Inside this issue:

Send in your Classified Ads (pg 17) July 2019

Notes From the President 2

Open Mics 3

Spring Festivals 7

Songwriter’s Showcases 9

Song Circle 10

Gear of the Month 11

Pull Up A Chair 13

Beatles Tribute Concert 15

Membership Renewal/App 16

Sound Post Classifieds 17

It’s been a busy spring...

FAME has continued to be involved in Frederick’s spring festivals, including the Arts Festival on Carroll Creek and the Green Neighbor Festival sponsored by Hood College. These festivals are a great way to let the community at large know what FAME is all about, and are also good exposure for the musicians that participate in the events. We hope to continue and expand our involvement in these local events in the future. Featured musicians at the Green Festival included Scott Barrett, Tomy Wright, Tommy Byrne, John Durant, Dave Koronet, and Steven Darnell. Performers on the two day Arts Festival stage included Michelle Swan, Ed Barney, Thomas Roue, Windon & Ricker, Juliet Lloyd, Todd Walker, Craig Cummings, Patchwork Dorothy, Safe Harbor, Dave Koronet, Nicole Belanus and Casey Cleveland. Special thanks to Todd Walker and Sam Ott for sound and stage management at these events! Continued page 7

by Roy Greene

Notes from the President

Greetings, Stay tuned to the new and improved website and newsletter as we will be announcing the date and location for our annual picnic very soon. This is a great opportunity for our FAME members to mingle and get to know other members. It is also our annual meeting where we will briefly update the membership on our plans for the upcoming year. So please plan on attending. The new Facebook page and reconstructed website are operational . We appreciate all comments, concerns and any issues navigating the pages. This way we can work to give our members the best experience possible. If you have any content to be posted on the website or Facebook page forward to my email at President@Frederickacoustic.org We have several positions open on the Board of directors. If you would be interested in helping to chart the future of FAME please consider joining the board. Board meetings are open to the public, and generally occur the first Wednesday of each month and are held at Lough Memorials. The July meeting will be held at Lough Memorials, located at 500 South Market Street, Frederick, MD.

Sincerely,

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Follow FAME on Facebook to keep up with current events:

https://www.facebook.com/FrederickAcousticFAME/

The new FAME website is up and running with new features in-cluding membership renewal…

www.frederickacoustic.org

Sky Stage open mic on July 12th and every second Friday thru October.

July Host: Max Honn

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Come join the fun at one or more of these open mics!

Come to play or just listen!

Barry Bryan and Armin Hadamer.

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Come join the fun at one or more of these open mics!

Green Neighbor Festival

Barry Bryan and Armin Hadamer. Photo courtesy of Barry Bryan.

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Frederick Arts Festival

Monday Songwriters’ Showcase

Barry Bryan and Armin Hadamer. Photo courtesy of Barry Bryan.

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Brewer’s Alley, 2nd Floor, 124 N. Market Street, Frederick, MD

July 8 — Show begins at 7:30 pm — July 8

Featured Songwriters: Kate MacLeod and Eli Staples

July 22 — Show begins at 7:30 pm — July 22

Featured Songwriters: Steve Warner and Flo Anito

Come upstairs at Brewer’s Alley in beautiful, historic, downtown Frederick, Maryland, second Monday evenings (usually) from 7:30 until 10 pm, or so.

There is no door charge, but we have “tip buckets” for the featured artists. Come out and support LIVE ORIGINAL music.

If you would like information about playing a cameo three-song spot, contact (1) Ron Goad: MisterGoad@aol.com, (2) Rod Deacey: roddc@xecu.net or (3) Todd C. Walker: todd@toddcwalker.com.

Piano Prelude: Jim Moon (8th), Rogue Johnsen (22nd) 3-Song Cameo: Burke Ingraffia (8th), Rob Hinkal (22nd)

Poetry: Rod Deacey Host: Todd Walker

This month we at Dublin Roasters, we sang 29 songs from the Sing Out! Publication, Rise Up Singing: the group's singing

Songbook (RUS). The songs we sang came from 20 of the 35 categories in the songbook. "Funny Songs", "Golden Oldies", "Seas & Sailors" and "Unity" tied for June's leading category with 3 songs sung from

each category. Three new songs were sung: "Man Come Into Egypt," "Darlin' Corey," and "Same Boat Now" introduced by Seth Tolson, Ed Haser and Karen Fetters, respectively. Last month, we erroneously

reported Roy Greene introduced one of our new songs as "Bella Ciao." The song introduced by Roy Greene was "Singing for Our Lives."

