Here are the folks lined up to perform featured sets at our upcoming in-person and online events in January:
January 1st at the Quaker Meeting House
Song circle configuration; no featured sets.
January 15th at the Quaker Meeting House & live-streamed to Zoom
Linda Chobotuk — Come celebrate Linda’s new CD: If I Sing. Linda writes: “As a singersongwriter I am best known as a writer of songs about work, since after sleeping that is actually what we spend the majority of time doing. I grew up in a folkie household and have been singing and playing guitar since the age of seven. Not a terribly prolific songwriter but if you keep doing it long enough, it adds up.
Jim Edmondson and the Inter-generations — Jim is excited to be part of the VFSS’s Folk Revival and says as long as there’s camaraderie, playfulness and serious harmonizing, he’s stickin’ around.
Leah Williams and Mark Dowding sing Robbie Burns. Leah and Mark have been performing as a duo for over 15 years, creating the magic in the storytelling through thoughtful and expressive lyrics framed by instrumental counterpoint on guitar, flute, whistle, recorder, quena and harmonica.
Gram Partisans — The Gram Partisans are a Vancouver-based roots folk group whose music combines our collective respect for many diverse musical traditions with our beliefs in hope, integrity, justice and a long memory. We play mostly original songs that tell stories of courage, trust, imagination, and solidarity. We seek to challenge your views of what music rooted in social justice can sound and feel like. Follow us on Facebook and Youtube.
The current line-up of the Gram Partisans is:
William (Bill) Hood – vocals and guitar
Georgina Arntzen – vocals and mandolin
Jack MacDermot – fiddle and vocals
Alan Zisman – accordion and piano
Michel Drouin – bass and vocals
January 29th on Zoom
Don Gilbert is a long-time member of the Folk Song Society, mostly to be found online these days, quite often hosting the online portion of our 3rd Wednesday combo events. He possesses a rich singing voice, and accompanies himself with taste and skill on the old Gibson guitar that his parents bought him when he was a teenager in North Carolina. He has a huge repertoire of songs in varying genres, some soulful, some funny, some with a keen social conscience, some of which he has written himself. Not just another pretty face!
If you are interested in doing a 15-minute set at the Meeting House, please contact our Features Coordinator or sign-up at the desk at any of our in-person events.