Arden Club Calendar www.ArdenClub.org (302) 475-3126 2126 The Highway, Arden DE 19810 MAY 2021 Printed on 100% post-consumer fiber paper CONCERT GILD New concerts on sale for outside in the Grove! Molly Tuttle - Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - Selling out! Limited capacity and socially distancing on our Shady Grove Stage! Tickets are $30 – Club members email us for a discount code: [email protected]. Gates open 5 PM, Opener 5:30 PM, Molly Tuttle 6:30 PM Rain or Shine A virtuosic, award-winning guitarist with a gift for insightful songwriting, She has wowed with dates at Telluride, Newport Folk Fest, an appearance on CBS Saturday Morning, and an enthusiastic reception both by critics and her fellow musicians. (All tickets at www.ardenconcerts.com) Low Cut Connie "Tough Cookies" Live broadcast in person with special guest TBA Saturday June 5, 2021 - 5 PM Doors, 6 PM Live online and in person! - Socially distant pod tickets $30 each (members write for discount) Tough Cookies is a concert, a church service, a support group, a strip club, a punk club, but mostly a SOUL MUSIC VARIETY SHOW. A livestream breakout hit, the show has received hundreds of thousands of streams with regular viewers across the globe -- over 40 countries! The New Yorker named host Adam Weiner their “Pandemic Person of the Year,” Marshall Crenshaw DeceMber 11, 2021 - 8:00 pm - $25 www.ardenconcerts.com - Email us for member code “Something’s Going To Happen” when Marshall Crenshaw comes to Arden to perform his familiar favorites, including his Top 40 hit “Someday, Someway” plus others like “Mary Anne,” “Cynical Girl” and “Whenever You’re On My Mind.” His songs have been covered by everyone from Gin Blossoms (“Till I Hear It From You”) to Bette Midler (“You’re My Favorite Waste Of Time”). Also on sale now, Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief) solo Standing Room Only, Friday November 12, 2021 - may be sold out by the time this gets to print! Also - Nearly sold out! Amy HelM - June 12 outdoors at Shady Grove ON SALE NOW! Shady Grove Music Fest, Saturday July 10, 2021 Lineup: Grace Vonderkuhn; Catbite; Ellen Siberian Tiger; Buddie; Dominy; Grant Claytor; The Knotty G's; The Luscious’s; Bad Smidgen. (www.ardenconcerts.com) Gates open at 11am. Tickets: $25 in Advance, $20 for Arden Club Members (free entry for children under 12) - Early bird $5 off non-member price until June 30th or until sold out. Look under “shows” for these Livestreams partnering with Arden at ardenconcerts.com: • Milk Carton Kids April 29 and May 13 • Tune-Yards April 28 • Broadway by the Year - Kander and Ebb - co pro with Town Hall and The Grand - May 10 • Broadway by the Year - Andrew Lloyd Webber - May 24 For outdoor and indoor shows, please, socially distance in pods as before. Food Trucks, beer and wine! No Dogs please. No outside beverages. Bring blankets and chairs, and outside food if you wish! May 2021 page 1 DRUM CIRCLE Our Arden DruM Circle will continue to be held at 1:00 pm on May 16, unless notified through our eMail list or our Facebook Page. Weather permitting, we will be drumming in the outdoor Shady Grove next to the swimming pool. If you need to, parking can be done on the edge of the Shady Grove along the driveway and Pond Lane, but not on the other side of these roads. You may also continue to park in the Gild Hall's parking lot. You should bring your own seating. In the event of cold or rainy weather, we will be inside of the Gild Hall, upstairs, until the resumption of other events preclude us from using that space, then we will be back downstairs. We will provide seating when indoors. For now we will not be sharing druMs, so please bring one, or other percussion instruments. Indoors or out, please wear a Mask until you are settled into a socially distanced seat. Maybe by summer we will not need to do this, but for now, it is important to continue these practices. Our venue, the Arden Club Gild Hall and our sponsor, the Arden Concert Gild needs donations to be able to continue this Circle. They provide heat, electric as well as the spaces indoors and out. Also consider joining the Club if you are not already a member. It is inexpensive ($25/year) and has many benefits and opportunities, see ardenclub.org. To get notifications, get on my eMail list at [email protected]. Hope to see you there on May 16! FOLK GILD We will email the location and when we start outdoors -- be sure to get on our email list! People have been asking about dancing outside, since it is getting warmer. Below is the schedule for May and June. I tested my internet and found that I will be able to continue Zooming the sessions in May and June, from the basketball