Hi, everyone! My name is Olivia Barry. I am a member of the CDSS Community
Culture & Safety Task Group (CCSTG). We are a volunteer group of board and
community members working to compile a set of resources and examples for
folk who are ready to dive in to work on safety of all kinds on the dance
floor or music circle. An important element of such an effort is a *Statement
of Community Values*. The goal of this statement is to identify core
values for a local group. Core values communicate to the outside world what
is important to you and what people can expect from your organization or
events. In our last strategic planning process, CDSS identified core values
for our work and we want to help local groups do the same.
To assist groups in creating such a statement, the CCSTG aims to create a
clearinghouse of samples for local communities across our constituency, and
to synthesize existing examples into a succinct template or writing guide
to help groups develop a statement of their own. We are asking our
communities to fill out a short survey related to content that has already
been developed surrounding your *community's values* to serve as examples.
Other topics will be developed as this work unfolds, and we'll be sending
additional short surveys as well as progress reports in the coming months.
Please take a moment to fill out the survey to help identify who among you
has resources on this topic that might be valuable to others:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwSUqM9dNCnMO-yjTawH8vi1Mv_4TuQMQ…
Thank you in advance for any and all information you share! We hope this
project will reflect and support the greater music, song, and dance
community. If you would like to contact us with questions or content,
please email CDSS.SafetyTG(a)gmail.com!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Olivia
CDSS CCSTG Community Member
Hi Song Organizers,
Kelsey Wells @ CDSS asked me to share this invite with you. It's an online
event associated with the CDSS Harmony of Song & Dance camp. However, all
are welcome.
Feel free to share if you like.
Thanks!
Emily Addison
Writing from Ottawa, Ontario
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Missing singing together? Missing being at Pinewoods? Our wonderful singing
teachers from Harmony of Song & Dance at Pinewoods have put together an
online camp chorale for you to enjoy! Join us at 12:30 p.m. EDT every day
from Sunday, July 26 to Friday, July 31, to learn new songs from The Vox
Hunters
<https://www.facebook.com/thevoxhunters/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARD8ns0V-uGH5fY-t-vi…>
, Windborne
<https://www.facebook.com/WindborneSingers/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARB5K5TqMBoR3qA16…>
, Katie Martucci
<https://www.facebook.com/ktooch/?__tn__=K-R&eid=ARA_9q8Sp70iiT_MMOPfzxZtLLv…>,
Chris Bracken, and Brendan Taaffe, hosted by Harmony Week program director
Betsy Branch!
All are welcome, and there is no charge to attend—please follow the link on
our website to register and you will receive the access link by email:
https://camp.cdss.org/camp-weeks/harmony-of-song-dance/. You just need to
register once to attend any (or all!) of the six sessions. We'll be
learning a new song every day Sunday through Thursday and then singing
through them all in the final Friday session.
Hello Shared Weight Song Organizers list,
I think some of you might be interested in CDSS's next web chat .. all
details below!
Thanks,
Emily Addison
Writing from Ottawa Ontario
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Let’s Talk About Reentry: Recommendations and Q&A for Organizers
Wednesday, July 8, 7:30-9:00 p.m. EDT
Don’t miss this pivotal Web Chat! We’ll address the BIG questions on
organizers’ minds: How can we keep our communities safe in a pandemic? When
can we dance and sing in the same place again? What does it mean to be a
dance/music/song organizer when we can’t be together?
We’ll be joined by several guests providing their perspectives, including a
dancing MD, a COVID contact tracer, and music, dance, and song organizers
from far and wide. After hearing from these folks, we’ll open it up for
questions, comments, and discussion with participants. And we’ll be ready
with breakout rooms for smaller chats among organizers of like traditions.
REGISTER online by July 6.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvceirrj8vG93vJNlBhHT5YtVTc3aESU…
Soon after you register, you’ll receive a confirmation email from Zoom with
your personal link for joining the Web Chat. To keep track of this info, w
e recommend saving the email and/or creating a calendar event.
Please spread the word about this crucial Web Chat!
Questions? Contact resources(a)cdss.org.
Hello Shared Weight community,
I’m sorry for the short notice, but I need to move the mailing lists to a different host this evening. There will be some down time between now and 10pm EST. No messages will be lost, though there may be duplicates in the digests.
I’ll send another email once the move is complete.
Nitty gritty details: AWS hosting looked like the right option, but their pricing structure is not clear. Turns out to cost nearly 2x what I had expected. I am moving us (back) to Linode, where we should have stayed all along. Better service, clear pricing, good support.
