<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><b>SQUARE DANCE AT ODIN GRANGE AUG 22</b></div><div><div><br></div> </div><div>Square dance at Odin Grange Aug 22</div><div>Odin, Pennsylvania 16746 (Potter County, Coudersport Area)</div><div><br>Odin Grange welcomes the public to a round and square dance at the grange hall on Saturday, August 22nd, from 7 pm until 10 pm. Admission will be $5.00. Proceeds will support Odin Grange's community service projects.</div><div><br><a href="http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5Y4R_Odin_Grange_1254_Odin_Pennsylvania">http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5Y4R_Odin_Grange_1254_Odin_Pennsylvania</a></div><div><br>For more information, call 486-3511<br><br><b><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><p align=""><b>COUNTRY FAIR BLUEGRASS PLUS OLD TIME JAMMING AUG 29 -> 30</b></p><p align="">Crook Farm
Country Fair -- Music Schedule</p><p align=""> AUG 29, 30 2009</p><p align="">BRADFORD, PA</p><p align="">Seaward Ave at Tuna Crossroad</p><p align="">Bradford, PA
(914) 362-3906 <a href="http://www.bradfordlandmark.org/">http://www.bradfordlandmark.org/</a></p><p align=""> </p><p align="">COME FOR THE HISTORY, CRAFTS, CONCERTS
& DANCING. STAY FOR THE JAMMING & FOOD!</p><p align="">Historically the Crook Farm Country Fair has featured traditional Bluegrass, Folk and American Traditional Music. This year is no exception with an
expanded line-up featuring top-notch local and regional talent. This year we will be encouraging all
local, traditional musicians to participate in and around the fair grounds, and
at the Jam Tent.</p><p align="">• FREE
ADMISSION – for musicians entering the fair grounds</p><p align="">•
CONCERTS -- Main Stage with Church Street Blues & the Doerfel Family</p><p align="">• OLD TIME
ROUND & SQUARE DANCING -- on the Main Stage - Sat. & Sun.</p><p align="">•
IMPROMPTU JAM SESSIONS -- Encouraged around the Fair all weekend</p><p align="">• JAM
TENT -- All Day SATURDAY & SUNDAY </p><p align="">• WORKSHOPS
-- by Van Wagner</p><p align="">• OPEN
STAGE – Sunday afternoon on the Main Stage</p><p align="">• FREE
ROUGH CAMPING -- Friday & Saturday nights in the field next to the farm</p><p align=""> </p><p align=""> THE SCHEDULE FOR THE MAIN STAGE</p><p align="">Saturday Aug. 29th </p><p align="">12pm – 12:50 CHURCH STREET
BLUES</p><p align="">1pm – 1:50 VAN WAGNER - Pennsylvania's timber
heritage in story and song</p><p align="">2pm – 3:00 Church Street
Blues</p><p align="">3:00pm – 5:00 OLD TIME ROUND
& SQUARE DANCE</p><p align=""><br></p><p align="">Sunday Aug. 30th </p><p align="">10:30am – 11:15am THE DOERFEL
FAMILY BAND Gospel Sing Around</p><p align="">11:15 – 12:00 VAN WAGNER - Journey through
Pennsylvania's timber heritage in story and song</p><p align="">12:15 – 1:00 pm Doerfel
Family Bluegrass</p><p align="">1pm – 1:50 Square Dance with Keith Blackmon &
The Crook Farm All Stars</p><p align="">2pm – 3pm Doerfel Family
Bluegrass</p><p align="">3pm – 5pm Open Stage with Festival Performance
Staff & Jammers</p><p align=""><br></p><p align="">GOSPEL SING AROUND on Sunday Morning will be lead by the Doerfel Family,
everyone is welcome. Bring an
instrument, your voice & your favorite Gospel Song; join in, or just come
to listen. We’ll sit in a big circle, sing &
play your favorite Gospel Songs.
Don’t miss it, we’ll make the tent ring!</p><p align="">JAM TENT will be open all day on Saturday & Sunday. You are invited to bring an instrument
& your voice & join in playing or singing, or just come to listen. Music will be Bluegrass, Old Time,
Folk, Country, etc. Depending on
the musicians who arrive.
