Upcoming Gigs

In the Catskills. We’re on staff. http://www.folkmusicny.org/

In Groton, MA. We teach with Tj Wheeler, Scott Ainslie, Pam Weeks and more. http://www.wumb.org/samw/camps/winter-weekend-2017/

In Brasstown, NC, at the Campbell Folk School. (828) 837-2775. https://www.folkschool.org/

https://sites.google.com/site/chandlerhouseconcerts/

April 22, 2017

Lorraine and bennett In concert, 8 p.m.

New England Folk Festival

April 21-23, 2017
Mansfield, MA

http://www.neffa.org/

May 5 – 7, 2017

The Singer and the Song

Groton, Massachusetts

http://www.wumb.org/samw/camps/spring-weekend-2017/

May 19, 20, 21, 2017

Banjo Camp North 

Charlton, MA

http://musiccampsnorth.com/2017-banjo-camp-north-faculty/

June 11 - 17, 2017

Surviving and Thriving in Jam Sessions 

John C. Campbell Folk School

Brasstown, NC

https://www.folkschool.org/

June 16, 2017, 7 p.m. concert

John C. Campbell Folk School

Brasstown, NC

https://www.folkschool.org/

June 25 – July 1, 2017

Lorraine teaches at Mountain Collegium 

Western Carolina University

Cullowhee, NC

www.mountaincollegium.org/

L&B at Summer Acoustic Music Week

http://www.wumb.org/samw/

L&B at Summer Acoustic Music Week

http://www.wumb.org/samw/

Lorraine and Bennett Hammond In Concert.

Non-Members - $20

Members - $15

Children 12 and under - $5

Two finger chord fragment and movable bits that do double duty.

Refresher workshop, 5 string banjo beginner/intermediate levels.  Crispness, clarity and reliable right hand rhythm applied to a tune or two.  You can do it!

Workshop suitable for beginners + levels, three and four string.

Lorraine lectures Cecil Sharp in Appalachia.  Closed lecture.

Howie Bursen, Martin Grosswendt and Bennett Hammond at The Vanilla Bean Cafe

http://www.folkmusicny.org/weekends.html

For additional information use this link: https://www.facebook.com/

Mandolin Instruction - Beginning/Review

Local performer Lorraine Lee Hammond talks about the history, construction, and playing technique of the fretted zither called the Appalachian dulcimer. She demonstrates instruments from her own collection, as well as two historical examples belonging to the Museum, including one by legendary maker John Edward Thomas, of Bath, Kentucky, made in 1913.

For additional information please search on the following link: http://www.mfa.org/

Bennett and Lorraine teach!

For additional information please click on the following link: https://www.neffa.org/

Weekend is May 18th through May 20th 2018. For additional information please click on the following link: http://musiccampsnorth.com/

Bennett and Lorraine teach!

This is a week long course ending Saturday, June 16th. For additional information please look on the following link: https://classes.folkschool.org/Instructors.aspx?id=9

This is a week long program running from July 8th to July 14, 2018. For additional information please click the following link: http://www.wumb.org/samw/

Making Music In Cornwall Connecticut

Making Music in Cornwall Connecticut

This is a week long program running from August 19th to August 25, 2018. For additional information please click on the following link: http://www.wumb.org/samw/

Local performer Lorraine Lee Hammond talks about the history, construction, and playing technique of the fretted zither called the Appalachian dulcimer. She demonstrates instruments from her own collection, as well as two historical examples belonging to the Museum, including one by legendary maker John Edward Thomas, of Bath, Kentucky, made in 1913.

For additional information please go to https://www.mfa.org/search?search_api_views_fulltext=LORRAINE+HAMMOND

14th Annual Fiddle Hell Festival, Thursday - Sunday, November 1 - 4, 2018. There will be 450 hands-on workshops and guided jams, and concerts. Lorraine will be conducting voice, mandolin, dulcimer and song workshops, Bennett blues guitar and song. Please go to http://www.fiddlehell.org for dates, times and locations of workshops./

617-232-1045

Lorraine and Bennett - Classical, Celtic and Blues.

http://www.vanillabeancafe.com 860-974-1691

Join Special Guests Lorraine and Bennett for the Winter Folk Music Weekend in Ellenville, NY from February 8th thru February 10th, 2019. For additional information or to register please go to minstrelrecords.com.

