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July-August 2020 Volume LVI number 4 newsletter of the San Francisco Folk Music Club July/August 2020 friends and families making home-grown music together Book Review: Night Drive: (hence the book's title), and poor or nonexistent lodging. Garnet observes that their small band spent Travels With My Brother by much time just staring out the windshield: “None of us ever slept in those days.” When the band did stop for Garnet Rogers meals, they would sit at separate tables, each with his own paperback book. Otherwise, Garnet observes, “if we didn't get a break from each other's company, there Reviewed by Peter Ross was going to be a murder”. There were many lighter moments on the road, as when Stan remarked, “Nothing A 735-page book by a relatively minor musician handles speed bumps like a rental car.” might seem a bit daunting, but Garnet's writing is loaded with interesting anecdotes, humor, and As some of Stan's songs like Barrett's Privateers became folkloreabilia. Garnet pulls no punches, though, and I well-known, the band would sometimes substitute came away with a deep understanding of both obscene words in a parody on stage, and audiences brothers, warts and all. I was captivated in the first wouldn't even notice! Barrett's Privateers had actually eight pages when Utah Phillips is quoted twice: been written as a joke, to get the attention of drunks in “There are no career moves in folk music”, and the audience. Once, when Stan was interviewed on a “Punctuation is no substitute for timing”. folk-friendly radio station in New Jersey, he claimed that the intensity of playing music on stage was like sex, Garnet's description of how he tried to shorten and “It's like you're making love to the entire audience. the book is an example of his self-effacing It's better than sex actually.” Garnet and the bass player humor: “I removed most of the 'F' words. That lost 50 or so pages. I then took out all of the sex were listening while sitting out in the car, and they had scenes, which took care of a paragraph. (We were, to turn the radio off as they were getting ready to barf! after all, a folk band.)” The book actually does have some sex, but it's at the R, not X, rated level. Here's Canadian songwriter Stan Rogers will be well known to another amusing quote about when the brothers were most folk club members for his rousing songs like the trying to get started in the music world: “Stan was Mary Ellen Carter, the Northwest Passage, and Barrett's busy in Toronto, pitching songs and continuing his Privateers. Sadly, Stan died when just 33 in a plane studies as a freelance gynecologist, so I decided to crash in 1983, on his way home from the Kerrville Folk move back to Hamilton to be closer to my parents' Festival. His younger brother Garnet, also a folksinger, bank account.”Night Drive spends little time on the waited 33 years before writing his memoir about their brothers' childhood, although it does note that in high times together, especially their touring for almost ten school in eastern Canada, Stan was shy, chubby, and years. awkward, with horn-rimmed glasses and a comb-over, even at 17. He taught himself guitar, and the early (continued on page 6) musical influences for both brothers included Gordon Lightfoot (“of course”), Fred Neil, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ian Tyson, Joni Mitchell, and a little later Bob Dylan. The bulk of the book involves the decade when Stan, Garnet, who played fiddle and flute, and various bass players toured all over Canada and the eastern US. The early years were very tough, with small audiences in rough venues, gigs canceled at the last minute, long drives like a 45-hour one from their home to Calgary the folknik Vol. LVI, Number 4 Page 2 July/August 2020 The San Francisco Folk Music Club is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the enjoyment, preservation and promotion of acoustic music in individual, family, and community life. “The only thing better than singing is more singing” – Ella Fitzgerald Board Members President: Ed Hilton ♦ Vice President: Hali Hammer Thad Binkley ♦ Charlie Fenton ♦ Bob Helliesen ♦ Daniel Hersh Amelia Hogan ♦ Phyllis Jardine ♦ Jerry Michaels ♦ Dave Sahn 4th of July Virtual Campout Open Mic, hosted by Hali Hammer by Hali Hammer Saturday, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Since we can’t get together in person, we’ll have 1. Robert Rodriguez 2. Larry Hildes a virtual get-together Friday night, plus four online 3. Samuel Roland 4. Vicki Post workshops and a 2-hour open mic each day on Saturday 5. Hali Hammer 6. Yvette Tannenbaum and Sunday. Workshops will be one hour each. Ed Hilton and I will host. If you want to share a song, you can put 7. Jo D’Anna 8. Rick Myers your request for a turn that day in that workshop. 