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The Folk Project November 2018 The Folk Project November 2018 www.FolkProject.org TM 2018 Annual Dinner/Meeting Tue., Dec. 4, 2018 • Dinner at 6pm , Annual Meeting at 8pm Long Hill Tavern, 632 Meyersville Road, Gillette, NJ Dear Fellow Folk Project Members: All Folk Project members are invited to attend and participate in our upcoming Annual Meeting on Tuesday, December 4. We are changing things up a little this year by moving the meeting location to a new venue, the Long Hill Tavern (formerly the Meyersville Inn) in Gillette, NJ. All FP members are welcome to join us at 6pm for dinner before the meeting at a fixed price of $15/person (not including alcoholic beverages). There is no charge to attend the Annual Meeting, which begins at 8pm sharp. Dinner reservations are required—please RSVP to [email protected] or text 973/476-6792, and be sure to list the number of people attending. At the meeting, elections will be held to fill open positions on our Folk Project Board of Directors. These include all four Officer positions (President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary), plus four Trustees. See page 12 for the official Nominations Committee slate. We will also accept nominations from the floor during the voting process. Looking forward to seeing you there. —Steven Humphreys, President Evening o’ Music Sat., Nov. 10, 8pm • Elly Faden’s 12 5th Street, Hazlet, NJ • 415/342-1552 Friends, our host for the November EOM will be hosting for the very first time! Elly’s home is just 10 minutes off of Exit 117 on the Garden State Parkway, so southern Projectiles, rejoice! Travel time is approximately one hour from Minstrel, so folks may want to carpool. As usual, it’s a potluck, so please bring food and drink to share as well as your voices and instruments. If you have any extra folding or camp chairs that you can bring, that would be helpful but not necessary. Directions: Take the Garden State Parkway to Exit 117, for Route 36. Take 36 towards Hazlet for approximately 4 miles. At the intersection with Laurel Avenue, make the jughandle to go across the highway (left) and follow Laurel Avenue and make a right onto 5th Street. You can park on the street. Special Announcement/Heads-Up for the December EOM Due to a very special concert with the bluegrass legend Tony Trischka on December 8th, the DECEMBER EOM will take place at Steve and Christine Humphreys’ home on the first Saturday in December, December 1, instead of the usual second Saturday slot. So save the date! QUICK GUIDE TO THE INSIDE A Holiday Benefit Concert .............................................................. 2 Members’ Gigs (& Friends) ............................................................. 7 Board Meeting: The Summary .....................................................10 Good o’ the Order .........................................................................11 Nominations Committee Report .................................................12 Remembering Andy Goessling....................................................13 NOTE: web links in the eNewsletter are now clickable A Holiday Benefit Concert November 2018 for The Morristown Unitarian Fellowship The Minstrel Fri., Dec. 21, 7:30pm • Pre-Concert Caroling 7pm • The Minstrel Acoustic Concert Series presented by Suggested Door Donation is a minimum of $15 Concerts every Friday at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship 7:30 start It’s the Fa la la la la, la la la la time of year. Come on out, one and all! 21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, NJ $10 door The Folk Project is presenting a Winter Holiday Benefit Concert to raise money for the Morristown www.FolkProject.org • 973/335-9489 • [email protected] Unitarian Fellowship. The Fellowship has been the long-time host for our Minstrel concert series and numerous other Folk Project events. Fri., Nov. 2: Magpie with Hal Guitarist The festivities will have something for everyone, from soulful holiday ballads, to tra- Greg Artzner and Terry Leonino have been married and performing together as Magpie for over 25 years. ditional seasonal classics, choral arrangements, and even some original tunes. Sing Their vocal harmonies blend perfectly. Their instrumental work on guitar, mandolin, and harmonica is top notch. along with performers Katherine Rondeau, Mark Dutton, Pamela Zave, Dave And their music ranges from ‘30s swing to environmentally and socially active folk music. Sherman, Randie O’Neil, and Kenneth Chin, hosted by Master Elf MC Bob McNally. Hal Guitarist is a young singer who channels the songwriters who, at his age, formed the backbone of the Arrive early and join Ken Galipeau, who will be caroling in the Terrace Room. socially conscious Folk movement of the early ‘60s. From Woody Guthrie to Bob Dylan to Phil Ochs, he convinc- ingly delivers the classic songs with the freshness and fervor of those early pioneers of the movement, along Since the Fellowship is a charitable religious organization, your donation