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Storyteller Sheila Arnold Jones
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FSGW: Sassy, Brassy and thoroughly classy!
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
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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
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Jon Brooks:
Kerrville New Folk Winner and a three-time "Songwriter of the Year" nominee at the Canadian Folk Music Awards.
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Sunday May 17, 2015, 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
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.
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