Greetings:

I will be coordinating this event for the New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club. Here is an update:

North American Urban Folk Music 1940-1960
Saturday • March 28, 2009
1:00-10:00 PM

To be held at LREI (Little Red School House - Elisabeth Irwin HS)
272 Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10014
Sponsored by the New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club
(Folk Music Society of New York, Inc.)

Come celebrate the North American urban folk music community of the 1940s and 1950s, and pay tribute to the people who were part of it.

Schedule of events
1:00 - 1:55 PM: The Urban Folk Music Community: an Overview
2:00 - 2:55 PM: Women of the Folk Community
3:00 - 3:55 PM: Families of the Folk Musicians
4:00 - 6:00 PM: Song and Story Circle
6:00 - 7:30 PM: Dinner break
7:30 - 10:00 PM: Evening concert

Participants (partial list)
Prof. Ray Allen
Oscar Brand
Anna Guthrie Canoni
Rochelle Goldstein
Dottie Miller Gutenkauf
Richard Hawthorne
Lori Holland
Matt Jones
George Pickow
Jon Pickow
Jean Ritchie
Tony Saletan
Roger Sprung
Dr. Anna Lomax Wood
Hal Wylie
plus others TBA

All event general admission: $40.
NY Pinewoods members and LREI faculty, staff, parents, and alumni: $30.
Children and F/T students under 23: $20.

Afternoon only or evening concert only general admission: $25.
NY Pinewoods/LREI: $20.
Children and F/T students under 23: $ 15.

For more information please visit the website www.folkmusicny.org

--- Steve Suffet