We are currently at 745 songs sung out of the 1200~ in RUS. Seven of the 29 songs sung made some reference to death and dying:

"Mr. BoJangles" ("His dog up and died, he....after 20 years, he still grieved"), "The Irish Ballad" (The maid killed her father, mother, sister and two brothers.), "The

Merry Minuet" (refers to us all being blown away), "Darlin' Corey" (Corey dies in this song.), They Call the Wind Maria" ("Maria makes the mountains sound like folks up there were dying"), "When I First Came to

This Land" ("And I called my horse "dead of course"), and "Big Rock Candy Mountain" ("Where they hung the jerk that invented work").

Eighteen folks attended June's song circle, with one new attendee, including: Charlotte Abney, Dori Balin (Board Member, Attendance and Song Recorder), Margie

Barber (Alternate Attendance and Song Recorder), Barbara Collins, John and Leah Durant, Karen Fetters, Dan Frasier, Ed Haser, Ernie Heller, David Koronet (Board Member, FB guru, and Alternate Host),

Carol Liebman, Gloria McCracken, Christopher Phelan,* Mike Sodas, Seth Tolson, Robin Turner, and Host, Tomy Wright.

Thanks to all for your very spirited singing and especially to Dori for her diligent performance of recording duties and to Karen for pulling together this month’s article. We are blessed with a great team and venue host Serina Braley Roy and her staff. Wishing a wonderful, safe, and musical Summer to all. *New participant

Special thanks to Karen Fetters for

contributing this month’s article.

Traditional Folk Song Circle (TFSC) by Tomy Wright

Dublin Roasters, 1780 N. Market Street, Frederick Second Saturday of each month, 1-3 p.m.

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Gear of the Month by Todd C Walker

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Photo by Tomy Wright

Photo by Tomy Wright

Photo by Karen Fetters

Photo by Karen Fetters

If you're a performer, there's nothing worse than getting to your gig and realizing that you forgot your mic stand, your microphone, mic cord, guitar cord, your guitar, or possibly even part of your PA system. All are neces-sary items, but let's say you arrive at the ven-ue and you realize that where the perfor-mance spot is, is too far from the nearest elec-trical outlet for your PA power cord to reach. You have everything you need to produce music except power. Let's hope you have a long enough extension cord or the gig is go-ing to get really embarrassing quickly. Noth-ing worse than sheepishly approaching the venue manager, explaining your plight and asking if you can borrow one. Power cords (heavy-duty grounded) are rela-tively inexpensive, so always carry at least two in your gig bag. And if you perform at a venue that's in an older building (like Seren-dipity Market – home of the Friday night F.A.M.E. Open Mic), make sure you have an adapter for plugging your three-prong cord into a two-prong outlet. Not the best situa-tion, but it's all you can do if the building has older wiring. And don't forget a power strip to go with that extension cord. One of the best ones I've found is the D'Addario Professional Tour-Grade Power Base ($29.99 at Make'N'Mu-sic). Not only does is fuction as a surge pro-

tector, but the cord wraps around the housing for easy storage and it lays flat on the floor, unlike my other heavy duty power strip (made by Fur-man) which has a tendency to flip onto its side.

If you are a performer who uses some sort of stomp box or pre-amp that requires power, the D'Addario Power Base has three widely-spaced outlets on one side (for transformers) and five regular outlets on the other side. You can plug in eight cords, all running through the Power Base. And unlike my Fur-man, it packs more compactly. I give it a two thumbs up !

