Folk-related Festivals in the Greater Northeast, October and November

Summer may be over, but there are plenty of October folk, bluegrass, Celtic music and dance festivals in the northeast USA and adjacent Canadian provinces.

The database, updated 2-3x/ month, lists close to 200 NE festivals and camps. Please send comments and corrections by email to NEFolk-owner@yahoogroups.com

All festivals/camps with dates contain current year information; "99" in the day field indicates either no information could be found or the producer has yet to submit to NEFolk current year information. 

Please encourage festival and camp producers/publicists to share information via email to NEFolk@yahoogroups.com; one of the moderators will update the database. 

The table was developed over several years by J. Boudreau and cannot be used for commercial or other purposes without permission. 

NEFolk's Festival and Camp Database

Start Date	End Date	Festival / Camp Name	URL	Genre	City & State	More info at wall post #'s () = past	Status / Comments
10/05/12	10/08/12	The Big Squeeze	http://bigsqueezeorg/	Bluegrass and old-time	Barre, MA	(12018) 13418	Confirmed / http://tomspockcom/Big%20Squeeze/Invite%2012/index.html
10/05/12	10/07/12	Banjo Burke Festival	joebanjoburke.org	Celtic	East Durham, NY	13578	Confirmed.
10/05/12	10/13/12	Celtic Colours International Festival	http://www.celtic-colours.com/	Celtic	Cape Breton	() Producer is welcome to post current year info via email to NEFolk@yahoogroups.com	Confirmed / "For nine days in October, Cape Breton Island is home to a unique celebration of music and culture as the Celtic Colours International Festival presents dozens of concerts all over the island, an extensive line-up of community events, and a nightly Festival Club. Over the years, artists have traveled from Scotland, Ireland, England, Wales, Brittany, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, and Cuba as well as from across the United States and Canada to join the finest of Cape Breton’s musicians, singers, dancers, storytellers and tradition-bearers for the annual Autumn celebration..."
10/06/12	10/06/12	New England Bloody Roots Festival	https://wwwfacebook.com/pages/New-England-Bloody-Roots-Festival/214969061874401	heavy roots, country, folk and deep blues	Worcester, MA	(12235) The promoter is free to post info to the message area.	Confirmed
10/06/12	10/08/12	FSSGB weekend get-away	www.fssgb.org	Traditional folk	Charlton, MA	13293	Confirmed / Each fall, FSSGB sponsors a weekend in a tranquil setting within easy driving distance of Boston. The weekend is filled with music -- song swaps, workshops and mini-concerts led by professional staff and campers on Saturday and Sunday. The Fall Getaway gives campers a chance to meet each other, trade songs and tunes, and enjoy a relaxing weekend away from the city.
10/08/12	10/14/12	JACK KEROUAC LITERARY FESTIVAL,	http://www.lowellcelebrateskerouac.org/festival	Prose	Lowell	(12280) 13593	Confirmed.
10/20/12	10/21/12	Johnny Cake Harvest Festival	http://www.johnnycakefestival.com/Index.html	Traditional crafts	West Kingston	(12526) Producer is welcome to post current year info via email to NEFolk@yahoogroups.com	Confirmed.
10/99/12	10/99/12	Irish Heritage Festival	http://www.irishheritagefestival.com/index.html	Celtic	Dorchester, MA	(12391)	On hiatus / Statement from co-organizer John O'Toole posted on the festival's Facebook page: For 3 years the Irish Heritage Festival has been the host to thousands of people who have enjoyed the best in Irish Entertainment and Culture. We have been blessed with spectacular weather and wonderful crowds. It highlights the best that Dorchester has to offer to people all over New England. The Festival is a free event that is an enormous undertaking that costs upwards of $40,000.00 to pay for entertainment, 3 stages, lighting ,police details, permits, etc,etc.. The work is done by a very small group of volunteers. As you know, economically, it has been a very difficult year for many families and businesses, and we depend on the generosity of our donors to make the Festival a success. We are extremely grateful to those folks, businesses and our trade unions who helped make it a huge success for the past 3 years. The Festival Committee has decided to give a financial break to those who make the Festival possible and have already planning next years Festival. Many, many, thanks to all those who have volunteered in the past and I look forward to welcoming new volunteers for next years Festival! Thanks John OToole
10/99/12	10/99/12	Taunton River Folk Festival	http://www.tauntonfest.org/	Traditional and revival folk and blues.	Taunton, MA	(3892, 5545, 7528, 8392)	Defunct? Last presented in 2008. @ 8/20/12 "Oops! Google Chrome could not findwww.tauntonfestorg"	Edit  Delete
11/02/12	11/04/12	Eisteddfod - NY	http://www.eisteddfod-ny.org	traditional folk	Kerhonkson, NY	13592	Confirmed. "Eisteddfod-NY is proud to host traditional music and song from Brittany, England, Hawaii, Ireland, Macedonia, Scotland, Serbia, and of course America — Appalachia, New York State, and more — along with contemporary songs, sea shanties, Gospel and Sacred Harp, and blues. There will be a contra dance, and as always there are plenty of opportunities for everyone to play and/or sing in the participatory workshops and informal jams. Come listen, come play and sing, come learn."
11/02/12	11/04/12	Fiddle Hell Massachusetts	http://www.reinerfamilyband.com/introduction.html	New England, Irish, Scottish, Southern, bluegrass, swing, Texas, Scandinavian, blues, and French-Canadian styles	Concord, MA	(10926, 11116, 12202, 12553) 13725	Confirmed / Hello Fiddlers- I'd like to invite you to our 8th Annual Fiddle Hell Gathering at the Colonial Inn and Masonic Lodge in Concord, MA, Nov 2-4. An overview of Fiddle Hell 2012 is athttp://www.reinerfamilyband.com/introduction.html There's a full schedule of over 150 hands-on workshops and jams at http://www.reinerfamilyband.com/fiddlehellmassac/fiddle-hell-schedule.html Our fiddle staff includes 20 excellent players who are also great teachers: Alan Kaufman, Andy Reiner, Anne Hooper, Becky Tracy, Bob Alessio, Clayton March, Dave Reiner, David Kaynor, Ellen Carlson, George Keith, Hanneke Cassel, Jason Anick, Julie Metcalf, Mark Simos, Matt Glaser, Matt McConeghy, Michelle Kaminsky, Stacy Phillips, and Terri Lukačko. There will be various fiddle styles represented, including New England, Irish, bluegrass, Southern oldtime, Scottish, Cape Breton, French Canadian, Swedish, swing, gypsy, Cajun, Texas and Western Swing. The Friday Night Concert is on Nov. 2nd, 7:30-9:30PM, at the Masonic Lodge across the street (free if you're at Fiddle Hell; walk-ins $10), featuring Andy Reiner, Becky Tracy, Dave Reiner, David Kaynor, Hanneke Cassel, Jason Anick, Matt Glaser, and Stacy Phillips. Our 52 Fiddle Hell Common Tunes are listed at http://www.reinerfamilyband.com/common-tune-list.html , and we have recorded them on a 2-CD set, played both fast and slow. This 2-CD set is just $15 postpaid athttp://www.reinerfamilyband.com/store.html . It's a great way to prepare for the jams at Fiddle Hell, to improve your learning by ear, to practice your fiddle tune backup if you're not a fiddler. Or you can just listen. I really hope to see you at Fiddle Hell this year! Dave Reiner

