Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. March 2007 vol 42, No.3 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 ☺ 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 29 Thur Newsletter Mailing, 7pm; in Jackson Heights ( Queens) 31 Sat Arthur Sherry house concert, upper West Side, Manhattan. April 1 Sun Sea Music: Heather Wood & David Jones +NY Packet; 3pm, South Street Seaport. 4WedFolk Open Sing; Ethical Culture Soc., Brooklyn, 6:30pm. 9 Mon NYPFMC Exec. Board Meeting 7:15pm location tba. 13 Fri Series concert; Community Church, 7:30pm ☺ 14 Sat Chantey Sing at Seamen’s Church Institute, 8pm. 15 Sun Sacred Harp Sing at St. Barts: 2:30pm. 29 Sun Takako Nagumo: Japanese Folk & Children's Songs. 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 CDSS Folk Music Week Info ...21 Grammies Review ................. 6 30 Years Ago & ads ..............22 Ebony Hillbillies flyer ............. 7 Pinewoods Hot Line ..............23 Weekend Registration form ...... 8 Membership Form ................24 Weekend Help Wanted ............ 9 Ebony Hillbillies Friday, March 9 7:30pm at the Community Church reserve on-line: www.folkconcert2.eventbrite.com - 1 - SEA MUSIC CONCERTS; Sundays, Mar. 4, April 1, 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. March 4 -The Johnson Girls April 1 - Heather Wood & David Jones. FOLK OPEN SING; Wednesdays, March 7th, April 4th; 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 EBONY HILLBILLIES; Friday, March 9th; 7:30 PM ☺ 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. CHANTEY SING; Saturday, March 10th; 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, March 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. NEWSLETTER MAILING; Thursday, March 29th; 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 info. call 718-426-8555. - 2 - FMSNY Events Details- Continued ARTHUR SHERRY; Saturday, March 31st; 7 PM Something Trad, Something New, Something Ragtime, Something Blue. Arthur Sherry's life-long love affair with the guitar began when he was twelve, and his brother joined the Navy, leaving behind his Fender Jaguar and an amp. He bought a Guild D40 with paper route money, and played at the Hudson River Sloop festivals in Nyack, before the Clearwater was born and a clean river was only a dream in Pete Seeger's heart. Arthur played folk music, rock, old and new ballads, joined his High School Folk club and played in bars and coffee houses all around, including the Feenjon and Bitter End in the Village. Later his music took a back seat to college, marriage and children. Now it's time to share what he has cherished for so many years with a wider audience. Expect an eclectic mix of music from John Dowland, through John Barleycorn and Gordon Bok, to Chet Atkins and beyond. Admission: $10.00 members, $13.00 general public Upper West Side location. Reser- vations required. Call (718) 549-1344 (after 11 AM The snow finally found us, but it may be gone by the time you get this newsletter. That should make it easier to get to all of our events this March. The Ebony Hillbillies is our series concert, and we have the Sea Music concert with the Johnson Girls and the NY Packet and a house concert with Arthur Sherry. We also have the Folk Open Sing, the Chantey Sing, and the Sacred Harp Sing. We look forward to seeing you at any and all of our events! 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 Thuresday, March 29? (See above) by Ruth Lipman WILLIE WADE-PENTEL is enjoying his sophomore year at the University of Massa- chusetts at Amherst. Meanwhile, his mom, EILEEN PENTEL has become a student, too; she is studying Yiddish at the Workmen's Circle. HARRY BAYA got the job that he wanted last fall. He is employed, full time, as an instructional technologist, at Emory and Henry College. The icing on the cake is the short commute (15 minutes from Harry's home!) On one of his days off, Harry went to the Gaylax Fiddle Festival; DREW SMITH, SUSAN STERNGOLD, MIKE RESNICK and ERICA WEISS were there as well. If you have news to share, please contact me at 372 Central Park West, #15B, New York, NY 10025; 212-663-6309. The Society’s web page: http://www.folkmusicny.org - 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. The Society is Send calendar or listings info directly to the run by all volunteers with a Board of Directors, appropriate person below (no charge for listing): elected by the membership. The working officers below (members of and elected by the board) wel- Events Calendar: Lenore Greenberg, 120 come your help and suggestions. Boerum Place, #1J, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718- 403-0347 <[email protected]> Membership fees are listed on the back page; regu- Radio & Location Listings:Don Wade, 35-41 72 lar memberships include one subscription to the St, Jcksn Hts, NY 11372; <[email protected]> newsletter (10 issues yearly), free admission to our approximately 5 series events, and reduced admis- Festival Listings: John Mazza, 50 Plum Tree sion to many events.