Please forward this to the Highland Park community. Thanks. Please reply if you'd like to be on my email list for house concerts and/or free films. What: It's a Hoot: Folk Song Jam When: Sun Mar 8 4pm – Sun Mar 8 7pm (Monthly at 4pm on the second Sunday) Monthly at 4pm on the second Sunday Where: Your Inner Vagabond, 4130 Butler St. Back in the sixties, people used to get together to sing folk songs, especially songs of struggle and protest. We called them hootenannies, or hoots. Bring your guitar, if you play, or other instrument. Bring your favorite songs, maybe with 10 or a dozen copies, so others can join. Bring yourself. Check it out. The event is FREE Still plenty of room if you want to hear Hot Soup! And we'll be eating soup for the potluck too. Be sure to RSVP to Dan Klein dan@klein.com ================== Hot Soup! (comprised of Sue Trainor, Christina Muir, and Jennifer Avila) is a wonderful trio that hails from the DC area. They have played in a large number of locations on this Earth and also on Mars. I'm not kidding! See http://www.hotsouptrio.com/newscurr.html for the full scoop. Sometimes called "the Andrews Sisters of the 21st Century," Hot Soup concocts rich, intricate vocal arrangements that bring out the best in every melody and lyric. I love the variety in Hot Soup's repertoire, too - from ballads to blues and swing, from retro to funny songs - no two are alike. Add three zingy personalities plus delicious licks on guitars, harp, mountain dulcimer, conga, udu and other hand percussion, and you've got a blue-ribbon recipe for a spirited and SOUPerbly engaging concert performance! They will be singing at my house (Dan Klein) house on Friday February 27th at 8pm, and we'll be having a Pot Luck Dinner beforehand at 6:30 pm (yes, people do often bring soup, so there will be plenty of bowls available in addition to plates). Suggested donation to the performers $10-15, and they have GREAT CD's too. RSVP dan@klein.com or call 412-422-0285. If you're coming from Mars, the GPS coordinates are N40.441242456 W79.927382469 (WGS84), but for everyone else, Dan's house is at 5606 Northumberland St. in Squirrel Hill. Friendship House Concerts is proud to present Friction Farm on Sunday, March 22 at 4:00 p.m. Friction Farm is Aidan Quinn on guitar and vocals and Christine Stay on bass and vocals. Their strong musicianship and keen songwriting sensibilities make Friction Farm instantly likeable. He's from Berkeley, she's from Woodstock. They met in college where he was a guitar playing geologist and she was an engineer. After graduating, Christine began to learn to play bass just to join in with Aidan's hobby but discovered a love for performing and for writing. Together they make a formidable team with a real yin and yang approach to music, lyrics, and melody and harmony. With just two people and two instruments, they create a lot of sound and a diverse repertoire. Friction Farm's sound is built around Aidan's the big jangly guitar strum. He'll hypnotize your feet into tapping along, then snap you out of it with some intricate flat picking. Christine has a vocal and lyrical intensity that conveys a wide range of expression, intimate and vulnerable in one song, powerful and angst ridden in the next. With Aidan's vocal thrown in the mix they recall classic 60's harmonies. Friction Farm didn't start out as a modern folk duo. The songwriters initially put together a full rock band. They released a couple of CDs and enjoyed success quickly and easily, attracting management and label attention, playing large shows, opening for big acts. But the early success brought a surprising reality: they weren't having any fun. The duo realized they had lost the things most important to them – the craft of writing good lyrics and melodies and really connecting with people through performing those songs. They recaptured their original musical spirit as an acoustic duo. Check out Friction Farm and their music at http://www.frictionfarm.com Seating is limited. For information and/or an invitation, call or email: LLouise & Jim Altes 412.361.6051 friendshiphouseconcerts@gmail.com Suggested donation: $15.00. All proceeds go to the performers. After the concert, there will be a pot luck dinner. Please bring an entree, an hors d'oeuvre, a salad, a side dish, or dessert to share. Upcoming events of interest: Feb 27 Hot Soup! http://hotsouptrio.com at Dan Klein's dvk@lonewolf.com Mar 7, Tommy Sands & His Irish Band http://tommysands.com/ (Calliope) Mar 8 David Ferrard http://davidferrard.com at Annie and Curt's annie@southwind-pa.com March 15 Friction Farm http://www.frictionfarm.com Jim and LLouise altes@potomacnet.com Mar 21, Greg Brown http://www.gregbrown.org/ (Calliope) Mar 28 Adam Hurt http://www.adamhurt.com/ with Beth Hartness http://tinyurl.com/5svtr9 at Bill and Judy's lockewn@comcast.net April 3, The Druckenmillers http://thedrux.com/ at Bill and Judy's lockewn@comcast.net Apr 18 Vance Gilbert http://vancegilbert.com/ & Ann Rabson http://dcwi.com/%7Erabson/ (Calliope) Apr 18 Spring jam session at Cindy and Rick's - come and hang out and play! Apr 18 Bob Franke hosted by Judith Gusky http://www.bobfranke.com/ April 19 Jay Mankita http://www.jaymankita.com Jim and LLouise altes@potomacnet.com May 17 Andrew McKnight http://www.andrewmcknight.net Jim and LLouise altes@potomacnet.com _________________________________________________________________ Access your email online and on the go with Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_AE_Access_022009