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Although there are very few 'live' folk events taking place, there are plenty of 'mediated' experiences for us to enjoy including community radio and more active Zoom on-line meetings/sing-alongs. Do let us know of other such on-line meetings/sing-alongs that we should be telling people about.
For next week only send stuff to Wayne rather than me as I will be away. - Julie
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Please Note - New/seriously revised items are in yellow and this week's calendar, starting with Monday 15 June, is at the bottom.
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Make Music Day (MMD) #MakeMusicDay2020 This special day takes place next Sunday 21 June and is a DIY world music event for everyone to be part of. Folk Federation of NSW is encouraging all its members and friends to get involved through a range of live and online activities. Next Sunday we’ll be uploading a special post to our Facebook page inviting you to share your special music activity with our folk community. You can post a photo, a short video clip or just tell us in a few words what music you’ve been making. We’re also preparing a special #MakeMusicDay Youtube Playlist and invite you to send us a link to a live recording of yourself or your band for inclusion. Email your link - and put Attention Jane in the Subject box.
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More Exciting News - Folk Federation of NSW has been working hard to plan a range of activities to support our artists and to engage with our folk community during these COVID times and also as we emerge from the lockdowns. We will be letting you know about some of these initiatives in the coming weeks with the first to be announced next Sunday. A great way to stay connected is to join our Facebook Page by liking us. Visit us on Facebook in the coming days to learn about ideas for #MakeMusicDay.
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Community Radio
1st Saturday every month - Focus on Folk, 5-6pm, Fine Music 102.5 FM, with presenters John Milce, Paul Jackson, Kate Delaney, Carole Garland, Gerry Myerson, Roger Fyfe. These programs are pre-recorded.
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Every Saturday - Worldwide Folk, 2-4pm, VOX FM 106.9, with presenters Russell Hannah, Roger Fyfe, Yvonne O’Grady, Rod Cork.
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Every Sunday - Whirled Wide, 1pm, Fine Music 102.5 FM, with presenters Carole Garland, Ian Carswell, Linda Marr, Orli Zahava. Now live to air!
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Every Wednesday, 9-10pm, 2NURFM, Classic Folk program, with Phil Bates and Jane Klein.
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Every Tuesday, Australian Spectrum Show, 9pm - 12m/n, Alive 90.5 FM, with Ross M Fear. All Australian blues, roots, folk & contemporary artistes. Special studio guests. Week-end gig & festival guide. Streaming online. On Facebook. Contact Ross.
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Online Meetings/Sing-alongs/Sharing
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Troubadour Sessions - Each Sunday, 2-4pm. Third Sunday of each month, session is live in Kariong gardens, with virtual attendance by Zoom for those who can’t get there in person. First, second, fourth Sunday of the month, session is currently a virtual one, by Zoom or phone. Details: Hugh Worrall 0402 529 474
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Friday Lunchtime Online Choir - 12.30-2pm, Fridays. 8 weeks (started Friday 8th May). No previous experience necessary. All voices welcome. Course run through North Sydney Community Centre and conducted by Scottish singer Mary Kiani. Cost: $170/$127.50 (pensioners/full time students). You get to choose the songs - anywhere from 'A White Sportscoat' to 'Zippity Doo Daa'. And then join us for virtual coffee afterwards.
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SongsOnLine - Russell Neal runs on-line OpenMics and Songwriters nights every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, plus Saturday mornings, using Zoom (see "SongsOnLine" in the Calendar, below). He also has 1 live SongsOnStage Songwriters/OpenMic every Sunday afternoon, 2-5pm at Cocina del Barrio, 526 King St, Newtown - see this Facebook page.
Email Russell Neal or go to his Facebook page for more information, or to book in to play.
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Corona Choir - Thursdays at 7.30pm. 9 week course (ends: 25th June) presented by Rob Bullen.
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World Music Singing for Mums & Bubs - Wednesdays & Fridays at 9am. With Miriam Lieberman. Carers & kids also welcome. Live streamed via Zoom, Launch week free!! Email Miriam to register your interest.
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The vibrant Newcastle Ukulele Community who used to attend ukestras has now quietly retreated to five Zookestra sessions a week, led by Mark & Jane. We've even got some international visitors!
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The Massive Singlet - Spookmeister Stephen Taberner offers his unique take on Zoom singing. The singlet lives, the singlet thrums, warmly, the singlet likes cheese. the singlet is massive and capacious, the singlet is cosy and tiny, the singlet in us respects the singlet in you. Does the singlet contradict itself? Very well, the singlet contradicts itself, it is vast . . . it contains multitudes. We have two weeks of this season of singlet to go and we are full of appreciation for your part in what this has become. It has, in fact, become what it has become.
