Well, oldude, it's like this. For a loooonnng time the Folklore Society of Greater Washington has been retreating to a park/camp for a long weekend of workshops and mini-concerts. We show up at the camp or park on Friday night for a pot luck and sing songs and play instruments. On Saturday and Sunday there are workshops all day, interspaced with mini concerts by invited guests. They take place in various locations, outside weather permitting. there's lunch and more music. Then dinner and a evening concert (sign up to play a song) Sunday is the same, and some folks leave Sunday and some on Monday morning.

Currently the Getaway is held at a camp in Maryland by a lovely bay with sailboats and pretty nice cabins with clean showers and it's very nice. It's a reunion and a festival and a retreat all rolled into one. No paid performers, but some are invited to come for free to be special guests. Over the years we've had some excellent performances and always folks who don't often play out get a chance to perform. The workshop ideas as you see come from all of us and represent our interest to a great extent.

It's worth the price of admission. Mostly people who come once come again.

I've been going since the 70's, though not consecutively like Bill Day. It's fun event and I look forward to it.
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chance