Folk Notes – Page 2 – Sonoma County Folk Society

Remembering TAYLOR FINLAY SoCoFoSo member for over 35 years! https://socofoso.com/wp3/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/20190615-Taylors-Home-Rm-154-Oakmont-Gardens-IMG_2751-1-e1566024347138.jpg 395 510 SoCoFoSo SoCoFoSo https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/70ae28db56afbb7ee457618dbd0cf85b?s=96&d=mm&r=g August 11, 2019 August 16, 2019

August 11, 2019

Remembering TAYLOR FINLAY SoCoFoSo member for over 35 years!

By Doug Dempster – 1924-2019 – “He always had a smile on his face,” said Dick Tracy upon hearing of the death of his friend and former work colleague, Taylor Finlay. That was the near universal reaction from those who knew Tay as musician, friend, mentor, co-worker, intellectual. Others mentioned generosity of spirit, kindness, acceptance,…

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July 2, 2019

Steve Hogle

Steve Hogle has been involved in bluegrass music in California since before there was a California Bluegrass Association. Steve is one of the original signatories on the petition that Carl Pagter (CBA #1) was passing around in 1975 on the way to filing the paperwork necessary to form the CBA. His membership number is 39.…

Chord Construction – Guitar https://socofoso.com/wp3/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/music-share-Michael-Stadler-Song-1-chart-3.jpg 1125 307 Michael Stadler Michael Stadler https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef0f8e0485291d3fcc5a19bd739053a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g May 2, 2019 January 6, 2020

May 2, 2019

Chord Construction – Guitar

By Michael Stadler – The purpose of these sheets is to help guitarists to find new alternate chord voicings as well as to learn their fretboards better. The graphics – both right & left handed versions – show where the ‘black keys’ (sharps & flats) are located in imitation of piano keys. Note that the…

Jam Session https://socofoso.com/wp3/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cartoon-2.jpg 897 960 Steven Radice Steven Radice https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f61e20fc761d5d086b231e4555f52059?s=96&d=mm&r=g May 1, 2019 May 3, 2019

May 1, 2019

Jam Session

By Steven Radice

Pickin’ https://socofoso.com/wp3/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Cartoon-3.jpg 743 960 Steven Radice Steven Radice https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f61e20fc761d5d086b231e4555f52059?s=96&d=mm&r=g March 13, 2019 May 3, 2019

March 13, 2019

Pickin’

By Steven Radice

Walker Creek Sampler https://socofoso.com/wp3/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 SoCoFoSo SoCoFoSo https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/70ae28db56afbb7ee457618dbd0cf85b?s=96&d=mm&r=g October 15, 2018 May 3, 2019

October 15, 2018

Walker Creek Sampler

By Bill Amatneek – As a teen, I attended a summer music camp. We played in duos, quartets, choirs and orchestras, attended classes in composition, singing, ear training, conducting, and music theory, and took one-on-one lessons. We even sang art songs, including the 1826 Franz Schubert hit that begins “Who Is Silvia? What is she?”…

Remembering Gil https://socofoso.com/wp3/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 SoCoFoSo SoCoFoSo https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/70ae28db56afbb7ee457618dbd0cf85b?s=96&d=mm&r=g September 30, 2018 May 2, 2019

September 30, 2018

Remembering Gil

By John Knutson – When I was a young man, about the age of twenty, in the early 1970s, I was living in the Haight Ashbury, about a block from Faith Petric and her much loved folk jams. I was also a street artist producing sterling silver/gemstone jewelry for a living. One day when I…

Jamming Grandpa! https://socofoso.com/wp3/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/steven-cartoon.jpg 1000 1000 Steven Radice Steven Radice https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f61e20fc761d5d086b231e4555f52059?s=96&d=mm&r=g September 30, 2018 May 3, 2019

September 30, 2018

Jamming Grandpa!

By
Steven Radice

Beware! https://socofoso.com/wp3/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/banjo-crossing.jpg 1000 1000 Steven Radice Steven Radice https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f61e20fc761d5d086b231e4555f52059?s=96&d=mm&r=g August 14, 2018 June 7, 2021

August 14, 2018

Beware!

By
Steven Radice

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June 13, 2018

CONNECTIONS TO FOLK MUSIC

By Steve Gilford – At Yale, I was part of a student group made up of people who were passionate about traditional music. We formed a group with an unusual goal – to put on concerts in Yale’s 2400 seat Woolsey Hall auditorium that we rented, and to make money on them. We had performers…