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Out with the old year, in with the new… Calendar? 

Through the years, the Calendar of events in the folk life of northern Ohio has been the work of successive groups of one, two or three dedicated people, from the start of the Continuum newsletter, to  monthly PDF versions online with huge amounts of information to sort through. Over the last year, a few other dedicated people have been working on a way to bring what started out as a monthly USPS mailing to an online-accessible calendar, in database format, reaching out months in advance.

The calendar will be searchable

By date (do we want to be away the second week in July?)

By venue (what’s going on at that cool venue?)

By type of event (Dance? Jam session? Open Mic?)

By artist (If I don’t see her play this week, when’s my next chance?)

By  geographic area (is there anything going on in Geauga county? Lakewood?)
 

These are only some of the questions you’ll be able to answer by searching the calendar.  Folknet is working to coordinate with other folk event producing groups in the area, and knowing what dates are for the next year has been useful thing. We think it would be useful to the membership to know what ‘s coming up farther ahead than the end of the month, and appreciate it’ll be nice to be able to plan ahead for events in the early part of the month. We hope to have something for everyone in the Folk music & dance area, and particularly more coverage of traditional music events. No rock & roll. No jazz. Just folk. 

Some folks like to point out omissions in the calendar. Lovely! Please do! We hope to have our information member-gathered, and eventually entered electronically by several different folks, so the responsibility doesn’t fall to one person, it becomes a smaller slice of volunteer time, and the calendar rolls on, with people coming and going. As we get more used to this new format, we wish to have people responsible for one area, gathering  this information, and keeping it updated for any changes.  What the calendar becomes will reflect what the membership most values.

To send in an event/events & corrections

What we need is (in order):

Type of event: concert, dance, open mic, jam session, festival

Date: one time or happens every X day of the  week/month?

Tim: start or start & when it’s over

Name: i.e. Odetta, Smothers Brothers, Tannahill Weavers

Location: street #, street, city, zipcode, county

Details: ticket price, contact information if available (person & phone #, web page. For names unfamiliar in the area, perhaps what style - Old time, Singer- songwriter, Bluegrass, Irish, etc.

For dances: Band? Caller?

Send to: calendar@folknet.org