Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. December 2013 vol 48, No. 11 December Mondays: Irish Traditional Music Session at the Landmark, 8pm 4 Wed Folk Open Sing, 7pm in Brooklyn 6 Fri Nueva Canción: the Folk Music Revival of Latin America. Performance-talk & jam at OSA Hall, 7:30 pm. 7 Sat Louise Luger house concert in Jackson Heights, Queens. 8 Sun Christmas Vespers: Christmas at Sea, 5pm, John St. Ch. 9 Mon FMSNY Board of Directors Meeting, 7:15pm; see p. 5 10 Tue Old-Time Music Jam, 7:30-9:30pm in Brooklyn 13 Fri Old Buck house concert, 8pm in Suffern, NY 15 Sun Shanty Sing on Staten Island, 2-5 pm 15 Sun Folk Music & Fantasy. Educational workshop with Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman. Upper West Side. 4 pm. 22 Sun Holiday Singing Party; Jackson Heights, Queens; 2:30pm 30 Mon Newsletter Mailing, 7pm in Jackson Heights (Queens) January Mondays: Irish Traditional Music Session; Landmark 1 Wed Folk Open Sing, 7pm in Brooklyn 7 Tue Old-Time Music Jam, 7:30-9:30pm in Brooklyn 11 Sat Chantey Blast Pub Sing, 1-5pm (Snow: 1/12); Mystic, CT 17-18 2014 Zlatne Uste Golden Festival at the Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn 19 Sun FMSNY Board of Directors Meeting, 11am; see p. 5 19 Sun Shanty Sing, 2-5pm on Staten Island 21 Tue Old-Time Music Jam, 7:30-9:30pm in Brooklyn 24-26 People's Music Network Winter Gathering 31 Fri New Boys of Old New York concert - location tba Details on pages 2-4; Table of Contents, page 4 Winter Weekend, February 7-9 Hudson Valley Resort & Spa flier will be sent with ballot - 1 - Irish Traditional Music Session: Mondays: 8-11pm Tenor banjo, harmonica and fiddle player Don Meade and friends get together every Monday night for an Irish traditional music session in the back room of this historic Hell’s Kitchen bar/restaurant. Free admission; food and drink are available. Musicians and singers welcome. At the Landmark Tavern, 626 11th Avenue (on 46th St), Manhat- tan; co-sponsored with and led by Don Meade; for info 212-247-2562 or http://www. thelandmarktavern.org/events.php Folk Open Sing: Wednesdays; Dec. 4th & Jan. 1st; 7-10pm 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, Brooklyn (near 2nd St.). Directions: F or Q train to 7th Ave.; 2/3 train to Grand Army Plaza. Hosted by Ethical Culture/Good Coffeehouse, Folk Music Society of NY/NYPFMC, Alison Kelley, and Frank Woerner. Info: Frank, 212-533-2139. Nueva Canción: the Folk Music Revival of Latin America; Friday, December 6th; 7:30pm Nueva Canción is a movement of folk, folk-inspired, and socially committed music that originated in the 1960s and continues to this day. It is to Latin America what the Folk Music Revival of the 1960s is to North America. Colleen Kattau, Associate Professor of Spanish at SUNY Cortland, is both a scholar and an accomplished performer of Nueva Canción. In this educational workshop she will present an overview of the movement, its origins, its de- velopment, and its impact, and she will illustrate her talk with a live performance. After a short break, Prof. Kattau will lead a one-hour Latin folk jam. All instruments are welcome. No previ- ous knowledge of either Spanish or Nueva Canción is required. At OSA Hall, 220 E. 23rd Street, suite 707, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, Manhattan. General admission: $15. FMSNY members or full-time students: $12. For information please e-mail Steve Suffet at steve(at)stevesuffet.com or call him at 718-786-1533. Louise Luger House Concert; Saturday, December 7th; 4 PM. "Songwriters in the tradition of tradition" Traditional music has informed songwriters from Bach to Bob Dylan. Louise Luger will be performing music by songwriters who found their roots in the great traditions of folk music - including blues, country, Appalachian and Celtic tunes; and whatever's been sung on the porch or the road for generations. When Dylan first transformed a.m. radio songs from 'moons and junes' to the music of poetry, protest, innovation and discovery, Louise was led to explore the music that influenced him, and all the legions of songwriters he influenced. She will be singing songs by writers who are well known, and some who perhaps should be better known- including of course, Dylan; and talented musicians like Libba Cotton, Bill Staines, Jesse Winchester, Hank Williams, Iris Dement, Ryan Adams, Greg Brown and Utah Bruce Phillips. Louise sings in a strong, heartfelt and unadorned voice while accompanying herself on guitar, and occasionally harmonica. There will be a few sing alongs and the audience is encouraged to join in. She has performed solo concerts at many venues, including the Richmondtown Country Fair, the