Seth
Hello fellow song organizer list members,
I’m reaching out on behalf of CDSS regarding two items that we hope may be
of interest to some of you.
*1. Are you offering any online events for traditional song (or
music/dance)?*
Many of you may know of this but in case you don't.... CDSS is maintaining
an extensive list of online events and we would be happy to include your
events as part of the list. Events can be free, by donation, or involve a
fee. Take a quick peek - there are jam sessions, online concerts,
workshops, sings, etc.
We’ve been sharing the event listing widely through our network and we
feature a handful of events each week through social media.
Check out the event listing here:
https://www.cdss.org/community/covid19/online-events
Submit an online event here:
https://www.cdss.org/community/events-calendar/submit-an-event
*2. Do you know of great resources for children and parents who enjoy
traditional dance, music, and/or song?*
We would love to include them as part of the new Families section of our
Resource Portal which is officially launching this weekend. A few notes:
-These particular resources need to be free (or for sale in the CDSS
store).
-If you’re not familiar with other sections of our Resource Portal, the
format of resources vary greatly (e.g., link to external website; online
video; audio clip; PDF of an activity).
-At this critical time of physical distancing, we're particularly looking
for resources that parents can access online. However, we welcome other
resources as well (e.g., lists of books they can find in their local
library).
Check out the Families section here (in development):
https://www.cdss.org/resources/resource-portal/families
Submit a resource here: https://www.cdss.org/share-your-resource
With thanks!
Emily Addison
Writing from Ottawa, ON
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Dear All,
Do you have any favorite songs to use to start a singing session? Or
techniques. I'm interested in the general topic of encouraging people to
sing (instead of sitting, silent and polite, with mouths firmly closed).
Any thoughts, please share, on or off list.
Ridge
(ps -- not sure why the list address came up as "none" but I can't seem to
shake it. ???
--
Ridge Kennedy [Exit 145]
www.ridgekennedy.com
When you stumble, make it part of the dance.
Song Organizers:
With signing events being cancelled right and left, there’s a promising thread on Mudcat, about holding song circles and sing-arounds by conference call or other remote means.
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=167450&messages=6
One problem is latency — delay on the part of one or more participants — which makes group or harmony singing a problem. But I hope the Mudcat discussion will share folks' experiments with ‘remote’ sing-arounds, share what providers and procedures work best, and generate some useful information and ideas.
So let’s stay tuned, and share what we try and what we learn.
Steve Woodbury
Hi Ridge, nice to meet you. I flubbed the signup process because I didn't
read the instructions. Why? In the last two months I have had shoulder
surgery and the flu and both my parents passed away. In the greater scheme
of things, I am in fact feeling a bit "Nonesuch" these days, and grateful
to Amanda for knowing what the problem is.
To differentiate myself from Lynn Feingold (and vice versa), I go by LynN
(pronounced Linen) while she goes by Flynn. I'll make sure to sign this
list with my full name for clarity.
Lynn Noel
info(a)lynnoel.com
http://www.lynnoel.com
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 3:21 PM Ridge Kennedy via Song Organizers <
songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Got it. Tanks. R
>
> Ridge Kennedy
> West Orange, NJ (Exit 145)
> If you stumble, make it part of the dance.
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 11:55 AM Seth Seeger <seth(a)tofutavern.com> wrote:
>
>> I think it means she doesn’t have a name configured in her email client,
>> or maybe in the mailing list system.
>>
>> Seth
>>
>> On Feb 28, 2020, at 11:03 AM, Ridge Kennedy via Song Organizers <
>> songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>>
>> Foolish question, but . . . is the "None" in your e-mail address a first
>> name or last name or other . . . ? Just curious. Thanks. Ridge
>> (abbreviated middle name/nickname)
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:19 PM None via Song Organizers <
>> songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks, I'm late to the party with my List Champion bio, but hope you
>>> may find this useful in matching me up with volunteer opportunities and
>>> like-minded peers under the CDSS umbrella.
