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Cathy & Marcy perform, offer ukulele workshops through November 21 – Cleveland, OH – 11/17/10
| Who | Cathy & Marcy perform, offer ukulele workshops through November 21 |
| When |
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
TBD
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21+
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| Where |
Cleveland, OH
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| Other Info | REGISTRATION REQUIRED |
Cathy & Marcy Matinee Kids Show – Santa Monica, CA – 11/07/10
| Who | Cathy & Marcy Matinee Kids Show |
| When |
Sunday, November 7, 2010
11:00am
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All Ages
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| Where |
3101 Pico Blvd
Santa Monica, CA, USA 90405 |
Cathy & Marcy attend through November 6 – Anaheim, CA – 11/03/10
| Who | Cathy & Marcy attend through November 6 |
| When |
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
TBD
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All Ages
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| Where |
Anaheim, CA, US
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| Other Info | CONFERENCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED |
Cathy & Marcy’s 25th Annual Family Music Party with special guests – North Bethesda, MD – 10/30/10
| Who | Cathy & Marcy’s 25th Annual Family Music Party with special guests |
| When |
Saturday, October 30, 2010
1:00pm
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All Ages
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| Where |
5301 Tuckerman Lane
North Bethesda, MD, US 20852-3385 |
| Other Info | featuring special guests Ella Jenkins, children’s music icon Bonnie Rideout, fiddle with Cathy & Marcy’s Alumni Chorus The Rockville High School Pipe Band and surprise guest performers Grammy-winning family and folk music stars Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer have made more than 50 recordings since 1984, helping generations of families grow together with music. Playing dozens of instruments from banjos to mandolins to electric guitar and ukulele, they sing, yodel, scat and chicken cluck in harmony, inspiring effortless participation from every audience. |
Cathy teaches Songwriting for Beginners, 6 Tuesdays, Sept 7 to Oct 12 – Bethesda, MD – 09/07/10
| Who | Cathy teaches Songwriting for Beginners, 6 Tuesdays, Sept 7 to Oct 12 |
| When |
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
7:30pm
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16+
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| Where |
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD, US 20815 |
| Other Info | September 7-October 12, 2010 6 consecutive Tuesday evenings 2 hour workshops held at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD |
Uke Fest 2010: The Ukulele Ladies – North Bethesda, MD – 08/25/10
| Who | Uke Fest 2010: The Ukulele Ladies |
| When |
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
7:00pm
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FREE OUTDOOR CONCERT
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All Ages
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| Where |
5301 Tuckerman Lane
North Bethesda, MD, USA 20852 |
| Other Info | Featuring The Hula Honeys, The Sweater Set, Victoria Vox, The Riders (Riderwood's Ukuklele Ensemble!) and Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer. Bring your own uke or buy one on the spot courtesy of House of Musical Traditions and join us at 6PM for an audience strum-along! Uke Fest also includes 3 workshops on Thursday, August 26: Intro to Hula Dancing with The Hula Honeys. 6-7:30PM $10 (Back Yard Theater Stage) Intermediate / Advanced Uke Workshop with The Hula Honeys. 8-9:15PM $20 (Room 402) Beginning Uke Workshop with The Sweater Set. 8-9:15PM $20. (Room 405) |
Cathy & Marcy duo family concert – Seattle, WA – 08/21/10
| Who | Cathy & Marcy duo family concert |
| When |
Saturday, August 21, 2010
3:00pm
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only $5!!
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All Ages
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| Where |
3406 Fremont Avenue N
Seattle, WA |
| Other Info | Cathy & Marcy present a special children's family concert at Dusty Strings, come on out! Can't beat a concert for just $5! |
South Africa Adventures July 31-August 8
view more trip photos here.
Our trip to South Africa was musically, culturally and educationally amazing. We travelled with the CHILDREN’S CHORUS OF WASHINGTON (CCW), who performed in several concerts that included South African Choral groups as well as others from the U.S. and Canada. In addition to performances, we did a lot of sightseeing and learned so much along the way.
Our tour of a Game Lodge brought us within inches of lions- REAL, hungry, lions. We also saw zebras in large groups, a few giraffes, wildebeests and monkeys. We rehearsed with CCW outdoors one afternoon and our entire audience was MONKEYS! It might be the first time Ola Belle Reed’s song, “High on a Mountain” has been performed to audience members in trees!
