THE COLUMBUS FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY, INC. APRIL, 2013

A DIFFERENT STRUMMER

2013 Central Ohio Folk Festival – May 3rd, 4th, 5th Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park 17th Annual Central Ohio Folk Festival proudly presents: cathy barton, dave Para & Ed Trickett

Article contents extracted from stage in the main tent at 7:00 p.m. (Refer “Their music ranges from hard- www.bartonpara.com. Compiled by D. Boston to CFMS website for up to date driving string band music to schedule). Tickets are required for entry. contemplative ballads and airs, and they This year’s Central have a knack for finding unusual songs Over the years, Cathy and Dave have Ohio Folk Festival will feature from both traditional and contemporary celebrated the musical traditions and some very special guests. Among them – sources. Much of their Missouri music folklife of Missouri and the . Cathy Barton and Dave Para (a dynamic has been collected from excellent and They have traveled the U. S., Europe and husband and wife duo from Missouri) noted traditional musicians such as Canada with their performances. Folk and Ed Trickett (see article below) fiddlers Art Galbraith and Taylor Musician Art Thieme said of them: together who will be the headliner act for McBaine, gospel singer Thelma Conway, the Saturday evening concert. These “This duo from Missouri makes some of very talented performers will take to the the best music you'll ever hear. See Barton/Para ! page 2 Ed Trickett: folk musician, recording artist and “song-finder extraordinaire” Interview by Bill Cohen

Ed Trickett has been time.” Www.allmusic.com reviewer, special about finding and interpreting a wide variety Don Stevens, says that the songs Ed folk music, as of songs and tunes (both old and new) has recorded whether on his own, with opposed to for over 40 years. Dubbed by one Anne Mayo Muir and Gordon Bok, or other genres? with others are some of the most person as “song-finder Ed: It’s beautiful ever recorded. extraordinaire,” he is also a always hard memorable performer who, finding Our own Bill Cohen interviewed to be clear the song and looking for the hidden Ed in anticipation of his upcoming about the “why” of this or that. I have truths within it, gently renders it into performance at our Folk Festival. found folk music to be personal, an engaging presentation. ______nourishing, and close to my A professor of psychology by Bill Cohen: Why have you made folk experiential heart ever since I was a trade, he is a musician “the rest of the music a focus of your life?! What’s so See Trickett ! page 4

CONTACT US AT: VOICEMAIL 614!470!3963 PAGE 1 A DIFFERENT STRUMMER" APRIL, 2013 April 27th Coffeehouse to bring “Second Wind” Wolf and Raven play mountain, Maybelle Carter” has 14 tracks, traditional, rural, Appalachian, and including one original song.! All other bluegrass. Their songs range from tracks are their renditions of songs that “Wildwood Flower” to “Worried Man the Original Carter Family recorded ,” from “Angel Band” to “Long between 1927 and 1934. Black Veil.” Proficient in everything Their most recent CD, “Home- from 12- and 6-string guitars to Made,” includes tunes ranging from mandolins and autoharp, this musical old-time favorites like “Old Joe Clark” duo sets toes tapping. Their repertoire and “Goodnight, Irene” to an eerily continues to expand to include songs haunting murder ballad, “Wind and from the 1700 and 1800s – great tunes Article compiled by D. Boston Rain.” It also features! a new song, like “The Two Sisters,” “Old Joe “The Raven and the Wolf,” written by Clark,” “In the Pines” and “John The April 27th dobro player, Jon Wesley Armstrong Hardy.”! especially for Second Wind. Folkside Coffeehouse (and last coffeehouse of the season until "A pure mountain/old time Come on out and enjoy these September) will feature old time sound . . . 'Goodnight wonderful ladies and our last favorite Second Wind Bluegrass Band. Irene' is absolutely coffeehouse of the season! beautiful . . . both of you On their website they describe and your approach to your Where: The Columbus themselves as a band “composed of craft are like a breath of Mennonite Church at 35 E. Oakland two delicate ladies of advancing age fresh air."! Park (Clintonville). (aka Wolf and Raven).“ -- Jon Wesley Armstrong, dobro, When:! 8 to 10 p.m.!Saturday, “The duo has a penchant for June 18, 2011! April 27th. Doors open at 6:30. Open murder ballads and for the Carter jam followed by open mic from 7 - 8 Wolf plays lead guitar, banjo, Family. When they first started, they p.m. if you want to come early. $7.00 mandolin, autoharp and sings while were repeatedly told, ‘You sound like donation; ($5.00 CFMS members); Raven plays rhythm guitar, harmony, the Carters.’ Continued listening to under 12 free. the Carters brought an appreciation for fiddle, autoharp and also sings. Article/photos compiled from the songs and the harmonies and a Second Wind currently has sources: www.secondwindgrass.com pride in being compared to the first produced 4 CDs. Their first entitled and www.reverbnation.com. ladies of .” “Two Voices: a Tribute to Sara and

