Folk Events: Who's Where in the Greater Washington, Dc Area

FOLK EVENTS: WHO'S WHERE IN THE GREATER WASHINGTON, DC AREA

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FSGW Folklore Society of Greater Washington; www.fsgw.org

BFMS Baltimore Folk Music Society; www.bfms.org 410-366-0808

SFMS Susquehanna Folk Music Society; www.sfmsfolk.org

SAW Songwriters Association of Washington; www.saw.org

s/s Singer-songwriter

+ In dance listings: caller + musicians

In list of artists, indicates performing together

+ In list of artists, indicates performing separately

UUCh Unitarian Universalist Church

IMT Institute of Musical Traditions

HMT House of Musical Traditions

BEN Benefit event

ResReq Reservations required

S/O Sold out

* later night of a multi-night event

< always confirm with venue >

Saturday, September 20

R.I.P. Rick Lee

Haas Kowart & Tice 3pm on Brad Kolodner Show on BluegrassCountry.org, 105.5FM

10th Anniversary of National Museum of the American Indian on National Mall; 2014 is 25th anniversary of

creation of the Museum by Congress

H Street Festival 12n-7p along H St. between 4th & 14th Sts, NEDC; incl restaurants, vendors, food trucks,

beer gardens, arts, kidstuff, 10 stages featuring rock, rap, jazz, opera, soul, gospel, Caribbean, etc.;

incl Little Red & the Renegades,

Beckett’s Celtic Festival 12n-7p around 2800 S. Randolph St., Village at Shirlington, Arlington, VA; incl

Pipers, Irish dance, wolfhounds, arts, crafts, food, drink; music; samuelbecketts.com

22nd Annual Bluebird Blues Festival 11am-5pm @ Prince Georges Community College, 301 Largo Rd.,

Largo, MD 20774; incl crafts, vendors, food; music incl Main Stage: 12:30/Fast Eddie & the Slowpokes,

2/Anthony “Swamp Dog” Clark & his Allstars, 3/Nadine Rae & the Allstars, 4/Hardway Connection,

5/The Holmes Brothers; Nap Turner Stage: 12:15/Jeff Scott, 1:15/Barry Lee Pearson blues workshop,

2:15/ Mahajibee Blues, 3:15/Jesi Terrell, 4:15/The Jewels; free

Bluemont Fair SatSun throughout Bluemont, VA, along Rt.734, from Rt.760 & 734 (Snickersville, Pike);

arts, crafts, vendors, food, kidstuff, music; $5/freeunder10; Sat incl 11/The Stewart Sisters, 2/Andrew

McKnight, 3/Stringfishers [Scott Malyszka, Tom Bodine & Marcy Cochran];

Sun Incl 1/Scrub Pines bluemontfair.org

Maryland Renaissance Festival SatsSuns 10am-7pm @ Revel Grove, 1821 Crownsville Rd., Annapolis, MD

21401; incl food & drink, drama, kidstuff, vendors, arts, crafts, music, dance; incl Brinjal, Cag & Fiddle

Morris, Crannog, Cu Dubh, Dileab Phriseil (Precious Heritage), Bob & Sue Esty, the Ditty family, Fol de

Rol, Abby Green, harper Kristin Rebecca, Darcy Nair, The O’Danny Girls, Painted Trillium, Pyrates

Royale, Renaissance Revelers (madrigals), Maggie Sansone, Wolgemut; A Scottish Weekend;

marylandrenaissancefestival.com

Appalachian Festival ThFriSat @ Frostburg State University & other Frostburg venues; Saturday 10a-6p on

FSU Upper Quad includes Bluegrass Rangers, Highland Grass, Lonesome Highway, Garrett Highlands

Pipes & Drums, Davis & Elkins Appalachian Dance Ensemble, Grand Ole’ Ditch, Ole Pitch w/Joe Duffey

Dance Company, Bear Hill Bluegrass, Marv Ashby & High Octane, Community Hoedown w/the

Barnstormers; Frostburg Arion Band, Jason Twigg & Fritz Kessler, Cory & Heather Wharton, The Time

Travelers, Ray Owen, Michael & Carrie Kline, Brad & Ken Kolodner, Twang!, Jay Smar, Loretta Hummel

& Robert Broadwater, Sparky & Rhonda Rucker; http://www.frostburg.edu/events/afestival/

+ 7:30 pm Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Band @ Palace Theatre, 31 E. Main St., Frostburg, MD;

$18/15.30FSUstaff/5FSUstdt

Fredericksburg Welsh Festival, 900 block Charles St., in front of James Monroe Museum, Fredericksburg,

VA; music incl Iona, Moch Pryderi, Jodee James, Cindy Roser, Sian Frick, Stafford Regional Choral

Society, Rappahannock Colonial Heritage Society Dancers; Welsh culture incl kidstuff, language, telling,

