I saw the following notice on the Sing Out! listserv and thought folks might be interested.

There's a new festival on the block...and the audience does ALL of the singing!

This winter, people who love to sing great folk songs will congregate in East Lansing, Michigan and spend the weekend singing.

It's that easy.

Wonderful musicians are lined up - to LEAD songs at two evening gatherings ($12/ ticket/show) and twelve FREE afternoon workshops.

It's a festival where the songs are the stars of the weekend.

ALL of the details to this event are at singingfestival.com

Will there be many more festivals like this? I hope so. In fact, anyone who is interested in producing their own singing fest, and wants to attend this festival to get ideas, etc. can email me for some tickets and lodging suggestions.

I would love every folk music community to hold a festival like this - where every person who attends the events feels the power of singing - together - as a community.

I invite you to come to East Lansing this winter (Jan 31- Feb. 1, 2003) It will be a festival you will never forget.

Details are at www.singingfestival.com

Thanks for reading. Please email me with any thoughts or suggestions.

Sincerely,

Sally Potter, Festival Director
SallyPotter100@aol.com

But look at this! I checked their site and followed some of the leader/performer links and, voila! Check out this well-deserved reference to Art Thieme.

Somebody's paying attention.

      - Mark