WUMB Winter Weekend runs from February 22nd thru February 24th 2019. For additional information please go to http://www.wumb.org/

John C. Campbell Folk School from March 3rd thru the 8th. Lorraine will be teaching beginning/refresher mandolin. For additional information go to the following link: https://folkschool.org/

Mandolin Camp North Weekend from April 12th thru the 14th, 2019. Lorraine's workshops will include beginning track mandolin. From more information please go to: https://musiccampsnorth.com/

Community Sing, with Special Guests: Soly Canto, Alisa Amador, Fred Small, Alastair Mook, Dean Stevens, Lorraine and Bennett Hammond and more! For additional information please click on the following link: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/. Suggested Donation - $20

Banjo Camp North will run from May 17th thru the 19th. Lorraine's workshops include beginning track banjo. For additional information please go to: https://musiccampsnorth.com/

This is a week long course ending Saturday, June 15th. For additional information please go to:

https://classes.folkschool.org/

For additional information please click on the following link: https://folkschool.org/

For additional information, please click on the following link: http://www.mountaincollegium.org/

For more information about SAMW please click on the following link: http://www.wumb.org/

Saturday workshops and Sunday concert and jam session. Details in early summer.

For more information on SAMW please click on the following link: http://www.wumb.org/samw/home/

Doors open 7:30, Concert begins at 8:00

The Laughing Lesson by Peter Johnson Book Launch, with music by Lorraine and Bennett Hammond, Heather Wood and John Roberts. $5 admission.

15th Annual Fiddle Hell Festival, Thursday - Sunday, November 7 - 10, 2019. Please go to http://www.fiddlehell.org for dates, times and locations of workshops.

Free to the public. Information: 617-731-8500

Join Lorraine and Bennett for jams, then Alastair Moock in concert. Details at:

http://www.wumb.org/samw/mark-your-calendar-for-the-annual-reunion-this-year-with-alastair-moock/

Join Lorraine and Bennett for jams, then Alastair Moock in concert. Details at:

http://www.wumb.org/

Howie Bursen & Friends, Vanilla Bean Cafe, Pomfret, CT

Lorraine and Bennett Hammond in concert. For additional information please contact sailingintosong@gmail.com.

For additional details go to: http://www.wumb.org

Lorraine teaches beginner/fresh start track mandolin and Bennett teaches guitar workshops with some amazing players and teachers. https://musiccampsnorth.com

Lorraine and Bennett in concert. www.neffa.org

Lorraine and Bennett join Scott Ainslie, Sloan Wainwright, John Doerschuk, and Charles Williams to welcome in the springtime with creativity and joy. Registration opens at the end of February. http://www.wumb.org

The Folk School is currently closed until further notice. We'll let you know if the situation changes.

Lorraine and Bennett teach “Surviving and Thriving Jam Sessions” class in www.folkschool.org

https://www.mountaincollegium.org

http://www.wumb.org

http://www.wumb.org

http://tradmadcamp.org

NOTE: This event was originally scheduled for May 13-15. Lorraine teaches beginner/refresher track and Bennett's there for jamming. Great classes for both old-time and bluegrass players or want-to-be players. https://musiccampsnorth.com/

We'll be at it again on Monday night 9/14 at 8 p.m. with another "After the Dance" jam session! To join us, go to my Lorraine Lee Hammond page and follow video prompts, or use: https://www.facebook.com/lorraine.l.hammond/live

To keep us all safe in this time of Covid-19, we have decided to REIMAGINE FIDDLE HELL as an online festival and music camp in 2020. This is an exciting new space for our Fiddle Hell community to be together, until we can once again meet face-to-face. For details, visit: https://fiddlehell.org/

Our next online jam will be Monday, April 12, at 8 p.m. on Facebook Live from my home page: https://www.facebook.com/lorraine.l.hammond Bring your voice and instruments and join in the session!

Monday, June 21 at 8:00pm -
Lorraine & Bennett Hammond's Last Virtual Guided Jam of the Season!

Let's start this summer together! Our final "After the Dance" SAMW jam is Monday, June 21, at 8 p.m. here on Facebook live. Come to my homepage at 8 to connect: https://www.facebook.com/lorraine.l.hammond. Bring your voice and instruments to play and sing along.

