I want to help the 2016 Member Application 2016 Tumbleweed Your membership gives you voting rights in folklife Y e s ! elections, $2 off most concerts, and is tax deductible! Music Festival You’ll even get a nifty membership card to show your friends and neighbors! I would like to contribute A Newsletter for Columbia, Snake, and Yakima River Folk at this level ___Bronze $50.00 ____ Individual ($20) or ____ Family ($25) Renewal? Y N ___Silver $100.00 Name___________________________________________________ ___Gold $250.00 Address _________________________________________________ Vol. 27, Issue 5 January 2016 ___Platinum $1000.00 City___________________________ State _______ Zip __________ Name ___________________________________ Phone _________________________ E-mail ___________________ Address__________________________________ I can help 3RFS with: City _________________ State ____Zip_______ ___ Refreshments at concerts ___ Setting up chairs ___ Fund raising Dan Weber in Concert ___ Taking admission at events ___ Folding newsletters ___ Coffeehouses Phone Number___________________________ in a 1948 shipyard worker’s house in The Victory Review magazine wrote ___ Serve on Board of Directors ___ Publicity ___ Song circles Saturday, 16 January, 7:30 PM Vancouver, Washington. Along the “Weber’s writing is as strong as any ___ Demonstrating folk arts ___ Membership Awa r d-winning songwriter Dan Web e r way he picked up stories, hitchhikers, in the Contemporary Folk communi- Send to: 3RFS TMF, P.O. Box 1098, Richland, WA 99352 ___ Tumbleweed Music Festival ___ Other Enclose your check payable to Three Rivers Folklife Society. has been described as “The classic and eventually a guitar. ty . ‘Goodbye to Dad’ is one of the best Send check to: Three Rivers Folklife Society,P.O. Box 1098, Richland, WA 99 3 5 2 . mid-life overnight sensation.” A gift- Dan began performing at 40 and in original tunes that I have heard in a ed storyteller and inspiring performer, a few short years was winning over long time.” in 2014 he won 2nd place in the pres- audiences with energetic perform- In 2015 Dan began a new chapter tigious Woody Guthrie songwriting ances and hilarious stories from the with “What I’m Lookin’ For, “ a 14- contest and was honored to become roads he’s traveled. None other than song CD of classic Americana that a rare 2-time finalist in the legendary legendary Folk troubadour Ramblin’ includes the stirring folk tribute “Oh Kerrville Folk Festival “New Folk” Jack Elliott said, “I love Dan’s songs Woody,” country-roots on “Cowboy competition. In 2014 he also received and he tells really good stories.” His Style,” bluegrass banjo/dobro master several other national songwriting songs have been described as Tony Furtado on several cuts, and the contest honors. ‘Timeless’ and ‘Authentic’ and his crowd sing-a-long favorite, “I Deal A former park ranger, Eagle Scout, debut CD “Ash and Bone” received with Crazy AL L Da y ,” an everyman’s and lifelong “Deadhead,” Dan left his accolades from American Songwriter anthem poised to be a breakout hit. hometown of Rochester, New York, in Magazine. The UK’s Maverick Dan will perform at the Community 1989, in a beat-up, primer-grey 1978 Magazine said, “4 Stars: It has you Unitarian Universalist Church, 2819 Pontiac Trans-Am with a guy named hanging on to every word. That’s the W. Sylvester St., in Pasco. Tickets are Joe that he’d met in a bar the night be- touch of a true Master Craftsman $14 general admission and $12 for fore, and never looked back. Living songwriter.” seniors, students, and 3RFS members, first in Seattle, then in a sheepherde r’ s There’s also been recognition from either in advance at The Bookworm trailer in Utah’s remote Canyonlands DJ’s: “‘Hank and Jesus’ is easily the in Kennewick and Octopus Garden in National Park, he eventually settled best folk song I heard last year,” and Richland, or at the door. Steve Cary at Coffeehouse Sing Your Sea Friday, 8 January, 7:30 PM and Spanish – some songs in both. Song Resolutions! The evening will start with an open Well-known local guitarist and singer/ mic session. Come early to sign up if songwriter, Steve Cary has been per- you want to perform at open mic, Saturday, 9 January, 7:00 PM forming since he was 5, and writing because slots are limited. The coffee- music since he was 14. With a broad Resolve to put down your electronic house is held at All Saints’ Episcopal variety of influences – Folk-Rock to device and raise your voice with new Church, 1312 Kimball Ave., Richland Latin, Big Band to Reggae– he calls friends at the Second Saturday