Admission to the Fair is free for musicians & singers that join us
in the Jam Tent!</p><p align="">OLD TIME ROUND &
SQUARE DANCE Saturday & Sunday. We’ll have the Crook Farm All Stars and
a bunch of Tuesday night dancers
to help get you up & dancing.
Keith Blackmon (our caller) will help you every step of the way. Give it a try, it’s easy & fun!</p> <p align=""><br></p><p align="">WHO’S WHO AT THE FAIR:</p><p align="">CHURCH STREET BLUES <a href="http://www.churchstreetblues.com/">http://www.churchstreetblues.com/</a> is back for another year. This acoustic
band has fans of many musical styles such as bluegrass, gospel, folk, oldies,
and rock. Infused with excellent
vocal abilities, dynamic song-writing, and impassioned instrumentals, Church
Street Blues proudly delivers their unique take on traditional & contemporary
bluegrass, originals, and great gospel.
Local musician, Scott Pearson, from Warren, Pa. has won numerous
instrumental awards on Guitar, Fiddle & Mandolin.</p><p align="">DOERFEL FAMILY <a href="http://www.doerfelfamily.com/">http://www.doerfelfamily.com/</a> This large family (10 kids) originally
from Springville, NY. has performed all over the country, and travels to
Florida each winter to perform the Southern Bluegrass Circuit. Bring the kids for this show and enjoy
an afternoon with the Doerfel Family, you will be surprised, amazed and
delighted! The “kids” have taken
over the show lately & you’ll be surprised & delighted at the NEW
Doerfel Family! You can say
"You saw them when....".</p><p align="">VAN WAGNER <a href="http://www.vanwagnermusic.com/">http://www.vanwagnermusic.com/</a> Born in Pennsylvania. Lives in
Pennsylvania. Makes music. Mined coal. Logged trees. Teaches kids. Van Wagner, songwriter, historian and Pennsylvania
logger has developed a program celebrating the past and present of the
Pennsylvania timber industry. Wagner is a native of Danville. He worked for Daniel Logging in Idaho
as well as on many independent logging projects in Pennsylvania. His songs have been performed all
over the world and have been featured in several film productions. Enjoy this
unique program as Wagner takes you on a journey through Pennsylvania's timber
heritage.</p><p align="">KEITH BLACKMON,
a local caller leads Old Time Square Dancing -Every Tuesday evening at the Bank
Building on the Crook Farm. Keith
is 83, recently married, and has been calling Squares since he was 14, he’s the
real deal! This year Keith will be
calling square dances on Saturday & Sunday afternoon. This is not an exhibition; it is
participatory traditional Eastern Square Dancing. No fancy footwork, no lessons needed, simple figures. It's easy and fun for kids of all ages!</p><p align="">HOWARD BLUMENTHAL, old time fiddle, mandolin, guitar & vocals. Will be hosting the Main Stage</p><p align="">ED HANSEN, Specializes
in an authentic, old time fiddling style that he learned from his Grandfather.</p><p align="">MUSIC VENDORS:</p><p align="">James
Burkhouse - Pennwood Strings Fiddles, Bowed
Psalteries, Hammered Dulcimers, Harps </p><p align="">John
Stoneman – STONEMANGUITARS - <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/STONEMANGUITARS/-">http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/STONEMANGUITARS/-</a> John Stoneman
is a luthier based in Bradford, PA. In addition to building and repairing stringed
instruments, he also sells strings and accessories. John will provide on-site emergency instrument repair if
needed.</p><p align="">More info: Howard Blumenthal 814-368-4057 <a href="mailto:howard@blumenthals.com">howard@blumenthals.com</a></p><p align=""><br></p><p align=""><b><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></b></p><p align=""><b><br></b></p><p align=""><div><b>FOLK WEEKEND OCT. 30 - NOV. 1 ON CHAUTAUQUA LAKE</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>ALAN JABBOUR</div><div>JOHN KIRK</div><div>TRISH MILLER</div><div><br></div><div>Mark you calendars for the</div><div> </div><div>ANNUAL FOLK WEEKEND</div><div>At Camp Onyahsa on Chautauqua Lake (<a href="http://www.onyahsa.org/">http://www.onyahsa.org/</a>)<br>5411 East Lake Road<br>Dewittville, NY 14728</div><div>October 30th-November 1st, 2009</div><div> </div><div>Come back home to Chautauqua County for the Annual Folk Music Weekend.