34th Annual San Francisco Free Folk Festival
June 12 & 13, 2010 Presidio Middle School
450 30th Ave, San Francisco (@ Geary) http://www.sffolkfest.org
For pictures of past Family Festival Fun, click here. And readwhat Pete Seeger had to say to teens in 1963. Here's our 2010 lineup! Folk Festival
Family Concert Schedule Click on the link for more about the performers, concerts and workshops Visit our Video Library here!
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Faith Petric Main Stage:
12:00-12:10 Bulgarian Children's Dance Group: Martenichki
12:10-12:50 Music & Movement with Renee's Here! 12:50-1:30Tutti Frutti Italian Musical Commedia with Jim Letchworth 1:30-2:10Original Songs for the Whole Family withCooper & Bounds
2:10-2:50 Comic Singing Storyteller :Uncle Eye
Malvina Reynolds Stage ~ Room 117
3:00Calling All Kids: Kids Open Mic! 3:20 Singing Games From Around The World: Bonnie Lockhart 4:00-6:00 Sing-A-Long Round Robin & Song Swap with members from Children's Music Network
Malvina Reynolds Stage ~ Room 117
2:30-2:55 Calling All Kids: Kids Open Mic!
3:00-3:50 Sinks To Seas Songs & Stories that SPLASH!: Laurie Story & Jeremiah
4:00-4:50 Sing-A-Long Campfire Songs: "Ranger" Bob Keller
5:00-5:50 Our Favorite Family Folkie Sing -A-Long:Faith Petric
Faith Petric & Malvina Reynolds Stages Saturday, June 12 Faith Petric Main Stage
12:00-12:10 Bulgarian Children's Dance Group: Martenichki, Tanya Kostova Director These young dancers will kick off our Festival Family Program with gusto!
The Martenichki Bulgarian Dancers meet weekly in people's homes and their dance lessons look more like dance parties.
Martenichki are a very Bulgarian symbol, that after a long and cold winter brings to Bulgarian people the hope and joy of the coming Spring. As these young children dance under this name, they represent the Bulgarian traditions coming alive in a new generation.The children first met each other last May at The first Bulgarian Detski Panair, "Children's Faire". They and their families had so much fun that the parents decided they must continue. The children are ages 3 to 9 and dance under the direction of renowned Bulgarian choreographer
Tanya Kostova.
12:10-12:50 Music & Movement with Renee ~ Renee's Here! Are you ready? Jump Up! Renee's here! And she will have you dancing, jumping, singing & wanting more!
Renee's music program is designed to enhance creativity, promote self-esteem, and aid in proper physical and emotional development in young children. Renee's songs are filled with clean rhythms to grab your attention and lyrical directions for movement and large motor development. In addition to being a performer of many stages, from comedic acting to fronting a rock band, Renee has an extensive background in early childhood development, holding positions including but not limited to classroom teacher, preschool director, and "Music in the Classroom" workshop presenter for preschool teachers. Combining a dedicated career in early childhood with a polished and accomplished performance edge Renee's Here! concerts always leave the kids and their parents wanting more! www.reneeshere.com
12:50-1:30 Italian Musical Commedia with Jim Letchworth & Tutti Frutti Comedia Co!
Returning to the Family program is this favorite, frolicking production. With lots of audience participation,
all ages enjoy the slapstick comedy and music of this fun filled show!
Jim Letchworth is the driving force behind TUTTI FRUTTI COMMEDIA CO. He was introduced to Commedia dell’Arte in college but is primarily self-taught. Jim has been making leather masks for twenty-five years and has done numerous museum, school, University and theater programs! Read about his Commedia exploits in CommediaDell’Arte a Handbook for Troupes by John Rudlin & Olly Crick. Jim also does murder mysteries and 19th century ballroom dancing. He first met his wife, Marilyn, while playing the old miser, Pantalone at the Renaissance Faire.
1:30-2:10Original Songs for the Whole FamilywithCooper & Bounds Original songs for the whole family, with a Folk/ World Jazz flavor, about life, the world and funny characters
you might meet along the way
Cooper and Bounds are an award winning San Francisco based songwriting and singing duo who have been nominated nationally for best song at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas and The Napa Folk Festival in California. They perform locally at festivals and venues in the bay area.Their latest CD, Uh Oh Moon is geared to families and children. It includes the John Lennon Award winning, “Jack Rabbit,” song. Song video is below.
Check out their CD at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/cooperbounds and their recording label at: http://www.dreamhillmusic.com
2:10-2:50 Comic Frolic with Singing Storyteller:Uncle Eye Join Singing Storyteller Uncle Eye & Wilber the Chicken in a rolicking rumpus of outlandish FUN!
