Folklore: Folk Society Member?

Subject: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Fortunato
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 08:22 AM

How many of Mudcat's visitors, habitues and guests, are members of a folk society. My intention is to set up a dialogue between those societies for the mutual sharing of music, ideas and creativity.

I am a member of the Folklore Society of Greater Washington:

www.fsgw.org href="www.fsgw.org">www.fsgw.org

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 10:08 AM

I belong to the Fox Valley Folklore Society in the Western 'burbs in the Chicago area. We run weekly song circles, twice monthly barn dances (expect in the summer), monthly storytelling meetings, house concerts and a yearly festival.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: GUEST,Brad Sondahl
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 10:43 AM

I'm a member and the webmaster for the Spokane Folklore Society, which does weekly contras and a two day Fall Folk Festival of all local folkies.
http://spokanefolklore.org

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 11:14 AM

I belong to the Missouri Folk Lore Society. A great bunch of people. Many are knowledgeble of folk music as well as many other areas of of folk lore. Members include people like Joe Hickerson, Cathy Barton and Dave Para, and Judy Domeny Bowen in the field of folk song. We meet in November; the site varies from year to year.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: beetle cat
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 11:46 AM

I'm in the Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore Society! We just had a big benefit concert for a bursary fund for folklore research in NL.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: open mike
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 12:01 PM

I am a long term member of the Butte Folk Music Society.
We host monthly jams, an annual camp-out and up to a
dozen concerts each year in coffee shops, performance
halls and houses. We are a non-profit agency, and our
board of directors meets monthly. www.bfms.freeservers.com
(we have a similar URL to the Baltimore Folk Music Society
and have proposed that we become "sister" organizations:
BFMS EAST and WEST) We are centered in Chico, California,
and have occasional newsletters, a web site calendar and
weekly e-mail announcements about area events and performances.

The Folk Alliance is a well-established organization whose
goal is to provide a supporting and connecting structure
to allow grops such as ours to network. They hold regional
and national gatherings that showcase artists, labels, and
organizations involved in recording, promoting, and performing
folk music and dance. http://www.folkalliance.org/
(no need to re-invent the wheel, just hop on board!)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 01:23 PM

Does this make me bicoastal? I'm in the Folklore Society of Greater Washington (FSGW) and the San Francisco Folk Music Club - wish I could get to the activities of both more often. I do go to their annual camps, the FSGW Getaway and SFFMC Camp Harmony.
-Joe, in the Sierra Foothills-

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Stewart
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 05:10 PM

Here in Seattle we have two 'folk music' organizations. The Seattle Folklore Society just celebrated its 40th anniversary. Victory Music "a non-profit organization founded in 1969 to support local acoustic, jazz, blues and folk music." is only three years younger. Both support live folk music, although the former is mostly a concert-producing organization, while the latter is more of a musicians' organization supporting several open mics in the area and a monthly acoustic music magazine (Victory Review). I belong to both, but for different reasons.

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 06:55 PM

In UK there is the English Folk Dance and Song Society , which does a lot of good stuff , but also has too many members who think Song is Non existent and only want to do Social dance !

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 07:08 PM

Any one remember Southern Rag and their comic strip !?? BORFOLK - there was an organisation called DEAFASS - Dance Earnestly And Forget About Song Society

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 07:27 PM

"Are you now or have you ever been...?" Rika Ruebsaat and I have belonged to the Canadian Folk Song Society (now the Canadian Society for Traditional Music) for yonks and to the Vancouver Folk Song Society for yonkers. I've also been a card-carrying member of SFFMC.

Jon Bartlett

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Fred Maslan
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 07:31 PM

I am a member of the Board of the Seattle Folklore Society. In addition to concerts we sponsor a weekly song circle, a weekly contra dance and two camps, New Years Camp, Primarily folkdancing with some singing, and Rainy Camp primarily a song circle experience.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 07:41 PM

Speaking as a (non-dancing) member of EFDSS for some 30 years now, I can confirm that it used to be rather like that many years ago in the days when fRoots (formerly Folk Roots) was called Southern Rag; but that, just as Ian Anderson's magazine has changed with time, so has the Society.

It's a little sad that some people seem unable even to mention EFDSS without repeating the same old outdated jibes. Still, 'Leadfingers' does at least note that they do 'a lot of good stuff', so maybe attitudes out there are starting to change.

While I'm here, I may as well mention that I'm also involved with the South Riding Folk Arts Network (though almost everybody else has retired) and with Yorkshire Folk Arts, though that is an enabling organisation run by a small team and not membership-based.

There's also the Sheffield Folk Festival, of course.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Deckman
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 08:28 PM

GOOD LORD ALMIGHTY ... SAINTS PRESERVE US ALIVE ... ! Are you folks getting orginized? Don't you know that "society" and "membership" are complety counter to the very idea of folk music? Why ... if anyone EVER tried to organize us into a "society", we'd probably get into those "RED" areas of UNIONS ... etc.
SSSHHHEEEUUUHHH! Cheers, Bob

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Joe_F
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 08:30 PM

Folk Song Society of Greater Boston
NorthEast Chantey Sing Yahoo group

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: Beer
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 09:10 PM

I belong to a fairly new organization called "ELAN" out of Quebec.
English Language Arts Network.
http://www.quebec-elan.org/en/
Sorry no blue clicky.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 10:47 PM

Yeah - So?

Who needs more?

Sincerely,

Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Mar 07 - 10:48 PM

SIMPLE - DUDES

Just keep it Simple

Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member?
From:
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 11:05 PM

I am a member of Harbour Folk Society of Halifax and Helen Creighton Folklore Society