President’s Letter
Folknotes 03/07/25
Hello Everyone,
Here is the latest QCB news.
QCB/Community Happens Here Song Circle
Leo Coffeehouse, Sunday, Sunday, March 9, 2025
Looking Ahead: Leo Coffeehouse, Sunday, March 16, 2025
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QCB/Community Happens Here Song Circle
From Kelli Domke: Fortune favors the bold this Saturday: bring songs of good luck, hard luck, lucky stars, gambling luck, lucky talismans and yes, gettin’ lucky, 3/8/25, 12:30-2:30 at Community Happens Here, 6238 Montomery Rd. (All songs, players & singers are welcome!)
Leo Coffeehouse
Sunday, March 9, 2025
5:15 PM: Songwriters Collaborative
Come and share your songs with other songwriters for encouragement and friendly critiques.
5:15 PM: Open Jam
Anyone can bring songs to lead in the circle while others provide backup and harmony.
6:40-9:00 PM: Performances
1st Set: Cedars Of Lebanon
John Fonner (tenor guitar), John Gardik (bass) and Steve Martin together are the Cedars of Lebanon. They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green (Psalm 92:14) The music will include some original songs, and an eclectic mix of old country classics, mid-century gospel and odds and ends. Remember if folks like it, it’s folk music.
2nd Set: Matt Rouch
They originally formed in Denver where the band quickly rose to prominence in CO, winning Best Country Band and an IMEA award for Folk Song of the Year. In Cinci, they kept the same playing style-James Taylor meets Fleet Foxes–and added Greta Propp on fiddle. Matt pours honesty and intimacy in his songs that connect with the listener with stories that hit close to home.
3rd Set: Ellie Fabe
Ellie is a wonderful singer/songwriter from Cincinnati whose songs create an intimate portrait of longing and love; an interpreter of memory and nostalgia, she has a sound all her own. She’s performed in such notable venues as New York’s The Bitter End and Chicago’s The Elbo Room and her release, Devil May Care is the 2015 Ohio Music Awards Winner for Best Singer/Songwriter. She was also nominated for the 2017 Just Plain Folks Music Awards: Best Song in the Americana category from album: Devil May Care for: “How Does It Feel?”and Best New Folk Album: Be A Girl Again.This is alternative folk—expressive, authentic. Mike Helm will sit in on support guitar and voice.
Looking Ahead: Leo Coffeehouse
Sunday, March 16, 2025
5:15 PM: Guitar Roundtable Workshop
Mike Helm leads this forum for players of any skill level to exchange ideas so we can all make better music together. Bring a question, share a tip. Learn a new lick or chord. Gain a new perspective, share your own with us. Enrich your guitar experience.
5:15 PM: Open Jam
Anyone can bring songs to lead in the circle while others provide backup and harmony.
6:30 PM: All Evening Open Mic
Sign up at 6:00 PM to perform 1-2 songs. 8 minute limit.
Sound system will be set up.
That’s all for this Folknotes, I hope to see you soon.
Neil Harrell
President, Queen City Balladeers/Leo Coffeehouse
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QCB/Leo Coffeehouse Membership
We are keeping our standard annual QCB membership dues at $20.00 for a family, or for a single person plus a guest. Last year, knowing that the pandemic cut into our contingency funds, as we continued to pay overhead expenses with no income, some members donated larger amounts to QCB. We very much appreciate the support of all QCB members at all levels.
We are exploring setting up our website to allow the payment of different levels of dues support. For now, if you’d like to pay the standard dues, you can pay them online here or by a check at Leo. (We’ve discontinued our P.O. Box, I will have a mailing address in the next newsletter for those who wish to mail their membership dues.)
If you would like to donate more than the $20.00 standard dues, you can do so by check, or through our website. When you get to the page with the box to relay instructions, just note that you are paying a larger amount for your dues.
For visitors who prefer not to become a member, a donation of $5.00 (cash) per person helps us pay the rent for our non-profit organization. Donations can be slipped in the box at the welcome table outside our performance room, Founders Hall. If you can’t afford that, pay what you can afford or nothing at all. We will welcome you to join us either way.