At the GottaGetGon Festival there are some special mini-shows/workshops/events
 in addition to the concerts and workshops of the Featured performers.

Here are some:
new folk
Friday Night at GottaGetGon - music by the new generation.

ILusha Kristine
 Adah
Ilusha Tsinadze
  Brooklyn based guitarist, Ilusha Tsinadze, is originally from the Republic of Georgia.
  His musical influences range from modern jazz to bluegrass. In this concert, Ilusha will include a selection of songs from his homeland.
 Kristine Teets
 Kristine has been Gettin Gon for 12 years now thanks to her great friend Amanda Fry. She’s performed in bands, choirs, a cappella groups, and jazz combos across NYS, rocking out on the flute, as a vocalist, and most recently on guitar.		 Adah Hetko
... loves to sing, tell stories, and write poetry.  She sings with friends and family, Aunty Sue, and over the summer at Village Harmony camp.  A senior at Shaker High School, Adah is highly skilled at playing the comb.

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Special
Saturday & Sunday during the day. (in addition to the featured performers concerts & workshops)
In the evenings there are: the barn dance Saturday, the a capella sing Sunday, and unscheduled jams & singarounds anytime.
Paul Rosenberg
  "Intergenerational Folk Dance from America and Around the World"
a dance workshop with a "fun orientation" for boys & girls, teens, adults, grand_folk;
led by Paul Rosenberg,  with live music provided by Tunefolk (Sue & Jim Mead)
Fry Lubell

 
Waltzing

with Steve Fry & Barb Lubell


Wake up with Gospel

Vicki & Bruce agree to sit up front and help the sing along.

We are not very religious - we just like the music.

Any excuse to sing.

 Vicki & Bruce


SWING SWING SWING.
The 40's and beyond

Led by ever popular Dave Crump


For all ages and instruments. Bring the instrument you learned to play in high school or as a parent or single swinger - whatever.

This is a wonderful group experience in the pavillion near Dave's campsite.
Swing
drumming

Informal Drumming JAM

EileenBring a drum or borrow one or just listen.

It's a jam, not a workshop or lesson.

 Hosted by Eileen Parzek.
Jackie

Charlie on the MTA

Writing a topical song;
interactive workshop.

Led by Jacqueline (Jackie) Steiner,
"The M.T.A. - song" co-writer

see Rise Up Singing,  pages 19,20.


Barn Dance
Saturday Night
All Dances Taught

PAUL- Caller
 dancers
 Band
Dance Caller
Paul Rosenberg
No Experience Necessary.
It's for Fun!

 Live Band - Alexander Mitchell band
 and new friends

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sing a-round
camp light
On Sunday night at dusk many of us gather in one of the buildings and sing around a camp light.
It's all very informal, very dark, quite delightful, rather magical. Join us.

There is jamming at the campsites anytime. Bring an instrument or just listen, maybe sing a little.


PS - You can get a discount if you register by mid-May. (see GGG main page)

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footnote...

Best Late-Night Jamming

METROLAND July 20, 2006 ("Best Of")

GOTTAGETGON FOLK FESTIVAL
Saratoga County Fairgrounds

Every once in a while at their annual Memorial Day festival you'll see a performer wandering around the campsites in late evening, taking in the virtuoso finger picking, the swing, the contra tunes, the singing, and looking a little dazed to realize that while they are appreciated, they are not the main attraction. Of course more often you'll see them happily joining in.




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