June 29 – July 3 Lorraine will teach four individual workshops at the virtual Mountain Collegium Early Music and Folk Music Workshop. This program usually gathers in North Carolina. This year you can attend without the trek, and it is a superb musical gathering. Lorraine and Bennett will be part of the faculty concert too.

https://www.mountaincollegium.org/2021-workshop

Join us for the WUMB/SAMW virtual Summer Acoustic Music Camp, July 14 to 18. What an amazing lineup! Go to http://www.wumb.org/samw/camps/summer-2021/ for information. Lorraine suggests that you might want to take her single dulcimer workshop at the Collegium on Friday morning, July 2, (see listing above) to warm up for her SAMW class.

Monday, October 18 at 7:30pm -
Lorraine & Bennett Hammond's Return of the Virtual Guided Jam!

Let's start this fall together! Our "Return of the Virtual Guided SAMW Jam" is Monday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m. here on Facebook live. Come to my homepage at 7:30 to connect: https://www.facebook.com/lorraine.l.hammond. Bring your voice and instruments to play and sing along.

Monday, November 15, 2021, is the next Hammond Online Jam! You’ll find us at Lorraine’s Facebook homepage at 7:30 p.m., and we'll let the good times roll again.
https://www.facebook.com/lorraine.l.hammond/ I am loving the turkey in this newest Bennett poster creation!

Bennett and I will join Dean Stevens on Friday evening December 17, at 7 p.m., for a musical session of joy and delight including some songs of the season. This will be a virtual performance in the new “Winter Fridays” virtual concert series. Dean will be hosting, and also performing some of his own wonderful music. Tickets will be available soon through Eventbrite.com. and will be priced on a sliding scale.

Monday, December 20, we’ll do another “Hammond Jam” evening (virtual). You will find us at 7:30 p.m. that night on my Facebook homepage, and we'll have some songs to celebrate Winter Solstice Eve along with lots of familiar songs for you to play and sing with us: https://www.facebook.com/lorraine.l.hammond/

Canceled - hope to see you there next year!

We’ll be performing in person as part of the joyful Rockport, MA, First Night on December 31 as we usher out one heck of a year! Our concert sets are scheduled for 8 and 9 p.m. in the library auditorium: https://rockportnye.org/schedule2021

Join us for a concert of traditional songs and instrumentals, with some of our own songs and tunes too. We are really looking forward to the evening.

The concert will be streamed on the Old Songs YouTube Channel. A link to the concert and a reminder will be emailed to registered attendees a day before the concert. Register at: https://ti.to/oldsongs/thehammonds

Great music ahead this coming Saturday, January 22 at 7:00 p.m. when Bennett and I join Howie Bursen and Sally Rogers and John Bailey at the Vanilla Bean Café in Pomfret, CT for a livestream fundraiser for the local Emergency Food Bank. There will be an online after-party too. And twenty lucky, well vaccinated, folks can buy in-person tickets too. Hope to see you there! For full ticket info: ttps://www.musae.me/vanillabeancafe/experiences/1258/emergency-food

Monday, January 24, the Hammonds offer their next SAMW “Hammond Jam” (virtual) starting at 7:30 p.m. You will find them that night on Lorraine's Facebook homepage: https://www.facebook.com/lorraine.l.hammond. With Groundhog Day fast approaching, you’d best brush up on your version of that folk classic. Lorraine and Bennett will have their version ready too, along with lots of other songs and tunes for you to play and sing along with at home.

Join Lorraine and Bennett Hammond on Valentine’s Day, Monday, February 14, at 7:30 p.m. for another (virtual) evening of songs and tunes to jam along with at their WUMB/SAMW guided jam. You will find them that night on Lorraine's Facebook homepage: https://www.facebook.com/lorraine.l.hammond. Lots of great, playable and singable music to make hearts happy!

On the weekend of February 25- 27, 2022 the SAMW/WUMB Winter Weekend returns in person in Groton, MA, and we’ll be teaching, jamming, and performing with John Kirk and Trish Miller, Ben Pearce, Bob Halperin, Rachel Sumner and John Doerschuk. We are nearly sold out, so check out our website and register promptly! https://samw.wumb.org/camps/winter-weekend-2022/

Fiddle Hell – and not just for fiddlers! For a great, great, great time check this site out and sign up: