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Focus Music changes Post Office address - the new
address is:
Focus Music
P.O. Box 4249
Rockville, Md. 20849-4249
Focus announces:
A NEW VENUE:
Mount
Vernon, VA
Focus Music has established a third concert
venue at the St. Aiden's Episcopal Church in Mount Vernon.
Concerts will generally be presented on Saturday nights,
at least four times a year - depending on the availability
of the artists.
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Details
St. Aiden's
Episcopal Church
8531 Riverside Road
Alexandria, Virginia 22308
For Focus info:
Venue Host:
Mark Gilliam
From I-95/495 Beltway in Northern Virginia, take exit
177A-177B toward US Route 1/Richmond Hwy, turn right at US-1 South; go
4.3 miles, turn left at Sherwood Hall Lane/State route 626; go 1/2
mile, turn right on Parkers Lane/State route 628, Turn right onto
Riverside Road.
From George
Washington Parkway: take parkway South of Beltway; Go 3.5 miles,
turn right on Collingwood Road. Go 1 mile and turn left at Riverside
Road. Church is on the left.
Get Directions - interactive map
Focus announces a change in
venue for the ROCKVILLE concerts.
Starting in January 2010,
we will have a wonderful new home. We are very
excited about it. It's easy to find off of I-270,
has lots of space, and offers us flexibility on booking
big-drawing performers.
Unitarian Universalist
Church of Rockville
100 Welsh Park Drive
(address was formerly 501
Mannakee Street)
Rockville, Maryland 20850
For Focus info: (301) 275-7459
Driving directions:
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From I-495 (the beltway
around Washington D.C.) take I-270 North to exit 6-A, Route 28,
Montgomery Avenue (in
the direction of downtown Rockville).
A t
the top of the exit ramp turn right onto Route 28/Montgomery Ave. go
one block to Manakee Street; turn left.
At
traffic circle take 2rd exit (half- way around) to stay on Manakee Street.
Go
through one stop sign and over a speed bump to Welsh Park Drive (formerly Norris Street)
on right.
Take a right onto Welsh
Park Drive and go one short block to the church entrance on the
right.
UPDATE On FOCUS Rockville: On October
28, FOCUS bid farewell to Branded '72 (formerly
O'Brian's Pit Barbeque) our Gude Drive location that
was our home for five years and before that was home to
Vic's Music Corner. Under new management, the
restaurant is re-focusing (no pun intended) their
business.
Focus
mourns the passing of Vic Heyman
Vic and Reba Heyman
MORE about Vic (including official obituary,
photos, a brand new tribute song, a slide show, articles
from various folk music sites, and personal tributes and
remembrances.)
Annual Membership Meeting set
for January 25, 2009
The Focus
Annual Meeting will be held Sunday, Jan. 25 from 2 to
5 p.m. at the home of Karen and Al Tupek in Bethesda.
Please plan to attend - guests are welcome! If you're a
musician, bring your instrument for music afterward. Please bring a dish to share. If you need to renew your
Focus membership - or join, if you've been meaning to! -
the Annual Meeting is a great place to do so. The Annual
Meeting is for Focus members and guests alike.
The Focus
Board of Directors will be introduced, and we'll take a
look back at the past year as well as a look forward to
goals yet to be accomplished.
Focus presents three concerts monthly on average and
continues to thrive because of the dedicated volunteers
and members whose contributions keep Focus alive. Come
join us for the Annual Meeting and help Focus continue
to grow in the new year. We look forward to seeing you
there!
Details:
When: Sunday, January 25, 2009
Time:
2
to 5 PM
Where:
Bethesda, Maryland
Share: A light
finger-food dish or snack
Bring: Musical
Instruments for SONG CIRCLE
Directions to Meeting and Party:
Directions: From Beltway (I - 495), take Exit
39, River Road, East towards D.C. Go exactly 2
miles to the 5th traffic light at Whittier Blvd./Winston
Drive. Turn right on Winston Drive, go straight in
one block. In the valley, turn left and go one
long block to the very end. The house is on the
right. Look for a music flag above the door.
