NEFFA Festival Grid (by hall) - Saturday April 26, 2008

Note: This was the listing for the now-concluded 2008 Festival. The events for the 2009 Festival will be put here in February 2009

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Middle School Dance Hall
  10:00am    Gender-free English [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Michael Cicone, Shandy Hall String Quartet
  11:00am    Fluid Drive Contras [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- George Marshall, Tim Van Egmond, Swallowtail
  12:00no    Contra Medley [NX]: No teaching provided, Experienced -- Full Tilt, Medley I Callers
  12:30pm    Vintage Balkan [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Tom Roby, Clare Stanley, Tom Pixton
  1:30pm    Hambo Workshop [DB]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Beginner friendly -- Eph Weiss, Wendy Ernst, Matt Fichtenbaum & Friends
  2:30pm    Hands Six! Contras [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Bob Golder, Old New England
  3:30pm    Keen Contras [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Rick Mohr, Night Watch
  4:30pm    Open Waltzing [NM]: No teaching provided, Mixed Level -- Night Watch
  5:00pm    Croatian Dance Party [NM]: No teaching provided, Mixed Level -- Pajdashi
  6:00pm    Floricica Olteneasca [TX]: Teaching featured, Experienced -- Ed Abelson, Tom Pixton
  7:00pm    Balkan Dance Party! [NM]: No teaching provided, Mixed Level -- Druz(h)ina
  8:00pm    Harmony in Motion -- English Country Dance [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Joanna Reiner, Scott Higgs, A Joyful Noise
  9:30pm    Left Coast Contras [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Woody Lane, Three Cats and a Dog
  10:30pm    Romanian Dance Party [NM]: No teaching provided, Mixed Level -- Pinewoods Band
  10:45pm    Folk Dance Party [NM]: No teaching provided, Mixed Level -- Cambridge Folk Orchestra
 
Middle School Auditorium
  10:00am    Very Easy Contras [DB]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Beginner friendly -- Melanie Axel-Lute, Hat Trick
  11:00am    Scandinavian Dance for Families [DF]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Family-oriented -- Ginny Lee, Toby Weinberg
  12:00no    Square Dancing 101 [DB]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Beginner friendly -- Dan Pearl, White Squall
  1:00pm    Family Folk Dance [DF]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Family-oriented -- Regina Laskowski, Cambridge Folk Orchestra
  2:00pm    Traditional New England Barn Dance [DF]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Family-oriented -- Two Fiddles
  3:00pm    Asymmetric Waltzes [TM]: Teaching featured, Mixed Level -- Lynn Baumeister, Ted Hodapp
  4:00pm    Step (not so) Stately -- English Country Dance [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Michael Barraclough, Roberta Sutter and Friends
  5:00pm    Swingin' to Singin' -- Open Swing Dance [NM]: No teaching provided, Mixed Level -- Three Cats, Some Sax & a Drummer
  6:00pm    Civil War Dances [TB]: Teaching featured, Beginner friendly -- Commonwealth Vintage Dancers, Calliope
  7:00pm    Scottish Country Dancing [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Evelyn Murray, The White Cockade
  8:00pm    Balkan Gypsy Dance [NM]: No teaching provided, Mixed Level -- Rakiya
  9:00pm    Swedish Couple Dances [NM]: No teaching provided, Mixed Level -- Matt Fichtenbaum & Friends
  10:00pm    Norwegian Telemark Dance [NM]: No teaching provided, Mixed Level -- Boston Spelemannslag
  10:45pm    Cajun Dance [NM]: No teaching provided, Mixed Level -- Jimmyjo & the Jumbol'ayuhs
 