Genealogy, vendors, etc.; welshfred.com

The Great Frederick Fair, 797 E. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701; today the Community Tent features:

Todd C Walker, The Gravy Soppers, Jeff Taulton, Second Hand Ramblers, Paul Ivey & John Sines, Trix E

Black, Scott Barrett Band, Shawn Johnson, Patrick Post & Craig Donovan, Safe Harbor

10:00 am >11a Silver Creek, country/Hawaiian/ragtime/fiddle band @ Howard Avenue Park, across from

MARC Train Station, Kensington, MD

1:00 pm >5 blues jam @ Archie’s Barbershop, 4701 Queensbury Rd., Riverdale Park, MD 20737

1:00 pm Steve Earle, solo acoustic – all ages matinee @ Rams Head Onstage, 33 West St., Annapolis,

MD; $49.50; ramsheadonstage.com

1:15 pm Steven Gellman part of DC VegFest 11a-6p @Yards Park, N & 1st Sts., SEDC

2:00 pm Wicked Olde @ The Winery at La Grange, 4970 Antioch Rd., Haymarket, VA 20169

2:30 pm >5 Gentle English Dance @ St. Mark’s on the Hill Hall, 1620 Reisterstown Rd., Pikesville, MD

21208; Bob Farrall + Emily Aubrey/fln, Robin Wilson/conc/fl, Ben Hobbs/pno

3:00 pm >8 – 24th Annual Rappahannock Riverfest @ Farley Vale Farm, 12475 Farley Vale Dr., King

George, VA 22485; crab feast, BBQ, auctions, boat rides, etc; music incl Bob Gramann, Laurie

Rose Griffith & Peter Mealy, Dixie Power Trio, Acoustic Onion; adv res req $90.

riverfriends.org

4:30 pm Alligator Pears [Eleanor Ellis, Pearl Bailes & Eric Selby] @ JV’s, 6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls

Church, VA 22042

+9:15 Flat Foot Sam & the Educated Fools

5:30 pm FSGW doo-wop sing in Bethesda, MD; fsgw.org

6:00 pm Petar Maric, award-winning accordionist from Serbia @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, NH

Ave. & F St., NWDC; free; kennedy-center.org in coop. w/Serbian Embassy

6:30 pm Scott Sivakoff, Laurence Baer, Kathleen Stanley, host Joseph Isaacs f/Music

Matters Showcase @ Mad City Coffee House, 10801 Hickory Ridge Rd, Columbia MD 21044;

donations; 410-964-8671; www.josephisaacs.com - BEN homeless

7:00 pm Slaid Cleaves + Mary Gordon Hall opens for FocusMusic @ St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 8531

Riverside Rd., Alexandria Va 22308; $15/18; focusmusic.org

7:00 pm Max Honn & friends @ Beans in the Belfry, 122 W. Potomac St., Brunswick, MD

7:00 pm Craig Rosendale @ Ayse Meze in Everedy Square, 6 N. East St., Frederick, MD

7:00 pm Annapolis Contras @ Annapolis Friends Meeting Hall, 351 Dubois Rd., Annapolis, MD; $10;

Anna Rain + Callithump [Andrew Marcus/kybds, David Knight/fid, Glyn Collinson/bzki/gtr];

6:30 lesson; 443-540-0867 or contradancers.com/atds

7:00 pm Lancaster Contras @ St. John’s Episcopal Church, 321 W. Chestnut t., Lancaster, PA; $9/6mem;

Bob Nicholson + Almond Collective [Eileen Nicholson/fid, Rachel Bell/acc, Jill Smith/pno];

Beginners workshop 6:15; lancastercontra.org

7:30 pm * The Wailin’ Jennys @ The Birchmere, 3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria, VA; $39.50

SOLD OUT

7:30 pm Larry Stephenson Band for Weekend Bluegrass @ Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 1090 Sterling

Rd., Herndon, VA 20170; $15

7:30 pm FSGW/VITG storyswap, Springfield, VA; RSVP: ; fsgw.org

7:30 pm North Sea Gas @ Carroll County Arts Center, 91 W. Main St., Westminster, MD 21157;

$18/16CCACmem-teens-sr.; CarrollCountyArtsCouncil.org

7:00 pm Exploring Indian Dance w/Natyabhoomi School of Dance, Lasya Dance Academy, Nrityalaya @

Strathmore CityDance Studio/Education Room, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, No. Bethesda, MD;

$20/18mem; Strathmore.org

7:30 pm Creole Gumbo Jazz Band @ Westlawn Inn, 9200 Chesapeake Ave., North Beach, MD

7:30 pm Leesburg Assembly Dance @ St. Francis Episcopal Church, 9220 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls,