</div><div>The program this year will feature the following performers:</div><div> </div><div>Alan Jabbour</div><div><a href="http://www.alanjabbour.com">www.alanjabbour.com</a></div><div>Alan Jabbour was born in 1942 in Jacksonville, Florida. A violinist by early training, he put himself through college at theUniversity of Miami playing classical music. While a graduate student at Duke University in the 1960s, he began documenting oldtime fiddlers in the Upper South. Documentation turned to apprenticeship, and he relearned the fiddle in the style of the Upper South from musicians like Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia, and Tommy Jarrell of Toast, North Carolina. He taught a repertory of <br>oldtime fiddle tunes to his band, the Hollow Rock String Band, which was an important link in the instrumental music revival in the 1960s.<br><br>After receiving his Ph.D. in 1968, he taught English, folklore, and ethnomusicology at UCLA in 1968-69. He then moved toWashington, D.C., for over thirty years of service with Federal cultural agencies. He was head of the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress 1969-74, director of the folk arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts 1974-76, and director of theAmerican Folklife Center at the Library of Congress 1976-99. Since his retirement, he has turned enthusiastically to a life of writing, consulting, lecturing, and playing the fiddle.</div><div> </div><div>John Kirk and Trish Miller:</div><div><a href="http://www.johnandtrish.com">www.johnandtrish.com</a></div><div>Singer/songwriter John Kirk is skilled on a variety of instruments, including fiddle, guitar, mandolin and banjo. A member of several groups throughout the years including Walt Michael & Co., the Susquehanna Stringband, and Vanaver Caravan, John brings a strong voice and championship fiddling. His wife, Trish has been performing as a clog dancer since 1981, including her work with Back Creek Cloggers, the Green Grass Cloggers, and Vanaver Caravan. She plays mountain-style clawhammer banjo and rhythm guitar learned from folks in her native region of Virginia, and is a dance caller, teacher, and choreographer.</div><div><div><div></div></div><div><div></div><div><img src="file:///C:/Users/Heidi/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_s1026" width="518" height="2"></div></div> </div><div> </div><br clear="all"><div>SCHEDULE OF EVENTS</div><div>Friday night:</div><div>Arrival-7pm: check-in, settle in, then time for some music</div><div>sign up to perform-for any budding performer!</div><div>Saturday: </div><div>3 morning and afternoon workshops, then free time to learn a tune, a song, or a dance. Includes lunch at noon and dinner at 6pm for those staying the whole day or weekend.</div><div>Saturday Night Square Dance begins at 8pm.</div><div>Sunday: </div><div>Sign up to perform (maybe something new you learned this weekend?)</div><div> </div><div>IMPORTANT: If you are staying overnight, a bed will be provided but you need to bring bedding and towels with you.</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>REGISTRATION</div><div> </div><div>Registration includes the following: Three workshops on Saturday, the Saturday Night Dance, breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday, and breakfast and lunch on Sunday.</div><div> </div><div>Lodging for Friday and Saturday Night are extra as outlined</div><div>Below (space is limited so get your reservations in early):</div><div> </div><div>Name_____________________________________________</div><div> </div><div>Address___________________________________________</div><div> </div><div>_________________________________________________</div><div> </div><div>Phone number___________________ e-mail_______________</div><div> </div><div>Choose one (check):</div><br clear="all"><div> Attending the weekend only (I have my own lodging)………………….$70.00</div><div> </div><div> Attending the weekend with lodging……………………………………$100.00</div><div><br></div><div>Choice of either heated dorms or unheated cabins, both dormitory style.</div><div><br></div><div> Saturday only (all workshops, meals, and Saturday night dance).................$50.00<br></div><div> </div><div>Please return your reservations with payment by September 1st to:</div><div>Heidi Harding, Box 126, Dewittville, NY 14728.</div><div>Please let us know as soon as possible.</div><div> </div><div>Please email to reserve your spot ASAP <a href="mailto:heidiho_sweet@yahoo.co.uk">heidiho_sweet@yahoo.co.uk</a></div><div> </div><div>SEE YOU AT THE LAKE!!