It's time for College Radio Day, October 2 , 2012

It's time to raise awareness of the college and high school radio stations across North America.

It's time to start tuning in and fighting back against the corporate takeover of radio.

It's time to support creative programming and truly independent content and music you can't find anywhere 
else.

It's time to start giving back to the stations that help break the bands you love.

Come on! Give it the old college try! It's time we all come together.

It's time for College Radio Day 

October 2 , 2012

https://www.facebook.com/collegeradioday
http://www.collegeradioday.com
http://www.twitter.com/collegeradioday
http://www.collegeradioday.proboards.com

“The aim of College Radio Day is to get people to tune in to their local college radio stations, support this programming and remind college administrators just how important their radio stations are.” – The Record (New Jersey)

“College Radio Day: An SOS for student-run stations…a unifying college-radio event” – The Washington Post

“[An] event that encourages participating stations to tout their role in training students and helping unknown bands find an audience.” – USA Today

“A new, non-Hallmark holiday to honor students' "unique and fearless programming" on the left of the dial.” – SPIN

“A nationwide movement…illuminating the cultural significance of student-run radio” – TIME

“A day reminding listeners that even as commercial radio often sounds more and more corporate, college radio is still out there” – NY Daily News

“College Radio Has Its Day…College Radio Day boosts support” – New Jersey Monthly