>>>
>>> Musically, I am a session organizer, performer, and touring artist both
>>> solo as Crosscurrents Music and with The Old Howard Troupe and the
>>> Gloucester Hornpipe and Clog Society, formerly with the Lingua Franca
>>> multilingual a cappella quartet. I'm a founder of Greater Boston
>>> Traditional Song organizers' group, the Boston Area Chantey and Maritime
>>> Sing (BACAMS), the Somerville (was Skellig) Pub Sings, the Northeast
>>> Chanteysings regional calendar and events map, the AFTer Hours Adult
>>> Folktale Telling series, and a member of the Folksong Society of Greater
>>> Boston. CDSS was kind enough to designate me a Local Hero for your
>>> centennial, which was a great honor.
>>>
>>> I'm best known as a chantey singer from Mystic Sea Music Festival,
>>> Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, Old Songs Festival, Vermont and New
>>> Hampshire Humanities Council touring artist, and international festivals in
>>> the UK and the Netherlands. The larger a cappella community might not know
>>> that I also play treble and bass mountain dulcimer, guitar, percussion, and
>>> string bass, and am working on the concertina. I’m one of those
>>> thousand-song repertoire singers (yes, I counted) with ballads, pub songs,
>>> music hall, sacred harp, Celtic, colonial and early music, multilingual
>>> folksong, and genuinely obscure stuff. I have scholarly interests in
>>> folksong of Atlantic and French Canada, music of the Viking Age, and the
>>> work of women folksong collectors. As a living history professional, I
>>> offer a musical history series, A Woman's Way, of Voyageurs, Vikings,
>>> Pirates, and other traditional women's roles.
>>>
>>> On the dance side, I'm a retired morris dancer and a lifelong contra,
>>> English Country, international, and Scottish dancer. I've been a member of
>>> CDSS and NEFFA since high school, when I helped found the Newton North High
>>> School Folk Dance Club. danced with the MIT and served as a Youth Volunteer
>>> at NEFFA in the 1970s. I'm an alumna of Ha'Penny and Muddy River Morris,
>>> Red Herring Morris, Oak Apple Morris, Bells of the North, and That Long
>>> Tall Sword, and the founder/Squire of the Paper Bag Mummers. We all hope my
>>> third joint replacement in ten years will get me back on the dance floor
>>> this fall, but in the meantime, song and music are a big part of my life.
>>>
>>> Professionally, I am a certified digital business strategist and career
>>> IT professional as an enterprise architect, certified user experience
>>> designer, data management consultant, director of collaboration and content
>>> management, and visual information designer. I have hands-on enterprise
>>> design and admin experience with SalesForce, Microsoft, Google, and most
>>> major digital platforms, particularly with CRM portals like the new CDSS
>>> platform. My Master of Science is in human-environment geography and I have
>>> worked professionally as a cartographer and infographic designer, hence my
>>> interest in the events calendar and map. I’m giving conference
>>> presentations this month on Aligning Digital Strategy with Data Management
>>> and Design Thinking for Data Management, both of which I think might be
>>> germane to the CDSS platform team. I am an independent consultant and small
>>> business owner of Digital Heritage Consulting, LLC, which is an umbrella
>>> over my heritage arts, traditional music, visual design, and digital data
>>> management consulting work.
>>>
>>> My passions as a volunteer are for mentoring young
>>> women/female-identified song leaders and for building a rich national
>>> registry and map of traditional song events. I offer a womens’ workshop
>>> with Cate Clifford on #TheFutureOfFolk, which I’d love to expand under
>>> CDSS. I hope to take a more active role as a curator and platform
>>> consultant for the events calendar and map, as well as championing Shared
>>> Weight for Song Organizers on this list and on social media. Thanks for
>>> this community leadership opportunity with CDSS.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Song Organizers mailing list -- songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
>>> To unsubscribe send an email to
>>> songorganizers-leave(a)lists.sharedweight.net
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ridge Kennedy [Exit 145]
>> When you stumble, make it part of the dance. - Anonymous
>>
>> And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at
>> least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied
>> by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche
>> _______________________________________________
>> Song Organizers mailing list -- songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
>> To unsubscribe send an email to
>> songorganizers-leave(a)lists.sharedweight.net
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>
I think it means she doesn’t have a name configured in her email client, or maybe in the mailing list system.
Seth
> On Feb 28, 2020, at 11:03 AM, Ridge Kennedy via Song Organizers <songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
> Foolish question, but . . . is the "None" in your e-mail address a first name or last name or other . . . ? Just curious. Thanks. Ridge (abbreviated middle name/nickname)
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:19 PM None via Song Organizers <songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net <mailto:songorganizers@lists.sharedweight.net>> wrote:
> Hi folks, I'm late to the party with my List Champion bio, but hope you may find this useful in matching me up with volunteer opportunities and like-minded peers under the CDSS umbrella.
