Live On-Line
Sunday December 6, 2 p.m.
Traditional Music and Dance
of the Catskills: Otsego & Delaware Counties
A talk by
Kathy Shimberg
Go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Up to 100 participants will be admitted through Waiting Room
Meeting ID: 414 085 1861
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In her on-line talk Kathy will draw on her long experience working with traditional music and dance in the eastern states of the U.S. Since the early 1970s she has lived in Otsego County and has absorbed an exceptional amount of the area's traditional dance tunes, dances and square dance calls. With some surprising grounding from luminaries in American folk song and folk music, and a degree in American Folklife Studies from the Cooperwtown Graduate Program in 1980, she and her then partner, husband Joel Shimberg, immersed themselves in local music, hoping to find in the area the survival of dances to old fiddle tunes. In the process they co-founded, with four friends, the Oneonta Square and Contra Dance which brought together multi-generational dancers for many years.
Kathy will discuss dance forms, unique and in variations, old traditional forms and newer iterations, dance calls and callers, tunes both ancient and popular, and her own philosophy of the relationship among the words, the music, and the physical movement of the body that coalesce in a square dance.
Join Kathy, with Ginny Scheer, folklorist for Catskills Folk Connection, to tap Kathy's decades of experience and take part in a lively Q&A afterwards.
For more information, including phone links for other locations, contact Ginny at 607-326-4206 or gscheer.mcs@gmail.com.
Catskills Folk Connection is supported by the Roxbury Arts Group and is funded iin part by the NYS Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, by Gov. Cuomo and the NYS Legislature, by Action & Vision Grants from Humanities NY, and by the O'Connor Foundation.
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