Fall session FFM rehearsals begin Sunday, August 18! Before rehearsal, we’ll host a session for newcomers (and recent-comers) called Introduction to the Machine. It’s our hope that attending this session will make it easier to jump in to FFM rehearsals. We’ll meet at the Senior Center in downtown Iowa City
Community Music Column Iowa City Press-Citizen, August 10, 2019 Family Folk Machine by Jean Littlejohn The Family Folk Machine is Iowa City’s intergenerational, non-auditioned community choir. We’ll begin our fall session with rehearsal on August 18 at the Senior Center, working toward a November 17 concert at the Englert Theatre
The Family Folk Machine will be busy with pop-up performances through the month of June! June 1: The FFM kids perform at Arts Fest on the Family Stage This performance will include some of the original songs the kids wrote under the guidance of FFM Associate Director Nicole Upchurch this
Many Voices/One Voice: We Are One Community This collection of songs surrounds us with reflections on human togetherness. We join together, we work together, we get together with one another. We don’t live in isolation, and we all know that our world will improve if we learn how to live
“Many Voices/One Voice: We Are One Community,” the spring concert of the Family Folk Machine, will come to life on Saturday, May 11 at 2 p.m. at the Englert Theatre in beautiful downtown Iowa City. We hope you can join us for this musical extravaganza reflecting on what it means
The Family Folk Machine, Iowa City’s intergenerational choir, has a four-part mission: to build community by singing songs with our neighbors, to explore American history and culture through song, to foster individual musical development, and to pursue excellence as an ensemble. Our goal to foster individual musical development has received
To those who missed our Stand by Me: Songs of Friendship concert – and those who would like to revist these wonderful songs, the videos (taken by The Senior Center) are now available!
This article appeared in the February 2 edition of the Press-Citizen. The Family Folk Machine is pleased to present a benefit concert for Chapter 161 of the Veterans for Peace on Sunday, February 17, at 3 p.m. in the beautiful new building of the Unitarian Universalist Society on Oakdale Road
Looking forward to the Spring 2019 session of the Machine! Rehearsals begin at 3 p.m. on Sunday, January 13 at the Senior Center. We’ve got some great sub-themes going between the songs for our spring program. One is *Shine*. I’m starting an arrangement of the Joe Jenks song “Lady of
Last summer, the Family Folk Machine became a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. This fall, we have launched our first annual Appeal in order to build a solid foundation for the choir so we can sustain our work into the future. Please support the Machine with a secure online donation of any