“The idea of College Radio Day seems to have caught on” – RadioWorld 

“Today people across North America are celebrating College Radio Day—a brand-new holiday founded by two enthusiasts of college radio” – Gawker

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Northeast community and independent college radio stations

CONNECTICUT

WAPJ, Torrington (community)

WCNI, New London (independent college)

WDJW, Somers (high school)

WPKN, Bridgeport (community)

WHUS, Storrs (independent college - UConn)

WNHU, West Haven (independent college - University of New Haven)

WWEB, Wallingford (high school)

WWUH, Hartford (independent college - University of Hartford)

MAINE

WBOR, (independent college - Bowdoin College)

WERU, Blue Hill (community)

WMPG, Portland (independent college)

WUMF, Farmington (independent college - UMaine)

MASSACHUSETTS

BIRN (Berklee Internet Radio Network), Boston (independent college internet - Berklee)

Boston Free Radio, Somerville (Community Internet)

EC Radio, Boston (Independent College, Emmanuel College)

I.B.I.S. Radio (the Independent Broadcast Information Service), JP (independent non-commercial)

Lasell College Radio, Newton (internet)

WAVM, Maynard (high school)

WBCR-LP, Great Barrington (community)

WBIM, Bridgewater (indeoendent college - Bridgewater State)

WBRS, Waltham (independent college - Brandeis)

WCHC, Worcester (independent college - Holy Cross)

WCUW, Worcester (community)

WDJM, Framingham (independent college - Framingam State)

WECB, Boston (independent college - Emerson)

WERS. Boston (independent college - Emerson)

WHRB, Cambridge ((1) Harvard)

WKKL, West Barnstable (independent college and community - Cape Cod Community College)

WMBR, Cambridge (independent college and community - MIT)

WMFO, Medford (independent college - Tufts)

WMBC-LP, Greenfield (community)

WMUA, Amherst (independent college - UMass)

WMWM, Salem (independent college - Salem State University)

WNRC-LP, Dudley (independent college - Nichols College)

WOMR/WFMR, Provincetown (community)

WRBB, Boston (independent college - Northeastern)

WSCW, Worcester (independent college internet - Worcester State University)

WSHL, Easton (independent college - Stonehill College)

WTBU, Boston (independent college - Boston University)

WUMD, North Dartmouth (independent college - UMass)

WUML, Lowell (independent college - UMass)

WVVY, Martha's Vineyard (community)

WXOJ-LP, Florence (community)

WZBC, Newton (independent college - Boston College)

WZLY, Wellesley (independent college - Wellesley College)

NEW HAMPSHIRE

WNEC, Henniker (independent college - New England College)

WSCA-LP, Portsmouth (community)

WSCS, New London (independent college)

WUNH, Durham (independent college - UNH)

New Jersey

90.3 the core (Rutgurs)

HomegrownRadioNJ.org, Blairstown (Internet)

WPRB, Princeton (community)

WFDU, Teeneck (independent college - Fairleigh-Dickinson)

WFMU, Jersey City (community)

New York

WBAI (community)

WBAR (independent college - Barnard)

WCDB, Albany (independent college - SUNY Albany)

WNYU, Manhattan (independent college - NYU)

WVCF, Fredonia/Dunkirk (independent college - SUNY Fredonia/Dunkirk)

WDFH, lower Hudson Valley (community)

WFNP, New Paltz (independent college - SUNY New Paltz)

WHCS, NYC (independent college - Hunter)

WKCR, NYC (Columbia U)

RHODE ISLAND

BSR Radio, Brown University, Providence (Internet Based Brown Student and Community Radio)

WRIU, Kingston (independent college - URI)

VERMONT

WIUV, Castleton (independent college - Castleton State College)

WGDR, Plainfield (independent college - Goddard College)

WOOL, Bellows Falls (community LP)

WRVU, Burlington (independent college - UVM)

WVEW-LP, Brattleborough (community)

* WHRB is an anomaly, it programs in the style of a non-commercial station, it's an all-volunteer student run non-profit, but it has a commercial license and some low-key local commercials.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/148693875252110/doc/152098281578336/

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In celebration of College Radio Day, October 2 , 2012, for the next seven days, NEFolk has turned on a reminder for each and every college radio program in its Calendar. Tune in, listen and appreciate some fine non-commercial / non-corporate student-producd and hosted radio programming. Please take moment to review the entries. If additions or edits are needed, please email NEFolk-owner@yahoogroups.com

All who appreciate independent college and community radio stations in the northeast US are encouraged to join with and participate in Northeast Community and Independent College Radio, an open group run by and for community and independent college radi

o producer/hosts (no commercial, no "NPR/PRI/PRX/APR/APM, etc, so-called "public" stations) located in New England and contiguous states and provinces. Its mission is to promote independent non-commercial radio, share with our peers and the public news of our own and our stations' programming and network with one another.

