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VOLUME XVI I , NO. 10 JUNE/JULY 1980 PHONE ( 703) 281- 2228 Na n c y Sc h a t z , Ed i t o r
5th Annual Washington Folk Festival — June 6 & 7
Mark your calendar! It*s time again for the Fol kl ore Soci ety*s annual Washi ngt on Fol k Fest i val , t hi s year br i ngi ng t oget her mor e than 4-50 musicians, dancers, and craftspeople from throughout the gr eat er Washi ngt on ar ea f or t wo FREE days of act i vi t i es at Gl en Echo Park, MD, Many Ameri can tradi t i ons wi l l be present ed al ong wi t h those of more than 30 other countri es—fi ve stages runni ng cont i nuousl y f r om noon t o 10*00 p. m. on Sat ur day, June 6, and noon t o 6* 00 p, m, on Sunday, June 7, There*l l be concerts, workshops, danci ng (to j oi n i n as wel l as watch), chi l dren*s programs, craftspeopl e demonstrati ng thei r ski l l s—and mor e. The Was hi ngt on Fol k Fest i val i s easy t o get t o ( Glen Echo is only two miles out MacArthur Blvd. from the D.C, line and a few miles off Beltway exi t 14— j ust f ol l ow t he si gns) wi t h pl ent y of f r ee par ki ng r i ght t her e. Everythi ng wi l l happen rai n or shi ne, si nce al l out door st ages have cover ed al ternati ves, Remember, i t*s al l free, so br i ng t he whol e f amil y/ cr owd t o enj oy t he fun and music-filled day(s), A preview schedul e f or al l you Newsl et t er r eader s i s on page 4-, The Fest i val i s sponsor ed by t he Fol kl or e Soci et y of Great er Washi ngt on i n co operat i on wi t h the Nati onal Park Servi ce, For f urt her i nf ormat i on cal l the FSGW Hot-Li ne (281-2228) or Glen Echo Park (4-92-6282), See you at the Festi val—ENJOY!
Cyril Tawney in Concert June 12
I f you*ve ever sting al ong wi t h ”Samray*s Bar” or Chi cken on a Raf t , ” you*l l want to hear CYRI L TAWNEY* i n concert Fri day, June 12, ”Sal l y Free and Easy” and ”Di esel and Shal e11 are two more of the many f i ne songs wri t t en by thi s f ormer seaman. Twel ve years i n the Royal Navy preceded a ful l -ti me fol ksi ngi ng career duri ng whi ch Cyri l made speci al studi es of the fol k song of sout hwest ern Engl and, He has made f requent radi o and t el evi si on ap pearances i n the U,K, and i n recent years he compl et ed a mast er*s degree i n di al ect ol ogy. Not surpri si ngl y, he has a speci al l ove for the musi c of the sea, (Conti nued on page 2) CYRIL TAWNEY (Cont. from p. 1) HOUSE CONCERT BY TONY ROSE the sailship era, and the Tony Rose is a '’singer's singer"— so says Lou Killen, , 20th Century Royal Navy, He Tony will perform in a house concert for the FSGW on Tues ■f: has also recorded collec day, June 16. Tony's work has been influenced by Lou and tions of children's songs by Cyril Tawney. He plays guitar, recorder, and concer I and songs of seduction. He tina and has been part of Bandoggs, a folk quartet. He > will bring these traditions sings primarily the music of western England, the area 1 as well as his own composi- where he grew up. He has taken this music across Europe t * w 1 tions to the Washington Eth- C regularly, but this is his first trip to the States. y i i ^ J , ical Society auditorium, The evening with Tony Rose should be one well worth re 7750 - 16th St., N.W. (near I Kalmia Road), in Washington, membering, at the Hanslins* house in Chevy Chase, MD. (near Connecticut Ave.) on Tuesday evening, June 16 (out D.C., on Friday, June 12, doors if the weather be good). The concert begins at at 8i30 p.m. Note that al- 8t00 p.m. Admission is $2 for FSGW members, $3 for non though this concert is pre members. For directions, call the Hanslins at 654-4317. sented on the second Friday or the FSGW Hot-Line, 281-2228. of the month, it is not part of FSGW's monthly free-to- members Program series (those will resume in Sep tember). Admission is $4.00 for FSGW members, and $3 THE WATERSONS AND MARTIN CARTHY IN CONCERT for non-members. The Watersons are coming! The Watersons are coming— with Martin Carthy, of course— on Saturday, June 27, at a new (for us), convenient, air-conditioned location. F^ JUr