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THE COLUMBUS FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY, INC. – A 501(C)(3) NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANIZATION APRIL, 2016 Benefit for Folk WHAT’S INSIDE: BENEFIT FOR FOLK FESTIVAL AT SHAMROCK CLUB Festival at Shamrock SAT, APRIL 2 PG. 1 APRIL 30 FOLKSIDE Club Sat. April 2 COFFEEHOUSE FEATURES MA CROW & THE LADY – a different mix & something for SLIPPERS!! PG. 1 BELOVED FOLK ARTIST, TRACY everyone! by D. Boston GRAMMER HIGHLIGHTS TWO APRIL SIX STRINGS engage in some “2-step” dance moves? CONCERTS PG. 2 Want to watch an Irish Step Dance FOLK MUSIC SING- performance and smile a lot? ALONG AT BYRNE’S PUB PG. 4 Want to enjoy some foot stomping music by a young, talented Irish band? YOUR VOLUNTEER HELP PG. 4 Then plan on coming out to the CALENDAR OF EVENTS annual Benefit Concert at Shamrock AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ! PG. 5 Club on April 2nd! This year, the first NOTES WORTH TAKING act will feature a step dance performance ON CENTRAL OHIO FOLK Shamrock Club space where the event will be held by the Irwin Academy for Irish Dance, FESTIVAL 2016 PG. 7 Want to enjoy a good old-fashioned young performers that captivated the Square Dance? Want to learn how to See Benefit Event- page 2 April 30 FolkSide Coffeehouse features: Ma Crow & the Lady Slippers by Bill Cohen Our April 30 coffeehouse (which will Bill Cohen: Your group describes Ma Crow band: Trina says her wind up the season until next itself as a bluegrass group, but what favorite quote describing the music September), will feature Ma Crow & do you mean by that term? Do you was found in Bluegrass Unlimited the Lady Slippers, whom we are very focus more on traditional bluegrass 1997 by Todd Phillips. It says: pleased to present. An all-female music, or do you aim for a more “What’s so exciting about Bluegrass bluegrass/Americana/Old-time modern sound? See Ma Crow & Lady Slippers - page 3 Mountain music band from Cincinnati, OH, they have been 4 time Nominees for the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards and boast a plethora of musical “credentials.” Please help us welcome Ma Crow & the Lady Slippers to our stage on Saturday, April 30 at 8 p.m. 6-7 Open Jam; 7-8 Open Stage. More details on page 5. CONTACT US AT: VOICEMAIL 614-470-3963! PAGE 1 A DIFFERENT STRUMMER APRIL, 2016 From Benefit Eventk- from page 1 who describe themselves as a So plan on attending the audience at the 2015 Central Ohio friendly, bantery, traditional Irish upcoming annual Benefit Concert at Folk Festival. and American 4-piece folk band the Shamrock Club on Saturday, that focuses on modern April 2nd. The Shamrock Club is The second act will feature music arrangements of old-style songs and located at: 60 W. Castle Road on the by the Irish band, Whiskey Maggie, tunes. With Jake Hoffer on flute, his South side of Columbus easily wife Renee on fiddle, Stephen accessible from I-71. Morris on bodhrán/cajón, and Bring your friends, pass the A BENEFIT FOR Byron Smith on guitar, get PRESENTS: word. .whatever you can do to help CENTRAL OHIO FOLK FESTIVAL ready for some foot stomping. FEATURING: us make this event, with a new twist, Around 8:30 p.m. prepare a rousing success! Visit the events Irish Step Dance (Irwin Academy for Irish Dance) to engage in a Square Dance section on our website at: MUSIC by “WHISKY MAGGIE” – a friendly, bantery, traditional Irish and American 4 piece folk band or just watch from the side- www.columbusfolkmusicsociety.org/ AND (depending on your age) lines if you prefer. We’ll clear events.html and download the flier the floor (you can still sit on shown at the left and put it on your OR chairs around the perimeter) Facebook page! and start the Square Dance. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the Popular and talented local activities begin at 7 p.m. We will ask Square Dance band, Donkey for a $10 donation at the door. All Nation, will play with Shawn proceeds go towards the 2016 with DONKEY NATION and caller: SHAWN calling the dance. For those Central Ohio Folk Festival. Special segment: 2-STEP INSTRUCTION $10 Donation who want to engage in a little Food and drink is available for SATURDAY APRIL 2 7 pm 2-step dancing to some old- purchase at the Shamrock Club. It time music, expect a segment at Shamrock Club of Columbus will be a guaranteed good time, and where 2-step will be the fare, 60 W. Castle, Columbus you’ll be supporting the folk festival Doors open at 6:30 pm Food & Drink available complete with instruction if www.shamrockclubofcolumbus.org at the same time. www.columbusfolkmusicsociety.org you’re not sure how. Beloved folk artist, Tracy Grammer, highlights