Barton/Para ! "om page 1 heard a virtuoso on the leaf before, this 1980s Dave and Cathy have and collectors Max Hunter and Loman is your chance!) participated in the “artists-in-education Cansler. program” for the Missouri Arts In their mission to introduce new Council. They have done folk arts “A recognized master of the frailing audiences to folk music, since the early residencies and assembly programs in banjo style, Cathy has twice won the schools across the state. They also Tennessee Old-Time Banjo “Cathy Barton and Dave created and serve as artistic directors of Championship. The late Roy Acuff Para, as much as any folk two annual folk festivals, the Big called her his ‘favorite banjo player’ musicians I know, carry on Muddy Folk Festival in Boonville, MO because her playing reminded him of the sense of importance of and the Boone’s Lick Country Folk earlier sounds. Cathy folk music, the value of Festival in Arrow Rock, MO. can also be credited with the growing digging for old musical gold, of traveling far and interest in hammered dulcimer in the Of their twelve recordings, the 1 wide to collect old songs Midwest.” and tunes, and of being first few and most recent were self- Dave and Cathy play a number of friends with, rather than produced. In 1982, the Walnut Valley stringed instruments including the exploiters of the old- Occasional called their "Ballad of the hammered and fretted dulcimers, timers who have provided Boonslick" album "the finest acoustic banjo, guitar and Autoharp, as well as such wonderful musical music heard this year." foundations for us all.” "found" instruments like bones, spoons, The release of their "On a Day mouthbow and leaf (if you haven’t -- Ed Trickett Like Today" album for Folk-Legacy See Barton/Para ! page 7

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Central Ohio Folk Festival in Pictures

"For the volunteers, who give so much, and give up so much, to keep folk music alive. !You open the doors, turn on the lights, set up the chairs, put up the stage, bake the cookies, book the shows, spread the word, pamper the performers, fold up the chairs, take down the stage, switch off the lights and close the doors. !You are . . . folk music's gracious and beating heart." -- Scott Alarik, Revival, a Folk Music Novel, Dedication Page. Used with permission.! To Volunteer for the Central Ohio Folk Festival, please contact Cathy Sheets, Volunteer Coordinator, via email [email protected]. Photos courtesy of: John Clear, Linda McDonald and Randi Cohen

