WALKER CREEK Music Camp Fall session NOV 1 -4, 2018 Registration opens August 15
Walker Creek Ranch, near Petaluma, California, featuring bluegrass and oldtime music. This camp will also offer a classic COUNTRY track
FALL CAMP INSTRUCTORS AND CLASSES:
Bluegrass jam class – Chris Brashear Oldtime string band – Tom Sauber
Banjo, bluegrass – Alan Munde Banjo, oldtime – Joe Newberry
Bass – Bill Amatneek Dobro - Ivan Rosenberg
Fiddle, bluegrass – Megan Lynch Fiddle, classic country – Katie Glassman
Fiddle, oldtime American & Canadian – April Verch
Guitar, bluegrass – Chris Jones Guitar, flatpicking – Peter McLaughlin
Guitar, classic country – Greg Schochet
Mandolin, bluegrass – Patrick Sauber Mandolin, classic country – Tom Rozum
Southern Singing - Alice Gerrard Easy traditional singing – Rebecca Stout
Classic country singing: Three chords and the truth – Laurie Lewis
Music & More– Morgan Cochneuer & Rebecca Richman
*Small group instructional classes *Group practice and jams *Elective classes *Student concert *Staff concert *Dancing *Onsite camping or lodging available *Music & More program for young children or siblings of attendees * Four days of fun! *Also yoga, massage, ping pong, swimming, hiking, ice cream socials, happy hour & more
www.walkercreekmusiccamp.org 415-663-6030
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vThe 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.
“That’s one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies — and the harmonies — that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.” — Roger McGuinn
Musical Meetings Musical meetings of the San Francisco Folk Music Club are held every second and fourth Friday at Cyprian’s ARC, 2097 Turk Street (at Lyon), San Francisco. There is plenty of street parking, but if you can’t find anything closer, you may park in the blood bank lot at Turk and Masonic. Cyprian’s asks that if we park in the lot, we use a parking pass. Parking passes are stored on the info table right inside the front entrance of the church. You can pull up to the front entrance and step inside to get one before you park. You can keep it in your car for future use since they are not dated. Singing and jamming start at 8:00 pm; we start clean-up at 11:30 and need to leave by midnight. Two of the rooms require earlier leaving times. Bring finger-food snacks and beverages if you can. Guests are always welcome, and no one is expected to “perform.” Cyprian’s charges us rent; we ask those who can to donate $5 to $10 per evening, but if you can’t donate, we still want you to join us! In consideration of our members’ allergies and other concerns, only service animals are permitted at SFFMC events, and all our events are fragrance-free. The wearing of perfumes or heavily-scented products is not permitted. If a situation arises that cannot be easily remedied, members may be asked to show responsibility by taking their pet home or going home to change out of clothing that has picked up the offending scents.
Jul 13 Jul 27 Aug 10 Aug 24 Setup 1, 7 p.m. Glen V Shelley S Debbie K Debbie K Setup 2, 7 p.m. Debbie K Debbie K Greg B Glen V Host 1, 8-9 p.m. Kim P James B Ed H James B Host 2, 9-10 p.m. Greg B John K Al Eng John K Singing Room Beth W Tes W Dave S Ed H Theme Moon and Stars Lost and Found Silly / Spooky Songs Faith Sang Cleanup 1 Glen V Dave S Glen V Greg B
If you have constraints and contingencies that make it hard to sign up in advance, think of ways to help: when you can come by you can bring food, pitch in with set-up and clean-up, or possibly both!
