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Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. February 2016 vol. 51, No. 2 February Mondays: Irish Traditional Music Session at the Landmark, 8pm Wednesdays: Sunnyside Singers Club in Woodside, Queens, 8pm 3 Wed Folk Open Sing, 7pm in Brooklyn 5-7 Winter Folk Music Wknd: www.folkmusicny.org/weekend 7 Sun Chantey & Folk Song & Music Session; 2pm, 44 John St. 7 Sun Pat Wictor & guests, 4-6pm, Good Coffeehouse, Brooklyn 8 Mon FMSNY Board of Directors Meeting, 7:15pm; see p. 5 9 Tue Tom and Ben Paley, 7:30pm, O.S.A. Hall, W. 23 St. 10 Wed Old-Time Music Jam, 7:30-9:30pm in Brooklyn 17 Wed Marie Mularczyk O'Connell & the Mountain Maidens, 8pm, Sunnyside Singers Club 21 Sun Shanty Sing on Staten Island, 2-5 pm 21 Sun Overview of Contemporary Political Folk Music, 2-4pm in an Upper West Side location 24 Wed Old-Time Music Jam, 7:30-9:30pm in Brooklyn 29 Mon Newsletter Mailing, 7pm in Jackson Heights, Queens March Mondays: Irish Traditional Music Session at the Landmark, 8pm Wednesdays: Sunnyside Singers Club in Woodside, Queens, 8pm 2 Wed Folk Open Sing, 7pm in Brooklyn 6 Sun Harry Bolick, 4-6pm, Good Coffeehouse, Brooklyn 9 Wed Sean Tyrell, 8pm, Sunnyside Singers Club 9 Wed Old-Time Music Jam, 7:30-9:30pm in Brooklyn 14 Mon FMSNY Board of Directors Meeting, 7:15pm; see p. 5 18 Fri Bob Malenky & John Ziv, 8pm, Upper West Side location 20 Sun Shanty Sing on Staten Island, 2-5 pm 23 Wed Old-Time Music Jam, 7:30-9:30pm in Brooklyn Details on pages 2-4; table of contents, page 4 Winter Weekend, Feb. 5-7 Hudson Valley Resort & Spa www.folkmusicny.org/weekends.html- 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; co-sponsored with and led by Don Meade; for info 212-247-2562 or www.blarneystar.com/ Sunnyside Singers Club: every Wednesday, 8-11pm Come join us every Wednesday at 8pm for a 3-hour pub style sing-around. All songs are welcome, as are acoustic instruments. Co-sponsored with and held at the Auber- gine Cafe, 49-22 Skillman Avenue at the corner of 50th Street in Woodside, Queens. Occasionally there is a featured guest performer for part of the evening. Yummy des- serts, sandwiches, salads, coffee, tea, wine, and beer are available. Free admission. A voluntary contribution is requested on guest nights. The nearest subway stop is 52nd Street on the #7 Flushing Local. Information: 718-899-1735. Featured Performer: Feb. 17, Marie Mularczyk O'Connell & the Mountain Maidens Folk Open Sing: Wednesdays, Feb. 3rd; & Mar. 2nd; 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.). Directions: F or Q train to 7th Ave.; 2/3 train to Grand Army Plaza. Hosted by Ethical Culture Society, Folk Music Society of NY/NYPFMC, Alison Kelley, Frank Woerner, and Tom Weir. Info: 212-695-5924. Winter Weekend of Music; Feb. 5-7, Kerhonkson, NY In the Bleak Midwinter ... when the gloom and cold are getting you down, come join us at our Winter Weekend. We get together to sing, play, relax, and have fun. Special Guests: Sally Rogers & Howie Bursen, and Tom & Ben Paley. At press time there were still some spaces available, call the registrar at 212-957-8386 or 646-628-4604. The Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, NY, is about 2-1/2 hours from NYC (barring traffic). Accommodations are comfortable, food is good and plentiful (and the kitchen is very good about special dietary requirements), there is a heated indoor pool, and a spa with hot tubs (gender-segregated - sorry!). Mood and weather permitting, there is some spectacular hiking in the area. See info at www.folkmusicny. org/weekends.html. Chantey & Folk Song & Music Session; Sunday, Feb. 7th; 2-4pm A Community Sing with a lot of singalongs. Bring your voices, instruments, and friends for a session to raise the rafters in this historic downtown venue! Everyone can sing! Co-sponsored with and at the John Street Church, 44 John St. (east of Broadway and one block south of and parallel to Fulton), near Fulton St. subway stop. Info: 212-957-8386. Free will donation requested. Please note: The venue is an historic landmark and is not handicapped accessible – approx. 