Posts tagged "NERFA"

Early Registration Opens for International Folk Alliance Conference

The 22nd Annual International Folk Alliance Conference is slated for next February 17-22 in Memphis, Tennessee. However, financial savings are in the offing through early registration that is now open, while forms also are available on the Folk Alliance International’s website (www.folk.org) for performing artists to apply for showcase opportunities. The early registration rates and showcase entry discounts apply through September 1. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]

Benefit Concert for Folk DJ Angela Page Slated for July 5

Since 1993, Angela Page has been exposing folks in New York’s Catskill Mountains region to a blend of music from the contemporary folk scene through her weekly radio show, “Folk Plus,” airing Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on hydro-powered public radio WJFF 90.5 FM. Now some of her friends within the folk music community are coming together to stage a benefit concert on July 5 to raise funds to help defray medical and legal expenses related to a chemical sensitivities illness she contracted while working as a school media specialist in a mold-infested middle school library. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]