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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
10:56 am [chocchipkaren]	looking for a ride Hello, It's that time again ...  I'm looking for a ride to and from Philadelphia.  I'm one person with several bags (tent, sleeping bag, duffel, food).  I could leave Wednesday night or Thursday morning and could return Sunday night or Monday morning.  I can bring car snacks and music.  Getting rides to Falcon Ridge with strangers has always worked well for me in the past! Thanks, Karen Current Mood: hopeful (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
10:47 am [inflatableshark]	Falcon Ridge Emerging Artist Showcase finalists announced Here is Anne's posting from the forum.  A few familiar folks.   I am really looking forward to this showcase!  Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:09 pm    Post subject: Falcon Ridge 09 Emerging Showcase News The following 24 artists listed in alphabetical order are confirmed for this year's Falcon Ridge/Grassy Hill Emerging Artist Showcase from 501 total applicants. They will appear on our mainstage Fri July 24 from noon to 4:30P. Order of appearance will be posted on our website shortly. A.J. Roach & His Strange Pilgrims - NYC Aiden James - Philadelphia PA Alastair Moock - Medford MA Angelo M. - Lancaster PA Bread and Bones - Ripton VT Calaveras - Lafayette CA chuck e. costa - New Haven CT Claudia Nygaard - Nashville TN Colleen Kattau & Some Guys - Cortland NY Coyote Grace - Santa Rosa CA Danielle Miraglia - Somerville MA Driftwood Fire - Fort Collins CO Emily Elbert - Boston MA Jenny Goodspeed - Ashfield MA John Elliott - Los Angeles CA K.C. Clifford - Oklahoma City OK Kelleigh McKenzie - Rosendale NY Liz Longley - Downingtown PA Mary Bragg - Brooklyn NY Nels Andrews - Brooklyn NY Robyn Landis - Vashon WA Sean Rowe - Albany-NY Swing Caravan - Northampton MA The Brilliant Inventions - Atlanta GA Our thanks for a wonderful job to this year's judging committee, Sarah Craig from Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs NY, Richard Cuccaro editor/publisher of Acoustic Live in NYC and Cliff Seltzer from Gold Mountain Entertainment in Nashville. Much thanks to Jim, Heidi and Emily at Sonicbids as well. The FRFF Artist Showcase is celebrating it's 18th year and has become one of the most popular segments of the entire weekend. Thanks, Anne Anne Saunders Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
1:41 pm [patri1]	1 earlybird non camping ticket available friend has 1 ticket available she bought and now has to sell- I am cross posting from the FRFF site- "I have an extra 4 day non camping Falcon Ridge ticket - got at early bird price ($90). If you would like to buy it - send me a private message and I will get with you about arrangements. thanks Donna" so- if interested I can get you in touch with her- or you can head over to there and contact her yourself!!! thanks pat (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
11:30 pm [shakenbysound]	Falcon Ridge gifts on Facebook For those of you on facebook, there is now a Falcon Ridge Gifts application! Living it up in the garden Gifts you can send include Vegan Chippers, Sunflower Pizza, a headlamp, ASL Dave, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIcccee!, a camp chair and the "Don't Lick the Fence" sign. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
10:14 am [dabblersupreme]	Chris Chandler House Concert I know Chris Chandler has performed at Falcon Ridge at least once, so I thought I'd spread the word here. Pinecrest presents: a very special house concert featuring Chris Chandler. This is an event you do not want to miss. Chris Chandler has worked with everyone from Allen Ginsberg to Ani DiFranco and Pete Seeger to Mojo Nixon. Utah Phillips says, "Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen." He has been on the road for the last 20 years, performing on thousands of stages as well as for hundreds of organizations seeking social justice. His experience as a street performer and rabble rouser shine through every performance making him a welcome addition to festivals, carnivals, hay rides and riots, or where ever the rabble need to be roused. For more about Chris Chandler, see http://chrischandler.org/. House Concert Details: Sunday, May 3rd, 2:00pm Location: Setauket, Long Island NY. Email (or private LJ message) me if you are interested and I will provide the specifics. Suggested Donation: $10. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