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Trickett ! "om page 1 background as a psychologist impact the years in is community psychology, an teenager going to summer camp in songs you write, the music you play, and area of psychology that was just northern New Mexico.! One of the the way you perform ? emerging when I was a graduate student at Ohio State in the 1960s. It counselors there, Howie Mitchell, Ed: !I was a devotee of folk music was an effort to participate in the civil made and played the banjo and long before I became a psychologist, mountain dulcimer, as well as tinkered unrest and social turmoil of that time seriously with the guitar and autoharp.! by involving psychology in the concerns “I feel a sense of elation about social and institutional forces His music and spirit helped create a when I find a new song. It sense of community that I feel to this that affect the life chances of gives me an opportunity to disenfranchised groups of people – and day. craft something that I find intrinsically by working with community Through him I met Bob and Evelyn organizations and institutions to create Beers, George and Gerry Armstrong,! appealing for its story or the lyrical nature of the more resources in the uneven playing Frank Profitt and Larry Older. Each of melody.” field of life. Most of my work has been them made traditional music an involved with the impact of public organic part of who they were, only “I’m not sure that I find schools on kids and, for the last 20 Bob and Evelyn attempted to make a any more extraordinary years, how schools can aid the living at it. songs than anybody else, but I do put a fair amount transition process for refugee and The spirit of retelling – and through of thought into getting immigrant adolescents and families. that – kind of living through the joys the most out of finding Not so far removed from why folk and trials of ordinary people like my what it means from inside music is so basic to me. grandfather, who worked the mines in out and lending musical Bill: In the early 1960’s, you used to West Virginia and became a labor accompaniment to support play in one of Columbus’ legendary venues organizer for awhile, struck a deep whatever I am singing about.” (for folkies at least), the Sacred Mushroom chord [in me]. The politics were pretty Coffeehouse.! What was the spirit there?! clear cut in my family about the Ed Trickett, in an article by What songs do you recall playing?! “haves” and “have nots,” and that Keith O’Connor, www.masslive.com played a role in my appreciation of the Ed: I used to go to the Sacred music as well. So my focus on folk and I think my interest in psychology Mushroom, but I’m not sure I ever music just seemed right and natural; it flowed from that. For a long time I kept “officially” played there. Certainly not wasn’t a conscious choice of genre. the two separate in my mind, but that regularly. But I’m sure the Sacred was simply self-deceptive. The kind of Mushroom played a role in my getting Bill: You are an unusual combination – psychology I have spent the last 45 a psychologist and a folksinger.! Does your See Trickett ! page 7

Triple Musical Treat at Festival Fundraiser Art. by Bill Cohen The April 6 fundraising concert for Whinestopper will be our final act of the fundraiser.! this year’s Central Ohio Folk Festival will feature not one, From these four excellent musicians, !you’ll hear several not two, but three top-notch musical acts, each with its different instruments, tight vocal harmonies, and a wide own style, genre, and energy. range of musical genres from blues and Cajun to old standards and early folk.! Their music evokes laughter, Leading off will be Wilson Brinkley, the master of tears, and memories. the non-pedal steel guitar.! He’s played this unusual instrument for decades, and it has the most unusual joyful Any one of these acts would be worth the $10 per sound.! When you hear it, you cannot help but smile.! person donation we’ll be asking for at the door, but you’ll With some backup by musical friends, Wilson will play a be getting 3 for the price of 1.! As usual, the show is at wide variety of old standards, folk, country, and early the Shamrock Club, 60 W. Castle Road on Columbus’ rock.! If we’re lucky, he will reprise the late 1950’s hit by south side, just off High Street.! !Doors Santo and Johnny – “Sleepwalk.” open at 6:30 p.m.!! The show starts at 7 p.m. Next up will be what we like to think of as our own musical discovery:! the Redbuds.! These 3 girls (they’re The club’s food and beverages will actually women but they’re so much younger than most also be for sale. of us senior citizens, we think of them as girls) wowed our monthly coffeehouse crowd recently with their lively Come on out for a fun music-filled three-part vocal harmonies.! Again – when you hear evening.! You’ll be with friends and them, you cannot help but smile. you’ll be supporting a good cause.

