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From: pe...@spectacle.sw.stratus.com (Dan Pearl)
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Subject: NEFFA 1994 - New England Folk Festival Schedule (LONG)
Date: 18 Mar 1994 15:44:48 GMT
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*** 1994 NEFFA FESTIVAL ***
April 22-24, 1994
Natick High School, Natick Massachusetts USA
Schedule as of 3/17/94
The Festival has several rooms, all located at one site. Certain types
of events will characteristically be found in certain rooms.
MAIN HALL - Capacity 800. Participatory dancing, dance performances.
LOWER HALL - Capacity 800 in two sections (sound is piped into the
adjoining "overflow room"): Participatory dancing
AUDITORIUM STAGE - Cap. 200. Participatory dance, dance performances
SMALL HALL - Capacity 150. Jamming, music workshops, singing
ART ROOM - (New room this year; it is near the Performer Sales Table,
First Aid Room, Auditorium corridor) Cap. 50. Discussions,
workshops, quiet space)
NATICK ROOM - Cap. 75. Family concerts, singing, other discussions
MUSIC ROOM - Cap 100. Folk music, music workshops
CHORUS ROOM - Cap 75. Folk music, music workshops
COURTYARD - Outside the entrance. Morris dance performances during daylight
hours.
The "event codes" are the same as last year:
B - Beginner Level E - Entertainment
M - Mixed Level G - Group participation
X - Experienced Level P - Presentation (verbal)
T - Teaching featured F - Family event
N - No teaching provided
Unless otherwise specified, B, M, and X imply some teaching provided.
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## - Events marked with "##" have special relevance to the 50th Anniversary
* - In case of bad weather, a Morris team will perform one dance at the
start of these sessions.
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-----=== FRIDAY APRIL 22, 1994 ===-----
Doors open 6:00PM -- Food available
MAIN HALL
7:00 M ##1944 and Still Dancing (as done at early Festivals) - Marcie
Van Cleave, Woods Hole Folk Orchestra
8:00 Bouree Beaucoup! - Marianne Taylor, Tom Pixton, M. MacNintch,
B. Hooper
9:00 M Contraflirtation - Lisa Greenleaf, Grand Picnic
10:00 M Contras and Squares - Festival Orchestra, Linda Leslie, Larry
Jennings, Tony Saletan ('til 11:30)
LOWER HALL
7:00 M Contra Smoothies - Mary Devlin, Unstrung Heros
8:00 M Greatest Hits: Contras and Squares - Tony Parkes, Mere Mortals
9:00 M English by Pat Shaw - Barbara Finney, Pleasures of the Town
9:45 M Gender-Free English - Michael Cicone, Rua, Cole & Southcott
10:30 MN Dances from Carpathian Mountains - Susan Worland, Pinewoods Band
AUDITORIUM STAGE
7:00 B Easy Contras - Linda Leslie, Sound Bight
8:00 XT Bulgarian Dances - Ira Gessel, Liz Levin
9:00 M Balkan Sing and Dance - Vinovana
9:45 M Sing Rounds and Dance - Hanny Budnick
10:30 MN Gammaldans - Gammaldansbandet
SMALL HALL
7:00 - Open for singing
8:00 - Open for jamming
9:00 MG Celtic/Country Jam Session - Rick Lee
10:30 - Open for jamming 'til 11:30
ART ROOM
6:00 Quiet place to rest
NATICK ROOM
7:00 E New Folk Concert - Back to Back
7:45 E Just Three Stories - Mike Quinn, Joan Wilson, Irv Thomae
8:30 E Concert "Look to the People" - Ruth Pelham
10:00 E New Music for Dulcimer and Autoharp - Pat Iverson, Tom Nelligan
('til 11)
MUSIC ROOM
7:00 E Bansko & Beyond: Bulgarian Men's Music - Zornitsa
8:00 E Concert: Traditional Music - Bronfman, MacMillan, Schunior,
Total Strangers
9:00 E Guitar and Dulcimer Concert - Lorraine and Bennett Hammond
10:00 E Songs from Both Sides - Jeanne Morrill, Jan Maier, Henry Yoshimura
('til 11)
CHORUS ROOM
7:00 E "All My Heroes": Stories for Adults - Sharon Kennedy, Paul Lehrman
8:00 E Songs from the Republic of Georgia - Iveria
8:45 E Concert - Fools Errand
9:30 EG Sing and Swing - Two for the Show
10:15 E British Music Hall Songs ('til 11)
-----=== SATURDAY APRIL 23, 1994 ===-----
Doors open 9:30AM -- Food available
MAIN HALL
10:00*M Contras and Squares - Dudley Laufman, Canterbury Country Dance Orch.
11:00 B Telespringar Workshop - Arna Desser
12:00 XN Contra Medley - Susan Elberger et al.
