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Irelandish Reading
Jana Zvibleman
with Shari Ame

Sponsored by the Corvallis Folklore Society. Grass Roots is hosting Jana Zvibleman, long-loved member of the Corvallis community, for a reading from her new book, Irelandish. Her reading will also feature a musical performance by fiddler Shari Ame.

As American blow-ins Jana and Bruce zigzag through the land of the redheads, they develop fondness for everything from the fiddling to the ugly swans, the bouncing lasses to the screaming market mammy. Exploring the magical mundane, the couple ponders and personalizes timeless stories of today’s Celts. Irelandish is a tender romance, a comedy of quirks, a tear-jerker, and a foot-tapper. Readers will relish the journey with Jana as she balances one stone on top of the other and often watches them topple.

Jana Z is the Poet Laureate of her backyard. A storyteller by heredity, she has performed for The Moth, and has collaborated with sculptors, painters, playwrights, buskers, and a flugelhornist. She is also a photographer, essayist, artist-on-the-loose, plus teacher of writing and other life-saving techniques. She will share mainly from her most recent book, Irelandish – a collections of stories both romping and touching, about adventures with her husband, Bruce Marbin. (They were long-time Corvallisites.)

Local Folk! is back

Local Folk! is a free, monthly, open mic (without the mic!) program of
local artists offering a wide variety of music, including original creations. There is no requirement to play and anyone is invited to just come and enjoy the music.

We have a new location at TROUBADOR MUSIC CENTER, 521 SW 2nd St, Corvallis.
Shari Ame is the new manager of the event. She can be contacted at shariame@gmail.com. Ryan Buys is the operator of the shop who is allowing
the use of his place for this CFS offering. This is a monthly event, every first Thursday of the month.

Doors open at 6:45pm and folks can sign up to perform at that time.
Performances are from 7pm-9pm. We conduct shared performances for
approximately two hours without a break, though people are free to move around.

This is an entirely acoustic event, without amplification. Each performer or performance group will have a maximum time allotment of 15 minutes to perform up to three songs, as in the past. There is a piano available. Contact Shari for more information or if you would like to help.

This is a free event, open to the public.
We do ask for a $5 donation to help defray the costs of the facility.
Come share your music with us!