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APRIL HAPPENINGS, SO SAVE THE DATE . . . ! The Saturday Music Jam at Shamrock Club of Columbus,"60 W. Performer. Columbus Mennonite The Shops at Worthington Place Castle,"Columbus, OH Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave. (just (November through April). (This 43207.!Featured performers: East of High St. & one block North is the winter venue for the Wilson Brinkley and Friends; The of E.N. Broadway). $7 donation; Worthington Farmer!s Market held Redbuds AND!Whinestopper. CFMS members $5; under 12 free. at Worthington Square). Every Food and Drink (all legal Saturday from 10:30 - 12:30 p.m. beverages) available for purchase May 3, 4, 5 - Central Ohio All are welcome to come and play. after 6:00 PM. Free Parking. Folk Festival. Battelle Darby Metro Park. Saturday, April 6th - Benefit Saturday, April 27th - Friday: Meet & Greet 6-10 p.m. for the Central Ohio Folk Folkside Coffeehouse. 6 p.m. Saturday: 8:30 a.m. to ~10 p.m. Festival. Doors open at 6:30. Open Jam; 7 - 8 p.m. Open Stage; Sunday: 10a.m. to ~ 5:30p.m. or? Program starts at 7:00 p.m. 8 p.m. Second Wind – Featured (park closes at dark)

Don’t forget the slate of nominations for Please save your empty 1 Officers for CFMS will be announced at the April gallon milk jugs and coffee Coffeehouse. Please see the article on Page 6. You ! may want to get involved! cans (with lids) for use at our upcoming folk festival! You can drop them off at Linda McDonald’s. Central Ohio Folk Festival – (444 Oakland Park Avenue, Volunteers Needed Fri. - Sat - Sun., May 3-4-5. Work Clintonville). You’ll make the kids scholarships available. Email Cathy Sheets, happy with drums and help “light up Festival Volunteer Coordinator: the way” on Saturday evening!

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FOLLOWING OUR OWN. . . Tuesday, April 2, 2013: The 20 S. State Street, Westerville (No join us. 2nd Sunday of every Hardtackers -- Pub Polaris, cover) 7-10 p.m. month. 4-5:00 p.m. Evening informal sing -- 7:30 - 9:30 Sunday, April 7, 2013: Avalon Friday, April 19, 2013: Grassahol p.m. (East side of Mall) Nine -- Riverside Hospital Lobby -- -- Byrnes' Pub -- 1248 West 3rd Wednesday, April 3, 2013: Acoustic! 1-2:30 p.m. Ave., Cols. 7-9 p.m. Then, Tempest The Hardtackers -- Opening Day Wednesday, April 10, 2013: plays. Cover charge. 614-486-4722 Santa Maria Grassahol -- Natalie's Coal Fired Saturday, April 20, 2013: Friday, April 5, 2013: Loosely Pizza and Live Music, 5601 N. High Grassahol -- India Oak Bar & Grill, Strung --"Cheshire Market, Pizza, St, Worthington. 9 p.m. 268-6353 590 Oakland Park, Cols. & Bait Store 7-10 p.m. Corner Sunday, April 14, 2013: Joanie 8 p.m. - Midnight Free Cheshire and Africa Rds, Galena Calem -- Intergenerational Sing Saturday, April 20, 2013: The Saturday, April 6, 2013: Wilson Along - Moms & toddlers from Hardtackers - WYSO Radio - Dear Brinkley, The Redbuds and Clintonville Mom!s Club & seniors - ! Green Place Radio Show 3:00 p.m. Whinestopper; 7 p.m. The at the Senior Residence, 120 Morse Shamrock Club, 60 W. Castle. Rd., behind church. Public is Friday, April 26, 2013: The Saturday, April 6, 2013: Loosely welcome. If you love singing & Hardtackers -- Clifton Opera Strung -- Java Central, dancing & building community (all House, 5 S. Clay Street, Clifton, at the same time) come on out & 7:30-9:30 p.m. 937-767-2343

