Calendar of Upcoming Folklore and Folk Arts Events:

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A note on Native American Events: we post notices of pow-wows which are open to the general public. It’s a worthwhile experience. However, if you have never attended a powwow before, please click here.

 

Ongoing:

Just a reminder to tune into KRCU 90.9 Saturday Evenings From 7:00pm-8:00pm and listen to Your Folk Connection. www.yourfolkconnection.org with are pals Barney Hartline and Terry Wright.

 

Our BlueGrass friends, Randol Lee and Janie can be heard from 7:00pm-10:00pm on Wednesdays and from 10:00am-Noon on Saturdays on KWKZ 106.1 the Coyote. I want to give a big Thank You to those individuals for putting out the good word on Traveling Acoustic Open Mic.
 

1st and 3rd Thursdays, September to May:

 

Due to popular demand (that's right), in September 2009, after a year's hiatus, the Little Dixie Old-Time Fiddle Club will return to the Boone-Walters Historical Museum in southeast Columbia, Missouri.  The sessions will again be held on each first and third Thursday of the month, September through May, from 5.00 to 8.00 pm.  Our emphasis is on traditional fiddle music.  All levels of experience are welcome, but we ask that everyone observe "jam session etiquette."  The Boone-Walters museum is in Nifong Park, southeast Columbia (from US63, east off of US63 at the AC / Grindstone Parkway exit, then south on Ponderosa Drive to the Museum).  Our host will be the Boone County Historical Society (thank you Jennifer Flink!).  Contact:  Boone County Historical Society, (573) 443-8936, email BCHS@Socket.Net, or Howard (Rusty) Marshall, club secretary, (573) 642-6226, email HMarshall@Socket.Net.  "Lay it on, Leon!" 

 

2nd Monday of the month,

          at Churchill's Coffee Shop in downtown Springfield

The Celtic Society of the Ozarks' newest special interest group, the "Hoolie-gans" (Hoolie is the Irish word for a music session), is now meeting every 2nd monday of the month at Churchill's Coffee Shop in downtown Springfield. The hoolie begins at 6.00 pm (or thereabouts!) Everyone is welcome, so bring your instrument, your voice, your family, friends and yourself and join us at the hoolie! Besides the music, be prepared for traditional Irish & Scottish dancing, storytelling -- you never know what is going to happen when the "Hoolie-gans" gather!
The "hoolie-gans" play a wide variety of traditional Irish, Scottish, Celtic and Ozarks music, and audience participation is strongly encouraged!

For more information, or directions to the venue, please see the "Hoolie-gans" web site at:

http://www.mcwhistles.com/Hoolie.html

Or e-mail "Head Hoolie-gan" John McHaffie at John@mcwhistles.com .
 

Every other Sunday, 5-7 p.m.:

broadcast from Columbia, MO, Ellie &/ or Leela Grace spin(s) disks and share their love for music on the radio show, "World Woman."  KOPN Radio, 89.5 FM.
Info: 573-874-5676.
lgrace@coin.org

Third Tuesday of every month, in Springfield--
Scottish Country Dance lessons will be held at the Southside Community  Center, 2215 South Fremont, Springfield, Missouri, 7 - 9:00 PM.  Beginning and intermediate level dancing. A fun evening for all. Anyone interested in learning Scottish Country Dancing is  welcome. There is a three dollar charge for each adult to cover facility usage.

For additional information: contact Jean Ann Barrera at 417-887-6841.
 Proudly associated with the Celtic Society of the Ozarks

Every Thursday in Mansfield


The Mansfield Jamboree meets each Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in the Mansfield Auto Auction building in Mansfield (50 mi. east of Springfield on Hwy. 60).  It is an acoustic jam session that is free and open to the public.  Each week musicians from all over SW Missouri arrive to play old time music, bluegrass, country & gospel - with a little square dancing and jig dancing thrown in.  It is a wonderful way to keep the songs of the Ozarks alive.    Contact --
Mansfield Jamboree, Inc.
P.O. Box 514
Mansfield, MO
65704

or email music@mansfieldjamboree.org

First Saturdays in Stockton

 
The First Saturday of the month music gatherings have started their third year at the Stockton Community Building.
Music begins about 6:30 p.m.  All musicians are invited and it is open to the public at no charge.  These will run through April.

Every other Saturday in McDowell


The McDowell Gold Jubilee, held in the Barry County community of McDowell, MO, and located in the SW corner of the state, will begin with the first session of its 24th year on Saturday, October 13. The program, under the direction of Betty and Ben Henderson, Monett, is held
every other Saturday night from October until the first of May .  It is an "entertainment-style hootenanny", with amateur and semi-professional entertainers appearing regularly onstage.   Music begins at 6:30 and continues until all the participants have been featured.The event is free to the public and concessions help with the expenses of upkeep, electricity and heating. Acoustic instruments are the preferred form of musical accompiment for the program, which consists of bluegrass, country/western and gospel.  Performers are requested to keep their sessions to three numbers for a single and twenty minutes for a group. An old school building located on south Hwy VV midway between Monett and Aurora is the home of the program.  Seating is available, but conveniences are few.  Our outhouse, however, is most modern...electric lights...just imagine!  (And I've never seen a snake!). So y'all come, y'hear?  And experience some of our old-fashioned Ozark hospitality. Interested parties can contact Betty Craker Henderson at 417-235-3719 or by e-mail:  http://www.bettyh@sofnet.com

 

Upcoming:

 

August 12-15

Kahoka

37th Annual Kahoka Festival of Bluegrass music.

For more information, call 573.853.4398

 

August 14-15

Freistatt

Freistatt Ernte Fest

For more information, call 417.236.8660

 

August 15

Clarksville

Clarksville Blues Festival

For more information, call 573.242.3309

 

August 15

Lone Jack

Lone Jack Civil War Commemoration at the civil War Battlefield

For more information, call 816.805.1815

 

August 21-22

West Plains

3rd Annual Fiddle Fest, Harmonica Howl, Bluegrass Jam and Crafters’ Convention

For more information, call 888.256.8835

 

August 29

Lexington

Missouri River Old Time Fiddlers’ Contest & Lexington Community Fair

For more information, call 660.259.4922

 

September 3-6

Dixon

41st Annual Show of Bluegrass Pickin’ Time

For more information, call 573.759.3544

 

September 4-13

Gainesville

Pre-1840s Blackpowder Rendezvous

For more information, call 417.294.1175

 

September 12

Birch Tree

2nd Annual Loggers’ Day

For more information, call 573.292.3181

 

September 12

Marshall

Santa Fe Trail Days

For more information, call 660.886.3324

 

 

 


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