From
Downtown D.C. - Go out Massachusetts Avenue across
the D.C. Line into Maryland. Go 2 miles to the
very end; turn right on Goldsboro Road. Go to next
light and turn left on River Road. Go to next
light/intersection at Whittier Blvd./Winston Drive.
Turn left on Winston Drive, go straight in one block.
In the valley, turn left and go one long block to the
very end. The house is on the right. Look
for a music flag above the door.
MAP
- (interactive)
September 6, 2008
Eat, Drink, Be Merry & Help Focus, Too!
Focus will be the featured organization for Busboys &
Poets' NonProfit Tuesday event on Sept. 9 at the
restaurant's Shirlington, Va., location.
The restaurant/bookstore will donate 5% of its entire
day's revenue to Focus, so please join us for lunch,
happy hour or early dinner that day. Focus will be given
space to display and distribute information about
our goals and events and, hopefully, gain some new
members.
Busboys, created in 2005 by Iraqi-American artist,
activist and restaurateur Andy Shallal, has a varied
menu with many vegetarian options. (The food is
outstanding, and reasonably priced.) Its peace and
justice theme and its mission as "a community resource
for artists, activists, writers, thinkers and dreamers"
dovetails nicely with Focus' mission to support folk and
acoustic musicians.
The restaurant is located at 4251 S. Campbell Ave. in
Shirlington, across from the Signature Theater and
Harris Teeter grocery. There's plenty of free garage
parking.
For menu and more information, go to
http://www.busboysandpoets.com/
Note to musicians: as part of NonProfit Tuesdays,
Busboys makes available its Robeson meeting room from
3-6 p.m. for music, video or special presentations.
If interested in utilizing this, please contact Kay
Coyte at 703-501-6061 or
kay@focusmusic.org
May 6, 2008
Alexandria May Show Is Third
Sunday
The May
Alexandria show will be held
on the THIRD Sunday, instead of the regularly scheduled
second Sunday, since Mother's Day is the second Sunday.
Featured are John Flynn, with special guest Spencer
Bates. Alexandria will wrap up its season on June 8,
with performances by Ellis, and Bob Sima. Concerts start
at 7 p.m. Don't miss these last shows of the Alexandria
season!
Meanwhile,
Rockville shows continue all
summer on the second and fourth Wednesdays. So come out
and join us for more great folk music on a hot summer
night. Performances begin at 8 p.m.
See you at a concert soon!
December 11, 2007
Annual
Meeting Set for Sunday, Jan. 6
The Focus
Annual Meeting will be held Sunday, Jan. 6 from noon to
4 p.m. at the home of Karen and Al Tupek in Bethesda.
Please plan to attend - guests are welcome! If you're a
musician, bring your instrument for music afterward.
Please bring a dish to share. If you need to renew your
Focus membership - or join, if you've been meaning to! -
the Annual Meeting is a great place to do so. The Annual
Meeting is for Focus members and guests alike.
The Focus
Board of Directors will be introduced, and we'll take a
look back at the past year as well as a look forward to
goals yet to be accomplished.
Focus presents three concerts monthly on average and
continues to thrive because of the dedicated volunteers
and members whose contributions keep Focus alive. Come
join us for the Annual Meeting and help Focus continue
to grow in the new year. We look forward to seeing you
there!
Details:
When: Sunday, January 6
Time: 12 noon
to 4 PM
Where: 6300 Wynkoop Blvd.,
Bethesda, Maryland
Share: A light
finger-food dish or snack
Bring: Musical
Instruments for SONG CIRCLE
Directions to Meeting and Party:
Directions: From Beltway (I - 495), take Exit
39, River Road, East towards D.C. Go exactly 2
miles to the 4th traffic light at Whittier Blvd./Winston
Drive. Turn right on Winston Drive, go straight in
one block. In the valley, turn left and go one
long block to the very end. The house is on the
right. Look for a music flag above the door.
From
Downtown D.C. - Go out Massachusetts Avenue across
the D.C. Line into Maryland. Go 2 miles to the
very end; turn right on Goldsboro Road. Go to next
light and turn left on River Road. Go to next
light/intersection at Whittier Blvd./Winston Drive.
Turn left on Winston Drive, go straight in one block.
