Topanga BanjoFiddle Contest Legend Award. If you would like to nominate a person or group for the 2. Legend award. please submit your nominees and justification by April 9, 2. See full instructions belowCongratulations to Pasadena Folk Music Society. Music Legend Award Winner The Pasadena Folk Music Society began life as a student club at Caltech. DC949FB00000578-233_468x664.jpg' alt='The Legend Of The Three Trees Free Online' title='The Legend Of The Three Trees Free Online' />How to Buy a House The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild In The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, its possible to own your very own home To do so. The weekend is for press conferences about video games. Also, maybe playing some video games, but probably just hearing about new ones. By the time of his death in Vietnam in June 1972, Lt. Col. John Paul Vann had taken on the highest military authorities in Washington and had earned the respect and. Pearltrees is a place to organize all your interests. 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Thus, the Pasadena Folk Music Society was created as an umbrella non profit. Over the years, the organization has put on well over 3. The group acts as a community partner with the Office of Public Events at Caltech to stage larger folk events, and has done community outreach and partnered with the Pasadena Library to put on free folk music concerts for Make Music Pasadena, the citywide music festival. The concerts have been a blend of traditional music from all over the world with a mixture of singer songwriters of all ages. The goal has always been to connect audiences with great music. Pictured above Rex Mayreis, Secretary upper left Tom Hubbard, Treasurer upper right Dorothy Auyong, Vice President lower left Nick Smith, President lower right. Learn more here http pasadenafolkmusicsociety. Past Winners. Posthumous Congratulations to Pitt Kinsolving1. Music Legend Award Winner This years Legend Award is awarded posthumously in honor of Pitt Kinsolving. To paraphrase Woody Guthrie. New York Island to California, this land was made for Pitt. Pitts earliest experiences with folk music. Yale campus, local performances in New York, New England and later on Ireland and Indonesiana. He was also involved with the Pinewoods Folk Music Club and the Picking Singing Gathering on the East Coast. Along with Lisa Null, he was instrumental in founding Green Linnet Recording Studios and recording over 1. Relocating to the West coast in 1. Santa Monica Traditional Folk Music Club, Songmakers, Audio Engineering. Associates and the Pasadena Folk Music Society. To many, he has also been a teacher and instrument maker. For the Topanga BanjoFiddle Contest Folk Festival, he has been a contestant, judge, performer, sound mixer, board member and. From the beginning, Pitts commitment to preserving and performing traditional folk music has been an inspiration to all, both East and West. Congratulations to Lawrence Wines. Music Legend Award Winner LAWRENCE WINES is a longtime photojournalist, consultant to artists and the music industry, and events producer. His Acoustic Americana Music Guide. Topanga, throughout California and beyond for over 1. Reporting inside music news, its even a go to source for other journalists. Hes acclaimed for teaching artists how to have successful. He created and hosted the weekly 4 hour broadcastsimulcast radio show Tied to the Tracks, a multiple award winner honored among the Best of L. A. winners in Los Angeles magazine. Its live interviews, performances and on air music collaborations featured artists playing upcoming festivals. TBFC, the Irish Faire, Cowboy Festivals, Cajun Blues Fests, Huck Finn, Stagecoach, Live Oak, and more. Guest artists played live and. He pioneered the now familiar terms acoustic americana and acoustic renaissance back in the 1. Folk, Americana and younger contemporary acoustic artists, growing the audience appeal for related kinds of music. As a photojournalist, Lawrence has convinced hardboiled editors to let him cover folk americana and traditional music and musicians. Hes. out there for online and print outlets, promoting, attending and reporting on festivals and music conferences, large and small. Hes. met and interviewed iconic figures, and was writing about great bands before they gained fame, including Old Crow Medicine Show, Mumford Sons. Hot Club of Cowtown, and many more. He was one of the first journalists to promote Folk Alliance and actually attend and cover it. When the FAR West Conference came to Woodland Hills. Here at Topanga, he has been an emcee for many years. He says, Music Legend honoree All these trailblazers and mentors. People with passion and devotion. Grammy winners. Howard and Rozs Folk. Scene. My fellow writers at Folk. Works. Social justice musician Ross Altman. Grammy winner Richard Greene. Beth Lomax Hawes, whose own Smithsonian music work continued her famous familys legacy. Sam Hinton and his Library of Congress recordings. Scottish. fiddler Jan Tappan, last years honoree. Bluegrass pioneer Peter Feldmann. Elaine and Clark, so essential in spreading traditional music in California. Devoted music presenters and guiding lights Bob Stane and Russ and Julie. All the way back to the ones I never knew Mel Durham, who launched the. Old Time Fiddlers, and Dorian and Dalia Keyser, who all of us owe for making Topanga a great event. So many great folksSuch an honor. And now ME WowTheres more that music folks dont know. Hes climbed mountains, rock and ice walls by new routes, and even frozen waterfalls. He recently completed a. America. Hes restored and run steam locomotives, founded historic preservation projects, and conceived and. Freedom Trains the Bicentennial train from 1. South the reunion featured trips on a steam train and a paddlewheel steamboat. Hes taught in classrooms. Hes been. involved in progressive politics, chairing the Democratic Coalition, co founding Latinos for Social Justice, and editing the journal. Democritus. Hes written engineering standards, developed industrial processes, and done proposals for industries chasing multi million dollar. Hes done field geology and investigated ancient trees and climate. How To Watch The Full Samurai Jack Movie. Now, hes immersed in preserving the only habitat of a critically endangered species in a single and quite beautiful mountain complex where all is slated. Erased from the face of the Earth. Not if he can help it. You can contact Lawrence about music, music promotion, or pretty much anything else at tiedtothetrackshotmail. Congratulations to Jan Tappan. Music Legend Award Winner Jan Tappan and the Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles have made major contributions for more than 3. Southern California. The Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles were founded in 1. Topanga BanjoFiddle Contest and formed the first Strathspey and Reel Society. United States. The group provides an opportunity for musicians with little experience in traditional. Over. the years, members have ranged in age from 5 to over 8. Their music focus centers on the heritage. Scottish fiddle music dating back to the seventeenth century and many of these early tunes have found. American folk fiddle repertoire. The Scottish Fiddlers always welcome musicians playing fiddle. Celtic fairs, Scottish games and gatherings, Celtic fairs and many other events. SFLA has also reliably. TBFC. Jan Tappan has been the director of the Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles for 2. Whenever other rehearsal spaces. Jan also is one of the 4 founders of the valley of the Moon Fiddle VOM camp, now in its 3. VOM is the. standard to which most music camps aspire. Many amazing musicians started as kids at VOM and still show. Where else would you find members of Yo Yo Mas Silk Earth ensemble or a section leader from. San Francisco symphony sitting in as students not instructors with highschool kids Jan is the chairperson for. Scottish Fiddle Revival Fiddle Competitions, which are held in dozens of states and regional winners can. National Contest. This is probably the only fiddle contest that boasts a national network. She is the. head judge for National Contests, as well as in regional contests in Virginia, Texas, New Hampshire, Oregon. Washington, North Carolina and as a aside, she also is a TBFC judge.