Middle School Room 103/104
  10:00am    Kids' Songs [EF]: Entertainment, Family-oriented -- Jean Schwartz
  11:00am    Songs to Heal Our Planet [GF]: Group Participation, Family-oriented -- Children's Music Network (New England Region)
  12:00no    Revels Singing Games [GF]: Group Participation, Family-oriented -- Revels Education & Outreach
  1:00pm    Sing Rounds! [G]: Group Participation -- Joanne Hammil & Barb Siftar
  2:00pm    Stories that Rock [EF]: Entertainment, Family-oriented -- Mark Binder
  3:00pm    Songs of the Next World [E]: Entertainment -- Woodwork
  4:00pm    Old West Mystique [EF]: Entertainment, Family-oriented -- Lonesome Jack's Wild West Review & Horse Opera
  5:00pm    Beatles Sing Along [GF]: Group Participation, Family-oriented -- Rocking Horse People
  6:00pm    Yiddish Music Concert [E]: Entertainment -- Rebecca Kaplan & Pete Rushefsky
  7:00pm    Contra Tune Slow Jam [GM]: Group Participation, Mixed Level -- Dave Miller & Chris Carpenter
  8:00pm    Barbershop Harmony Chorus [G]: Group Participation -- Sounds of Concord
  9:00pm    Unheard Tunes! [E]: Entertainment -- Old New England
  10:00pm    Dublin to Boston [E]: Entertainment -- Lindsay, Mulvaney, Cavanaugh
  11:00pm    unscheduled
 
Middle School Room 105/106
  10:00am    Scottish Concert [E]: Entertainment -- Strathspey & Reel Society of NH
  11:00am    Concert [E]: Entertainment -- The Fireside Stringband
  12:00no    Mountain & Hammered Dulcimer Duets [E]: Entertainment -- Lucy Joan Sollogub, Barbara Levine
  1:00pm    Honky Tonk Song Fest [G]: Group Participation -- Planet Banjo
  2:00pm    Southern Mountain Music [E]: Entertainment -- Ken Sweeney
  3:00pm    Bluegrass Duets Old & New [E]: Entertainment -- The Shaws
  4:00pm    Carter Family Songs [G]: Group Participation -- Parting the Waves
  5:00pm    Oldtime Tunes & Ballads [E]: Entertainment -- Ralph Bodington
  6:00pm    New Orleans - 1908 [E]: Entertainment -- The New New Orleans Jazz Band
  7:00pm    Lorraine and Bennett [E]: Entertainment -- Lorraine & Bennett Hammond
  8:00pm    Songs of Dangerous Times [E]: Entertainment -- The Short Sisters
  9:00pm    C, Shore, Above, Below [E]: Entertainment -- Joy Bennett & Chris Koldewey
  10:00pm    unscheduled
 
High School Dance Hall
  10:00am    Cross-Step Waltz [TM]: Teaching featured, Mixed Level -- Susan de Guardiola, Calliope
  11:00am    Romany Dances [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Leora Berns, Rakiya
  12:00no    Contra Medley [NX]: No teaching provided, Experienced -- Major Mando, Medley II Callers
  12:30pm    Youth Festival Orchestra Contras & Squares [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Dan Black, Diane Silver
  1:30pm    Blazing Squares [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Ron Buchanan, Raise the Roof
  2:30pm    Italian Village Dance [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Italian Village Music and Dance
  3:30pm    International Folk Dance Party [NM]: No teaching provided, Mixed Level -- Panharmonium
  4:30pm    Big Phat American K-Lee [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Scott Higgs, The Big Phat American K-Lee Band
  5:30pm    Rum & Onions XXVIII Contras & Squares [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Ron Buchanan, Rum and Onions
  6:30pm    Favorite Singing Squares [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Tony Saletan, Square Roots
  7:30pm    Festival Orchestra Contras & Squares [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Ted Hodapp, Bev Bernbaum
  8:30pm    Ragtime Dance [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Michael Bergman, The New New Orleans Jazz Band
  9:30pm    Balkan Dancing with Xopo [NM]: No teaching provided, Mixed Level -- Xopo
  10:30pm    Many Happy Returns Contras [DM]: Participatory Dancing [with a leader], Mixed Level -- Linda Leslie, The Moving Violations
 
High School Room 125
  10:00am    Ballads Migrant [E]: Entertainment -- Pamela Goddard & Colleen Cleveland
  11:00am    Maritime Songs [GM]: Group Participation, Mixed Level -- Mark Ryer
  12:00no    "Classic" Folk Songs [E]: Entertainment -- Jerry Epstein, David Jones
  1:00pm    The Many Faces of Love [E]: Entertainment -- Suzanne Mrozak & Friends
  2:00pm    G & R In Concert [E]: Entertainment -- Pamela Goddard & Dave Ruch
  3:00pm    Old Songs, New Songs [E]: Entertainment -- Deb O'Hanlon & Peter Fischman
  4:00pm    A Parcel of Songs [E]: Entertainment -- Merle Roesler
  5:00pm    Remembering Phil Ochs [E]: Entertainment -- Joel Landy
  6:00pm    Grateful Dead Folk Roots [E]: Entertainment -- Dave Ruch
  7:00pm    1960s Greenwich Village [E]: Entertainment -- Steve Suffet
  8:00pm    Stone Soup [E]: Entertainment -- Suzanne Mrozak & Friends
  9:00pm    Songs My Old Man Sang [G]: Group Participation -- Ridge Kennedy
  10:00pm    OLD Singer-Songwriters [E]: Entertainment -- Woodchucks' Revenge
  11:00pm    unscheduled
 
