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SUMMARY:FSSGB Annual Members' Concert
DESCRIPTION:The annual FSSGB members’ concert is always a popular event. Our members perform songs which range from traditional ballads to original compositions\, and from instrumental to a cappella pieces. Some of the instruments that have been played at this concert in the past include violin\, cello\, banjo\, mandolin\, guitar\, bass\, keyboard and concertina. Some FSSGB members who have performed at this event have gone on to have successful performing careers\, such as Elijah Wald\, Mark Ryer\, Fool’s Errand and Merle Roesler. \nOur hosts will be Lori Fassman and Paul Beck. They are long-time FSSGB members who are both past Presidents of FSSGB. \n Some performers have been participating for years; others will do so for the first time. Children are most welcome. The program will feature professional musicians as well as living room folk enthusiasts. All are welcome. The audience is always supportive and lively. \nProceeds from this show help keep the Society strong – we thank the performers and the audience for making this event possible.
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/fssgb-annual-members-concert/
LOCATION:First Parish in Waltham\, 50 Church Street\, Waltham\, MA\, 02452
CATEGORIES:Concert,Music
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SUMMARY:Lorraine and Bennett Hammond House Concert
DESCRIPTION:Lorraine and Bennett Hammond House Concert \nSunday\, November 3\, 12pm (11:30pm potluck brunch)\nLocation TBD\n$20 cash at the door ($5 for students)\nReservations required: send email to HouseConcerts@fssgb.org \n“Quite simply acoustic music at it’s finest\,” says Dirty Linen Review. \nLorraine\, renowned master of the Appalachian dulcimer\, also plays banjo\, mandolin and Celtic harp and is an expressive singer and songwriter.  Bennett\, a superb finger-style guitarist and recent convert to the five string banjo\, names “the three Bs”\, Bach\, the blues and Buddy Holly\, as major influences. \nTogether\, The Hammonds are versatile musicians and engaging entertainers. Their warm stage presence is punctuated with wry humor\, and their command of their instruments and musical genres is without flaw. The Boston Globe calls them “a dazzling\, witty\, eclectic\, delightful duo.”  The duo’s repertoire ranges in style from classical through Celtic\, blues and contemporary. They sing both traditional and original songs and can be heard on over thirty recordings as featured artists\, or enhancing the work of performers including Archie Fisher\, Lui Collins and Bob Franke.  Christine Lavin and Heidi Mueller are among the artists who have covered Hammond originals. \nThe couple live in Brookline\, Massachusetts and their most recent releases\, all on the independent folk label Snowy Egret Music are Jingalo Gypsy featuring the duo\, Bennett’s Rockafolky Banjo Tapes and Lorraine’s Muddy River Suite. \nFeel free to come at 11:30am and join us for a potluck brunch!
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/lorraine-and-bennett-hammond-house-concert-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T170000
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SUMMARY:FSSGB Fall Music Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 26\, 2024\, 10am-5pm ET\nFirst Parish in Waltham\, 50 Church St\, Waltham\nRegistration and continental breakfast start at 9:30am\nCheck the FSSGB website for registration info \nJoin us for a wonderful day full of workshops\, jams and concerts. A continental breakfast will be served in the morning\, and lunch will also be included. (Let us know if you have dietary restrictions.) Registration costs and the exact program are still being worked out\, so please keep an eye on our website for updates. \nThe Vox Hunters (Benedict Gagliardi and Armand Aromin) and Flannery Brown are on staff for this event. Hailing from the great state of Rhode Island\, Armand Aromin and Benedict Gagliardi are seekers and singers of old songs\, cultivators of local music\, and chronic multi-instrumentalists. They are touted as strong tradition-bearers in their generation\, and their genuine affinity for the music is evident in the emotion they draw from it. With a pair of oft-harmonizing voices tastefully garnished with fiddle\, free-reeds\, and tenor guitar\, The Vox Hunters offer an all-natural connection to the living tradition of folk music. Flannery Brown plays cello\, sings songs\, writes tunes\, and infuses the trio’s music with an infectious energy.
