FolkMADS Calendar and Notes
September - October 2005 Volume 8, Issue 5
P.O. Box 40421, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87196-0421
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New Mexico Folk Music and Dance Society, a nonprofit organization. |
FolkMADS sponsors Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos contra dances, concerts, camps, and other special events. "Contra" dances include contras, squares, mixers, and couple dances. Unless noted on the calendar otherwise, admission is $5 for members, $6 for nonmembers. You need not come with a partner. Free instruction for beginners starts at 7:30 p.m. Dances begin at 8 p.m. and are smoke-free and alcohol-free. Children and teens are encouraged to participate if supervised by an adult.
Albuquerque Dances 1st and 3rd Saturdays. Location as noted on calendar.
Santa Fe Dances 2nd and 4th Saturday contra dances and 5th Saturday English Country dances. Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Road (south of Cordova Drive on the western side of Cerrillos).
Taos Dances 3rd Saturdays, call for details, 776-1580.
Megaband Practices All musicians welcome.
ABQ Megaband Albuquerque Megaband practice is held at the Blue Dragon Coffee House, 1517 Girard NE,Albuquerque, the Tuesday before the 3rd Saturday dance. Bruce Thomson, 268-6003, or email Jane Phillips (remove "NOSPAM" when emailing) for more info or to be added to the listserv.
Santa Fe Jam Sessions First and third Thursdays, 7:00 p.m., at Katherine Bueler and Gary Schiffmiller's, 924 Osage Ave. 995-1125, for details.
Acoustic Jam 7 p.m. before the Albuquerque dances. All acoustic musicians are welcome and all types of music are played. Call Jay Cutts for more information, 281-0684.
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Thanks to John Arthur!
After six years of maintaining the membership database as a FolkMADS volunteer, John Arthur is turning over the responsibility to Ken Shaw. (A hearty round of applause echoes in the background.) Thank you John, for your faithful efforts!
If you have questions about your membership, you should now contact:
Ken Shaw at (505) 670-9980 in Santa Fe, or click this link to e-mail Ken
Attention
Albuquerque Dancers Please
bring clean shoes to change into at the dance hall. Street
shoes will no longer be allowed on the dance
floor. Thanks
for your cooperation during our time away from the Heights
Community Center.
Bruce Thomson
bthomson@NOSPAMunm.edu (remove NOSPAM when emailing)
Folk Music Resources on the Web
Elliott Rogers (of Elliott's Ramblers & the Adobe Brothers) sent me a link to a web site with the lyrics to a bunch of traditional songs which reminded me we haven't talked about web resources in a while. If you do Google searches using key words like "old time music" you get a million hits, though many are of limited interest. Listed below are some of the best sites in my view. If you've got favorites, let me know.
Name Address Comments Periodicals Old Time Music
Herald Banjo
Newsletter 75%
bluegrass Fiddler
Magazine Fiddle On
Magazine Focus on the
UK Lyrics The Mudcat
Cafe' Best site for
lyrics Max Hunter
Collection 1600 Ozark
Mountain folk songs Tunes & ABC
Software Ceolas One of best sites
for Celtic music Chris
Walshaw Inventor of ABC
notation Hetzlersfakebook.com ~500 tunes in MIDI
format ABC2Win ABC shareware for
PCs Barfly ABC shareware for
Macs General
Old Time Music
Home Page News & links,
directory with 4 names from NM Friends of
American Old-Time Music and Dance Lots of
Links Fiddlers.Org Most links of any
site I've seen
This month's tune is a hambo. We get occasional requests for these and, while the Santa folks play them, I don't know anybody in Albuquerque who does. Hambos are from Scandinavia. They're highly syncopated, written in 3/4 time, and the measures are in groups of 3. In that respect, they're similar to slip jigs. The backup emphasizes the 1 and 3 beats. Elaine's Hambo, by Andrea Hoag, was recorded by Rodney Miller on Airdance.
X:45
T:Elaine's Hambo
M:3/4
L:1/8
R:Hambo
C:Andrea Hoag
N:Rodney Miller's Airdance, GMM2003
N:Transcribed by Bruce Thomson
K:A
|:"A"c2BA2G|A2GF2E|DC2D3|"E"B,2CD2E|F3FG2|"A"E3E3|
"F#m"c2BA2G|A2GF2E|DC2D3|"E"E2FG2A|B2cd3|e3efg|
"A"a2ec2A|"D"d2cdf2|"E"B2AG2A|B2cd2d|"A"dBGA2z|A6:|
|:"D"f2ed2e|f2g"A"a2e|cecA2c|"E"B2AG2A|B2G"A"A3|c3e3|
"D"f2ed2e|f2g"A"a2e|cecA2c|"E"B2AG2A|B2G"A"A2z|A6:|
Archive of featured ABC tunes can be found here.
FolkMADS thanks
The Blue Dragon Coffeehouse, 1517
Girard NE, Albuquerque, for generously hosting the Albuquerque
Megaband practices (on the Tuesday before the 3rd Saturday
dances).
For more information about Megaband, contact Bruce Thomson: 277-4729,
or Jane
Phillips:
898-2565.
Email Jane
to be added to the Megaband listserv (automatic e-mail
reminders).
The
Albuquerque Megaband plays for free each month at the 3rd Saturday
dances in ABQ, helping to keep FolkMADS going.
A big thank you to all the Megaband musicians!!
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Carleigh Hoff, photographed by Merri Rudd at FolkMADness Camp in May 2005, was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma soon after camp. She has been receiving radiation and chemotherapy, and is trying to regain her strength for a bone marrow transplant. Carleigh has been a vibrant, joyful, and frequent dancer at regular contras, 2nd Sunday dances, Boo Camp, and FolkMADness. Why she has been stricken with a terrible and debilitating cancer is a question for the universe to answer. She is a self-supporting artist who needs our help. Donations for Carleigh are being coordinated by Linda Starr (255-6037). Photo by Merri Rudd |
Albuquerque Folk Festival Managers Sought
The Albuquerque Folk Festival is seeking a few good local people with a volunteer spirit and some spare time during 2006 to manage major positions. Especially, right now we need a new Publicity Manager. This person must be a writer, able to produce flyers, press releases and work actively with the media. We also need people to manage vendors, ticket sales, and a possible raffle. If you can help, contact Linda Starr, 505-255-6037. A brunch planning meeting will be occurring at the Frontier Restaurant on Central across from UNM at 11 a.m., Saturday, September 17. Call Linda for more info.
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Albuquerque Dance Location Cheat Sheet |
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Albuquerque
Square Dance Center Dance
Studio
NOTE: Bring clean dance shoes that don't leave black marks.
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