9:56 am [horvendile]	I have more pics up. FRFF 2008 Friday Workshop Stage FRFF 2008 Friday Night Main Stage FRFF 2008 Friday Family Stage (Comment on this)
Monday, February 16th, 2009
4:00 pm [horvendile]	I have finally started editing and posting my photos from last year's Falcon Ridge. Here are the first two sets. FRFF 2008 Thursday FRFF 2008 Budgiedome Thursday Night (Comment on this)
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
7:05 pm [patri1]	FRFF TIX and other news For those not on the mailing list or the FRFF board- FALCON RIDGE WINTER TIX SALES BLITZ STARTS SUN FEB 8 FEST DATES: July 23, 24, 25, 26, 2009 ---------- First Enewsletter of the NEW YEAR, Happy Belated 2009, just a few items here. FIRST and foremost - WINTER SALES BLITZ - THREE DAYS - Sun/Mon/Tues Feb 8-10 LIMITED QUANTITIES OF 4 DAY CAMPING AND 4 DAY NO CAMPING TIX on sale at $100 and $70 avail at our toll free number, 866 325-2744. This pre-season sale is only advertised to our E list. Visa and MC accepted. I will be taking phone orders from 10A to 10P or until tix run out. Hopefully they will last for 3 days, usually camping ones don't. We have 400 all 4-day camping and 200 all 4-day no camping avail ONLY by phone with Visa or MC. Each caller may purchase up to 8 tix. Updated info on all prices, dates, deadlines, artists booked so far are on NOT on our website YET, very late start this year due to the aftermath of last year's very severe weather that closed the fest early on Sunday. It was not until November we were sure we could continue. Prices on 4-day tix go up 15 bucks in March when earlybird tix sales begin. All other tix categories avail at that time, single day and teen specials. Our annual spring Preview Tour is not to be this year but there may be a few shows here and there featuring the 4 top voted 2008 showcase artists, Amy Speace, Blue Moose & the Unbuttoned Zippers, Abi Tapi & Lucy Wainwright Roche. We will post and E this info. Very few artists confirmed so far, Clayfoot Strutters and Wild Asparagus. As mentioned, very late start BUT thanks to this community, artists who gave back their fee, volunteers who refused their annual stipend & many of you who donated to our Tornado Relief Fund, we are definitely good to go. Thanks and Happy ALMOST END of Winter to all, Anne Anne Saunders Falcon Ridge Folk Festival 21 years of Folk Music & Dance in the Berkshires July 23, 24, 25, 26, 2009 - Dodds Farm - 44 CR 7D, Hillsdale, NY www.FalconRidgeFolk.com _________________ Anne Saunders Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Always on the fourth weekend in July 20 years of Folk Music & Dance in the Berkshires (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
3:00 pm [horvendile]	Emerging Artist Showcase Winners The votes are in and the people have spoken. From a total of 440 surveys completely filled out this year, about a third of the usual since most were lost in the storm, the results are: Amy Speace - garnering votes from 30% of the voting audience Blue Moose & the Unbuttoned Zippers - a very close second at 29% Abi Tapia and Lucy Wainwright Roche - just about tied with 22% and 21% of the voters respectively They will be on the Most Wanted Song Swap in 2009. There is no official preview tour but some dates my be booked. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
12:10 pm [sunshinemuffin]	is falcon ridge confirmed that it's happening this year? i know i've heard a lot of rumors that it might not be happening. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
9:45 am [shakenbysound]	2009 dates? Does anyone know when the festival will be this year? I'm assuming July 23-27, but I get confused about whether it is the 4th Thurs in July or the last Thurs in July. I want to mark it on my 2009 calendar! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
8:31 am [patri1]	FRFF 2009 in case anyone is interested- from Anne on the FRFF website: "More info coming this week on 2009 plans but we are definitely on for 2009, Anne _________________ Anne Saunders Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Always on the fourth weekend in July 20 years of Folk Music & Dance in the Berkshires" see you all there- Pat (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
