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!

NY Folk Music Society Weekend in the Catskills

Lorraine and Bennett will be with the New York  Folk Music Society  at their Winter Weekend in the Catskills. One of our favorites, this is a Very Relaxed Event. Get ready for  jamming with ace singers and players, for hanging out with bright, energetic and interesting people, while dining sumptuously in the mountains.
 February 8-10, 2013

“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/

L&B at the Parkinson’s Fundraiser, Sally O’Brien’s in Somerville MA

The Third Annual Fundraiser for The American Parkinson’s Disease Association will take place from 12 Noon- 4:45 p.m. on Sunday December 9th at Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave in Union Square, Somerville, Ma.  [617-666-3589]  with
CHARLES WILLIAMS, RICK DEMERS AND JOEL GREENE,
JACKIE DAMSKY AND THE STRING RIVER BAND,
 MARYLOU FERRANTE AND BILL McQUAID,   LARRY FLINT AND CHUCK PARRISH