Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: GUEST,Jim Oakden Date: 13 Dec 19 - 08:18 PM Hi Joe After further discussion with David, we'd like to have the Sunday Quebec session (see my 03:56 message) in Maple from 1.30-3.45. The kitchen is too small. I'd like to keep the Scandi and Breton sessions as I requested earlier today. thanks yet again... The evening dance schedule is proving to be complicated, but I'll let you know when its finalized. Jim Moved to Maple, but I hope you mean Saturday 1:30-2:30, which is when you requested the kitchen session. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: GUEST,Ed Silberman Date: 14 Dec 19 - 03:05 AM Joe - please put em down for New Years songs on Tuesday the 31 at either 1:30 or 2:45, in the Museum. Thank you Hi, Ed - Museum is booked all day Tuesday. Can I give you a 90-minute slot on Muir/Carson on Tuesday, 4-5:30 PM? |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 14 Dec 19 - 03:48 PM Help Wanted: Robert Rodriquez is looking for a Canadian-style fiddler to accompany him on a story. He hopes to find a fiddler who can dance a bit or at least move his feet while fiddling. |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2010 - Workshop Signup From: GUEST,diplocase Date: 14 Dec 19 - 04:21 PM JOE OFFER Joe, can you possibly move my "Less-known Wassails" workshop from Saturday 11 a.m. to the same time slot on Sunday? a couple of the people who have already offered to lead a song won't be there yet on Saturday. Many thanks! Casey Done. Museum, Sunday, 11-12 |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 15 Dec 19 - 01:40 AM I've entered all requests I have received up to now. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: GUEST,Yvette Tannenbaum (email) Date: 15 Dec 19 - 08:12 PM Hi Joe, Hope all is well with you and looking forward to seeing you again soon. I would like to do a workshop: "Songs of Social or Political or Environmental Significance, from 11 - noon in the museum room. Hope that the spot is still available. Yours for a song, Yvette Got it, Yvette. Hope Saturday is OK. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: GUEST Date: 15 Dec 19 - 10:02 PM Hi Joe -- thanks for the nudge. Looking at the calendar, I'm thinking maybe we will try something different this year, and have the Irish Set Dance workshop each morning from 9:45 to 10:45... (If there is a big drop in attendance, or requests to reschedule, we can examine the options for the last two days) Thanks! Michael R Thanks, Michael. It's good to have you back. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: GUEST,Ed Silberman - from Harmony List Date: 16 Dec 19 - 12:42 AM Calling all Jews. Camp Harmony and the last fore knights of Chanukah overlap this year. Lets' bring our menorahs and convene in the dining room like wee have before Thanks Ed! Yes, we should do this for sure! I also noticed that we all start arriving on Friday this year so workshops don't start till Saturday. Which makes me wonder if we can do our usual Shabbat celebration at camp as well, since apparently we can't sign up for it as a workshop. I have sent an email to Joe Offer inquiring about that, and how we might sign up or otherwise arrange to do that. Joe and/or any of the usual Harmony planners - please let us know about this - thanks! Deborah Sandler |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: GUEST,Ed Silberman - from Harmony List Date: 16 Dec 19 - 12:43 AM The Ceilidh is dead, long live The House Party. Using an Irish word for it's name led many people to think i twas a Celtic event and there was no place for them if they didn't practice a Celtic art. Indeed I was inspired by a Celtic ceilidh i witnessed in Aberdeen, so i kept the word ceilidh. But the word "ceillidh" means "together." My dream was an event that would draw the whole camp together under one roof: Celtoids, Swing kats, Dancers of every stripe,Old-timers, Songsmiths, Protesters, Nueve Cancion canters, Storytellers, Bluesers, CountryWetern singers, Francophones, Yiddophiles, the gamut of things that make up Camp Harmony. But many thought is just celtic stuff. Ironically a word that means together kept us a part. So -- The House Party A few words for those who haven't attended before. The House Party is an attempt to replicate an old fashioned party where neighbors gather and entertain each other with their own "party peices." One person tells a story, another sings a country song, someone has a good joke, a fiddler plays a lively tune, the rug is rolled up and