Banjo Camp!

Wall-to-wall banjos of every description, new and old; great players and teachers; fun workshops and demonstrations; astonishing faculty concert; lots o’ jamming; Natural setting; good food and plenty of it; yup, it’s a real good time!

Check it out at  Mugwumps.com

NEFFA

 New England Folk Festival, at Mansfield (MA) High School.  Lotsa beautiful young people in colorful dance costumes,  and plenty of beautiful formerly young people picking and singing together. Great food and thoroughly world-class arts-and-crafts. All musical presenters perform for love alone.  Lorraine and I will be there Saturday for workshops and a concert spot,  and we’ll hang out all day in the old-time jam  under the tree near the hot-dog truck.  www.NEFFA.org

At the MFA: We’re Museum Pieces!

Yeah, so they misspell my name. Just a reminder that the experts can be wrong! Great venue, though. Acoustics? Oh, yes. We’ll pick and sing American mountain music, including traditional music from the Northern Appalachians, which was largely ignored by scholars, Northeasterners themselves generally, who pretended that the areas of isolation and poverty necessary for the preservation of tradition against cross-pollination  lay far from their own educated and industrious part of the world.

http://www.mfa.org/programs/series/nancy-lee-clark-concert-series