two Six String concerts: April 15 (8 pm) Columbus Performing Arts Center (Shed Theater) April 16 (10 am) (Van Fleet Theater) Part I: Tracy Grammer rose to mythic American folk” duo, Dave acclaim as half of the “postmodern, Carter & Tracy Grammer. From 1998-2001, the duo released three A beloved artist with a internationally celebrated, folk chart- topping albums featuring Carter’s Part I of the following is an extract from springwater-clear alto, mytho-poetic Americana songcraft. Six String Concerts Troubadour Newsletter. Part II includes some perfectly intoned violin, In 2002, the duo toured with Joan background about Six String Concerts and Baez, both as featured artists and answers to a few of our questions to Kim and delicate guitar Baez’s band members. Called “the Wilson, who was a key person in the style. founding of Six String Concerts in 1988. See Tracy Grammer/Six String - page 6 PAGE 2! WWW.COLUMBUSFOLKMUSICSOCIETY.ORG A DIFFERENT STRUMMER APRIL, 2016 Ma Crow & Lady Slippers - from page 1 Studios and had produced three played in the Jenni Lyn Band, is the emotional and rhythmical albums for the Lady Slippers Appalachian Highway, Crossroads, intensity the music has, yet with an receiving high accolades. You can Farm Hand, and Bittersweet (acoustic illusion of simplicity.” also find Emig in the published book duo). by Murphy Henry, “Pretty Good for a She is also an accomplished song Bill: Each one of you is a veteran Girl” which is a history of women in writer writing original songs musician with a long music history. Bluegrass music. She has performed performed by the Lady Slippers. Her Please tell us a little about your and recorded with bands including tight harmonies with Ma, her backgrounds, how you became the Appalachian Grass, Kentucky 31, excellent lead vocals, and her musicians, and the various bands Missy Werner and Next in Line, wonderful fiddle playing all make her you’ve been a part of. Katie Laur’s All-Girl Bluegrass band, an irreplaceable member of the Lady Ma Crow and the Medicine Show, Ma Crow band: Ma Crow is a Slippers. longtime veteran of folk and and the Motherpluckers. She also bluegrass music. She won a plays drums and recorded with Dr. Vicki Abbott was named an CAMMY (equivalent of a Cincinnati Twang and the Stainless Steel. Honorary Daughter of Bluegrass by Grammy) in 1999. Miss Dixie Hall in April, 2009 for her volunteer work since 2005 as a She has recorded with various artists DJ for the on-line radio station including Harold Kennedy, Roger Worldwidebluegrass.com. Yeardly, the Flock, and Plow on Boy. She . is a member of the Irish Vicki has been playing bass since Ramblers, Mid-Life Crisis Ramblers, 2008 with several local bands M.C. Blue, Chicken Deluxe, Friends including East Fork Junction. She of the Family, and Katie Laur’s All- remembers as a young child, hearing Girl Bluegrass band. the bluegrass and classic country that Ma Crow & The Lady Slippers members (left to her parents always listened to, but She played for many years with the right): Ma Crow, Vicki Abbott, Trina Emig and then she got away from it for many Margie Drees well known Cincinnati band Ma years and didn’t start listening to Crow and the Flock and also formed bluegrass again until only about 10 her own bands, Ma Crow and the years ago. “It’s been like coming Medicine Show and the home. And the friendships I’m Motherpluckers (nominees for a making are the greatest blessing of Cincinnati Entertainment Award). all.” Vicki’s solid timing on the bass Performances include the Ohio State holds the Lady Slippers music Fair, Tall Stacks, the Appalachian together. And her harmony and lead Festival, the Wool Festival, Queen vocals are a treat to listen to. City Balladeers summer concerts, Bill: Bluegrass is just one of several Taste of Cincinnati, Richwood Margie Drees is an accomplished types of folk music. What makes Bluegrass Festival. bass player, fiddle player, and bluegrass music so special to you that vocalist and is a graduate of CCM Trina Emig took her first banjo you’ve focused your musical careers (College-Conservatory of Music, on it? lesson straight out of high school and University of Cincinnati). She has within 2 years was touring across the been playing bluegrass music in Ma Crow band: Ma Crow says: USA with Vernon McIntyre’s Cincinnati and Northern KY for bluegrass music is medicine. It Appalachian Grass band. Although many years and has performed transcends all sorrow. steeped in Bluegrass tradition, she is regionally at the Station Inn, an accomplished musician who has Bill: In the Columbus Folk Music Nashville, TN; the Osborne Brothers Society, we often lament the fact that, developed her own style of banjo Festival, Hyden, Kentucky; the J.