Sea Song (drive around to the lower parking Singalong (SSSSS.) We meet the sec- his musical blend “Free Range lot in the back). Suggested donations Fusion.” Steve grew up in Corvallis, ond Saturday of each month singing are $8 general admission or $6 teens Oregon, singing every kind of music sea chanteys and other group songs and seniors at the door. he could in choirs, bands, and as a at Round Table Pizza on the corner of soloist. He has performed classical, George Washington Way and Torbett swing, jazz, folk, rock, and spirituals St., in Richland. It’s informal and fun throughout the West Coast. Fluent in and all are welcome. There is no co s t Spanish, he writes in both English except for the food and beverages. 2 4 Free Acoustic Show Acoustic Music Abraham, Martin From MCTAMA Comes to Prosser and John A new producer, The Roots Cellar, Many Three River Folk remember 1968, Saturday, 2 January, 2:30 - 5:30 PM has been bringing acoustic music to a year that saw the assassination of Jessica Lynne, 7:00 PM, Fri, Our friends in the Mid-Columbia Prosser in the past year. They’ve used Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert First Friday Folkie Free-For-All 7:30 PM Fri Micki Perry’s Brewminotti, 713 6th St. Kennewick Traditional Arts and Music As s o c i a t i o n several different venues, and have Kennedy. A songwriter named Dick Prosser Steve Cary Coffeehouse 7:30 PM Fri All Saints’, are producing a free acoustic music two concerts planned in January that Holler was inspired to write a song Richland show in the Richland Community should be of interest to 3RFS folk. that year, paying tribute to King and Walla Walla Contra Dance 2nd Saturday Sea Song Singalong 7:00 PM Sat Round Table Pizza, Ce n t e r , 500 Amon Park Dr. It’s an open Jessica Lynne and Her Band, Friday, Kennedy as well as Abraham Lincoln 7:30 PM Sat, 810 C Street Richland 3RFS Board Meeting 7:00 PM Mon Gene Carbaugh’s mic format; sign-ups start at 2:15. It’s 8 January, 7:00 PM -- described as and John Ke n n e d y . “Abraham, Martin Peter Case, 7:00 PM, Fri, Richland an acoustic music show but amplified “Dusty Springfield with a twang...” and John” was first recorded by Dion, Brewminotti, 713 6th St. Dan Weber Concert 7:30 PM Sat CUUC basses are okay. No sheet music or and “The best home-cooked country better known for early pop hits like Prosser Pasco music stands allowed on stage. A jam music I’ve ever heard from an artist “The Wanderer.” According to Tumbleweed 2016 Planning Meeting 7:00 PM Tue Gene Carbaugh’s room is available. They encourage us west of the Mississippi,” Jessica Lyn n e AmericanSongwriter.com, Dion was Richland to bring finger food snacks to share. is what you get from a girl who leaves recovering from a drug addiction and Contra Dances in It’s a free show and all are welcome. her native Denmark to make country trying to get his career back on track. For further information, call 492-1555. music in the U.S. Jessica and her band “I realized that what these four guys Walla Walla First Friday Folkie Free-For-All 7:30 PM Fri Micki Perry’s have been making some serious noise - Lincoln, King, and the Kennedys - Kennewick on the country music scene - opening had in common was a dream. It was 3RFS Board Meeting 7:00 PM Mon Gene Carbaugh’s Saturday, 16 January, 7:30 PM Richland New Songbooks - the Watershed Festival and playing like they had the courage to believe Contra continues in Walla Walla. Wit h Coffeehouse - Performer TBD 7:30 PM Fri All Saints’, Are Coming! on the same stage as Lady An t e b e l l u m , that a state of love really can exist…” Richland for example. Some critics say the song is maudlin their own dance building at 810 C St., 2nd Saturday Sea Song Singalong 7:00 PM Sat Round Table Pizza, “Rise Again” is a brand new singa- Peter Case, Friday, 22 January, 7:00 PM and trite, but it touched our hearts they offer contras, squares and other Richland long songbook edited by Peter Blood – Peter Case is tough to categorize. back then, and continues to touch dances. Instruction for beginners starts Tumbleweed 2016 Planning Meeting 7:00 PM Tue Gene Carbaugh’s and Annie Patterson who compiled When asked, “Are you a folksinger, a hearts today in the midst of our own at 7:00 PM. Callers are Howard Ostby, Richland the “Rise Up Singing” songbook. Like roc k e r , a punk, or what?” He answers, tragedy and confusion. Meanwhile, Dan Clark and Barbara Clark. Live Matt Hammer Concert 7:30 PM Sat CUUC Pasco the old book, the new book includes “I’m a singer/songwriter that uses all in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.