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Meetings, Contact Information
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MA; MI;
MN; MO;
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NC; OH;
OR;
PA;
RI;
SC;
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WI;
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ALABAMA
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Alabama Recorder Association - Arab
Jennifer Garthwaite,
256/586-9003
Meeting monthly September through May in
members' homes. Contact for date, time, and
place.
garthwaite@charter.net
www.fipplesticks.comBirmingham
Janice Williams,
205/870-7443
Nov.-June, first Saturday, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Shades Valley Presbyterian Church
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ARIZONA |
Arizona Central Highlands Recorder
Society-Prescott
Meet monthly, sessions for novices and
intermediate/advanced.
Georgeanne Hanna,
958/775-5856
georgeanne@cableone.net
Desert Pipes - Phoenix
Linda Rising
Second Saturdays, 1:30-3:30 pm
Pointe Tapatio Village Community Center, 10655
N. 9th St., Phoenix
info@desertpipes.org
www.desertpipes.org
Tucson
Scott Mason,
520/721-0846
Sept.-April, second Sunday, 1:30-3:15 p.m.
Benedictine Monastery Chapel, 800 N. Country Club
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ARKANSAS
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Aeolus Recorder Konsort (ARK) of Central Arkansas
Don Wold,
501/666/2787
http://www.ualr.edu/recorder
recorder@ualr.edu
Bella Vista Recorder Consort
Barbara McCoy,
479/855-6477
Meet each Thursday afternoon at the home of
Bill and Eileen Rees
http://bellavistarecorderconsort.googlepages.com
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CALIFORNIA |
American Recorder Orchestra of the
West-AROW (Oakland)
Richard Geisler, 530/477-2293
Email: richgeis@oro.net
http://www.arowmusic.org/
Central Coast (San Luis Obispo)
Margery Seid,
805/474-8538 (Sept.-May)
East Bay Recorder Society
Susan Jaffe,
510/482-4993
http://www.sfems.org/ebrs
Fair Winds (Berkeley)
Sarah Peterson,
510/845-1502
*Granada Consort (San Diego)
Vanessa Evans 619/297-2095
Harmonia Baroque Players (Yorba Linda)
Marika Frankl,
714/970-8545
http://www.harmoniabaroque.org
Inland Recorder Society: (Riverside):
Greg Taber,
951/683-8744
Meet first Monday of the month, 7:00 pm
Janet Goeske Senior Center
5257 Sierra St.
Riverside, CA 92504
Mid-Peninsula Recorder Orchestra (Palo Alto)
Frederic R. Palmer
650/591-3648
http://www.sfems.org/mpro
Monterey Bay Recorder Society
LouAnn Hofmann,
831/439-0809
http://sfems.org/mbrs
North Coast
Kathleen Kinkela-Love,
707/822-8835
RecordersNCoast@aol.com
http://members.tripod.com/recordersncoast
Orange County Recorder Society
Rayma Zack,
949/588-9485
http://ocrs.freehosting.net
Redding Chapter
Kay Hettich, 530/241-8107
American Recorder Society Redding Chapter
Redlands Recorders
Mary Jane Auerbacker, 909/792-8546
Meet Mondays 9:00 am - 1:00 pm at 121 Sierra Vista Dr., Redlands, CA 92373
Sacramento Recorder Society
CELEBRATING OUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2008
Steve Sherman, 916/489-2771 and
Robert Foster 916/391-7520, Co-Presidents
http://www.sacrecorders.org
San Diego County Recorder Society
Harvey Winokur, 619/334-1993
http://www.geocities.com/sdcrecordersociety/
San Francisco Recorder Society
Greta Hryciw, 415/377-4444
http://arssanfrancisco.org
hryciw8@comcast.net
Sonoma County
Dale Jewelll, 707/874-9524
Meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday of every month, from 7:00 to 9:30 pm, year round
Food for Thought Sonoma County AIDS Food Bank, 6550 Railroad Av., Forestville, CA.
For more information, call Ellen Johnsen at (707) 584-9014.
