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Dates For Your Diary Folk Federation of New South Wales Inc Folk News Issue 475 Dec 2015 - Jan 2016 $3.00 Dance News Mimosa Duo - featuring at this year's Gulgong Folk Festival folk music dance festivals reviews profiles diary dates sessions opportunities ADVERTISING SIZES Size mm Members Not Mem DEC 2015 - JAN 2016 Full page 210 x 297 $80 $120 Folk Federation of New South Wales Inc 1/2 page 210 x 146 $40 $70 In this issue Post Office Box A182 or Presidents Report p3 102 x 146 Sydney South NSW 1235 Dates for your diary p4 ISSN 0818 7339 ABN9411575922 1/4 page 102 x 146 $25 $50 Festivals and Other events p5 jam.org.au 1/8 page 102 x 70 $15 $35 End of Year Bash p7 Folk News p8 Advertising artwork required by 5th The Folk Federation of NSW Inc, of each month. Advertisements can Dance News p9 formed in 1970, is a Statewide body be produced by Cornstalk if required. Eureka Stockade Commemoration p10 which aims to present, support, encour- Please contact the editor for enquiries Liz Frencham article p11 age and collect folk music, folk dance, about advertising (02) 6493 6758 BMC's Saplings Program p12 folklore and folk activities as they Christmas Salsa Café p13 exist in Australia in all their forms. It All cheques for advertisements and Folk Contacts (Ecorn only) p17 provides a link for people interested inserts to be made payable to the Folk in the folk arts through its affiliations Federation of NSW Inc with folk clubs throughout NSW and its If your event misses Cornstalk, Julie Cornstalk Editor - Coral Vorbach counterparts in other States. It bridges Bishop 02 9524 0247, julie@folkfedn- all styles & interests to present the folk PO Box 5195. Cobargo NSW 2550 sw.org.au can include it in Folkmail, arts to the widest possible audience. 6493 6758 [email protected] the weekly email to members. And don’t forget that as a member you can Committee Cornstalk is the official pub. of the Folk put information on jam.org.au, where Federation of NSW. Contributions, helpful tutorials will guide you. President: Andy Busuttil news, reviews, poems, photos welcome! Vice President: Anthony Woolcott Photographs - high resolution JPG or TIFF files. 300 dpi images cropped at FEBRUARY - MARCH 2016 dead- Secretary: Pam Davis 9955 3677 line date 12 JANUARY 2016. [email protected] correct size. Treasurer: Bruce Cameron 6331 1129 We use Adobe InDesign, Photoshop 6, [email protected] Microsoft Word. PLEASE do not send Folk Contacts photographs as part of a Word doc. General Members: Dallas & James Organisers of Regular Events! Baxter, Terry Clinton, Sandra Nixon, No part of Cornstalk may be reproduced There are many out-of-date entries Max Gregory, Kate Maclurcan without permission of the publishers. All care but no responsibility taken for in Folk Contacts. PLEASE look for Membership/Listserv/JAM: omissions or errors. your event (as well as others you Wayne Richmond 9939 8802 may know of), & send changes, dele- [email protected] Wrap Co-ordinator James Baxter tions etc to Julie [email protected]! 9810 4131 - [email protected] The Folk Federation of NSW - Membership Application Form Name/s: Eve phone: Day phone: Address: Mobile: Email: Membership Type (Tick one) Individual - $25 Family (more than one in same household) - $30 Other name/s: _________________________________ Affiliate (organisation) - $35 Contact Name: _____________________________________ Please find enclosed $ ____ being my subscription for ___ years. I enclose my cheque/money order payable to: Folk Federation of NSW; or Please charge my credit card: (Tick one) Card number: ___ ___ ___ ___ / ___ ___ ___ ___ / ___ ___ ___ ___ / ___ ___ ___ ___ Expiry Date: ____ / ____ Name on card: ________________________________________________________________ Signature: The membership year runs from 1st May to 30th April or from 1st November to 31st October. Allowances are made in your favour for people joining at other times. Send to: PO Box A182, Sydney South NSW 1235. 2 - The CORNSTALK Gazette Dec 2015 - Jan 2016 PRESIDENT'S REPORT Hello folks, My name is Andy Busuttil & I’m delighted to introduce myself as the newly elect- ed president of the Folk Federation of NSW. I was elected into the position during the recent AGM together with secretary Pam Davis & treasurer Bruce Cameron. One of the first things we decided to do as a committee is to work out what our future plan will be for The Federation. The Folk environment is such a fluid and ever-evolving one and it’s important the Federation matches this movement and perhaps even leads it in some instances. We know there are many challenges ahead for us. There are a number of things we need to do in this State. We need to raise the profile of folk events and repre- sent them in a vibrant and