RainyCamp

02/22/2025

Start packing your instruments and bags. RainyCamp at Folklife is happening asgain 2025 Friday afternoon.
Sing like Pete Seeger would
Peace & Protest
Rounds and Rounds
Gather & sing
Seattle Song Circle

03/29/2024

RainyCamp at Folklife 2024 is happening Friday. Here is a quick list of acts.

Seattle Labor Chorus – 1-1:45
Seattle Raging Grannies – 2-2:45
Rick Harlan 3-3:45

4- 4:45 Peace and protest – Lisa Stiller
5 – 5:45 Gather & Sing Bruce Baker
6-6:45 Tribute to Silent Voices – Commemorating Bob Nelson and others
7 – 9PM/close Seattle Song Circle

Stay tuned

01/08/2024

RainyCamp 2024 is readying for a one day virtual camp Jan 28, 2024. For information, please register from this page:
https://www.rainycamp.org/2021-2/
Volunteering and workshop offerings can be done from this page.

Camp Information We will be conducting RainyCamp 2024 via Zoom one day only January 28th. Evening is the traditional Seattle Song Circle.RainyCamp is free for 2024, we gladly accept donations. Visit SFS main page and…

12/15/2023

From Flip Breskin - I had to cut and paste content.

Hey Bruce - can you share this with RainyCamp?
To Friends of Ellie Douglas Rice:

Hi! Meryle Korn here - I just got back from an Oregon trip and while there, my friend Karen and I went to the care facility where Ellie had been until recently. They couldn’t give out info over the phone, but when we showed up in Forest Grove at the reception desk and explained we were old friends although not family and that I’d come down from Bellingham to visit her, they gave us her new address.

Ellie is looking and sounding (!) quite well! She has to hunt for words occasionally, but she was lucid and coherent (although distractible by goings on in the day room where we visited with her). She has developed “snake tongue” (I’ve forgotten the correct medical term) but communicates alright anyway. She’s lost a bit of weight since I saw her last (pre-Covid) and was in a wheelchair, but she got up to hug us and thank us for visiting before we left. I suspect the wheelchair is for her safety; she’s had several falls and has lost a few teeth. She’ll be seeing a dentist “soon”.

05/21/2023

RainyCamp at Northwest Folklife Festival All Day Friday May 26th at the Cornish Courtyard Stage. This is the participatory singing stage. All weekend!

12/12/2022

RainyCamp 2023 registration is open. Visit https://rainycamp.org to get the registration link. We re virtual again in 2023 due to economics and virus threat. The link is https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5CEBQlLDHqC_nuGf-9dRhBJnkbt5uonSAdlJfElsb5rd6_A/viewform?usp=sf_link

Hello - RainyCamp 2023 will be virtual via Zoom. Dates are Jan 27-29, 2022. The Camp will open with a Large Circle 6:30 PM PST and break out to Late Night Singing as a breakout of that session. We will need Volunteers to help with each workshop and also with the camp organization in general. Write r...

11/10/2022

RainyCamp 2023. Lots of questions about RainyCamp. There are two factors that put us back online for 2023
`1) The economics are against us for Lake Retreat. The camp has a minimum attendance figure of 150 and overall cost of nearly $20,000 for the weekend. Its both unlikely and unwise to get the 150 enrolled and that bosts costs per person to nearly $300 or double current.

2) The pandemic is not over, as was demonstrated by VFSS retreat in October that showed 25% came back with COVID. Face it, we are nearly all in the high risk category.

So we are looking into options for smaller gatherings. Ideas welcome.

12/30/2021

RainyCamp 2022 is virtual and schduled for Jan 28-30. Registration is open for camp and to give a workshop. Visit http://rainycamp.org for details

Share this: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) 2022 Dates: Friday Jan 28 - Sunday Jan…

07/13/2021

Song Circle is 7PM Sundays, and Gather & Sing noon Wednesdays US Pacific Time. http://www.seafolklore.org/wp/virtual-sings/

Song circles are a great way to learn new-to-you music. But it’s not just about the music. Folks tell stories the songs bring up, and during the virtual version, a steady stream of banter fills the chat.

01/23/2021

Only a week to to for RainyCamp. Registration through Zoom (not an account) is also needed, that invite will come out later today or Sunday if you registered for camp. Want to see the workshop schedule? Feast your ears: http://www.rainycamp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/RC_2021_workshops-final.pdf
We have workshops from UK and Australia, in addition to all over the US.

12/27/2020

RainyCamp 2021 is well into registration and gathering workshops. And -- everyone gets campership - its free. We are running camp via Zoom this year with several mini-concerts interspersed. Visit http://www.rainycamp.org/2021-2/ Jan 29-31, 2021.

This is the RainyCamp 2021 Virtual Camp page We will be conducting RainyCamp 2021 via Zoom starting Friday evening and completing Sunday Evening in the traditional Seattle Song Circle. Workshop Offerings: To Offer a workshop…