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/fssgb-fall-music-gathering/
LOCATION:First Parish in Waltham\, 50 Church Street\, Waltham\, MA\, 02452
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240922T150000
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SUMMARY:Martha Burns House Concert
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 22\, 3pm ET (note early start time!)\nCambridge\, MA (address provided when you make your reservation)\nGeneral admission: $20 at the door ($5 for students)\nReservations required: email HouseConcerts@fssgb.org for reservations and directions. \nMartha grew up in Greenwich Village in the 1950s and sixties\, during the height of the Folk Revival. The New Lost City Ramblers and the Friends of Old-Time Music were first bringing the greats of early country music to national attention. Harry Smith’s pioneering Anthology of American Folk Music\, the first major re-issue of early folk music 78s\, came out the year she was born—the New Lost City Ramblers Songbook\, when Martha was twelve. Martha gained much of her education in folk music on Sunday afternoons in Washington Square Park. When Doc Watson played at the tiny Gaslight Café on Macdougal Street\, Martha was there—with her mother. \nMartha has since lived in many parts of the U.S.—Ann Arbor\, Seattle\, Philadelphia\, Boston\, Providence\, and on Capitol Hill in Washington\, DC\, where she’s presently based. Her first move was in 1970 to Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, where she went for college and stayed for a decade. Some of the songs on her 2014 album Old-Time Songs\, she first began singing at the Ark Coffeehouse\, then a celebrated hub for traditional music in the Midwest\, and her own musical home through those years. During that period\, she also played in the Argo Pond String Band. Others in the group included David Cahn and Bill Meyer\, now both prominent west-coast musicians\, and Craig Johnson\, later revered for songs like “New Harmony\,” that he wrote in Ann Arbor. \nShe began performing in the early 1970s\, first regionally and then nationally. By the mid-eighties\, she had played the Philadelphia Folk Festival\, Pinewoods Folk Music Camp\, and myriad folk clubs. In 1984 she completed a six-week British tour\, which included a memorable concert on the Island of Guernsey. \nIn 1985 she paired up with fiddler Allan Block\, now remembered for the Allan Block Sandal Shop in Greenwich Village\, where he hosted legendary jam sessions throughout the 1960s. When Allan and she began performing together\, she was living in Boston. Allan had since moved to New Hampshire and was a central figure in the New England folk music scene. Together Allan and she recorded an album on the Marimac label. Sadly\, the unexpected death of Marimac’s president prevented its release. \nAllan and she continued to play together through the early 1990s. Toward the end of that time\, she scaled back on performing for a two-decades-long foray into academia. her field was American history\, and she have published on subjects ranging from early American hymnody to female piano teachers before the Civil War. \nHer return to music was consummated in 2014 with the release of “Old-Time Songs”. Her first solo album\, it was funded through a highly successful Kickstarter campaign—Kickstarter made the project a “Staff Pick” and featured it on the Kickstarter Blog. You can preview or purchase Old-TIme Songs here.
