*- MFC 2017 CAMP BAND musicians -*
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BILL COPE - co-musical director
LINNEA MANDELL - co-musical director
MICHELE SIMON - vocal coordinator
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with Beata Bermuda (Samanatha, Linnea and Hanna), Erik Hoffman, Craig Kurumada, Chris Thomas, & friends.
Our Mendocino Folklore Camp "International Dance Band"
...carrying on the excellence, year after year!
2015 MFC Camp Band: Bill Cope (director), Paul Brown, Alex Miller, Amberly Rosen, Michele Simon and Corrine Sykes & guest musicians Douglass Mandell, Craig Kurumada
From the early years, Mendocino Folklore Camp has had a unique history with International music and dance, and many wonderful musicians, dancers, singers and teachers have graced our dance hall, lounge, trails, grove, fire pit and meadow with their considerable talents over our 54 year history. There is literally no part of camp that has not known the sound of voices singing, feet dancing, musicians playing and teachers instructing.
Many of those talented people have also been part of our Folklore Camp Band. Talented musicians who play nightly for our evening dance program. They also play for some of our themed "happy-hour folklore celebration" parties, and in our late night Kafana. We have been lucky to have a wide variety of talented, dedicated musicians, many of whom come back year after year and become part of our Folklore Family. music directors for our camp band over our 50 year history, each bringing their own brand of expertise and interest; Barbara McOwen, Jananette Duncan, Becky Ashenden, and more recently Miamon Miller, Bill Cope and Linnea Mandell. PLUS our extend family of long standing musicians that have graced our dance hall with their beautiful music; Paul Brown, Chuck Corman, Paul Morrissett, Michele Simon, Erik Hoffman, Jeff O'Connor, Mark Levy, Lorretta Kelley, with guest teacher/musicians Ruth Hunter & Christos Govetas, Tzvetanka & Ivan Varimezova, Michael Alpert, Polly Tapia Ferber, Michael Ginsburg, Souhail Kasper, Ross Campbell, Mary Sherhart, Michael Lawson, John Morovich, Mark Forry, Alan Keith, Brenna MacCrimmon, Ivanka Paunova, Eva Salina, and band singers; Bev Mann, Wendy Zukas, Nancy Lawson, Susie Burke, Janice O'Connor, Sean Burke, Daniel Tuutau, Suzannah Parks, . And on rare occasion, whole bands that have played for us; Chubritza from Arcata, CA and Harmonia from Cleveland, OH, and Beata Bermuda from Sweden! All three bringing a wide array of International dance music. on world music, and the very specific skills of being able to play a wide variety of International folk dance music each night for dancing. |
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