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Folklore Society Annual Meeting / Potluck / Jam
Join us for our annual meeting, potluck and jam session
at the First Congregational Church
Bring musical instruments, voices, songs & stories or just listen
Bring food to share – Snacks & drinks available.
SCHEDULE:
- 3:30 – Doors open
- 4:00 – Socialize, jam, share tunes & songs
- 5:15 – POTLUCK food table opens
- 5:45 – Annual Membership Meeting after the Board Meeting.
- Review CFS activities
- Financial report
- Member input
- Board Election
- Present slate of candidates for next year’s board
- Accept additional nominations from the floor
- All members present vote for next year’s CFS board
- 6:45 – Clean-up
- 7:00 – Contra Dance lesson starts
- 7:30 – Contra Dance starts
Come for music, friends & food
Support CFS in its mission
Stay for the contra dance
Folklore Society Annual Meeting / Potluck / Jam
Join us for our annual meeting, potluck and jam session
at the First Congregational Church
Bring musical instruments, voices, songs & stories or just listen
Bring food to share – Snacks & drinks available.
SCHEDULE:
- 3:30 – Doors open
- 4:00 – Socialize, jam, share tunes & songs
- 5:30 – POTLUCK food table opens A hearty soup & bread will be provide
- Please bring a salad or side dish
- Dessert will be served during the meeting.
- 6:00 – Annual Membership Meeting after the Board Meeting.
- Review CFS activities
- Financial report
- Member input
- Board Election
- Present slate of candidates for next year’s board
- Accept additional nominations from the floor
- All members present vote for next year’s CFS board
- 7:00 – Contra Dance lesson starts
- 7:30 – Contra Dance starts
Come for music, friends & food
Support CFS in its mission
Stay for the contra dance

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.)
Larry Edgar Memorial
For many, many years Larry did sound for dances and concerts; and, in 1973, he was one of the founding members of The Best Cellar Coffee House. Larry did sound, for free, for 45 years at The Cellar. Insisting on not being paid so that the cost of admission could be kept to a price anyone could afford.
The memorial will be quite informal. We’ll have a sign up sheet for folks who would like to say a few words, sing a song, tell a story. And then we’ll have a time when anyone who has thought of something they’d like to say or sing can just do so.
Come celebrate the life of a person who really helped bring the Corvallis music scene to life.
Masks are welcomed but not required.
We will be in the cellar for this show. Enter from the back of the church parking lot.
For more information contact Mark Weiss at [email protected]