news flash we need a HOST for the dance this SUNDAY! Can you do it?
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Linda James
Apr 16, 2012, 7:28:35 PM4/16/12
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Please email me back ASAP! It would be showing up at 3pm to set up the tables and chairs. You also would be contacting folks to help Reggie Bolton - but I give you the email addresses for that~
We have a special dance this Sunday afternoon, 4pm
North-South Railroad returns to Birmingham after last April's successful dance. The band is made up of Tina Chancey, fiddle, Nancy Fiske, clarinet and recorders, and Charlie Pilzer, piano. Rickey Holt calls in New Hampshire and surrounding states and will be on tour with the band. North-South Railroad marks the collaboration of three musicians with feet in so many pies they might well be centipedes. Charlie Pilzer, performer, sound engineer and producer, has played for countless dances the past 35 years. He has been on staff at Pinewoods for CDSS, Christmas Country Dance School in Berea, KY, Chesapeake dance weekend and many other dance events. Charlie performs with Scandinavian fiddlers Loretta Kelley and Andrea Hoag; their CD Hambo in the Snow was nominated for a Grammy in 2007. He’s a spontaneous, rhythmic and florid keyboard player who enjoys the simple, old tunes from the Scots-Irish, French Canadian, and Appalachian traditions that lend themselves so well to voluptuous cascades of chords, reharmonizations and inspired modulations. Tina Chancey, director of the early/traditional music crossover group HESPERUS, specializes in bowed string instruments from fiddle and rebec to viola da gamba and kamenj, on roots music from medieval and renaissance to Sephardic, Colonial American, Celtic, Cajun and Old Time. She’s spent many a warm summer’s evening playing country dances, waltzes, bransles and contras at Pinewoods, Buffalo Gap, and Glen Echo in the States and for Renaissance Bals in obscure corners of France. She would rather improvise than play it straight, mostly because both her eyesight and memory are failing and the only way she can keep going is to make it up. Or maybe that’s just her excuse. Joined by Nancy Fiske, preeminent performer on clarinet and recorder, the trio offers an irreverent pastiche of lyrical and driving tunes spanning the centuries in a sparkling, rambunctious groove. Or was that a sparking pastiche of tunes in an irreverent groove? Come and see.
www.FOOTMADbirmingham.org
Before the dance, why not make history?
Sunday is Earth Day. And there is going to be a Picnic for the Planet in beautiful Railroad Park from 11-3. The Nature Conservancy will attempt to break the world’s record for the most people picnicking around the world in a 24-hour period. Our official picnic count will be submitted to the Guinness World Records as part of this world-wide effort! Rain or shine.
www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/alabama/p4p-2012-al-railroad-park.xml
Come Dance! Bring Friends!
Linda James
PRP for Birmingham FOOTMAD
www.FOOTMADbirmingham.org
We have a special dance this Sunday afternoon, 4pm
North-South Railroad returns to Birmingham after last April's successful dance. The band is made up of Tina Chancey, fiddle, Nancy Fiske, clarinet and recorders, and Charlie Pilzer, piano. Rickey Holt calls in New Hampshire and surrounding states and will be on tour with the band. North-South Railroad marks the collaboration of three musicians with feet in so many pies they might well be centipedes. Charlie Pilzer, performer, sound engineer and producer, has played for countless dances the past 35 years. He has been on staff at Pinewoods for CDSS, Christmas Country Dance School in Berea, KY, Chesapeake dance weekend and many other dance events. Charlie performs with Scandinavian fiddlers Loretta Kelley and Andrea Hoag; their CD Hambo in the Snow was nominated for a Grammy in 2007. He’s a spontaneous, rhythmic and florid keyboard player who enjoys the simple, old tunes from the Scots-Irish, French Canadian, and Appalachian traditions that lend themselves so well to voluptuous cascades of chords, reharmonizations and inspired modulations. Tina Chancey, director of the early/traditional music crossover group HESPERUS, specializes in bowed string instruments from fiddle and rebec to viola da gamba and kamenj, on roots music from medieval and renaissance to Sephardic, Colonial American, Celtic, Cajun and Old Time. She’s spent many a warm summer’s evening playing country dances, waltzes, bransles and contras at Pinewoods, Buffalo Gap, and Glen Echo in the States and for Renaissance Bals in obscure corners of France. She would rather improvise than play it straight, mostly because both her eyesight and memory are failing and the only way she can keep going is to make it up. Or maybe that’s just her excuse. Joined by Nancy Fiske, preeminent performer on clarinet and recorder, the trio offers an irreverent pastiche of lyrical and driving tunes spanning the centuries in a sparkling, rambunctious groove. Or was that a sparking pastiche of tunes in an irreverent groove? Come and see.
www.FOOTMADbirmingham.org
Before the dance, why not make history?
Sunday is Earth Day. And there is going to be a Picnic for the Planet in beautiful Railroad Park from 11-3. The Nature Conservancy will attempt to break the world’s record for the most people picnicking around the world in a 24-hour period. Our official picnic count will be submitted to the Guinness World Records as part of this world-wide effort! Rain or shine.
www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/alabama/p4p-2012-al-railroad-park.xml
Come Dance! Bring Friends!
Linda James
PRP for Birmingham FOOTMAD
www.FOOTMADbirmingham.org
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