aAYr aGHTM^ES Lai, Michael, and Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy have been presenting traditional British Isles (and some American) music for mary years, mostly unaccompanied. The Folklore Society's Sunday night dances are held at Their complex harmonies and exuberant style make them Trinity Episcopal Church, on Piney Branch Rd. at the cor unique on both sides of the Atlantic. Martin is a for ner of Dahlia St., N.W., in the Takoma Park area. The mer member of Steeleye Span known for his own individual dances start at 8 p.m. and go to 10i30. Admission is $2 vocal and guitar styles. for FSGW members and $2.50 for non-members. For informa So mark Saturday, June 27, on your calendar for the Wa tion, call the FSGW Hot-Line (281-2228). In Junei tersons in concert at American University's Lecture Hall June 7 - Steve Hickman and the Boss-Town Buzz-Steps. #1, downstairs in the Ward Circle Building, at (surprise!) Ward Circle, Massachusetts & Nebraska Aves., NW, There June 14 - Fred Breunig from Pownal, VT, calling, with is parking directly across Nebraska Ave. Rodney & Randy Miller from New Hampshire play Admission for the 8i30 p.m. concert is $4 for FSGW mem ing. Admission is $2.50 for FSGW members, $3 non-members, for this dance only. bers, and $5 for non-mem June 21 - Kate Charles, and the Jubilo Stringband from bers. (Ad Philadelphia. vance tickets June 28 - Bridget Edwards and the Boss-Town Buzz-Steps. are availa NOTE that this is the last scheduled dance ble from FSGW until Septemberl Special E- vents, P0 Box 5604, Preston King Station, Arlington, GOSPEL SING VA 22205).
The next Gospel Sing will be held at the home of Hunter Jones in Potomac, MD, on Sunday, June 14, at 4 p.m. Call iunter at 762-6343 to get directions and let him know OPEN SING tfhat you'd like to bring for the potluck supper. The July Gospel Sing will be held at the FSGW Picnic on Sail into July with Bob Hitchcock & The Boarding Party July 24. See next month's Newsletter for details. at the July Open Sing. On Friday, July 3, the topic will be Songs of the Sea. Singing begins about 9 p.m. in the Ethical Society building, 7750 - 16th St., N.W., Washing ton. Admission is $2 for everyone and refreshments are available. SACRED HARP SING Reminderj there is no Open Sing in June!
The location of the next Sacred Harp Sing had not been istablished by press time, but you can aall the FSGW Hot- ,ine (281-2228) later in the month for information. The SATURDAY NIGHT FAMILY DANCE lings are generally held on the 4th Sunday of the month, f you'd like to host the June and/or July Sing, call The last Family Dance of this season will take place in Stephanie Faul at 363-1449. the auditorium of the Takoma Park Junior High School (at Stephanie has pointed out that she and her sister Karen Piney Branch Rd. & Grant St., Takoma Park, MD), on Satur lave organized the Sacred Harp Sings for about 5 years day, June 27, from 7*30 to lOiOO p.m. This dance will low, and she feels (justifiably!) that it's time for a feature well-known area caller Lou Shapiro, and the music ihange. All that's required is finding a host for each of Mike Holmes, Reed Martin, and Rusty Marshall. Admis lonth's Sing, and getting the information to the Newslet sion is $2.00 for FSGW members, $2.50 for non-members, ter editor by deadline time. That's itt If you'd like half-price for kids over 8 (under 8 free). Come one, to take on this responsibility, please call the FSGW Hot- come all— bring all the kids you can find for some whole ine (281-2228) or Stephanie (363-1449). Thankst some family fun! See you there! vO-A I Q - 3 -
