Sunday, October 25, 2009

Harwich "Cape Verde" Folk Festival - How we "Go Green in Harwich and on Cape Cod" !




We are wishing to be a "green" in our planning for the Harwich Folk- Music Festival next September / October 2010. 
Why wait until then. We can start contributing right now and build on this community education today. 


If any one has any going green suggestions I will post them here. 
Just email the link to me at jjbangert@gmail.com




We now can keep tract of folks who do individual act of GREEN and  building up to goal by offering this as an immediate solution to "going green" all year round!

    Monday, October 19, 2009

    From her roots in Harwich -Here is Annie Lynch with the Annie & The Beekeepers

    About Annie and the Beekeepers “Annie Lynch and the Beekeepers owes much of its sound to the lilting country and bluegrass melodies of its forebears, but its musical palette is diverse enough to include a touch of New Orleans Dixie clarinet and some gorgeously resonant cello playing.” – The Boston Globe

    Annie and the Beekeepers is a folk and country inspired trio that met at Berklee College of Music in December 2006. The members of Annie and the Beekeepers came to Berklee from across the country with different musical backgrounds – Annie Lynch, is a self-taught guitarist and the Beekeepers’ principal singer and songwriter from the Town of Harwich on Cape Cod.



    Ken Woodward
    , is from Charlottesville, VA and plays acoustic bass and sometimes stomps on a snare at the same time for fun.



    Alexandra Spalding, who lends her beautiful voice to create the Beekeepers’ signature harmonies, grew up playing cello in orchestras in Northern California.


    Annie met Ken through various attempts to learn bluegrass and saw Alex playing in a Berklee Joni Mitchell ensemble. One brief rehearsal later, the group gathered in Ken's frigid basement apartment with producer and peer, Frank Charlton, for two days of recording. Though the work was never titled or released, those two days in December of 2006 gave birth to a band that would go on to build a reputation for their unique instrumentation and lyrics, evocative layered harmonies, and heartwarming live performances.


    In the summer of 2007, Annie and the Beekeepers joined Grammy-nominated producer, Jack Gauthier, at his lakeside studio for the recording of their self-titled debut album, Annie Lynch and the Beekeepers. Creating arrangements for songs that Lynch had written months or years prior to the December 2006 session evolved into stronger collaborations, with Woodward and Lynch co-writing “The Bee Song.” The album was released in January of 2008 and has been played frequently on WERS Emerson Radio and WUMB Boston Radio, and earned fans at The Boston Globe and many other regional publications and blogs. Annie and the Beekeepers went on to play 2008’s Boston Folk Festival, CMJ and South By Southwest in 2009.

    Nearly a year after their debut’s release, Adrian Olsen, a friend and producer from Berklee, invited the band to use some studio time he had at Squid Hell in Jamaica Plain, MA. Without plans or expectations, the band laid down new songs and live favorites in what Lynch describes as "a one of the most gratifying creative moments we've shared." The songs recorded that afternoon would set the foundation for the Squid Hell Sessions EP, and in the winter of 2009, the band finished recording at Garth Stevenson’s home-studio in Brooklyn. The group produced the work with the help of Stevenson, Olsen, and Kyle Vandekerkhoff. Woodward says of the process, “The recording experience was in many ways similar to what this record is about. Squid Hell Sessions is about facing life's suffering, confronting that pain, and ultimately passing through it. The sounds on this record are dark, rich, and deeply satisfying.” Lynch concludes, “Though the EP contains a lot of sorrowful emotion, it is, in essence, a celebration of music as a positive outlet. There is something strangely comforting in the sharing of one's hardships. Though we all know that each person feels pain, having songs in our lives that reflect these common emotions help us to feel a sense of unity in the times when we need that the most.”

