August Calendar in Mountain View
Sunday Gospel Concert
August 1, 2010
A program of traditional Gospel music.
Intermediate Pottery taught by Judi Munn
August 2 – 3, 2010
This class will focus on improving throwing skills by working with sets.
This intensive two day class will help those with experience in pottery move to the next level. This class will focus on improving throwing skills by working with sets. During the morning sessions, students will design and create pieces that relate to each other. Afternoon sessions will focus on exploring glazing and decorating options. The following topics will be covered: mixing a batch of glaze from a recipe; dipping, trailing and spraying glazes; using slip on leather hard clay, and creating your own springs and stamps.
Class fee $180, includes all materials. Preregistration is required. Registration deadline is 7-20-10.
- A registration fee of $30 is due when you sign up. The remaining $150 is due to the instructor at the beginning of class. Judi accepts cash or check.
Class size is limited. Minimum 3/maximum 8. Class begins at 9:00 a.m. the first morning. Meet your instructors in the lobby of the Administration Building. There you will get your packet with your name badge and other information. Your work may be bisque fired for an extra fee of $5
Document: WorkshopRegistration1032.doc
Christmas Autoharp Workshop
August 6 & 7
Featuring 2009’s International Autoharp Championships’ 3rd place Winner Fredona Currie
Fredona began playing the autoharp in 1981, and started competing in 1984, winning the Southern Regional Autoharp Championship at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, AR. In 1988 she placed 3rd in the International Autoharp Championship at the Walnut Valley Music Festival in Winfield, Kansas.For the next 20 years, Fredona was very busy helping her husband raise their three sons, and returned to international competition in 2009, once again claiming the 3rd place trophy.Fredona has performed at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, AR for many years and instructed workshops there on several occasions. She has also entertained at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO, and was a regular performer at the annual “Pioneer Days” Festival at Six Flags over Texas. Today Fredona performs at various events throughout Arkansas, and is always eager to share her love of the autoharp with her enthusiastic audiences and students.
Workshop Price: $40.00 (A two night stay at the inn is required)
Workshop price for students not staying at the inn : $55.00
Call 1-800-535-1301 to make reservations or www.theinnatmountainview.com to book on-line.
Friday evening: A Special Class on Christmas Carols!
Saturday: Contest Playing/Preparation- Learn 4 of Fredona’s Contest Tunes!
Sunday morning: Breakfast
A 21 chord chromatic autoharp will be used in all classes.
Handouts of the lyrics and chord changes for all songs used in the workshop will be provided.
Carter Family Tribute
August 7, 2010
There’s not much in Country Music that hasn’t had some influence from the Carter Family. A.P. , Sara, and Maybelle were influenced by both shape-note singing and players in their Virginia home. Like the Ozark Folk Center, they collected, recorded, and performed old songs they deemed as worth holding on to. Come and hear some of the most recognizable Carter family tunes and lyrics you probably heard from your grandparents.
The evening will feature Daniel Fleck and Hilary Scheel from Tennessee, as well as Carolyn Carter, Bess Kelley, and Brooke Barksdale.
Admission for adults is $10, children $6. Season Passes apply.
Craft Master/Apprentice Reception & Show
August 7, 2010
Craftmaster/Apprentice Show and Reception – Spend an evening visiting with this summer’s apprentices and the crafter’s who’ve spent the time teaching them.
Shop for one-of-a-kind works of pottery, weaving, wood turning, print-making, photography, wood carving and brooms. Start your collection of these up and coming artisan’s work.
Visit the Craft Village from 5:30 to 7:00 to see displays of the Apprentice and Craftmaster’s work in many traditional and contemporary Ozark crafts.
Admission is free for this event.
Billy Mathews’ 3rd Annual Medley of OT Music Work-Shops
August 13th – 15th 2010
Hosted by: “The Inn at Mountain View”
Billy Mathews is known far and wide across this land for his musical skill and old time fiddlin’ and pickin’ ability. He has traveled extensively throughout the Midwest for over 30 years. Kinships have earned him a considerable amount of notoriety and recognition throughout old time, traditional music circles. Billy has that Ozark up-bow/backbeat style of fiddlin’ that is in the Midwest Dance Tradition. more
Billy still resides in the Ozark Mountains continuing work on music projects. Billy keeps busy by traveling throughout the country for workshops, concerts and other special events, playing his huge repertoire of old time fiddle and banjo tunes. It’ll get your feet a tappin’ and your heels a clickin’!