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Sw «3 Co up Iv Turning N eaiotLiu n 81 *D olkca- 8 j**v\ CVknf 7 ^ ^ Qf*n Sta^p - W\ x.i ic,oJs Cdmhu’ -Srt-rf^ k *30 Olivers B'*S 0 k Vi^Cc Cc S*.30 WASHINGTON FOLK FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Saturday, June 6 YURT VILLAGE ADVENTURE THEATRE CUDDLE-UP OVERLOOK BALLROOM The Mill Run Clam Chowder Pete Kennedy Songs of Scandinavian 12:00 Dulcimer Band (Irish & shanteys) Benny & Vallie Cain Phil & Sid Taylor Squeezebox Woody Guthrie Dancing 12:30 Bluegrass The Heritage Dancers Linn Barnes & Workshop Children's Western 1:00 (dances from Wales) Allison Hampton Atheaeum ♦Raquel Pena Spanish Squares 1:30 Dance Co. (Flamenco) Joe Glazer (Greek dance) Concert Amleset Abay Abe Brumberg 2:00 Blues The Heritage Rock Creek (songs of Eritrea) (Yiddish songs) ♦The Footloose Trio Nuevo Horizonte 2:30 NoncBallads of 1 Workshop (International dance) Cloggers, with the (music of South Amer. Double Decker 3«oo the British Isles Folky Jazz Appalachian Greek Stringband Dulcimer 3«30 Don Stover Harmonica Workshop Workshop Dancing ♦Cambodian-American James Vandelly 4:00 Worskhop Heritage (Dance) Songs of the (Russian balalaika) Sea and Clogging 4:30 Ukulele Workshop Instruments and Shanteys Children* s The Rock Creek Music of 5«oo India Concert Morris Dancers Ballad Jitterbug David Nickerson 5i30 Yodeling Banjo Styles (Hawaiian music) Workshop 6:00 Workshop Topical Songs Workshop Gan Ainm 6:30 Reed Martin Workshop Ralph Lee Smith (Irish music) Square the Sunshine The Underfed 7100 Mandolin Styles Skiffle Band Helen Schneyer Stringband Dance Workshop 7»30 Appalachian Songs Unusual Jeff Deitchman Instruments 8:00 Workshop Workshop ♦Finlandia Performers Alan Jabbour Sunshine Mountain Laurel Skiffle 8:30 Rabija Wash. Toho Koto 3oc. (Lithuanian dance) (music of Japan) Drinking (Bluegrass) Band — Ray Lema Songs Dance 9:00 Fiddle (music of Zaire) Ted Strader 9i30 Workshop Joe Hickerson Square Dance (SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE) ftil 11:00 Sunday, June 7 YURT VILLAGE ADVENTURE THEATRE CUDDLE-UP OVERLOOK BALLROOM 12:00 City of Alexandria Contra Bagpipes & Drums Keren Ohr 12:30 Ed Trickett Songs of the Balkans Dancing Gospel (Israeli dance) ♦St.Columba's Scottish 1:00 Hammered Country Dance Songwriters Dulcimer Workshop Clogging Grupo Folklorico 1:30 Chile Workshop Workshop The Hags ♦Kardaslar 2:00 John Jackson The Takoma Mandoleers (Irish music) (Turkish dance) Scottish Country *Los Quetzalss ♦Double Dutch Rhythms of Work 2:30 (Mexican dance) ♦Children*s skiprope champs Dancing The Rochelle Helzner (to be announced) Brooke Johns Israeli 3»oo Concert Quartet ♦The Oberek Polish Jonathan Eberhart & Dancing 3s30 Folk Dance Ensemble Reuben Musgrave Blues The Boarding Party ♦The Foggy Bottom ^atah Mami 4:00 Workshop Morris Dancers ♦Storytelling (Middle-Eastern Oud English Country Odelia & Celso Lopez From Around 4:30 Magpie (Songs of Peru) Country & Western Dancing The World Hassan Kilanf Workshop 5«oo Archie Edwards (Egyptian songs) Morris Somsanith Khamvongsa Patent Pending 5»30 Cathy Fink (Music of Laos) Flora Molton (Bluegrass) Dancing * All these workshops will be signed for the deaf. The Ballroom will have signing all day. - 5 - NOTES OF I MPORTANCE FSGW ELECTI ON RESULTS BOARD MEETINGi The June FSGW Board meeting will be held The members of the Folklore Society Executive Board for Wednesday, June 3. at 8 p.m., at the home of Lars Hanslin 1981-82 aret in Chevy Chase, MD. Board meetings are open to the mem bership and your participation is encouraged. For direc PRESIDENTi Mary Cliff VICE PRESIDENTi Nancy Schatz tions, call Lars at 654-4317. SECRETARY1 Joanne Turner NEWSLETTER DEADLINE: The deadline for the combined July/ TREASURER1 David Olive August FSGW Newsletter is Thursday. June 25. This issue DANCE1 Pat McCracken will cover the period between July 12 and August 31* MEMBERSHIP! Dolores Nichols PLEASE NOTE THIS EARLY DEADLINE and get your material in PROGRAM! Cathy Fink on timet Please write your article out and mail it to PUBLICATIONS! Kathy Hickerson Kathy Hickerson, P.O. Box 9062, Washington, D.C, 20003. PUBLICITY! Claudia Kravets Remember to include your name and phone number. SPECIAL EVENTS! K. C. King FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS— LAST CALLi To all of your who read MEMBERS AT LARGE1 Jody Fitterer your Newsletter soon after you get iti it is not too Dwain Winters late to volunteer your help at the Washington Folk Festi Congratulations to the new Board members, who will take val to be held at Glen Echo Park June 6 and 7. Help is office July 1st. still needed in the offices, near the stages, and in the ballroom. Enthusiasm and reliability are the only skills needed for these tasks. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! Help is also need the evenings of June 1 and 2, to get the Park set up for the Big Event. If you can help with any of these things, please call My two-year stint as FSGW Program Chairman is over, Jody Fitterer at 864-4131, or Julie Musgrave at home and I'd like to thank those many Board members and others (942-4382) or at work (nights— 686-9189). who helped make it possible on the second Friday of every month— publicizing our programs; hauling, setting up, and running the sound system; taking admission money; setting FOLKTALE GROUP up chairs; running the membership table; selling perfor mers; records; and providing food and lodging for musi Help preserve a vanishing artl Speak, laugh, or just cians. There are too many of you to list by name, but listen at the next Folktellers Group, Saturday evening, I'm grateful to all of you for helping to make it a good June 27, at 8 p.m. sharp. Anecdotes, fairy tales, ghost two years. Thanks, stories, and whoppers are all welcome. The theme will —Kathy Westra Hickerson be American stories and folktales, although contributions from throughout the world will be welcomed, as usual. Heartfelt thanks to all of you who have helped with The placei Susan Matson*s house, 1021 S. Barton, #126, the FSGW Newsletter during the past two years by getting Arlington (just off Columbia Pike). Call 979-0851 (eves) your copy in on time, helping to mail out, and performing for directions. assorted other tasks. Especially appreciated this year (seems to me I thanked last year's special helpers last year...) are the efforts of Jody Fitterer, who took over LUNCHTIME CONCERTS AT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS the arranging of our mail-outs, and of Mia Gardiner, who gave me a bit of breathing time while she edited the Oc The American Folklife Center presents monthly (first tober, November, February, and May issues. Thursday) outdoor concerts on the Neptune Plaza in front —Nancy Schatz of the main Library of Congress (Thomas Jeffereson) Buil ding, on 1st St. between East Capitol and Independence From Special Eventsi It's been a long two years and Ave., SE, from 12 noon to It30 p.m. The Capitol South I send out my thanks to scores of people who have made station on Metro's blue line is less than 2 blocks away. these concerts, sings, picnics, and parties possible. In case of rain, the concerts will be held indoors. On Start naming names, of course, and you're bound to forget June 4, John Cephus and Phil Wiggins will perform blues, somebody, but.... Dolores Nichols handled the Open Sings and on July 2, there will be Afro-Cuban music with Rober and picnics, and without her and Don, the Ethical Society to Borrell y Su Kubata. This is a wonderful way to doors would never have been opened. Lars stores (and spend a lunch hour, so bring your brown bag and come outl usually lugged) the sound system; Don Nichols, Bill Day, Mike Rivers, or Bob Clayton usually ran it. Kathy Hick erson led us through the Metro Carol Sings. Nan Goland, TROLLEY MUSEUM FESTIVAL Jody Fitterer, and Linda Lieberman often took admissions, and Linda and Dave Olive put together 2 fine Mini-Festi- vals. Nancy Schatz put up with my late stories for the The 8th Annual Trolley Museum Festival will be held at Newsletter. There are many more who have made calls, the National Capital Trolley Museum, located in Wheaton, hosted performers overnight, toted things, sold things, MD, on Sunday, June 14, from 2-4 p.m. There will be and in countless ways helped. Thank you all. What might trolley and tram songs, and a chance to ride on the an I do differently? Program some Cajuns, more bluesmen, tique trolleys. Bring a blanket and your picnic for a old fiddlers.,.. Good luck, K.C. family outing! For directions, call the Trolley Museum, — Mary Cliff 384-9797. TAKOMA TAP ROOM FRIDAY NIGHT DANCE HAS A NEW HOME The Takoma Tap