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Other Online Concert Links:
Folk Alliance International Livestream Calendar
A huge sortable calendar updated and maintained by the staff of Folk Alliance International.
Institute of Musical Traditions Concert Vault : Hundreds of great videos from the past two decades of IMT's 40 years of shows - highlighting folk, blues, world music and more from all over the Earth.
Philadelphia Folksong Society Digital Concert Venue : Presenting artists local, regional, and international – old favorites and new discoveries – to a digital audience of music lovers from the comfort of their own homes!
Undiscoveredmusic.net :Upcoming Live Streamed Acoustic Concerts
FocusMusic Venue Information:
Gaithersburg
Island Pride Oasis Restaurant | 617 S Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg, MD 20877 | Shelley Caplan
Mount Vernon
St. Aidan's Episcopal Church | 8531 Riverside Rd., Alexandria, VA 22308 | Venue Manager: Herb Levy | 703.380.3151
Rockville
Tikvat Israel Congregation | 2200 Baltimore Rd., Rockville, MD 20851 | Venue Manager: Mike Amster | 301.957.0178
Sterling
Community Lutheran Church | 20114 Whitfield Place, Sterling, VA 20165 | Jillian Matundan
Area Concert Series:
Because of current advice from the CDC discouraging gatherings, and the rapidly evolving schedules of our local music organizations, please check directly with other series to see how they're weathering current events. Many are doing webcasts or postponing events, all could use your support.
Institute of Musical Traditions
Folklore Society of Greater Washington
Carroll Cafe
Folk Club of Reston Herndon
One World Coffeehouse
Songwriters Association of Washington
Tikvat Israel
Uptown Concerts
World Folk Music Association
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This week is a LOT of week...
...BUT this week is nothing but STRONG. Strong performances from a band all the way from Wales, PLUS none other than our very own singing, dancing, multi-talented (except for the dancing part) Focus Leadership! Wednesday night's a free show (though donations are encouraged) at Hank Dietle's in Rockville, MD - and a Rockin' shalt the Rockville BE!
Also - don't forget that Saturday's show with Calan will ALSO be WEBCAST! So - if you can't make it, or your friend in northern Queensland can't make it to Virginia Saturday night, send them a link to our tickets! It'll be a good time had!
Tickets and info at www.focusmusic.org.
- The Guy Behind the Newsletter
 Wednesday, October 19, 2022
FocusMusic Presents Their Talented Performing Board Members
Hank Dietle's Tavern | 11010 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD | 8pm
Do you know how hard it is to gather 6 of the hardest-working local singer/songwriters in one place at one time? Between them they've toured hundreds of thousands of miles, won dozens of awards and put in countless hours of work into their local communities supporting the local Washington DC Metropolitan music scene. In a role that is often thankless, FocusMusic has chosen to thank them AGGRESSIVELY with a night letting them all do what they do best! This show has been almost a year in the making and it is with great pride that FocusMusic presents the performing members of our leadership all on one stage! Ross Martin, Emily Hall, Annette Wasilik, Gabrielle Zwi and rob Hinkal all as part of a special presentation of the Local Cream songwriter's showcase!
Get your tickets now at focusmusic.org!
Emily Hall is a songwriter, mindfulness activist, international teacher trainer, and curative arts practitioner from Washington, DC. Imbued with a deep love of global spirituality and the healing arts, her songwriting blends progressive folk with meditative undertones.
rob Hinkal’s "Percussive, rhythmically driven guitar freely composites fingerpicking, classical melodies, running bass lines, harmonics, & hard-charging chords. [rob's] vocals are needled & gaunt, with the jittery energy of a dockyard stray on speed ...”
Over-educated singer-songwriter, Ross Martin, crafts lyrics-forward songs ranging from gut-busting to heart-wrenching — always thought-provoking. His eclectic-acoustic fingerpicking style covers many genres with clear influences from David Wilcox, Peter Meyer, and Ellis Paul.
Gabrielle Zwi is a 22-year-old community organizer, singer-songwriter and Bossa Nova/Jazz performer in the Washington, DC area.
Annette Wasilik has been writing songs ‘from the heart and back again” ever since she found a Sears Silvertone abandoned in a tin wardrobe in the basement when she was 14. Her debut album, Songs from the Talking House won Contemporary Folk Recording of the Year from The Washington Area Music Association in 2016. Her 2020 recording, Love & Fire released at #6 on the FolkDJ chart and #1 on the NACC chart and landed #40 on Folk DJ chart for the year.
Get your tickets now at focusmusic.org!
 Saturday, October 22, 2022
Calan
St. Aidan's Episcopal Church | 8531 Riverside Rd., Alexandria, VA | 7pm
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Calan
Tikvat Israel | 2200 Baltimore Rd, Rockville, MD 20851 | 7.30pm
Saturday night will be webcast in addition to "simply" being in-person... if "simply" can EVER be applied to the untraditionally traditional Cymru, Wales-based group Calan. Calan is the only Gwerin (translation: Folk) band to be held in a detainment cell at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport alongside a death metal band from Estonia. Calan is also the only band of any genre to follow-up that experience by performing alongside Sting at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the 50th birthday celebration of famed opera singer, Sir Bryn Terfel Jones.
Get your tickets now at focusmusic.org!
Other Local Performances.
As COVID ebbs, flows and resurges Local Performances continue to be something of an ever-shifting variable. However there are a couple of organizations and acts trying to find a way forward with physical, in-person events!
Mondays
rob's Open Mics
Our executive director and TGBtN, rob Hinkal*, runs regular open mics Mondays online. visit robsopenmics.ilyaimy.com for details.
Fri Oct 21
IMT presents An Acoustic Night with the Nighthawks. Saint Mark Presbyterian Church | Rockville, MD | 7.30pm. Tickets and info at imtfolk.org
Fri Nov 4
TONY DENIKOS w/multi-instrumentalist Bill Williams and JEN & SCOTT SMITH of NAKED BLUE
Cellar Stage in Timonium, MD. Details and tickets at uptownconcerts.com
*These artists are members of FocusMusic leadership - we appreciate your support!
FocusMusic is a nonprofit 501(C)(3) organization supported by contributions from individual donors and by funding from supporting organizations.
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