court at BUZZ Hall or alongside our Gild Hall, and the sessions will only be an hour, starting in May. They will start one hour later, as well. Below is the invitation. Ilana (Lorraine Cohn) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting: Dates: May 2, 2021 11:00 AM, May 9, 2021 11:00 AM, May 16, 2021 11:00 AM, May 23, 2021 11:00 AM (*No session May 30th) June 6, 2021 11:00 AM, June 13, 2021 11:00 AM Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system: Weekly:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZIude2prDsuGdHwwjjO1NPQOZc0LaNP8fKA/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGurTkuG9aVt BqCRpwAA4joLOvzpmJbjad1iwjvCQ8CTDPHGdhBYp5-PuiI Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86324120435?pwd=RkptRTlaOW01a2h5dW5YbUtTSm1zZz09 Meeting ID: 863 2412 0435, Passcode: 175145 Arden in Motion - Guided improvisational dance/movement to live music on Zoom, no experience necessary. 2nd and 4th Sundays of the Month froM 3-4:30 pm (May 9 and 23, 2021) on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82498255032?pwd=RDRHbWIwU2FQYzNHT2VNV1pTSlR5dz09 Donation ($5-15) link: http://ardenclub.org/donate/ June 13, 27 outside at Shady Grove, behind the Gild Hall. For more info contact: [email protected] May 2021 page 2 GARDENERS GILD (GG) Our first Gardeners Gild Native Plant Sale was a raging success (!) and we learned so much! In four vehicles, people trekked to a wholesale nursery downstate, and picked up 200+ hard-to-find native shrubs. After unloading into the Gild Hall parking lot, plants were dispersed by our wonderful team to their new, happy owners. Every native plant brings us closer to our goal of abundant native plant diversity throughout the Ardens and beyond. Watch for the next sale, and let us know your favorite native plant species! CoMe to the next Gardeners Gild outing to Chanticleer Gardens in nearby PA on May 22. This outing is taking the place of our regular monthly meeting. There is a new steering committee for the Gild and changes are afoot. Join us. If you want to be put on the emailing list, please contact Jeana Carey. We are also on FB, “Arden Club Gardeners Gild” LIBRARY GILD Oh, do we have some good reads for you this month, so come on down to the Arden Library! Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 2:30 to 4pm, Wednesday from 7:30 to 9pm and Thursday afternoon froM 3:30 to 5pM. To stay safe, we do require wearing a mask, and ask that one person at a time, unless in a family group, be in the library. Booklist (February 1, 2021 (Vol. 117, No. 11)) The glorious oak—given special mention in entomologist Tallamy’s best-selling Nature’s Best Hope (2020), which concerned the vital interconnections between native plants, insects, humans, and the global ecosystem—has a breakout role here. Walking readers through a year in the life of an oak, month by month, the author celebrates this “keystone” plant’s many and often-unique functions, from the vast and crucial diversity of life an oak tree supports to its central place in water and air purification, soil health, watershed management, and, of course, lumber products. At the same time, Tallamy decries the loss of forests worldwide and the subsequent decline of insect populations by 45 percent in only the last 40 years, all making the reforestation of oaks that much more urgent. To that end, Tallamy offers appended planting tips and oak-variety listings, by U.S. region. An excellent companion to Nature’s Best Hope. Booklist (January 1, 2021 (Vol. 117, No. 9)) With echoes of themes in his internationally lauded Never Let Me Go (2005)—that life can be manufactured, bartered, bought—Booker-ed, Nobel-ed, and knighted Ishiguro presents a bittersweet fable about the human heart as “something that makes each of us special and individual.” Or not. Klara is an AF, as in Artificial Friend. She is also “quite remarkable,” “has extraordinary observational ability,”and while she might not be the latest B3 model, her empathic skills are unparalleled. She’s delightedly chosen by 14-year-old Josie, who takes her home to live with Mother and Melania Housekeeper. Next door is Josie’s best friend, Rick, and his single mother. Klara integrates, routines settle. But Josie is ill, with an older sister who died too young. Desperate to save Josie, Mother covertly pushes science, Melania attempts bullish protection, and Rick promises true love. Klara, meanwhile, devises her own plan: a deal with the Sun, who’s already, miraculously, rescued Beggar Man and his dog. Sacrifices will be necessary. In Ishiguro’s near-future dystopia, Klara— appropriately monikered to suggest both clear and obvious—could prove to be the most human of all.