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
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
SAMW 1
Best Music Camp of all! Plenty of access to instructors, jamming all over the place, a Very Big Lake to swim in, Mountains, woods: you know- Heaven!
Riley Baugus
Old Time Guitar
Southern Mountain Banjo
Rolly Brown
Fingerstyle Guitar
Flatpicking Guitar
Susie Burke
Song Repertoire
Vocal Improvisation
Kate Campbell
Songwriting 1
Songwriting 2
John Doershuk
Sound Reinforcement
Cliff Eberhardt
Performance
Song Construction
Trina Hamlin
Bring on the Rhythm – intermediate harmonica
Breathe In….beginning harmonica
Lorraine Hammond
Beginning Mandolin
Morningsong
Bennett Hammond
Guitar – Filling in the Cracks
Advanced Beginning Guitar
Robert Jones
Blues Fingerpicking 101
Blues Slide Guitar
David Surette
Celtic Guitar
Intermediate Mandolin
Erica Weiss
Beginning Guitar
Fiddle
Charles Williams
Voice/Vocal Health
Lorraine at the Mountain Collegium
Maintaining the connection between folk and classical music, Lorraine teaches harp and “Folk Ensemble.”