Room, home of the Monday evening Folk The Friday night dance is leaving Concordia United Hoots and the popular Wednesday stringband nights, is Methodist Church (20th & G Sts., NW) and moving to the closed for the time being. There was no indication at Immaculate Conception Academy, 2408 K St., NW, Washing press time about when the Tap Room might re-open. Some ton, D.C., beginning June 5. PLEASE NOTEi These dances bands have been tentatively booked for the near future, will not be held June 26 through August 28 (in favor of and house concerts may be scheduled for these performers a 10-week Friday night dance class being held at Glen if the Tap Room isn't open when they are in town. You Echo Park). For more information, call Bruce at 703/243- can call Bruce Hutton at 270-2217 for the latest news. 8036 or Lou at 301/589-0217. FOLKLI FE FESTI VAL SCHEDULED FOR SUMMER 1981 - 6 - THURSDAYS AT THE COMMUNI TY CAFE The Festival of American Folklife celebrates its 15th The Community Cafe and Bookstore, 4949 Bethesda Ave. in anniversary by moving back to summerj That*s the big Bethesda, MD, has concerts Thursday nights at 8i30. Ad news for fans of the annual event sponsored by the Smith mission is $2. For more information, call 986-0848. sonian Institution and the National Park Service. There June 4 - Craig Johnson - traditional southern and ori will be two five-day segmentsi Wednesdays through Sun ginal music on banjo, fiddle, and guitar. days, June 24-28, and July 1-5. Events will take place June 11 - Charlie Murphy - original political and gay on the Washington Monument grounds, 14th St. & Constitu consciousness music on guitar and harmonica. tion Ave., N.W., in Washington. Festival hours will be June 18 - Yasmine Freed & Friends - original acoustic 11 a.m.-5»30 p.m. for the 10 days of the event, with music. evening concerts from 7»30-10 p.m. on Wed.-Sun., June 24- June 25 - Carly Gewirz Mackall - Anglo, Celtic, and 28, and Wed., Thurs., and Fri., July 1-3. On Sunday, American ballads, unaccompanied and with gui July 5, the evening concert will be from 5*30-7»30 p.m. tar and dulcimer. There will be no July 4th concert. Plans are being made for a variety of performers and and demonstrations by South Slavic-American dancers and MORRIS TOUR singers, musicians and craftworkers from the southeastern United States and adobe housebuilders from the Southwest; The annual walking tour of the Foggy Bottom Morris Men traveling performers of the tent show era in America (in will be Saturday, June 20, starting at approximately cluding "Toby" shows, minstrel shows, melodramas, medi 12i30 p.m. at the Brown Derby on Connecticut Ave., and cine shows, and patriotic lectures), and native American proceeding to the Oxford Tavern, across from the National Ojibwa (Chippewa) craftsworkers and musicians from Minne Zoo entrance. The tour will wend its way down Connecti sota. In addition, there will be a Folklore of the Deaf cut Avenue, stopping at various spots along the way (join area featuring special programs (daily workshops on sign them at any point!), ending up at Dupont Circle late in ing & storytelling, slids & videotapes, and deaf children the afternoon. With them this year will be the Bouwerie teaching hearing children the rudiments of signing) mark Boys and the Binghamton Morris Men from New York. For ing the International Year of Disabled Persons. The Fes more information, call 525-7121. tival Stage Program will offer black gospel and blues, Appalachian soloists and stringband music, native Ameri can music, New England fiddlers and dancers from Anglo- COUNTRY AND CONTRA DANCES and Franco-American traditions. A children's area will feature participants from other Festival areas in pro English country dancing and New England contra dancing, grams adapted especially for youngsters. with music by Peascods Gathering, will take place on Sat Admission to the Festival is free. Slavic and regional urday, June 13. at the Takoma Park Junior High School on American food, along with a wide variety of crafts, will Piney Branch Rd., 1 block north of Philadelphia Ave. be