>
> Musically, I am a session organizer, performer, and touring artist both solo as Crosscurrents Music and with The Old Howard Troupe and the Gloucester Hornpipe and Clog Society, formerly with the Lingua Franca multilingual a cappella quartet. I'm a founder of Greater Boston Traditional Song organizers' group, the Boston Area Chantey and Maritime Sing (BACAMS), the Somerville (was Skellig) Pub Sings, the Northeast Chanteysings regional calendar and events map, the AFTer Hours Adult Folktale Telling series, and a member of the Folksong Society of Greater Boston. CDSS was kind enough to designate me a Local Hero for your centennial, which was a great honor.
>
> I'm best known as a chantey singer from Mystic Sea Music Festival, Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, Old Songs Festival, Vermont and New Hampshire Humanities Council touring artist, and international festivals in the UK and the Netherlands. The larger a cappella community might not know that I also play treble and bass mountain dulcimer, guitar, percussion, and string bass, and am working on the concertina. I’m one of those thousand-song repertoire singers (yes, I counted) with ballads, pub songs, music hall, sacred harp, Celtic, colonial and early music, multilingual folksong, and genuinely obscure stuff. I have scholarly interests in folksong of Atlantic and French Canada, music of the Viking Age, and the work of women folksong collectors. As a living history professional, I offer a musical history series, A Woman's Way, of Voyageurs, Vikings, Pirates, and other traditional women's roles.
>
> On the dance side, I'm a retired morris dancer and a lifelong contra, English Country, international, and Scottish dancer. I've been a member of CDSS and NEFFA since high school, when I helped found the Newton North High School Folk Dance Club. danced with the MIT and served as a Youth Volunteer at NEFFA in the 1970s. I'm an alumna of Ha'Penny and Muddy River Morris, Red Herring Morris, Oak Apple Morris, Bells of the North, and That Long Tall Sword, and the founder/Squire of the Paper Bag Mummers. We all hope my third joint replacement in ten years will get me back on the dance floor this fall, but in the meantime, song and music are a big part of my life.
>
> Professionally, I am a certified digital business strategist and career IT professional as an enterprise architect, certified user experience designer, data management consultant, director of collaboration and content management, and visual information designer. I have hands-on enterprise design and admin experience with SalesForce, Microsoft, Google, and most major digital platforms, particularly with CRM portals like the new CDSS platform. My Master of Science is in human-environment geography and I have worked professionally as a cartographer and infographic designer, hence my interest in the events calendar and map. I’m giving conference presentations this month on Aligning Digital Strategy with Data Management and Design Thinking for Data Management, both of which I think might be germane to the CDSS platform team. I am an independent consultant and small business owner of Digital Heritage Consulting, LLC, which is an umbrella over my heritage arts, traditional music, visual design, and digital data management consulting work.
>
> My passions as a volunteer are for mentoring young women/female-identified song leaders and for building a rich national registry and map of traditional song events. I offer a womens’ workshop with Cate Clifford on #TheFutureOfFolk, which I’d love to expand under CDSS. I hope to take a more active role as a curator and platform consultant for the events calendar and map, as well as championing Shared Weight for Song Organizers on this list and on social media. Thanks for this community leadership opportunity with CDSS.
> _______________________________________________
> Song Organizers mailing list -- songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net <mailto:songorganizers@lists.sharedweight.net>
> To unsubscribe send an email to songorganizers-leave(a)lists.sharedweight.net <mailto:songorganizers-leave@lists.sharedweight.net>
>
>
> --
> Ridge Kennedy [Exit 145]
> When you stumble, make it part of the dance. - Anonymous
>
> And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche
> _______________________________________________
> Song Organizers mailing list -- songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
> To unsubscribe send an email to songorganizers-leave(a)lists.sharedweight.net
Ridge, not a foolish question, and I have an answer:
The previous message came from Lynn Noel.
If a list member does not include their first and last name when they
subscribe to this list, the system enters their name as "None." As far as I
know there is no workaround for this, nor is there a way to add a name
later, so it's very important that we all sign our emails with our names
(and locations) so that we can identify the sender.
We make the most of what we have. I've already communicated a wish that
this might be editable, at least on the back end, in the future.
