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
March
March 13-14, 2009
Guest of Honor will be Laura Boosinger, "The Songbird of the
Smokies". Laura is a great old time banjoist and singer.
For more information visit FOTMC's website: www.fotmc.org
Suwannee Banjo
O'Leno State Park -
http://www.suwanneebanjocamp.com/index.htm
April
Southern Music Rising Festival
April 17-18, 2009
Download
2009 Flyer & Schedule
Hosted by the Foundation for the Preservation of Historic American Music
Old-Time, Bluegrass, Folk at the Monticello Opera House and other venues, downtown
Monticello, FL.
Concerts, dancing, open mike, all day jam, food & craft vendors, luthiers,
dancing,
childrens' music workshops and storytelling and more!
www.southernmusicrising.com
for schedule & other information.
Old-Time Jam
April 18, 2009
12:30 pm - until?
All levels are welcome - bring an instrument! (Held in conjunction with Southern Music Rising
Festival)
Barberville Spring Frolic
April 25 & 26, 2009
Barberville Pioneer Settlement for the Creative Arts
http://folkfiddle.com/barber.htm
May
Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-25, 2009
http://www.floridastateparks.org/folkfest/
Fiddle
Contest and Camping Registration
Fiddle Contest Guidelines
(in conjunction with Florida Folk
Festival above) -
(See Banjo Contest
Flyer)
October
FSFA Annual Convention!
October 16-18, 2009
O'Leno State Park -
Jamming, dancing, string-band contest, workshops & more!
http://www.nettally.com/fiddler/annualconvention.htm
November
Barberville Fall Jamboree
November, 2009 (dates tba)
Barberville Pioneer Settlement for
the Creative Arts
http://folkfiddle.com/barber.htm
Longleaf Pine Youth Fiddle & Open String Band Contest and
Cane Boil
November, 2009 (dates tba)
Morningside Nature Center, Living
History Farm -
Gainesville,
FL - Phone: 352-334-3326
Email:
weaverl@cityofgainesville.org
Website:
www.natureoperations.org
December
Suwannee Old Time Music Weekend
December
2009 (dates tba)
Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center - White Springs, FL
Special
guest instructors & performers
http://www.fotmc.org/
If you have an annual
please complete this Event Submission Form.
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 Folk / Old-time / Bluegrass Jam
Every Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., at the Atlantis Club
& Grill, 2717 Mahan Drive 850-224-9711
Good
food, generous drink, acoustic fun. Not too fussy about skill levels as
long as its fun. We only ask an ability to tune and to keep a basic
beat! Choice in songs sometimes goes far afield, but usually hovers in
the neighborhood of folk/old time/bluegrass.
Every 2nd Friday of each month,
850-942-7682
or www.tallydancer.com
Atlantis
Club and Grill,
Come
early for dinner specials for pickers (fabulous food) and the owner also offers
drink deals to the musicians.
Picking
gets underway around 7:30 pm and lasts till 11:00 pm.
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
·
Franklin
George Old Time Music Gathering
April 24-25, 2009 -
http://www.thefranklingeorgegathering.com
·
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.