Cafe Rhizophere

Subject: Cafe Rhizophere Harwich Music Festival Winter Home(s)!

Harwich is fast becoming known as the restaurant center of the mid-cape with excellent inns and new younger hip restaurants, like the Harwich Land Ho Hot Stove, and Embers Flat Pizza. We also believe that the Harwich Cranberry Festival Committee wanting to open and explore going into a new direction towards "more cultural, less carnival" and is the why the Harwich Musical Festival Committee was formed in the fall of 2009.

Cafe * Rhizosphere

We need to have a movable or  rotational coffee house in winter home(s) for "open mic" days or nights, which offer a  more serene and serious atmosphere for poetry, and folk music and with audience and artist within an environment of non-alcohol intimacy and concentration.

First Congregational Church Parish Hall, in Harwich Center, and Pilgrim Congregational Church, and Christ Episcopal Church is Harwich Port, East Hawich Methodist Church are the many venues we will explore as to offer HMF as a place where our committee my work with , to see if they might offer us a winter home in doors, for music and fellowship. So who do YOU know in these communities?

In about two years time the Harwich town owned South Harwich Meeting House, may become our permanent home once the foundation and repair is completed.

http://www.facebook.com/l/98c93;www.southharwichmeetinghouse.com/

(*)The Rhizosphere is the zone surrounding the roots of plants in which complex relations exist among the plant, the soil microorganisms and the soil itself. The plant roots and the biofilm associated with them can profoundly, influence the chemistry of the soil including pH and nitrogen transformations.

We hoped that a new agenda of folks would be open to develop an outreach to musicians in Harwich, as sort of an new academy of music, where by we connect with talent development in Harwich and surrounding communities and offer steady guidance and networking for individual advancement in the performing arts, and music as well as marketing from our community.

HARWICH"S HOLLOW AWAKENS TO MUSIC THIS SPRING, SUMMER WINTER & FALL

by John J Bangert

On Earth Day 2010, famed Life magazine and Grammy award winning photographer, Rowland Scherman and I met for a lunch and a beer in Harwich Center, at Andale's Cafe, then we toured the "Harwich Hollow."

Click Here for your own virtual tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP_BLlnUzNk

Rowley snapped his camera as soon as his eye caught hold of the community tree, a large symbolic spreading cooper beach tree, growing in town for perhaps 100 years or more at Brooks Park. Scherman shot Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, and the most of the folk acts and rock n roll music scene, a who's who from the 60s, 70s and 80's. Now- still not retired, Rowland has been on our committee since last year.

We thought that this tree, with hundreds of carved initials from lover's in the Harwich past, to today's young folks committed by fresh engravings today commemorating from the rites of spring -2010.

Harwich Folks Festival is a place for new beginnings, a place where locally grown talent like Catie Flynn,-The Fireman's Daughter, Annie Lynch - Annie and the Bee Keepers, Emma Dubner - The Ticks, The Elbows, JO & CO, to name just a few groups and the well established folks from our Cape community like Harwich's own Greg Greenway and  Kris Larsen; and from nearby towns like Carol Chichetto, Sarah Burrill, David Roth and Anne Hirst and others may network and connect or reconnect with each other and the general community. Historically in the 1960-1970's, we had Paul Pena from Queen Anne Road, who was not sighted, but gifted to see beyond Harwich and who developed his musical abilities with his parents Virginia & Jack Pena. Let us all  be cognizant of today's talents and the prophets for tomorrow amongst us.

Also remembering the folks musicians from yesterday like the Harwich born, the late Paul Pena! 

http://harwichfolks.blogspot.com/2009/10/who-was-harwichs-own-paul-pena.html

Our next meeting is Thursday, May 20th Albro House Main St. next to town Hall at 6:30 PM!

Our Harwich Music Festival committee will integrate the arts, and crafts festival dates to now include music, as an added value to growing list of events planned in town.

· Sat July 10, Sun July 11 (At Brooks Park)

· Sat Aug 14, Sun Aug 15 (At Brooks Park)

· Sat Sep 11, Family Fun Day -, Music at Bond Fire & Crafts Show (Red River Beach)

· Sat Sep 18, Arts, Crafts and Food with children’s music, puppets, face painting, programming in gazebo (At Brooks Park)

· Sat WOMR/ WFMR “Kick Off” Celebration and Music Festival in the (At Brooks Park & Harwich Hollow) 12-8pm

· Sun Children’s program on big WOMR/WFMR stage if still available in AM before parade,

and Harwich Folks Festival after parade ‘til 5pm (At Brooks Park & Harwich Hollow)

http://harwichfolks/blogspot.com

WOMR / WFMR UPDATE

Plans continue for getting the new transmitter in Brewster by the SBA tower, and for installing two antennas on the tower to broadcast our signal down the rest of the Cape. The site will broadcast our regular WOMR programming, but will do so under the call letters, WFMR (further most radio), we like to say; in contrast to the outer most radio of our P-town call letters), at 91.3 on your FM dial.

We still are optimistically seeking a begin broadcasting date of early summer. A kickoff party for the repeater is in the works, for September 18th, in Harwich, in which we debut our new logo for WOMR/WFMR, http://www.facebook.com/l/98c93;92.1/91.3FM, and celebrating our programming to the Upper Cape. It will be a full day of fun and music, food and drink.