THE COLUMBUS FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY, INC. NOVEMBER, 2015 Young Musicians WHAT’S INSIDE: YOUNG MUSICIANS TO Showcase Again at November SHOWCASE AGAIN AT NOV. 28 COFFEEHOUSE PG. 1 28 Coffeehouse PERFORMING DUO “JIM’S RED PANTS” AT by D. Boston Look for more details COFFEEHOUSE OCT. 31 PG. 1 For the third year in in an e-mail a row, the Columbus announcement in TWO EDUCATIONAL EVENTS: Folk Music Society is November. MUSIC “REALITY” WORK- proud to showcase SHOP SERIES & “ALIVE In addition to INSIDE” DOCUMENTARY PG. 3 young musicians at its hearing music from the November FolkSide musicians, you’ll enjoy OPTIONS TO CONSIDER Coffeehouse. The delicious refreshments THIS THANKSGIVING performers featured will as well as the chance to SEASON PG. 4 be varied in age and Micah Gunn, one of the performers at the event. Fluent pick up “signature” CALENDAR OF EVENTS we’re sure you’ll find on the piano and acoustic guitar, he also composes, writes goodies at our annual them delightfully filled and sings. In July of 2015 he released his first CD album Bake Sale table. The AND ANNOUNCEMENTS PG. 5 with talent. The evening entitled, “Unless.” Listen to Micah: https:// proceeds will benefit begins with the www.reverbnation.com/micahgunn PETER & PAUL WITHOUT the 2016 Central Ohio MARY: A REVIEW PG. 6 traditional Open Jam Folk Festival. So bring (6-7 pm) followed by a shortened Open your “extra change,” your appetite, your FUNNY STUFF PG. 6 Mic session (7-7:30 pm). From 7:30-10 pm welcoming spirt and your usual good various young musicians will perform with cheer! CFMS MEMBER the last hour bringing a “featured HIGHLIGHTS PG. 7 performer.” See Young Musicians - page 2 Performing Duo “Jim’s Red Pants” at Coffeehouse on Saturday, Oct. 31 Interview by Bill Cohen Hillary and Rick Wagner have Bill Cohen: OK, let’s get this out of performed original, traditional roots the way from the very first because it’s music for over 16 years and have probably on many people’s minds. demonstrated their talents on Your names are Rick and Hillary, but instruments varying from guitar, you call your group “Jim’s Red Pants.” hardanger fiddle and nyckelharpa to What’s the story here? the mandolin, bouzouki, penny whistle and banjo. Hillary Wagner: Jim was my granddad. He was a real character and Hillary is an outstanding fiddler and a quite the ladies’ man. His favorite color rare player – equally at home on harmonic twists and the fiddle tunes “Maid Behind the Bar,” as she is he writes for Hillary are exciting was red and he wore it almost daily. playing in a string quartet or sitting in tunes not heard anywhere else. What One Father’s Day we had a really hectic the pit orchestra. Rick is an inventive follows is an interview Bill Cohen did day so we arranged to take him out for composer. His waltzes are stunning, with Hillary about the band. breakfast. We had my 8 year old niece elegant melodies with interesting See Duo “Jim’s Red Pants” - page 2 CONTACT US AT: VOICEMAIL 614-470-3963! PAGE 1 A DIFFERENT STRUMMER NOVEMBER, 2015 Young Musicians - from page 1 These young musicians are excited to CFMS LOOKING FOR A TREASURER. perform for us, so let us in return show our support and how much fun the The Columbus Folk Music Society CFMS can be! Everyone welcome! (CFMS) is currently looking for someone Details on page 5. to serve as Treasurer. Duration is Remember customarily 1 year. the Bake If you, or someone you know, are Sale on interested in finding out additional November details, please contact CFMS President, 28! Mike Hale, at: [email protected] or call 614-354-5586. Duo “Jim’s Red Pants” - "om page 1 years. I started fiddling and just loved influenced Rick’s love for the Irish with us. She was a girly girl who it. I quit teaching school and instead bouzouki. Many other old-time and always wore matching outfits. When began to teach privately and play violin country blues artists also influenced we arrived to pick him up at 7:00 in the and viola for some orchestra and Rick. quartet jobs. I also teach fiddle students morning he met us on the street Bill: Give us some examples of the and do some workshops; I play and wearing bright red pants, an olive cities and towns in which you’ve teach green shirt with giant fuscia pink played. How widely and how long flowers on it and salmon colored shoes. have you toured, and what kinds of He was blinding! Rick wrote a song we venues have hosted your named “Jim's New Red Pants,” then we performances? titled our first CD the same. Later we kept it for our band name but the pants Hillary: Rick and I have played in were no longer new! such a wide variety of venues. We met playing at the Canal St. Tavern in Bill: How do you describe the style of Dayton, we’ve