Bush/McCoury dates announced for November

A string of dates have been announced for the much-anticipated Sam Bush and Del McCoury tour.

It will be just the two of them, legends both, performing as a duo in a number of mid-sized halls in the back half of November.

For Bush, it is the realization of a long-deferred dream.

"I first saw Del at the Roanoke Bluegrass Festival in 1966 and have been waiting for this opportunity to tour together ever since. We invite you to come join the fun as two old friends make music and swap stories onstage."

Shows scheduled include:

11/15:  The Paramount – Peekskill, NY
11/16:  Norwalk Concert Hall – Norwalk, CT
11/17:  Stockbridge Theatre at Pinkerton – Derry, NH
11/18:  The Birchmere – Alexandria, VA
11/19:  The City Winery – New York, NY
12/01:  The Old Town School of Folk Music – Chicago, IL

Source 

Gaelic Roots Events at Boston College, Fall 2012

Received from Elizabeth Sweeny by email and also shared in NEFolk (Yahoo) and and Celtic Music in New England (Facebook).

Center for Irish Programs, Boston College

Gaelic Roots Music, Song, Dance, Workshop, and Lecture Series

Series Director: Séamus Connolly, Sullivan Artist-in-Residence

Fall 2012 Calendar: http://www.bc.edu/gaelicroots

Video clips:  http://www.youtube.com/user/BurnsLibraryIMC

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Tuesday, September 25 – 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton (Brighton Campus)

6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Joey Abarta and Paddy League: Irish music on uilleann pipes and bouzouki.

Joey Abarta, whose debut solo album is due out this fall, tours with Mick Moloney and the group The Green Fields of America, teaches at the local music school of the Irish cultural association Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and organizes various traditional music concerts and events. Accompanying Abarta will be multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator Paddy League.

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Tuesday, October 23 – Gasson Hall Irish Room (Chestnut Hill Campus)

6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Traditional Irish Dance and Céilí, directed by Kieran Jordan, with music by Sullivan Artist-in-Residence Séamus Connolly, Michael Tubridy, and friends, with music and dance performances by Boston College students.

  

Séamus Connolly and Michael Tubridy will be the featured musicians at a participatory Irish dance and céilí evening, co-organized by Kieran Jordan, TCRG. In 1962, Tubridy was a founding member of The Chieftains, one of the most celebrated Irish bands of the past five decades. His prowess on flute, whistle and concertina was a hallmark of the group, which he left in 1979 to resume his career as an engineer. He continues to be active in traditional music circles as a teacher and performer.  Joining Connolly and Tubridy will be Boston’s own Brendan Tonra on fiddle and piano accompanist Helen Kisiel. Tonra and Kisiel are co-producing a children’s book and recording, Three Ducks and a Goose, based on an original composition by Brendan Tonra, with recorded dance steps by Kieran Jordan.

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Thursday, November 1 -- Gasson Hall Irish Room (Chestnut Hill Campus)

6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Irish music on whistle, accordion, guitar and vocals:  concert featuring Kathleen Conneely, Dan Gurney & Eamon O'Leary.

Conneely is a widely-respected musician and teacher who has often appeared at Boston College. She has recently released her first solo CD, The Coming of Spring. Gurney, who lived in Boston while attending Harvard University, has released a well-received solo album: Dan Gurney -- Traditional Irish Music on the Button Accordion. Dublin native O’Leary is a multi-instrumentalist who has been part of the thriving New York City Irish music scene for the past two decades.

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Wednesday, November 14 – Gasson Hall Irish Room (Chestnut Hill Campus)

7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Between Worlds: Concert by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, piano; with string quartet and Sullivan Artist-in-Residence Séamus Connolly.

Gasson Hall will be the setting for the concert “Between Worlds” featuring compositions by Ó Súilleabháin, who will perform with Connolly and a string quartet. In addition to composing, arranging, and teaching, Ó Súilleabháin is widely acknowledged as having originated a unique Irish piano style out of an Irish traditional base. While a visiting professor at Boston College in 1990, Ó Súilleabháin organized the “My Love Is in America” fiddle festival that laid the groundwork for Irish music activities at the university. His recorded interviews of musicians at the festival, along with other recordings of the event, inaugurated what is now the university’s Irish Music Archives.

