Countryfolk Music News

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AS OF -Jan 1, 2010

NEW Phone and email

Larry Bisbee
Tel 207-897-9472 ( until April 1, 2010)
AFTER April 1, 2010 - Countryfolk Tel. # 207-645-4411
email

mainebiz@localnet.com (all year)

Please scroll down and see our 2010 Countryfolk Music Theatre Schedule and photos

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for more Countryfolk Photos scroll down and click on older posts

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Maine Countryfolk Music Theatre

Summer Schedule 2010

( Always FREE and for families )

US Route 2, East Dixfield, Maine USA

(our 11th Season)

2 covered stages / dance floor / covered spectator building / 2 house bands for backup jam sessions

fire pit for cooking / 2 acre parking field / small pond / FREE musician camping on special event weekends

Our Countryfolk mission:

To provide a venue for Maine musicians and songwriters to showcase their talents

To provide youth music scholarships and music camp opportunities

To maintain a community of volunteers that support our goals

To support musicians and songwriters in their musical dreams

To honor the musicians of the past, present and future

We are a not-for-profit project supported by individual donations and hundreds of volunteers.

In 2009 we began construction of our Songwriters and Musicians Museum, a major three year project

by volunteers. It will offer a stage, dance floor, fireplace, songwriter and musician static displays, photos and memorabilia...

Opening Weekend - Sunday, May 30, 2010 ( 12noon - 6pm )

( music - jam sessions - Every Sunday 12noon-6pm thru Labor Day)

“SPECIAL” Countryfolk EVENTS”

“Christmas in July” Sunday - July 11, 2010

( Bring a can of food for the Food Bank in memory of Charlotte Whitten)

Countryfolk Youth Music Scholarship Weekend - July 30, 31, August 1, 2010

Our annual “Banjos to Bagpipes” celebration

( Friday night jam session -5-9pm)

Saturday Country Jamboree - scheduled performers all day ( new acts every 30 minutes)

“Special Guest Entertainer”

Saturday Night Dance ( 7-10pm)

Sunday-Special guest performance / youth music scholarships/ two house bands w/jam session

Countryfolk is Always FREE and for families

Labor Day Weekend Closing Weekend- September. 3, 4, 5, 2010

Friday - Jam Session 5-9pm

Saturday Country Jamboree ( all day )

Saturday Night Dance 7-10pm

Sunday Jam Session 12 noon-6pm

Sunday - Special “Minnie Pearl” Look-A-Like contest ( 2pm)

Potluck meals on Saturday of event weekends as well as each Sunday during the summer....

( bring your favorite dish)

We are rustic, but very family and musician friendly. Hope to see you this summer and bring a musician with you!!!!! We have a lot of fun. Hope you do also... Come jam with us on our summer Friday Night Campfires 5-9pm all summer...

Dakota Rich, our youngest Countryfolk youth music scholarship award 2009

Our 2009 Countryfolk Youth Music Scholarships awarded in Memory of our friend, Steve Bull

MORE FUN at COUNTRYFOLK 2009

Countryfolk spectators raised $109.00 in youth music scholarship money and 151 cans of food for the local food pantry during our "Christmas in July" event 2009

Old Crow Band of Farmington, Maine plays during our Countryfolk youth music scholarship weekend in July 2009

Mountain Man Rendezvous & Country Jamboreev 2009 at Countryfolk Music Theatre raising scholarship monies for the Countryfolk Youth Music Scholarship Project $1015.00 in 2009.. YAHOO....

Countryfolk Mountain Man Rendezvous & Country Jamboree 2009

More Countryfolk USA FUN !!!!

Countryfolk Music Theatre, US Route 2, East Dixfield, Maine USA celebrating 10 years of music, fun and free to the public, friends and families....

Countryfolk Music Theatre awarded $1015.00 in youth music scholarships in 2009. Included were two camperships to Music/Theatre camp at Camp Mechuwana.

This years scholarships were given in the memory of radio broadcaster, Steve Bull and the Old Crow Band of Farmington, Maine USA for thier more than 50 years of community music.

This year's scholarship youths were:

Krystal Blood- Music Camp
Erich Zurhorst- Music camp
Adam Mitchell- cash award
Travis Pinkham (travel cash to go to Nashville)
Lucas Mitchell- cash award
Meaghan Martin ( DECMA youth music scholarship in memory of Countryfolk's Linda Latham )
Dakota Rich - cash award (our first pre-school scholarship)

All this from donations from spectators at Countryfolk (you all are appreciated)
Countryfolk is just a backyard gathering of volunteers who support country music and having fun. We encourage young and old to follow their musical dreams and provide a free to the public venue for them to be heard.