Board Meetings The SFFMC Board meets on each second Tuesday—potluck 6:30 p.m., meeting Next folknik Fold-In and Sing: 8:00 p.m. All Club members are welcome to attend potluck dinner and meeting. Sunday, June 24, 2018 at noon July 10: Charlie and Susan, 419 Euclid, Oakland, (510) 817-4028 Home of Marian Gade August: No Meeting 136 Highland Blvd., Kensington, CA (510) 524-9815 September 11: Marian Gade, 136 Highland Blvd., Kensington, (510) 524-9815
Jerry Praver (1939-2018) paper. The muse’s call could be abrupt, once causing him by Deborah Sandler to suddenly pull off the highway to write, too busy with the song to tell Bev why he had stopped. They made three We have lost one of our best. Singer-songwriter recordings: Old Songs for the Young at Heart, Are We extraordinaire, town crier, and folk club stalwart Jerry There Yet? and Going Places, and published a songbook: Praver died on April 30, 2018 of cancer, just shy of his Signs of the Times. Numerous videos of Jerry and Bev can 79th birthday and 58th wedding anniversary. be found on YouTube, including their song “Velcro”. Because folk singing and songwriting came so Redmond O’Colonies convinced Bev and Jerry to naturally to Jerry, we assume he did that all his life, but he become town criers. They became San Luis Obispo County’s had a scientific past – including working at the NASA Jet official Town Criers in 2000, and delighted Camp Harmony Propulsion Laboratory, where he processed pictures from with their schtick. In 2015, Jerry took second place honors in the Mars landing. a worldwide Town Crier competition in New Zealand. Jerry and Bev met when Jerry was 13 and Bev Jerry is survived by his loving wife and partner Bev, was 11. They married right after Jerry graduated from and daughters Linda and Debbie. Bev requests that any college, and moved west. They joined the Riverside Folk memorial donations be made to the Camp Harmony Song Society where they were influenced to become Campership Fund. folksingers. Jerry and Bev started playing in schools in 1981, and went fulltime in 1987, having booked 50 schools in 5 months. Jerry wrote 35 songs and 17 parodies with Bev. Editor’s note: Bob Reid created a wonderful video in Their partnership was legendary, and their love for each memoriam for Jerry, and it is posted on You Tube. The audio other shone brightly in each song. Their voices blended is “Sing With Me”, written by Jerry for Bev, after 50 years of together seamlessly. Their parody workshops made us singing together, and recorded by Vicki Solomon at Camp Harmony. A slide show of Bev & Jerry photos accompanies laugh so hard our smile muscles hurt. Jerry’s first song the song. Search for “Jerry Praver” on YouTube. was written in 1977 during a walk in Cleveland. The muse grabbed him and he ran into a drugstore for pencil and the folknik Vol. LIV, Number 4 Page 3 July/Aug 2018
Websites of Interest to Folkies by Marlene McCall
50 Best Folk Music Artists of all Time. All “Best of” lists should, of course, be taken with a grain of salt. They are someone’s subjective opinion, in this case, Kim Ruehl of the Thought Company. Nevertheless, it’s a pretty interesting and diverse list when viewed as a reference, and you may be introduced to some artists you don’t know, or may be reminded of some whom you haven’t thought about recently. For an example of the breadth of folk singers, groups and bands covered, the top seven are (1) The Weavers, (2) Ani de Franco, (3) Ben Harper, (4) Bob Dylan, (5) The Carter Family, (6) Cat Stevens, and (7) Charlie Poole. I can hear the potential folkie disagreements already! www.thoughtco.com/best-folk-music-artists-of-all-time-1321806
A Folk Song a Day by Jon Boden. For an entire year between 2010 and 2011, in a mammoth project, Jon Boden recorded a folk song every day. The aim of the project was to provide a resource for anyone interested in taking up social folk singing. You can browse an alphabetical list of all 365 songs, search for a particular song title, read Simon Holland’s notes and comments about each song, and listen to each recording. www.afolksongaday.com.
