The New York Folklore Society is seeking to increase its focus on folk and traditional music practice across New York State. The goal of the project is to better serve musicians and their audiences by providing information about the musicians, their art forms and practice, and the role of their music in the cultural communities in which they are based, as well as avenues for publicity and resources for professional development. The project is sponsored by the New York Folklore Society with support from the New York State Music Fund.

Workshops—During 2008, the Society is organizing and sponsoring workshops around New York State for musicians and their presenters and supporters in the areas of recording and promotion, legal issues of contracts and intellectual property and performing and teaching in educational settings. For information, if you have not already been touch before about a workshop please send an e-mail to tvanburen@westarts.com or nyfs@nyfolklore.org.

Website— By the end of 2008, the New York Folklore Society will expand its website to include a special section for about NYS musicians and their music. Watch for developments!

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The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes and the New York Folklore Society presents a Folk Arts-in-Education Forum When: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Where: The Glenn H. Curtiss Aviation Museum, 8419 State Route 54 Hammondsport, NY 14840 Workshop: Free but pre-registration is required. The forum focuses on creating Arts-in-Education (AIE) networks between schools and traditional musicians and other folk artists. It is open to all Pre K -12 educators, administrators, teaching musicians and artists, traditional musicians and PTA members in Allegany, Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben Counties. Find out more here.

Folk and Community Arts Organizations: Creating, Producing and Managing (Intro or Adv) Group Study, 4 credits – Hartsdale Unit (HVC), Empire State College, Instructor: Dr. Cathy Ragland Meeting dates for the study are: 10/16, 10/23, 11/1 (Saturday), 11/6, 11/13, 12/4, and 12/18. Times are 6-8 p.m., except the Saturday session (10 a.m.-3 p.m.) Co-sponsored with the New York Folklore Society, this Empire State College study is designed for students interested in non-profit community arts and folk arts programming, presenting, researching (field work methods), documenting, archiving and managing. It offers aomprehensive look at how arts organizations operate, the services they provide local communities and the public at large, the wide range of programs they create and produce, the research and documentation that informs their work, how they educate youth about the arts and local communities, and grant-writing and fund-raising. Registration is extended until September 5. Students can register as non-matriculated students. Read COURSE DESCRIPTION SEE PHOTOS FROM THE ESC/NYFS SUMMER COURSE Exploring Place: Documenting Your Community’s Culture and Traditions

Congratulations, Faye! At the American Folklore Society annual meeting in October, it was announced that Felicia R. McMahon won the Chicago Folklore Prize for her book, Not Just Child’s Play: Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys of Sudan. The Chicago Folklore Prize is awarded each year for the best book-length work of folklore scholarship for the year, and it’s the oldest, and most prestigious international award recognizing excellence in folklore scholarship. Faye, a research professor of anthropology at Syracuse University and Voices acquisitions editor from 2003-2008, wrote this book to raise money for its subjects, a community of Didinga Sudanese refugees who settled in Syracuse. She is donating her royalties from the book to the Lost Boys. According to Faye, “I think this book is just my way of lending a helping hand. My degree is in folklore and folk art, so what can I do? ... So this was my way of being able to extend a little kindness, and I’m hoping more people will get involved in this kind of work. I just gained so much from knowing newcomers to our city and our region.” (Read more.) LISTEN to Voices—Hear the sounds of "sacred steel" and merengue típico and Celtic fiddle music. Look for the this icon to hear MP3s.

Find out about our Programs & Services New York Field Trips       Forums Folk Arts-in-Education Forum Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 5:30-8:30 p.m. The Glenn H. Curtiss Aviation Museum, 8419 State Route 54 Hammondsport, NY 14840 Folk Archives Project  Hip Hop  Collection Summaries

Worth the Wait! New York Folklore Journal Vol. 25, Nos. 1-4, 1999 The 1999 Journal is a reprinting of some of the best public sector writing from 1985-1995, with an introductory essay by Robert Baron. Other essays include the work of Karen Taussig-Lux, I. Sheldon Posen, Joyce Ice, Douglas DeNatale, Kate Koperski, Anna (Chairetakis) Wood, and others. If you would like to receive a copy and you weren’t a member of the New York Folklore Society in 1999, they are for sale as individual copies in our on-line gallery bookstore for $10.00/copy plus $1.50 postage and handling.

Mentoring and Technical Assistance DOWNLOAD the Mentoring Program Brochure (PDF) APPLY NOW Radio Documentaries Voices of New York Tradition: Listen to the radio interviews on-line. Advocacy for the Arts Get Action Updates here! BUDGET ALERT! E-mail your legislators TODAY. The New York Folklore Society remains in the forefront of a creative movement. The impulse in 1945 to publish the folklore of New York State for the people of the state is continued today through this publication Voices. The editors of this publication encourage your submission of scholarly writing, as well as nonfiction, fiction, poetry, memoir, and other forms of creative literature.—Ellen McHale, Director

The New York Folklore Society is the recipient of a 2005/2006 award from the Documentary Heritage Program of the NYS Archives. As funded, the project is to support the arrangement and description of folklore collections using a "circuit rider" approach...read more about our Archives projects Visit Our Folk Arts Gallery in Schenectady or online Handcarved wood green wing teal duck decoy by Jim Neenan, a woodcarver from Staten Island.

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