Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. February 2007 vol 42, No.2 February 2-4 Winter Folk Music Weekend--call 718-549-1344 (after 11am) to see if space is still available. See p.3. 4 Sun Sea Music: Deirdre & Sean Murtha +NY Packet; 3pm, South Street Seaport. 7WedFolk Open Sing; Ethical Culture Soc., Brooklyn, 6:30pm. 12 Mon NYPFMC Exec. Board Meeting 7:15pm location tba. 17 Sat Chantey Sing at Seamen’s Church Institute, 8pm. 18 Sun Sacred Harp Sing at St. Barts: 2:30pm. 25 Sun Gospel and Sacred Harp Sing in Queens, 3pm 28 Wed Newsletter Mailing, 7pm; in Jackson Heights ( Queens). March 4 Sun Sea Music: NY Packet+ Johnson Girls; 3pm, South Street Seaport 7WedFolk Open Sing; Ethical Culture Soc., Brooklyn, 6:30pm 9 Fri Ebony Hillbillies series concert; Community Church, 7:30pm ☺ Note Changed Date 10 Sat Chantey Sing at Seamen’s Church Institute, 8pm 12 Mon NYPFMC Exec. Board Meeting; 7:15pm location tba 18 Sun Sacred Harp Sing at St. Barts: 2:30pm 31 Sat Arthur Sherry house concert in Manhattan Details next pages; ☺= free to members Table of Contents Society Events details ...........2-3 Calendar Listings..................10 From The editor .................... 3 Repeating Events ..................12 Folk Music Society Info .......... 4 Calendar Location Info ...........19 Topical Listing of Events ......... 5 30 Years Ago ......................22 Ebony Hillbillies flyer ............. 7 ads ...................................22 CD & Eisteddfod Reviews .....6-8 Pinewoods Hot Line ..............23 Membership Form ................24 Ebony Hillbillies Friday, March 9 7:30pm at the Community Church reserve on-line: www.folkconcert2.eventbrite.com - 1 - SEA MUSIC CONCERTS; Sundays, Feb.4 & Mar. 4, 3 pm First Sunday of the Month: members of The New York Packet (Frank Woerner, Bonnie Milner, Deirdre Murtha, Joy Bennett, Alison Kelley, Frank Hendricks, David Jones, Jan Christensen, Dan Milner & Bob Conroy) join featured guests. Co-sponsored with the South Street Seaport Museum. At the Museum’s Melville Gallery, 209 Water Street, between Fulton & Beekman. Call 212-691-7610 for directions. Donation is $5 (chil- dren, $2), pay at the door. February 4 -Deirdre & Sean Murtha March 4 - The Johnson Girls. FOLK OPEN SING; Wednesdays, Feb.7th, March 7th; 6:30-10 pm Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for an open sing. Bring your voice, instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. Drop by for a couple of songs or the whole evening. At the Ethical Culture Society, 53 Prospect Park West (basement), Brooklyn (near 2nd St.). Directions: F train to 7th Ave.; Q train to 7th Ave.; 2/3 train to Grand Army Plaza. Hosted by Ethical Culture/Good Coffeehouse, Pinewoods Folk Music Club, Alison Kelley, and Frank Woerner. Info: Alison Kelley, 718-636-6341 CHANTEY SING; Saturday, February 17th; 8 PM Come to the Chantey Sing at South St Seaport. Bring instruments, voices and songs. Co-sponsored and hosted by the Seamen’s Church Institute at 241 Water St NYC. Directions: A & C trains Broadway/Nassau St., and J, M, Z, 2, 3, 4, 5, Fulton St. Walk down Fulton St and make a left on Water St. A small donation requested. Info: 718- 788-7563 or www.woodenshipsmusic.com/nychanty/nychanty.html. SACRED HARP SINGING AT ST. BART’S; Sunday, February 18th; 2:30pm Co-sponsored and hosted by St. Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan, on the 3rd Sun- day of each month Sept. thru June, 2:30 to 5pm, 109 East 50th St. We continue the colonial American tradition of four-part, unaccompanied gospel singing. Beginners welcome! Books available for loan or purchase. Contributions collected; free parking available. Food and fellowship following. Info: Gail Harper 212-750-8977. GOSPEL & SACRED HARP SING; Sunday, February 25th; 3pm Glorious music, great words (mostly serious, occasionally humorous). Come raise your voice and experience these rousing pieces, with a group of enthusiastic singers. Join us for singing gospel, plus songs from the Sacred Harp book. This is 4-part harmony sung from written music, so you should be able to carry a tune; sight-singing helpful but not required. Bring food for a potluck supper (host is supplying drinks).. At the home of Stu Shapiro, 86-15 Broadway, apt.14E, Elmhurst, Queens (718-592- 8741). Subways: Take the “G” from Brooklyn or the “R” from Manhattan to Grand Ave, back end of train. Stu is 1 Block North of Queens Blvd on B’way. Look for tall building near subway exit. There is often weekend track work in Queens; you may want to call Transit Information or Stu for last minute changes! Other info: Isabel, 212- 866-2029. NEWSLETTER MAILING; wednesday, February 