Mar28

Exceedingly Good Song Night - Virtual Edition!

EXCEEDINGLY GOOD SONG NIGHT New York's Premier Traditional/Folk/Roots Singing Session ...IS BACK! VIRTUALLY! Thank you so much to the amazing Jules Peiperl, Lafayette Matthews, Shannon Paton, and Kate Stack for their beautiful art and work! First 🌟 Exceedingly Good Song Night - Virtual Edition! 🌟 is this coming Sunday, March 28th, 4:00 to 6:30 pm Eastern Time on the Zoom, with Special Guests The Vox Hunters! The Event is FREE, all tips to benefit Jalopy Theatre and School of Music. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED - reserve your Zoomframe at www.exceedinglygoodsongs.com! Bring your ears, bring friends! Our theme for this month: ✨THE FUTURE ✨ Sunday, March 28th 4:00 to 6:30 pm Eastern Time Online via Zoom We are an open online one-Zoomframe-at-a-time singing session in the Folk-Roots Tradition, based in New York City, curated and hosted each month by Ken Schatz and Jules Peiperl. We sing Folk Songs, Blues, Gospel, Old-Time, Appalachian, Sea Songs & Chanteys, Worksongs, Ballads, Railroad Songs, Prison Songs, Lullabies, Forebitters, Broadsides, Hymns, Vaudeville, Camp Songs, Farming, Mining & Factory Songs, Country, Bluegrass, Spirituals, Cowboy Songs, Songs of the British Isles, Labor & Union Songs, Drinking Songs, Children’s Songs, Field Hollers, Music Hall, Love Songs, Parodies, and more... We welcome singers and listeners! Also instruments and friends! Each Song Night, we have a loose theme to encourage people to learn new songs and remember ones they haven't sung in a while. Witty rationalizations are welcome. Harmonies and Songs with Choruses are especially appreciated! We gather online one Sunday a month, from 4:00 to 6:30 pm Eastern Time — (virtually) come as you are, come when you can, go when you must. Virtual Song Night is FREE, but we do ask that you please join us, if you can, in supporting our gallant real-life singing venue, the world-famous and excellent Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, in Red Hook, Brooklyn. They need our help to survive! Please check out all their fantastic folk offerings and give generously at www.jalopytheatre.org. See you at Song Night! Details and Sign Up at www.exceedinglygoodsongs.com .................... “Is that a folk song?” “Must be. I never heard no horses sing it.” – Big Bill Broonzy .................... “The important thing is: are they good songs? Do they sing well? Is the poetry so good you can’t get it out of your head? Are the words true, and do they need saying? Does the music move you?” – Pete Seeger