www.folkproject.org June 2017 TM Summer Songs Beach Party Jam An Evening of Joyous Group Music Making Fri., Jun. 23, 2017, 7:30pm • At The Minstrel Attention Folk Project members—old and new. Join us for an evening of music and fellowship. For this one special evening, you are the featured act. Bring your "axe." Song charts with chords and lyrics will be projected on the Big Screen. It's as easy as "following the bouncing ball!" Want to be a Star For The Evening? Sign up to lead a group sing-along song from the stage. Our Super-Group of FP All-Stars will be glad to back you up. Just click youtube.com/c/FolkProjectVideo tinyurl.com/FPSummerSongs, choose a song, and e-mail your request to [email protected]. Admission for this event is $12, including special foods. Special Prizes will be awarded for the most outrageous beach attire. All proceeds from the evening will benefit The Folk Project. The Minstrel’s 42nd Birthday Show An Invitation to All of Our Member-Musicians On Friday, July 25th, 1975, a bunch of hippie friends in a long defunct folk music club called “Project 21” got together and put on a concert in the basement of a French restaurant in Chester, NJ. That was the first of what was to become a weekly concert series called “Good, Though!” Forty-one years, three name changes, and six venue changes later, the Minstrel Acoustic Concert Series will celebrate the anniversary of that first concert with a truly unique event: our Birthday Show. And twitter.com/TheFolkProject : D L Graham TM you can be part of that celebration and perform in that concert. Here's how it works: On Tuesday, July 4, the Folk Project will hold our annual Picnic at the home of President Steve Humphreys in Randolph. (See page 2 for details on the picnic.) There, we will col- lect the names of all member-musicians who want to participate in the show on index cards. We shuffle up the cards and then deal them out into about 20 piles of randomly combined duos and : George Otto trios. Each group thus formed then has 3-1/2 weeks to work up one song per group. (If you like, you can add additional musicians to the group, so long as they are also FP members.) And on Friday, July 28, that will be the show at the Minstrel. We usually get 40–50 participants in this concert for, by, and of the Folk Project family. (continued on page 6) www.folkproject.org QUICK GUIDE TO THE INSIDE [email protected] [email protected] June Evening o' Music .................................................................... 2 facebook.com/FolkProject Folk Project July 4th Picnic ............................................................ 2 New Jersey Uke Fest ....................................................................... 6 Members’ Gigs (& Friends) .............................................................7 Box 41 Mendham, NJ 07945 Newsletter Newsletter submissions E-mail: 582 Long Hill Road, Gillette, NJ 07933 Deadline is the 15th corrections/changes Membership, E-mail: c/o D L Graham 886 Ray Avenue Union, NJ 07083 Folk Project Officers: President: Steve Humphreys Vice President: Kathi Caccavale Secretary: Jay Wilensky Treasurer: Mike Agranoff Trustees: Trustees thru 2017: Kathi Caccavale, Lois DeRitter, Steve Humphreys Trustees thru 2018: Olga Alvarez, Elizabeth Lachowicz, Bob McNally Trustees thru 2019: Ken Brody, Allan Kugel, Evelyn McNally Board Meeting: The Summary .....................................................10 Good o’ the Order .........................................................................11 NOTE: web links in the eNewsletter are now clickable June Evening o' Music Sat., Jun. 10, 6pm • Safranek/Robinson's 20 Fairmount Road, New Providence • 908/591-6491 Note super-early start time: 6pm Bring instruments, voices, food and beverages to share! Pam and Bob are pulling out all the stops on this one! Both (covered) outdoor acoustic and indoor rock-n-roll jams to suit every mood and a grill will be available for any “folk on the barbie” pot-luck contributions. Please bring an armless chair if you need one for playing the night away! Directions (from Rt78): I-78W to Exit 43. At 3rd traffic light make Right onto Springfield Ave (Rt 512). At 1st traffic light make Right onto Central Ave. Take 1st Right onto Fairmount Rd. 20 Fairmount is 2nd driveway on Left. Only park on the opposite side of Fairmount Rd from the house. Parking on Central and Fairview is OK. Use driveway for unloading and/or handicap only. Folk Project July 4th Picnic Sat., Jun. 3: Diane Silver & Gotham Gals 2pm • Steve, Christine, and Valerie Humphreys' Norma Castle: percussion • Dominique Gagne: flute • Julia Hartman: fiddle • Robin Russell: key- 6 Penn Rise Court, Randolph • 973/476-6792 board Please join your fellow Projectiles (rain or shine) for an afternoon of music, grilling, and