SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC APPEARANCES
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2012 Schedule

April 13-14 (Friday-Saturday) – Boonville, MO. (With Ken Perlman, banjo) Featured artists at Big Muddy Folk Festival.
Contact: Dave Para, dpara@iland.net, http://bigmuddy.org/.

April 15 (Sunday) – Maplewood, MO (St. Louis). 2-4 p.m. fiddle workshop at the Folk School of St. Louis, 3155 Sutton
Blvd., Suite 101, Maplewood, MO. Contact: Kelly Wells, (314) 781-2244, kelly@folk-school.org.

April 15 (Sunday) – Maplewood, MO (St. Louis). 7:30 p.m. concert, The Focal Point, 2720 Sutton Blvd., Maplewood, MO.
Contact: Judy Stein, 314-781-4200, http://www.thefocalpoint.org.

April 16-17 (Monday-Tuesday) – Columbia, MO. (With Ken Perlman, Banjo, and Karen Singer Jabbour) classroom lectures
and concerts (Mon. and Tues. morning) and lunchtime brown-bag lecture-concert (Tues. noon-1:00 p.m.), University of Missouri,
Columbia. Contact: Prof. Berkley Hudson, Dept. of Journalism, U. of Missouri, (573) 882-4201, hudsonb@missouri.edu.

April 19 (Thursday) – Jonesboro, AR. (With Ken Perlman, banjo) 4:15 p.m. lecture-concert, “Fiddle and Banjo Tunes in
Traditional Culture: From Old-Time Roots to Modern Branches,” at Delta Symposium, Mockingbird Room, Reng Student
Center, Arkansas State University. Contact: Prof. Greg Hansen, Arkansas State University, 870/972-3043, ghansen@astate.
edu,  http://altweb.astate.edu/blues.

April 20 (Friday) – Jonesboro, AR. (With Karen Singer Jabbour). 10:30 a.m. lecture/PowerPoint slide show, “Decoration Day
in the Mountains,” at Delta Symposium, Mockingbird Room, Reng Student Center, Arkansas State University. Contact: Prof.
Greg Hansen, Arkansas State University, 870/972-3043, ghansen@astate.edu,  http://altweb.astate.edu/blues.

April 20 (Friday) – Fayetteville, AR. 8:00 p.m. house concert at the home of Mike Shirkey, 229 N. Block St. Contact: Mike
Shirkey, mshirkey@sbcglobal.net, 479-521-1812, www.goodfolk.org.

April 21 (Saturday) – Kansas City, MO. (With Ken Perlman, banjo) evening concert, Rime Buddhist Center, 700 West Pennway
St. Contact: Doug Goodhart, Missouri Valley Folklife Society, 913-385-3668, goodfeet@msn.com, or Rime Buddhist Center,
816-471-7073.

May 11 (Friday) – Sebastopol, CA. (With Ken Perlman, banjo) 8:00 p.m. house concert at the home of Jon Berger and Kalia
Kliban. For reservations and directions contact: Jon Berger, jberger@sbcglobal.net.

May 12 (Saturday) – Sebastopol, CA. Fiddle workshop by Alan Jabbour and banjo workshop by Ken Perlman at the home of
Jon Berger and Kalia Kliban. For reservations and directions contact: Jon Berger, jberger@sbcglobal.net.

May 12 (Saturday) – San Rafael, CA. (With Ken Perlman) 8:00 -11:00 p.m. contra dance at Marin Masonic Hall, 1010 Lootens
Place, between 4th and 5th Streets, sponsored by the North Bay Country Dance Society. Contact: Susan Amato,
skamato@hotmail.com, www.nbcds.org.

May 13 (Sunday) – Mountain View, CA. (With Ken Perlman) 7:00 p.m. house concert at the home of Daniel Steinberg.
Reservations required. For information/reservations, contact (email *preferred*) Concerts@InstantHarmony.com or (650) 947-
9669.

May 16 (Wednesday) – Sparks, NV. (With Ken Perlman) 4:00 p.m. fiddle workshop and banjo workshop, 7:30 p.m. concert at
Sparks Heritage Museum. 814 Victorian Ave. Contact: Anthea Humphreys, 775-355-1144, www.SparksMuseum.org.

May 17 (Thursday) – Santa Barbara, CA. (With Ken Perlman) evening concert at Multi-Cultural Center, University of California-
Santa Barbara. Contact: Prof. Tim Cooley, Music Dept., cooley@music.ucsb.edu.

May 18 (Friday) – Santa Barbara, CA. (With Ken Perlman) 10:00 a.m. presentation for world music class, UC-Santa Barbara.
2:00 p.m. musically illustrated public lecture on folk music.

May 20 (Sunday) – Agoura Hills, CA. 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. 52nd Annual Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival,
Paramount Ranch (National Park Service), 2903 Cornell Road. Contact: 818-382-4819, http://www.topangabanjofiddle.org.

June 8-10 (Friday-Sunday) – Glen Lyn, VA. Instructor for two-day (10 a.m.-noon) fiddle workshop during Henry Reed
Memorial Oldtime Fiddlers Convention. Contact: Chris Via, 540-726-3079, adivia@wvva.net, or Alan Jabbour, 202-333-1089,
jabbour@myexcel.com.


November 19-21 (Monday-Wednesday) -- Gazimağusa (Famagusta), North Cyprus. Keynote speaker (with fiddle
illustration), Conference on “Performing Island Identities: Music, Dance, Folk Theatre, Storytelling, and Performance Traditions.”
Contact: Adam Grydehøj, convenor, at agrydehoj@islanddynamics.org.





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