Sandy is an original, and he goes all the way back with us. Lorraine even knew him as a teenager. This will be a great banging of banjos and scratching of fiddles at Johnny D’s in Slumberville. All your favorite local old-time players will be there. Don’t miss it!
Category Archives: Events
Lorraine Teaches Mandolin at the Folk School
Lorraine teaches beginning mandolin at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC
Brookline Music School Concert
Lorraine and Bennett performing an afternoon concert in Brookline Music School’s Faculty Artist Series
Brookline Music School, Brookline, MA
http://www.bmsmusic.org/Special_Events.htm
NY Folk Music Society Weekend in the Catskills
“SAMW” Winter Week-end
SAMW! Ask anyone, it’s the best! Wouldn’t it be great to have SAMW all year? Well, maybe we can, some day. But for now, we can enjoy a big slice of SAMW at the WINTER WEEK-END in Febrruary, when we all could really use something. Expect the usual: a beautiful setting in the woods; an acoustically perfect Chapel venue; intimate classes and jams with the stellar performers; breakfast, lunch and dinner with the performers. Perhaps unexpected: the food is abundant, and the desserts…! Legendary.
Staff are Lui Collins, Susie Burke and David Surrette, John Doershuk and Lorraine and Bennett Hammond
The location is in Groton, Massachusetts, at Grotonwood Camp and Conference Center (http://www.grotonwood.org/). Lodging and six meals are included. Registration will open at 4:00 on Friday afternoon. Dinner is at six. We’re due to leave the campus on Sunday by 3:00. Groton is about an hour northwest of downtown Boston. The camp is in a beautifully wooded area, and facilities are comfortable. Most rooms are doubles. The bathrooms are shared. The food is hearty, and the desserts are legendary. Walking between buildings is on fairly level ground, give or take possible snow banks! Oh – and there are several working fireplaces.
To make your reservation, please phone or email Patty Domeniconi directly:
Phone – 617-287-6915 Email – patty.domeniconi@umb.edu
(Plan to bring your own bedding if possible. There is a $15.00 surcharge/person if Grotonwood supplies the bedding. The camp supplies a pillow and blanket for each bed. Advance notice is required.)
www.wumb.org/samw/home/
SAMW ’12 Reunion and ’13 Registration
The SAMW 2012 Reunion and 2013 Registration get-together will be on January 6, 2013 at UMass Boston. 1 p.m.
You may have read rapturous rhapsodies about SummerAcousticMusicWeek, but if you ain’t been there, you just don’t know. For the curious, there is a real taste of SAMW at our annual January reunion and pre-registration, where old friends and new ones come to jam and mingle and snack and hear about next Summer’s line-up. Come on down. You’ll be right at home.
www.wumb.org/samw/
New Year’s Eve in Rockport!
New Year’s Eve in Rockport is our favorite. It is on a human scale, the venues are good, the food is really good. Very cool, lit.&fig.
Library-Peggy Brenner Room 8-8:45 & 9-9:45 PM
Lorraine and Bennett Hammond – Peace on Earth
L&B at the Parkinson’s Fundraiser, Sally O’Brien’s in Somerville MA
The Third Annual Fundraiser for The American Parkinson’s Disease Association will take place from 12 Noon- 4:45 p.m. on Sunday December 9th at Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave in Union Square, Somerville, Ma. [617-666-3589] withCHARLES WILLIAMS, RICK DEMERS AND JOEL GREENE,JACKIE DAMSKY AND THE STRING RIVER BAND,MARYLOU FERRANTE AND BILL McQUAID, LARRY FLINT AND CHUCK PARRISH
Family Jams at the Brookline Music School
For kids and grown-ups of all ages! Bring your acoustic instruments and we’ll play and sing familiar and not-so-familiar, but simple, songs together.
CD Concert for the Opal Ring
Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m. Lorraine and Bennett will give a Celebration concert as part of the Dick Pleasants Concord House Concert Series, for “The Opal Ring,” Lorraine’s brand new old-time autobiographical CD. There will be cake!
1295 Main St., Concord, MA. Parking available nearby. Seating is limited, so we recommend you call Dick at 978-369-8730 to reserve your spot. Tickets are $15.