- Amigos Family Show: Adventures in America’s Musical Landscape - Featuring the music of Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, and more, this concert addresses the distinctive styles of American folk music. We’ll follow songs across oceans and mountains and through cities
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- Anne Shimojima, Featured Storyteller Performance - A retired elementary library media specialist, Anne Shimojima has performed literary stories, historical pieces, and folk tales from her Asian heritage and around the world for the past 30+ years.
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- Barb Silverman and Colby Maddox - Acclaimed as a “stunning vocalist, master teacher, and folk festival in a box,” Barbara Silverman has performed for three decades solo and with The Laketown Buskers, The Teflons, The Schticklers
- Campfire Open Sea Chantey Sing with Chris Maden - Join chanteyman Chris Maden and some of the regulars from the Chambana Chantey Sing for an open song session. We’ll sing chanteys (sailors’ work songs) and forebitters (recreational songs), songs
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- Campfire Singalong with Rebecca Grosser and Hilary Valentine - Join old-time musicians Rebecca Grosser (guitar) and Hilary Valentine (mountain dulcimer) to sing songs of the Carter Family – the “First Family of Country Music,” including “Keep on the Sunny
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- Dance Try-Its - Yes, you CAN have it all! Spend a delightful hour-and-a-half learning three different dance traditions. Irish dances with Daniel Flora Born to parents in the Foreign Service (Diplomatic Corps), Daniel Flora
- Family Dance with Barb Silverman and Colby Maddox - The whole family can jump in on this one: circles, squares and contra dances (two lines) made easy and fun. Each dance will be explained step by step, and dances
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- Harmonica Workshop with Dave Witzany (beginning) - It’s easy to begin to learn to play harmonica! Dave will lead the group using key of C diatonic 10 hole harmonicas to help you learn about the instrument and to
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- Local Storyteller Showcase - The Local Teller Showcase features some of Champaign-Urbana’s favorite tellers: Kim Sheahan, Kathe Brinkmann, Elaine Bearden, Linda Dust, and Camille Born. All are members of the C-U Storytelling Guild and
- Morris Dancers - Morris dance is a traditional dance from England that has been done for hundreds of years. There are several references to Morris dance in Shakespeare. Each village or region has
- Mr. Stephens and Friends - Mr. Stephens is still playing goofy songs for kids even after some of them have grown up. He saw one of them driving away from Urbana High School the other
- Musical Marionettes Parade with Anne Newman - Join Anne Newman and her magical and musical marionettes on a parade that will start in the Landmark Hotel Ballroom. Can you dance as well as the marionettes? We can’t
- Pickin’ Illini Jam Session - Come join members of the Pickin’ Illini in an old-fashioned, pickin’-style jam! If you love to pick bluegrass, blues or folk, or just want to sing along, then pull up a chair
- Ukulele Workshop (all ages) with Steve Meadows - Local music educator and multi-instrumentalist Steve Meadows will demonstrate and discuss the basic skills you’ll need to play the ukulele in this workshop. Topics covered include instrument anatomy/terminology, basic chord
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- Yiddish Dance with Don’t Ask, Mitch Harris leading - It’s like a wedding with no bride or groom! Come dance to the music of Don’t Ask, playing Klezmer music in the spirit of early Eastern Europe’s Jewish village string bands,
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