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It’s that time again. . . WELCOME TO OUR NEW AND This year, CFMS has openings for RETURNING MEMBERS: various offices in the organization.! Larry Joseph and Maryanne Wray Staats is Chairman of the Nominating Committee.! The By-Laws of the CFMS, Alan Belasco which lists the various offices, duties, etc.,! John and Megan Northrup family can be found on the website at www.cfms-inc.org under CFMS Bylaws. Please take a look and see if you feel Roger Mace you could serve.! Anyone who is interested or knows of anyone who might be interested in serving should contact Larry at Music & Workshops Galore [email protected] or anyone else on the nominating committee. Nominating committee at the 17th annual members are: Beth Bradley, Sharon Mittenbergs and Tom Nagel (e-mail addresses are listed below). Central Ohio Folk Festival! The slate will be announced at the April Coffeehouse. This year’s festival will bring Cathy Barton, Dave Para, Ed special guests, some old and some Trickett, Scott Alarik, Butch Ross new. Spotlight performers and Smokin Fez Monkeys, include: Mustard’s Retreat, Dave amongst many others, will all be Hawkins, Butch Ross, Smokin Fez conducting workshops. Some of Monkeys, Grassahol, Halfway the topics and/or instruments Home, Whinestopper, The explored in the many workshops: Hardtackers, Second Wind, songwriting, singing harmony, the Linda Sigsmondi & Bill Schilling guitar, Irish bouzouki, dulcimer, and Joanie Calem. These as well Native American flute, banjo, as jams and the various children’s autoharp, harmonica. programs are free! This will be a great In addition to the headliner opportunity to sharpen old skills performers Cathy Barton, Dave or learn new ones. Send in your

Para and Ed Trickett, we’ll also registration early! winter humor. . . . humor. winter one last hurrah for for hurrah last one have special guest Scott Alarik, from Cambridge, MA, noted Registration forms (also for NOT A MEMBER?! WANT TO BE?! There is a author and folk music journalist. handy membership form right here in this ticket purchases for the Saturday newsletter. BENEFITS INCLUDE: There are also many evening headliner concert) can Camaraderie with the folkies in town, workshops scheduled for the be found at: http://www.cfms- discounts on certain admissions, this monthly newsletter and the comfort of weekend. Entrance fee needed to inc.org/central_ohio_folk_festival.htm knowing that all events are family friendly! attend workshops (or they can be or can be obtained at store tent. purchased individually).

THE COLUMBUS FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OFFICERS Bill Cohen – [email protected] 614-263-3851 President: Art Mittenbergs – [email protected] Jim Luckhaupt – [email protected] 614-268-8296 614-491-0437 Linda McDonald – [email protected] 614-267-8614 Vice-President: Sharon Mittenbergs – [email protected] 614-491-0437 Treasurer: Tom Nagel—[email protected] 614-294-6722 Larry Staats – [email protected] 614-891-6293 Secretary: Cindy Ramsey—[email protected] Cathy Sheets – [email protected] 740-369-7828 614-438-0047 Wendy Jorgensen – [email protected] TRUSTEES 614-316-6571 Linda Bolles – [email protected] 614-766-2382 Diane Boston – [email protected] 740-262-4025 Nancy Cline Bailey – [email protected] 614-267-4128 Central Ohio Folk Festival directors: Stan and Beth Bradley – [email protected]; Art and Sharon Mittenbergs [email protected] 614-833-6498 Membership Chair: Larry Drake Joseph Baringhaus – [email protected] Newsletter Editor (pro tem): Nancy Bailey 614-278-2710 Newsletter Co-editor: Diane Boston

