OPPORTUNITES:

FAR West Region Folk Alliance Conference Showcase Entry Open

 

Main Showcase applications are now being accepted for the 2007 Folk Alliance Region West (FAR-West) annual conference.

 

This year's conference will be held November 2-4, 2007 at the Hilton Vancouver Washington near Portland, Oregon.

 

Join the best of the west at the 4th Annual Folk Alliance Western Regional Conference. Meet the people who are making things happen in folk music from all over the west. The FAR-West Annual conference is ideal for Performing Artists, Presenters, Record Industry, Agents & Managers, Media, Arts Administrators, Folk Societies/Clubs, Folklorists, and DJs. Help build a stronger music community on the west coast while advancing your career and gaining valuable contacts at the same time!

Registration fee includes all Workshops, Panels, Seminars, Exhibit Hall Entrance, Showcases, and Jamming Sessions. Learn how to build your community, career and contacts while making and listening to music with your peers. It's about networking and building relationships that will advance your music career. Showcase opportunities abound and it's fairly affordable.

 

Please note that "EARLY BIRD" REGISTRATION for the conference runs through May 31st. The "early bird" prices is just $115 for the whole weekend.

After June 1st, the price jumps $40. You can download the Registration Package from the FAR-West website at www.far-west.org

 

To apply for the Main Showcase, go to:
http://www.sonicbids.com/farwest2007
(All applications for the Main Showcase must go through Sonicbids.)

 

Last year's conference was a wonderful experience. Our concerts series at the Jack Russell Brewery over half of those we have booked over the last couple of years where people showcasing at the Folk Alliance or the FAR West conferences. Great people, great fun, and hopefully a positive push for your music, too.

All the details, including hotel registration, are available on the FAR-West website at:
http://www.far-west.org

We hope to see you there.

 

Bruce and Cindy Hayden
Q-Note Productions
www.qnoteproductions.com
http://www.myspace.com/folkmuse1

 

Bruce Hayden
P O Box 125
Garden Valley, Ca. 95633
www.qnoteproductions.com
http://www.myspace.com/folkmuse1

 

Presenting @ the Jack Russell Brewery, Camino, Ca.
May 18th Dan Crary and Friends, Flatpicking guitar legend Dan Crary and his long-time friend (and musical partner from the award-winning bluegrass band CALIFORNIA) singer and songwriter Steve Spurgin have frequently talked about making music together a little more often. Pete Grant and his pedel steel and dobro will join the Dan. http://dancrary.com/ June 7th I See Hawks in LA,, "2006 was the year of Gram Parsons, for many strange reasons, and I See Hawks, a Byrds/Burritos blend of brainy talent, benefited from all the posthumous attention paid to Parsons. It’s also one of the best post-Byrds roots records since Gene Clark’s No Other." - Bob Gulla, Boston Phoenix Best of 2006 - http://www.iseehawks.com/ October 20th Annie Gallup, “A practiced storyteller and poet whose stream-of-consciousness narratives of strange but vivid characters share space with confessional vignettes of off-center and sometimes reckless romances.” — Dirty Linen - http://www.anniegallup.com

 

November 17th Dan Frechette, “One of the most talented singer-songwriters I've heard in a long time.” - Mike Regenstreif, Sing Out Magazine, "There's something that sets a great songwriter apart from a mediocre one. It can't be taught, but it makes ordinary words and simple truths take on a new meaning as they are mated to music. Whatever that something is, Pinawa based singer/songwriter Dan Frechette has it." Mike Warkentin, Uptown Magazine - http://www.danfrechette.com

March 29th, 2008, Chris Stuart & Backcountry, "Their songs trace the flows of life and love, of beauty forever past and achingly possible. There's so much outstanding material. Bluegrass Unlimited, "For some outstanding songs, notably Stuart's marvelous title track and his very Townes-ish, and excellent, 'Rider on this Train', fabulous picking, and a whole mess of soul, check this album out. Third Coast Magazine, Austin, TX. John Conquest - http://chrisstuart.com/

 

April 11th, 2008, Joel Fafard, Joel Fafard is that rare breed of
instrumentalist: the kind whose appeal reaches far beyond the realm of serious guitar enthusiasts. The gifted slide fingerstyle player writes stirring, melodic compositions that paint pictures as vivid as any song with words. He introduces them on-stage with hilarious commentary delivered in a "hillbilly farm-boy" stage persona that quickly wins his audience over. And when he sinks his chops into a number like "Face Down in the Rhubarb," well, let's just say the serious guitar enthusiasts aren't disappointed either.

 

2007 Juno nominee, 2006 WCMA winner, 2006 CFMA nominee, 2004 WCMA nominee  - http://www.joelfafard.com

 

Information and reservations - 530-333-1018 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
August 12-16- American River Acoustic Music Camp www.americanriveracoustic.org

 

 

 

FA Sponsors NewSong Contest

 

Folk Alliance is pleased to announce that we are an official sponsor for this year’s Mountain Stage NewSong Contest.  The five winners will be featured at the 2008 International Folk Alliance Conference.

 

The good folks at the NewSong Contest have created a special discount code for Folk Alliance members, which they can use on their Sonicbids opportunity page when they submit. It's $5 off the first and second entries. The code is: NewSongFA07, and it is good for submissions in the General Round as well as any of the Regional Rounds of the contest.