dancing breaks out, a ballad singer holds forth, a banjo player breaks down, a blueser wails and moans till we all feel better, drinking songs are belted out, rounds go around, someone sings a new song she's written, yo-yo tricks are displayed, Yoyo Ma is impersonated, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. The event is unplanned. The "man of the house" (that being me, but one of these times maybe someone would like to step in) calls on his talented guests following the flow of the moment. It's all improv. If there were a plan it just would be another talent show. I welcome people to tell me they want to be called so i know who's willing and able, I may approach you during the day before and ask if you would to be called. But there are no promises made in either case, the spontaneity is what makes it ..... The House Party |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 16 Dec 19 - 05:36 PM Whew! Caught up to this point, and I think I corrected all my mistakes... -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Dec 19 - 01:31 AM from email Hi Joe, Thank you so much for all your schedule massaging! We're very glad to have a 90-minute slot for the Yes M'am concert, but we're a little concerned about being in conflict with Bob & Judy's concert. Could we move to 4:00pm on Sunday in the Muir room? We'll always conflict with something, but this seems like a better fit. Many thanks, Margaret Your many fans may have to miss sea chanteys, but such is life. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: David Ingerson Date: 18 Dec 19 - 03:28 AM Sorry to add to your burden, Joe, but it turns out that I won't be arriving until Saturday evening. Could my concert be moved to Muir/Carson on Sunday afternoon? Or some other not-Saturday time, preferably not opposite a ballad session. Thanks for all your work on this huge project. Cheers, David Hi, David, How's Muir/Carson, Sunday, 1:30-2:30? -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Dec 19 - 03:24 PM Think I'll wait until the end of the day to enter these. Once-a-day entering seems to be more efficient. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: GUEST,Mike Bechler aka GUEST Date: 18 Dec 19 - 03:40 PM Please change the title of my Sunday workshop. Instead of Capos and Barres, call it Capos, Barres and Chord Voicing. It will draw the wrong crowd (or none at all) with its current title. Thanks, Mike Got it. Hope it fits. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Dec 19 - 01:21 AM Done to here. Hope I got it right. The format at joe-offer.com looks really good on my phone. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Dec 19 - 01:02 AM from email Dec 27: Hi Joe, I've never signed up ahead of time for a workshop, but Cathy and Rob Katz asked me to and the only time we overlap is Monday from 11 to noon, since they're leaving after lunch Monday. I see that the Museum space is still open then, from https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=166545 but I won't be getting to camp until late Sunday afternoon. Could you do me a favor and sing us up for Monday 11-noon, whenever convenient? I see from http://joe-offer.com/ that I missed the online signup deadline by 2 hours.?? Thanks much, Peter Ross |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: GUEST,Jim Oakden Date: 26 Dec 19 - 07:29 PM Hi Joe I've been trying to get on mudcat for a few days, then dug out your msg saying it was down. Anyway, here's the evening dance schedule. Organizing things has been hard this time, and the swing dance format is still up in the air. First dance will probably be at 8, second at 10, but that is subject to change at camp. thnks Jim 1 Fri open 2 Sat ECD, International Mary L, Madge 3 Su swing tba 4 M French, Irish Gary B; Michael R 5 Tu NYE Contra, waltzes? several |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: GUEST,Kathryn LaMar (by email) Date: 26 Dec 19 - 07:30 PM Hi Joe, Happy Holidays (all of them), and thanks for keeping us apprised of the workshop sign-up process. I would like to give a workshop on "Native American Flute Playing" on Saturday at 2:45 in the Kitchen, and to host a "Fretted Dulcimer Jam/Playaround," also at 2:45, but on Tuesday--in the Kitchen or Bay. Since I missed last year, I don't have a feeling for the various rooms, but I assume that "No Jams" means that instrumental music or methods classes should be elsewhere? I suggested Bay as an alternative location for the dulcimer jam because it's different from the Kitchen--also Kitchen looks like it is the only under-used space, but I presume that cooking and food-prep occurs elsewhere? Anyway, if you don't have time to fit these in, or have doubts about these, I'll check at camp, and use yellow stickies when appropriate! There does seem to be a dearth of instrumental workshops this year--I wanted to attend a uke w/s, but don't see one posted. I'm bringing along two, just in case. Kathryn Hi, Kathryn - I put both in the Kitchen. I think it will work best for you. But you can change when you get to camp. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: GUEST,Camp Harmony Committee email Date: 26 Dec 19 - 09:10 PM We're very excited to welcome you! Please read these important reminders:
Etiquette at Camp Harmony (and other SFFMC Events) Thank you for registering for Camp Harmony! You may be an old hand at San Francisco Folk Music Club camps, or you this might be your first time coming to the New Year's Camp. Either way, we'd like to remind you of some of the ways we all get along together. These basic rules of etiquette are some general guidelines to make sure that everyone has the best experience of camp possible. Workshops
Jam Sessions
Dances
Concerts
General Camp Etiquette
Ralph Ralph is the name of a hypothetical camper who also answers to the pronoun they. Ralph gets many things done around camp, from cleaning up messes to arranging chairs to organizing a call to the person who's missing camp this year. The camp runs better with Ralph doing the things that need doing, that are within their capacity and authority to do.
WE ARE ALL RALPH. So when you think to yourself, Hey, they should do this thing to make everyone's experience of camp better, remember that Ralph answers to they, and that you're Ralph, and see if maybe you should be the one to do that thing. Thank you for being considerate and welcoming of our fellow campers, and making Camp Harmony the best experience it can be for all the diverse people who attend. We hope you have a great time this year, and for many years to come! Yours in Harmony, |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 27 Dec 19 - 01:07 AM OK, it's 10 PM (pacific) on December 26, so I'm closing online signups for Camp Harmony workshops. If you'd like to lead a workshop, please sign up in person with a yellow sticky note at camp. I'll keep the schedules updated here, and at my Website, http://joe-offer.com/ I think you'll find that the schedules at my Website work better on your phone, and you can download each day's schedule each morning. I'll print schedules, too. See you at camp. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: GUEST Date: 27 Dec 19 - 04:08 PM Hi Joe This is Jim Tepperman - is it possible to give a title to the "Jim Tepperman/Peter Tracy Jam" ""Spin-the-Bottle Beatles" |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 28 Dec 19 - 01:18 AM Saturday schedule is up-to-date. Other days will be updated by midnight of the day before. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Dec 19 - 04:03 AM Sunday schedule updated Saturday 11 pm. |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 30 Dec 19 - 02:15 AM Monday schedule updated at 11 PM Sunday. Hope I did it right. One more to go! |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 30 Dec 19 - 12:59 PM Monday schedule updated Monday morning at 9 am. We are on top of it this year, folks. |
Subject: RE: SF Camp Harmony 2019-2020 - Workshop Signup From: Joe Offer Date: 01 Jan 20 - 08:49 PM Well, I think the camp was quite a success. If anybody has ideas or suggestions, feel free to post them here. On the last night of camp, Walker Creek Ranch provided two gooseneck lamps, and they were perfect for stage lighting for our nightly concerts. We'll have to remember to ask for them at the beginning of camp next time. There was an instrumental session in the room next to the a cappella singing on the last night, and the music bleedover made it difficult for some singers. I think we should keep instrument sessions in the bathhouse building or Maple, and singing in the Discovery Center (Museum, Muir, and Carson). The kitchen in the Discovery Center has good sound insulation, so instrumental sessions were not a problem there. The only problem with the three rooms in the bathhouse, is that people have to get through them to go to the bathrooms. We'll have to talk about that. I gather that Buckeye was just fine for dancing, and that Maple was fine for everything. See you at camp next year. -Joe- |
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