Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst

Subject: Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst
From: Lotusland
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 10:11 PM

The Mini-Fest Needs You!

Performers, crafters and volunteers are needed for the Folklore Society of Greater Washington's Mini-Fest which will be held Saturday, January 29, 2000 at the Eastern Middle School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The Mini-Fest is a family-friendly half-day extravaganza of song, music, dance, and crafts that benefits the Folklore Society of Greater Washington (FSGW) and the community. The Mini-Fest provides ample opportunity to hear and participate in some of the finest music the Washington area has to offer. It is an all-volunteer festival with performers and dozens of others donating their time to make the day a success.

The coming Mini-Fest is especially significant as it will be the first Mini-Fest of the 21st Century. Help us to usher in the new millenium in style. If you would like to perform at the Mini-Fest, please send an audition tape to Mini-Fest c/o Cook / 16125 Malcolm Drive / Laurel, MD 20707-3230. All entries received by December 15th will be reviewed by the program committee. You will be notified by phone or postcard as to whether or not you are selected for a mini-concert.

For information on demonstrating and selling crafts or on volunteering, contact the Mini-Fest Coordinator, Gail Snider at [phone]. Set-up and clean-up crews for before and after the festival are particularly needed. Volunteers get free admission to the Mini-Fest.

Updated information on the Mini-Fest will be available on the FSGW hotline, [phone], ext. 51, and on the FSGW website, www.fsgw.org

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The Folklore Society of Greater Washington is a not-for profit, tax exempt institution that is dedicated to preserving and promoting traditional folk arts in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. We are an all-volunteer organization. For more information about FSGW, call Carly Gewirz at [phone].

Subject: RE: Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst
From: Bruce O.
Date: 07 Dec 99 - 11:28 PM

Wow, big change. At the October getaway the rumour was there wouldn't be one, because no one wanted to organize it. Thanks J. & D.

Subject: RE: Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 09:10 AM

The other reason that the MiniFest will be significant: not only will it be the first MiniFest of the 21st Century, but it will be the last MiniFest of the 20th Century!

--timekeeper

Subject: RE: Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 07:08 PM

Charlie...surely YOU are not saying the century ends this month...was there a 'year 0'?

all that happens is that some computers go blooey, and lots of folks have to get stuff re-printed...

Subject: RE: Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 02:05 AM

I'm just following up on the confusion that seems to be going around. Lots of people think the century ends this year; others (myself included) insist it's next year. Perhaps this can't be resolved. This is the First Annual last December of the Century. Next year, we will have the Second Annual last December of the Century, which will also be the First Annual December of the new century. Then December 2001 will be the Second Annual First December of the new century.

Descriptively (rather than proscriptively), many people think this is the end of the century. I would like at least one of those people to explain to me the rules for determining which centuries have 100 years and which have 99 years, since if this is the end of the century, we obviously have leap (or shy) centuries.

If all this is confusing to you, it's because mathematics gets very confusing when 100 = 99.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst
From: newcomer
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 02:22 AM

Sorry for nosing in... My way to keep it straight is just remembering that when we are born we don't call ourselves one year old. Takes a whole year for that.

Subject: RE: Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 10:02 AM

Newcomer, that's it alright. I got into a discussion with a poor man at a checkout counter (he couldn't get away). "The world is celebrating the end of its 2000th year at its 1999th birthday party." He agreed, but I think while some folks are buying into the scam, others have just given up. The rest of us just keep on being pedantic 'cause, dammit, we're right!

(I still think it's a marketing scam. Huge party this Jan, then big corps smack their foreheads, say "Doh! Oh dear, we goofed!" and start planning for another big party next year.)

Subject: RE: Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst
From: Bert
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 10:36 AM

Charlie, I'm on your side It should be quite easy (if a little lengthy) to explain if you relate the issue to counting in tens.

The first ten is: one two three four five six seven eight nine ten.

The next ten is: eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty.

Notice folks that we start counting the second group of ten with the number eleven.

Likewise if we count in hundreds it goes: 'one' 'two'...'ninety nine' 'one hundred' The next hundred starts at 'one hundred and one'

Counting in thousands is just the same. The first thousand (millennium) begins with 'one', the second thousand begins with, you've guessed it 'one thousand and one' and the next millennium therefore begins with 'two thousand and one'

Bert. themsthefactsandidontwanttohearanymoreargumentsaboutit

Subject: RE: Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst
From: JedMarum
Date: 14 Dec 99 - 07:09 PM

As luck would have it, I could be in the area that week, so I hope to visit the festival. I have also sent in audition tape just in case ya still have room in the schedule fer a not-so-local performer. Either way, I hope to say hello!

Subject: RE: Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst
From: Winters Wages
Date: 14 Dec 99 - 08:27 PM

Info needed..I am located in the Wash DC area...Is this limited only to musicians in the area??? You mat e-mail me at [e-mail]

thanks Andrea Andreaelk

Subject: RE: Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst
From: bbelle
Date: 14 Dec 99 - 11:18 PM

In China, you are "one" the day you are born and on your "1st" birthday, you are two. Since I was born in China, I tried that one on my folks a few times. It didn't fly. Then, as I approached 40+, I decided the western way was better ... moonchild

Subject: RE: Call for performers -- FSGW Mini-FEst
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Dec 99 - 09:20 PM

The Mini-Fest has often made space for once-in-a-lifetime performers...there is CERTAINLY plenty to do...and MANY workshops etc to participate in, even if you are not a 'featured' performer..(the 'mini-concerts', featuring one, or a group of people, are of necessity limited)....check the website for the info...