South Bay Recorder Society of CA
Liz Brownell, 408/358-0878
Meetings are monthly at First Congregational Church San Jose.
http://www.sfems.org/sbrs/
Southern California Recorder Society (SCRS)
Jerry Cotts, 310/453-6004 and Juanita Davis, 310/390-2378
http://burbankband.org/SCRS/index.html
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COLORADO |
Boulder
Mike Emptage, 970/667-3929
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/arts/bars/barsindex.htm
Colorado Springs
Janet Howbert, 719/632-6465
Sept.-April, second Sunday, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Colorado College, Packard Hall, Room 21)
Early Music Society of Western Colorado-Players Consort (Grand Junction)
Bev Jackson, 970/257-1692
Greater Denver
Dick Munz, 303/286-7909
http://www.DenverRecorder.org
Fort Collins
Sherry Pomering, 970/484-0305
http://www.fortnet.org/recorder
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CONNECTICUT |
Eastern Connecticut Recorder Society
Joyce Goldberg, 860/442-8490
http://www.connrecorders.org
Recorder Society of Connecticut
Elise Jaeger, 203/792-5606
http://www.geocities.com/rsceditor/
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA |
Washington Recorder Society
Art Jacobson, 301/983-1310
See chapter website for meetling dates and
location.
http://www.meto.umd.edu/~baer/WRS
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DELAWARE |
Brandywine
Roger Matsumoto,
302/731-1430
Sept., Oct., Nov., Jan., Feb., May, second Friday, 7:30-10 p.m.
New Ark United Church of Christ, Main Street, Newark, DE
All levels welcome
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FLORIDA |
Gainesville
Peter Bushnell, 352/376-4390
Imperial Recorder Consort (Lakeland)
Viola J. Spencer, 863/644-8345
Fort Myers Recorder and
Early Music Society
Sue Groskreutz
239/267-1752
spg@embarqmail.com
Meet monthly. Call Sue for meeting time and place.
Miami
Phyllis Hoar, hoarp@yahoo.com, 305/385-5386
http://www.geocities.com/miamiARS
Palm Beach Recorder and Early Music Society
Beverly Lomer, 954-592-2852
http://www.PBRecorder.org
Pasco Collegium Recorder Consort (Bayonet Point)
Marlene E. Cracraft 727/868-8651
Pilgrim Pipers (Largo)
Elizabeth Snedeker 727/596-7813
Meet Fridays 10:00 am-11:30 am
Pilgrim Congregational Church
6315 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL 33710
Sarasota
Charlotte Trautwein 941/929-9137
3137 Lake Park Ln
Sarasota, FL 34231
jnctrautwein@verizon.net
Meetings take place in the Choir Room of
St. Boniface Church, Siesta Key, Sarasota, FL on the 2nd Saturday of every
month. Meetings are from 1:30 PM to
4:00 PM.
Weekly classes for beginners through advanced players are held on Tuesdays
from 10 am -1:30 pm, Sept.-May, at St. Boniface Church.
http://www.sarasotarecorder.org |
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GEORGIA |
Atlanta
Contact
Mickey Gillmor, 404/872-0166
http://home.mindspring.com/~gillmorm/
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HAWAII |
Hawaii
Irene Sakimoto, 808/734-5909
Almost year-round, third Monday, 7:15-9:30 p.m.
Honolulu Academy Arts Center at Linekona, 900 South Beretania St., Honolulu
Additional help for beginners before meetings
Big Island Baroque Consort (Kailua Kona)
Garrett Webb (808/325-6251)
Big Island Recorder Society:
Roger Baldwin, 808/935-2306, rbaldwin@interpac.net
Sept.-May, first Friday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., band room at University of Hawai'i-Hilo
Groups also meet on both east and west ends of island
Skylark (Honolulu)
Irene Sakimoto, 808/734-5909
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ILLINOIS
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Chicago
Celebrating our 50th Year!
