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
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
O'Leno State
Park -
http://www.suwanneebanjocamp.com/index.htm
Sawgrass Youth Workshop
March 2012
Paynes Prairie State Preserve
http://www.nettally.com/fiddler/sawgrass.htm
April
Florida
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
http://folkfiddle.com/barber.htm
May
Georgia
String Band Festival
May 11-12, 2012
Calhoun, GA
Memorial Day Weekend, May 2012
http://www.floridastateparks.org/folkfest/
Fiddle
Contest
and Camping Registration - register by May 20th!
Fiddle Contest Guidelines
(in conjunction
with Florida Folk Festival above) -
(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
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
please email kayvan@nettally.com
REGULAR
Beginners Session every Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m., and
a
"Learning Irish Music" Session every 2nd Sunday at McSwiggins
Pub in
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
The Frog and
The Hummingbird Café & Butterfield’s Roadhouse
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:
Directions: from I-75 go West on SR 24; Turn South (left) on
Phone 352-495-2243 - Mostly old-time but can be very ecclectic
and varies from week to week. Always fun.
Traditional
Irish music sessions at Paddy O'Learys in
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
700 NE 10th Street
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)
Every 2nd Friday of each
month,
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/
·
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.