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Posted By: GUEST,Holly Tannen
02-May-25 - 06:55 PM
Thread Name: Occidental World Music & Dance Festival
Subject: Occidental World Music & Dance Festival
A shout-out for anyone in Northern California. I've been helping organize this extraordinary one-day festival modeled on Lark Camp.
Saturday June 7th. Kids free. Occidental is 20 minutes west of Santa Rosa.

You can email me at htannen@mcn.org if you have questions.


Evening Performance: Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter

Performances

Sol Flamenco: Flamenco dance and song
Taylor Mountain Bluegrass Band
The Story Wrens
Will Marsh and Tim Witter - Sitar and tabla
The Bezhenar Sisters - Folk music of Ukraine
Raman Osman - Kurdish music
Leslie and Michael Hubbert - Puerto Rican and Cuban songs


Workshops, Jams, and Demonstrations

Sophia Zimmerman - Unlock your voice: a friendly master class
Carlitos Medrano: Cuban and Latin rhythms
Janessa Lynna - Belly dance
Shawna Selline: Celtic Harp (all day)
Katiana Vila: Iberian songs and percussion
Bobby Edwards - Alpenhorn
Mark Sellin - Easy Irish tunes; No-tangle cable coiling; Stage skills for musicians
Ken Genetti - Qanun
Darina Drapkin - Balkan singing; Kids’ songs from around the world
Sean Tergis - Balkan Drumming
Chris Hanlin, luthier - guitar set-up
Michael Hubbert - Irish tunes for fiddle and other instruments
Al Striplen - Native American flute
Will Wheeler - Irish jam
Greg Jenkins - Greek rebetika
Jason Adajian - French jam
Shay Black - Expand your Irish song repertoire
Craig Kurumada - Japanese Obon dance
Chris Reid - Love songs in Spanish
Tyehimba Kokayi - West African dance
Michael Greenberg - Fingerstyle guitar. Old-timey jam
Greg Johnson - Musical rhythms for all ages
Raman Osman - Kurdish music
Celia Ramsay - Traditional song circle
Aryeh Frankfurter - Nordic music for all instruments
Sue Williard - Balkan dance
Jim Partridge - Sea shanties sing-along
Kim Atkinson - West African Drumming; Brazilian drum jam