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March 2017
New York Women: Singing for Suffrage
Huxley Theater, New York State Museum
Featuring performers: Dan Duggan, Peggy Lynn, Annie Rosen, Bill Spence, Toby Stover, and George Wilson
With enlightening narrative, and songs that women sang during the suffrage movement between 1848 and 1920, this dynamic 50 minute performance tells the story of the New York women who worked to reform the inequality of women in the new America. From Lucinda Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony to Harriet Stanton Blatch, Carrie Chapman Catt, Inez Milholland and Alice Paul the story of the most innovative and successful non-violent civil rights reform was waged over 72 years.
Produced, directed and compiled by Andy Spence.
An Old Songs Production. © 2016 Old Songs, Inc.
$15
Cajun-Zydeco Dance with Zydeco Connection
Last Saturday of the Month (October–April)
$15 (DFO members $12), All Welcome!
Dance instruction by Ron & Marie Bruschi at 7 pm. Band starts at 8 pm
For more info, call (518) 859-0092 or email Marie.
Saturday, March 25
Zydeco Connection
Saturday, April 29
Planet Zydeco
Sponsored by the DanceFlurry Organization
April 2017
Old Songs Community “Barn” Dance with Fennig’s All-Stars
1st Saturday of the Month (November–May)
Fun, simple dances from the U.S. and around the world. For every age and ability. All dances will be taught and will include circles, contras and squares. Yummy desert potluck during intermission.
$8 per person, children 12 & under are free
Saturday, April 1
Caller: David Kaynor
Music: Fennig’s All-Stars
Caller: David Kaynor
Music: Fennig’s All-Stars
Saturday, May 6
Caller: Bob Nicholson
Music: Spare Parts
Caller: Bob Nicholson
Music: Spare Parts
In partner with Homespun Occasions
$20
Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne
Singer and songwriter Jane Voss works from a broad palette of American Roots Music, moving from one genre or style to another with utter naturalness and ease. Her use of Roots idioms is no gimmick, but rather her native and natural expression, borne of influences and loves dating back to her midwestern childhood.
Ragtime, boogie-woogie, Harlem stride, blues, Latin-American Dance Tunes, and original compositions: Hoyle Osborne plays them all with grace and feeling, eloquence, and a masterful style. He is elegant, but never afraid to get down, sometimes funky, and always soulful.
Partners for more than 25 years, Jane Voss and Hoyle Osborn are a dynamic juxtaposition of tradition and originality; rare old blues and vaudeville songs with their own compositions. According to Sing Out! magazine Jane and Hoyle “created their own hybrid of Bay-area folk-blues and jazz.”
Tickets: $20
$5 Children age 12 & under
Or call Old Songs to reserve: (518) 765-2815.
If online tickets sellout, they may still be available from Old Songs.
Refunds are not available for this event.
Bluegrass Jam Class
Taught by Bob Altschuler using the Wernick Method
5 sessions, tuition $160
Playing music with others is the best activity for getting better on your instrument! Using the tried and true Pete Wernick method, Bob will teach fundamentals of bluegrass jamming and build your confidence in playing with others. The music is slow and easy, and you will quickly gain skills while having fun. And,these skills are transferable to other types of music because they are basic to all types of jamming. All skill levels are welcome, and bringing a recording device is recommended.
- All bluegrass instruments welcome
- No jamming experience necessary
- You will be jamming the first class!
- Friendly, encouraging, knowledgeable teaching.
- Mistakes allowed!
- Singing not required, but encouraged and taught.
- Easy 2 and 3-chord songs, slow speeds.
- Soloing not required! “Faking” solos taught.
For more information contact Bob at 518-475-7926 or arobanjo@aol.com.
Class Dates: April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8
“Forward into Light”
The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library
251 Glen St., Glens Falls, NY
Featuring performers: Greg Artzner, Dan Duggan, Terry Leonino, Peggy Lynn, Annie Rosen, Bill Spence, Toby Stover, Susan Trump and George Wilson
Music on piano, guitar, bass, hammered dulcimer, harmonica and concertina.
A concert of New York State’s hidden history in a performance of authentic songs used to persuade, rally and celebrate as sung by women and men during the American Women’s Suffrage Movement. Songs which range from humorous to poignant, from strident marches to hymns, and popular parlor songs. Through historical narrative and the songs we will tell the story of how American women won the right to vote in 1917 in New York, and 1920 in the nation. forwardintolight.oldsongs.org
Produced, directed and compiled by Andy Spence. An Old Songs Production. © 2016 Old Songs, Inc.
$23
Low Lily
The vocal and string band Low Lily explores the roots and branches of American folk music with traditional influences and modern inspiration that weaves together a unique brand of acoustic music. Liz Simmons (vocals and guitar), Flynn Cohen (vocals, guitar and mandolin), and Lissa Schneckenburger (vocals and fiddle) with Corey DiMario (double bass) are masterful players with deep relationships to traditional music styles ranging from bluegrass to Irish, Scottish, New England and Old Time Appalachian sounds. When you combine this with stellar composition skills and inventive arrangements you get music that is rooted yet contemporary.
Tickets: $23
$5 Children age 12 & under
Or call Old Songs to reserve: (518) 765-2815.
If online tickets sellout, they may still be available from Old Songs.
Refunds are not available for this event.
$15
Zydeco Dance with Planet Zydeco
Last Saturday of the Month (October–April)
$15 (DFO members $12), All Welcome!
Dance instruction by Ron & Marie Bruschi at 7 pm. Band starts at 8 pm
For more info, call (518) 859-0092 or email Marie.
Sponsored by the DanceFlurry Organization
May 2017
Beginners and Beyond Mountain Dulcimer
with Susan Trump
We’ll explore DAD tuning, work on strum directions and left hand fingering. We’ll learn some fiddle tunes, and other repertoire that works well on dulcimer.
For more information contact Susan at 518-357-4018 or susantrump@aol.com.
Class Dates: May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, June 6—Register by April 28
Intermediate Mountain Dulcimer
with Susan Trump
The focus is on repertoire building using a variety of styles, including fiddle tunes, songs, Celtic melodies, waltzes, while learning appropriate picking, or finger picking techniques and fingerings.
For more information contact Susan at 518-357-4018 or susantrump@aol.com.
Class Dates: May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, June 6—Register by April 28