sold, (East-West Hwy.) NOTE CHANGE FOR SUMMER! Beginning June ENERGETIC FOLKIES PLEASE NOTE* The 1981 Festival of 27. dances will be held at Christ Congregational Church American Folklife needs volunteers in all phases of the at Colesville Rd, & Indian Spring Dr., Silver Spring, MD. Festival— helping performers, cooks, craftspeople, assist These dances are held on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of ing in children's acitivities and administrative duties, every month; including July 11 and July 25. All dances providing sign language interpreting, working with grounds are from 8-11 p.m. Admission is $2.00. For more infor and stage crews. All ages are welcome! For further in mation, call 887-0239 or 577-8241. formation contact the Volunteer Coordinator at 287-3467 or writet Magdalena Gilinsky, Folklife Program, 2600 L'En- fant Plaza, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. OPEN STAGE SUNDAYS AT GRANT'S TOMB 20560. Save Sunday evenings for the open stage for traditional BEREA COLLEGE COUNTRY DANCERS music at Grant's Tomb, 4425 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., near Tenley Circle. Chance Shiver is the host, and sign-up starts at 8i30 p.m. For more information, call Chance The Berea College Country Dancers are coming June 3, at 933-3919, or Grant's Tomb at 686-7108, 8-11 p.m., for a program of entertainment and general dancing with live music, at Takoma Park Junior High, Sil ver Spring. This is a benefit for the Metropolitan Coun try Dance Center scholarship fund. Donation $2. For in OPEN STAGE TUESDAYS AT OLIVER'S formation, call Jonathan Howard (667-6810) or Barbara Harding (703/437-3615). There is an open stage for traditional music every Tuesday evening at Oliver's, intersection of Rts, 236 and 123 in Fairfax, VA, from 9-12. A new featuret there GAMMALDANS PARTY is a $20 prize award, based on audience applause, during the first set each week. Sign up for the first set bet On Saturday, June 6, from 8 to 11 p.m., the last Gam- ween 8i30 and 9i30 p.m. For more information, call Oli maldans Party (Scandinavian couple dances) of the season ver's at 273-5^5^ or Dave Boaserman at 664-1541. will be held at the Takoma Park Junior High School, 7611 Piney Branch Rd, (1 block north of East-West Hwy, Rt. 410), Silver Spring, MD. Admission is $2.00. Music by COUPLE TURNING DANCES Peascods Gathering. Call 301/585-7916 for more info. The Couple Turning Dances will continue through the summer at Takoma Park Junior High School, Piney Branch CONCERTINA ORCHESTRA Rd. (1 block north of East-West Hwy., Rt. 410), Silver Spring, MD, Tuesdays from 8 to 11 p.m. Instruction in Attention all English concertina players— the Group basic turning steps (waltz, polka, pivot, polska, etc.) Squeeze this month will be on Sunday, June 14, at 5 p.m., utilizing easy dances beginning at 8«00 p.m. is followed at Tammy Zeheb's home in N.W. Washington. For informa by the teaching of more advanced dances and a request tion and/or directions, call Tammy (363-9413) or K. C, period. Admission is $1.50. Call 301/585-7916 for more King (229-6546). information. - 7 - CLASSI FI ED SECTI ON MUSI C FROM I NDI A RENAISSANCE DANCEi Workshop, Primavera, June 7, 3«30- The Gandhi Memorial Center, 4748 Western Ave,, N.W., 5i30. St. Mark's Church, Capitol Hill. 202/338-0788. in Washington, offers programs of Indian music and dance. On Saturday, June 13. at 8100 p.m., there will be a con HARMONICA LESSONS NEEDED— Contact Mickey Irwin, 942-4636 cert by James Pomerantz, sitarist, accompanied by Mr. (home) or 762-5800 (work). Subhash Karmarkar on tabla. On Saturday, June 27. Prab- ha Marathe will perform kathak dance. For more informa FSGW Newsletter will run your classifed ads for LOST & tion, call 229-3871. FOUND (free), or WANTED/FOR SALE ($1) items. RULES; (1) You must be an FSGW member; (2) Ads must be received by the announced Newsletter deadline (ususally the 15th of the month); (3) You must send in new copy if you want RODNEY AND RANDY MILLER IN BALTIMORE your ad repeated— ads will not be held over; (4) 3-issue limit per Sept.