About FSFA

Membership Information

News & Upcoming Events

FSFA Officers

Annual Fiddlers' Convention

Fiddle Links

FSFA now has a Yahoo email group account, where you can receive group emails from
other FSFA members, schedule music events on our calendar, view and post photos from
FSFA events, chat with other members, take polls, and more.
To join this FREE group, send us an email requesting membership to kayvan@nettally.com.
You'll receive an invitation from the group moderator which will allow you to join online.
If you don't already have a free Yahoo account, you'll need to set one up before logging on to our group.
Please note that this group is intended for non-commercial use only.  
Please don't use it for advertising, shameless self-promotion, spam, etc. 
Thank you!


ANNUAL  FLORIDA EVENTS

January
FretMentor 3rd Annual Banjo, Fiddle, Mandolin & Guitar Workshop
January 28-29, 2012
Featuring Fiddle & Mandolin Legend Byron Berline, and Alan Munde and Jim Hurst (guitar/banjo instructors)
Southeast Florida
Website: 
www.fretmentor.com

March
Suwannee Banjo Camp
March 2012
O'Leno State Park -  High Springs, FL
http://www.suwanneebanjocamp.com/index.htm 

Sawgrass Youth Workshop
March 2012
Paynes Prairie State Preserve
http://www.nettally.com/fiddler/sawgrass.htm

April
Florida
Old Time Music Championship (FOTMC)
April 2012
Guestsof Honor: Bill Dillof & Paula Bradley
For more information visit FOTMC's website: www.fotmc.org

4th Annual Southern Music Rising Festival
April 2012

Hosted by the Foundation for the Preservation of Historic American Music
Old-Time, Bluegrass, Folk, Singer/Songwrite music at the Monticello Opera House
and other venues, downtown Monticello, FL.  Concerts, dancing, open mike, jamming,
food & craft vendors, luthiers, dancing, childrens' music workshops and storytelling and more!
www.southernmusicrising.com for schedule & other information.

Barberville Spring Frolic
April 2012

Barberville Pioneer Settlement for the Creative Arts
Barberville, FL 32105 - (386)749-2959
http://folkfiddle.com/barber.htm

May
Georgia String Band Festival
May 11-12, 2012
Calhoun, GA

Florida Folk Festival and Official State Fiddle Contest  (click here to see the 2010 fiddle contest winners!)

Memorial Day Weekend, May 2012
Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center - White Springs, FL
http://www.floridastateparks.org/folkfest/
Fiddle Contest and Camping Registration - register by May 20th!
Fiddle Contest Guidelines

Florida Folk Festival Banjo Contest
(in conjunction with Florida Folk Festival above) - Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center
(See Banjo Contest Flyer)

September
Suwannee Old Time Music Weekend (new dates!)
September 9-11, 2011
Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center - White Springs, FL
Special guest instructors & performers
http://www.nettally.com/fiddler/SOTW.pdf

October
Abbey Horse Festival & Fiddle Contest
October 3, 2011
www.theabbeyhorsefestival.com

FSFA Annual Convention! 
October 14-16, 2011
Otter Springs Campground - Trenton, FL
Jamming, dancing, stringband contest, workshops & more!
http://www.nettally.com/fiddler/annualconvention.htm

CLICK HERE TO SEE SOME GREAT VIDEOS OF MATT BROWN PERFORMING AT THE 2011 ANNUAL CONVENTION!

November
Barberville Fall Jamboree
November 2011
Barberville Pioneer Settlement for the Creative Arts
Barberville, FL  - Phone: (386)749-2959
http://folkfiddle.com/barber.htm

Longleaf Pine Youth Fiddle & Open String Band Contest and Cane Boil
November 2011
Morningside Nature Center, Living History Farm 
Gainesville, FL - Phone: 352-334-3326

Website: http://friendsofnatureparks.org



If you have an annual Florida event you'd like to have listed on our website,
please email kayvan@nettally.com


REGULAR FLORIDA JAMS & EVENTS

Bradenton Irish Music Sessions
Beginners Session every Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m., and a 
"Learning Irish Music" Session every 2nd Sunday at McSwiggins Pub in Bradenton, FL. 
Contact Kevin Hing for more details at dazedinla@yahoo.com 

The Bay Area Fiddlers Association
The Bay Area Fiddlers Association (BAFA) now meets every Friday evening at the Largo Library, located at the Cultural Center. Beginner lesson runs 7:00 to 7:30 PM and the entire group session runs from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM.   About 25 members have been coming to the meetings each time. All fiddlers, folk musicians and guests are sincerely invited to show up for an evening of high spirits and fun tunes.  For more information, call Elan at 727-938-1417, or Joel at 727-321-2379 or contact Denise Herrick at DeniseHerrick@Hotmail.com . Largo is in the Tampa Bay area.