From Capetown we saw gorgeous scenery like Table Mountain and the South Cape. We saw hundreds of penguins and listened to their penguin chatter. South Africa has amazing sights and great beauty. But the most profound experience we had was our visit to Robben Island, the high security prison where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years of his 27 year incarceration. The end of Apartheid is only 16 years behind us. The tour was give by a former inmate of the prison, a very emotional experience. When asked why he came back there to work after living as a prisoner, he said that it has been difficult, but he needed a good job to support his family and he is passionate about the message of remembering history and moving on. Certainly, Mandela has been a living example of that-in a way that few humans could so gracefully demonstrate.
Driving all over, the formal and informal settlements are also a stark reminder of the inequities that remain and much of the work to be done. Large communities live in shelters of corrugated tin and cardboard. Holes in the roof are plugged with newspaper, cooking happens outside over open fires, which create smog. Marcy made friends with a young boy in Langa whose mother died of AIDS and who hung out at the concert in search of some food, which she facilitated. There are heartbreaking stories everywhere you turn, yet each community has it’s music, it’s choral groups and it’s hope for the future.
We are really proud of the incredible performances CCW did, bringing a new repertoire of American Folk Songs to the festival and serving as wonderful ambassadors from a far away place. The conductor, Joan Gregoryk, has trained an incredible group of young people to listen to each other, sing beautifully and sing with meaning.
We enjoyed the South Capetown Children’s Chorus and presented a workshop on American folk music which included a free yodeling lesson. Few of our audiences had seen a banjo or mandolin before.
We are left with a reading list for the fall of South African history, a desire to learn more South African song, and hopes of returning to sing in diverse communities.
Enjoy the photos and view more trip photos here.
Check out a fun video from our trip – Marcy sings with CCW and local vendors in the market at Cape Town “Siyahamba” watch now
Cathy – Singing & Songwriting Workshops, Marcy – Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar & Swing Guitar – Bremerton, WA – 08/14/10
| Who | Cathy - Singing & Songwriting Workshops, Marcy - Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar & Swing Guitar |
| When |
Saturday, August 14, 2010
TBD
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16+
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| Where |
Bremerton, WA, USA
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| Other Info | Workshops & Concerts August 14-20 Cathy - Singing & Songwriting Workshops, Marcy -Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar & Swing Guitar Check website for other classes offered. Must register and pay tuition. |
Aug 2nd (from South Africa w/CCW) by Claire McWhite and Maddy Baker (M-bake)
Since the Sunday night concert at Wits University went so late, we got so sleep in today. At 10:00, we boarded the bus for a tour of Pretoria. We started at Freedom Park, which is built on a hill overlooking the city. It is a series of memorials, museums, and walking trails that cover the hilltop. A park guide brought us through the sites. There was a Vietnam War memorial-type wall of the names of all the people killed in South Africa’s eight wars and conflicts. There was a circle of standing stones, one from each region of the country, surrounding a steaming central stone circle. This was a spiritual site dedicated to fallen South Africans and we had to remove our shoes and cover our heads before visiting it as a sign of respect.
We had lunch at Huckleberry’s restaurant, which served very large portions. The breaded mushrooms and roasted chicken were especially good. While waiting for food, we went to the adjacent park to test out some playground equipment which is probably banned at home.
Then we went to the Voortrekker monument, which honors the Boers who retreated from British rule from the coasts to inland areas. They traveled in covered wagons and seemed very similar to the people who traveled the Oregon Trail. The monument itself is a marble atrium on top of another hill decorated with friezes of the events of the treks. There were great views from the top of the monument of the surrounding garden, game reserve, and Pretoria. The final ride took us to the government buildings in Pretoria. We saw the presidential building, which was where Francois Peinaar (Matt Damon) met Nelson Mandela in “Invictus.” Finally, we drove past the US embassy (not McDonalds, the real one). It is a very ugly building, especially when compared to the other embassies on the Embassy Row. After a dinner that was definitely not fast food, we did our laundry, and went to bed, exhausted from the long day. We can all agree that we’re having a BLAST!
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