Best Folk Albums of 2015, from the Telegraph (UK). Same caveat as mentioned above re “Best of” lists. Martin Chilton, culture editor of the Telegraph, rates 70 folk music albums issued in 2015, using a five-star review system, with his top choices at the top of the list. Each album is identified and described, and in many cases, links to full-fledge reviews are included. www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/11345427/Best-folk-music-albums-of-2015.html
Folk Works. It’s a little hard to categorize this website, which is self-described as “The Alternative Voice for Folk/Roots/Trad Music, Dance and Related Folk Arts in Southern California”. It offers a combination of articles, interviews, milestones, and contributions by seven different columnists, as well as a calendar of festivals and live music performances. The calendar will be mostly useful to those in Southern California, but most of the other offerings are of equal interest to all, regardless of location. www.folkworks.org
Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People. Although some of the topics covered are less relevant to folk musicians than to other more formal musical genres, certainly the music theory fundamentals are useful for anyone, older children or adults, who want to learn about or advance their knowledge of music theory. Each topic – for instance, Pitch, Rhythm, Meter, The Major Scale, Key Signatures – can be downloaded free in PDF form or, especially useful to music teachers, can be purchased in the form of an 18” x 24” poster. www.tobyrush.com/theorypages/index.html
Second Hand Songs. This is the best online resource I’ve found for determining writing credit on recorded songs (when writing credit is known) and to find out what artists/performers/groups have recorded a given song. Almost 75,000 “original” recordings (meaning the very first time a song was recorded) and almost 600,000 covers (all subsequent recording of any song). The recordings in the database increase over time; members of the public are encouraged to register with the website and submit information on additional recordings. If you choose to become a submitter, you will need to give links to the recording and back up your information. If the folks at Second Hand Songs review and agree with your submission, it will be added to the database underlying the website. www.secondhandsongs.com
The Global Jukebox. Although Alan Lomax died in 2002, the organization he founded, the Association for Cultural Equity (ACE), is furthering his research with the Global Jukebox, an online database that allows users to listen to and learn about more than 6,000 songs from 1,000 cultures, including many from Lomax’s personal collection. www.theglobaljukebox.org
The Great 78 Project. The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research, and discovery of 78 RPM records. From about 1898 to the 1950s, an estimated 3 million sides (~3 minute recordings) were made on 78 RPM discs. Although many of the commercially viable recordings have been restored or remastered onto LPs or CD, there is still research value in the artifacts and often rare 78 RPM discs and recordings. Many thousands of these songs are available for listening and download on the website here: http://great78.archive.org/
The Traditional Ballad Index. Created by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle at California State University at Fresno, this is a huge resource for those who are interested in researching traditional ballads. From the initial alphabetic list of thousands of titles, you can click through to get information on any individual song, including cross-reference title information – we all know that traditional ballads are often known by several alternate titles – and other data, such as basic storyline, earliest date known, Child numbers and Roud numbers when applicable, locations collected, a bibli- ography that refers to the folklore literature in which the ballad is mentioned, and broadside and recording information. www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/Contents.html the folknik Vol. LIV, Number 4 Page 4 July/Aug 2018
