Recordings

Barron and Panting - Old Dogs New Tricks
Mac Babb - It's About Time
Dunvargan - Old Dunvargan Oak
Frances (White) Galgay -In My Brothers Footsteps
Jenny Gear - And Her Whiskey Kittens
Ada - Blue (Ada Jenkins of the Split Peas)
Ray Lake - Boys Are Comin' Home
Mopaya - Sango Yango
Neal O'Leary - While I Was Gone
Ray O'lbaer/Randy Ring - Regatta Song and Stories
Bob Parsons - Bay Blues Country
Terry Penney - The Struggle
Kathy Pippard - Premonition
Chris Picco - Passenger
Colleen Power - Face and Eyes
Ronnie Rose - Tribute to Jamie Murphy
Arnold White - The Call to Home
A. Frank Willis - Great Big Moose
Joe Wiseman - Home Is Where the Heart Is

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On the Beach in Spanish Room - Wins Award

”What an unassuming but brilliant little gem this recording is. Set in Newfoundland, all six stories stand proudly on their own, but together they have the sweep of a novel. The reason is Janis Spence’s marvelous characters, “who wore their lives as casually as big sweaters.” She gives them added dimension by bringing them back at various times in their lives. In “Life With the Barons,” for example, listeners meet Nina, the adopted daughter of a well-off couple. Two stories later, the truth about her parentage is revealed in “Father Joe.”

An experienced actor and stage director, Spence gives a masterful performance of all the roles she’s created—and it doesn’t hurt that she’s got that incomparable Newfoundland accent. D.B. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award.”

from AudioFile Magazine, Portland, Maine

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Check out the Newfoundland and Labrador Bluegrass and Oldtime Country Music Association’s site for Neil Rosenberg’s report on the International Bluegrass Conference he attended last year. You can read all about it and other events at www.bluegrass-nl.ca

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Second Stage Presents
a Saturday Evening Concert Series

February 19th “Weaving the Wind” Ed Kavanagh and Friends
an evening of music for Celtic Harp and other instruments

March 5th “The Whole Dance” Atlantic Union in Concert
celebrating their newly released CD

April 9th Legendary Scottish Songwriter Archie Fisher
an intimate evening of traditional and original songs

in the Gower Street United Church

ALL Concerts Start at 8 PM

TICKETS: AUNTIE CRAE’S, O’BRIEN’S MUSIC, FRED’S RECORDS
For more information, call 335-7007

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The Youth Folk Arts Education Initiative

The St. John’s Folk Arts Council established the Youth Folk Arts Education Fund in 2003 in order to be able to offer a special subsidy to encourage and support the development of young folk artists in Newfoundland and Labrador. As funds permit, subsidies may be awarded in aid of education in folk music, song, dance and other recognized folk arts of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Applicants must be 17 years of age or younger at the time they will be participating in the subsidized education. The activity pursued must be of a unique or occasional nature (i.e. not a course of regular arts instruction) and will often involve travel to a location away from the applicant’s home community.

Subsidies are awarded by the Youth Folk Arts Education Committee of the St. John’s Folk Arts Council. The Committee ranks all submissions based on the quality of the training opportunity, its value to the applicant, and the extent of need demonstrated by the applicant. Awards will very rarely cover the full costs of the education sought and the Committee exercises its discretion in determining subsidy amounts.

There is an annual deadline for summer camp applications but, otherwise, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis subject to available funds.

Contact

For further information regarding the subsidy program or the application process, please contact the St. John’s Folk Arts Council. The application materials can also be downloaded here.

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Always wanted to Learn to Dance? Now's your chance!  The SJFAC Dancers meet most Monday evenings to learn and practice traditional set dances of Newfoundland.  New dancers are most welcome! For information, contact the Doctor of Dance, Ford Elms Ford Elms or the SJFAC office.

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St. John's Public Libraries publishes a list of NEWLY RECEIVED NEWFOUNDLAND BOOKS which describes the nature of each publication.  The list is published on a regular basis and is available at all library locations in St. John's.