played ArtSong and music you play together? EdenSong in Cincinnati, Moon Over Hillary: Rick and I play any style of Aullwood, Ohio Chautauqua, Dayton music that catches our fancy. Folk Celtic Festival, Central Ohio Folk music is the broadest description, mandolin Festival, Cincinnati Irish Festival, followed by fiddle music to narrow it and I founded and direct the historical events like Tall Stacks, Feast down not at all. We love doing our Centerville Mandolin Ensemble. I of the Hunters Moon, Mississinewa original songs and tunes. We play a lot loved my teacher, Conny Kiradjieff, 1812, Kalamazoo Living History of Irish music, English and Morris and try to be as kind a teacher as he Show, the last stop of the Lewis and tunes, Scandinavian, American folk was. Some of my favorite fiddlers are Clark Bicentennial, and others I’ve and fiddle tunes, and a few from all Kevin Burke, Liz Carroll, Annbjorg forgotten about. We play most often in sorts of other places. One thing that we Lien, Bruce Molsky, Aly Bain and Ohio and Indiana. Johnny Cunningham. do when we play [the] music of all of Bill: Give us your best sales pitch. these is we to try to make them our Rick has written and performed in Why should people come out to see own. We try to be respectful of the acoustic bands for almost fifty years and hear you October 31 at the traditions but we also adapt the tunes now. He played guitar, claw hammer Columbus Folk Music Society monthly so that they reflect our sound. banjo, mandolin and fiddle in a string coffeehouse? band he founded in 1975 called the Bill: What are each of your music Hillary: I’m hoping that folks will backgrounds and what famous “Two-Step Tunesters,” then played solo, and eventually joined with Dave find it a treat instead of a trick to come performers have influenced you the spend Halloween evening with us! We most? and Kay Gordon. Artists who have influenced him are his now deceased play many different instruments Hillary: I was raised playing mostly uncles who played jazz and swing and including hardanger fiddle, fiddle, classical music. I started violin late – in his grandmother and grandfather who bouzouki, dad-gad guitar, mandolins, high school. I went to the College at met while performing in the same claw hammer banjo and who knows the Conservatory of Music in Vaudeville troupe. Michael Holmes of what else we’ll bring! Cincinnati then taught school for a few Dervish and Andy Irvine have PAGE 2! WWW.COLUMBUSFOLKMUSICSOCIETY.ORG A DIFFERENT STRUMMER NOVEMBER, 2015 Two Upcoming Educational Events. Music “Reality” (aka Music Theory) Workshop Series Launches November 8 Are you interested in three part workshop series as a furthering your musical skills or service to our members. even just curious to learn more Workshop space is limited about what makes up the and you must pre-register. universe of music? Details are below, including a The Columbus Music link for registration. The Society, alongside with the registration fee includes the use Columbus Songwriter’s of a MIDI keyboard and Association, is co-sponsoring an computer to aide the learning inexpensive (and extensive!) process. SUNDAYS, NOV 8, 15 & 22 Stirring Documentary on the 4 - 6:00 PM Power of Music as Therapy Columbus Songwriter’s by Bill Cohen Association (CSA) & As folkies, we already know conversation with a loved one, from firsthand experience how something they haven’t done Columbus Folk Music Society (CFMS) music energizes us and stirs our for years. emotions and memories. Now, Thursday, November 5th, the PRESENT: a 2014 film documentary shows 78-minute film will be shown, how nursing home residents followed by a panel discussion suffering from Alzheimer's, by experts who know about Music “Reality” dementia, and depression can various kinds of “alternative” be, at least temporarily, brought therapies, using pets, spiritual out of the shadows and issues, laughter, yoga, art, and Workshop awakened from their usual music. Lunch is also served. coma-like trance. An RSVP is requested. To “Alive Inside” won the reserve a spot, contact Julie with Instructor Bill Hilt, Audience Award at a recent (composer & multi-instrumentalist) Wasserstrom at 614.559.6214 or Sundance Film Festival and for [email protected]. good reason. It shows the magic All are welcome. LOCATION: Jazz Academy space, that can sometimes occur when the earphones of simple audio Whether you attend this event 769 E. Long St., Cols (4th floor, Lincoln Theater) playback machines are placed or not, seeing this compelling on the heads of lethargic movie might just prompt you to $40 total for three 2-hr sessions nursing home residents and pick up your guitar, banjo, or favorite songs from their youth other instrument and head to a are played.