Uncle Eye: Singing Storyteller seen on PBS Kid’s Show Piggley’s Storyteller Playhouse is guaranteed to make you laugh. Often seen with Wilber Rupert Rufus Gonzalez Maritnez-Allegro the IIIrd: the Rubber Chicken of Freedom, Uncle Eye has caused riots of elation from California to Scotland with his original cartoon-like and comic narrative music. Sing & laugh along! Uncle Eye, a.k.a. Ira Scott Levin was practically born on the stage in Miami, Florida, he studied theater and music at F.S.U. While on his way to L.A. to become a comic actor, he decided to stay in Colorado to concentrate on writing music. When he did come to California he opted for Berkeley, where he has gotten a chance to study voice with the late great Judy Davis and had free reign to expand organically, not only as a composer but as a song leader and volunteer for TV stations, libraries, and Earth days. Visit this zany human comic online: http://www.uncleeye.com/
Malvina Reynolds Stage ~ Room 117
3:00 Kids Voice: Kids Open Mic hosted by Jeremiah ~ Kids, this is your time!
Calling all kids!
Bring all your talents, musical and otherwise and share them with us at the family friendly
Malvina Reynolds Stage. There will be a sign up board in the room available for early sign ups beginning at 12:00.
The stars of the show will be whoever shows up! Kids ~ that's you!
Our Open Mic host is 10 year old Jeremiah. Jeremiah plays piano, writes songs, sings and does some theatre. He has been performing and recording with his mom, Laurie Story off and on his whole life! Jeremiah has also become a great cameraman for their UTube videos!
3:20 Singing Games From Around The World With Bonnie Lockhart All over the world, people sing in a ring, dance in a line, play guessing games, rhythm games,
counting games, and all kinds of games with music. Come and share these international
treasures with festival favorite Bonnie Lockhart ~ fun and accessible to people of all ages.
Bonnie Lockhart is an Oakland, California-based singer, songwriter and educator well loved by audiences of all ages. Bonnie's interactive concerts are designed to maximize children's participation. Her shows feature sing-along, clap along, move-along activities with folk songs from many countries and cultures including Jamaica, Japan, Nigeria, Nicaragua and the United States. One of Bonnie's recent albums for children, families, and teachers is Dreams, Drums, & Green Thumbs; Bonnie's own collection of 15 songs, both original and traditional, rooted in folk music from Appalachia to the Caribbean. http://www.bonnielockhart.com/
4:00-6:00 CMN Sing-A-Long Round Robin Concert & Song Swap featuring fab Children's Music Network Members
like Faith Petric, Bonnie Lockhart, Liz Hannon, Laurie Story & Jeremiah & MORE! The Children's Music Network is a diverse group of individuals - singers, song writers, performers, teachers, librarians, parents and children. The network's mission statement is "Connecting people who celebrate the positive power of music in children's lives by exchanging ideas, visions, and music." Join some of CMN's most dynamic members from the Northern CA chapter right here at the Folk Fest as they lead a Round Robin sing-a-long concert featuring songs that invite everyone to join in. This sing-along is for people who love to sing with children of all ages and are looking for songs that invite participation in lots of ways. Come to share, come to listen, come to sing! Our CMN members will share Round Robin style & there will be opportunities for all to share songs that want to! http://www.cmnonline.org/
Faith Petric & Malvina Reynolds Stages Sunday, June 13 Faith Petric Main Stage
12:00-12:40Princess & The Pirate: Princess Suska & Pirate Mordecai Kicking off our Faith Petric Main Stage Sunday is the oh so spirited Princess & Pirate! Sing songs of the sea & and traditional Celtic melodies for families, pirates, princesses & land lubbers of all ages!
Suska Varda has traveled from New York to Hollywood to Hawaii performing for and teaching children of all ages. She is a vocalist, musician, artist, actress, and a mom. Suska has been singing and playing all her life and delights in sharing her love and joy of music. Mordecai performed as the ‘Blues Kazoo’ with Bessie’s Goodies’ Travellin’ Show from coast to coast then moved to Hawaii. He sailed to San Francisco from Waikiki in 1981 and landed in Galilee Harbor, Sausalito. He spent many a monthly evening singing salty sailors’ songs with the Hyde Street Pier Irregulars in San Francisco. Mordecai entertained weekly leading the Sons of the Buccaneers at Quinn’s Lighthouse in Oakland for 4 years. He plays annually at the San Francisco Maritime Museum’s Festival of the Sea. http://www.princessandthepirate.com/
12:45-1:35Sing A-Long Puppet Show: Pirates! This show features hand puppets, shadow puppets,
& sing along pirate songs. ~ A financially failing pirate crew attempts to reverse its fortunes by posing
as an HMO hospital ship; 4 children left on board by their parents must learn how to cooperate in order to escape.
"Tin Cup Puppets" ~ a group of doctors, nurses, and teachers who began producing puppet musicals in 2009 as a way to painlessly educate people about health reform. They create the shows & the puppets as well as the performances. Their first show, The Sound of Moolah, went around northern California last summer; with performances in parks, coffeehouses and community centers. Met with great enthusiasm, they created a winter show, A Christmas Peril, which transposed the Dickens classic to the financial apocalypse of Sacramento in 2015.