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/martha-burns-house-concert-2/
LOCATION:Cambridge\, MA\, Given when reservation is made\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Love Spread Your Wings: a Celebration of the Life of Ellen Schmidt
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September\, 15th\, 2024\, 4-6pm ET\nFirst Church of Waltham\, 50 Church St.\, Waltham\nFree! \nThis will be a concert of songs and spoken word that Ellen has composed or loved\, performed by many of her friends and collaborators. \nPlease put this date on your calendar. We will be sharing more information as it becomes available. For those who can’t join us in person\, we anticipate livestreaming the event. \nThis is a free concert\, however if you would like to honor Ellen’s memory with a financial contribution\, please consider donating to The Ellen Farber Schmidt Fund for Cancer Research and Patient Treatment\, set up by her family to honor Ellen. \nhttp://danafarber.jimmyfund.org/goto/EllenFarberSchmidtConcert Organizers: Lori Fassman\, John Ferullo\, Cheryl Perreault\, Howie Rashba\, Tom Smith\, Dan Tappan\nSponsored by the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/love-spread-your-wings-a-celebration-of-the-life-of-ellen-schmidt/
LOCATION:First Parish in Waltham\, 50 Church Street\, Waltham\, MA\, 02452
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SUMMARY:Martin and Eliza Carthy
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 23\, 2024\, 7pm ET \nFirst Parish of Sudbury\, 327 Concord Rd\, Sudbury\, MA (handicap accessible)\nAdmission: \n\nGeneral admission: $25\nStudents: $10\n17 and under free\n\nFor more than 50 years Martin Carthy has been one of folk music’s greatest innovators\, one of its best loved\, most enthusiastic and\, at times\, most quietly controversial of figures. His skill\, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers\, not only from within the folk scene\, but also far beyond it. Trailblazing musical partnerships with\, amongst others\, Steeleye Span\, Dave Swarbrick and his award-winning wife (Norma Waterson) and daughter Eliza Carthy have resulted in more than 40 albums\, but Martin has only recorded 10 solo albums\, of which the much anticipated Waiting for Angels (Topic TSCD527) was the latest. Whether in the folk clubs (which he continues to champion)\, on the concert stage or making TV appearances (he was the subject of the acclaimed Originals music documentary strand on BBC 2) – there are few roles that Martin Carthy hasn’t played. \nEliza Carthy is undoubtedly one of the most impressive and engaging performers of her generation. Twice nominated for the Mercury Prize and winner of innumerable other accolades over a 20 year career\, Eliza has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists including\, Paul Weller\, Rufus and Martha Wainwright\, Patrick Wolf and Bob Neuwirth. More than most\, Eliza Carthy has revitalised folk music and captured the most hardened of dissenters with intelligent\, charismatic and boundary-crossing performance. \nFSSGB is honored to be able to bring you this concert\, which Martin and Eliza are fitting in before they head off to be on staff at TradMaD Camp in Plymouth\, MA.
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/martin-and-eliza-carthy/
LOCATION:First Parish of Sudbury\, 327 Concord Rd\, Sudbury\, MA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T130000
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SUMMARY:Sara Grey and Kieron Means House Concert
DESCRIPTION:General admission: $20\, $5 for students \nConcert will be held in a private home in Brookline MA.\nReservations required: email HouseConcerts@fssgb.org for reservations and directions. \nSara Grey is one of the most gifted and knowledgeable artists working in the field of traditional music. Sara’s singing is both powerful and sweet\, with a distinctive and lovely tremolo. It is a voice well suited to native American songs and ballads of Ireland and Scotland. \nIt is not Sara’s lovely voice alone that makes her one of the most popular singers on the folk scene; on many of her songs Sara accompanies herself by frailing a five string banjo and\, when playing dance tunes\, it is obvious why she is regarded as one of the foremost exponents of the clawhammer style. As well as singing and playing\, Sara is well known for her storytelling – specialising in stories from New England where she grew up learning many of her stories from her father. \nSara grew up in New Hampshire but has lived in North Carolina\, Ohio\, Montana\, New York\, Pennsylvania\, Arizona\, Wales\, Scotland and England. As a youngster in North Carolina she developed a love for old time songs and banjo music. She cites Kyle Creed as the chief influence on her understated\, syncopated clawhammer banjo style. She has now been performing professionally for more than 30 years. \n\n“She is one of a select band of performers who still breathe life into traditional ballads.” Vic Smith\, Folk Roots\n“Sara Grey has quietly and powerfully taken over the mantle of premier interpreter of American traditional music.” Tor Jonassen\, WRDV\n\nKieron Means is a singer primarily of traditional songs but also of contemporary songs and guitar player of great merit. He has a great rapport with an audience and has an exceptional professionalism for a young performer. His voice is as smooth as silk\, rich and mellow and he sings to his audience not in spite of them. \nKieron is the son of the traditional singer Sara Grey and music journalist Andrew Means\, one time writer for Melody Maker. He was born in the United States and grew up in Britain gaining a great love of the music of both traditions as well as the contemporary scene. He has become a performer of traditional songs from the US and from the UK and many of the contemporary songs he sings he has written himself. \nHe has toured in the States and often performed with Sara Grey. In 2000 he has performed at Whitby and Wadebridge festivals where he was received with much acclaim. His first CD has received much praise with air play on Travelling Folk and Mr Anderson’s Fine Tunes both on radio Scotland. An article on him will shortly be appearing in Folk Roots magazine.
