Sat 2/23 @ 12PM
Summertime offers plenty of opportunities for folk musicians to come together, hang out, jam, pick up tips at workshops from master musicians, and catch performances by some of those same musicians. A lot of them are outdoors in bucolic settings.
Obviously, that wouldn’t work in February in Cleveland. But the Shore Cultural Center in Euclid is offering the same low-key, sharing vibe at its first-time event, the Shore Folk Festival, which it’s billing as “an all-day celebration of traditional American music.”
An afternoon of workshops will cover blues, bluegrass, old-time music, folk, poetry, and traditional dance forms, like clogging and square dance, with special poetry and songwriting workshops for kids. There’s an interactive kids’ concert at 3 pm, hosted by Cleveland-based nonprofit Roots of American Music, which brings traditional music into schools as a teaching tool. While the kids are busy with that, the bravest parents can compete for cash prizes at a poetry open mic. And fiddlers, guitarists, and banjo players can drop in on sessions with some of the area’s top players of these instruments.
A jam session from 5-6 pm will be followed by an hour of swing dance from 6-7. The day closes with a headline concert featuring a diverse roundup of Ohio-based talent with a couple of centuries’ worth of experience between them: Katie Daley, Lynn Frederick, Gusti, Hillbilly IDOL, Pete McDonald, Ray McNeice, Mark Olitsky, and Janice Pohl.
Food and drink will be available to Shore Center; there are also numerous restaurants in the surrounding blocks.
The best part is that this family-friendly event is inexpensive. The headline concert is $10; the kids concert is $5. Workshops are $2 a piece, or $5 for the entire afternoon. $15 covers an entire family for the afternoon activities.
http://www.shoreculturalcentre.com/shorefolkfestival
Euclid, OH 44123
One Response to “New Folk Festival Debuts at Shore Cultural Center”
Geoffrey A. Landis
Also, don’t miss the poetry reading at the Folk Festival– bring your best poem! 3-4 p.m tomorrow, with prized for the best poem!