fulsome manner. We need to ensure that the legacies of past and present elders in the folk movement are not only preserved but inspira- tional to younger folkies coming through. This is one of our great challenges. The elders tend to be ‘society and association’ conscious in the more established tradi- tions whereas our younger members (and essentially ‘potential’ members) have had both the gift and the challenge of living in this radically altering digital age. Association for them has, in many instances, morphed into the ‘virtual world’. Our challenge essentially is to ensure that we are relevant to both our folk elders and our folk youngsters (yes, I am one of the ‘elders’ J). The most important question we need to ask ourselves is how can we bridge the gap and bring these different age groups together in a way that is absolutely relevant to each of them? I went online to see if I could find a definition of ‘folk’ that made most sense to me and the online dictionary came up with the following: “relating to the traditional art or culture of a community or nation.” In Australia, other than our Indigenous tradi- tions (which are substantial in themselves), we have a nation sharing its social communities between close to 200 immigrant cultures. This gives us somewhere in the vicinity of 500 language groups in this vast country of ours (including the 300 or so Indigenous language groups, many of which are sadly no longer practised). In NSW we had over 70 Indigenous language groups, and we have over 120 ‘ancestral groups’ listed on the multiculturalnsw.id.com.au website. Over 20% of this State’s population speaks a language other than English at home. When you consider that roughly 25% of this State’s population was born overseas and that many more would include first, second and third-generation migrants, the need to focus on diversity in folk becomes absolutely clear. It is also an area that has been neglected and in some instances turned away from in the Aus- tralian folk movement. As the President of the Federation this is one aspect of our operations that I would really like to see changed. I would also like to see a greater participation of the many diverse cultures in our Federation. It is this diversity I firmly believe that lends vibrancy to any social grouping. I would sincerely welcome any comments and/or suggestions that you would like us to take into consideration as a Committee and to incorporate into future planning for the Federation. We are at an important social crossroad in our political and social history and whether or not ‘folk’ in all its incarnations follows or leads this is up to us, the folk practitioners. Let’s take the op- portunity with enthusiasm and do what we can to ensure that our relevance to society is embellished and not diminished. Let’s also take the opportunity to engage in the building of increased bridges between the various demographic and cultural groups in our community to strengthen our position in the arts and increase our profile in decisions made by government. I look forward to the coming year & our strategic plan outcome will be summarised for you in a coming edition of Cornstalk. Andy Busuttil Humph Hall December/January 'Bright Eyes' (Loosely Woven) - 7pm Friday 4th + 2pm Sunday 6th Dec New Year's Eve in Humph Hall - from 7pm (all welcome!) Jonathan Lyn (Canada) - 7pm Saturday 9th January The Hollands! (US) - 7pm Friday 22nd January Formerly the Allambie Heights Uniting Church, Humph Hall is now the private home of Gial & Wayne. 85 Allambie Rd, Allambie Heights. Bookings call 9939 8802 or [email protected] - humphhall.org The Folk Federation of NSW ONLINE - jam.org.au The CORNSTALK Gazette The CORNSTALK Gazette Dec 2015 - Jan 2016 - 3 Dates for your diary December '15 & January '16 Metropolitan traditional carols, blasted out in 3 chord 7.30pm 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville thrash. A happy birthday party for a $20 entry includes refreshments and free December 2015 great rebel who railed against the rich beginners salsa lesson. Hot meals avail- Tuesday 1st December and powerful and who totally believed able, plenty of parking , with the in sharing, caring and welfare. Yep, that Sydney Playford Dancing Sunday 13th December PLAYFORD PLAYERS and callers guy! 576 King St, Newtown. 7.30-11pm. Folk Federation of NSW. End of Year Heather Clemesha, Keith Wood and Julie Free. 9557 2989 Folk Bash. Concert, MUMMERS Bishop, and some interesting dances, for PLAY – with performers SOUTHERN this last dance for 2015. (We start again CROSS TRAWLERS, KATE MA- on 2nd February.) Bush Music Club, Hut CLURCAN, BLACK JOAK MORRIS, 44, Addison Road Centre, 142 Addison DARLO AFTER DARK (choir), CAP Rd, Marrickville.

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