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SUMMARY:Annual Holiday Sing -  Sally Potter\, wsg Doug Austin\, Doug Berch\, and Ruelaine Stokes
DESCRIPTION:For 21 years\, hundreds of people who love to sing attend this annual community Holiday Sing to share seasonal songs with friends\, new and old.\n\nYou are invited!\n\nBring family and friends to the Holiday Sing and add your voice to a few hundred other voices of people who love to sing this wonderful music – together.\n\nNo official music to read; lyric sheets for all songs are passed out – in case some third verses are a little rusty…\n\nSong leader Sally Potter will guide singers through a wide variety of selections surrounding themes of  Winter\, Solstice\, Peace\, Home\, Christmas\, and the New Year.\n\nAcclaimed pianist Doug Austin will accompany most songs and help fill that gorgeous room with many octaves of beautiful sound.\n\nDoug Berch will add the seasonal sounds of the hammered dulcimer to many pieces.\n\nSpoken word artists Ruelaine Stokes will present a few poignant poems and stories.\n\nThis is an opportunity to kick off your holiday season in a very personal\, musical way.\n\nHope to see you at The 21st Holiday Sing! – SP\nWatch the New York Times video about community singing in Lansing: \n \nRead the New York Times article. \nLearn more about community singing at www.singingfestival.com. \nSally Potter\nWhen Sally Potter isn’t directing the Mid-Winter Singing Festival\, leading the Fiddle’s Annual Holiday Sing\, leading the Monthly Community Sings\, singing with Sistrum\, or providing special music at The Mayflower Church\, she is tutoring Economics students at the Learning Commons at Lansing Community College. \nSally’s grandmother\, Lillian Paulson Potter was an opera singer\, and later\, a church choir director\, producing countless community events over a fifty-year span. Her uncle\, Brian Shanley\, played jazz clarinet with Bob Scoby’s band in Chicago in the 50’s. Yet it was when her brother Tom taught her Old-Time tunes on his back-up banjo that Sally settled into the folk music world. \nA mainstay in the Mid-Michigan folk music community since 1984\, Sally was recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from FARM\, Folk Alliance Region Mid-West. From 1989 – 2001\, Sally\, Betsy Clinton and Pat Madden were members of the very popular folk trio\, Second Opinion. In 2005\, Sally released her fifth CD\, this one together with Madden\, entitled\, “it’s about time.” This past year\, Sally released her first solo CD\, “Summer’s Child.” \nIn 2003\, Sally organized the first Mid-Winter Singing Festival\, now an annual event where hundreds of people get together on the first weekend in February – just to sing. (www.singingfestival.com) Since then\, she has continued to perform\, song lead\, and help produce numerous music events\, including this annual Holiday Sing. She is also the volunteer concert booking manager for the 50 year-old Ten Pound Fiddle Concert and Dance Series. \n www.sally-potter.com\n\nDoug Berch\n \nBy day\, luthier Doug Berch makes mountain dulcimers in Haslett\, Michigan. \nBy night\, multi-instrumentalist Doug Berch can be found on stage and in the studio\, playing a wide variety of styles. He has been performing\, teaching and making dulcimers since the mid 1970’s. During the 1980’s\, he toured throughout the United States and performed at many folk festivals\, dulcimer festivals and concert venues. He recorded two solo recordings for Kicking Mule Records. \nIn 1983\, Doug took first place in both the National Hammered Dulcimer Championship and the National Mountain Dulcimer Championship in Winfield\, Kansas. \nIn the early 1990’s\, he recorded a tune he composed on hammered dulcimer called\, “Ocean of Wisdom” that has been performed and recorded by several other hammered dulcimer players. His work appears on dozens of albums and soundtracks as a support musician. For ten years\, he performed\, recorded and toured with the Celtic ensemble\, Colcannon\, and taught at The Swallow Hill School of Music in Denver. “Musically I am inspired by the traditional music of the world\, the rock and roll I grew up with and anything else that comes along\,” Doug says. \nDoug has added hammered dulcimer pieces\, stories and inspired commentary to the annual Holiday Sing for 10 years.\nwww.dougberch.com \n\n\n\n\nRuelaine Stokes\n \nRuelaine Stokes serves as the current Lansing Poet Laureate (2024-2026.) In addition\, she is a member of the spoken word group\, Voices of the Revolution\, and the president of the Lansing Poetry Club. A collection of her poetry\, Jar of Plenty\, was published in 2021\, and in 2023\, she and former Lansing Poet Laureate Laura Apol co-edited the book\, My Secret Lansing\, a collection of poetry and prose about hidden treasures in the Greater Lansing Area. \nruelainestokes.com
URL:https://www.tenpoundfiddle.org/event/annual-holiday-sing-sally-potter-wsg-doug-austin-doug-berch-and-ruelaine-stokes/
LOCATION:University Lutheran Church (ULC)\, 1020 S Harrison Rd\, East Lansing\, MI\, 48823\, United States
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