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Wednesday, December 5 -- Walsh Hall Function Room (Chestnut Hill Campus)

6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

A Christmas Gathering: Irish Music, Songs, and Stories, featuring Gabriel Donohue & Marian Makins, with Sullivan Artist-in-Residence Séamus Connolly and Boston College students.

The resume of singer and multi-instrumentalist Gabe Donohue includes performances with Eileen Ivers, Cherish the Ladies and The Chieftains. Marian Makins was trained in classical and popular vocal styles, and in recent years has emerged as a gifted traditional-style singer in Irish and English. Also appearing will be Connolly and students from the Boston College Irish music classes.

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The above events are free and open to the public.  All events are subject to change. For more information, please e-mailirish@bc.edu or call 617-552-6396.

For directions see http://www.bc.edu/gaelicroots . Campus parking guidelines are available at http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/offices/transportation/visitor.html

Inclement weather: visit http://www.bc.edu/bcinfo for updates on weather-related closings on campus.

Event descriptions are provided by the Office of News and Public Affairs and the Irish Music Center of Boston College.

The Burns Library Irish Music Center offers selected video clips of Gaelic Roots events on its YouTube channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/BurnsLibraryIMC

Paul Geremia coming to Johnny D's , Tuesday, October 9

Just got a call from Paul Geremia , asking me to "trumpet" his upcoming gig at Johnny D's, so I am trumpeting this national treasure, I hope the club is filled.
17 Holland Street, Davis Square, Somerville, Tuesday, October 9, 8pm.  
$10 cash at door 

For those unfamiliar with the club, it seats somewhere around 275. Dinner tables are at stage level and tiered, making for unobstructed sight lines. The sound is excellent, as is the full bar.

Paul's other New England engagements:
10/13 - Stone Soup Coffee House - Pawtucket, RI
10/20 - Roaring Brook Nature Center - Canton, CT
10/27 - The Bull Run - Shirley, MA
11/03 - The Vanilla Bean - Pomfret, CT

Called a "national treasure," Paul Geremia is perhaps the greatest living exponent of the East Coast and Texas fingerpicking and slide guitar styles. Here he performs "Tootie Blues," from the newly released DVD "Guitar Artistry of Paul Geremia." More info.

For almost forty years, Paul Geremia has survived solely by the fruit of his musical labours. Having abandoned all other means of support in 1966, he has been travelling far and wide ever since, performing in every capacity from street singing to club and concert bookings, throughout the U.S.A., Canada and Europe.

In the years since, Geremia has built a reputation as a first rate bluesman, songwriter, a "scholar" of early jazz and blues, and one of the best country blues fingerpickers ever with his tools - six and twelve-string guitars, harmonica, piano and a husky soulful voice - and with an innate sense of the humour as well as the drama of the music, he keeps traditional blues fresh and alive with his performances.

Combining his interpretation of the earlier music of people like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Scrapper Blackwell and Blind Blake, with his original compositions, he has created a style which is very much his own and which has received accolades in the U.S.A. and Europe, too numerous to mention.

Geremia's background isn't typical for a bluesman. He is a third generation Italian-American who, as he laughingly puts it, "was born in the Providence River Delta". Growing up in a family that moved across the country and back numerous times weaned his appetite for music, history and travel, which served him well later on.

During the sixties, Paul noticed that the music he had enjoyed playing on harmonica (his first instrument) was now referred to as "Folk Music" and was enjoying popularity. During his short time in agriculture college, he was mostly occupied with learning guitar and hitch-hiking to where the music was. He soon left college and hit the road permanently. He found paying gigs in coffee houses and "basket houses" in cities and at college campuses and made occasional forays South and West in search of the music he loved and what gigs he could find.

During these years, Geremia crossed paths with people whose influences were beneficial to his development and understanding of the tradition. He worked as opening act for some of the early blues "legends" thereby gaining an immeasurable depth of knowledge from people like Babe Stovall, Yank Rachel, Son House, Skip James, Howlin' Wolf, and many others, especially Pink Anderson whose career he helped revitalize.

Geremia has recorded ten solo albums, and has appeared on numerous anthologies and compilation discs. His superb recordings have made him a critical favorite and place him firmly among the legends who inspired and influenced him over the past four decades.