9. Randy Berge 10. Marcie Boyd The URLs for the Zoom workshops and open 11. Evelie Posch 12. Rob Katz mics will be posted on SFFMC’s Harmony List, or you can email me ([email protected]) or Ed Workshops / Song Circles ([email protected]) and we’ll send you the URLs. Sunday, July 5, at 11:00 to 4:30 Hope you can join us on Zoom this weekend. Better virtual than never!!! 11:00-12:00. Songs of Tom Lehrer & Alan Sherman led by Danny Hirsch Virtual Potluck 12:30-1:30. Carter Family Songs Friday, July 3, at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. led by Gary Breitbard A chance to check in with each other, one at a time due to 2:00-3:00. Story Songs and Ballads Zoom constraints. Bring your own everything and sit led by Robert Rodriguez down at the computer with your meal (or just join us and eat whenever you’d like…) 3:30-4:30. Utah Phillips Songs led by Thad Binkley & Phyllis Jardine Workshops / Song Circles Saturday, July 4, at 11:00 to 4:30 Open Mic, hosted by Ed Hilton 11:00-12:00. I (heart) Ballads – [Child Ballads Preferred] Sunday, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. led by Sadie Damascus 1. Ron Goldberg 2. Ed Hilton 12:30-1:30. Joan Baez Songs 3. Mike Fletcher 4. Scott Clark led by Ed Hilton 5. Sadie Damascus 6. Jim Burrill 2:00-3:00. Bob Dylan Songs 7. Galen Brandt 8. Bonnie Lockhart led by Yvette O'Tannenbaum 9. Wendy Silk 10. Mike Buczak & Amanda Griffith 3:30-4:30. Sea & River Songs 11. Rebecca Parks 12. Marlene McCall led by Thad Binkley & Phyllis Jardine the folknik Vol. LVI, Number 4 Page 3 July/August 2020 Our First Virtual SFFFF – How It Went Hersh for all they did. And thanks to Joanne Mar for her by Marlene McCall perennial “Saturday before the festival” show on Folk Music and Beyond, on KALW. And all the performers and I’m going to disregard – because it’s water under workshop leaders who donated their time free. the bridge at this point – the unfortunate reason why we If you want to make a donation specifically couldn’t have a festival in real life this year, and instead allocated to the festival, please visit report on what actually took place. Considering that we had www.sffolkfest.org/donate/. only a few weeks to do the planning and organizing of a festival that was totally different than any we’d done before, Renew your Club Membership Online! it turned out OK! by Marlene McCall We had fewer events, of course. Some performers Folks can now join the San Francisco Folk Music and workshop leaders used to doing their thing on a stage or Club, or existing members can renew their membership, in a classroom weren’t able to pivot to a virtual event. And on the club’s website. Go to www.sffmc.org/membership/ some events were so participatory in nature that they simply and you’ll see these choices: couldn’t be done virtually. Still, we had 25 performances, 3 events for our family program, 2 special film events, 2 events as part of our storytelling program, and 11 workshops. Many of us learned a lot about using Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Zoom, and regular YouTube to present the festival events. All in all, not as good as live, but a lot of people attended a lot of events, heard a lot of good music, and in some cases played and sang along with event leaders. Not bad, considering. And many of the events that were recorded can still be accessed. Go to the program on the festival website After you choose the type of membership, you can (https://sffolkfest.org/program-2020/)) and click through on also choose to add a donation before processing your events that you missed. You may be able to hear them now. payment. Thanks to committee members Remy Timbrook, Thanks to Valerie Rose and Daniel Hersh for Todd Silverstein, Pete Kronowitt, and especially Daniel making this happen! – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – SAN FRANCISCO FOLK MUSIC CLUB Yearly membership levels (please check only one box): $40 Standard $20 Economy $10 Low Income: or pay what you can I enclose $____ cash $____ check for ____ years membership in the San Francisco Folk Music Club. Additional donation to the SFFMC: $10______ other amount $_______. Total enclosed: $_________. This entire amount may be tax-deductible. The SFFMC is a 501(c)(3) organization.
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