is tax deductible. with a few of his own compositions as well. Additional donations are always welcome and The Fellowship will send a written acknowl- edgment for check donations of $250 or greater. If you will be out of town on the evening of the Fri., Nov. 9: OpenStage ($5 admission OpenStage only) show, please still consider making a donation to The Fellowship. Checks can be mailed directly to The Minstrel OpenStage is the place where a diverse collection of acoustic musicians perform for a welcoming, The Fellowship at 21 Normandy Heights Road Morristown NJ 07960. Make your check payable to supportive, and attentive audience. We’ve often seen previews of our regularly scheduled opening acts for the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship and please put “Folk Project-Holiday” in the memo line. first time at OpenStage. Admission is $5 at the door but is free for anyone under the age of 25. For informa- tion on how to sign up to perform at our next OpenStage, visit www.OpenStage.FolkProject.org. Featured act: Keep the sleigh bells ringing and jingle bells jingling! “Late Night Pizza” featuring Rich Baron. See you on the 21st. —Pam Robinson, Special Concerts Chair Fri., Nov. 16: CANCELED—The Shockenaw Mountain Boys with Russ Rentler On October 12, Andy Goessling, key member of The Shockenaw Mountain Boys succumbed to cancer. Consequently, the band will not be able to appear and the Minstrel will be dark this night, as we all mourn Advance Ticket Sales for the Minstrel Andy’s passing. Instead, everyone is invited to share music and friendship at the home of Mark & Robin Schaffer starting at 8pm. Bring your instrument, your voice, and your good spirits. This is a music party—not a If you look at the Minstrel Schedule on the Folk Project website, you’ll see a lot of high-powered memorial—but friends of Andy are especially welcomed to come and sing songs and tell stories that honor our acts already booked in 2019: Susan Werner, Tom Chapin, Cheryl Wheeler, and Phil Ochs Song Night beautiful friend. Address: 196 Mt. Pleasant Ave, Rockaway, NJ. Phone: 201/207-8696. (Program your GPS for 197.) to name a few, with more to come. To help you avoid being closed out of these popular shows, we will be instituting a program to sell advance tickets to the Minstrel on the web. Advance sales will Fri., Nov. 23: Windborne with Maia McCormick be available for all regular Minstrel shows, as well as Special Concerts, and perhaps some Member You may remember Windborne from their stellar opening set for Frank Vignola last spring. Conjuring up Concerts as well. We expect to have the advance sale program ready sometime in early November, echoes of “Finest Kind,” Windborne is a harmony-driven quartet of 20-somethings who revel in the vocal and we will be selling tickets for shows starting in mid-January. We will always have about 5 months traditions of the British Isles and early American folk song. To this, they add vocal harmony traditions around the world from the Balkans to South Africa. They sing either a capella, or with spare accompaniment on banjo, worth of tickets at all times once we start the program. fiddle, and percussion. Many thanks to Gary Pratt, a new member of the Minstrel team, who will be administering the pro- Maia McCormick came to folk music through the unaccompanied song tradition. Her wide repertoire, gleaned gram, and to Treasurer Chris Riemer, Electronic Communications Director Lori Falco, and Webmaster from years of pub sings and song swaps, encompasses both the classic and contemporary; she performs touch- John Lamb who have all been extremely helpful in setting up all the logistical arrangements of ing ballads, rousing shanties, and some songs more ridiculous than sublime. Maia with her warm, resonant instituting this program. —Mike Agranoff, Minstrel Program Chair voice offers her listeners choruses in abundance to sing along with. Fri., Nov. 30: Reeds, Rhythm, And All That Brass with Frank & Hank Launched in 1973, Reeds, Rhythm, and All That Brass is an 18-piece band playing the classic Getaway Does It Again! American Songbook repertoire of the Big Band era and beyond. They perform the music made famous by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, and the like. The band includes Folk Project members Jeff Rantzer The Fall Acoustic Getaway fulfilled its promise—a three-day community filled with music and and Hen3ry Nerenberg on trombone, Darrell Courtley on sax, Frank Sole on guitar, and Jay Wilensky on vocals. friendship, on a mission of entertainment, education, self-expression, and joy. Tonight’s opening act is composed of two members of our headline act, Frank Sole and Hank (Hen3ry) Thanks to the dozens and dozens of volunteers that contributed their time, energy, love, skill, hard Nerenberg. Frank is a skilled guitarist both in lead flatpicking styles and in Django-inspired jazz. Hen3ry (the work, and talent to this superb event that crystalizes and spreads the Folk Project message to so many.
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