[Triangle Folk] Folk Song Course Offered

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FOLK SONGS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA

Two chances to take this great course!

1.    Register with Duke's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke University ("OLLI", formerly "DILR") at www.learnmore.duke.edu/olli
The class will be given on eight Tuesdays, January 15 through March 11 (Winter break from Feb. 25-29) from 1:30-3:30pm at the Bishop's House on Duke's East Campus.  The OLLI membership fee is $30; the class fee is $80.  The minimum number of people for this course is 8.  There is no maximum.

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2.    Register with TJ Friedmann at (919) 403-2013 or geode at verizon.net  This class will be given on eight Monday evenings, January 14 through March 10 (Winter break from Feb 25-29) from 7:00-9:00pm. at a house in west Durham county.  The fee for this course is $50, to be paid to the instructor at the first class. The minimum number of people for this course is 8.  The maximum is 20.

PLEASE NOTE:  THE DEADLINE FOR SIGNING UP FOR EITHER CLASS IS DECEMBER 20, 2007.  AFTER DEC. 20, REGISTRATIONS WILL BE PROCESSED ON A SPACE-AVAILABLE BASIS. 

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHY

Come explore the folk songs of England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, from the earliest ballads collected in Great Britain to the folk revival in the United States. Hear actual field recordings of men and women singing their songs - from sea chanteys to cowboy songs, blues to blue-grass.  Follow the trail of a folk song from the hills of Scotland to the Banks of the Ohio! 

 

The course includes the origin and history of folk songs, music and instruments used by folk singers, and the ballads of Francis James Child collected in the nineteenth century in Great Britain.  There is special emphasis on folk songs collected in America and in North Carolina.  The course will be taught through lecture, class discussion and recordings.  

 

Toni Jo ("TJ") Friedmann, the instructor, hails from the neighboring state of Tennessee, and is a member of a musical and artistic family.  She became interested in folk songs when she attended college at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in the nineteen-sixties and took a folk song course for credit.  She collected an extensive record library on folk songs while living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and learned to play the guitar.  "If you learn three chords on the guitar, you can play hundreds of folk songs!"  

 

TJ received a BA from Vanderbilt University in the sixties and has lived in Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama, Florida, Massachusetts, Louisiana, England and Saudi Arabia.  She has taught computer classes to adults - abroad and in the Triangle.  Retiring and relocating with her husband, Victor, to Durham, TJ now can find the time to "play" and share her life-long interest and passion in British and American folk songs.  TJ is Membership Chair for the Triangle Folk Music Society, which brings in folk musicians from Great Britain and America to perform in the Triangle.




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