Permathread for all these music camps

Subject: Permathread for all these music camps
From: mg
Date: 16 Sep 02 - 11:58 PM

This is an edited PermaThread©, and all messages posted here are subject to editing and deletion.
This thread is intended to serve as a permanent list of folk music camps and gatherings (not festivals)
-Joe Offer-

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I'm wondering if some permanent thread could be made so that people could have all these weekend camps and gatherings in one place and refer to them when planning vacation time etc. I know the local ones pretty well, Rainycamp in early Feb; Singtime around Spring Break; Camp Alexandra around 4th of July..but I might make it down south, back east, to San Francisco etc...Any chance of this? mg

Subject: RE: Permathread for all these music camps
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 12:08 AM

Hi, Mary - why don't we post them in the Festivals (click) PermaThread, and we'll make up a table to list them.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Permathread for all these music camps
From: mg
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 12:39 AM

well, a good idea but I think they would get lost in the large number of festival listings and also it isn't by date. Something like the calendar format under the recurring song circles would be nice. I am on the verge of volunteering to do something but maybe after Sunnycamp is over. mg

Subject: RE: Permathread for all these music camps
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 01:40 AM

OK, Mary - let's ask people to post information about camps and such here, and see where it goes.

The San Francisco Folk Music Club has its annual Camp Harmony during the week after Christmas, in the mountains outside Santa Cruz. Cooking is by the charming and talented Debby McClatchy (and Joe Offer was rehired today as Chief of Kitchen Cleanup). If you register before November 2, Cost is $250 for the 5-day camp, $170 for children.
I can't find the sheet that has the dates for the camp, and the newsletter in my hand doesn't give dates. It always ends on New Year's Day after a fabulous New Year's Eve celebration. It's a five-day camp, give or take a day.
The Website won't help you at all - it hasn't been updated in years.

Thanks to Mudcatter Charlie Baum (and others), information for the annual Getaway of the Folklore Society of Greater Washington is easy to find online. Charlie says the dates are:

Friday October 18, 2002 through Sunday October 20, 2002 (and even into Monday morning, October 21, 2002) location: Camp Ramblewood (Darlington, MD) [near Havre de Grace]

This camp has become the unofficial official annual gathering for US Mudcatters.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Permathread for all these music camps
From: mg
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 01:49 AM

OK. I shall officially submit Sunnycamp. October 18-20, 2002. Probably first weekend in October thereafter. Long Beach Peninsula, Washington. URL: www.angelfire.com/folk/sunnycamp.

Unofficially:

Watch for Rainycamp through Seattle Folklore Society info. Usually first part of February.

Watch for Singtime Frolics around mid-March, put on by Portland Folklore Society.

Watch for Camp Alexandra (or another location now) put on by Vancouver Folk Song Society in late June/early July.

Watch for another camp around time of U.S. Thanksgiving weekend also put on by Vancouver Folk Song Society.

Is Penny Sidor still putting on the women's singing camp in Vancouver, mid-October?

Subject: RE: Permathread for all these music camps
From: mg
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 10:06 PM

LINK TO RAINYCAMP

http://www.seafolklore.org/RC03.html

Feb 7-9. Early bird discount till Dec 15. Not to be missed if you are on the west side of Washington..(hence the name)

mg

Subject: RE: Permathread for all these music camps
From: Mr Happy
Date: 23 Oct 13 - 11:01 AM

Is it just US camps to be included?

Subject: RE: Permathread for all these music camps
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Oct 13 - 01:22 PM

I'm sure this would be good for music camps wherever in the world. Looks like this thread hasn't been updated in a long, long time. The San Francisco and Washington (DC) camps have new locations.
I'll put this on my "to do" list. If you have camps to add, please do.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Permathread for all these music camps
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Oct 13 - 02:15 PM

there are plenty of lakes in Fermanagh

Subject: RE: Permathread for all these music camps
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Apr 18 - 12:51 PM

Hello, some of you are acquainted with me, but I'm a relative newbie
and I come here largely to find out stuff.
Occasionally I have something to share.

Not a music camper. Why did I come to this permathread? Because:
I had the car radio on and I heard a promotion on the air for
SAMW or the acoustic music camps, at different times of year, sponsored by the University of Massachusetts FM radio station.
The camp is held in the New Hampshire Lakes region at Geneva Point on Lake Winnipesaukee.

It is edifying to do a Mudcat-thread search on this subject. Pulled up this permathread, for one thing, and looked in vain for these summer programs.
Dick Pleasants founded the acoustic music camp in question,
he has been retired for over five years
and someone else from the radio station does it now.

I find that at the Mudcat, there were some intense conversations
about WUMB-FM some ten to fifteen years ago. Some of the members who talked about it are no longer with us.

Anyway I'm kind of surprised there is so little current about SAMW.