FolkMADS Calendar and Notes
September - October 2006 Volume 9, Issue 5
P.O. Box 40421, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87196-0421
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 $6 for members, $7 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 Saturday, contra dances. 2nd Sunday Elegant English and Zesty Contra Dance, 7:00-9:30 p.m., $6/$7. Locations 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.
ABQ Megaband: Albuquerque Megaband practice is held at the Blue Dragon Coffee House, 1517 Girard NE, Albuquerque, the Tuesday before the 3rd Saturday dance. All acoustic musicians are welcome. 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: Santa Fe Community Band practice at the ODD Fellows Hall on ODD (1st and 3rd) Wednesdays at 7 p.m. (contact Gary Papenhagen, 242-1104, gpap@NOSPAMcybermesa.com). Slow jam on the 2nd Thursday at 7 p.m. at Katherine Bueler & Gary Schiffmiller's house (995-1125). Beginning and experienced musicians all welcome!
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.
News and Announcements
Odd Fellows Hall in Santa Fe, starting at 4:00 p.m. For more information contact: Katherine Bueler & Gary Schiffmiller, schiffmiller@NOSPAMearthlink.net.
4:00 p.m., 509 Aliso Dr. NE, Albuquerque. If you want to help out at the Albuquerque dances, plan on attending this important meeting. For more information, contact Kelly Kellstedt, 266-0051 or Bob Cornish, 255-6037.
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Note the time change for Albuquerque dances. |
One of the most baffling instruments in traditional music is the hammered dulcimer. It’s got great swarms of strings (Peter Esherick’s new dulcimer has 86) that are divided by a couple of bridges at approximately one third of the string length so that whacking a string on one side of the bridge gives a different tone than banging on the same string on the other side of the bridge. Aside from the continued challenges of tuning so many strings, their total force on the instrument is enormous. I calculated the tensile force for a single A string at nearly 100 N (22 lbs). This means the total potential energy in a tuned dulcimer (now there’s an oxymoron!) is roughly equivalent to that in a low yield thermonuclear warhead (another reason dulcimers shouldn’t be allowed on airplanes).
Peter introduced me to the music of Ken Kolodner, a really good hammered dulcimer player & fiddler from Baltimore. He plays a varied mix of music including old time, Celtic, and New English/French Candian, and has a number of instructional CDs. His most recent CD, Journey to the Heartland, has a version of Lady of the Lake with Laura Risk on fiddle that is as nice as any I’ve heard.
ABC Notation
X:65
T:Lady of the Lake
M:C
L:1/8
N:From Ken Kolodner, Journey to the Heartland, MM231
N:Transcribed by Bruce Thomson
K:G
|:"G"G,B,DG B2GB|dBGA B2AB|"C"c2cB AGFG|"D"AGFE DCB,A,|
"G"G,B,DGB2GB|dBGA B2AB|"C"cdcB AGFE|[1D "D"G2F"G"G2B,A,:|[2D"D"G2F"G"G2Bc||
|:"G"dcBd g2g2|"Am"edcea2a2|"D"f2fg fedf|"A7"ed^ce"D"d2B=c|
"G"dcBdg2g2|"Am"edcea2a2|"D"f2fe dcAF|[1G"G"BAFG2Bc:|[2G"G"BAFG2B,A,|]
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!!