April 12 – 14. Mandolin Camp North, Prindle Pond Centre, Charlton MA. Lorraine teaches beginners, Bennett backs up the jams. mugwumps.com
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Cornwall Women – Lorraine in Concert
Cornwall, CT native Lorraine will feature in concert for theThe Historical Society, Cornwall, CT. 860/672-0505 http://www.cornwallhistoricalsociety.org/in their Cornwall Women series. Bennett will accompany, naturally.
At the MFA: We’re Museum Pieces!
Yeah, so they misspell my name. Just a reminder that the experts can be wrong! Great venue, though. Acoustics? Oh, yes. We’ll pick and sing American mountain music, including traditional music from the Northern Appalachians, which was largely ignored by scholars, Northeasterners themselves generally, who pretended that the areas of isolation and poverty necessary for the preservation of tradition against cross-pollination lay far from their own educated and industrious part of the world.
http://www.mfa.org/programs/series/nancy-lee-clark-concert-series
Special Old-Time Music Night for Sandy Sheehan
Sandy is an original, and he goes all the way back with us. Lorraine even knew him as a teenager. This will be a great banging of banjos and scratching of fiddles at Johnny D’s in Slumberville. All your favorite local old-time players will be there. Don’t miss it!
Lorraine Teaches Mandolin at the Folk School
Lorraine teaches beginning mandolin at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC
Brookline Music School Concert
Lorraine and Bennett performing an afternoon concert in Brookline Music School’s Faculty Artist Series
Brookline Music School, Brookline, MA
http://www.bmsmusic.org/Special_Events.htm
NY Folk Music Society Weekend in the Catskills
“SAMW” Winter Week-end
SAMW! Ask anyone, it’s the best! Wouldn’t it be great to have SAMW all year? Well, maybe we can, some day. But for now, we can enjoy a big slice of SAMW at the WINTER WEEK-END in Febrruary, when we all could really use something. Expect the usual: a beautiful setting in the woods; an acoustically perfect Chapel venue; intimate classes and jams with the stellar performers; breakfast, lunch and dinner with the performers. Perhaps unexpected: the food is abundant, and the desserts…! Legendary.
Staff are Lui Collins, Susie Burke and David Surrette, John Doershuk and Lorraine and Bennett Hammond
The location is in Groton, Massachusetts, at Grotonwood Camp and Conference Center (http://www.grotonwood.org/). Lodging and six meals are included. Registration will open at 4:00 on Friday afternoon. Dinner is at six. We’re due to leave the campus on Sunday by 3:00. Groton is about an hour northwest of downtown Boston. The camp is in a beautifully wooded area, and facilities are comfortable. Most rooms are doubles. The bathrooms are shared. The food is hearty, and the desserts are legendary. Walking between buildings is on fairly level ground, give or take possible snow banks! Oh – and there are several working fireplaces.
To make your reservation, please phone or email Patty Domeniconi directly:
Phone – 617-287-6915 Email – patty.domeniconi@umb.edu
(Plan to bring your own bedding if possible. There is a $15.00 surcharge/person if Grotonwood supplies the bedding. The camp supplies a pillow and blanket for each bed. Advance notice is required.)
www.wumb.org/samw/home/
SAMW ’12 Reunion and ’13 Registration
The SAMW 2012 Reunion and 2013 Registration get-together will be on January 6, 2013 at UMass Boston. 1 p.m.
You may have read rapturous rhapsodies about SummerAcousticMusicWeek, but if you ain’t been there, you just don’t know. For the curious, there is a real taste of SAMW at our annual January reunion and pre-registration, where old friends and new ones come to jam and mingle and snack and hear about next Summer’s line-up. Come on down. You’ll be right at home.
www.wumb.org/samw/
New Year’s Eve in Rockport!
New Year’s Eve in Rockport is our favorite. It is on a human scale, the venues are good, the food is really good. Very cool, lit.&fig.
Library-Peggy Brenner Room 8-8:45 & 9-9:45 PM
Lorraine and Bennett Hammond – Peace on Earth