28th; 7 PM We need your help to mail out the next Newsletter. Join the important band of volun- teers that sticks the stamps and labels and staples the pages to mail out this newsletter. At the home of Don Wade and Eileen Pentel, 35-41 72nd Street, Jackson Heights (Queens). Right near the “74 St” Station of the #7 line or the “Roosevelt-Ave-Jackson Heights” Station of the E,F,V, and R trains. For information call 718-426-8555. - 2 - FMSNY Events Details- Continued Winter Folk Music Weekend; February 2-4 What a great weekend; we stay in the comfortable Warwick Center with lots of rooms and spaces for singing and music making of all kinds. It’s in the hills on the NY-NJ Border; a moderate 50 miles drive from NYC (with bus service from Port authority to the village of Warwick). Join us for this loosely structured weekend of informal music and song. Call 718-549-1344 (after 11am) to see if space is still available. Sign up on line at www.winterfolkwknd.eventbrite.com. EBONY HILLBILLIES; Friday, March 9th; 7:30 PM ☺ Note Changed date (was Mar. 2) New York's Ebony Hillbillies bill themselves as the "last black string band in America". Enrique Prince hails from a family of musicians from St. Thomas, and grew up around all kinds of music, from instrumental dance to traditional Caribbean, Hawaiian and country styles". The trio's take on classic black string-band repertoire includes "Cot- ton-Eyed Joe," "Sugar in the Gourd," "Hell Among the Yearlings" and "Yellow Rose of Texas," a tune originating from a black minstrel show which is actually an ode to the singer's "sweetest girl of color a fella ever knew." FREE TO CLUB MEMBERS, fulltime students under 22, and anyone under 18. Oth- ers: $20; seniors $12. Information: (212) 957-8386 At the Community Church, 40 E. 35 St between Park & Madison, Manhattan, 7:30 p.m. Non-members can buy general admission tickets on-line at http://folkconcert2.eventbrite.com. February is upon us and we wonder whether or not the weather will be uncommonly warm or bring on the usual snowy and cold winter. Either way, the music keeps us going with the Sea Music concerts on the first Sunday of the month, the Chantey Sing, the Folk Open Sing, the Sacred Harp Sing and the Gospel and Sacred Harp Sing. February also brings us the Winter Weekend. There may still be space if you haven’t registered yet and were thinking of going. Call and see (see above). The Winter Weekend is always a lot of fun. It is more low key because there are no workshops, but lots of music and good times. If you can’t make this weekend, begin to think about Spring Weekend. It will be upon us before you know it. Thank you for voting on the Board of Directors. The new officers are listed on page 4. Thank you to everyone for your hard work this past year. Remember, we still have vacancies to fill, so call Joy Bennett, our President, if you are interested. On the other hand, if you don't want to be on the Board, you can still help out by being on a commit- tee. Thank you to the volunteers who help to put out the newsletter each month and ensure that you get the word about what’s going on in the club and at events throughout the city. They could always use more help. For the last newsletter thank you to: Isabel Goldstein, Eileen Pentel, Anne Price, Marcus Tieman, and Don Wade who also deliv- ered the pages from the printer. Won’t you join us and help mail out the next newslet- ter on Wednesday, February 28? (See above) The Society’s web page: http://www.folkmusicny.org Folk Fone: 718-651-1115 - 3 - Folk Music Society of NY Information The Folk Music Society of New York, Inc./NY Pin- NEWSLETTER INFORMATION (ISSN 1041-4150) ewoods Folk Music Club was started in 1965 and is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational corporation; an DEADLINE: the 14th of the month prior to affiliate of the Country Dance & Song Society of publication (no Dec. or Aug. issue). America; a member of the Folk Alliance; and a mem- Publisher: Folk Music Society of N.Y., Inc., 444 ber of the NY-NJ Trail Conference. A copy of our W. 57 St., #7, NYC, NY 10119, 718-651-1115. annual report is available from our office at 444 W. 57 St, #7., NYC, NY 10119, or from the Office of Editor: Eileen Pentel, 35-41 72 St, Jackson Hts, Charities Registration, N.Y. Dept. of State, 162 NY 11372; 718-426-8555. Send all Hotlines & Washington Av, Albany, NY 12232. ads (with check made out to FMSNY) and all correspondence & articles ONLY to this address. We have approximately 500 members and run con- certs, week-ends, classes, and get-togethers, all with Change of address to Circulation (address at left) an emphasis on traditional music.