    When the band first began playing together in living rooms and basements around Boston, the mysterious disappearance of bee colonies throughout the world was receiving a great deal of attention in the media. As the group built the foundations of their band in coffeehouses and clubs around the Northeast, the collapse of the bee colonies fascinated them and inspired their name. The Bee has long been a symbol for hard work and community, and the Beekeepers were inspired to preserve and promote those same qualities by way of music and their role in the music community. To that end, the songs on their first album, 2008’s Annie Lynch and the Beekeepers and the Squid Hell Sessions EP (May 12, 2009), are honest, collaborative efforts, drawing on the sounds of Joni Mitchell, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan, and CSNY.








    Listen to Annie and The Beekeepers








    Saturday, October 17, 2009

    Harwich Folks Festival Ad Hoc Committee





    Shannon and Edward Mc Manus
     41 Parallel St.
    Harwich, MA 02645
    (508) 432-3842 - Home
    (508) 527-7620 - Mobile
      mcmanused@msn.com



    Barbara Johnson
    6 Wendys Way
    Harwich, MA 02645-2509
    508-430-9823 - Home   
    turtle888@comcast.net




    Rowland Scherman

    94 Hopkins Ln Apt. 24
    Orleans, MA 02653-3463

    (508)-255-0901 - Home
    (508)-246-6692 - Mobile  
    photomota@comcast.net





    Rowland Scherman left to right photos (Rowland in China 2009), (Rowland and  Bob Dylan 1964?)

     





    Here is Rowland's  photograph of Bob (Robert Zimmerman) Dylan!

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    Rowland Scherman is an American photographer.
    He studied at Oberlin College, and was dark room apprentice at LIFE magazine. He was the first photographer for the newly-formed Peace Corps in 1961[1]. His photographs appeared in Life, Look, Time, National Geographic, Paris Match and Playboy, among many others [2], and he photographed many of the iconic musical, cultural, and political events of the 1960s[3] [4], including the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, the Beatles first US concert, and Woodstock. He won a Grammy Award in 1968 for his photograph cover of "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits"[5]. His published collections include "Love Letters", an alphabet formed by posed dancers, and "Elvis is Everywhere." He lived in Birmingham, Alabama, and documented Alabama's Highway 11. He now lives in the town of Orleans on Cape Cod.




    Dillon Murphy HCOC
    Manager of Harwich Port, LAND-HO!
    Work: (508) 430-0404

     







    Greg Greenway 
     Folk Singer











    Greg and Audrey Greenway
     69 Lovers Ln
    Harwich, MA 02645-3010
     

    (508) 432-4494 - Home

     http://www.greggreenway.com/tours/



    Sheila House
    shouse@town.harwich.ma.us
     Office: (508)-430-7836
     (508) 432-1323-Home

    Julie Bangert
    jubangert@hotmail.com

    John & Gail  Bangert, HCOC
     5 Stage Coach Road
    Harwich, MA  02645

    Home: (508) 432-0545
    Cell: (508) 514-0143
    jjbangert@gmail.com





    BOB WEISER hosts "The Old Songs' Home" every Monday morning at 9:30 AM

    Folk and acoustic, traditional and contemporary, new songs about old subjects and old songs about current matters, singer-songwriters and anon all in the mix.
    You'll hear new releases by folks you've never heard of, old chestnuts from the greats, spiced with a touch of bluegrass, Celtic, Cajun, blues, and ethnic music. Songs about real people and their lives, labor and work songs, protest music, and comic relief are all included.

    Bob brings his several lifetimes of experiences to the show- labor activist and metal worker, school teacher and salesman, cab driver and chef, father, farmers' market and food coop organizer, etc.

    Bob produced close to 1000 musical events- folk, bluegrass, Celtic, festivals and more- before moving to the Cape. He's hosted folk music programs at WBRS 100.1 FM in Waltham, and the late lamented WADN (Walden 1120 AM) in Concord.

    Bob has been with WOMR since 2001, and ably fills the void left by the late Jack Cullen, long the host of Monday Folk music at WOMR.

    Kris Larsen Business Owner HCOC

    chathamoaklander@yahoo.com


    Kris is a folks singer and has released a CD of her music.