The Music of Story, the Magic of Music, Part VI folknik Editor Wanted by Robert Rodriquez by Phyllis Jardine In the ballad entitled “May Colven”, a variant of Editor wanted, beginning with the number four in the Child collection, after the heroine has September/October, 2018 issue. returned home, having dispatched the nefarious false Sir Must have computer, be familiar with John to his watery grave, her parrot inquires where she has Microsoft Word, creating PDFs, editing and been, and what has become of her would-be wooer. She tells proofreading. A knowledge of In Design the parrot that if it will keep her secret, she will give to it a would be helpful. cage of the finest gold and ivory as a reward. When her Duties: Gather information on father inquires why the bird is chattering so loudly, it SFFMC events, such as festivals and Board answers that a nasty cat is prowling around its cage, and it is meetings, assemble and proofread page thanking its mistress for driving it away. So everyone lives editors’ pages, get the folknik printed and happily ever after except, of course, the perfidious Sir John, delivered. including the cunning bird who realizes the fruits of its For more details, contact Phyllis deception. Jardine at [email protected] or Thad The world of ballad and story is replete with Binkley at [email protected]. examples of cunning and crafty critters whose actions alter the lives and fortunes not only of human beings but of SFFFF Lost and Found themselves as well. No story more exemplifies this than the tale often referred to as “Puss in Boots”, although in many These items were found at the San Francisco versions the animal in question is not a cat nor is he known Free Folk Festival. If one of them belongs to to wear any footgear. Its first appearance in Europe may you, please contact Tes at [email protected]. have been as early as 1553 in a collection of stories by the • Grey Sweatshirt stating “Willard Physical writer Giovanni Francesco Straparola called, “Le Piacevoli Education” Noti”, or “The Pleasant Night”. Fable one of the eleventh • Ball cap - brown, with a golden sports night tells how a cunning cat helped an impoverished youth symbol with an M - size XL named Constantine to win a king’s daughter to wife, and • Sunglasses – tortoise-shell patterning eventually to become king of Bohemia. Later versions of the • White water bottle with white cap story would appear in separate collections in Naples in 1634 • White water bottle with gold cap - and Paris in 1697. And by the 18th century, more versions Starbucks insulated were circulating throughout Italy, France, Germany and • Purple plastic water bottle - Thermos England. Before the 19th century would arrive, along with brand the story known as “Dick Whittington”, which also features • Tuner - Snark brand a crafty feline who aids a poor young man into changing the circumstances of his life from rags to riches, the theme of the These glasses were lost and not found. If they cunning animal who aids a human being to wealth and accidentally ended up with you, let Tes know: happiness takes center stage. Other versions of the story • Reading glasses, green rims become localized so that in Finland, for example, the creature in question is a fox, often named Mikko, while in Community Sings at the Freight India the chief protagonist may be a jackal who aids a poor by Marlene McCall youth to eventually wed a Rajah’s daughter and become monarch himself when her father dies. To celebrate the Other animals often show their cleverness in other Freight’s 50th ways, but the results are often similar as regards their own anniversary in 2018, lives and fortunes. There is a tale, known from West Africa they are holding a series to Indonesia, in which a clever monkey outwits a greedy but of free community rather foolish shark by telling the shark that it has left its heart sings. The Freight & back home, thus forcing the shark to return to its home Salvage is located at territory and allowing the monkey to escape and keep its life. 2020 Addison St. in In its Indian variant, it is often included in The Panchatantar, Berkeley. Although the world’s oldest collection of animal fables told to instruct these events are free, three sons of a king in the proper behavior of royals towards you must reserve tickets others of their class as well as in their relations to their own ahead of time, and subjects. These types of political fables are quite popular from reservations are limited Persia and Turkey as far East as Tibet and Mongolia. They to two tickets per person. even feature a variety of creatures as clever and wise story tellers in a variety of settings to keep young women from The next of these will be: straying off the path of virtue where their husbands are Carter Family Singalong concerned. Perhaps the best example of this type of tale can Sunday, 9/9/18 at 1:00-2:00 p.m. be found in the 14th century Persian text known as The Book Led by Laurie Lewis of the Parrot, in which a cunning and sagacious bird regales Ticket reservations starts 8/12/18 at its mistress for 52 nights to keep her from betraying her www.thefreight.org. merchant husband until his return home… — to be continued in Part VII in a future folknik. the folknik Vol LIV: No. 4 Page 5 July/August 2018