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I recently purchased a Taylor 214C from Make'N'Music. No, I didn't need another guitar, but it has a beautiful bearclaw spruce top with a simple ro-sette of white Mother of Pearl (none of the add-on black lines that most rosettes have). In other words, it caught my eye. The best/worst part is that it sounds really good too (darn), even with layered Koa back/sides. What I didn't like about it was that the 200 se-ries is shipped with cheapo plastic bridge pins, so I purchased a set of D'Addario Premium Grade Ebony Bridge Pins, again from F.A.M.E. Cor-porate Sponsor Make'N'Music ($18.95). Quality bridge pins, whether made from Ebony or Rosewood, will enhance the tone of your guitar. Lots of

little things will improve the sonic voice of your guitar, quality bridge pins are a good start. Two thumbs up !

Has anyone heard of a little known per-forming songwriter by the name of Paul Simon ? Evidently he's been around since the late 1960's and has produced some award-winning music. Just ask F.A.M.E.'s folk historian Tom K. (he's heard of Paul Simon also). Funning aside, I picked up Paul Simon's recent biography 'Paul Simon – the life' by Robert Hilburn. It is a terrific read ! I won't give away any of the interesting details, but it is a must read for anyone who likes the music of Simon & Gar-funkel and Simon's solo work. It gives wonderful insight into what has made Paul Simon an icon in the folk/pop/rock music genre. $18.00 for the paperback version at Barnes & Noble. A great read ! Definitely two-thumbs up.

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Photo courtesy of Todd C Walker

How many of you think that Simon and Garfunkel wrote “Scarborough Fair”? OK you can put your hands down, I hope nobody saw that.

It’s amazing how many of the pop hits that we remember from the 60’s, were really just covers from old folk songs.

Sometimes old American folk songs, or in the case of “Scarborough Fair”, old English folk songs.

Scarborough is a small town on the North East coast of England that has produced many notable people

including Academy Award winners Charles Laughton and Ben Kingsley. In Medieval Times the town would host a fair each year that would last for 45 days starting on August 15th. At some point in the late 1600’s an obscure Scottish ballad called “The Elfin

Knight” was written. Someone, no one

knows who exactly, used some of the ideas and music from “Elfin Knight” and turned it into another song. That song was of course, “Scarborough Fair”.

Pull up a Chair… by Tom Kohlhepp

Photo by Todd C Walker

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Image courtesy of YouTube.

Scarborough Fair

By: Frederick Folklorist

As the song spread, “Scarborough Fair” was adapted and rewritten to the point that dozens of versions existed by the end of the 18th century. So, if the song had such a long and varied background how could it be sung by Simon and Garfunkel and slip

through the cracks as being thought to be an original song? Well here’s where it gets interesting .

Before we talk about Simon and Gar-funkel lifting (some would say stealing) the song, we must talk about one of the greatest “lifters” of the 60’s, Bob Dylan. It’s well documented that Dylan has a list of about two dozen songs that were based on earlier tunes.

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The list contains most of his biggest hits from that time, I don’t have enough room to list them all, but some of them would be “Masters of War”, “The Lone-some Death of Hattie Carroll”, “Don’t Think Twice it’s Alright”, “Boots of

Spanish Leather”, “Blowin’ in the Wind”, “A Hard Rain A - Gonna Fall” and “Girl From the North Country”. That’s right they were all “lifted” from older folk songs.

In December of 1962 Dylan was in England and got to meet and listen to

some of the local folk singers. One in particular was Martin Carthy. One night he heard Martin sing “Scarborough Fair” and liked one of the lines in the song. In fact, he liked it so much he used it in his song “Girl from

the North Country” released the next year. That line would of course be,

“Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine”.

In 1965 Paul Simon himself traveled to England and meet up with the same Martin Carthy who once again played “Scarborough Fair” for his visiting American friend. The next year Paul Si-mon recorded the song and used it as his lead track in the album “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme”. The problem was Simon didn’t just use one line like Dylan did, he used the entire

song.