-Aug. season and 3-ad limit per issue; (5) $1 fee must be enclosed; (6) Ads must be within the 15- The Baltimore Folk Music Society will present a concert word limit— extra money does not buy extra words; (7) Ads of traditional New England country dance music featuring must include a phone number, with area code, in the copy Rodney and Randy Miller of New Hampshire on Friday, June and must be accompanied by a name and phone number for 12, at 8130 p.m., at Lovely Lane Church, 2200 St. Paul St. the Editor; AND (8) Ads must be relevant to FSGW's pur in Baltimore. The Miller Brothers have been playing pose (see back page). Send your copy to Kathy Hickerson, fiddle and piano together since childhood and are today recognized as the finest exponents of New England style P.O. Box 9062, Washington, D.C. 20003. square and contra dance music. Admission is $3 at the door. For more information, call 301/366-0808. ED TRICKETT. TRAPEZ0ID AT CHILDREN'S CREATIVE FESTIVAL The Maryland Committee for Children, Inc., is sponsor GREAT HUDSON RIVER REVIVAL ing a Children's Creative Festival in Baltimore on June 7, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free. There will be square dancing, storytelling, puppet making, jugglers, The 4th annual Great Hudson River Revival will offer a clowns, music, and more. At 1 p.m., Trapezoid, with its musical tour of the world on June 20 and 21, in Croton, unique vocal blend and a variety of acoustic instruments, New York. There will be samplings of the music and dance will present an outdoor concert. This will be followed of North America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and by a square dance called by Bob Dalsemer. At 4 p.m., Ed Asia, the Caribbean, West Indies and South America, as Trickett will perform contemporary and traditional music well as blues, gospel, old-time, and country. Doc and from the U.S., Canada, and Australia, accompanying him Merle Watson, and Martin Carthy and the Watersons are self on guitar and hammered dulcimer. The Festival will among the scheduled performers. This unique festival will be held at Market Place (intersection of Water & Freder combine music, dance, crafts, and food with an overall ick St«.» 2 blocks north of Pratt St.) in the Inner Har theme stressing environmental alternatives. bor area of Baltimore. For more information, call Mary The Revival is sponsored by the Hudson River Sloop Salkever at 301/752-7588. Clearwater, Inc., a non-profit, membership-supported or ganization dedicated to environmental action and educa tion. In recognition of the United Nations' designation SUNDAY PROGRAMS AT CLARA BARTON HOUSE of 1981 as the International Year of Disabled Persons, special emphasis is being placed on the elimination of The Clara Barton National Historical Site, 5801 Oxford barriers to the enjoyment of GHRR programming as well as Rd,, Glen Echo, MD (near the parking lot for Glen Echo on the festival grounds. For more information, call Doug Park), present special free' programs on Sunday afternoons. Cole, 914/454-7673. Turn-of-the-Century Music will be presented June 14, 2-4 p.m.— join musicians as they perform the tunes of the Gay Nineties. On J^ne 21. from 1-4 p.m., Victorian Women's Heritage will feature demonstrations of 19th-Century home MONTHLY SQUARE DANCES IN BERKELEY SPRINGS crafts, including lace making, china painting, and fancy needlework. On July 5, 2-4 p.m., there will be an Ice The Morgan Arts Council & W. Va. Arts & Humanities Cream Social, with ice cream, a barbershop quartet, and sponsor a square dance in Berkeley Springs, W. Va. the beautifully gowned hostesses recreating a leisurely Vic 3rd Saturday of every month. In June, there will also be torian afternoon. For more information, call 492-6245. a dance the first Saturday. The June 6 dance will fea ture Bill & Carlotta Wellington performing traditional folk music along with the Berkeley Strings. There will be squares, circles, & reels for allt Pete La Barge will be calling to the music of the Critton Hollow String Band The Capital Area Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Associa for our regular dance on June 20. Both dances will be tion (CABOMA) will hold jam sessions on Sunday, June 14, held in the Berkeley Springs High School Cafeteria, which and Sunday, June 28, at the Lyon Park Community Center, has a spacious dance floor, at 8100 p.m. Baked goodies & corner of North Fillmore St. & Pershing Dr. in Arlington, cider will be available. For more information or direc VA., from 2-6 p.m. For more information, call Joanie at tions, call 304/258-3300. 