chilling. Bring Holy Contradance Batman! Deuces are wild as Diabolical Diane delivers a dynamic blankets and folding chairs to enjoy our hosts' splendidly large backyard. This event is also when duo with a double dance of dastardly do-si-does to put the Joker to rest. Gotham we will draw names for duos and trios to take part in the Minstrel’s Birthday Show on July 28 (see Gals has left the city to rescue East Hanover from arch-nemesis Boris Boredom. With Robin on piano, Catwoman Castle, Harley Quinn Hartman, and Deadshot details on page 1). The Folk Project will supply grillables (burgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, etc.) Dominique, they join forces with the Caped Crusading Caller to save the day and you supply pot-luck side dishes, salads, beverages, desserts, etc. Please also bring your own before the dark night returns. serving utensils and ice-filled coolers for your beverages. We'll use the driveway ONLY for dropping off instruments and pot-luck contributions. On that subject, NEARBY STREET PARKING IS LIMITED Sat., Jun. 17: Alexandra Deis-Lauby & Strumbow Squeezeblow SO EVERYONE IS ENCOURAGED TO CONNECT WITH A FOLKIE BUDDY AND SHARE THE RIDE TO THE Ross Harriss: guitar, piano • Bill Christophersen: fiddle • Jody Kruskal: Anglo concertina • Trip PARTY. If you would like assistance requesting or offering a ride, please send an email with your Henderson: harmonica phone number and location to the Event Hosting Chairperson, Christine DeLeon, at eventhosting@ Alexandra adeptly assembles amazing accelerating ambulations accumulating folkproject.org for help with coordinating. See you on the Fourth for Yankee Doodle jamming! abundant accolades and adoring admirers. Strumbow Squeezeblow shares sensa- DIRECTIONS Directions from Route 287 Take Route 10 West 7.8 miles, right on Millbrook Ave .08 mi., left on Quaker church road .3 miles, tional scrumptious saucy seductive spirited savory seismic sonorous syncopated selections. 2nd right onto Quaker Ave. 0.3 mi, 2nd right onto Fairfield Ave. .08 mi., 1st right onto Penn Rise Court .05 mi. Let's Have a Pub Sing! Non-dancing children must be supervised at all times. At NEFFA, they had a wonderful party called a "pub sing." Basically, it is just what people used to do Contra and Square Dancing to Live Music. All dances taught. at their local pub—they gather and sing! There are no instruments; there are no songbooks or lyric No partner necessary. Beginners’ workshop, 7:30pm; sheets or electronic equivalents. The songs do not have to be drinking songs and usually aren't, but dance at 8pm. $10, $5 with student I.D. Soft soles only. they all have a heavily emphasized, oft-repeated chorus that's easy to pick up quickly. People take turns leading a song they know well, and everyone sings along on the choruses. First Presbyterian Church of East Hanover Nancy and I loved the pub sing at NEFFA and were terribly disappointed that there doesn't seem Parish House • 14 Hanover Road, East Hanover, NJ 07936 to be anything like it in New Jersey. This needs to be fixed! From I-287 northBound or southBound: Exit 39, travel East on Route 10 For approx. 3.5 miles. Exit By So, on Monday, June 19th, starting at 7:30pm, our basement will be playing the role of a pub. We the Ford dealership (“To River Road/Okner Pkway”) onto Mount Pleasant Ave. Right at the second will provide a limited amount of wine and beer, but we encourage everyone to bring along their light onto Hanover Rd. then immediate left into the parking lot of the Parish House. From I-78: Exit 48 (Route 24 West) to Exit 2B, Route 510 East/Florham Park. Go 1.9 miles and turn leFt onto Hanover Rd. own alcoholic beverages of choice and share them with others. And, of course, bring your favor- Turn right into the parking lot oF the Parish House just BeFore the road ends at Mount Pleasant Ave. ite chorus-heavy songs to share too. Please do NOT bring instruments or lyric sheets of any kind, Additional directions are on our website. because we will sing a cappella and from our memories. It would be wonderful if you could come 973/295-6864 prepared to lead at least one song, but please come even if you just want to sing along. TERN ON THE NET! Find us at http://dance.folkproject.org We live at 79 DeMott Lane, Somerset, NJ 08873. Just take 287 South to Easton Avenue to DeMott Lane, and there we are. We hope this will be the first of many pub sings, so please help us get it started! Presented by the Folk Project —Tim Weinrich 2 15 Feets Don’t Fail Me Now! The Minstrel June 2017 Acoustic Concert Series presented by Center Contra: Gender-role free contra dance in NYC. LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St., Concerts every Friday at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship Room 301, 7:30pm.