If you wish to donate, we’d love you to donate. the good news is that we have passed the donations target of $27,000. This is wonderful news, first because it ensures the viability of the singlets, secondly because from now on, 50% of all donations will go to the covid-19 actions of medecins sans frontieres, which I’m sure you’d agree is a very good thing. from our silly singlet hearts, we say THANK YOU.
We dare, once again, to offer you FOUR singlets this week - see below. All info on the website.
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Alone Together Choir - Mondays 1-2pm. Time to sing! A wide range of songs, great harmonies, free your voice. Presented by Christina Mimmocchi. All welcome - no previous experience necessary. Email to register.
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Choir on a Wire @ NSCC - 7.30-8.30pm, Mondays. 9 weeks starting Monday 27th April. No previous experience necessary. Course run through North Sydney Community Centre and conducted by Christina Mimmocchi. Cost: $180/$135
We celebrate the songs of the great songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen with the return of Choir on a Wire (a nod to his famous song "Bird on a Wire" which started here back in 2007).
Part-choir, part joyous singalong, this course will bring together people from all walks of life who love to sing Cohen's wonderful songs that celebrate life and love and laughter.
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Newcastle & Hunter Valley Folk Club Virtual Floor Spot
We can’t have in-person “Come All Ye” but that doesn’t mean we can’t connect.
The idea is to do something as if you are performing for a “Come All Ye". We’re not looking for pre-recorded and edited videos, or videos done for promotional purposes. Just use your phone, video camera or laptop.
We want to make it as easy as possible for people to participate and we’re looking for genuine performances.
- Go to our Facebook page and click on the photo/video icon under the "Create Post" button. Select your video to upload.
- Write a short description in the space about your video. Use the heading ”Come All Ye"
- Your floor spot should appear soon after it has finished uploading.
- Press "Post". That's it!
- "Follow" this Newcastle & Hunter Valley Folk Club Inc. Facebook page so that it appears in your own Facebook news feed.
We’re looking forward to seeing you in a Newcastle & Hunter Valley Folk Club Virtual Floor Spot.
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Covideo Folk Club
The idea is to post self-filmed smart phone videos of folk club-going folkies singing the songs they usually sing at their local folk club - no studio produced videos or videos of gigs or live streaming you have previously recorded. Hopefully this will create an online club which gives some of the feel of those real world folk clubs. Your video should include you providing the title and name of writer (just as you would have done in a real folk club). There are lots of folk club type performances, usually by a single performer, from different parts of the world, it seems, as well as from Australia.
If you'd like to participate, go to our Facebook page and join the group.
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Monday 15 June
Alone Together Choir - 1-2pm. With Christina Mimmocchi. Go to web site for info.
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SongsOnLine Songwriters/OpenMic - 7-10.30pm. Zoom session. Facebook event. Acts so far: Jo Kerr, John Maddox, Kenneth D'Aran, Russell Neal (host). Contact Russell Neal for more information or to book in to play.
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Choir on a Wire - 7-10.30pm. Week 4 of a 9 week course. With Christina Mimmocchi.
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Figgy Folk Session - 7.30pm. Neil Rowsell invites you to the next scheduled Zoom meeting. Meeting ID: 812 1672 2177. Password: 450117. 7.30pm Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney. (Don't forget to Like & Follow the Figgy Folk Session on Facebook to see the latest videos, posts, photos & session write-ups.)
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Bloomsday Sydney & Melbourne - from 8am. 'The Story of Ulysses' podcast, Sydney. In Melbourne from 8am, a series of short films.
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Irish music online group lesson - by Edel McBride, Email for more info.
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Classic Massive Singlet - 8pm. Bookings (& donations). The classic singlet, the first singlet, the purest singlet. this week, I sense the volition to lighten the mood and get our apparatus moving, so with our regular and very special guests, Jack Fitzgerald Sice and Naomi Cooper, we offer you “Higher Ground”, by Stevie Wonder, with possible specially constructed high tech outro involving “stop-what’s that sound” . . . by Buffalo Springfield.
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Australian Spectrum Show - 9pm-midnight. Alive 90.5FM with Ross M Fear.
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Wednesday 17 June
World Music Singing for Mums & Bubs, 9am. Presented by Miriam Lieberman
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Australian Songwriters Association - Wax Lyrical - 7-10.30pm. Zoom session. Facebook event. Acts so far: Lucie Tiger, Peter Granton, Angie Thornton, Jo Kerr, John Maddox, Kenneth D'Aran, Russell Neal (host). Facebook event.
NOTE: Everyone is welcome to play, you don't have to be a member of the ASA. It's a good opportunity to play your original songs!
