Traditional New England Barn Dances

Dudley Laufman & Jacqueline Laufman

 

Janet Farrar-Royce

Past Presentations

 

2004 - 2005  Presentations
2004-05 Dates State Town Organization Info
Thursdays  7-8:30 CT Cheshire Dodd School Fiddle Club for students and adults
Nov 7 CT New Haven NOMAD Festival Creating basslines
Nov 8 CT Cheshire Library 4-5:00 Barn dance with Fiddle Club
Nov 12 NJ ASTA Conference Fiddling workshops all day
Dec 3 NY Rochester NYSSMA Conference Fiddling for Fun and (Educational) Profit [1, 2]
Jan 24 PA Valley Forge Public Schools (Read testimonial from a parent)
Feb 3-4 KY Louisville KMEA Conference

1. Into to Fiddlin' Fun In the Mainstream Program

2. Fiddlin' Lesson for the String Program

Feb 23-26 NV Reno ASTA National Conference Alternate Styles Symposium, Poster Session, Fiddle Reading Session: a few tunes from "White Mountain Reel Companions" will be used at this reading session 
Mar 17-18 CT Stamford CTMEA Conference, ASTA Day

1. Elementary and Alternative strings

2. Projects in Process Poster Session

3. Alternative Styles Reading Session

Mar 19 NJ Sussex County Sussex County Youth Symphonies  
Apr 14 CT Torrington  String Students Fiddling Workshop
Apr 15 TN Nashville Tennessee Music Educators Conference Two fiddling workshops
Apr 18-19 NY Wappingers  Falls Wappingers School District Two day school residency
Apr 22-23 PA Hersey PMEA 1. Intro to Fiddling in the Mainstream String Curriculum 2.Teaching Fiddling to Viola, Cello, Bass www.pmea.net/conf.htm 
May 20 ME Gorham Maine Music Educators Conference Two fiddling workshops
Jun 26- 7/1 CT New Britain  Sizzlin Strings Camp Central CT State University

An exciting new string camp offering daily recreation and evening events and instruction in large and small chamber ensemble, solo technique, fiddling, music theory! click for more info 

July 24-30 NY Woodstock Crane School of Music, University of Potsdam Teaching the "Total Immersion" program in fiddling for String Teachers and Classical Musicians at Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camp's "Northern Week" www.ashokan.org/ashokan/camp.shtml  
Aug 14-20 NY Woodstock Crane School of Music, University of Potsdam Teaching the "Total Immersion" program in fiddling for String Teachers and Classical Musicians at Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camp's "Southern Week" www.ashokan.org/ashokan/camp.shtml 
           

 

2003 - 2004 School Year Presentations click
2004 Dates State Town Organization Info
Mar 11 MA Danvers MA Music Ed. State Conference

with Donna Hebert

Mar 13 TX Dallas National ASTA Conference panel
Mar 26 CT Danbury CT Music Ed State Conference ASTA Chapter Janet is headliner for CT-ASTA Chapter www.ctmea.org
Mar 27 CT Danbury CT Music Ed State Conference with Dudley & Jacqueline Laufman doing dances from White Mountain Reel
Mar 27 CT Cheshire Dodd School Public dance with student fiddlers sitting in with Dudley and Jacqueline Laufman
Apr 2 NH Derry NH Music Ed. State Conference www.nhmea.org 
Apr 15 MN Minneapolis MENC National Conference two fiddling workshops  www.menc.org
May 1 ME Winslow Maine Music Ed State Conference two workshops www.mainemmea.org
June 2-3 NY Long Island Long Island Traditional Music Assoc. Fiddle workshop for kids and adults www.litma.org 
Jun-Jul 6/28 -7/16 CT Wallingford Summer Arts Camp 3-week fiddle class using the bk/cd sets White Mountain Reel Companions
July 5-9 CT   Central CT State College Teachers' course in fiddling
July 25-31 NY Catskill Mountains Crane School of Music Potsdam Univ. at Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp "Total Immersion Fiddling Experience" for string teachers (limited enrollment) www.ashokan.org