FOLK PROJECT FALL 2003 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE – v10 – 10/5/03

CONCERT HALL / NATURE LODGE / PROGRAM LODGE / BEAVER LODGE / OUTSIDE/ELSEWHERE
FRIDAY
8:30 / CONCERT: emcee: Mike Agranoff  8:30 – 8:55: Dave Cornell  9:00 - 9:40: Wood’s Tea Company 
9:45 - 10:10: Cynthia Summers  10:15 - 10:55: Guy Van Duser 
11:25 / DANCE 11:25-1:15
Beverly Smith & Grand Picnic / ROUND ROBIN
George Otto / SONG SWAP
[Learned or Penned] / OLD TIMEY JAM

SATURDAY

730 / 7:30AM Yoga Liz Pagan
8:30 – 9:30 / BREAKFAST IN DINING HALL
(Food service ends 9:15)
9:35 – 10:30 / Beatles, A to Zed
Dave Kleiner / Looking at Lyrics Cynthia Summers
10:35 –11:30 / Playing By Ear Guy Van Duser / Promoting Your Performing Career
Howard Wooden / Hot Squares
Beverly Smith & Grand Picnic / Electronic Toys for Acoustic Music
Pat Hickey / Frog Hunt
(ages 4-12)Camp Staff [Meet on Porch]
11:35 12:30 / A Mighty Wind Woods Tea Co. / Finding Harmony
Pat Humphries & Sandy O. / Music for International Dance Amy Ksir / Songwriting Is Easy! Dana & Joe
12:30 – 1:30 / LUNCH IN DINING HALL
(Food service ends 1:15) /
Boating
1:00 – 5:00
1:35 – 2:30 / Electric Jam
Dave Sherman / Group Songwriting Howard Wooden / International Dance
Anne Bies / Acting Games
Roger Kintish
2:35 – 3:30 / Shape Note Singing
John Redman / Keep on Singing Loudly
Pat Humphries & Sandy O. / Rhythm Circle
Wendy Keilin / Basic Fiddle Improvisation
Chip Chase / Ultimate Frisbee
Tim Weinrich
[Ball Field]
3:35 – 4:30 / Doo Wop
Larry Dietrick / Fingerstyle Arrangements in Real Time
Guy Van Duser / Writing a Contra Tune
Grand Picnic / Resonator WhistleRusty Jacobs /
Archery
Camp Staff
[Archery Range]
4:35 – 5:30 / Skit Setup / How the Voice Works
Cynthia Summers / Cool Contras
Beverly Smith & Grand Picnic / Crossing the Boundaries
Mike Lussen /
Ridge Hike
Camp Staff
[Meet on Porch]
5:30 – 6:30 / DINNER IN DINING HALL
(Food service ends 6:15)
6:30 / Themes in a Hat: A musical game with After Dinner Mints and host Mike Agranoff [Dining Hall Porch]
7:15 / CONCERT: emcee: Scooter  7:15 - 7:55: Guy Van Duser  8:00 - 8:25: Dana Cooke & His Band Joe
8:30 - 9:10: Pat Humphries and Sandy O.
9:30 / SKIT: “Lakeside Story” written by Jean Rohe and Mara Picca
10:30 / DANCE 10:30-12:30
Beverly Smith & Grand Picnic / ROUND ROBIN
hosted by Jim West / ROUND ROBIN
free form / OLD TIMEY JAM
(Dining Hall)
SUNDAY
8:30 - 9:30 / BREAKFAST IN DINING HALL
(Food service ends 9:15)
9:35 – 10:30 / Humor in Song David Cornell / Finger-Picking for the Non-Fingerpicker
Pat Hickey / 9:30– 10:55
Gospel
Margaret Crowl
11:00 – 12:25
Nothing But Contras Beverly Smith & Grand Picnic /
Ridge Hike
Camp Staff
[Meet on Porch]
10:35 – 11:30 / Maintaining a Bal-anced Road Life
Woods Tea Co. / Songwriting from Inside Out
Pat Humphries & Sandy O. / Alternative Uses for the Banjo
Dana & Joe / Boating
10:30-12:30 / Tie-Die
[in Craft Lodge]
11:00 – 12:25]
11:35 – 12:30 / Fingerpicking Sousa
Guy Van Duser / Crossing the Boundaries
Mike Lussen / Winter Solstice Singing Ritual
Stasa Morgan-Appel
12:30 - 1:30 / LUNCH IN DINING HALL
(Food service ends 1:15)
1:30 / Clean up, and pack up. ! ! ! MUST BE OUT OF CABINS BY 2:00 ! ! !
2:00 / CONCERT: emcee: Liza DiSavino  2:00 – 2:40: Pat Humphries and Sandy O.  2:45 – 3:10: Pat Hickey  3:15 - 4:00: Wood’s Tea Company