VA; Susan Taylor + Catherine Chapman & Judy Meyers; theleesburgassembly.org

8:00 pm Brother Sun [Greg Greenway, Joe Jencks, Pat Wictor] for FSGW @ Washington Ethical Society,

7750 16th St., NWDC 20012; $20/15mem; fsgw.org

8:00 pm Steven Gellman @ St. Elmo’s, 2300 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria Va

8:00 pm John Lyon @ The Limerick Pub, 11301 Elkin St., Wheaton, MD

8:00 pm Mary Ann Redmond band @ Flanagan’s Harp & Fiddle, 4844 Cordell Ave., Bethesda, MD

8:00 pm Gina DeSimone & the Moaners @ New Deal Café, 113 Centerway, Roosevelt Center,

Greenbelt, MD

8:00 pm Deanna Bogart Band @ BlackRock Center, 12901 Town Commons Dr., Germantown, MD; $42

8:00 pm Michelle Swan @ Frederick Coffee, 100 N. East St., Frederick, MD

8:00 pm Albert Castiglia & Damon Fowler, blues @ Rams Head Onstage, 33 West St., Annapolis, MD;

$23.50; ramsheadonstage.com

8:00 pm Sturgeon City (Richmond stringband) @ Ashland Coffee & Tea, 100 N. Railroad Ave., Ashland,

Va $10/13

8:00 pm Naked Blue + Bryan Russo in Stoltz Listening Room @ Avalon Theatre, 40 E. Dover St.,

Easton, MD; $20; 410-810-7299

8:00 pm Baltimore Square Dance in Mobtown Ballroom, 861 Washington Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21230;

Shane Knudsen + Coracree String band [Jane Rothfield, Bill Quern, Sarah Gowan, Alan Carr];

$10/7

8:30 pm Damion Wolfe @ Killarney House, 584 W. Central Ave., Davidsonville, MD

9:00 pm On the Bus (Grateful Dead tribute band) @ The Opera House Live, 131 W. German St.,

Shepherdstown, WV 25443; $10; operahouselive.com

9:01 pm The U-Liners @ Quarry House Tavern, 8401 GA Ave., Silver Spring, MD

9:01 pm *Brendan’s Voyage @ The Dubliner, 4 F St., NWDC

Sunday, September 21

Fiesta DC parade 10a-1p along Constitution Ave. from 7th to 14th Sts., NWDC; festival along PA Ave. from

9th to 14th Sts., NW; incl 5 music stages, performers from Spain, S.America, Caribbean, area; food, arts,

Crafts, vendors; free; fiestadc.org

Maryland Renaissance Festival SatsSuns 10am-7pm @ Revel Grove, 1821 Crownsville Rd., Annapolis,

MD 21401; incl food & drink, drama, kidstuff, vendors, arts, crafts, music, dance; incl Bayfield Brass,

Brinjal, Cat & Fiddle Morris, Crannog, Cu Dubh, Dileab Phriseil (Precious Heritage), the Ditty family,

Fol de Rol, Abby Green, harper Kristin Rebecca, Darcy Nair, the O’Danny Girls, Painted Trillium,

Pyrates Royale, Renaissance Revelers (madrigals), Maggie Sansone, Wolgemut; The US Naval Academy

Pipes & Drums for A Scottish Weekend; marylandrenaissancefestival.com

First Annual Outdoor Irish Inn Music Festival 12n-6p in front parking lot, Tulane & MacArthur, Glen Echo,

MD; Lilt + Irish Inn Mates w/Culkin School Irish Dancers + 19th Street band + outdoor bar & grill

Apple Harvest Festival @ Jim Barnett Park, Winchester, VA, incl 12:30/Andrew McKnight

Fort Hunter Day 10a-5p At Fort Hunter Park, 5300 N. Front St., Harrisburg, PA, incl area folk musicians,

Carriage rides, hayrides, 18th & 19th century life, live music, crafts;

12:00 n +1pm The Seldom Scene @ National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, 7th St. & Constitution

Ave., NWDC; free

12:00 n Eleanor Ellis, Jay Summerour & Eric Selby part of Artsfest @ Annmarie Garden Arts Center,

13480 Dowell Rd., Dowell/Solomons, MD 20629

+12n Steven Gellman annmariegarden.org

1:00 pm The Harlem Gospel Choir for gospel brunch @ The Howard Theatre, 620 T St., NWDC; $35/45;

Doors 11:30; Thehowardtheatre.com

1:00 pm Bluegrass jam @ Frying Pan Park, 2709 W. Ox Rd., Herndon, VA; 703-437-9101; (1st, 3rd Suns)

1:00 pm >5 Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Showcase @ Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

Conference Center, 145 Ednam Dr., Charlottesville, VA; free; folk masters & apprentices, incl

The Holmes Brothers, Flory Jagoda, Family of Praise (Richmond gospel), Danny Knicely and