Mark Dawson
dsjddawson@sbcglobal.net
www.geocities.com/ars2test
Home Street Players (Oak Park)
Mary Anne Wolff Gardner 708/383-1497
Quincy Early Music Consort
Mechtild Kosin, 217/223-1791
West Suburban (Chicago-area)
Christopher Culp 630/690-730
www.geocities.com/ars2test/
WestSuburbanEarlyMusicSociety.pdf
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INDIANA |
Duneland Early Music Consort
Kristin Sturgeon (219/762-5567)
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LOUISIANA |
Baton Rouge
John Waite, 225/925-0502
http://www.brrecorders.org
New Orleans Recorder Society
Victoria Blanchard, 504/861-4289 or
David Kemp, 504/897-6162
Year-round, each Monday, 8-10 p.m.
Sept.-May meetings: Tulane University, Newcomb College campus, Dixon Hall Annex Band Room
June-August meetings at Rogers Chapel
Group plays several times yearly for St. George's Episcopal Church services
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MARYLAND |
Consort Anon
(Columbia)
Kevin Gilson 410/884-9165
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~consort_anon/index.htm
Northern Maryland
Richard Spittel, 410/242-3395
Sept.-June, third Saturday, 1-4 p.m.
Maryland Presbyterian Church, 1105 Providence Road, Baltimore
www.baltimorerecorders.org
*Sweet Noyse (Silver Spring)
Myrl D. Powell (301/587-4799)
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MASSACHUSETTS |
Boston Recorder Society
Justin Godoy 781/507-4891
info@bostonrecordersociety.org;
http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org
Boston-West Recorder Group (Needham)
Susan Silverman
BostonWestRecorderGroup@gmail.com
Recorders/Early Music MetroWest (formerly BRS-West)
Sheila Beardslee 978/264-0584
sheilabb@verizon.net
http://earlymusicboston.com/remm-about/
Worcester Hills Recorder Society
Doug Bittner, 508/852-6877,
cdbittner@verizon.net
http://mysite.verizon.net/recorders/whrs
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MICHIGAN |
Ann Arbor Recorder Society
Annabel Griffiths, 734/213-3172
Kalamazoo Recorder Players
Charles Vreeland, 269/342-8069
Sept.-May, fourth Tuesday, 7:25-9:30 p.m.
First Reformed Church, Fellowship Hall, 302 Academy
Little Bay Baroque (Harbor Springs)
Nancy Gurney, 231/526-6744
Metropolitan Detroit Recorder Society
Claudia Novitsky, 248/548-5668
Sept.-Nov. and Jan.-May, third Sunday, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
First United Methodist Church, 320 W. 7th St., Royal Oak
Special sessions for beginners
Northwinds Recorder Society
Janet Smith, 231/347-1056
Group meets monthly September - May in homes and churches in the Harbor Springs and Petoskey, Michigan area.
jandn@freeway.net
Sweetwood Recorder Ensemble (Harbor Springs)
Judy Harvey 231/526-7140
Sylvan Winds (Traverse City)
Jocelyn Trepte, 231/943-9664
The Balmy Zephyrs (Traverse City)
Sharon Fidler, 231/947-7926
Western Michigan
Jocelyn Shaw, 231/744-8248
Entire group meets monthly, third Saturday, alternating between Grace Church, 100 Buckley S.E., Grand Rapids, and Methodist Church, 3974
Highgate, North Muskegon
Muskegon Recorder Players meet weekly, Monday, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and Thursday, 7-9 p.m., members' home)
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MINNESOTA |
Twin Cities
Barbara Aslakson, 952/545-3178
Recorders, Viola da
Gamba, Crumshorns, Lutes, Shawms and
Cornettos Summer Playing Sessions:
Sunday, June 14
Sunday, June 28
Sunday, July 12
Sunday, July 25
Sunday, August 8
Sunday, August 23
For more info, call Eric King-Smith,
952/938-7109
http://a415software.com/tcrg/
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MISSOURI |
St. Louis Recorder Society
Kathy Sherrick,
314/822-2594
http://www.drdrbill.com/SLURS/
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NEBRASKA |
Heartland Recorder
Quartet
(Omaha)
Charles Posey
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NEVADA |
Sierra Early Music Society
Kay Judson, 775/322-3990
Third Saturday, 10 a.m-1:30 p.m.