FOLK PROJECT SPRING FESTIVAL WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOPS ON MUSICAL TECHNIQUE OR INSTRUMENT
Alternative Uses for the Banjo. [Dana Cooke & Joe Cleveland] Adapting the banjo to an array of musical styles—fun for the entire family!
Basic Fiddle Improvisation [Chip Chase] Scales, arpeggios, and chord structure for making it up as you go along.
Electronic Toys for Acoustic Music [Pat Hickey] Making use of devices like music loopers, delays, overdrives and the Ebow.
Finding Harmony [Pat Humprhreis & Sandy O.] Expand your knowledge or come as a beginner and experience creative harmonizing. Breathing, warm up exercises, and, of course, listening.
Finger-Picking for the Non-Fingerpicker [Pat Hickey] How to get your thumb to go one way while the fingers are going someplace else.
Fingerpicking Sousa [Guy Van Duser] Arranging unusual pieces for guitar. Advanced (or just curious).
Fingerstyle Arrangements In Real Time [Guy Van Duser] The improvisational side of fingerstyle guitar. Advanced.
Group Songwriting [Howard Wooden] Writing a song en masse.
Humor in Song [David Cornell] Funny songs, their writing and delivery. This will be a teaching workshop, not a song swap.
How the Voice Works [Cynthia Summers] A general understanding about the mechanism of the voice can be very helpful, even to us folkies.
Looking at Lyrics [Cynthia Summers] Looking at the interplay between the lyric and the underlying melody.
Playing By Ear [Guy Van Duser] Those notes are in there someplace. All levels of players.
Songwriting from Inside Out [Pat Humprhreis & Sandy O.] Warm-up and creativity exercises to cultivate a playful relationship with words and melody and help you to be open to the songs within you.
Songwriting Is Easy! [Dana Cooke & Joe Cleveland] Or at least a lot easier than some people make it look. How to avoid tying yourself in knots.
Writing a Contra Tune [Grand Picnic] What makes a good tune and how to compose one.
WORKSHOPS ON A PARTICULAR TOPIC OR STYLE OF MUSIC
A Mighty Wind [Woods Tea Company] The folk boom of the ‘60’s: Was it a mighty wind or just blowin’ in the wind?
Beatles A to Zed (continued) [Dave Kleiner] Continuing our alphabetical odyssey through the Beatles’ works.
Doo Wop [Larry Dietrick] Word sheets provided.
Gospel [Margaret Crowl] Our traditional Sunday morning session.
Keep on Singing Loud [Pat Humprhreis & Sandy O.] Music that has informed and propelled social justice movements of the past and present.
Music for International Dance [Amy Ksir] Learn the tunes for the following International Dance session.
Resonator Whistle [Rusty Jacobs] How to make a device to attach to a whistle to increase its volume and add an echo chamber. Some materials will be supplied.
Rhythm Circle [Wendy Keilin] Group creation of complex rhythms by body movement.
Shape Note Singing [John Redman] The glorious vocal music of 18th and 19th century America.
Themes in a Hat [Mike Agranoff] A musical game for people who like to sing.
Winter Solstice Singing Ritual [Stasa Morgan-Appel] Songs for Winter Solstice.
DANCE WORKSHOPS
Cool Contras [Beverly Smith & Grand Picnic]
Hot Squares [Beverly Smith & Grand Picnic]
International Dance [Anne Bies]
Nothing But Contras [Beverly Smith & Grand Picnic]
LATE NIGHT GROUP MUSIC SESSIONS
Jams [Unmoderated] Primarily instrumental music jam. Almost everyone plays together.
Round Robins [Moderated] All present may in turn sing a song, in some cases request a song, or pass. A moderator keeps things going.
Songwriter Session [Unmoderated] A session focusing on participants doing their own material.
NON-MUSICAL WORKSHOPS
** Archery [Camp Staff] Your could be the next Robin Hood.
** Acting Games [Roger Kintish] Charades, Improv, etc.
Crossing the Boundaries [Mike Lussen] A symposium on the place for social, sexual and political humor in a folk performance.
** Frog Hunt [Camp Staff] This time the frogs will hunt humans.
Maintaining a Balanced Road Life [Woods Tea Company] Sharing anecdotes and experiences about life on the road and the techniques they have developed to prevent road rage.
Promoting your Performing Career [Howard Wooden] Strategies and tips for finding your audience and developing promotional materials.
** Ridge Hike [Camp Staff] .
**Tie-Die [Camp Staff] Bring a shirt or other clothing article to tie-die.
Ultimate Frisbee [Tim Weinrich] Play hard, play fair, nobody hurt, everybody tired. No children under 13, please.
Yoga [Liz Pagan] A little stretching before breakfast does wonders for Festival sleep deprivation. Mats welcome.

** Family-oriented activity

ALL WORKSHOPS ARE OF A TEACHING, SHARING, OR OTHERWISE LARGELY PARTICIPATORY NATURE