The board of directors of the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) elected a new slate of officers while meeting during the organization’s annual conference at the Hudson Valley Resort in Kerhonkson, New York earlier this month. 

Terry Mutchler, who heads up Mountain Top Productions, was re-elected as president.  Neale Eckstein, who runs Fox Run Concerts and Fox Run Studios, assumed the position of vice president.  Newly elected board member Cheryl Prashker, a percussionist with Shannon Lambert-Ryan & RUNA and The Strangelings, was elected treasurer, while Michael Kornfeld, editor of AcousticMusicScene.com and a public relations strategist, is the organization’s new secretary.  Rounding out the board are directors Robert Corwin, John Fuzek, Ramona LaBarre, Joan Sherman and Dianne Tankle, NERFA’s longtime conference coordinator.

Part of the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance (Folk Alliance), NERFA is a nonprofit organization for those professionally engaged in traditional, contemporary and multicultural folk music. Its annual fall conference draws some 600 performers, presenters, promoters and others for three jam-packed days and nights of juried and guerilla music showcases, informative panel discussions and workshops, an exhibit hall, community meals, and lots of informal conversation, networking and late-night jamming.  More information can be found at www.nerfa.org.