Cost: Room rate plus $50 Workshop Fee; $65.00 for workshop only (not staying at the Inn). Class limited to 20. We’ll be playing tunes of great joy at the 3rd Annual Medley. Fiddle and Banjo; in a chorus of old-time bliss. With the changes to this year’s Medley, the work-shops will only be for those two instruments. Billy will be doing both work-shops, as well as directing the jam.
These work-shops are about learning new tunes, but also how to put other instruments together in the context of an old-time string-band. This knowledge seems to be getting lost, as con-temporarily each instrument wants to be the lead, and thus compete against each other for that, rather than work together for that old-time sound.
Weekend includes all of the following:
Friday night: Jam and snacks
Saturday Morning: Breakfast, Morning Workshop, lunch on your own, afternoon workshop, Saturday Night Potluck Supper and Evening JAM TIME
Sunday: Breakfast
Book online at www.theinnatmountainview.com or call 1-800-535-1301 or 870- 269-4200.
Jam and workshop available to Inn at Mountain View Guests of the INN unless otherwise arranged
Ozark Rhythm Cloggers Fundraiser
TD Home Center Parking Lot
Friday August 13th, 2010
Celebrity Concert with The Wiyos
August 14, 2010
The Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas is pleased to host The Wiyos on Saturday, August 14, 2010. The Wiyos appeared at the center last year and gave everyone a great show. Make sure and plan to see them this time around.
The Wiyos draw their music from as vast spectrum of traditional rural and urban roots music. Their repertoire combines original compositions along with covers of tin-pan alley tunes and western swing. A typical show may include rustic sounds of the 1930’s and 40’s as well as early jazz or Appalachian string band music. The band is steeped in the influence of the great dance bands and house party music of 80-90 years ago. They are sure to entertain you with the sounds of early swing syncopations, rural blues, and the physical comedy of vaudeville performers.
Taking their name from a tough Irish street gang of the Five Points area of New York, this Brooklyn-based band has toured for six years in the US, Europe and UK, honing their chops and fusing their traditional influences with musical forms of their contemporaries. They have played to a sold-out audience at the Barbican Theater in London, and have appeared in a BBC documentary ‘Folk America – Hollerers, Stompers, and Old-Time Ramblers’.
The Wiyos can croon with sweet innocence, and then follow it up with a brash string band tune featuring kazoo and washboard that might send you home with your hair parted in a new place. While they are not quite predictable from song to song, the one thing you can count on is that The Wiyos will entertain you in an unforgettable way. Prepare to be taken back to another time and place.
Stained Glass – Suncatchers
Instructor: Dona Sawyer
August 14, 2010
Learn to make your own stained glass
Join multi-talented artist Dona Sawyer for this one-day intensive in learning the art of Stained Glass. Students will learn basic stained glass skills using the copper-foil method developed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Choose your own style from a variety of patterns provided and create your own beautiful stained glass sun catcher. You’ll finish at least one piece.
Artist Statement – While I don’t have any “formal” training in the arts, I was lucky enough to be born into a very talented family. I was always encouraged to pursue whatever arts or crafts I was interested in, and discovered that, like the rest of my family, I have a natural artistic talent. This talent has enabled me to teach myself whatever passion takes me at the time.
I have participated in all but the very first Ozark Folk School where i have discovered the joy of sharing art with other people and drawing creative energy from that. Last year I was asked to teach stained glass at the folk school and I really love sharing that art with students. I have also taught an array of different classes at the Ozark Folk Center including painting, corn shuck dolls, beaded jewelry, macrame, and making paper ornaments, to name a few.
I like to preserve grandma’s quilt patterns in stained glass. I recreate patterns from old quilts, choosing a pleasing color scheme, or one suited to a particular person’s decorating scheme. As a change from the precision of the quilt squares, I really enjoy making 3-d stained glass “sculptures” and boxes. I look to nature to create these fun, whimsical pieces. I usually build larger than life insects and flowers out of stained glass, then either use them on stained glass jewelry boxes as part of the lid, or let them stand as sculptures on their own.
Document: WorkshopRegistration1032.doc
Ozark Ryhthm Cloggers Fundraiser
Pizza Inn
Monday August 16th
Frame Looms, Fibers and Finishes
August 17 – 19, 2010
Build your own frame loom and learn to make rugs in this 3-day class taught by Arlone Folkers. You will go home with a rug in progress on the loom and all the information to finish this rug yourself and make many more.
Twining is an old-fashioned method of making beautiful, patterned rugs from scraps of old clothing. This skill used to be common place in the Ozarks, but it is hard to find folks who know how to make the looms or do the twining now. In this three day class you will learn and do the whole process. You will make the loom from scratch, warp the frame loom and begin to twine your rug.