High School Auditorium
  10:00am    Sing for Joy! [G]: Group Participation -- Animaterra Women's Chorus
  11:00am    Waltz Melodies Jam [GM]: Group Participation, Mixed Level -- Three Quarter Time
  12:00no    String, Wind & Reed Jam [G]: Group Participation -- Drew Smith
  1:00pm    Rise Up Singing [GF]: Group Participation, Family-oriented -- Annie Patterson & Peter Blood
  2:00pm    Children's Dance Performances [E]: Entertainment -- Boston Chinese Folk and Classical Dance Troupe (China), Lithuanian School of Boston (Lithuania), Iskwelahang Pilipino (Philippines), Siroun Dancers (Armenia), Latvian Children's Folk Dance Group of Boston (Latvia), Academy of Serbian Folk Dancing (Serbia), Triveni Dancers (India), American Chinese Art Society Dance Studio (China)
  3:30pm    unscheduled [E]: Entertainment
  4:00pm    Croatian Songs [G]: Group Participation -- Pajdashi
  5:00pm    English Folk Songs [E]: Entertainment -- John Roberts
  6:00pm    Dance Performances [E]: Entertainment -- Traditional Chinese Dance Troupe of American Chinese Art Society (China), Germantown Country Dancers (England), Krakowiak Polish Dancers of Boston, Inc. (Poland), Jhumka Dance Company (India), Sambüris -- Lithuanian Folk Dance Group of Boston (Lithuana), FiddleKicks Cloggers (Clogging), Igranka (Bulgaria), Dance Revelasian (China), Mladost (Bulgaria), Commonwealth Vintage Dancers (Vintage), New England's Norwegian Dancers (Norway), Tierra del Sol (Mexico), Igranka (Bulgaria)
  9:00pm    South African Singing! [TM]: Teaching featured, Mixed Level -- Boston Harmony
  10:00pm    Open Sea Music Singaround [G]: Group Participation -- MIT Chantey Sing
  11:00pm    unscheduled
 
High School Room 107
  10:00am    Tone Deaf? You CAN Sing! [TM]: Teaching featured, Mixed Level -- Lorraine Hammond
  11:00am    If U Like Ukulele Lady [G]: Group Participation -- Evy Mayer
  12:00no    Wayfaring Stranger [E]: Entertainment -- Outrageous Fortune
  1:00pm    Traveling On [E]: Entertainment -- Robbie Wedeen
  2:00pm    Cece & Ruth Go Global [E]: Entertainment -- Cece Borjeson & Ruth George
  3:00pm    Chanteyman's Life [E]: Entertainment -- Chris Koldewey
  4:00pm    Traditional Songs of NY State [E]: Entertainment -- Dave Ruch
  5:00pm    New Tunebook Singing [GM]: Group Participation, Mixed Level -- Norumbega Harmony
  6:00pm    Nyckelharpa Smorgasbord [E]: Entertainment -- Harpas Four
  7:00pm    Effort-Less Fiddling [TM]: Teaching featured, Mixed Level -- Toby Weinberg
  8:00pm    When Everybody Do-si-doed [P]: Presentation -- Tony Parkes
  9:00pm    Soul of Scotland Fiddles [E]: Entertainment -- Boston Scottish Fiddle Club
  10:00pm    Old-Time Potpourri [E]: Entertainment -- Alan Friend & Bob Solosko
  11:00pm    unscheduled
 