1:07 pm [shakenbysound]	This is overdue I try to make this post yearly, but kind of forgot this year as I didn't fill out a survey at the festival. I'm filling mine out today though, so I thought I would post this. Who did you put down for the Emergeing Artist Showcase? 1. 2. 3. Who were your "must return" performers? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Who wasn't there that you'd like to see come for 2009? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
1:53 am [folktraveler]	A Benefit for The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in the Boston area on Sep 23th There will be a benefit concert for The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in the Boston area at Club Passim, Cambridge, MA on September 23th. From the Passim website: "As many of you may have heard, or experienced first-hand (!) the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival was hit by a mini-tornado on it's last day - leading to most of the day needing to be cancelled, and some serious damage being done. Tonight we're going to give a little back to the festival that everyone loves! Performers include Tracy Grammer, Katryna Nields & Dave Chalfant, Vance Gilbert, Chris Thompson and more!" Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Lindsay Mac - 7 Stones (Comment on this)
12:46 am [misch]	Falcon Ridge Survey 2008 The Falcon Ridge 2008 Survey is now up on the Falcon Ridge Website. If you didn't get a chance to fill one out at the festival, this is your chance to provide feedback on the Festival. 2 ways to send it in: 1. Answer ALL the questions in an e-mail and send it it webmaster <overat> falconridgefolk dot com OR 2. Print out the PDF file, fill it in, and mail it to: Falcon Ridge Folk Festival PO Box 144 Sharon, CT 06069-0144 And, the Tornado Fund is accepting donations.  Put a smile on Ann Saunders' face by including a check made out to "Falcon Ridge Folk Festival" and sending it in along with your survey form. In case you've forgotten the 2008 performers, here they are (PDF), and here is the community posting of the Emerging Artist Showcase (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
3:21 pm [horvendile]	The best video I've seen of the storm. (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
8:11 pm [boyhowdy25]	New news: how to donate From those still not watching the official FRFF forums, Anne just posted the following... Falcon Ridge 2008 Tornado Fund We are gratefully accepting any and all donations by mail or PayPal to get us thru the current crisis. You can mail in donations by check made to "Falcon Ridge Folk Festival" and mailed to: Falcon Ridge Folk Festival POB 144 Sharon, CT 06069 Donations made through PayPal are also accepted. If you have a PayPal account, the e-mail address to use for donations is: donate@FalconRidgeFolk.com There is also a DONATE button on our website Or you can use this link Falcon Ridge 2008 Tornado Fund Thanks, Anne (41 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
8:42 pm [cornchipkid]	Falcon Ridge Goddess Hello all my Falcon Ridge buddies! What an amazing festival this year! I know the hail craziness is on almost everyone's mind right now! I hope you all arrived home safe and sound with minimal damage! I drew this at the festival and I wanted to share it! The Falcon Ridge Goddess (complete with funny money and wristband!) I showed this to a few people at the medical tent and they liked it a lot! ( semi large photos ) (and on a side note-ish. During the hail storm chaos I was with my good friend Jesse in the medical tent I know a few picture took pictures of us together but I don't remember any of their names so if you happened to have pictures of Jesse and I (the blond) . It'd totally make my year if you could show them to me!) Current Music: The Horse Flies - Build a House and Burn It Down | Scrobbled by Last.fm (Comment on this)
12:19 pm [fyregoddess875]	Message from Anne posted to the FRFF message boards I don't know how many of you have registered for the forums on the Falcon Ridge official site, but for those of you who haven't, you need to be registered to see the posts. This was posted just a little while ago by Anne (link: http://www.falconridgefolk.