 

The deadline for submitting to our Regional Rounds is this Friday, May 18th.

 

General Information below:

 

The Mountain Stage NewSong Contest

‘Where Great Artists Are Discovered’

www.newsongfestival.com
E-MAIL: info@newsongfestival.com

MEDIA: Mira Stanley; mira@newsongfestival.com; call (617) 818-5428

SUBSCRIBE to NewSong News: newsongfestival-subscribe@topica.email-publisher.com

 

Mountain Stage NewSong Contest Now Seeking Entries, with New Regional Rounds All Across America and Canada

 

Performing songwriters, start your songs. The 2007 Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, one of the nation’s premier showcases for singer-songwriters in all genres of music, is now accepting entries online through contest partner Sonicbids.com. A total of 12 finalists will be chosen to perform in the international contest finals in New York City in late September. The contest features cash and other prizes and one of five co-winners will earn an appearance on a worldwide broadcast of the prestigious “Mountain Stage” radio show.

 

 

 

12TH USA SONGWRITING COMPETITION BEGINS

Entries for the 12th Annual USA Songwriting Competition are currently being accepted. Winning songs of the 2007 USA Songwriting Competition will receive airplay on a nationally syndicated radio program Acoustic Café as well as XM Satellite Radio. Entrants vie for a top prize of $50,000 worth cash and cool music gear from Sony, Ibanez Guitars, Audio-Technica, IK Multimedia and more. This is the first Songwriting Competition that gives airplay to the winning songs, giving deserving bands, songwriters the recognition and exposure they deserve. Past winners have gone on to receive recording contracts, songs placed with established artists as well as on Film and TV.

 

For more information, please go to:
http://www.songwriting.net

 

 

 

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is Seeking Volunteers and Volunteer Translators

Hello!

 

Here is a wonderful opportunity to gain work experience and cultural knowledge! The 41st Smithsonian Folklife Festival is looking for volunteers. The festival is to be held on June 27-July 1 and July 4-8.
This year we have three programs:

 

Mekong River : Connecting Cultures
Through craft demonstrations, dance and musical performances, and hands-on activities, Mekong River: Connecting Cultures will introduce visitors to the diverse cultures of the Mekong River. The Mekong region has been a cradle and crossroads of cultures for many centuries and more recently has become closely connected to the United States through the more than two million Americans who trace their ancestry to Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and the Chinese province of Yunnan. The Mekong has many different meanings to the peoples of the region as well as to Americans who may know little of its complexity. Mekong River:
Connecting Cultures will help broaden everyone's view.

Northern Ireland at the Smithsonian
Few regions of the world have contributed more to the formation of the United States than Northern Ireland. Since the seventeenth century, a succession of immigrants has had a profound impact on the development of American culture, politics, education, science, religion, agriculture, and industry. The Northern Ireland program will bring to Washington the region's finest performers, artists, storytellers, craftspeople, cooks, and workers to help explain, demonstrate, and celebrate their culture.
Through dynamic Festival performances, demonstrations, and educational activities, the program will highlight the rich history, living traditions, and distinctive customs of this beautiful region. Reflecting the complexity and creativity of Northern Ireland, the site will feature traditional industries, such as Belleek pottery and Bushmills Irish Whiskey, home-based crafts, such as lace- and bagpipe-making, and modern community expressions, such as mural painting.

 

Roots of Virginia Culture: The Past is Present

By exploring the roots of Virginia's contemporary cultural traditions and discovering how "the past is present," Roots of Virginia Culture will mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States.
The program will bring to Washington performers, artists, musicians, dancers, storytellers, cooks, farmers, and craftspeople to help explain, demonstrate, and celebrate cultural traditions. Delegations from Virginia's eight Native American tribes, West Africa, and Kent County, England, will represent the Native, African American, and English roots of the state. Other participants will sing gospel songs, ballads, blues, and bluegrass; demonstrate horse skills and crafts; discuss historic restoration; and cook with Virginia's products. For the first time, an English county will participate in the Folklife Festival.;

 

We are also looking for volunteers who are fluent in the following languages:
Wolof, Khmer, Thai, Vietnamese, Lao, Chinese- Mandarin and certified in ASL. Please visit www.folklife.si.edu for more information and to complete the volunteer questionnaire. You can print up the attached volunteer questionnaire and mail it in to the address stipulated. Volunteers must be 16 and older, and will be asked to attend a volunteer orientation, which is to be held on Saturday, June 23, 2007. Please feel free to share this information. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Soyini George

Volunteer Coordinator

202.633.6484


The Tennessee Performing Arts Center is seeking a full-time manager for the Humanities Outreach in Tennessee (HOT) program. The HOT Manager is the main contact for educators statewide who attend daytime performances for students at TPAC. Primary responsibilities include:

Managing reservations and providing customer service for school groups statewide; handling invoice and payment collection; communicating with schools and TPAC staff to facilitate arrival, attendance and departure procedures on show days; maintaining HOT reservations database including generating regular reports and analysis; promoting ticket sales for the season and specific performances as needed; representing HOT at conferences and educator events.

http://www.tpac.org/education

Please send resumes to: educationjob@tpac.org