______The folknik song pages are produced by song page co-editors Barbara Millikan and Jas. Adams. Please email or text us with any comments and your song suggestions. To submit your song for consideration for publication in the folknik, send words, chords & melody and an audio file to: Barbara Millikan,(503)434-8003, [email protected]; and to Jas. Adams, (503)349-0840, [email protected]. Songwriters/composers/lyricists retain all copyright privileges. the folknik Vol LIV: No. 4 Page 6 July/August 2018
ABOUT THE SONGWRITER
When in high school in San Francisco, Jas. Adams often attended SFFMC Friday evenings at Faith Petric’s house on Clayton Street, and the camaraderie and sharing of music has stayed with him ever since. He wrote this song after moving to Oregon, and he has recently dusted it off for the folknik. A dog lover, Jas. originally wrote this song for his shepherd mix, Lloyd. the folknik Vol. LIV, No. 4 Page 7 July/August 2018 Festivals ’n’ Such
SFFMC July 4 Camp NEW DATES: June 30–July 2 36th Annual Saw Festival August 11-12 Boulder Creek Scout Reservation, near Boulder Creek, California; Aug. 11: Open jam at 2:00 p.m. at the Scribner Statue, 1520 two nights only. Musical jams, open mics, workshops. Current Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz; potluck and jam 6:30 p.m. at Roaring INFO is on the home page at
Submissions for next folknik: Deadline: Friday Aug 3. Send items by e-mail to Editor-in-chief, plus appropriate page editor. Contributors to this edition of the folknik: Editor, To Be Announced Calendar Editor (Pages 9-10), [email protected] Shelby Solomon Assistant Editor, To Be Announced The East Bay Gang of Folders Pages 1,8, [email protected] Susan Frank Folk Club Web Page, [email protected] David Luckhardt Pages 2-3-4, [email protected] Marlene McCall Web Site Provider Garry Wiegand Song Page Editors (Pages 5-6), Jas. Adams, Barbara Millikan Membership Secretary, [email protected] Ellen Eagan Page 7, [email protected] Doris Atkinson Guiding Light Faith Petric, 1915-2013
the folknik Vol. LIV, Number 4 Page 10 July/August 2018 SFFMC WEB PAGE: http://www.sffmc.org New Christy Minstrels, Bankhead: 2400 First, Livermore 8p 925-373-6800 Regularly Scheduled Events and Dancing info on page 9 Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally Band, Ugly Mug, Soquel 7:30p 831-479-9421 JULY Happy Independence Day! 28Sa ÌFÉ, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 6/30-7/2 SFFMC July Fourth Campout, Boulder Creek Scout sffmc.org Singer and Songwriter/Maya Hall, Back Room, Berk. 8pm 510-654-3808 1 Su silly song sing-along, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 1pm 510-644-2020 Sezu/Scott Beynon, Monkey House, Berk. 7:30pm themonkeyhouse.org Hp Spanic Allstars, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7pm 510-644-2020 Kuinka/Rainbow Girls, 200 N San Pedro, San Rafael 7pm 415-444-8000 Chicken Train, house concert, Richmond 7pm [email protected] George Winston, Dance Palace, Point Reyes Stn 8pm 415-663-1075 John McCutcheon, 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton 4pm 925-931-4848 29Su Deva Mahal, Freight&Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7pm 510-644-2020 Steve Poltz, HopMonk: 224 Vintage Way, Novato 6pm 415-892-6200 BeauSoleil, Sweetwater: 19 Corte Madera, Mill Valley 8pm 415-388-1100 Keeley Valentino/Nick Shattell/Michelle Lewis, Sonoma 4p insidelands.org Charlie Hunter Trio, HopMonk: 224 Vintage, Novato 6pm 415-892-6200 2 M Renee Wahl, Flynn’s: 6275 Hwy 9, Felton 7:30pm 831-335-2800 30M Ethan Ostrow Trio, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7:30pm 510-644-2020 3 Tu Dred Scott & Freedom Jazz, Back Room, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 AUGUST Songwriters open mic, Lost Church: 65 Capp, SF 6:30pm 1 W Little Village Foundation, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7p 510-644-2020 Matt Dorian/Faustina Masigat, Flynn’s, Felton 7:30 831-335-2800 2 Th Nu-Blu, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 5 Th Hills to Hollers, Freight&Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8p 510-644-2020 Victoria Vox, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 Diana Gameros/Alejandro Y Maria, UCB Botanical Garden, Berkeley 5:30p Chris Smither/Forest Sun, UCB Botanical Garden, Berkeley 5:30pm Steve