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WYEP Holiday Hootenannny this Thursday!

December 14, 2009 Maya

I started out with a lot of clever openings to this post … and then I decided to look up the exact definition of ‘hootenanny.’  The first definition is exactly what you envision, (n.) “a social gathering or informal concert featuring folk singing and, sometimes, dancing.”  However, an older use of the word hootenanny is in fact a ‘thingumbob.’  If I was going to a thingumbob on Thursday night I figured I should find out what it was.  And there it was… the definition of thingamabob, according to Dictionary.com was thingamajig!  All confusion cleared up, I emailed a couple of… Read the rest

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Dance, Events, Food & Drink, Fundraisers, Music Tagged With: folk music, food bank, Pittsburgh Opera, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

FREE Folk Music Festival – Sat. July 12 – Mellon Park

July 10, 2008 Lindsay

Calliope, Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, is hosting a day long celebration of folk music. The festival will take over Mellon Park in Shadyside from Noon to 10pm on Saturday, July 12. Lots of music acts, 2 stages and a children’s tent. All this is free. Calliope held their first music festival in 1977, it has long been called the Smokey City Music Festival. Since Pittsburgh has greened up its act this years music festival is named Rootz – The Green City Music Festival. The festival will kick off with a performance by bagpiper and Calliope founder George Balderose and will… Read the rest

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Calliope, folk music, Free, Kid Friendly, Mellon Park

Make some Friends at the Friendship Flower & Folk Festival

May 8, 2008 Lindsay

So Friendship is this great neighborhood that doesn’t get enough love in Pittsburgh. I don’t know a ton about Friendship, it is located between Bloomfield and East Liberty. It is a neighborhood filled with big old historic houses and all kinds of great people. I do know that I just really like the people that I know that live in Friendship. This Saturday, May 10 is the Friendship Flower and Folk Festival. The festival will be held in the Baum Grove Park which is a great little parklet just behind Day Automotive on Baum Blvd. The Flower sale benefits the… Read the rest

Filed Under: Events, Fundraisers Tagged With: annual festival, festival, flower sale, folk music, Friendship

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