10:15 Belgian Boutades Introduction to Sacred Harp Singing Storytelling Madness! Lift Up Your Voice Come Sing Orion Longsword Dances Linda Leslie 10:30 English Country Dance English Country Dancing with Us! Great Meadows Michel Landry Sugar River 10:45 Val Medve Deb O'Hanlon & Points of Etiquette Capriol DB String Band DF Planet Banjo GB David Millstone P Woodchuck's Revenge E 11:00 Impropriety DX Mary Jones DB Norumbega Harmony GS Rona Leventhal EF Brendan Taaffe GB Peter Fischman G Tricky Balkan Dances Trad. NE Barn Dance International Music Jam Marianne Taylor Old West Mystique 11:15 Zwiefacher Dance Introduction to West Gallery Music Joining in Stories Songs of the Civil War The Art of the Maple Leaf Memories 11:30 Patrick McMonagle Square Dancing Autoharp Mulberry Ed Abelson International Lonesome Jack's West 11:45 The Mother Zwiefacher Drew Smith & Bubble Rapper Tom Pixton TX Two Fiddles DF Music Club GS Dan Pearl G Review & Horse Opera EF 12:00 Orchestra DS Beth Parkes DB West Gallery Quire GS Tony Toledo EF Allen Hopkins E Robbie Wedeen E Pocket Flyers Hot Squares & Italian Village Dance Scottish Concert Singing the Carter Family Trad American & 12:15 English Ceilidh Introduction to South African Playful Songs for Kids What's So Funny? Songs of Trad. Hart's Brook Garland Cool Contras British Isles Folk 12:30 Michael Barraclough DB International Folk Dancing Songs & Dances & Now Green Mountain Italian Village Strathspey & Reel 12:45 Big Phat Amer. K-Lee Band Janet Yeracaris Evy Mayer Candyrapper Tony Parkes Music & Dance TS Society of NH E Falls by an Arrow GB Basket Landing EF 1:00 Polish Dances from Slask Shining Moon DB Boston Harmony TB Folkenergy! GF Mike Agranoff E Kathy Westra E Great Russian Dances Participatory Klezmer Jam Mountain Songs Trad Songs & Tunes Introduction to Dance Performances Revels Singing Games Workshop for Singers Italian Folk Music Hop Brook Donna Hunt 1:15 Regina Laskowski DS DB Contra Dancing Renegade Notorious 1:30 Kapela Contra Medley Contra Medley Gay Blades Rapper Murray & Randi Spiegel 1:45 Linda Leslie Mexican, English Revels Education & Friends of Notorious NX Bjelalitsa Chorus TS Shver un Shviger GB Maguire & Frey E Joanie,Neal & Ann E Bring It On! NX White Squall DB Hawaiian, Israeli Outreach GF Jerry Epstein TB Italian Music EF 2:00 Fun Modern English East Hangarian Spiritual & Gospel New England Walnuts Italian Village Tunes Easy on the Feet Contras Introduction to Schottis - Flamenco Mid-East Drumming Parlor Party Sing Along C. Fox Smith-- Westerly 2:15 Line Dance Sing Along Scandanavian Dance Israeli Sea Songs & Poems Flesh Wound 2:30 Tom Roby Italian Village Music Steve Holland Eph Weiss & Linda Bernfeld Scottish Maury Stauffer & Swords of Gridlock 2:45 Ted Rudofker Csango Bazonga! DB Riverside Stomplers GB Old New England E & Dance GF B.A.D. DS John Chambers & Frnds DB Turkish George Kirby TB Richard Mungo GF Mike Kennedy E 3:00 Sam Rotenberg Mixers & Keepers Flute, Feet & Keyboard Songs to Heal Our Planet Funny Songs & Shtick No Circle Becket Contras Hawaiian & Tahitian Dance Celtic Refrains Explore Scottish Music Norwegian Songs 3:15 Windsor Knot DS Couple Dances Polynesian Dance Arts E of My Family 3:30 Bulgarian Dance Party Carmen Giunta Children's Music Network Bob Golder World Harmony Singing Boston Scottish Sonja Savig 3:45 Karen Havens DS Confluence E New England Region GF Jackson Gillman E Magic Foot DS Tyler, Kathy, & Bill GB Fiddle Club E & Friends E Swedish Couple Dances Tikkun: Hebrew Soul Notorious Fiddle Concert 4:00 Festival Orchestra Closing Sing Around 4:15 Zornitsa NS Contras & Squares Boston Harmony EF Moonlight Dancing Matt Fichtenbaum 4:30 & Friends NS Rahel GB Notorious E 4:45 Tod Whittemore Allen Hopkins G Waltz & Couple Dance 5:00 Sue Rosen Shining Moon NS Barbara & Friends NS 5:15 Dan Pearl DS 5:30 New England Folk Festival Codes for All Events: April 