Students need to bring – sharp scissors; a cloth tape measure; several pieces of all cotton colored knit clothing (old t-shirts, skirts, turtle necks, etc) to recycle into weft for their rugs.
No woodworking or fiber experience is necessary, but some arm and hand strength is required.
Day one: build a simple 30” X 48” rug frame loom with a variety of hand tools.
Day two: Learn about fiber choices for rug warp and how to select and prepare ready-to-recycle natural fiber clothing for weft. Warp the frame loom with sustainably grown hemp twine and cut materials for weft.
Day three: Learn a simple rug construction technique and various finishes
Class fee of $275, includes all wood and hardware for the frame loom, enough warp yarn for one rug and a handbook of instructions.
Registration deadline is June 1. A non-refundable registration fee of $45 is due at that time.
The remaining $230 is due to the instructor at the beginning of class. Arlone accepts cash or check.
Class size is limited. Minimum 3 students, maximum 8.
Class begins at 9:00 a.m. Meet your instructor the first day in the Administration Building Lobby. You’ll pick up your name tag there and your registration packet and go from there to your classroom. The class general wraps up at 4:00 each day
Document: WorkshopRegistration1032.doc
Mountains, Music & Motorcycles
August 20 – 22
Historic Town Square of Mountain View
Check out some of the bikes in the 2009 Festival
Mississippi Legends Show
Brickshy’s Theater
Saturday August 21, 2010
Ozark Folk Center
August 25, 2010
Craft Village open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Daytime Musicians: Old Timers
Storytelling: Marilyn
Evening Music 7 p.m.
Blueberries
Lana Faye & Friends
Kaleena Hutchins
Spear & Skinner
Happy Feet Cloggers
Ozark Folk Center
August 26, 2010
Craft Village open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Daytime Musicians: Roger Fountain
Storytelling: Gus Pike and the Devil’s Box
Evening Music 7 p.m.
Odell Jackson
Cobb Brothers
Classic Country
Dave Smith
Celtic Breeze
Fourth Friday Food Day – Dutch Oven Cooking
August 27, 2010
Join Ozark Folk Center dutch oven cook Ken Conatser to learn how to cook traditional and contemporary foods. Register by Tuesday, August 24, to learn how to cook gourmet dutch oven treats – including real old-fashioned cobbler. In 2009, Ken judged the dutch oven cook-off held at the Ozark Folk Center. Get ahead of this year’s competition by learning the tricks directly from the judge.
Class fee $30.00 includes lunch. Non-refundable deposit $10.00. Class is size limited to 12 students.
Class begins at 10:00 a.m. in the Administration Building lobby. You’ll get your name badge and packet of information there. From there, you’ll go to the green space behind the Admin Building to beginning building your fire. Class will end around 2:00 p.m.
Document: WorkshopRegistration1032.doc
Ozark Folk Center
August 27, 2010
Craft Village open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Daytime Musicians: Clancey Ferguson
Storytelling: Obadiah
Evening Music 7 p.m.
Carolyn Carter
Roger Fountain
Glad Hearts of the Ozarks
Herbin’ League
Glenn Ohrlin
Ozark Rhythm Cloggers
Triangle Loom Weaving taught by Jeanette Larson
August 27 – 28, 2010
Discover weaving outside the box with a triangle loom.
The unique shape of a triangle loom allows you to do continuous loop weaving – weaving with NO WARPING! This simple weaving technique allows you to weave and assemble pieces to make blankets, shawls, scarves and more. You’ll learn techniques and finish your first scarf or handbag to take home.
Class Fee $160 which includes all materials.
Pre-registration is required. Registration deadline is 8-20-10.
A registration fee of $30 is due when you sign up. The remaining $130 is due at the beginning of class
Class size is limited. Minimum 3/maximum 8.
Class begins at 9:00 a.m. the first morning. Meet your instructor in the lobby of the Administration Building. There you will get your packet with your name badge and other information.
Document: WorkshopRegistration1032.doc
Ozark Folk Center
Saturday August 28, 2010
Craft Village open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Daytime Musicians: Cobb Brothers
Storytelling: Spinning Tales
Evening Music 7 p.m.
OFC Next Generation
Clancey Ferguson
Ozark Mountain Dandies
Emily Phillips
Sylamore Crossing
Wood & Steel
Ozark Ryhthm Cloggers Fundraiser
Pine Hills Golf Course
Saturday August 28th, 2010
