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25 Mar 07 - 08:22 AM (#2006572) Subject: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Fortunato 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 |
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25 Mar 07 - 10:08 AM (#2006627) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Phil Cooper 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. |
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25 Mar 07 - 10:43 AM (#2006648) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: GUEST,Brad Sondahl 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 |
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25 Mar 07 - 11:14 AM (#2006671) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Big Jim from Jackson 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. |
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25 Mar 07 - 11:46 AM (#2006689) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: beetle cat 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. |
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25 Mar 07 - 12:01 PM (#2006698) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: open mike 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!) |
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25 Mar 07 - 01:23 PM (#2006757) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Joe Offer 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- |
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25 Mar 07 - 05:10 PM (#2006945) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Stewart 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 |
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25 Mar 07 - 06:55 PM (#2007032) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Leadfingers 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 ! |
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25 Mar 07 - 07:08 PM (#2007044) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Leadfingers Any one remember Southern Rag and their comic strip !?? BORFOLK - there was an organisation called DEAFASS - Dance Earnestly And Forget About Song Society |
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25 Mar 07 - 07:27 PM (#2007060) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Jon Bartlett "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 |
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25 Mar 07 - 07:31 PM (#2007063) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Fred Maslan 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. |
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25 Mar 07 - 07:41 PM (#2007070) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Malcolm Douglas 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. |
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25 Mar 07 - 08:28 PM (#2007086) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Deckman 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 |
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25 Mar 07 - 08:30 PM (#2007089) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Joe_F Folk Song Society of Greater Boston NorthEast Chantey Sing Yahoo group |
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25 Mar 07 - 09:10 PM (#2007125) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: Beer 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) |
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25 Mar 07 - 10:47 PM (#2007168) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Yeah - So?
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25 Mar 07 - 10:48 PM (#2007171) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: GUEST SIMPLE - DUDES
Just keep it Simple |
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28 Mar 07 - 11:05 PM (#2010237) Subject: RE: Folklore: Folk Society Member? From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca I am a member of Harbour Folk Society of Halifax and Helen Creighton Folklore Society |