A Newsletter for Columbia, Snake, and Yakima River Folk September 2009 The Wanderers Wind up at Three Rivers published them in the “Columbia on good harmonies backed with well- Saturday, 19 September, 7:30 PM River Collection” songbook. He also blended guitars and banjo, and they This year, The Wa n d e rers celebrate produced an album containing 17 of love it when you sing along! I want to help the 2010 Member Application 50 years of singing together!!! Carl Woody’s recordings of those songs. The concert will be held at the new 2010 Tumbleweeed Your membership gives you voting rights in folklife Allen and Bill Murlin met in a folk Some of the newly published songs Community Unitarian Universalist Y e s ! elections, $3 off most concerts, and is tax deductible! trio at Washington State University had never been seen or heard until Church, 2819 W. Sylvester Street in Music Festival You’ll even get a nifty membership card to show your friends and neighbors! at Pullman in 1959. After winning a they were released in 1987. Bill and Pasco. Tickets are $11 general/$9 sen- I would like to contribute campus talent show, the trio, at that Carl have presented the Guthrie songs iors and students, when purchased in at this level ___Bronze $50.00 ____ Individual ($15) or ____ Family ($20) Renewal? Y N time, including Al Hansen, appeared and their stories since 1985. Carl advance at Bookworm stores and ___Silver $100.00 Name___________________________________________________ regularly at campus dances and frater- presents a solo, first-person imper- Octopus’ Garden. $1 more at the door. Address ________________________________________________ na l functions. The trio split up after sonation of Guthrie discussing his 3RFS members receive a $3 discount. ___Gold $250.00 graduation from college, but Carl and Columbia River songs, through City___________________________ State _______ Zip ________ ___Platinum $1000.00 Bill started singing together again a the “Inquiring Minds Series” of Name ___________________________________ Phone _________________________ E-mail __________________ few years later. Humanities Washington. Carl has Address__________________________________ I can help 3RFS with: Bill and Carl revived the Columbia also done the musical sound tracks City _________________ State ____Zip_______ ___ Refreshments at concerts ___ Setting up chairs ___ Fund raising River songs written by Woody Guthrie for three public television documen- Phone Number___________________________ ___ Taking admission at events ___ Folding newsletters ___ Coffeehouses during his one-month visit to Portland, taries for KCTS-TV Channel 9, Seattle. ___ Serve on Board of Directors ___ Publicity ___ Song circles Oregon in May of 1941. Bill recovered The Wanderers feature folk songs ___ Demonstrating folk arts ___ Membership ___ Contra dance Guthrie’s 26 Northwest songs and from the 1950s to today. They focus Send to: 3RFS TMF, P.O. Box 1098, Richland, WA 99352 ___ Tumbleweed Music Festival ___ Other Enclose your check payable to Three Rivers Folklife Society. Send check to: Three Rivers Folklife Society,P.O. Box 1098, Richland, WA 99 3 5 2 . It’s the 13th for Tumbleweed Music Festival! admission and $5 seniors and students. Scramble” involving a challenge to Saturday-Sunday, 5-6 September Concert headliners are singer/song- perform in a serendipitous band The 13th Annual Tumbleweed Music writer Larry Murante, Celtic band drawn from a hat, with one hour to Festival will be held at Richland’s Watch the Sky!, Appalachian singers come up with 2 songs and then per- H o w a rd Amon Park and in the Elizabeth and Sandy LaPrelle, and form them on stage an hour later. Richland Community Center. There the nautical duo Shanghaied on the Don’t miss it! ar e 4 outdoor stages, an indoor dance Willamette. stage, plus an open mic stage. The Tumbleweed Music Festival is a music at Tumbleweed runs the gamut participatory experience for all. A n of acoustic genres: blues, bluegrass, open mic stage, hosted by our friends traditional, ethnic, nautical, jazz, old- in Mid-Columbia Traditional A r t s time, contemporary, and “alternative.” and Music Association, offers any- There are also lots of dance groups, one at the festival an opportunity to participatory dance, family-friendly sign up to perform before an audience. entertainment, local and regional arts Free workshops provide hands-on and crafts, and food vendors. learning on all sorts of instruments and There will be about 100 different dance forms, and peer-sharing on acts at the festival, which is free from topics of interest like songwriting 11:00 AM until 7:00 PM each day. There’ s and promotion. Spontaneous jams a Saturday evening concert with