941-9282. NEWS FROM WESTERN MARYLAND CLOGGING CLASSES " 1 111 11 11 ' 1 V: ' , - ' V ‘ V - Classes in Appalachian clogging will be offered at Western Maryland Folklore Society dances for June are; Glen Echo Park, starting Tuesday, June 23. The beginning June 6; Ken Haltenhoff of Bluemont calling contras with class will cover the basics of solo and couple dancing. members of Contraband, at the Men's Club, in Sheherds- The intermediate class will include more advanced steps, town, W. Va. June 19» Tri-State Stompers with Slim Har clogging to big cirlce mountain dancing, and buckdance., rison, Leitersburg Grange Hall near Hagerstown. For de (a solo style with roots in the deep South). For infor tails and directions, call 301/824-5265 or 301/366-8818. mation, call Adam Hubbell, 462-6281, or Carol Chernikoff, Coming up; ALL NIGHT DANCE September 26, with Tod Whit 234-5372. temore, Kate Charles, and Howard Bass. - 8 - NEWCAMP *81 APPALACHIAN FAMILY FOLK WEEK Newcamp '81 will be held July 18-25 at Frostburg, MD. The Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky is home for FSGW member Barbara Harding, director, announces addition Appalachian Family Folk Week, to be held June 7-13 for al musicians who have joined the staff» Ann Leach (piano individuals and families who want to be involved in a & accordion), Claudio Buchwald (left-handed New England week of traditional Appalachian music, dance, crafts, and fiddler), and David Crandall (flute, clarinet, and a har storytelling. Among the staff this year are Jean Ritchie, monica in his pocketl). For information, call Barbara John McCutcheon, the McLain Family Band, and others. Harding, 703/437-3615. Costs depend on the number of adults & children in your group (for one adult it is $70 tuition and $70 room & board). To find out if there is still space available, HERITAGE ARTS WEEK call Hindman Settlement School, 606/785-5475. The fifth annual Heritage Arts Week, devoted to those EARLY DANCE AND MUSIC WEEK skills and traditions which have come to us through our Appalachian mountain heritage, will be held at Morehead Castle Hill Festival is sponsoring the eighth annual State University in Kentucky June 21-26. There will be Early Dance and Music Week, an intensive practical semi workshops in vocal and instrumental music, literature nar in the performance and reconstruction of dance and in (tales, games, etc.), dance, and crafts; concerts; and strumental music from centuries past, at the Crane Estate dance parties. Workshop fee is $50* housing is available in Ipswich, Mass., July 12-19. Classes, workshops, arxl at reasonable cost, and meals are available in the Uni lectures will be offered by a distinguished faculty of versity cafeteria and nearby restaurants. To find out if scholars and performers. Tuition for resident students there's still time to register, write now to Heritage is $300 and includes lodging and meals; for non-resident Arts Week, c/o Music Dept., Morehead State Univ., More commuting students it is $175. For more information and head, KY 40351. to find out if there are still openings, call 617/356-4070 This Newsletter is published by the Folklore Society of Greater Washington, a non-profit, educational organization de dicated to preserving and promoting traditional folk arts in the greater Washington, D.C., area. Membership in the Society is open to all who wish to help pursue these goals. Membership benefits include free admission to programs, reduced admission to special events, the Newsletter by first class mail, plus workshops, sings, and more. 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