Poltz, Flynn’s: 6275 Hwy 9, Felton 7:30pm 831-335-2800 3-6 Women’s Hearts&Hands Guitar, Mendocino womensheartsandhands.com 6 F Fanna-Fi-Allah, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 3 F *** FOLKNIK DEADLINE *** Calendar e-mail to [email protected] Sugartown, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 other material send to [email protected] 7 Sa Tribu Baharú, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8p 510-644-2020 Amaranth Quartet, house concert, Berkeley 7:30pm 510-525-9248 Spencer & Sequoia, Monkey House, Berk. 7:30pm themonkeyhouse.org Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, HopMonk: 224 Vintage, Novato 8pm 415-892-6200 Gal Holiday/Hi-Ball Hotshots, Plough & Stars: 116 Clement, SF 9:30pm Aallotar, house concert, Sebastopol 7:30pm 707-799-4564 Wendy Waller Band, Menlo Park 7pm Meetup: South Bay House Concerts 4-5 Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic Festival, Monterey County Fairgrounds Rita Coolidge, Bankhead: 2400 First, Livermore 8pm 925-373-6800 4 Sa Petaluma Music Festival, Sonoma-Marin Fairgrd petalumamusicfestival.org 8-14,15-21 CA Coast Music Camp, near Auburn 650-306-0399 musiccamp.org Novalima, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 8 Su EB Fiddlin'&Pickin' Potluck, 1032 Alvarado, Berkeley 12-5 510-704-1813 Aallotar, house, Berkeley 7:30pm 510-525-9248 [email protected] Nathan and Jessie, house concert, Oakland 2pm 510-652-1091 WoodBarry, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 Juan del Gastor, La Peña: 3105 Shattuck, Berkeley 7pm 510-849-2568 Flypaper Blues/Bradley Palermo, Plough & Stars: 116 Clement, SF 9:30pm Peter Rowan’s bluegrass birthday, Rancho Nicasio 4pm 415-662-2219 Ho’omana, Foothill Presb: 5301 McKee, San Jose 7pm 408-258-8133 Amber Cross, house, Davis 7pm 530-753-3472 [email protected] 5 Su country sing-along w/Maurice Tani, Freight, Berkeley 1pm 510-644-2020 9 M Hussy Hicks, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 Junior Brown, Freight&Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7p 510-644-2020 10Tu SFFMC Board Mtg, 419 Euclid Ave, Oakland 6:30 510-817-4028 see p2 Jill Sobule/Kyle Alden, house concert, San Anselmo 4pm insidelands.org Monterey County HS All-Star Band, Freight, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 John Doe Folk Trio, HopMonk: 224 Vintage, Novato 6pm 415-892-6200 Hot Club of Cowtown, Flynn’s: 6275 Hwy 9, Felton 7:30pm 831-335-2800 Men of Worth, 3333 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma 7:30p 707-763-8920 11W Acoustic Guitar Project, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berk. 8p 510-654-3808 7 Tu Dan Bern, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 12Th Niyaz, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 8 W MaMuse, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Barrio Manouche/George Cole, UCB Botanical Garden, Berkeley 5:30pm 9-12 Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival, Tres Piños scbs.org/events/gof Ismay, SFJazz Center: 201 Franklin, SF 7&8:30pm 866-920-5299 9 Th Hamilton De Holanda/Roberta Sá, Freight, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Dustbowl Revival/Hot Club of Cow., 201 Franklin, SF 7:30 866-920-5299 Vetiver, UCB Botanical Garden, Berkeley 5:30pm 510-664-9841 Tumbledown House, Dean Lesher: 1601 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek 5:30pm 10-11 Auburn Ukulele Festival auburnukulelefestival.com 13-14 John Jorgenson Band, SFJazz Center, SF 7&8:30pm 866-920-5299 10F SFFMClub, Cyprian’s: 2097 Turk St, SF 8pm 510-417-7162 13F SFFMClub, Cyprian’s: 2097 Turk St, SF 8pm 510-417-7162 The Blues Broads, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 David Grisman, SFJazz Center: 201 Franklin, SF 7:30pm 866-920-5299 Jennings & Keller, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 Korean Men, Freight&Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Laurie Lewis/Mad Maggies, Point Richmond 5:30p pointrichmondmusic.org Runa, Ashkenaz: 1317 San Pablo, Berkeley 9pm 510-525-5054 11Sa Don McLean, Freight&Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8p 510-644-2020 Michael Bang/RDL/Ben Grant, Berkeley 7:30pm themonkeyhouse.org Chappell & Dave Holt/Big WideG, BackRoom, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 Consonance/Aki Goes …, Point Richmond 5:30 pointrichmondmusic.org Complicated Animals, Oakland 510-851-1706 [email protected] Derik Nelson & Family, Bankhead: 2400 First, Livermore 8p 925-373-6800 12Su EB Fiddlin'&Pickin'Potluck, Vets:1325 Portland, Albany 12-5 510-526-4423 Laurie Lewis/Right Hands, The Palms: 13 