As well as the events listed below, we have regular Gospel & Sacred Harp Sings and Singing Parties,. See newsletter for details.  Request a sample copy of our newsletter sent by mail

....  weekend flyer (pdf, 224K) . February Newsletter (pdf, 900K)   Includes updated listings of other events around town.

2-sided full page  flyer (pdf, 180K)

Events Calendar:   February * March * and beyond *

February

• 5-7 February 2010: 2010 Winter Folk Music Weekend -- There is still space available
  at Warwick Conference Center, Warwick, NY (only 50 miles northwest of NYC)  This weekend is less formal than our Spring and Fall weekends which have planned workshops, concerts, etc.  It is a weekend filled with informal music. Information: download flyer or call 718-672-6399   ...  pdf flier including registration form (224K) ... html registration form (5K) ... Where is Warwick? .... Driving Directions ...  copy of information sheet sent to registrants ... Pictures from 2009 WInter Weekend
  online registration (surcharge applies): members; non-members  
   
• Sunday  February 7, Sea Music Concert, 3pm:   Robbie Wedeen and friends from A Joyful Noise and Triple Play, plus members of The New York Packet (Frank Woerner, Bonnie Milner, Deirdre Murtha, Joy Bennett, Alison Kelley, Frank Hendricks, David Jones, Jan Christensen, Dan Milner & Bob Conroy).  Robbie Wedeen will render the maritime side of her broad repertoire with a tasteful choice of songs, singers, and musicians. Come support our local, talented friends.  Co-sponsored with the South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St, between Water and Front Streets, 5th floor. Call 212-691-7610 for directions. Donation, $5 (child, $2), pay at the door
   
• Friday, February 12:  Johnson Girls, 7:30pm at NYU Polytechnic Institute, Dibner Library, Pfizer Auditorium, 5 Metrotech Center in Downtown Brooklyn.   
   
  With a sound that has been called exciting, haunting, uplifting, and full of harmony, the Johnson Girls give hair-raising performances of powerhouse chanteys, tender ballads and just plain fun songs, bringing audiences to their feet wherever they go.  The Johnson Girls are an energetic all-woman, mostly a cappella, group performing folk music with an emphasis on songs of the sea and shore.  Each member of the group, Joy Bennett, Alison Kelley, Bonnie Milner, and Dierdre Murtha, brings a specialty and style to the ensemble.   The Johnson Girls’ extensive repertoire of both traditional and contemporary music includes songs with an Afro-Caribbean influence, songs of the inland waterways, of fishing, mining, Irish, Anglo-American, Italian and French Canadian ballads and work songs, and much more.  Sea music may well have been the first “world music.”  Ships’ crew members from many countries were heavily influenced by the music they heard from one another   Their work songs and other shipboard music incorporated the different rhythms and styles from their own often diverse cultures as well as those they encountered during their voyages.  The Johnson Girls came together in 1997 following the Mystic Seaport Sea Music festival to burst through the barrier of this previously male dominated genre.
  
  The concert will take place at NYU Polytechnic Institute, Dibner  Library, Pfizer Auditorium, 5 Metrotech Center in Downtown Brooklyn  (11201).  A short ride from Manhattan, accessible on A, C, F (Jay St.), N, M, R (Lawrence St.), 2, 3, 4, 5 (Borough Hall) trains. Metrotech Commons is across Jay St. from the back of the Marriott, enter the commons from Jay St. Dibner Library is on the left, a modern university building.  By car: Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to Tillary Street, park along Tillary or Flatbush Ave. after 7:00 (tow-away before 7:00). Enter Metrotech Commons from Flatbush Avenue, Dibner Library is on the right, a relatively modern university building.  Download pdf flyer (300K).
  
  Admission $20; Members, half price, $10;  full-time students 22 and under and NYU-Poly staff are admitted free.  Tickets can be purchased at the door, or on line at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/96907  ($1-2 service fee).  For information call 718-672-6399. 

Saturday 13 February: Chantey Sing, 8pm at South St Seaport. Bring instruments, voices and songs. Co-sponsored and hosted by the Seamen's Church Institute at 241 Water St. NYC. Directions: A & C trains Broadway/Nassau St., and J, M, Z, 2, 3, 4, 5, Fulton St. Walk down Fulton St and make a left on Water St. small donation requested. 718-788-7563.

• Sacred Harp Singing; Sunday 21 February;  1-4pm 
  The 3rd Sunday of each month Sept. thru June, 1 to 4pm,  We continue the colonial American tradition of four-part, unaccompanied sacred singing.  Beginners welcome! Books available for loan or purchase.  Contributions collected; Food and fellowship following.  Location to be announced.   Info: www.manhattansing.org or email, or call 718-963-1821.
  
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•  Thursday, 25 February,  Newsletter Mailing; 7 PM
   Join the important band of volunteers that sticks the stamps and labels and staples the pages to mail out this newsletter.  In Jackson Heights (Queens), right near the “74 St” Station of the #7 line or the “Roosevelt-Ave-Jackson Heights” Station of the E,F,V, and R trains.  (Cat in residence.)  info: 718-426-8555 or  e-mail
    
  
• Friday 26 February: Michelle Choiniere, 7:30pm; Broadway Mall Community Center, 96 St & B’way Center Mall. Admission $15; Members, $12;  full-time students 22 and under and children, $6. Tickets can be purchased at the door, or on line at http://choiniere.eventbrite.com.  (service fee)  For information and reservations call 718-672-6399  
   
  Michele Choiniere was born into a musical Franco-American family in northern Vermont, and from an early age performed traditional Franco-American music with her father Fabio, an accomplished harmonica player.  In 1995, she began writing and composing her own songs and has performed throughout New England, Quebec and France.  Her lyrics and music focus on nature, romance and social issues connected to being Franco-American.  Writing and singing in both English and French, Michele powerfully expresses her cultural identity as a bilingual Franco-American from the New England borderlands.  Her repertory and vocal style are as eclectic as they are evocative: jaunty French cabaret songs rub elbows with contemplative ballads and pop-tinged lyrical folk melodies.  The overarching emotion of this music is a dark gaiety, sophisticated and brooding.    Download flyer (pdf, 300K) ...  Michelle's web site  
  
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March

• Saturday 6 March: Jay Ungar and Molly Mason;  7:30pm
  This special concert will take place at the 2nd Presbyterian Church, 6 West 96 St (at Central Park West).   Admission $25; Members, $20;  children and full-time students 22 and under $10.  Tickets can be purchased at the door, or on line at    www.brownpapertickets.com/event/97127 ($2 service fee).  For information call 718-672-6399.

more March and Future Events  are listed on our Summary of events page

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