12:30*M Contras & Squares - Festival Orchestra, Steve Holland, Eric Black,
Pat Rust
2:00 BT Argentine Tangoes - Ron Gursky, Allyn Garvin
3:00 M New England Chestnuts - Jack Janssen, Walter Lenk, Debby Knight,
Jack O'Connor, F. Corey
4:00 E ##50th Anniversary Performances (Ed Larkin Dancers, Latvian, Marlboro
NH Dancers, Estonian, Lithuanian)
5:15*M ##Squares and Contras from First 10 Festivals - Ted Sannella,
Roaring Jelly
6:15 M Weirdo Progression Contras - Dan Pearl, Future Geezers of America
7:15*MN International Folk Dance Party - Zdravets
8:15 XN No Walk-Thru English - Erna Lynne Bogue, David West, Donna Baird
9:00*M Contras & Squares - Festival Orchestra, Carol Kopp, Dave Bateman,
Yonina Gordon
10:30 XN International Folk Dance Party - Cambridge Folk Orchestra
LOWER HALL
10:00 M Instant Bulgarian Village - Elizabeth Stone, Jonathan Finger
11:00*M Balanced Contras - Jim Kitch, Poubelles
12:00 XN Historic Contra Medley - Charlie Fenton et al.
12:30 M Vintage Balkan - Lynn Levine
1:30*B Beginning Cajun Dance - Michelle Kaminsky, Grand Bois
2:30 M Just Add Water!: Contras from Maine - Bill Olsen, Scrod Pudding
3:30 M Croatian Dances - Andrea Ader
4:30*M Singing Squares and Contras - Ralph Sweet, Bob Dalsemer, Please &
Thank You String Band
6:00 MT Moderate Balkan - Sue Roth Rose
7:00*M Contras and Squares - Beth Parkes, Hot Air
8:00*M Gender-Free Contras - Carol Ormand, Chris Ricciotti, Three Amigos
9:30 MT Scottish Country Dancing - Evelyn Murray, The White Cockade
10:30 M Keen Contras - Rick Mohr, Peter Barnes, Dave Langford, Stuart Kenney,
Andy Davis
AUDITORIUM STAGE
10:00 MF Family Folk and Squares - Dick Tracy, Grand Picnic & Ellen Cohn
11:00 B Learn to Contra - Paul McCullough, Uncommon Fare
12:00 M Spud-tacular Contras - Scott Higgs, SPUDS
12:45 EG English Performance and Dance - Reel Nutmeg
1:15 MF Family Dance - Jacob Bloom, Polansky, Stokoe, and Deane
2:00 EF Children's Performances - Spanish, Polish, Latvian, Philippine,
Lithuanian, Chinese, Scandinavian
3:30 BF Scandinavian for Kids - Just Holm, Boston Scandinavian Ensemble
4:00 EM Appalachian Clogging Demo and Workshop - Salmon Run Cloggers
5:30 E Half Moon Sword
5:40 E Dance Performances - Irish Set Dances, "Desert Places"
6:30 E Dance Performances - English, Poland, India, French Canada, Argentina
7:30 E New Haven Rapper (Sword)
7:40 M Quebecois Dances - Dudley Laufman, Sugar Shack
8:30 E Dance Performances - Greece, Argentina, India, Lithuanian, Puerto
Rico, Ireland
9:30 E Dance Performances - Green Mt. Volunteers, Vinovana, Bavarian
10:15 M Dancing to O'Carolan - David Millstone, Orion Consort
SMALL HALL
10:00 BT How to Play Bones - Stephen Brown
11:00 MG Balkan Sing Along - Sylvia Cornell
12:00 FG Rise Up Singing for Families- Peter Blood, Annie Blood-Patterson
1:00 MG Breton Music Jam - Bob Walser
2:30 <unscheduled>
3:00 MG String, Wood, and Reed Jam - Drew Smith
4:30 MG Quebecois Music Jam - Andy Davis, Sugar Shack
6:00 <unscheduled>
6:30 MG Scottish Jam Session - Boston Scottish Fiddle Club
8:00 <unscheduled>
8:30 MG B Flat Tunes for All - Dave Miller, Chris Carpenter
9:30 Open for Jamming
10:30 Open for Singing
ART ROOM
10:00 FG When People Were Animals (Storytelling and Art for Kids) - Janet
Scudder
11:00 GT How to Call No-Walk-Thru Dances - Dan Pearl
12:00 MT Intermediate Harmony - Jan Maier, Eric Aronson
1:00 MG The Folk Artist in the Recording Studio - Bob Wey
1:45 G Discussion for Women Contra Callers - Susan Elberger
3:15 MT Perfecting the Patter: Giving a Performance - Judith Black
4:00 MT Appalachian Dulcimer Workshop - Pam Weeks, Lorraine Lee
