President’s Letter
Folknotes 10/31/24
Hello Everyone,
Here’s the latest QCB news:
• New info: WoodSongs Hurricane Helene Instrument Drive
• Leo Coffeehouse, Sunday, November 3, 2024
• Looking Ahead, Leo Coffeehouse, Sunday, November 10, 2024
• Reference Information For New Subscribers (Below my sign off)
WoodSongs Hurricane Helene
Instrument Drive
New! Now along with dropping them off at Leo Coffeehouse on Sunday nights (see Neil Harrell or Janice Alvarado), anyone can drop playable, good condition instruments off at area music stores, including Willis Music stores and Buddy Roger’s. For more information and a list of stores accepting instruments for the WoodSongs Hurricane Helene instrument drive go here.
Instruments will be collected through December. All donated instruments will be delivered to Lexington. WoodSong volunteers will then deliver them, along with donated instruments from other areas, to Tennessee and North Carolina musicians.
From the WoodSongs website:
“The area around Asheville NC and east Tennessee is rich with musical heritage. With your help, WoodSongs will collect and deliver over 1000 FREE instruments to the musicians of the mountains who lost everything in the storms and help restore the music of the front porches of Western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
“We were very successful organizing instrument drives for tornado victims in western Kentucky and again for the flood victims of the mountains. Nearly 2000 instruments were collected, restored and delivered absolutely FREE to the musicians who needed them.”
Leo Coffeehouse
Sunday, November 3, 2024
3:00 PM: 1st Sunday Rise Up Singing
Tell all your friends and bring the kids! Everyone picks songs from Rise Up Singing and Rise Again song books which are available to purchase or to use in the circle. The incredible Al Wauligman will lead us on the piano.
5:15 PM: Open Jam
Anyone can bring songs to lead in the circle while others provide backup and harmony.
Performances: 6:40 - 9:00 PM
1st Set: Laurelview Ramblers
This trio of old-time musicians includes Jeff Gushin, fiddle, mandolin, and vocals, Mike Boerschig, guitar and vocals, Jeff Custis, banjo, fiddle and vocals, and Rob Kranz on bass. They perform an assortment of traditional American music from the Civil War era up through the “golden” string band era of the 1920s and some contemporary folk songs. Throw in some ragtime and jug band music and you have the Laurelview Ramblers.
2nd Set: Greg Schaber
Bluesy, rootsy, swingin, good, original music! An accomplished, award-winning blues guitarist—in styles from deep delta bottleneck guitar to the lighter, countrified finger picking of the North Carolina Piedmont—Greg plays the old sounds with unparalleled conviction and skill. Chris Warner will join Greg on the bass. gregschaber.com
3rd Set: Raison D’Etre
Violet Rae Webster, Vickie Ellis, and Roberta Schultz are three women who live to sing together. According to Mike Breen of Cincinnati CityBeat, the folk trio offers "some of the finest three-part harmony singing you'll likely ever hear." You can expect traditional folk songs, a capella swing tunes, and cowboy anthems, all delivered in their pure Kentucky blend.
https://raison3.com/
Looking Ahead:
Leo Coffeehouse
Sunday, November 10, 2024
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.
Performances, 6:40 - 9:00 PM:
1st Set: Jamonn Zeiler
Jamonn is celebrating his 57th year performing in public and he still cannot get enough of the music he loves. You can find him on Facebook.
2nd Set: Anna p.s.
Anna p.s. is a nationally touring Indie Folk artist since 2016, entertaining audiences across the states as a one-woman-symphony with guitar, foot percussion, flute, and more. She plays original tunes alongside a unique mix of covers across multiple genres and eras.
3rd Set: Hertz Brothers
Enoch & Erasmus (Tony Moore and Mike Helm) offer for your dancing and dining pleasure their customary assortment of enthusiast-grade, non-practicing, semi-reformed orthodox, vitamin-enriched, peer-reviewed, top-rack-dishawasher-safe, steel-toed, hermetically-sealed, seaworthy, road-worthy, 1st-cold-press folk pop.
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.