24-26, 2009 E - Entertainment T - Teaching featured F - Family event Preliminary Schedule -- Check for updates at the P - Presentation D - Participatory Dancing B - Beginner level G - Group participation with a leader S - Some Experience NEFFA Website C - Chat/Discussion N - No teaching provided X - Experienced level http://www.neffa.org/ Main Entrance Ha'Penny Saturday, April 25, 2009 The Black Jokers Middle School Middle School Middle School Middle School Middle School AM High School High School High School High School High School High School Charm City Rapper Dance Hall Auditorium Room 103/104 Room 105/106 Room 108 Dance Hall Room 125 Auditorium Stage Room 117 Room 176 Room 177 10:00 Thanks to the Gene Community Dance Party Waltz Melodies Jam Power Harmonies Puttin' on the Dance Cross-Step Waltz Introduction to Ballads Migrant Our Maritime Songs Fiddling with Jigs Effort-Less Banbury Cross 10:15 Contras English Country Dancing Fiddling Snowbelt Morris 10:30 Deb Comly Ridge Kennedy Susan de Guardiola Susan Taylor Colleen Cleveland & Charles River Rapper 10:45 The Privy Tippers DS CoinciDance DF Three Quarter Time GS Power Harmonies GB Chrissy Fowler C Calliope TB rube goldberg DB John Roberts E Mark Ryer GB Peter Macfarlane TS Toby Weinberg TS 11:00 Stylish Contras Family Dance Contra Tunes Slow Jam Songs of Liberty! Calling Festivals & New Country Dances Introduction to Sailors & Maids Beyond the Blue You Really CAN Sing! The Great Green River Tap& Dye 11:15 Weekends from Maine 1795 International Folk Dance Horizon Chorus Medley Harrisville 11:30 Lisa Greenleaf Jacob Bloom Dave Miller & Gloucester Hornpipe & George A. Fogg Jonathan Young Let There No Apologies Rapper 11:45 Perpetual e-Motion DS Woods Hole Folk Orch. DF Chris Carpenter GS Clog Society EF Jeremy Korr C Boston Delight DS Cambridge Folk Orch. DB John Roberts E Janet Scudder EF Lorraine Hammond TB Be Songs GB 12:00 Cracking Chestnuts Scandinavian Kids' Croatian Choral Concert A Sailor Loves….. Working with Seniors Dances of Celtic Brittany Introduction to Beatles Sing Along Family Concert How to Play the Bones Harmony Heaven New Haven 12:15 David Smukler Dances Square Dancing Jack in the Green 12:30 David Millstone Janine Smith Stephen Brown Half Moon Sword 12:45 The Contraptions DS Patrick McMonagle DF Pajdashi E Chris Koldewey E Allen Hopkins C Trouz Bras DF The Privy Tippers DB Rocking Horse People GF Tom Smith EF and Friends TB Triboro E 1:00 Gender-Free Contras Family Folk Dance Swedish Fiddle Mountain & Hammered Native American Flutes Bourrees for Marianne Introduction to Open Sea Music A Family Cabaret Two Finger Banjo Songs of Muddy River 1:15 Tune Swap Dulcimers Contra Dancing Sing Around Picking Helping Hands Bassett St. Hounds 1:30 Chris Ricciotti Regina Laskowski Lucy Joan Sollogub & Steve Bliven Marie Wendt Lisa Greenleaf Cutting Edge 1:45 Three Cats & a Dog DS Cambridge Folk Orch. DF Matt, Jane, Bruce E Barb Levine E George Penedo PB Mike MacNintch et al DS White Squall DB MIT Chantey Sing GB Jackson Gillman EF Bennet Hammond TS Constellations E 2:00 Swingin' Swing Dancing Easy Balkan Dances String, Wind & Reed Jam Nyckelharpa Meet the Bagpipes Sing Along Squares Introduction to Children's Dance Folk Tales Flute/Whistle The Kitchen Handsome Molly 2:15 Swinging with Simone Louise Brill Smörgåsbord English Country Dancing Performances from the Forest Workshop Musician Vineyard Swordfish 2:30 Liza & the Swing Thing TB John Bartholomew Drew Smith & Too Hot Mamas Still River 2:45 Open Swing Dancing Gogofski Trio TS Robbie Wedeen GB Harpas Four E Neal MacMillan P Swizzlestix DS Mary Jones DB Chinese, Lithuanian Andrea Lovett EF Bob Yarbrough TS Tom Smith E 3:00 Schottis 101/102 Singing Community Turkish Village Music Contra Dancing: Ted's Other Dances Introduction to Chinese, Philipino Introduction to Where Did I Two-fers: Guiding Star Clog 3:15 Liza & the Swing Thing NS Joan & Jim Savitt The Next Generation Contras & Squares International Folk Dance Chinese, Indian EF Harmonica Learn That? Song Pairings Ring O'Bells 3:30 Fine & Fancy English Matt Fichtenbaum DB Vocal Arts Brian Gallagher & Jeremy Korr Dan Pearl 3:45 Scandi. Dance to Singing Collaborative G Turgay Ertürk & Friends E Julia Nickles C Old New England DS Hijaz DB Allen Hopkins TB Jerry Epstein E The Beans E 4:00 Joanna Reiner Stämbandet Off'n Ensemble Cat Man Stew Big Themes: Festival Orchestra Introduction to In the American Tradition Original & its Parody Contra Percussion Waltz Time Red Herring 4:15 Hot Toddy DS Matt Fichtenbaum NS in Concert Community Contras & Squares Contra Dancing Heartwood 4:30 A View of Ararat French Mazurka Scott Higgs & Dan Pearl Lorraine & Bennett Kathy Westra Pipe Dream 4:45 Off'n Ensemble E Three Cats & a Dog E Lisa Greenleaf C Tony Saletan Neo-Contras DB Hammond E Paul Kaplan E Melissa Kacalanos TB & Friends E 5:00 Leora Berns Lynn Baumeister Participatory Greek Jam New Orleans - 1908 NEFFA Annual Meeting -- Chrissy Fowler Seated Square Dances Elegant Round Incredible Rhyming Boing! Mouth The Ewan Commonwealth 5:15 Hijaz DS Mike MacNintch & Fds. TS ALL WELCOME ! Susan Elberger DS Singing Tales Harps MacColl Songbag Dread Pirate Rapper 5:30 Czech It Out! Cajun Dance The New New Orleans Open Waltzing Fred Wersan Sol Weber and Mystic Garland 5:45 Ensemble Aperiskeptos GB Jazz Band E Assabet Ramblers DB Friends G Bruce Marcus E Bob Wyttenbach GB Mike Kennedy E 6:00 Marcie Van Cleave Jimmyjo & the Mostly from Bulgaria Bluegrass with Attitude! Banjo & Ballads Dance Performances Fusion of European Mountain Dulcimer Green Fields, 6:15 Tom Pixton & Friends TB Jumbol'ayuhs NS Calliope NS Folk Styles Workshop Wind & Rain 6:30 Contra Medley International Folk Contra Medley English, Chinese, Kate Chadbourne & 6:45 NX Dance Party E E E NX E TB E Raise the Roof Zdravets ShoreGrass Ralph Bodington 7:00 Full Tilt Madeiran, Hungarian, Za Za Lucy Joan Sollogub Michael O'Leary Rum & Onions XXIX Peter Paul & Mary Stämbandet Concert Kalevala Stores Joyful English Dance Brother Duet Clawhammer Family Potpourri 7:15 Armenian, Bulgarian Contras NS Sing Along ALL WELCOME ! E Workshop Banjo 101 Panharmonium 7:30 Portugese Macedonian Dance Party Dance Performances Rick Mohr 7:45 Boucher, Cartwright DS GF E E TB TB E Rum & Onions Howie Rashba Stämbandet Faux Finnish 8:00 Scott Higgs Phyllis & Don Alan Friend Hurley & Mrozak Contras in the Zone Round Singing Jam Wayfaring Stranger Stories to Grow On Bottleneck Blues Southern Mtn. Music Gigs from Hell 8:15 Melissa Running NS DS Gogofski Trio 8:30 Harmonic Regression Polish, Vintage, Scottish Country Croatian Dance Party Jim Kitch 8:45 Chinese, Scottish, Ken Sweeney Dancing G E E E TS E C Apple Crisp Sol Weber & Friends Outrageous Fortune Helen Engelhardt 9:00 Clogging, Bulgarian Howard Stith Craig Edwards Dan Pearl Youth Festival Orch Who Will Go with Me? 50 Years of Good Folk Blimey, 'im Again! Something New and Old King of the 12-String Ballads, Birds & Prison Work Songs Evelyn Murray 9:15 Contras & Squares DS NS Guitar Bandits The White Cockade 9:30 Pajdashi Victorian Contra Dances Marianne's Favorite Beth Parkes Joy Bennett & Folk Song Society of 9:45 P. Kraemer, H. Stith Cece Borjeson & DS E GB E International Dances E E E G Chris Weiler Commonwealth Vintage Chris Koldeway Greater Boston David Diamond 10:00 Matching Orange & B. Clayton Ruth George Finn & Haddie Twin Contras Remembering Grateful Dead Folk Roots Diamonds No Longer In Concert Dancers; Ad-Hoc Waltz & 10:15 Quadrille Band DS Utah Phillips 10:30 Tom Pixton & Friends NS in the Rough Bob Isaacs Your Pols is Borderline 10:45 Balkan Gypsy Dance Rumblestrip DX Fred Wersan & Friends G Dave Ruch E 11:00 Sidekicks E Mike Agranoff E Late Night Waltzing 11:15 Rumblestrip NS Røroslaget NX 11:30 Rakiya NS PM