Amanda Witman
Brattleboro, Vermont
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 11:03 AM Ridge Kennedy via Song Organizers <
songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> Foolish question, but . . . is the "None" in your e-mail address a first
> name or last name or other . . . ? Just curious. Thanks. Ridge
> (abbreviated middle name/nickname)
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:19 PM None via Song Organizers <
> songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks, I'm late to the party with my List Champion bio, but hope you
>> may find this useful in matching me up with volunteer opportunities and
>> like-minded peers under the CDSS umbrella.
>>
>> Musically, I am a session organizer, performer, and touring artist both
>> solo as Crosscurrents Music and with The Old Howard Troupe and the
>> Gloucester Hornpipe and Clog Society, formerly with the Lingua Franca
>> multilingual a cappella quartet. I'm a founder of Greater Boston
>> Traditional Song organizers' group, the Boston Area Chantey and Maritime
>> Sing (BACAMS), the Somerville (was Skellig) Pub Sings, the Northeast
>> Chanteysings regional calendar and events map, the AFTer Hours Adult
>> Folktale Telling series, and a member of the Folksong Society of Greater
>> Boston. CDSS was kind enough to designate me a Local Hero for your
>> centennial, which was a great honor.
>>
>> I'm best known as a chantey singer from Mystic Sea Music Festival,
>> Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, Old Songs Festival, Vermont and New
>> Hampshire Humanities Council touring artist, and international festivals in
>> the UK and the Netherlands. The larger a cappella community might not know
>> that I also play treble and bass mountain dulcimer, guitar, percussion, and
>> string bass, and am working on the concertina. I’m one of those
>> thousand-song repertoire singers (yes, I counted) with ballads, pub songs,
>> music hall, sacred harp, Celtic, colonial and early music, multilingual
>> folksong, and genuinely obscure stuff. I have scholarly interests in
>> folksong of Atlantic and French Canada, music of the Viking Age, and the
>> work of women folksong collectors. As a living history professional, I
>> offer a musical history series, A Woman's Way, of Voyageurs, Vikings,
>> Pirates, and other traditional women's roles.
>>
>> On the dance side, I'm a retired morris dancer and a lifelong contra,
>> English Country, international, and Scottish dancer. I've been a member of
>> CDSS and NEFFA since high school, when I helped found the Newton North High
>> School Folk Dance Club. danced with the MIT and served as a Youth Volunteer
>> at NEFFA in the 1970s. I'm an alumna of Ha'Penny and Muddy River Morris,
>> Red Herring Morris, Oak Apple Morris, Bells of the North, and That Long
>> Tall Sword, and the founder/Squire of the Paper Bag Mummers. We all hope my
>> third joint replacement in ten years will get me back on the dance floor
>> this fall, but in the meantime, song and music are a big part of my life.
>>
>> Professionally, I am a certified digital business strategist and career
>> IT professional as an enterprise architect, certified user experience
>> designer, data management consultant, director of collaboration and content
>> management, and visual information designer. I have hands-on enterprise
>> design and admin experience with SalesForce, Microsoft, Google, and most
>> major digital platforms, particularly with CRM portals like the new CDSS
>> platform. My Master of Science is in human-environment geography and I have
>> worked professionally as a cartographer and infographic designer, hence my
>> interest in the events calendar and map. I’m giving conference
>> presentations this month on Aligning Digital Strategy with Data Management
>> and Design Thinking for Data Management, both of which I think might be
>> germane to the CDSS platform team. I am an independent consultant and small
>> business owner of Digital Heritage Consulting, LLC, which is an umbrella
>> over my heritage arts, traditional music, visual design, and digital data
>> management consulting work.
>>
>> My passions as a volunteer are for mentoring young
>> women/female-identified song leaders and for building a rich national
>> registry and map of traditional song events. I offer a womens’ workshop
>> with Cate Clifford on #TheFutureOfFolk, which I’d love to expand under
>> CDSS. I hope to take a more active role as a curator and platform
>> consultant for the events calendar and map, as well as championing Shared
>> Weight for Song Organizers on this list and on social media. Thanks for
>> this community leadership opportunity with CDSS.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Song Organizers mailing list -- songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
>> To unsubscribe send an email to
>> songorganizers-leave(a)lists.sharedweight.net
>>
>
>
> --
> Ridge Kennedy [Exit 145]
> When you stumble, make it part of the dance. - Anonymous
>
> And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least
> once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at
> least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche
> _______________________________________________
> Song Organizers mailing list -- songorganizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
> To unsubscribe send an email to
> songorganizers-leave(a)lists.sharedweight.net
>