Main, Winters 8p 530-758-8058 Escaping Pavement, Menlo Park 4pm Meetup: South Bay House Concerts Dirk Hamilton/Marky Starks, 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel 7:30p 408-499-9441 14Tu Sawyer Fredericks/Parsonsfield, Freight, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 14Sa Uke-splosion! Uke jam, Yerba Buena: 773 Mission, SF 1pm 415-543-1718 16Th John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band, Freight, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Del McCoury/Travelin’ McCourys, SFJazzCenter,SF 7&9:30 866-920-5299 Alela Diane/Kelly McFarling, UCB Botanical Garden, Berkeley 5:30pm Shasta String Celebration, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berk. 8p 510-644-2020 17F John Santos Quartet, Freight 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Akoma Arts, Foothill Presb: 5301 McKee, San Jose 3pm 408-258-8133 HowellDevine, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 Henry Kapono/Valentine, 200 N San Pedro, San Rafael 7pm 415-444-8000 18-19 Cotati Accordion Festival, La Plaza Park, Cotati 9:30-8pm cotatifest.com Tim Bluhm, HopMonk: 224 Vintage Way, Novato 8pm 415-892-6200 18Sa Sea Music Festival, Hyde St Pier, SF 9:30-5p 415-561-7174 nps.gov/safr/ 15Su Margaret Belton, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7pm 510-644-2020 Skip the Needle, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Get Set Go, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 7pm 510-654-3808 The Quitters, Foothill Presb: 5301 McKee, San Jose 7pm 408-258-8133 Anna & Elizabeth, SFJazz Center: 201 Franklin, SF 6&7:30 866-920-5299 Redwood Dulcimer Day, Aptos 9-5 redwooddulcimerday.org 831-425-4939 Sam Bush, SFJazz Center: 201 Franklin, SF 7:30pm 866-920-5299 19Su Sameer Gupta, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7pm 510-644-2020 Bluegrass festival: Skaggs/Lewis/Hunt, Sonoma State 2pm 866-955-6040 Rupert Wates, Menlo Park 4pm Meetup: South Bay House Concerts Duo Quartet, Castro Valley 2pm [email protected] Eric McFadden, house concert, San Rafael 4pm 415-671-5219 Runa, Flynn’s: 6275 Hwy 9, Felton 7pm 831-335-2800 Jeff Campbell/Mike Gibbons/Forrest Day, Novato 4p [email protected] Del McCoury Band, Rio: 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz 7:30 831-427-2227 Casey Abrams, HopMonk: 224 Vintage Way, Novato 6pm 415-892-6200 16M West Coast Songwriters, Freight, Berkeley 7:30pm 510-644-2020 John Jorgenson BluegrassBand, 320 Cedar, SantaCruz7:30 831-479-3421 Bob Schneider, HopMonk: 224 Vintage Way, Novato 8pm 415-892-6200 20M local songsmiths, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 DakhaBrakha, Kuumbwa: 320 Cedar, Santa Cruz 7pm 831-427-2227 Asleep at the Wheel, Bankhead: 2400 First, Livermore 7:30p 925-373-6800 17Tu Darol Anger/Furies Trio, Michael’s: 2591 Main, Soquel 7:30 831-479-9777 21Tu open mic, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7:30p 510-644-2020 The Low Anthem/Assateague, UCB Botanical Garden, Berkeley 5:30pm Liz Longley, house concert, SF 7pm kcturnerpresents.com 18W Huun-Huur-Tu, Freight&Salvage: 2020 Addison,Berkeley 8p 510-644-2020 22W Kahulanui, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 DakhaBrakha, SFJazz Center: 201 Franklin, SF 7:30pm 866-920-5299 Daniel Champagne Trio, Michael’s: 2591 Main, Soquel 7:30 831-479-9777 19-22 Born to Drum Women’s Drum Camp, Bort Meadow,Oakland 510-464-5902 23-26 CBA Golden Old-Time Campout, Sycamore Ranch 530-798-3595 19Th Peppino D’Agostino, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 23Th Freight Fiddle Summit, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Nine Pound Shadow/We Are The West, UCB Botanical Gdn, Berkeley 5:30 Tyler Ramsey/Suitcase Junket, UCB Botanical Garden, Berkeley 5:30pm 20F David Ramirez, Swedish American: 2174 Market, SF 8pm 415-431-7578 Antsy McClain/Trailer Park Troubadours, Palms, Winters 530-758-8058 Aki Goes to Bollywood, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berk. 8pm 510-654-3808 24F SFFMClub, Cyprian’s: 2097 Turk St, SF 8pm 510-417-7162 Paul Thorn, Rio: 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz 7:30pm 831-479-9421 West Coast Songwriters finals, Freight, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 21Sa Bill Kirchen/Hounds of the Bakersfield, Freight, Berkeley 8p 510-644-2020 Brian Holland & Danny Coots, house, Oakland 7:30pm 510-652-1091 Wishing & Bone, Monkey House, Berkeley 7:30pm themonkeyhouse.org Rita Hosking, 390 Morris, Sebastopol 8pm 707-823-1511 seb.org Carolyn Sills, Mission Cof: 151 Washington, Fremont 7pm 510-623-6920 25Sa Play Music on the Porch