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The Marais Project - 7pm. A presentation of songs & instrumental interludes from England, France, Italy, Germany & Sweden - for Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Arias by baroque giants, Monteverdi, Handel & Purcell, alongside works by lesser known composers including the 'Swedish Schubert', Carl Michael Bellman, & Marin Marais. A fascinating musical trip across Europe. The Marais Project is: Susie Bishop (soprano, violin), Tommie Andersson (theorbo), Jennifer Eriksson (viola da gamba). $24 - the money goes to the musicians. Bookings.
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Classic Folk - 9-10pm, 2NURFM, with Phil Bates and Jane Klein.
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Historian Mark Dunn - 6-7pm. descended from convicts who settled in the region, has written a book about the fascinating but often brutal colonial history of the Hunter Valley, with stories about convicts, white settlers & the Aboriginal clans who were uprooted, & forced to fight back against the relentless march of settlement. This will be a virtual event via Zoom. FREE - Everyone Welcome. Please register here, to be sent the Zoom meeting details.
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Massive Singlet (Kid's edition) - 7pm. This is becoming a delightful club . . . but you’re very welcome to join us! The one where you need to be accompanied by a minor, or where they can even be unaccompanied by you. best, we think, for the 7-13 year old age group: songs, clapping games from samoa, some bits where the kids have to make up things, a chance for the kids to show their musical skills . . . and crazy dancing to finish! Bookings (& donations).
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SongsOnLine Songwriters/OpenMic - 7-10.30pm. Zoom session. Facebook event. Acts so far: Gia Clarissa, Jo Kerr, Kenneth D'Aran, Russell Neal, John Chesher (host). Email Russell Neal or go to his Facebook page for more information or to book in to play.
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Corona Choir - 7.30-9pm. Week 8 of 9. Presented by Rob Bullen.
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Massive Singlet (Ukelele edition) - 9pm. Taberner dares, once again, as an idiot savant of the instrument, to show his own particular ideas about ukulele strumming and non conventional but entirely logical nomenclature. we will SING SONGS . . . a new one each week, and then a reprise of last week’s song. the homework can be found on the webpage, the pleasure of collectively exploring the infinite variety of possibilities of this silly, lovely instrument is growing by the week . . . (all welcome, but helpful if you already know 6 or 8 chords). Bookings.
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Friday 19 June
World Music Singing for Mums & Bubs - 9am. Presented by Miriam Lieberman
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Friday Lunchtime Online Choir - 12.30-2pm. Week 6 of 8. Course presented by Mary Kiani.
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SongsOnLine Songwriters/OpenMic - 11am-1pm. Zoom session. Facebook event. Acts so far: Michael Marker, Shawn Lawrie, Maggie Huang, Musique A Deux, John Maddox, Kenneth D'Aran, Russell Neal (host). Contact Russell Neal for more information or to book in to play or just to listen!
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Worldwide Folk - 2-4pm, VOX FM 106.9, with Roger Fyfe for Illawarra Folk Club.
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Easy Songs in Language - 8pm. Christina Mimmocchi is teaming up with Darlene Proberts ('Darlene Sings the Divas') to present a Zoom session on easy songs in Language. It’s mainly for UK choirs & singers (who may not have heard these before, or even have heard the words “Wiradjuri” & “Yolungu” before!) but everyone is welcome to join in. Click here to join in the Zoom session. Enquiries to Christina.
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Massive Spooky Singlet - 8pm. The men gather, the men, clear their throats, they adjust their rufflets and codpieces. And they SING. And you . . . sing with them. This will be the last spooky singlet for a wee while, and there will certainly be a larger contingent than previously, so, accordingly, we really will be, this time, in a bigger, nicer room. Bookings.
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Sunday 21 June
SongsOnLine Songwriters/OpenMic - 10am-1pm. Zoom session. Facebook event. Acts so far: Peter Granton, Michael Marker, Musique A Deux, Jo Kerr, John Maddox, Russell Neal (host)
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Whirled Wide - 1pm, Fine Music 102.5 FM, with Linda Marr.
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SongsOnStage - 2-5pm. At Cocina del Barrio, 526 King St, Newtown. Facebook event. Acts so far: Peter Granton, Usha & Giddy, John Wright, Allan Crew, Jo Kerr, John Maddox, Kenneth D'Aran, Russell Neal (host). Email Russell Neal or go to his Facebook page for more information or to book in to play.
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Ange Takats Live Streaming Concert - 8pm. Ange Takats, Australian-born folkstress, will be singing from her spare room in Hampshire in the English countryside It will be the 11th weekly concert the award-winning troubadour has performed since lockdown began in the UK & you can expect lots of audience interaction in between heartfelt folk songs - as well as a few unexpected duets with her husband Pete! Every Sunday, 8pm Sydney-time on her Facebook page.
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Folkmail is issued as a service to members of the Folk Federation of NSW Inc. If you are receiving it, and are a lapsed member, or not a member at all:
1. Please consider joining/rejoining. Details
2. Support folk music in NSW by 'attending' some of these events!
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