4:45 MT Left Hand Workshop for Guitar - Bennett Hammond
5:30 G The Future of Gender in Contras of the Future (Discussion) - Cindy
Green
7:00 G Caller vs. Organizer: A Caller's Roundtable - Larry Jennings
8:30 G Coping with Sound System Failures (Discussion) - Dan Pearl
9:30 Quiet(?) place to rest
NATICK ROOM
10:00 FE Family Entertainment - Amy the Singing Clown
10:45 FE Family Concert - Kevin Devine
11:30 FG African Dance & Music - Holly Gundolfi
12:15 FG Family Sing - Joanne Olshansky Hammil
1:00 FE Family Alburm - Bob Blue
1:45 FG Percussion is Fun - Evy Mayer, Jean Farnworth
2:30 FE Socts/Irish Story and Song: Family Entertainment from Scotland -
The Bells
3:30 FE Family Sing-along: "Under One Sky" - Ruth Pelham
4:15 FG Environmental Songs - Liza DiSavino
5:00 G Rise Up Singing - Peter Blood, Annie Blood-Patterson
6:30 G Song Swap - Folk Song Society of Greater Boston
7:30 G Round Singing - Sol Weber
8:15 EG Folk Songs for All Ages - Broadmoor Chamber Singers
9:00 E "Mother Jones" and Other Stories - Judith Black, Jan Maier
9:45 G Story Swap - Merrill Kohlhofer, host
10:45 E Bluegrass Concert - Waystation
MUSIC ROOM
10:00 E Unusual Instruments - Katherine Rhoda, Stan Harrison
10:45 E Songs of the Maritimes - Lynn Noel, Dick Swain
11:30 EG Mine and Mill Songs - Anne Price
12:15 FE Sea Songs and Chanteys - Daisy Nell, David Coffin
1:00 EG Andean Music - Inca Son
2:00 E Turkish Folk Music - Turgay Erturk
2:45 EG Southern Mountain Music - Allan Block
3:45 EG French in America - Chanterelle
4:30 G Good Old Hymns - Lucy Simpson
5:30 E Old Time Cowboy Songs & Fiddle Tunes - Skip Gorman
6:15 E Unaccompanied Tradition - Jerry Epstein
7:00 E Concert: "Opposing Sexes" - Joan Sprung
7:45 E Remembering Fred Redden - Dick Swain, Jeff Davis
8:45 E Concert of Traditional Songs - Jeff Davis
9:30 E Irish Music Concert - Fourin a Feare
10:30 EG Concert of Traditonal, Contemporary, and Popular Songs - Double
Trouble
CHORUS ROOM
10:00 EG Songs that Heal Wounds - Joanne Davis
10:45 E Ukelele Consciouness - Robert Wheeler
11:30 G Conert of Traditional Harmonies - The Beans
12:15 E Fingerstyle Guitar Concert - Joe Miller
1:00 EG Favorite Songs and Ballads - Caroline Paton
1:45 MT Irish Flute Workshop - Sarah Bauhan, Chris Abell, Brad Hurley
2:30 E McQuillen Tunes - Bob McQuillen, Old New England
3:15 E Concert with Concertina and Dulcimer - David Paton
4:00 BT Shape Note Singing School - Ginny Ely
4:45 E Scandinavian Music Concert - Stambandet
5:30 E Norwegian Folk Songs - Sonja Savig
6:15 EG Sudenyu of Yiddish Song - Allen Hopkins, Bonnie Abrams
7:00 E Norwegian Folk Music -- Toby Weinberg, Loretta Kelley
7:45 E Contemporary Songs - Larry Kaplan
8:30 E East European Singing - Rozmarin
9:15 E Balkan Singing Concert - Zdravets
10:00 EG Singing with the Dulcimer - Gail Rundlett
10:45 E No Lullabies, Lotsa Strings - Lucille Rilley, Roberta Bedor
COURTYARD (Weather permitting)
10:00 E Jack in the Green, Banbury Cross, Middlesex
11:00 E Ha'penny, Rose Galliard Northwest Clog, Muddy River
12:15 E Massed Morris
1:15 E Mianus River, Half Moon Sword, Harrisville Women
2:15 E Black Jokers, Rose and Thorn, Lemon and Capers
3:15 E Newtowne, Midnight Capers, New Haven
4:30 E Massed Morris
-----=== SUNDAY APRIL 24, 1994 ===-----
Doors open 9:30AM -- Food available
MAIN HALL
10:00 MN Zwiefachers - Bob Fitzgerald, Flying Tomatoes
11:00*M Contradance - Paul Rosenberg, Rum and Onions XIV
12:00 XN Contra Medley - Bob Stein et. al
12:30 M Hambo Workshop - Wendy Ernst, Morty Isaacson
1:30 E ##50th Anniversary Dance Performances - English Rapper Sword, English,