We are also building a songwriters and musicians museum called "Music & Minerals", honoring musicians from the past, present and future as well as the minerals that are prospected in this area of the State of Maine. The museum is now under construction with a 10 foot long fireplace being built by volunteer Lonnie Blood and donations of supplies, rocks, bricks etc from local volunteers. WE hope to have the building up and running by Labor Day Weekend 2010.

Countryfolk Fun - 2009 - 10 years of music

Countryfolk Music Theatre - 2009

Countryfolk Music Theatre, route 2, East Dixfield, Maine USA

Celebrating our 10th season

See you all on Sunday, Memorial Day Weekend 2010. It's been a great 10 years.. Larry Bisbee

More 2009 pics - Thanks to all our volunteer musicians, we could not do it without all of you.

Countryfolk Music Theatre

US Route 2, East Dixfield, Maine USA
Contact: Larry Bisbee
207-645-7531
email... mainebiz@roadrunner.com

We are now closed for 2009.

We will re-open Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend 2010

2009 SCHEDULE of EVENTS

2009 Countryfolk Music Theatre Summer Schedule and Youth Scholarship Project

Countryfolk Music Theatre opens its 10th consecutive season on Sunday, May 24, 2009, Memorial Day Weekend. (every Sunday thru Labor Day 12 noon-6PM / always free and for families according to project director, Larry Bisbee.

Big plans are in the offing this year for the 10th year celebration including lots of traditional country music, folk and gospel and bluegrass.

Scheduled Jamborees, Christmas in July ( July 5th - bring a can of food for the food pantry), youth music scholarship weekend, Banjos to Bagpipes & Old Maine Days celebration & Mountain Man Rendezvous, 4 days with 50+ musicians, dance and special guests ( July 23, 24, 25, 26) and a "special" Dick Curless Look-A-Like contest (Labor Day Weekend with 3 days of music), country dances, 50/50 and door prizes, Barefoot Country Girl (the movie, with cast members at Countryfolk), pot luck meals and loads of FUN.

Bisbee said, "We welcome new musicians every week and also have a Friday night campfire jam from 5-9PM"

free Tent, van and RV Camping for musicians is always welcomed and we now have a free "Countryfolk Bunkhouse" for musicians.

Bisbee went on to say, "We're always looking for NEW musicians to come and join us, so come along and have some fun with us. We're the "BIGGEST" backyard jam in Maine with 20-40 musicians each weekend and "special" events".

More info at 207-645-7531 or email mainebiz@roadrunner.com

or catch Larry "BUCK" Bisbee on the nearest streetcorner telling one of his "Wicked Good" Maine stories, singing his new "Mosquito" song or telling his whopping big ol' "Black Fly's of Maine" tale. No matter what ya do, get ahold of him soon.

Countryfolk Music Theatre Seeks Mountain Men & Women and Outdoor Displays

Countryfolk Music Theatre in East Dixfield is looking for people to display
Old Maine items (snowshoe making/basket backpacks) and Maine-Made products,
and outdoor cooking, trapping, fishing, kayak or canoe making,
furs,(anything to do with the
outdoors and Old-time Maine)) etc. as well as prospectors to show their gems
and minerals at the first Countryfolk Mountain Man Rendezvous this summer.

Larry Bisbee and Countryfolk Music Theatre on US route 2 in East Dixfield,
Maine USA is planning a Mountain Man Rendezvous theme this summer as part of
their youth music scholarship weekend. ALready booked for the event are the
following: Ben Bowie and son of Carthage with knife and tomahawk throwing;
Zeke Elliot "The chainsaw carver",Sally Daigle of Jay with custom made gem jewelry;
Gary Baril of Byron with a gold panning demonstration; S&L Prospecting gem
and mineral display, Covered wagon and teepee by Countryfolk; Bill Greene & Christy
with bull-whip cracking demonstrations.. We're also looking for
basket-makers, fly-tieing, snowshoe makers and others to demonstrate their
skills with Maine wood carving, taxidermy or any Maine skills of outdoor
interest....

Free space is offered to all who would like to participate. All donations
over the weekend support our Countryfolk Youth Music Scholarships...

Will you join us?? Wear your coonskin hat and Mountain Man or Woman outfit
and join the fun...

Free display space too for gems and minerals, musician's CDs, trappers and
the like.... Four BIG days (and nights with campfires & music) - July 23-26,
2009. We'll have between 40-60 volunteer musicians again this year.

Free camping or stay in the bunkhouse...
Tents and vans (we have room for a few RVs too)

Special guest performers will be the famous "Old Crow Indian Band".. Don't
miss it.. (yes, they'll be in costume too)

Remember, we open on Sunday (May 24th) of Memorial Day Weekend with our
regular Sunday jams (12noon-6PM)
Call Larry at 207-645-7531 or email him at mainebiz@roadrunner.com
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Come help us celebrate our 10th year of consecutive Country jamborees,
look-a-like contests and country fun", Bisbee said. !!!!

Countryfolk Music

12 noon - 6 pm - Every Sunday

Musicians from all across Maine come together for a jam session .....................

Country - Gospel - Bluegrass - Folk

Two large covered stages.........

Country Music Museum Display.......

Always free / A family Gathering.................

"Barefoot Country Girl" ( the movie )
Movie Exhibit Booth Display & Photos

Special Events Thru The Summer

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Meaghan Martin of Hollis, Maine USA, singer / songwriter received the final 2009 Countryfolk Music Theatre Youth Music Scholarship Award in memory of our Linda Latham, presented by Jackie Harmon, DECMA president, at the Silver Spur in Mechanic falls on Valentine's Day, 2010.
This brought our total scholarships to $1015.00 for 2009.

Thanks to all our volunteers and spectator donations to make this possible.
See all of you in 2010. We open on May 30, 2010, Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend and have music every Sunday from 12 noon - 6pm thru Labor Day. See you at Countryfolk ! New musicians always welcome. Bring a friend and a musician anytime.
Country, folk, bluegrass and gospel music...

Always FREE and for families !

2009 Countryfolk Youth Music Scholarships

Adam Mitchell (cash award)
Meaghan Martin (cash award)
Kristal Blood *
Erich Zurhorst *
Dakota Rich
Lucas Mitchell
Travis Pinkham ( cash award supported his Nashville, TN trip)

* For the first time we were able to send two youth musicians to Music Camp for a week at Camp Mechuwana in Winthrop, Maine.

Awards in 2009 totaled $1015.00. Thanks to all the donations and support of our volunteer musicians and spectators

Press release

9-14-09

CONTACT: Larry Bisbee

PO Box 154, East Dixfield, Maine USA

Maine volunteer musicians closed out the 2009 season at the Countryfolk Music Theatre on route 2 in East Dixfield over Labor Day weekend. The Dick Curless Appreciation Weekend attracted 67 musicians from across the state and more than five-hundred dollars was raised for Countryfolk youth music scholarships.

Larry Bisbee, organizer of the weekly country music gatherings said, “We are very happy with the scholarship donations and want to thank all the volunteers who make it possible, those musicians who come each week and to all the folks that bring food for the weekly pot luck Sunday meals”.

Eight Dick Curless look-a-likes showed up and Jim “G” of Livermore Falls was judged the best. Bisbee gave an overview of Curless’s life at the beginning and Donald Dyer of Dexter gave a moving summation of Dick’s life as he knew him.

Bisbee went on to say, “ Overall it was a super summer and musicians have already said they will be back again next year. We’ll start up again on Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend 2010.”. “ It’s been a great ten years”, he said. ‘And we’re already planning next year’s scholarship weekend, the last weekend in July” “ We hope to give another thousand dollars in youth music scholarships and send a couple of youth to music camp”.

"Barefoot Country Girl" (the movie)

More movie info, photos and HOW TO ORDER TODAYCLICK HERE

http://mainecountryfolkfilms.blogspot.com/

and see the trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vjQoM5yjk0

Your purchase of this DVD movie supports youth music scholarships

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More Countryfolk Music Theatre pics. Thanks to all the volunteer musicians who make it all possible. Countryfolk celebrating it's 10th year of music, free to the public, and offering a venue for musicians to perform, hone their skills and to network with others in the music business...

Yes, we're just a backyard gathering of musicians, friends and family, but we have a lot to say, musically speaking...

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"Barefoot Country Girl" (the movie)

More movie info, photos, updates...... CLICK HERE
http://mainecountryfolkfilms.blogspot.com/

Your purchase of this DVD film supports youth music scholarships

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Welcome to our "Countryfolk" family..........

Meet the "heart & soul" of our successes..

Thank you everyone

You are everything !

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