Day, your location! playmusicontheporchday.com Windy Hill, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd, Pacifica 7:30pm 650-355-1882 Duo Quartet, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Jackie Bristow, Menlo Park 7pm Meetup: South Bay House Concerts Mark Hummel/Deep Basement Shakers, Back Room, Berkeley 8pm The Quixotics, house concert, Sebastopol 7:30pm 707-799-4564 Duo Gadjo, Mission Coffee: 151 Washington, Fremont 7pm 510-623-6920 Hank and Ella, Flynn’s: 6275 Hwy 9, Felton 8pm 831-335-2800 26Su FOLKNIK FOLDIN 1609 Woolsey, Berkeley Noon 510-649-1423 p1 Pine Leaf Boys, The Palms: 13 Main, Winters 8pm 530-758-8058 Mike Marshall/Caterina Lichtenberg, Freight, Berkeley 7pm 510-644-2020 22Su Tyminski, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7pm 510-644-2020 Be Steadwell, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 7pm 510-654-3808 Jackie Bristow/Mark Punch, house concert, Oakland 5:30pm 510-851-1706 Joe Pug, HopMonk: 224 Vintage Way, Novato 6pm 415-892-6200 Lipbone Redding, house concert, San Rafael 4pm 415-671-5219 Jason Eady, Michael’s: 2591 Main, Soquel 2pm 831-479-9777 Matt The Electrician, HopMonk: 224 Vintage, Novato 6pm 415-892-6200 28Tu open mic, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 7:30p 510-644-2020 Villanelle, Ugly Mug: 4640 Soquel Dr, Soquel 7pm 408-499-9441 29W Candi Staton, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 25W Shawn Mullins, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Che Apalache, Michael’s: 2591 Main, Soquel 7:30pm 831-479-9777 The Young Fables, Back Room: 1984 Bonita, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 30-9/3 Strawberry Fall Music Festival, Tuolumne strawberrymusic.com The Quitters, Michael’s: 2591 Main, Soquel 7:30pm 831-479-9777 30Th Che Apalache, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 26Th Joe Rut, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Hubby Jenkins/Rainy Eyes, UCB Botanical Garden, Berkeley 5:30pm T Sisters, Dean Lesher: 1601 Civic Dr, Walnut Creek 5:30pm free 31-9/3 SFFMC Labor Day Campout, see sffmc.org for details 27-8/4 Lark World Music&Dance Camp, Mendocino larkcamp.com 707-964-4826 31F Arlo Guthrie, Freight: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 27F SFFMClub, Cyprian’s: 2097 Turk St, SF 8pm 510-417-7162 Thanks April Fold-in Elves! Thad Binkley, Ellen Eagan, Joan Feinberg, Jeff Marcia Ball, Freight & Salvage: 2020 Addison, Berkeley 8pm 510-644-2020 Furman, Marian Gade, Ed Hilton, Phyllis Jardine, Shary Levy, Jerry Michaels, Charlie King & Rebel Voices, Back Room, Berkeley 8pm 510-654-3808 Marv Sternberg the folknik Vol. LIV, Number 4 Page 11 July/August 2018
News from Tom Clunie and Jessica Bryan in Oregon: (Including notes about U. Utah Phillips) Tom Clunie and I recently went to a The BBCRC, which is owned by a bunch wonderful event at The Black Butte Center of former and current hoboes and for Railroad Culture (“BBCRC”) in Weed, railroaders, said they would take it. Duncan California for the “Grand Opening of the raised over $22,000 to haul the car across Utah Phillips Flanger Car.” country. It was too old to be hauled behind a Afterwards, we received the following train, being wood-bodied without a steel e-mail from Mark Ross, an old friend of frame. It was badly in need of repair, and Utah’s. So rather than write our own Duncan is in the process of restoring it (and commentary, we are sending Mark’s. he’s doing a magnificent job!). Thanks, Mark! We enjoyed your concert very About 100 people gathered for the much. ribbon-cutting and a concert by John Back in the 1970s, when Utah was McCutcheon, Utah’s son Brendan, Bodie recording for Philo Records in Vermont, the Wagner, Michael Taub and Gwendolyn company gave him an acre of land so he Hallsmith, and Mark Ross. Utah’s wife would have a place to live. He bought an 1890 Joanna Robinson, his sister Deborah Cohen, Canadian Pacific flanger car (used to scrape brother Stuart Cohen, grandchildren, and ice and snow off the tracks) for $500. He held great-grandchildren were in attendance, a big party, got everyone drunk, and laid 50 along with an assortment of hoboes, feet of track. The car was brought to Monck- hoboettes, and fans and friends of Utah’s. It ton Ridge on two flatbed trucks, and there was a grand time. Here’s a link to the web was a crane to hoist it off and place it on the site Duncan has set up in his father’s tracks. The car was 48 feet long, and the track memory. It includes some great photos: 50 feet. Utah called it “The Greater Monckton
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