Even months at Maytan Music, 775 Central, Reno; and odd months, Brewery Arts Center, Carson City
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NEW HAMPSHIRE |
Monadnock
Kris Schramel,
kristine@crocker.com or
Lynne Herzog, 802/254-1223
Serving New Hampshire and Vermont recorder
players
Sept.-May, third Saturday, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Meetings on Birge St., Brattleboro, VT
http://users.crocker.com/~kristine/index.html
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NEW JERSEY |
Bergen County
Mary Comins, 201/489-5695
Meetings led by professional coaches second Wednesday Sept.-Feb. and April-June, 8-10 p.m.
Sons of Israel Synagogue, 150 Grand Avenue, Leonia
Highland Park Recorder Society
Donna Messer, 732/828-7421
http://www.hprecorder.org
Navesink Recorder
Society
Lori Goldschmidt, 732/747-4813
Sept.-June, fourth Monday, 7:45-9:45 p.m.
Conference Room at Seabrook Village Retirement Center, 3000 Essex Rd.,
Tinton Falls, NJ 07753
All levels welcome
Princeton
Louise Witonsky, 609/924-2752
ltwitonsky@gmail.com
Sept.-May, second Tuesday, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
http://www.princetonol.com/
groups/princetonrecorder/
*The
Quinto Consort (Hackensack)
Mary Comins (201/489-5695)
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NEW MEXICO |
Albuquerque
Bryan Bingham, chapter representative, 505/299-0052
Oct.-June, first Friday, 715-9:45 p.m.
Heights Cumberland Presbyterian Church
http://rgrecorders.org/abq
Las Vegas, NM
Flat & Baroque in Las Vegas
Tom Curtis 505-454-4232Rio Grande (Las
Cruces/El Paso)
Martin Winkler
info@rgrecorders.org
http://www.rgrecorders.org
Santa Fe
Jane Thomson, 505/986-0753,
jthomson05@comcast.net
Sept.-May, first Tuesday, 9:30 a.m.
St. Bede's Episcopal Church, corner of St. Frances Dr. and San Mateo St.
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NEW YORK |
Buffalo
Mark Jay,
mjay4784@verizon.net, 716/649-1127
http://buffalorecorder.synthasite.com/
*Corelli Clash (Albany)
Ole Christensen 518/446-0811
http://www.corelliclash.org
Hudson Mohawk
Darleen Koreman, 518/482-6023
New York Recorder Guild
John DeLucia, 212/543-4923
http://www.nyrg.org/
Recorder Orchestra of New York (NYC)
Karen Wexler, 631/751-5969
http://www.geocities.com/ronyorch
Recorder Society of Long Island
Margaret H. Brown, 631/765-1867
Sept.-May, second Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
bjzotz@optonline.net
http://www.rsli.info
Rochester
Liz Seely, 585/473-1463
http://www.rochars.org
Rockland Recorder Society:
Sept.-June, third Sat. morning
Central Presbyterian Church, Haverstraw
*The New Suffolk Consort (New Suffolk)
Patsy Rogers (631/734-7485)
Westchester Recorder Guild
Erica Babad
erica@tany.com
http://www.westchesterrecorderguild.org
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NORTH CAROLINA |
Carolina Mountains Recorder Society - Brevard
Carol Markey
828/884-4304
Meets monthly at Lutheran Church of the Good
Shepherd, Brevard. Contact for day and time.
cmarkey@citcom.netTriad Early Music Society (Greensboro)
Donna Yaniglos 336/292-9995
Triangle
Mary McKinney, 919/489-2292
http://www.trianglerecorder.org
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OHIO |
Greater Cleveland
Edith Yerger, 440/826-0716
Sept.-June., Third Sunday, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Beachwood Branch of Cuyahoga County Library, 25501 Shaker Blvd., Beachwood)
Rosewood Consort
Akron, OH
Meets weekly at St. Bernard's Church, Akron, OH
Contact: Alan Purdum, 330/673-5590
Toledo
Marilyn Perlmutter, 419/531-6259
Year-round, second Thursday, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Members' homes, plus several small groups meeting periodically to rehearse for church services, etc.
