Shady Grove Folk Arts

Bursaries - 2006

Shady Grove Folk Arts is offering two bursaries of $150 for Cowichan Valley students of the performing folk arts - one each for folk music and folk dance.

Deadline for applications is Friday, May 5, 2006.

The bursaries will be awarded in June 2006.

We are inviting students and performers, music teachers, agents, club owners and anyone who loves the performing folk arts to submit applications for students who deserve to be considered for the Shady Grove Awards.

What are the performing folk arts?

Folk arts emerge in all the world's societies and vary with each culture. They are taught through performance, and learned by practice.

Folk music and dance lead the list, and but the performing folk arts go well beyond that to include most of the things people have traditionally done to express themselves, tell their stories and entertain other people in the human community.

We include instrumentalists, vocalists and songwriters; dancers and choreographers; storytellers and dramatists and puppeteers.

Some examples might help to illustrate:

Instrumentalists might play the fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, accordion, upright bass, bodhran, or pennywhistle.
Musical styles may range from world to country, blues to bluegrass, celtic to klezmer, jazz to reggae, shanties and ballads and fado laments. Throat singers and yodelers need apply.
Dancers might step dance, clog, square dance, break dance, or perform any of a myriad of indigenous and other ethnic dance styles.
Works by Mozart or Rossini, Balanchine and Martha Graham are NOT in the performing folk arts repertoire. Nor is Riverdance.
Still uncertain? Call or email us and we'll let you know.

Who is eligible to apply for a Shady Grove Folk Arts bursary?

Students living in the Cowichan Valley
Eighteen years old or younger.

How do I apply?

Complete this application form (this is a PDF file)
Include a letter of support from a music teacher or other individual who has some authority or credentials to recommend you for a bursary.
Include, if possible, any reviews, exam results, or adjudication notes that speak to your work.
Include a sample of your work (CD or cassette, DVD or video)

When is the application deadline?

Midnight, Friday, May 5, 2006 is the deadline for the application form to be submitted. If necessary, the other materials can follow within a few days.

Who makes the award decisions?

Shady Grove will invite a small number of individuals to sit on an Awards Committee to review the applications and make the award decisions. Each individual will have achieved distinction within the performing folk arts in Canada. We are still convening the Awards Committee, and will publish the names of the committee members on our website as soon as we can.

What is Shady Grove Folk Arts?

Shady Grove Folk Arts has been active in Canada for almost twenty years, at various times sponsoring performances, workshops and education programs for the folk arts.

Our primary activity in recent years has been house concerts at the home of Peter and Barbara Sussman. Peter Sussman is the Artistic Director of Shady Grove. These house concerts are for the enjoyment and education of anyone who enjoys great folk music in an intimate and acoustically rich setting.

Our directors have decided to use the small excess funds available from these concerts for the benefit of local music students, and to encourage the music and dance we love.

Fund-raising activities may be embarked upon in the near future to augment what is now available. Shady Grove is a charitable society, and donations made to the Shady Grove Folk Arts Society will receive a receipt for a tax-deductible charitable donation.

We look forward to receiving your application.

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