High School Room 187
  10:00am    Contra Dancing: The Next Generation [C]: Chat/Discussion -- Brian Gallagher & Julia Nickles
  11:00am    The Emergency Caller [C]: Chat/Discussion -- Dan Pearl
  12:00no    Stewart's of Ullapool [P]: Presentation -- Howard T Glasser
  1:00pm    Planning a Workshop [C]: Chat/Discussion -- Lisa Sieverts
  2:00pm    Leadbelly's Songs [G]: Group Participation -- Pete Kraemer
  3:00pm    Introduction to Harmonica [TB]: Teaching featured, Beginner friendly -- Allen Hopkins
  4:00pm    Meet The Bagpipes [P]: Presentation -- Neal MacMillan
  5:00pm    Story Swap [GM]: Group Participation, Mixed Level -- Bruce Marcus
  6:00pm    Ballad Singer [E]: Entertainment -- Colleen Cleveland
  7:00pm    Whistle While You Workshop [TB]: Teaching featured, Beginner friendly -- P.g. Mulvaney
  8:00pm    Parlor Songs - Sing Along [G]: Group Participation -- Maury Stauffer, Richard Mungo
  9:00pm    Voices from New France [E]: Entertainment -- Les Bostonnaises
  10:00pm    Songs of Struggle [G]: Group Participation -- MacDougal Street Rent Party
  11:00pm    unscheduled
 
High School Room 188
  10:00am    5-Sring Banjo Workshop [TM]: Teaching featured, Mixed Level -- Bennett Hammond
  11:00am    West African Drum and Dance [EF]: Entertainment, Family-oriented -- Kekeli Drum & Dance Ensemble
  12:00no    Jug Playing 101 [TB]: Teaching featured, Beginner friendly -- Dan Dick & Friends
  1:00pm    Boing! Mouth Harps [P]: Presentation -- Bob Wyttenbach
  2:00pm    Shape Note Workshop [TB]: Teaching featured, Beginner friendly -- Glen Wright
  3:00pm    Turkish Village Music [E]: Entertainment -- Turgay Ertürk & Friends
  4:00pm    Intervening Period [E]: Entertainment -- David Diamond
  5:00pm    Scandinavian Music [E]: Entertainment -- Stämbandet
  6:00pm    Exquisite New Rounds [TM]: Teaching featured, Mixed Level -- Louise Brill & Friends
  7:00pm    Inspired by History [E]: Entertainment -- Diane Taraz
  8:00pm    Whaling & Sailing Songs [E]: Entertainment -- The Graybeards
  9:00pm    Folk Songs for All [GM]: Group Participation, Mixed Level -- Folk Song Society of Greater Boston
  10:00pm    Songs of the Seasons [E]: Entertainment -- Michael O'Leary, Kate Chadbourne
  11:00pm    unscheduled
 
High School Crafts Hall
  11:00am    Bookbinding: A new slant on an old craft [P]: Presentation -- Chena River Marblers
  12:00no    unscheduled
  1:00pm    Choosing A Flute [P]: Presentation -- Ralph Sweet
  2:00pm    Embellishing & Decorating Garments [P]: Presentation -- Dina Flockhart
  3:00pm    Introduction to Weaving: The Human Loom [P]: Presentation -- Beth Parkes
  4:00pm    Building a Rosette [P]: Presentation -- Alan Carruth
  5:00pm    unscheduled
 
Main Entrance
  9:00am    Morris & Sword Dancing [E]: Entertainment -- Ha'Penny Morris, The Black Jokers, Charm City Rapper
  10:00am    Morris & Sword Dancing [E]: Entertainment -- Banbury Cross Morris, Mulberry Morris, Candyrapper
  11:00am    Morris & Sword Dancing [E]: Entertainment -- Muddy River Morris, Bassett St. Hounds, No Apologies Rapper, Snicker Snack
  12:00no    Morris & Sword Dancing [E]: Entertainment -- New Haven Morris and Sword, Harrisville Morris Women, Cutting Edge
  1:00pm    Morris & Sword Dancing [E]: Entertainment -- Red Herring Morris, Heartwood Morris, Half Moon Sword
  2:00pm    Morris & Sword Dancing [E]: Entertainment -- Westerly Morris, Vineyard Swordfish, Pocket Flyers
  3:00pm    Morris & Sword Dancing [E]: Entertainment -- Green Mountain Morris, Jack in the Green Morris, Still River Sword
  4:00pm    Morris & Sword Dancing [E]: Entertainment -- Great Meadows Morris and Sword, Ring O' Bells Morris, Orion Longsword
  5:00pm    Morris & Sword Dancing [E]: Entertainment -- Commonwealth Morris, Maple Leaf Morris, Scrambled Six Rapper
  6:00pm    unscheduled

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