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Barton/Para ! "om page 2 Trickett ! "om page 4 some songs of protest like Eric Bogle’s 1970s “No Man’s Land” or, indeed, Records in 1986 was a special achievement. to know some of the local folk crowd of Yip Harburg and Jay Gorney’s 1931 Folk-Legacy Records, a small, family-run Hank Arbaugh, Bill Workman, Tom hit “Buddy can you Spare a Dime”.! company renowned for exceptional Ewing, Steve Cherkis, and maybe Scott So I guess I see it as trying to relate the recordings of important traditional and Utley. It was small, intimate feeling, old to the current. And when I listen to contemporary folk musicians, has been very much a creature of its time – the concerts I did 40 years ago, I’m not credited for greatly influencing Dave and mid 60s – when I was there. sure my playing has evolved very much Cathy and for having helped inspire their The big names passing through either. study of traditional music in their own Columbus would sometimes drop in ! community. Teaming up with the company's Bill: You’ve played your music for after their larger concerts.! It played an founders, Sandy and Caroline Paton, they decades for live audiences, but you’ve also important role in what Utah Phillips produced an album of lesser known participated in recording dozens of albums.! used to call “the folk music scare.” Christmas music, "'Twas on a Night Like How do those two things compare? This," which the American Library Bill: You’ve sung many songs of the sea, Ed: Recordings involve a precision Association named a Notable Recording in love songs, tunes from the labor union point that live performances do not. You 1990. Dave and Cathy have appeared on of view, and many other topics.! Is there one can’t make fun of yourself when you several other recordings with the Patons, Ed particular type of music that’s your favorite? goof on a recording, and you are Trickett, Ramona Jones, Bob Dyer, Wade Ed: !I’ve always been drawn to songs painfully aware of all the places where Hampton Miller, Jay Round and Ron Penix, that tell the stories of ordinary people’s you wish you had been more accurate, Judy Domeny and Lisa Redfern. lives – their struggles, triumphs, losses, or hit a different note, or had [not had] a rasp in your voice.! In 1993 and again in 1995, Dave and musings, and points of view. I still sing Cathy conspired with friend and musician, some 20-something verse ballads, At Folk Legacy Records, where so Bob Dyer, to produce two landmark many of which end badly for much of my recording history recordings of songs from the Civil War in somebody, and whenever I think of occurred, Sandy Paton achieved his Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas, "Johnny them I see them as early soaps. They goal by positioning microphones to get Whistletrigger," and "Rebel in the Woods." have all the themes: deceitful the right balance among voices and Both albums were named "Notable relationships, love, and the moral with instruments. There was almost no Recordings" by the American Library dilemmas that we have today. independent overdubbing or separate Association. My affection for sea songs and sea tracking of instruments and voice.! Probably 95% of what ended up on For a complete discography go to: stories was enormously influenced by the Folk Legacy recordings of Gordon, http://www.bartonpara.com/discog/ my quarter century singing with Ann, and me were the way the three of index.html. Gordon Bok and Ann Muir, both of whom loved to tell a tale. us sang together around a couple of To see clips of a few of Cathy & Dave’s microphones at Sandy and Caroline’s The other quality that gets me is a performances: http://www.youtube.com/ place. It was actually live music you lovely tune.! I’m a real sucker for a watch?v=YShe69kAjnY singing “Bingham’s would hear on the final recording – beautiful tune.! One of the really nice Song”; http://www.youtube.com/watch? unheard of today. But to do that we ways that Cathy Barton and Dave Para v=IHN44gDUuto singing “Saddle Old had to be quite precise and rehearsed. push me is to play tunes, which I don’t Kate”; http://www.youtube.com/watch? do that often on my own. But the Bill: Obviously all songs have their own v=UtXRGdo6Z7w performing “Down the bread and butter of my music unique theme and thrust, but is there a River I Go, Uncle Joe.” commitments involve stories set to more general theme to your music over all?! beautiful, melodic tunes. A general message you’ve sought to get Footnotes: across? 1 www.fssgb.org Bill: Has your music evolved over the decades?! If so, how? Ed: !!I’ve not thought of myself as trying to get a specific message across; Ed: I have a old friend in Colorado, but rather, an appreciation for the Kathy De Francis, who is a beautiful diversity of struggles and ways of life piano player and song writer and who of everyday people, a commitment to once told me that her mother used to some of the social issues involved, and tell her she was not getting older, just a belief in the power of song to more so. !That’s what I feel about my transform, enlighten, and create the music.! I’m not sure it has evolved; I kind of sense of community that think I still like the time warp of my motivates a caring about and for one early days – learning songs to sing in another. It’s the song, not the singer, living rooms or around campfires. that ultimately matters.! There is an unfortunate timelessness to

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