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5th Ever Los Angeles Old Time Social
poster by Eric Junker
Ever wondered how the heck I became a square dance caller?
Well… I started by taking the caller’s workshop at the Old Time Social! You should too! The next LA Old Time Social is this Thursday, Friday, & Saturday. And you can take the very same dance calling workshop this upcoming Saturday with Susan at 4pm at Farmlab [Farmlab.org, 1745 N. Spring St, Unit 4, 90012].
The Los Angeles Old Time Social is a three-day festival celebrating old time music, dance, and American folk culture, hosted by none other than our beloved squarevolution square dance band, Triple Chicken Foot. My favorite part of the weekend is the Saturday night square dance and the daytime workshops. You can take clawhammer banjo, dance calling, clogging, singing, fiddle, etc…and HELLO! ALL THE WORKSHOPS ARE TOTALLY FREE! Plus there is a cakewalk and the prom of all square dances at night!! Imagine dancing the night away to live music outside in a wonderful unique urban spot [farmlab] right under the Spring St. bridge downtown.
In addition to Saturday night, there are two amazing concert nights scheduled on Thursday and Friday nights. You can actually hear Triple Chicken Foot sing [they don't get to do that too much at the dances], imagine that. They are quite good might I add, and I hear they have a new chart topping album out as well.
all the info for the whole festival is here: http://oldtimeisagoodtime.com
The LAOTS is sure to be a most fantastic affair, not to be missed….. uh….unless you are at Tribal Fest….. errrrrrr [like me]…. But if you are in the LA vicinity – GO!– and especially go take the caller’s workshop led by Susan Michaels!
xoxo cory marie
HERE IS THE CALENDAR…
This year is the 5th Ever Los Angeles Old-Time Social. May 13, 14, 15 will see concerts, workshops, parties, jams and a big square dance! May 16th is the Topanga Banjo and Fiddle Contest to top off the wkend! Full day by day calendar and details below. If you need more info, email info@oldtimeisagoodtime.co
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Thurs. 5/13, 9pm, Free: Kick Off Party!
The Hyperion Tavern, 1941 Hyperion Ave, 90027
• Olentangy John
• Cat Tracks
• The Mosby Raiders
Fri. 5/14, 8pm, $15: Concert!**
The Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th St., 90007
**Pre-sale tix available here.
• Frank Fairfield
• Joe Wack & Friends
• Triple Chicken Foot
Sat. 5/15, 12-10pm, Free: Workshops & Square Dance!
Farmlab.org, 1745 N. Spring St, Unit 4, 90012
• Intermediate Old-Time Fiddle with Tom Sauber
• Beginning Claw Hammer Banjo with Steve Lewis
• Advanced Claw Hammer Banjo with Steve Lewis
• West Virginia Fiddle with Joe Wack
• Clogging with Ruth Alpert
• Old Time Fiddle Tunes of Kentucky with Dave Bragger
• Square Dance Calling with Susan Michaels
• Shape Note Singing with Jessica Caltron & Jeremy Drake
• Guitar with Chris Berry
Square Dance & Kid’s Dance & Cakewalk:
Kids Dance-6:30,
Cake Walk-7:30,
Square Dance 8pm
Callers: Susan Michaels (L.A.) & Maggie Lind (Portland)
Square Dance Bands: Sausage Grinder & Black Crown Stringband!
Rad Videos!
I finally figured out how to embed video into my blog… watch out this St. Patty’s Day may be a cavalcade of video updates. I’m overdue for some blog updating anyway, so you can bear with it!
Check out this fantastic video I shot of Fishtank Ensemble at Bordello for last month’s Malabomba:
Here is a video of Triple Chicken Foot with Ruth Alpert at the Old Timey Winter night that I curated back in December. The next HM157 squaredance is on April 17th 2010 – so mark your calendars for that 
And this in a grand clip from 1928 of The Ingenues playing a tune on the banjo.So charming and cute! Thanks to Auriana for finding this gem.
I need to pick up my banjo more often! shame on me.
Posted in inspirations, my peeps, squarevolution, Uncategorized
Tagged banjo, bordello, clogging, fishtank ensemble, hm157, malabomba, old time, ruth alpert, triple chicken foot, ursula knudson
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LA Weekly Slideshow
The HM157 Old Timey Nite show went on without a hitch! It was such a lovely night and I adore all of the performers. It was nice to take an evening and attempt to be present in holiday splendor without rushing around or planning ahead. It was extra special because my longtime friend (from Alemany days!), Liz Ohanesian, covered the night for the LA Weekly with photographer Shannon Cotrell. The evening was featured in a slideshow on the Weekly website. You can see the slideshow and Liz’s narration here. Below I posted some of my favorite photos. All the photos are by the lovely Shannon Cottrell.
MERRY CHRISTMAS! xoxo
An Old Timey Winter Nite
I am curating my first show on Dec. 20th inside beautiful Victorian mansion, HM157, with a fantastic mix of old time music, tribal bellydance, Appalachian clogging, Gyspy fusion, storytelling, performance art, and more! This is a very important nite to me. I get to combine two things I love so very much old timey American folk music and tradition with world music and fusion bellydance. It’s very exciting!
Come join us as we create unique collaborations and celebrate the season – you don’t want to miss this special evening as we resist corporate co-option of the holidays and celebrate community love and spirit with some old timey goodness. Maybe you will get lucky under the mistletoe? Perhaps Krampus will come for a visit? Can I really restrain myself from calling a dance?
Find out on December 20th!
hope to see you there!!!
xoxo Cory Marie
design by moi
Here is the haps…
An Old Timey Winter Nite
an evening of music, dance, performance, & revelry featuring….
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The musical stylings of…
Triple Chicken Foot, an old time stringband,
Appalachian clogger, Ruth Alpert
Ursula Knudson of Fishtank Ensemble & Knomi
Special performance by…
Jean Spinosa. sensational siren of Club Wig Out!
Storytelling with…
Susan Michaels, lovely, witty, & wild maven of the squarevolution
Tribal Bellydance with Tribal Triptych beauties…
Heather Shoopman
Michaella Manning
Calamity Sam
And an ATS/HPITS mash-up with members of Se7eN/The Nautch Project
at glorious victorian beauty HM157
3110 North Broadway Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90031
in Lincoln Heights
doors at 7pm / $5
NO BYOB ( We have a donation libation station )
THE FORK RESTAURANT will also be open serving gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches & warm, made to order waffles with tasty toppings.
Come hungry – starving artist prices!
Meanwhile, we got links galore for you (these are some of my favorite people in the whole world)…
HM157
Triple Chicken Foot
Ursula Knudson
Jean Spinosa
Susan Michaels
Ruth Alpert
Heather Shoopman
Calamity Sam
Michaella Manning
Se7eN Tribal
Thanksgiving Contra Dance
flyer by cory marie
flyer by cory marie
FUN DANCE THIS SATURDAY! I am not calling, but I will be dancing. There is a free clogging lesson with Ruth Alpert,Susan Michaels is calling, and K. Boogie and the Brownbaggers (which is all of Triple Chicken Foot) plus Joe and Steve playing! And it’s buy one admission ($10) get on free~($0) = $5! Come join us!