Perking Latte Cafe, the Art by the Ferry Fes- tival; and she has won Honors in the Bluegrass Competition at Paddy Reillys. She's Continued on next page - 2 - FMSNY Events Details- Continued also known as a songwriter herself, and will perform a few of her own compositions. The concert will be held in Jackson Heights at the home of Eileen Pentel and Don Wade. For reservations and address, contact Eileen at 718-672-6399. Members $12, non-members $15. Christmas Vespers: Christmas at Sea: Sunday, Dec. 8th; 7-7pm A special Christmas celebration with songs and carols familiar and new from the New York Packet, Rev. Jason P. Radmacher, and others. With members of The New York Packet (Heather Wood, Deirdre Murtha, Bonnie Milner, Joy Bennett, Alison Kelley, Frank Woerner, David Jones, Frank Hendricks, Dan Milner, & Jan Christensen). Co-sponsored with and at the John Street Church, 44 John St. (east of Broadway and one block south of and parallel to Fulton). Info: 212-957-8386. Voluntary Donation, Old-Time Instrumental Jam: Alternate Tuesdays: December 10th; 7:30-9:30pm (no jam on 12/24) Wanna JAM? Alan Friend will lead an old-time jam from 7:30 to 9:30pm at the Brook- lyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain every other Tuesday as indicated. Bring your fiddle, banjo, guitar, etc. and we’ll play old-time music at this small, warm, friendly venue. Acoustic instruments only-- no electric ones. Buy some delicious desserts and socialize while you’re here, as well. The Farmacy is located at 513 Henry St. (at Sackett St.) in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Info: alanfriend_music (at) mindspring.com. Old Buck house concert; Friday, Dec. 13th; 8 pm, Suffern, NY Riley Baugus, Sabra Guzmán, Emily Schaad, Debra Clifford - Old Buck! A kickin' stringband with lots of good singing, pickin', and a new CD in the works. The band consists of Emily Schaad (Clifftop Ap- palachian Festival fiddle contest winner 2012) on fiddle, Riley Baugus (of Cold Mountain fame) on Clawhammer Banjo, Debra Clifford (of the Lone- some Sisters) on guitar and Sabra Guzman (formerly of Old Sledge) on string bass. Every one of them sings and plays kickarss old time music, flat out. FMSNY is co-sponsoring this house concert at the home of Susan Sterngold and Mike Resnick, 5 Lancaster Dr Suffern, NY 10901 (about 30 mi NW of NYC on the NJ border). RSVP: [email protected] or 914 282 0289. $20 (members, $15) Shanty Sing: Sunday, December 15th; 2-5pm We are co-sponsoring the Shanty Sing on the 3rd Sunday of every month. The William Main Doerflinger Memorial Sea Shanty Sessions at the Noble Maritime Collection (to give the official title) are held on the third Sunday of the month, from 2 to 5 pm at the Noble Gallery, Building D, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Ter- race, Staten Island, NY. Refreshments are available, including beer and wine for sale. Snug Harbor is accessible by the S40 bus from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and by car. For more information about the Noble Collection, go to http://www.noblemaritime. org/ -- click on "Visitor Information" for directions and a printable map. For further information contact Bob Conroy: RConroy421(at)aol.com or 347-267-9394. Folk Music & Fantasy: Sunday, December 15th, 4– 6 pm Educational workshop with authors Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, discussing and illustrating the great overlap of the folk music and fantasy fields. Fantasy authors mine the big ballads and other folk songs and tales for their plots. Ellen weaves together Continued on next page - 3 - FMSNY Events Details- Continued multiple careers as a writer, radio host, teacher, performer and public speaker. Her first novel,Swordspoint , which has become a cult clas- sic, was hailed as the progenitor of the “mannerpunk” (or “Fantasy of Manners”) school of urban fantasy. Swordspoint was followed by Thomas the Rhymer (World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award). Delia, born in To- kyo but brought up in New York, is an award-winning writer and a teacher. Love folk music? Love reading fantasy? This will be a great evening for you. Upper West Side loca- tion. Ellen's website: www.ellenkushner.com; Delia's website: www. sff.net/people/kushnersherman/sherman. Seating is limited so register quickly for this house concert. FMSNY members $12, non-members $15, children and F/T students $6. Reservations and Info, call 212-957- 8386. At the home of John Ziv & Deborah Rubin, 243 W. 98th St., apt 6A, just west of B’way, Manhattan 10025. The intercom code is 22 plus the bell symbol located at the top right hand side of the key pad (their phone number is 212-662-6575).