Well Folks,

that was an awesome start to the term. I hope to see you all this week and we can continue building arrangements for our tunes.

Interesting Fact of the week: If you are having a hard time tuning or hitting a note, stop and listen. Your home may be pulling you out of tune. This week I discovered that both my Dryer & the bathroom fans in my house hum somewhere between Bb and B when they are running. Which is why after 10 tries I still couldn't sing Oh Susanna in tune. I was pulling my hair out, I thought I was going crazy. I spent hours going over it again and again trying to figure it out. Turns out it wasn't all my fault, it was just second hand music.

​https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/04/secondhand-music/376828/ 
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Resources for this week.
An updated Mp3 track for Oh Susanna (Sans dryer hum) 

Sweet Island Home 

​Hello  Folkquestrians
 
I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season. 
 
FolkHarmonic will be starting again on Wednesday January 16that the Dove Creek Hall.
 
FolkHarmonic Voices – 6:15-7:25 
FolkHarmonic Orchestra – 7:30-9:15
 
Term 3: (8 classes) 
January 16,  23, 30,
February  6, 13, 20, 27
March 6, 
 
Term 4: (6 classes) 
April 3, 24, 
May 1, 8, 15, 22  
 
May 25th weekend: Due to NIFPA cancelling its fiddle program this year I have hired Miriam Sonstenes & Jeff Dill from Victoria to put on our own mini festival May 25/26th 2019. This will consist of workshops for folkharmonic and solo masterclasses in both classical and fiddle genres. I will have more information on this at the first class of 2019.  
 
If you have any questions or concerns please let me know (email is best, although I may not reply right away as I will be out of wifi/cell range while at Mount Cain)   
 
All the best, 
Ali