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>GREENWOOD FURNACE FOLK GATHERING SEPT. 11-13</b></div><div><br></div><div>To our folk music friends:<br><br>It's time to register for the Greenwood Furnace Folk Gathering! Come<br>join us September 11-13 in central Pennsylvania for a fun and<br>friendly weekend of playing and listening to folk music - a fantastic<br>three days of workshops, concerts, jams, dancing and friendship.<br>Activities are held at Greenwood Furnace State Park in central PA,<br>about 30 miles from State College and 90 miles from Harrisburg. This<br>is a gorgeous location with beautiful mountain views, miles of hiking<br>trails, and a six acre lake for swimming and fishing.<br><br>Musicians of all instruments and levels are welcome, and there are<br>also options for singers, dancers, and non-musicians. There's a<br>choice of about 45 workshops on topics ranging from old time tunes to<br>harmony singing to arranging music. Jam sessions will take place<br>throughout the weekend. You'll have a chance to perform at open stage<br>and also as part of a group performance Saturday evening. <br><br>For those who are new to music, there will be dulcimers and autoharps<br>for you to rent for the weekend or borrow for a workshop, and we'll<br>have gentle and patient teachers to get you started. There will be a<br>staff concert each evening, followed by staff-led jams, singing<br>around the bonfire, and a contradance with open band.<br><br>The cost for the weekend is $65 if postmarked by August 1 and $80<br>afterwards. The fee includes all workshops, jams, concerts, and<br>dancing. A meal package with 3 meals Saturday and 2 meals Sunday is<br>available for $45.<br><br>Camping is available by calling the park 8am-4pm at 814/667-1800. Let<br>them know you are part of the folk gathering, so that you may camp in<br>the area by the workshop activities. There are also hotels about 15<br>miles away.<br><br>CONTACT INFORMATION:<br><br>Huntingdon County Arts Council<br><br><a href="mailto:huntingdonarts@comcast.net">huntingdonarts@comcast.net</a><br><br>http://folkgathering.com<br><br>814/643-6220<br><br>Hope to see you there!<br><br>-Linda<br><br>Linda Littleton<br>Simple Gifts<br>814/238-8048 or 814/865-0819<br>http://www.simplegiftsmusic.com<br>linda@simplegiftsmusic.com<br></div><div><br></div><div><b><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>SPRINGWATER FIDDLERS FAIR SEPT. 19</b></div><div><br></div><div>$5 Admission</div><div><div><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">SAT. SEPT. 19TH FIDDLERS FAIR WAYLAND, NY</span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">Sugarbush Hollow Maple Syrup Farm</span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"> 8447 Pardee Hollow Road,
Town of East Springwater, </span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">Wayland, New York 14572</span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"> 585-943-3475</span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"> Email: springwaterfiddlersfair at yahoo.com </span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;">Step back into the past
The Fiddlers Fair will be an all-day musical event for the whole
family. Whether you prefer to sit and enjoy the music playing on
stage, or hike surrounding scenic trails to experience "fiddling-in-
the-woods", we guarantee an eclectic music mix. You can also expect
some lively jam sessions that will get your fee stomping and hands
clapping!
Local Culinary Bounty
Our food vendors are all renowned restaurateur whose fares will
feature locally grown fresh produce and seasonal products. We
guarantee a culinary experience that will delight. Delicious snacks,
meals and drinks will be available all day.
<a href="http://www.springwaterfiddlersfair.net/">http://www.springwaterfiddlersfair.net/</a>
The Musician's Registration Form is on the site, and they're beginning
to come in - hope you can join us! One added bit of info - we will
have two "stage" areas, instead of just one (the sugarhouse porch);
the second, a large hay wagon an easy distance away from the porch.</span></font></pre><pre><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"> INFO:
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Herb & Carolyn Tinney
Wind 'n Pines
7633 Thunder Mountain Trail
(Town of Springwater)
Wayland NY 14572-9786
USA
EMail: hwtinney at earthlink.net
VMail: 585.728-2041</span></font></pre></div></div><div><div><div><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></div><div><br><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div> </div></p> </div></div></body></html>