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Storyteller Sheila Arnold Jones
Storyteller Sheila Arnold Jones

FSGW: Sassy, Brassy and thoroughly classy!


 

Volunteers Needed for FSGW's Washington Folk Festival
Get hands-on experience in a wide variety of skills.
A few of hours of your time can help make the Festival possible. We need help not only during the festival weekend but on the weekends of May and June. Duties range from set-up/tear down to event planning and management, volunteer coordination, publicity, web page design, database management, fundraising, food preparation and more. To volunteer: Go to www.washingtonfolkfestival.org and fill out an on-line volunteer form. If you are interested in exploring a staff role, please send an e-mail to dwainfest@aol.com. or call Dwain Winters at (301) 526-8558.

FSGW DANCES

Wednesday, May 13, 8:00 - 10:30 p.m.

FSGW English Country Dance
Stephanie Smith calls while Susan Brandt (flute), Ralph Gordon (cello), and Liz Donaldson (piano) make the music
Light refreshments. $10/members; $12/non-members; $5/students
Glen Echo Town Hall, 6106 Harvard Street, Glen Echo, MD
 

T hursday, May 14, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.  (7:00-7:30 p.m. introductory lesson)

FSGW/Carpe Diem Second Thursday Contra/Square Dance

DeLaura Padovan and Janine Smith calling to Steve Hickman & John Devine with Major Minor Marimba Trio (Maren, Darrow, Steven)

Sponsors: FSGW, Carpe Diem and Montgomery County Recreation Department
Free admission to first time dancers
$5 students/low-income; $8 FSGW/BFMS/CDSS members; $10 general.
Silver Spring Civic Bldg, One Veterans Plaza. Free parking at 801 Ellsworth Dr, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Info: Busy Graham,301-466-0183 / busygraham@gmail.com. www.FSGW.org /www.CarpeDiemArts.org


 

Saturday May 16, 2015 at 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

The Great American Square Dance Revival - Part XXXVIII
A traditional Appalachian square dance. Discover the joy of a foot-stomping, rollicking, barn-shaking dance party!
Admission: $5
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 1525 Newton St. NW, Washington, DC. (Nearest Metro: Columbia Heights).
 

Sunday, May 17, 7:30 - 10:30 p.m.  (beginner lesson at 7 p.m.)

FSGW Sunday Contra
Bob Isaacs with Frost and Fire 

  • Aaron Marcus: piano, concertina, banjo, foot percussion, vocals; 
  • Hollis Easter: flute, bagpipes, whistle, guitar, foot percussion, vocals
  • Peter Macfarlane: fiddle, low whistle, vocals; 
  • Viveka Fox: fiddle, bodhran, djembe.

Admission: $10/members; $13.00/General Public; $5.00 for Student/Child
Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom, 

7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, MD
 

FSGW CONCERTS

Jon Brooks
Jon Brooks:  Kerrville New Folk Winner and a three-time "Songwriter of the Year" nominee at the Canadian Folk Music Awards.

Lou Dominguez
Lou Dominguez


Sunday May 17, 2015, 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Free to Members Concert
We continue our "North of the Border" theme with Canadian Singer-Songwriter Jon Brooks. Jon is a Kerrville New Folk Winner and a three-time "Songwriter of the Year" nominee at the Canadian Folk Music Awards. His songs feature sparse instrumentation on guitar and banjitar and densely layered poetry characterized by paradox, understatement and allusions to Western religious, literary and folk traditions. His latest album, The Smiling & Beautiful Countryside, explores a little known area of Canadian culture--violence. With a body count of 75, it will turn all your stereotypes about Canadians upside down!
 
Opening for Jon Brooks is Lou Dominguez, a topical singer-songwriter in the tradition of Phil Ochs.

Free to Members, $15/all others.
The Seekers Church, 276 Carroll St. NW, Washington, DC.  Closest Metro Station: Takoma (Red Line). Parking available in the Takoma Metro lot.

FSGW STORYTELLING
COME HEAR IT ON THE GRAPEVINE!
Winter is gone and with the spring come tales of growth and new beginnings.  Stay tuned to hear about new offshoots from our Grapevine!


Tim Livengood, Noa Baum, and Jane Dorfman host this  eries of old-fashioned storytelling.
Celebrate the timeless art of the bards with stories of all kinds.
Truths and myths and everything in between! Thursday evenings in Takoma Park.
  • June 4 - Kit Turen & Sheila Arnold Jones 
    Storyteller Kit Turen
    Storyteller Kit Turen
First Thursday of each month, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park, MD 20912
$10 suggested donation at the door.
OTHER EVENTS
 
May 7-17
Ten days of music. Performers include NESHAMA CARLEBACH and the GLORY TO GOD BAPTIST CHOIR, jazz clarinet superstar ANAT COHEN, Judeo-Arabic retro-folk from THE EPICHORUS, klezmer rock band GOLEM, SHABBAT IN SONG, THE BIG BROADWAY SING-ALONG and more. The Festival closes on May 17 with the third annual WJMF IN THE PARK, a free day of concerts, crafts and games. Tickets, Info and music feed at http://www.wjmf.org/

Saturday, May 16, 2-6 p.m.
The hills, glens and porches of Old Takoma will be alive with beautiful music this Saturday as the area's finest musicians sit down on front porches in the city of Takoma Park and play.  For a schedule and map of participating porches, visit the website.   

Thursday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m. 
Fendrick & Peck Benefit Concert for Colesville Council of Community Congregations
Mary Cliff writes,  "Their harmonies blew me away. They reminded me of the old "brother harmonies." 
Cost: Freewill Donations.
Epiphany Lutheran Church, 14411 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville, MD 
301-384-4244 

Friday-Sunday, May 22-24
Workshops, concerts, & jams
Register by April 15 for early bird pricing
Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

Thursday, June 4, 2015. 1:30-5:00 p.m.
Folklife Symposium: Documenting Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Documenting and archiving traditional culture today involves working with technologies, methodologies, ethical challenges, and creative possibilities that were undreamed of when Alan Lomax and other early collectors went into the field. This symposium presents a sampler of innovative contemporary approaches to fieldwork.
Montpelier Room, Madison Building, Library of Congress

Support FSGW through Amazon Smile
When you buy through Amazon.com, help support FSGW by using this link,  http://smile.amazon.com/ch/52-6059782.   When you do, Amazon will make a small donation to FSGW.  Incremental Repetition  is what makes folk songs great, so buy early and often!
Folklore Society of Greater Washington
PO Box 5693
Washington, District of Columbia 20016-5693
fsgw.org