an start up all over the festival grounds. affordable ticket price of $8 general Then there’s the popular “Band 2 3 Carolyn Cruso Heritage Days We Need Your Return to Sacajawea Baked Goodies! Coffeehouse Walla Walla Contra Dance Tumbleweed Set-up 5:00 PM HAP Tumbleweed has a great reputation 7:30 PM Sat, Stateline Grange, Friday, 11 September, 7:30 PM Friday-Sunday, 25-27 September Tumbleweed Music Festival 11AM-11 PM Sat HAP for feeding our performers and vol- 53445 W. Ferndale Rd., Carolyn Cruso is returning to enter- The Heritage Days event was original- unteers extremely well. If you have Mi l t o n - F re e w a t e r Tumbleweed Music Festival 11AM-7 PM Sun HAP tain us at the 3RFS coffeehouse. She ly started by the local Lewis & Clark an abundance of garden produce or Carolyn Cruso Coffeehouse 7:30 PM Fri All Saints’ is an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Bicenntennial Council to commemo- fruit, we’d love to have it! We also go and composer. having toured widely rate the 200th anniversary of the 2nd Saturday Sea Song Singalong 7:00 PM Sat Round Table through lots of muffins, coffee cake, Pizza, Richland in both the United States and Europe. Lewis & Clark Voyage of Discovery. Let’s Celebrate! and cookies. To arrange for drop-off, 3RFS Board Meeting 7:00 PM Mon Alan Page’s She is equally at home on hammered Mid-Columbia Traditional Arts and please call Chris at 943-5107. Sunday, 27 September 4:00 PM dulcimer, flute, guitar and vocals and Music Association has presented the The Wanderers Concert 7:30 PM Sat CUUC To show our appreciation for all of performs a diverse array of original event since 2006, bringing the oppor- the efforts of Tumbleweed volunteers, tunes and songs as well as traditional tunity to learn about and re-enact the TMF Volunteer Appreciation Picnic 4:00 PM Sun Micki Perry’s sponsors and patrons, Three Rivers material. life and skills of early American explor- Volunteers Are Folklife Society will host an Ap p re c i a - Heritage Days Fri-Sun Sacajewea State Park, Her instrumental compositions are ers, the Native American cultures they ti o n Picnic on Sunday, September 27, Pasco mainly for the hammered dulcimer found along the way, and lives of the Still Welcome Conta Dance with 7:30 PM Sat FLC at Micki Perry’s. Food and beverages and are inspired by her strong con- early settlers. The Canote Brothers There are still plenty of chances to will be provided, all you need to bring nection to nature as well as her exten- Friday is dedicated to receiving get involved in your favorite music ar e lawn chairs and instruments if you sive travel and the cultures she has school children and letting them see festival. We can still use folks to pro- have them, there’s bound to be some en c o u n t e r ed along the way. Her unusu- and touch what used to be. Saturday First Friday Folkie Free-for-All 7:30PM Fri Micki Perry’s vide a bed for performers, help in the jammin’ and singin.’ Kids are welcome. al lyrical approach to the dulcimer and Sunday are when most people kitchen, move microphones, set up, Our volunteers and donors are the Dan Maher & Teresa Morgan Concert 7:30 PM Sat CUUC, especially delights audiences and has show up to experience the past. You ’ l l tear down, sell buttons, T-shirts, and heart and soul of Tumbleweed and this to benefit Tumbleweed even won over curmudgeons swear- experience Lewis & Clark re- e n a c t o r s , Blue Mountain Spanish Sound 7:30 PM Fri All Saints’ CDs, take tickets, run errands, and is one way to let you know how much ing they hated hammered dulcimer! me m b e r s of the Umatilla, Yakama, Coffeehouse more. If you want to help, please call we appreciate you! 2nd Saturday Sea Song Singalong 7:00 PM Sat Round Table Most of her traditional material has and Wanapum People, Mountain man Kim O’Keefe at 375-6139. You should recieve an invitation in Pizza, Richland been gleaned from her two and a half encampments, and a variety of other the mail or by e-mail. Please RSVP to 3RFS Board Meeting 7:00 PM Mon LocationTBD year sojourn in Europe with late part- people who enjoy sharing their skills 528-2215. Micki lives at 1011 S. Dawes, ner Robert Almblade, with whom and knowledge about what life was Bill Staines Concert 7:30 PM Sat CUUC one block East of Edison. she performed and wrote for over like nearly two centuries ago. Conta Dance 7:30 PM Sat Shuffler’s Shanty a decade, as well as playing at Irish Heritage Days also includes old-time is published monthly sessions around the United States. musicians and entertainers. The Canote from August through May by the All Saints’ = All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 1322 Kimball Ave., Richland Three Rivers Folklife Society.