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Local Venues etc, Repeating Events Further Afield Festivals    Magazines & Archives Recordings etc. Radio etc. Words & Music Artists Press and Media info Membership maintenance FMSNY Archives, Scrapbook: pictures & more	A great concert upcoming on Friday 3 May: Hubby Jenkins See below for full details The next TradMaD Camp is 24 -30 August 2019 at Pinewoods Camp in Plymouth MA. Registration is open.
	We make music the old-fashioned way . . . We play it ... We sing it ... Sometimes we even dance to it Traditional Music is Alive and Well in New York We run concerts, weekends, classes, singing parties, and get-togethers, all with an emphasis on traditional folk music of all flavors. For more information, including how to join or get a free newsletter, see About Us. Our Facebook page / Our MeetUp group: Folk Music NYC  FMSNY Events Calendar: April * May OUR SITE IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING MAINTENANCE AND IS INCOMPLETE for full information please come back after noon on 26 April or download our newsletter (see below)

As well as the events listed below, we have occasional Singing Parties and other social events.  Our full newsletter lists these as well as having comprehensive listings of many other events around town.    Request a sample copy of our newsletter sent by mail Download April one-sheet listing with only FMS events (pdf) or Download the full April newsletter (pdf) including FMS events and many other events around town. To get on our e-mail notification list, please send your name and e-mail address to maillist (at) folkmusicny.org The Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization

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2019 - our 54th year

April

• Wednesday 24 April, 8-11pm: Sunnyside Singers Club.
  All songs are welcome, as are acoustic instruments. At the Aubergine Cafe, 49-22 Skillman Avenue at the corner of 50th Street in Woodside, Queens. Sandwiches, salads, coffee, tea, wine, and beer are available. The nearest subway stop is 52nd Street on the #7 Flushing Local.
    
  
• Monday 29 April, 8 pm -11 pm: Irish Traditional Music Session
  at the Landmark Tavern, 626 11th Avenue at 46th Street, Manhattan, led by Don Meade.
   

May


• Wednesday 1 May, 8-11pm: Sunnyside Singers Club.
  All songs are welcome, as are acoustic instruments. At the Aubergine Cafe, 49-22 Skillman Avenue at the corner of 50th Street in Woodside, Queens. Sandwiches, salads, coffee, tea, wine, and beer are available. The nearest subway stop is 52nd Street on the #7 Flushing Local.
   
• Wednesday 1 May, 7 - 10 pm: Folk Open Sing
  

  Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for a family-friendly open sing. Bring your voice, instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. Drop by for a couple of songs or the whole evening. At the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park West (basement), Brooklyn (near 2nd St.). Directions (pdf format). Take F train to 7th Ave.; Q train to 7th Ave.; 2/3 train to Grand Army Plaza. Hosted by Ethical Culture and FMSNY,  Hosted by Tom Weir. Info: 212-695-5924.

    
  
• Friday 3 May: Hubby Jenkins
  Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist who endeavors to share his love and knowledge of old-time American music.  He is best known as a part of the Carolina Chocolate Drops since 2010.  His website is: www. hubbyjenkins.com.  At Pearl Studios, 500 8th Ave, room 304. Contribution: general public $25; members $20. info: 646-628-4604.  tickets at the door or online at https://hubbyjenkins.eventbrite.com
   
• Sunday 5 May: Maritime Song Session
  We are back singing at South Street Seaport, aboard the Wavertree, on the first Sunday of May to September. Shanties, ballads, songs of the sea — come sing along, lead a song, or just listen and enjoy.  Special $5 Chantey Sing ticket includes entrance to the Seaport Museum’s Wavertree. (Other South Street Seaport Museum activities not included.)  Tickets at seaportmuseum.org/calendar, Code: Chantey2019 or at seaportmuseum.org/chantey2019 to have the code automatically applied.
   
• Mondays 6 & 13 May: 8 pm -11 pm: Irish Traditional Music Session
  at the Landmark Tavern, 626 11th Avenue at 46th Street, Manhattan, led by Don Meade.
   
