JOIN US at Uptown Bill’s
Happy New Year, friends! It’s time to get together for some singing.
Join us this Saturday, January 9, from 3:00 to 4:30 for our monthly all-request sing-along. Bring instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. We’ll have Rise Up Singing books. Read more
Festival of Carols**Tuesday, December 8** 6:30 p.m.**Englert Theater
On Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 6:30 p.m. the Englert hosts the annual Festival of Carols. This fun, free event starts with a few songs by the Skipperlings (a trio of FFM girls), followed by a Family Folk Machine set. Read more
Community Folk Sing
Join us at Uptown Bill’s this Saturday from 3:00 to 4:30 for our monthly all-request sing-along. Bring instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. I’m hoping to bring copies of some of the FFM song arrangements from previous Festival of Carols performances, and we’ll have our usual Rise Up Singing books. Read more
Join us September 26, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., for our video-release party! We’ll premiere the video at the Senior Center and then parade down to Chauncey Swan Park for refreshments, games, and singing.
Rehearsals for “The Traveling Kind” start this Sunday! I am so excited to see our new/old Folk Machine reassemble. It’s really fun for me to put together arrangements of our songs while thinking about what the notes are going to mean once real people are singing them. Read more
This article by Jean Littlejohn appeared in the Press Citizen on Monday, August 10, 2015.
The Family Folk Machine starts rehearsals on August 23 for our fall session, “The Traveling Kind.” Read more
Come by the Longfellow neighborhood on Saturday, June 20, to enjoy the Front Porch Music Festival! The Family Folk Machine will lead a sing-along at 426 Grant Street at 3:30. (Come at 3:00 to hear the Skipperlings!) Check out this explanatory story, which includes the festival line-up, from Little Village: Front Porch Music Festival to Serenade Iowa City Neighborhood
Last Sunday we had a fantastic time singing our food and gardening songs at the Old Capitol. Thanks to everyone who helped us set up that appearance! We can’t wait to give the songs another spin this coming Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Senior Center. Read more
The Iowa Music Showcase did a podcast on the recently-released “For Kids, By Kids” album, and one of the featured songs was “Rocky Road,” sung on the album by FFM’s Caleigh, Greta, and Claire. Here’s the link:
http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2015/04/episode-8-iowa-city-childrens-album.html
Thanks, Dan, for including our song!
The Family Folk Machine will present its spring program, “Blooming Where You’re Planted: Songs from Farm to Table,” at two upcoming concerts. On Sunday, April 12 at 2:30 p.m., we will perform at the Old Capitol Senate Chamber as part of the University’s “Food for Thought” theme semester and in conjunction with the excellent exhibit at the Old Capitol Museum called “The Land Provides: Iowa’s Culinary Heritage.” On Sunday, April 19 at 3:00 p.m., we will perform on our home turf at the Senior Center in downtown Iowa City with special guests from Table to Table and Local Foods Connection. At this concert we’ll be collecting canned food donations for the Crisis Center.
