Singtime Frolics

24^thAnnual Singtime Frolics March 28 - 30, 2008

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Singtime Frolics is Portland FolkMusic Society's annual weekend music retreat. Join us deep in the woods at beautiful Camp Adams (near Molalla, a half-hour south of Portland). We do music together, rest and catch up with each other’s lives, learn teach and share. Begin on Friday evening; end, sleepy-eyed, in the early afternoon on Sunday; remember for the rest of the year.

The weekend includes vocal and instrumental workshops, song circles, dancing, maybe a little poetry, and a participants’ evening concert, open to all. You can learn something about singing, or playing, or songwriting. You can bring songs or tunes to play for us. You can organize a workshop. You can explore a kind of music you haven’t paid attention to before. There will be space and time for instrumental jamming and for hiking forest trails around the camp (bring boots, March can be wet).

The schedule includes:
• Large song circle Friday evening
• Workshops all day Saturday, and Sunday morning
• Concert Saturday evening
• Final inspirational sing Sunday noon
• Singing and jamming in between and all around and late into the night!

You should have already received a brochure and registration form by mail. There is a size limit, and some years we have to turn people away, so don’t wait to the last minute to send it in.

This year's Guest Artist will be Mark Bosnian
a singing coach with wide experience:

• 27 years of performing, including national TV appearances
• coach for professional singers including Dan Reed, Linda Hornbuckle, and the Fallen Angel Choir.
• Offering workshops on vocal mechanics (What singing from your Diaphragm REALLY Means and How to Sing from your Heart and Soul; and Three Steps to Performing with Confidence.
• Learn more at: markbosnian.com

Special guest Joe Hickerson, longtime performer and former folk music archivist at the Library of Congress, will present a workshop on song sources.

Accommodations include heated dorm rooms with bunk beds and hot showers
The fare is good quality camp food.
$85 (adults); $55 (children ages 4-11)
Early bird registration (postmarked by Feb 15): $75 (adults); $45 (children)
Late registration (after March 15): $110 (adults); $80 (children)

If you have specific questions, or to get on the mailing list, contact singtimefrolics@gmail.com

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