In the valley, turn left and go one long block to the
very end. The house is on the right. Look
for a music flag above the door.
MAP
- (interactive)
FOCUS adopts PAYPAL
You can now use PayPal to buy a New
Membership or Renew
your Membership.
We are also selling concert tickets in
advance of each show using PayPal. See each
concert's individual listing on the
Concert Page for the
correct Button Link.
October 15, 2007
WAMU Adds More Folk
Programming
WAMU has added additional folk programming on its HD
Channel 2 (for which you need an HD radio) or via
www.wamu.org or
www.bluegrasscountry.org. WAMU is calling this
block of programming "Roots and Branches" as the balance
of programming on this channel is bluegrass or acoustic
country music.
Starting at 2 PM on Saturday, Traditions with Mary Cliff
runs for four hours. This is not a repeat of what runs
from 11 PM to 1 AM over the regular airwaves. From 6 PM
to 7 PM, there's the Thistle and the Shamrock (n o
longer over the airwaves on Sunday). From 7 PM to 8 PM,
e-town is broad/webcast. From 8 PM to 10 PM, American
Routes is broad/webcast (no longer broadcast on the
airwaves on Sunday afternoon). From 10 PM-midnight, the
HD Channel 2 and bluegrasscountry.org play Mountain Stag
e, a program that hasn't been available in the DC area
for more than a decade.
For more information, including how to get an HD radio,
go to
www.wamu.org.
Also on HD WAMU: On channel 3, they run WTMD programs
overnight Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday
nights. These are all world music, new-age/acoustic and
free-form shows.
Saturday
8 PM-9 PM Conversations from World Cafe
9 PM-11 PM Sounds Eclectic
11 PM-1 AM Echoes
Sunday
1 AM-5 AM World Cafe
7 PM-9 PM Reggae Rhythms
9 PM-10 PM Afropop
10 PM-11PM Putamayo World
Music Hour
Monday-Friday
12 PM-1 AM Echoes
1 AM-5 AM World Cafe
September 25, 2007
Change of Plans for a
Third Focus Venue
We announced recently that Focus was starting a third
venue in Great Falls, but due to circumstances beyond our
control, that won't happen. But we're still working on
seeking a third venue in the western part of Virigina, so
stay tuned! As soon as we have something locked in, we'll
let you know. Soren Bakken, a new Focus board member, is
pursuing a new location and will be venue manager.
Membership Special
The 2nd Annual Membership Drive is under way, during
September and October. If you're a first-time joiner, you
will get one free ticket during this membership drive, to
be used at any Focus show in December. If you've been
meaning to join and haven't yet, now is the time!
You can print out and mail in a membership form:
http://www.focusmusic.org/ResponseForm.html
June 13, 2007
Concerts Continue in Rockville
All Summer
Focus has wrapped up its successful spring season in
Alexandria, and concerts will resume in September. Shows
will continue all summer in Rockville on the second and
fourth Wednesdays at O'Brien's BBQ. Come join us at
O'Brien's for more terrific music this summer.
We're looking into establishing a third venue in the
western area of Virginia, and are just now beginning to
research some possibilities. For more details, please go
to The President's Corner.
March 15, 2007
About Your Focus Concert E-mail Alerts .
. .
Have you been receiving the Focus concert
e-mail alerts? We've been getting several bouncebacks
recently, and most of those have comcast or hotmail
addresses. If you're not getting the alerts and wondered
why, please check your spam filters. If you have a
restricted list, please add
webmaster@focusmusic.org
to your list and let us know to add you back in.
If you've never been on the Focus e-mail list, would you
like to get our concert alerts? Drop us a note at the
webmaster address and we'll add your address. We send a
brief alert before each show and also occasional e-mails
about Focus activities, but we promise not to swamp you
with too many! Please include "Focus concert alert" in
your subject line.
Have you checked out Focus' MySpace page yet? Go to
http://www.myspace.com/focuspresents
Remember …
Mary Cliff's program,
"Traditions,"
is now airing on WAMU 88.5. The show is broadcast on
Saturday nights from 11 p.m.-1 a.m. For more details, log
onto
http://www.wamu.org/about/press/traditions.php
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