folknik www.sffmc.org Volume LV number 1 newsle�er of the San Francisco Folk Music Club Jan/Feb 2019 friends and families making home-grown music together Hay New Year 2019 Ferdinand Chalandre, circa ����, British Museum Collection Fold-In Sunday, February 24 The fold-in/folk-sing is at ��:�� ��, Sunday, February ��, at the home of Abe and Joan Feinberg, ���� Ashmount Ave., Oakland, ���-���-����. Help with the folknik, enjoy a meal, and make music. Bring a potluck dish and instruments. We can always use more hands at the fold-in. Come join us! the folknik Vol. LV, Number 1 Page 2 January/February 2019 The 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. “If it weren’t for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.” ― Carl Perkins Musical Meetings Musical meetings of the San Francisco Folk Music Club are held every 2nd and 4th 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. Jan 11 Jan 25 Feb 08 Feb 22 Setup 1, 7 p.m. Debbie K Debbie K Glen V Debbie K Setup 2, 7 p.m. Bob A Bob A John K Tes W Host 1, 8-9 p.m. Estelle F Joel R Greg B Ed H Host 2, 9-10 p.m. Beth W Greg B Tenaya L Glen V Singing Room Yvette T Glen V Ed H Debbie K Five senses: Theme Songs with choruses Fire & water Love hear, see, taste, smell, touch Cleanup 1 Glen V Forest McD Forest McD Glen V 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 and/or pitch in with set-up and clean-up! Board Meetings The SFFMC board meets on each 2nd Tuesday — potluck at 6:30 p.m., meeting at 8:00 p.m. All club members are welcome to attend the potluck dinner and the meeting. January 8: Home of Ed Hilton, 824 Lincoln Ave. #B, Alameda, CA 94501 (510) 523-6533 February 12: Home of Amelia Hogan, 742 40th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94121 (831) 331-3705 Next Folknik Fold-In/Sing: Sunday, February 24, 2019 at noon home of Abe & Joan Feinberg, 1121 Ashmount, Oakland, CA (510) 451-1122 Alan Lee Tanenbaum (1940-2018) The SFFMC community mourns the recent loss Probably the most popular story about Alan was of Alan Tanenbaum and his extraordinary warmth, his appearance on the game show Dream House with his humor, wisdom, intelligence, and integrity. A man of first wife, Susan. As part of vetting contestants for the many interests and talents, Alan engaged in law and in show, the host asked audience members to describe their science, instruction and arbitration, square dancing, previous night’s meal. Others described dishes of cycling, piloting, and traveling. He was a loving husband, chicken, meatloaf, and spaghetti, but Alan understood brother, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, and what the host was after. When it came his turn, he waxed friend, colleague, and mentor to countless others. poetic (perhaps melodramatic) on the virtues of Susan’s Alan was born in Brooklyn, New York and cooking. A star was born and a pair of contestants were studied at Columbia, Syracuse, and Santa Clara made. In the course of five episodes of the show, Susan Universities. He was married twice, and had two children and Alan bested ten other couples and answered a broad and two step-children. After a career as an accomplished range of trivia questions, finally managing to win a Piper astrophysicist, he went on to become an even more Cherokee airplane, which they named “Pushkin” after the accomplished family lawyer. He was president of the answer to their most challenging question on the show. California Association of Certified Family Law This plane was the setting for many later adventures, Specialists, and of Silicon Valley Jewish Family including the family’s migration a year later out to Services. He was an art docent, an active participant in California. Beyond War, EST, and Landmark, a licensed pilot, an Alan passed away in early August after a battle enthusiastic world traveler, and a sometimes look-alike of with Parkinson’s Disease. He will be sorely missed, but both Steve Martin and Rich Little. his legacy will live on through family, friends, and the folk community. the folknik Vol. LV, Number 1 Page 3 January/February 2019 Helping Fund Camperships: The Ballad Quilt by Casey Casebeer Last year at Harmony Camp we discussed how 2. Barbara Allen, Child #84. “Out of her grave to raise more money for “camperships,” a funding grew a red, red rose and out of his a briar.” source that helps SFFMC members meet the cost of Twining plants link the graves of a scornful Harmony Camp attendance. This year's new camp beauty and a young man who died for her venue at Walker Ranch is a wonderful site for our love. event, but we are all aware that it will be more costly than Camp Newman. It is likely that more of the Techniques: Appliqué and embroidery. SFFMC family may need to request campership Materials: Cotton, satin ribbon. assistance than in the past. Design and needlework by Louise Oehler. A group of SFFMC members who have been singing ballads together for years decided to pitch in. 3. Clerk Colvin, Child #42. “He drew out his The group has spent the past year making a hand-made bright broadsword and sought wi’ it to be her wall quilt to benefit the Campership Fund. deid, but she’s become a fish again and lightly Approximately four feet by five feet and entirely hand sprang intae the fleed.” Clark Colvin’s jilted stitched, the quilt comprises twelve patches, depicting water-spirit lover is seen transforming into a scenes from songs in Harvard professor Francis Child's marlin in mid-dive. iconic 19th century collection The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. The quilt will be displayed at this Techniques: Appliqué, needle weaving, year’s Harmony Camp. embroidery. The Camp Harmony committee will decide Materials: Tucked upholstery fabric, pleated how best to use this piece of textile art for fundraising. stretch knit fabric, silk charmeuse. Needlework techniques used. The two Design and needlework by Casey Casebeer. primary techniques are traditional embroidery with cotton embroidery floss, and appliqué (in which one 4. The Three Ravens, Child #26. Carrion crows fabric is sewn to the surface of another fabric). The discuss a knight lying dead in a nearby field. needleworkers have also used a wide variety of other “There were three ravens in a tree…” textile skills: crazy-quilt technique (in which an entire new surface is created by attaching bits of scrap fabric Technique: Appliqué. to a backing and to one another); photographic Materials: Grosgrain ribbon, cotton. transfer; multimedia collage with beads, sequins, bells, and wool roving; couching (in which ribbon, cord or Design and needlework by Louise Oehler. braid is invisibly needle-tacked to the background); needle-painting (an embroidery technique that 5. The Bonny Birdy, Child #82. A badly-treated produces a gradual ombré-like variation in color); and pet bird betrays his mistress and her lover. intarsia knitting (a multicolor knitting technique in “There lies a knight in your wife’s arms that which the various colors of yarn are not carried across she loves better than thee.” the back of the work, such that the resulting color areas fit together like puzzle pieces and the back of the Techniques: Crazy quilt, needle-painting, design looks much like the front). embroidery. Theme of the quilt, and the ballads/stories Materials: Cotton, jacquard-woven portrayed: The theme of this complex textile work is upholstery fabric. the BALLAD, a form of old narrative or story-telling Design and needlework by Casey Casebeer. song passed on by oral tradition in nearly all European cultures. The following descriptions are numbered left to right and top to bottom. 6. The Cherry Tree Carol, Child #54. When Joseph refuses to gather fruit for Mary, the 1.