To get you ready for a couple of great events that we are doing in April (Blooming Where You’re Planted: songs from farm to table) at the Senior Center and the U of I Old Capitol Museum Senate Chamber, I thought I would share with you our spring songs! Read more
Join us February 14th from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. for an all-request sing-along! Bring instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. We can make good use of the Love section in the provided Rise Up Singing song books for Valentine’s Day – in the warm and cozy atmosphere found at Uptown Bill’s. Read more
Join us this Saturday from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. for an all-request sing-along! Bring instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. We’ll have Rise Up Singing books, and Uptown Bill’s will provide the warm and cozy atmosphere.
There’s free parking evenings and weekends in the UI lot across from Uptown Bill’s. Read more
The Family Folk Machine will begin rehearsals for “Hard Times Come Again No More: Songs of Struggle and Hope” on Sunday, January 10. E-mail Jean for more information.
This spring the Family Folk Machine will be singing songs about spring, food, and gardening. Our big projects will be a concert at the Senior Center on April 19 and the making of a music video for Tom Chapin’s song about composting, “Brown Gold.” Read more
Join us for the Festival of Carols, a FREE concert at the Englert Theatre December 9th at 7:00 p.m! There will be a selection of holiday, Chanukah, and Christmas songs from old-time/bluegrass musicians Marc and Brandi Janssen, the Old Capitol Chorus, and The Family Folk Machine. Read more
Join us this Saturday from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. for an all-request sing-along! Bring instruments, friends, neighbors, and children. We’ll have Rise Up Singing books, and Uptown Bill’s will provide the warm and cozy atmosphere.
There’s free parking evenings and weekends in the UI lot across from Uptown Bill’s. Read more
These aren’t Family Folk Machine events, but might be of interest to our readers!
Community Singing Gathering
2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the Month
Next Gatherings: Nov. 11th and 25th and Dec. 9th (no second December date)
6-7:30pm
FREE and Open to the Public. Read more
Here’s an article I wrote for the Community Music feature in the Press-Citizen. It ran Sunday, November 2, 2014:
PEACE WILL COME
The Family Folk Machine presents its fall concert, “Peace Will Come,” at 3 p.m. Nov. 9 in the assembly room of the Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center. Read more
The Family Folk Machine is excited to present “Peace Will Come,” songs for imagining peace, at 3 p.m. on November 9 in the Assembly Room at the Senior Center in downtown Iowa City. Read more