Billy Baker, Linda & David Lay w/Randy Cook; quilts, beekeeping, chairs, tools, foods,

oysters; virginiafolklife.org

3:00 pm The Rigatoni Brothers [Paul Oorts/mand, Gina Faber/mand, Jay Benforado/gtr] play music of

20th century Italian immigrants to America for Italian Cultural Society Meeting @ Friendship

Heights Village Center, 4433 S. Park Ave.,. Chevy Chase, MD

3:00 pm Old time jam @ Beans in the Belfry, 122 W. Potomac St., Brunswick, MD

3:30 pm waltz w/Blue Bamboo [Elke Baker/vln, Barbara Heitz/fl, Ralph Gordon/bs, John Devine/gtr,

Marc Glickman/pno] in Spanish Ballroom, Glen Echo Park, MD; $10; waltztimedances.org

4:00 pm Washington Metropolitan Accordion Society concert: jazz accordionists Frank Petrilli & Eddie

Monteiro @ Sleepy Hollow United Methodist Church, 3435 Sleepy Hollow Rd., Falls Church,

VA; $8 non-member donation; washingtonaccordions.org

4:00 pm >7 Songwriters Songfest @ Frederick Coffee Co., N. 100 East St., Frederick MD; 301-698-0039;

Eli Staples + Justin Trawick;

6:00 pm Carpe Diem monthly sing + potluck supper in Sligo Creek Park, between Colesville & Wayne on

Bennington Dr., Silver Spring, MD; [rain site Washington Revels office; theme: fall equinox

7:00 pm Salif Keita, West African, acoustic @ Lisner Auditorium, 21st & H Sts., NWDC; $45-85;

Lisner.gwu.edu

7:31 pm Shovels & Rope + John Fullbright @ 930 Club, 815 V St., NWDC; SOLD OUT

7:00 pm Ayreheart + Lisa Moscatiello + Rachel Levitin for Tree of Life Concert @ Rockville U U

Church, 100 Welsh Park Dr., Rockville, MD; $15/10stdts

7:00 pm Dustbowl Revival @ Bright Box Theatre, 15 N. Loudoun St., Winchester, VA; $10/15;

brightboxwinchester.com

7:30 pm FSGW Squares & Contras @ Bumper Car Pavilion, Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd,

Glen Echo, Md; $13/10/5under18; Janine Smith + Charm City Junction [Brad Kolodner/bjo,

Sean McComiskey/acc, Patrick McAvinue/fid, Alex Lacquement/bs]

Monday, September 22

Front Country 4:30pm on Lee Michael Demsey Show, BluegrassCountry.org, 105.5FM

6:00 pm Linwood Taylor Band for Blue Monday @ Westminster Church, 400 I St, SWDC; $5; 202-484-

7700, westminsterdc.org

7:00 pm Irish Inn Mates @ The Irish Inn, Tulane Ave. & MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, MD

7:15 pm Songwriter Showcase @ Brewers Alley, 124 N. Market St, Frederick, MD; pianist Ray Jozwiak

+ feat. Terri Bocklund + cameos Wally Horsley, Hayley Fahey, Craig Donovan; regulars

Todd C Walker, Rod Deacey, John Holly, others

7:30 pm Jimmy Gaudreau & Orrin Star for IMT @ Saint Mark Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old

Georgetown Rd., Rockville, MD; $15/20/stdtdiscs; imtfolk.org

8:00 pm Brian Gaffney & Brendan Mulvihill lead session @ O’Connell’s, 112 King St., Alex, VA

[8:00 pm Matthew & Gunnar Nelson remember their dad, Ricky Nelson @ Rams Head Onstage, 33 West

St., Annapolis, MD; $49.50; ramsheadonstage.com]

8:00 pm BFMS English Country Dance @ St Mark's on the Hill, 1620 Reisterstown Rd, Pikesville Md;

$11/8/stdtdisc; April Blum + Edie Stern/vln, Robin Wilson/fl/conc, Judy Meyers/pno

8:30 pm Dale Watson & the Lonestars + openers Amber Digby, Cactus Blossoms @ Gypsy Sally’s, 3401

K St., NWDC; $15/20

Tuesday, September 23

6:00 pm Tri Minh’s Quartet (zither, bamboo mouth harp, pno, vocals from Hanoi) @ Kennedy Center

Millennium Stage, NH Ave. & F St., NWDC; free; kennedy-center.org

6:00 pm Second Hand Ramblers @ Ayse Meze in Everedy Square, 6 N. East St., Frederick, MD

7:00 pm open mic night @ John Strongbow’s Tavern, 710 King St., Alexandria VA

7:00 pm Lipbone Redding, solo guitar/vocal/perc/mouthtrumpet etc. @ New Deal Café, 113 Centerway,