13 stairs to reach downstairs venue (but facilities are located on the same level) Continued on next page The Society’s web page: www.folkmusicny.org - 2 - FMSNY Events Details- Continued Pat Wictor & guests: Sunday, February 7th; 4-6pm Pat Wictor first burst on the folk scene as an innovative slide guitarist known for doing fresh and memorable versions of tra- ditional and contemporary songs. He's become a well-regarded singer and songwriter, writing material grounded in the rural country, gospel, and blues traditions of our nation. An American by birth, Pat was raised outside of the United States until his teenage years, living in Venezuela, Holland, Norway, and England. Pat took a convoluted path to folk music, winding his way through rock, heavy metal, and jazz. He started with guitar, shifted to bass, moved to saxophone, and then quit music entirely before a return in 1993, when he also began composing songs. By 2001, he left a teaching career to pursue music full time and is now sought after as a collaborator, sideman and session musician, also teaching workshops on writing, interpreting, and rearranging songs, on slide guitar and other guitar techniques. In the past year he's been touring nationally as one third of Brother Sun. \ Co-sponsored with and at the Good Coffeehouse at the Old Stone House,336 Third Street, in J.J. Byrne Park, between 4th and 5th Avenues, Brooklyn, 718-768-3195; 4-6pm; $10 contribution. Info: fbanjo(at)aol.com; facebook page: http://on.fb.me/1UxthNr. Tom & Ben Paley in concert: Tuesday, February 9th; 7:30 pm Master banjo player, Tom played on stage with Woody Guthrie, sang with Lead Belly, and was one of the founders of the New Lost City Ramblers. He is a master banjo player. His son Ben is a wizard fiddler. As well as old time, Ben plays Swedish fiddle. He wrote Swedish Fiddle Music: An Anthology, which has become the standard work on the subject in English. At OSA Hall, 220 E 23rd St, Suite 707 (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues, Manhattan).Admission: general public $20; members of FMSNY $18; full-time students and those under 17 $10. Information: 212-957-8386. Old-Time Instrumental Jam: 2nd & 4th Wednesdays: February 10th & 24th; 7:30-9:30pm Wanna JAM? Alan Friend will lead an old-time jam from 7:30 to 9:30pm at the Brook- lyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month. Bring your fiddle, banjo, guitar, etc. and we’ll play old-time music at this small, warm, friendly venue. Acoustic instruments only-- no electric ones. Buy some delicious desserts and socialize while you’re here, as well. The Farmacy is located at 513 Henry St. (at Sackett St.) in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Info: alanfriend_music (at) mindspring.com. Shanty Sing: Sunday, February 21st, 2-5pm We are co-sponsoring 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 5 pm at the Noble Gallery, Building D, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY. Refreshments are available, including beer and wine for sale. Snug Harbor is accessible by the S40 bus from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and by Continued on next page - 3 - FMSNY Events Details- Continued car. For more information about the Noble Collection, go to http://www.noblemaritime. org -- click on "Visitor Information" for directions and a printable map. For further information contact Bob Conroy: RConroy421(at)aol.com or 347-267-9394. Ben Grosscup: An Overview of Contemporary Progressive Politi- cal Folk Music; Sunday, February 21st, 2pm There has been nothing like this on the folk scene since the 1960s! Recent years have seen an explosion of new songs coming out of the Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, environmental, labor, anti-war, human rights, economic justice, and other progressive movements. In this performance-talk house concert, People's Music Network Executive Director Ben Grosscup will share a few of his own songs and also perform a selection of contemporary songs by others. All the songs are especially powerful statements emerging from today’s radical social and political movements. Held at the apartment of John Ziv & Deborah Rubin. 243 West 98th Street, Apt. 6A (just west of Broadway), New York, NY 10025. The doorbell code is 22 plus the little bell symbol on the bottom right of the intercom panel. Do not press the bell symbol on the panel about two-thirds of the way up on the right hand side. If you’ve done it correctly, there will be a bright light and you will hear the bell.