Tin Cup shows are written and directed by Dr. Wendy Ring. Dr Ring is the founder and medical director of The Mobile Medical Office, a rural mobile clinic serving homeless, uninsured, and other people who lack access to medical care. The troupe blends theatre & puppetry for spirited performances with an outside-the-box perspective. As health workers and educators, their modus operandi is to keep their audiences anesthetized with laughter as they explore the painful subject of why people can't get health care in one of the richest countries in the world. www.tincuppuppets.net
1:40-2:25 Chicken Lips & Lizard Hips Sing-A-Long with: Nancy Cassidy The oh so entertaining Nancy Cassidy will lead a rousing singalong of songs lots of people know...from This Land is Your Land
to Apples and Bananas ... and of course her distinguished "disgusting" Chicken Lips ... followed with Brush Your Teeth!
Nancy Cassidy has delighted children of all ages with her warm heart-felt voice and diverse selection of traditional, original and contemporary songs from her Klutz KidsSongs series of CDs. Her first recording, KidsSongs: A Holler-Along Handbook received a Gold Record from the Recording Association of America Inc. It has now sold over one million copies! Bruce Springsteen recorded and sold a million copies of "Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips" which was co-written with her husband John Cassidy. Nancy's rendition of "I Wanna Be a Dog" was beamed up to the astronats on a shuttle flight.
Nancy enjoys an interactive performance that allows the kids to sing and dance to her music, believing that music shared can be a life affirming, community building experience. She will often call for kids in the audience to come to the stage and help lead the group...there always seem to be members of the audience who love to perform! See Nancy online: http://www.nancycassidymusic.com/
2:30-3:00 Kids Voice: Kids Open Mic hosted by Jeremiah ~ Kids, this is your time!
Calling all kids!
Bring all your talents, musical and otherwise and share them with us at the family friendly
Malvina Reynolds Stage. There will be a sign up board in the room available for early sign ups beginning at 12:00.
The stars of the show will be whoever shows up! Kids ~ that's you!
Our Open Mic host is 10 year old Jeremiah. Jeremiah plays piano, writes songs, sings and does some theatre. He has been performing and recording with his mom, Laurie Story off and on his whole life! Jeremiah has also become a great cameraman for their UTube videos!
3:00 Sinks To Seas: Stories & Songs that Splash! Interactive BookTelling with LaurieStory & Jeremiah
Laurie Story's BIG rhyming storybooks feature original characters like the Color Cloud & Lolly Llama. In this splashing show, we bop from bathtub to brook to bog to bay ~ let's read, sing & play ~ SPLASH!
Read, rhyme & raps that SPLASH with big screen cyber technology! "Mother Goose Rapper", Author/Illustrator & BookTeller Laurie Story Vela, M.A. & her 10 year old son Jeremiah are splashing onto the big screen with Laurie Stor-E Books for reading, rhyming FUN! Laurie's interactive shows combine Laurie Story Books, songs, and characters in a celebration of language, literacy and imagination. She began touring the nation's schools and libraries in the early 90's with Laurie's Stories. Her son Jeremiah, toured 25,000 miles with Laurie in utero so was born rhyming & singing! Hear & see them singing here! With dozens of characters and hundreds of books and songs, Laurie Story's biggest venue these days is cyberspace where she plays for hundreds of thousands (international) visitors. Experience the "Sinks To Seas" feature of this summer ~ Read with Laurie's Stories here at the Festival and online with Laurie Stor-E BooksTM, Free Laurie Story Web TV, and the practically free Laurie Story Leaping Literacy Online Library at http://www.lauriesstories.com ~ Rhyme Time 5 video here!
4:00: Campfire Songs of Yesterday And Today: "Ranger" Bob Keller When it comes to campfire songs, Ranger Bob knows them all! Come sing your favorites &
maybe learn some new ones or re-learn some old ones!
Always a favorite in the folk club, "Ranger Bob" is the singing Ranger from the club's summer campouts in Boulder Creek. For the past 25 years he has been leading/performing songs at Boy Scout and Girl Scout Campfire programs. If there ever was a campfire song, Bob has sung it or wrote it! As a singer/songwriter Bob performs both traditional songs as well as songs about the social issues of the day. He also enjoys singing and writing gruesome and gross songs which he sends out via e-mail on a semi-regular basis to a select list of gruesome song fans. Bob lives in Boulder Creek, California.
5:00 Family Sing with our Folk Favorite Faith Petric A great opportunity for folkies of all ages to sing a long with Faith in our Mavina Reynolds Room! Sing Along: Faith always encourages us to sing along! See these videos of her from the 2008 Free Folk Festival!
Faith Petric is the beloved matriarch of the San Francisco Folk Music Club and thereby the Folk Festival itself! She has been having regular music meetings at her home (base of the club) for decades.
Known as the "Fort Knox of Folk Music", Faith is legendary for her vast repertoire
of songs. "There never was a time I remember that I didn't sing", says Faith. Born in a log cabin in 1915, her first songs were hymns in church and Faith says, "Hymns have wonderful opportunities for harmonies, almost as good as sea shanties, I think." Faith is a delightful performer for audiences of any age ... and speaking of age, we can't help but comment that our remarkable Faith is an amazing 94 & 3/4. Don't miss this opportunity to sing with Faith in the intimate setting provided by the Malvina Reynolds stage.
See & hear Faith singing from the 2008 Festival here!
Here's our 2010 lineup! 