To make matters worse the copyright on-ly credited Simon and Garfunkel as the authors causing great ill-feelings on the part of Carthy who felt the “traditional” source should have been credited. To add salt to the wound, Carthy watched as the track was featured in the movie sound-track to the classic movie, “The Gradu-ate”. Simon claimed later that he didn’t know he should have credited anyone other than he and Garfunkel. He said he made a large payment to Carthy’s pub-lishing agent to make up for it, but Car-thy said he never received a dime. Getting back to the song itself, it’s the tale of a man who instructs a third party to tell his former lover who left him and lives in Scarborough, to perform for him a series off impossible tasks such as making him a shirt with no seams and no needlework and then washing it in a dry empty well. If she completes these tasks, he’ll take her back. As you can see love and the jilted lover have been a popular topic in song writing, even in the 1600’s. Let’s give a listen to the song. Not by Si-mon and Garfunkel, but by Martin Car-thy – enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=y62WX2LJDig

Next Month: Neil Young

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Photo courtesy of Todd C Walker

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Image courtesy of YouTube.

Page 15 F.A.M.E. PRESENTS A 50-Year Anniversary Celebration of

The Beatles’ Abbey Road & Yellow Submarine Albums Saturday, July 13th, 7-9pm

Performing Arts Factory, Frederick, Maryland

Nineteen sixty-nine was a tumultuous and exciting time in music and world cultural history. The whimsical, playful theme at the center of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine provides the perfect musical, theatrical, and historical prequel to the sophisticated Abbey Road.

The Abbey Road album, perhaps the greatest musical example and benchmark for a generation became an immediate commercial success and has, over time, proven to be a critical favorite, recognized by many as one of the greatest albums of all time. It was the last album that all four Beatles participated together in recording. It was well known that fractured relationships and tensions existed between the “Lads” at that time. Even with adversity, a brilliant result happened.

Some of the most talented regional musicians will recreate these iconic works of art. Save the date — July 13, 2019.

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F.A.M.E. Board of Directors

Sam Ott, President

Dave Ott, Treasurer

Max Honn, Secretary

Dori Bailin, Organizer

Caryl Velisek, Publicity

Dave Koronet, Facebook

The F.A.M.E. newsletter welcomes your photos and stories about local acoustic music and musicians. Please email submissions to the editor at roy.greene@yahoo.com by the 15th preceding the month of publication. Submissions subject to editing.

F.A.M.E. Goals:

• To nurture, promote, and preserve original and traditional acoustic music of all genres in Frederick and

Frederick County through live music, education, and community outreach.

• To educate aspiring musicians and the general

public about all aspects of original and traditional acoustic music of all genres via workshops, open mics,

showcases, and concerts. • To reach out to the community via workshops and concerts, especially through schools and youth organizations and the setting up of mentoring opportunities for young and aspiring acoustic musicians.

Please mail to: F.A.M.E. Membership, 5181 Holter Road, Jefferson, MD 21755

Questions: (301) 788-3066

Annual membership is for 12 months

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All active members receive a copy of the monthly newsletter via email. Non-members and members who do not use email may check out past

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Membership levels: Regular Membership $35 Student $10

Senior (65+) $10 Family (up to 4) $60 Lifetime Membership $495

All Regular and Lifetime members attend the annual F.A.M.E. picnic at no charge. Senior and student members and guests are welcome to attend at cost.

Frederick Acoustic Music Enterprise (F.A.M.E.) is a 501(c)(3) organization. Donations may be tax deductible if you itemize deductions.

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Classifed ads are free to FAME members in good standing and will run for two consecutive months unless renewed in writing.

Eligible advertisements include the following categories:

Members who would like to buy, sell, or trade their musical instruments and musical equipment

Members who are seeking out other musicians to play with - or members seek-ing out other musicians for the purpose of starting a band together

Members offering private musical instruction and instrument lessons

Members promoting upcoming gigs or concerts

All transactions are strictly between the buyer and the seller, FAME only posts the advertisement. The Sound Post editor reserves the right to reject any ad

deemed to be commercial in nature, or not consistent with F.A.M.E.’s goals and overall mission.

Submit your requests for a classified ad to samandkatherine@comcast.net

FAME Classifed Ads

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Wanted—Board members for the FAME Board. Meetings once a month. Help us keep acoustic music alive in Frederick County.

Wanted—someone that is interested in taking on the preparation of the news-letter. It does not require board mem-bership, and the work can be done at home on your computer. It would be a great opportunity for someone who is looking to enhance their computer skills and express their creativity in a digital format.