The Frog and The Hummingbird Café & Butterfield’s Roadhouse
118 Municipal Ave. (Corner of Rose St.), Sopchoppy, FL 32358
Phone: 850-962-BLUE  http://upcoming.yahoo.com/maps/1773611
Weekly events – concerts, jams, etc.

Gainesville Half-Fast Jam
Every Tuesday night 8:30 pm-10:30 pm.  Address: 9710 SW 75th Way  Gainesville, FL  32608 
Directions: from I-75 go West on SR 24; Turn South (left) on SW 75th St;  Pass SW 85th Ave and turn Right onto SW 75th Way into Meadows of Kanapaha.  Turn  Right on SW 97th Ave. & it's the  1st driveway on right. 
Phone 352-495-2243 - Mostly old-time but can be very ecclectic and varies from week to week.  Always fun.

Lee County Fiddle Support Group

Meets each Monday evening from 7:00PM to 9:00PM

We welcome all fiddlers and any "back-up" instruments.

We play "old time" style and meet at various members homes.

Please call Frank Dennis for information at 239-542-2066 or e-mail wfdcrd@embarqmail.com.

 

Lee County Wednesday Fiddles

Slow jam for beginning fiddlers.

Meets each Wednesday evening from 7:00PM to 9:00PM.

Call Frank Dennis at 239-542-2066 or e-mail wfdcrd@embarqmail.com

Pensacola Beach Irish Music Session
Traditional Irish music sessions at Paddy O'Learys in Pensacola Beach.
Thursday's around 7:00 p.m.  Call 850-916-9808 for more information.

Pompano Old Time Jam
Every Tuesday night 7:00 pm at Pompano Beach Elks Lodge #1898
700 NE 10th Street
, Pompano Beach, FL 33060

Tallahassee Old Time Jam
Every 3rd Tuesday, 6:30 pm - until.
3686 Woodville Hwy (Frontier Trading Company)
For more info contact Mary (maryallgire@yahoo.com) or Kay (kayvan@nettally.com)

Tallahassee Old Time Dance
Every 2nd Friday of each month, Tallahassee Senior Center, 1400 N. Monroe Street
850-942-7682 or www.tallydancer.com

If you have a jam or event you'd like listed here, please email the details to kayvan@nettally.com


OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST / OUT OF STATE EVENTS

·          Fiddlers from the 1930s - 1940s
A great resource for tunes . . .
Library of Congress Roots Music Listening Room
http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenToLOCFiddlers.htm
 

·         Attention Banjo Players!
Join the Florida Banjo Society's group online at
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/floridabanjosociety/

 

·         Florida State Archives Florida Folklife Program Online
Since 1995 the Florida State Archives has housed the archives of the Florida Folklife program, including all their fieldwork records, photographs, and recordings - including of the Florida Folk Festival (1954-2001) and many of the fiddlers contests. Recently they have have re-described this collection, creating an online database to allow people to research the collection by folk artists, genre [including "old time music," "fiddle music," "bluegrass music," and "stringband music"], title of work, event, or location. We also have placed online thousands of images and some music clips. The main web page for the project is: http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/folklife/. 

There is also a free downloadable CD with samples from the collection: http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/folklife/folklife_cd.cf


AND JUST FOR FUN

The 10 Commandments of Jamming . . .


See FSFA's newsletter, The Florida Fiddler, for a list of regular jams & events, upcoming special events and festivals, and other interesting articles.  If you're not getting our newsletter, you need to Join FSFA!   Membership is only $15 per year, so check it out!

If you have a submission for the the website, send all items to Kay Van Treese, kayvan@nettally.com
or mail to 397 Kim's Lane, Lamont, FL  32336.