Summer 2008 Sunday Sings

GRFAS Do It Yourself Music
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The Second Sunday Song Circle will meet on July 13 at Cal & Jean Lamoreaux's river house in Middleville. Map at http://www.freewebs.com/dancealot/riverhouse.gif
 
Take M-37 to the traffic light in Middleville, Main Street. Turn east to Russell Street (between Faro's Pizza and the Thornapple River bridge). Turn right.  Russell Street will end after three blocks and you will curve into Market Street.  Go to dead end of Market Street to the river. We are the last house on the right. 
 
On August 10, the Song Circle meets at Cal & Jean's cottage at Shady Shores, Gun Lake. Maps link is at http://www.freewebs.com/dancealot/maps.htm
 
Take the Bradley exit of US 131, exit 61.  Go east though Bradley for 6 miles to the BP station and McDonalds. Alternately, from the east side of Grand Rapids, take Broadmoor (East Beltline) south to Patterson (at Steelcase). Turn south on Patterson and go 15.7 miles to the aforementioned PB gas station.
 
Shady Shores is 1.4 miles south of the station on the left. (Look for the very large boats in front of Premier Motorsports on the right.) Park in the lot in front of the Gun Lake Chapel. Walk east down Dogwood to number 70.
 
If you haven't sung at either of Jean and Cal's locations, it's time to take the plunge!
 
The Second Sunday Song Circle returns to its original location, 3242 Brook Trails Drive SE, on September 14.

Grand River Folk Arts Society presents outstanding concert performers and lively dances with really fine bands but what’s missing from this picture? Grassroots music making, that’s what! If folk music is what we’re all about, shouldn’t we folk be making some of it? Of course!  If you like to sing, or you play an instrument, but can’t imagine yourself equipped with a stage and a microphone — at least not yet! This is for you: community singing and jam sessions.

Community singing is just getting together to share old or new songs informally, campfire style. We might do this from memory; we welcome new songs you bring, on paper or in your head; and we have copies of the book Rise Up Singing to borrow or buy. We generally meet on the second Sunday of the month. We begin at 5:00 PM with a potluck supper, then sing until 9;00 or so. Join the gathering for any portion or for the entire time.

 

<>A popular variant is “Shaped Note” singing. We sing from The Sacred Harp, a recognized standard, sight-reading these shaped-notes. Shaped notes were a New England notation style that was to aid non-music-readers recognize and read music. It was developed in the 1800’s and still enthralls people with its haunting sounds and enthusiastic energy applied to church hymns. A group currently meets in Kalamazoo on the third Sunday afternoon of the month. Let Mary know if you’d like to carpool down and give it a try!


Newcomers are always welcome.
Call Mary Postellon, (616) 246-6468, or
email: sundaysings@grfolkarts.org 
Postellons’ home, 3242 Brook Trails Drive SE in Grand Rapids.

 

Last update: August 09, 2007