• Wednesday 8 May, 8-11pm: Sunnyside Singers Club featuring Gabriel Donohue.
  All songs are welcome, as are acoustic instruments. At the Aubergine Cafe, 49-22 Skillman Avenue at the corner of 50th Street in Woodside, Queens. Sandwiches, salads, coffee, tea, wine, and beer are available. The nearest subway stop is 52nd Street on the #7 Flushing Local.
   
• Wednesday 15 May, 8-11pm: Sunnyside Singers Club.
  All songs are welcome, as are acoustic instruments. At the Aubergine Cafe, 49-22 Skillman Avenue at the corner of 50th Street in Woodside, Queens. Sandwiches, salads, coffee, tea, wine, and beer are available. The nearest subway stop is 52nd Street on the #7 Flushing Local.
   
  
• Sunday 19 May, 2-5 pm Shanty Sing
  We are co-­sponsoring the Shanty Sing on the 3rd Sunday of every month. The William Main Doerflinger Memorial Sea Shanty Sessions at the Noble Maritime Collection (to give the official title) are from 2 to 5 pm at the Noble Gallery, Building D, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island. Refreshments are available, including beer and wine for sale. Snug Harbor is accessible by the S40 bus from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and by car. See more information about the Noble Collection, click on "Visitor Information" for directions and a printable map.  For further information contact Bob Conroy: RConroy421(at)aol.com or 347-­267­-9394.
   
• Monday 20 May, 8 pm ? 11 pm: Irish Traditional Music Session
  at the Landmark Tavern, 626 11th Avenue at 46th Street, Manhattan, led by Don Meade.
  
  
• Wednesday 22 May, 8-11pm: Sunnyside Singers Club.
  All songs are welcome, as are acoustic instruments. At the Aubergine Cafe, 49-22 Skillman Avenue at the corner of 50th Street in Woodside, Queens. Sandwiches, salads, coffee, tea, wine, and beer are available. The nearest subway stop is 52nd Street on the #7 Flushing Local.
    
  
• Monday 27 May, 8 pm - 11 pm: Irish Traditional Music Session
  at the Landmark Tavern, 626 11th Avenue at 46th Street, Manhattan, led by Don Meade.
    
• Wednesday 29 May, 8-11pm: Sunnyside Singers Club with guest Joshua Garcia.
  All songs are welcome, as are acoustic instruments. At the Aubergine Cafe, 49-22 Skillman Avenue at the corner of 50th Street in Woodside, Queens. A freewill offering is collected on guest nights. Sandwiches, salads, coffee, tea, wine, and beer are available. The nearest subway stop is 52nd Street on the #7 Flushing Local.
   
•  Friday 31 May: 7:30pm Larry Kaplan concert
  Larry is a multi-instrumentalist singer and songwriter. who worked for many years on traditional vessels in Maine, sailed on and helped restore the Schooner Bowdoin, and has released four CDs through Folk Legacy Records, Worth All The Telling, Songs For An August Moon, Furthermore, and his newest, True Enough. No Depression, the Folk Roots Magazine, has called Larry’s music “some of the most finely crafted songs in folk music today.” Old Zeb, Song for Gale, Song for The Bowdoin, John, Get Her Into Shore, Selling The Isabel -- just a few examples of the extensive offering of some of the best contemporary ballads from New England, along its shores, and beyond you will find in modern folk music today. His songs have been performed and recorded by many respected artists and audiences around the world—compositions respectful of tradition, poignant stories in song, honest, highly singable… always memorable.  Larry's website is, www. larrykaplanmusic.com.
  
  At Pearl Studios, 500 Eighth Ave, room 304. Contribution: general public $25; members $20.  info: 646-628-4604.  tickets at the door or online at: https://larrykaplan.eventbrite.com/
   
• Saturday 1 June: 2pm, Larry Kaplan Workshop on Gale Huntington
  Illustrated with photographs and the occasional song, Larry talks about Gale -- his life and his collecting. Gale was a Martha's Vineyard fisherman, farmer, school teacher and historian, and the author of Songs the Whalermen Sang. He also wrote other books on New England music and history. Larry and Gale became friends over their shared love of music and the sea.
  At Pearl Studios, 500 Eighth Ave, room 315. Contribution: general public $25; members $20.  info: 646-628-4604.
   

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