Irish, Mandala (Int'l), Scottish, Finnish
3:00 MN Scandinavian Turning Dances - Matt Fichtenbaum & Friends
4:00*M Contras & Squares - Festival Orchestra, Susan Elberger, Beth Parkes,
Ted Sannella ('til 5:30)
LOWER HALL
10:00 M Chestnut-inspired Contras - Susan Kevra, Bill Tomczak, Peter Barnes,
Charlie Pilzer, Dave Langford, Debby Knight
11:00*M Armenian Dances - Leora Berns, A Different Village
12:00 M Spaghetti Contras - Eric Hollman, Atlantic Bridge
1:00 MN Allons Danser!: Cajun Dance - Magnolia
2:00 MT Swing Dance Workshop - Roger Weiss, Loose Deuces
3:00 M Catch of the Day Contras - Steve Zakon, Fresh Fish
4:00 MN Tamburitza Dance Party - Tamburitza Troubadors
4:45 MN International Folk Dance Party - A Different Village
AUDITORIUM STAGE
10:00 FG Sacred Harp Sing - Norumbega Harmony
11:00 MF Family Dance - Cindy Green, Lucille Reilly, Roberta Bedor
11:45 BF Kids Kontras - Steve Boylan, Susan Janssen, Rick Mohr
12:30 EG##A 50th Anniversary Look Back (Featuring all of us who make
NEFFA Happen)
1:30 M Scottish Country Dancing, Anthony Moretti Tufts, Strathspey & Reel
Society of NH
2:30 B Golden Israeli Dances - Larry Denenberg, J. Hantman
3:15 E Magic Lock Morris
3:20 M English For All - Priscilla Adams, Woods Hole Folk Orchestra
4:00 MN Tea Dance - BLT (Mary Lea, Peter Barnes, Bill Tomczak) ('til 5:15)
SMALL HALL
10:00 Open for Jamming
11:00 G Rounds Jam - Sol Weber
12:00 M Two Bulgarian Kopanicas - Meyer Bilmers
1:00 MG Irish Jam Session - Polansky, Stokoe, and Deane
2:30 <unscheduled>
3:00 G Easy 4-Part Gospel
4:00 E Concert: A Capella Choir - Northern Harmony ('til 5:00)
ART ROOM
10:00 MT Generic Autoharp - Pamela Roberts
11:00 MT Hammered Dulcimer Workshop - Debbie Suran, Bob Wey
12:00 MG C-Harmonica Workshop - Ken Sweeney
1:00 E Meet the Bagpipes - Neal MacMillan, Mike McNintch
2:00 T How to Give Feedback - Doug Lipman
2:45 <unscheduled>
3:00 G ##NEFFA Annual Meeting -- Meet The Board and Officers
4:00 Quiet(?) place to rest
NATICK ROOM
10:00 E Old Country Stories - Jacob Bloom
10:45 EF Story/Song for Families - Sydelle Pearl
11:30 EF Spring's Puppets - Spring Burrington-Reiss
12:30 FG Fun Songs of the World - Sharon Salloway
1:15 FE Family Concert of Canadian Folk Music - Rick and Judy
2:00 G Part Songs and Rounds - Lauren Rose, Jim Propp
3:00 EF Family Concert - Tom Smith
3:45 EF The Amazing Teddy Bear - Doug Lipman
4:30 FG Family Concert - Sara Melton Keller, Mary Ann Samuels ('til 5:15)
MUSIC ROOM
10:00 MT Improv on Traditional Music - Randy Crosby
10:45 E Whistle and Flute Concert - Bauhan & Murray
11:30 E Swedish Fiddle Concert - Matt Fichtenbaum, Toby Weinberg, Jane
Orzechowski, Andrea Hoag
12:15 EG Civil War Songs - Allen Hopkins
1:15 BT Simple Harmony Singing - Evie Rantzer
2:15 TBA
3:00 E Concert - Patchwork
3:45 E Traditional Music of Paris (Maine) - Pam Weeks
4:30 E Yiddish Instrumenal Music & Songs - Wholesale Klezmer Band
CHORUS ROOM
10:00 E French and English Songs - Gerry Dee and the Happy Notes
10:45 E Concert of Traditional and Contemporary Music and Stories - Mike
Agranoff
11:30 G Lullaby Song Swap - Jan Green, Lucy Simpson
12:30 E In Celebration of Jan Harmon - Nancy Mattila
1:15 E All Folked Up - Jackson Gillman
2:00 G Rolling Songs - Fred Wersan
2:45 E Irish Music Concert - Ron Lister, Liam Coyne
3:30 FG Camp Songs - Chris Farrow
4:15 Open for Singing
COURTYARD
10:30 E Merrie Mac, Magic Lock Sword, Midnight Rapper, Four Corners,
Lads O'Boston
3:00 International For All (weather permitting) -
open band
For an informational blurb on the Festival, reply to this message.
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