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OREGON |
Eugene American Recorder Society
Lynne Coates 541/345-5235
Oregon Coast
Corlu Collier, 541/265-5910
Sept.-June, second Friday, 7-10 p.m.
St. Peter the Fisherman Lutheran Church, 1226 SW 13th St., Lincoln City
All other Fridays, 7-9 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 227 NE 12th St., Newport)
Portland Recorder Society
Zoë Tokar, 971/325-1060
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PENNSYLVANIA |
Angelica Consort
Ruth Bossler
610/777-9510
Meets each Monday night
www.angelicaconsort.org
Bloomsburg Early Music Ensemble
Susan Brook, 570/784-8363
Philadelphia
Vincent Hurtubise, 215/438-6409
www.philadelphiarecordersociety.org
Pittsburgh
Helen Thornton, 412/781-6321
allegroannie@msn.com;
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/lukas/pcars/
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RHODE ISLAND |
Rhode Island
For meeting information please contact David
Bojar, 401/944-3395
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SOUTH CAROLINA |
Olde Pipes Consort
(Charleston)
Meet Mondays, 3:00-4:00 pm, The Lowcountry
Senior Center,
865 Riverland Dr, Charleston, SC 29412
Hillyer Rudisill III, 843/763-7044 |
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TENNESSEE |
Greater Knoxville Recorder
Society
Ann Stierli, 865/637-6179
knoxvillerecordersociety.googlepages.com
Nashville Parks
Janet Epstein, 615/297-2546
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TEXAS |
Austin
Marianne Weiss Kim, 512/795-9869
http://main.org/austinars/index.html
Dallas
Jack Waller, 972/669-1209
Rio Grande (Las Cruces/El Paso)
Joyce Henry, 505-522-4178
http://www.lascrucesnewcomersconnection.com
/referral.php?num=120
*The Wireless Consort (North Texas)
Cornell Kinderknecht 972/241-6215,
http://www.texasearlymusic.com/wc
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UTAH |
Utah Recorder Society
(Salt Lake)
Mary Johnson, 801/272-9015
Meet 3rd Saturday of month, 11 a.m.
Meeting place by arrangement.
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VERMONT |
Monadnock
Kris Schramel,
kristine@crocker.com
Lynne Herzog, 802/254-1223
Serving New Hampshire and Vermont recorder
players
Sept.-May, third Saturday, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Meetings on Birge St., Brattleboro, VT
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VIRGINIA |
Northern Virginia
Edward Friedler, 703/425-132
Each Sunday, 7-9 p.m.
7617 Little River Turnpike, 7th fl., Annandale
www.nvrs.info
Shenandoah Recorder Society (Palmyra)
Ms. Gary Porter 434-284-2995
Tidewater Recorder Society
Vicki Hamilton Hall, 757/565-2773
http://tidewaterecorder.org/
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WASHINGTON |
Cascade Recorder Consort
(Enumclaw)
James Verschaeve (360/802-0326) Columbia Basin Recorder Society (Pasco)
Phyllis Brandt 509/545-1417
Moss Bay
Ralph Lusher, 425/275-6777
Sept.-Nov. & Jan.-May, third Saturday, 2 p.m.
No regular venue.
Seattle
Ruth Pattison,
info@seattle-recorder.org
http://www.seattle-recorder.org
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WISCONSIN |
Milwaukee
Carole Goodfellow, 262/763-8992
Second Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
St. Mary's CollegeWinds of
Southern Wisconsin:
Marilyn Oberst, 608/836-0269
*The Recorders of Merrywoode (Kenosha)
Thomas E. Van Dahm 414/694-0378
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CANADA |
ONTARIO
Toronto Early Music Players Organization (TEMPO)
Sharon Geens,
416/699-0517
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~dresher/TEMPO
QUEBEC
Montreal Recorder Society
Mary McCutcheon, 514/271-6650
http://www.fluteabecmtl.ca
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