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=235): ***** Aftermath Report, Surveys, FR Bucks, Tix Refunds This is Anne back in office in Sharon CT. Most important news, only a few bruises from monster hail and a couple panic attacks but NO INJURIES. This was a mini tornado that hit us Sunday, it never touched down. We had been tracking this storm, labeled F5 on NEXRAD radar on my laptop in the Communications trailer. Was moderately severe, very compact and moving rapidly. It was past us & thought we were OK. Storm track animation showed it was moving away. Than there was a sudden rotation and it came back with 70 MPH winds, 3 inches of rain and up to golf ball size hail. There was no time for a warning like the ones passed on earlier, it happened so fast. We could not believe the same storm that had passed on the radar was now in front of us again, was on us before we could even get on the radio. I got one call in to mainstage and one to security base. Hail started WHILE I was making these calls on my cell, radio communication was totally OUT. Tornado formation is very unpredictable. We just did not think anything like that was possible, indeed 4 of us looking right at the radar were puzzled at what we were looking at for several precious seconds. As mentioned, no one was hurt, the clean-up is a bear and the income loss, just don't know yet. Janis Ian has donated back half of her fee and other performers have offered to do a benefit. We'll just have to see, honestly don't know yet. ------On surveys, FR Money and Refunds Will get up survey up on website ASAP, may take a couple days will post a PDF as well as a Text Doc that can be Emailed back. FR Money, you can use it next year if there is a next year, we hope so. You can donate it to the local Food Bank as usual by sending back to: Falcon Ridge Folk Fest POB 144 Sharon CT 06069 If you have a large amt, over $25 and absolutely need a refund, send back to same address. We will need to take a processing fee of $5 per refund. Sorry about this. It costs us banking fees, staff time, postage, gas to do this and right now every little dribble sends us further in the red. Tix refunds. Send your unused ticket, wristband, cc receipt or order info. We will keep a list and give all a one day tix of your choice for next year. Worse comes to worse we will send refunds minus the $5 fee to that list. What is happening now? Site clean-up still in progress, Bub is there all day with a small crew. I am doing 20 or so loads of laundry at home. All our backstage and green room wall hangings, curtains, tablecloths and the 300 or so towels for performers will be unusable if not dealt with immediately. Lots of other stuff drying out all over the place, lost & found items mostly dried out, hanging in my garage and everywhere else we could hang them. Dealing with Lost & Found and Performer Merch rest of day, Weds. Thanks to all our patrons & staff who stayed on into Monday and helped us with the stages and dance floor and Cantele Tents who came immediately on Sunday and started on the downed tents. Big thanks to all of you who I know have unused tix and FR bucks and are NOT asking for a refund. That is so helpful and could make all the difference in the world to the future of the fest. That's it for now, Anne _________________ Anne Saunders Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Always on the fourth weekend in July 20 years of Folk Music & Dance in the Berkshires ***** (32 Comments |Comment on this)
12:17 am [misch]	Budgiedome 2008 Before the big storm on Sunday, I wrote the following lines on the inside of The Budgiedome: "Budgiedome 2008: Come in. Get closer. Know your neighbor" Saturday night during the rains after mainstage, we all crowded in to get out of the weather.  A picture I took from the stage end of the dome has at least 50 distinct people visible in the photo, and there were others who were obscured by We're About 9, or who were just out of the frame of the photo. Little did I realize that slogan would become even more important on Sunday when we hosted a few people who had most of their camp blown apart in the storm.  The Bugdiedome survived thanks to it's flexible design and hard work from Steve Martin. Many thanks to Lori Martin, Trace, Genevieve, valjean615 and many others for helping us get set up for the concerts. Many thanks to all our good neighbors including Tribes Hill (and AcousticMusicScene), the Front Porch, and the Syracuse University Outing Club.  Many thanks also to Alan Rowoth for pointing out the sites on the hill where good music can be heard. And MANY MANY MANY thanks to all of you who stopped by, including our performers. And many thanks to horvendile for doing all the leg work in convincing performers that we're a good place to play. Here they are! Our 2008 performers, including links to all their websites. ( Cut because long list is LONG ) (14 Comments |Comment on this)