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/sara-grey-and-kieron-means-house-concert/
CATEGORIES:Concert,Music
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SUMMARY:Mike Agranoff House Concert
DESCRIPTION:Roslindale\, MA (Address will be provided when you make your reservation.) \nReservations are required: send email to HouseConcerts@fssgb.org. $20 at the door (cash) – $5 for students. \nIf you’ve been around the folk scene\, you couldn’t miss seeing Mike. Tall\, ginger beard\, and always around where the music is. He’s been on the scene for many many years\, listening to the fine details of what makes this genre of music so special to the soul\, so able to make us laugh and cry and think. And lucky for us all\, he got serious about having fun at it. \nLess a singer-songwriter than a singer-songfinder\, Mike takes great delight in discovering the little-known hidden gems\, polishing them with his own distinctive style\, and bringing them to the light of day where they sparkle. He will shift from beautifully contemplative\, to uproariously funny\, to instrumentally brilliant\, to powerfully emotional in the space of a few minutes. Equally at home in the contemporary and traditional camps of the Folk world\, he is a fine musician and storyteller. His prime instrument is the guitar\, upon which he shines with intricate fingerstyle arrangements of anything from Tin Pan Alley tunes of the ’20s to fiddle tunes to his own music. He also plays concertina\, piano\, banjo\, or sings acapella. The man will capture your attention\, and then your heart. \nNot only a performer\, Mike is involved in presenting folk music as well. He is one of the prime movers of The Folk Project\, New Jersey’s oldest and strongest folk music organization. For over two decades he has been chairman of that organization’s Minstrel Coffeehouse\, one of the longest lived and most respected folk venues in the country. \nCheck the website\, www.fssgb.org\, or email info@fssgb.org\, if you have any questions.
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/mike-agranoff-house-concert/
LOCATION:Roslindale\, MA\, Given when reservation is made\, Roslindale\, MA
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T190000
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SUMMARY:Annual FSSGB Members' Concert
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our annual Members’ Concert! We’ll continue the relatively new tradition of having this event on Zoom and livestreamed to Facebook Live. This is a favorite event of the year for many of us — an opportunity to delight in the rich and diverse talents of FSSGB members\, old and new. \nAll FSSGB members are invited to sign up to perform one song or tune. Email info@fssgb.org to reserve a spot. \nAll performers will be in the Zoom meeting (muted during others’ performances)\, and the show will be livestreamed to Facebook so everyone else can watch. (You don’t need to have a Facebook account to watch the livestream.) \nWe will accept donations during the performance which will benefit FSSGB. Much of that money will go to scholarships which enable young Boston-area musicians to attend folk music camps.
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/annual-fssgb-members-concert/
LOCATION:Zoom and Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231018T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231018T170000
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SUMMARY:Martha Burns House Concert CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:Sadly\, we’ve had to cancel this event due to a family emergency.  We’ll try again next year!
URL:https://bostoncoffeehouses.org/event/martha-burns-house-concert/
LOCATION:Cambridge\, MA\, Given when reservation is made\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
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