New, delightful, songs each week to learn here and then bring home with you. We’ll include ‘singing for the confidence impaired’ pointers and practices in each session, and coach basic folk instrumental skills. Absolute beginners welcome.
Author Archives: Bennett
“Hootenanny” in Harvard Square
Remember the 60s? Me neither! But relive ’em with us anyway at the “Hootenenny” in the Square, at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge MA, from 2 to 5 PM. www.ccae.org
L&B’s Music Service at First Parish Church Brookline
We conduct our Music Service at our own beautiful, historic First Parish (UU) church, 382 Walnut Street, Brookline. Starts at 10:00, coffee and conversation afterward
L&B with Claude at the Old Manse in Concord, Mass
This favorite freebie is renowned for its lovely rustic setting and occasional heavy weather. Multi-threat instrumentalist Claude Galinsky will join us for an afternoon of truly fine picking, tight singing and general carrying on.
SAMW Week II
SAMW is back for another wonderful week of acoustic music, song-writing, dancing, jamming, dining and swimming at Geneva Point, on the shores of New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee. Nature walks. Birders. Mountains and an inland sea. Non-stop music. SAMW is the best!
“Concert under the Stars” at the Planetarium
WUMB Radio has partnered with the Museum of Science to present to you a “Concert Under the Stars.” This special event will take place on Thursday, May 3, 2012 at the newly renovated Museum of Science Planetarium in Boston. Performers are Lorraine and Bennett Hammond and Priscilla Herdman
For details call WUMB fm, 617/287-6900
At the Labour of Love, Glover Vermont
This is our annual house-concert in the Green Mountains, at Kate Butler’s fabulous nursery.
Lorraine and Bennett in Concert, Brookline Music School
This is the opening act of the Muddy River Dulcimer Festival. It continues the next day with workshops all afternoon and a Sally Rogers-Howie Bursen concert in the evening.
Muddy River Dulcimer Festival
Lorraine’s Dulcimer Festival will bloom again in a new location – the Brookline Music School, 25 Kennard Road Brookline, MA. Friday night, April 27, Lorraine and Bennett Hammond in concert. Saturday, April 28, Appalachian dulcimer workshops, all levels, all afternoon. Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen in concert Saturday night in Watertown, MA, for the Folksong Society of Greater Boston. Details at www.dulcimerfestival.org
Lorraine Teaches Mandolin at the Folk School
In Beautiful Brasstown, NC. At the fabulous Folk School. The food is great ( best clam chowda anywhere ) and everyone there is interesting and creative .
https://www.folkschool.org/index.php?section=class_detail&class_id=5619