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Birmingham
Janice Williams
205/870-7443
Nov.-June, first Saturday, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Shades Valley Presbyterian Church
2305 Montevallo Road

Bella Vista Recorder Consort
Barbara McCoy
479/855-6477
http://bellavistarecorderconsort.googlepages.com

Central Coast (San Luis Obispo)
Margery Seid
805/474-8538 (Sept.-May)

East Bay Recorder Society
Helga Wilking
415/472-6367
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
 

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 

The Sacramento Chapter celebrated its 25th anniversary with a musical Winter Party, during which, the Sine Nomine Ensemble (above), The River City Renaissance Bank (below) the SRS Orchestra and and other ensembles and consorts performed on a variety of early instruments.

San Diego County Recorder Society
Harvey Winokur, 619/334-1993
http://www.geocities.com/sdcrecordersociety/

San Francisco Recorder Society
Dana Vinicoff, 415/908-3258
http://arssanfrancisco.org
vinicoff@hotmail.com

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
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 

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
Janet Handmaker, 303/221-6066
http://www.DenverRecorder.org

Fort Collins
Roselyn Dailey, 970/282-1097
http://www.fortnet.org/recorder

Recorder Society of Connecticut
Co-Presidents Tacey Dietlmeier, 860/354-9720 and
Teresa Judd, 203/452-5376
http://www.geocities.com/rsceditor/

Imperial Recorder Consort (Lakeland)
Viola J. Spencer, 863/644-8345

Fort Myers Recorder and Early Music Society
Sue Groskreutz, 239/247-3002

Miami
Zulema Garraffo, 305/374-1879 or Phyllis Hoar, 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

Sarasota
Lynelle Williams, 941/493-4322

Meetings take place in the Choir Room of St. Boniface Church, Siesta Key, Sarasota, FL. 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.

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

Home Street Players (Oak Park)
Mary Anne Wolff Gardner 708/383-1497

Quincy Early Music Consort
Lavern Wagner, 217/223-7480

West Suburban (Chicago-area)
Christopher Culp 630/690-730
www.geocities.com/ars2test/
WestSuburbanEarlyMusicSociety.pdf

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

Northern Maryland
Richard Spittel, 410/242-3395
Sept.-June, third Saturday, 1-4 p.m.
Maryland Presbyterian Church, 1105 Providence Road, Baltimore

*Sweet Noyse (Silver Spring)
Myrl D. Powell (301/587-4799)

Boston-West Recorder Group (Needham)
Susan Silverman (781/444-5041)

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

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)

Highland Park Recorder Society
Donna Messer, 732/828-7421
http://www.hprecorder.org 

Navesink
Lori Goldschmidt, 732/747-4813
Sept.-June, fourth Monday, 7:45-9:45 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, 1475 West Front St., Lincroft
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/

Somerset Hills
Keith Bernstein, 908/722-6572
http://www.urbantribe.net/shrs/

*The Quinto Consort (Hackensack)
Mary Comins (201/489-5695)

Rio Grande (Las Cruces/El Paso)
Kathyrn Barber, 575/521-4545
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.

*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 

Triad Early Music Society (Greensboro)
Donna Yaniglos 336/292-9995

Triangle
Mary McKinney, 919/489-2292
http://www.trianglerecorder.org

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.

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
http://home.comcast.net/~pdxrecorders/

Bloomsburg Early Music Ensemble
Susan Brook, 570/784-83693

Philadelphia
Dody Magaziner, 215/886-2241, and Joanne Ford, 215/844-8054
www.philadelphiarecordersociety.org 

Pittsburgh
Helen Thornton, 412/781-6321
allegroannie@msn.com; 
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/lukas/pcars/ 

Nashville Parks
Janet Epstein, 615/297-2546

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

Shenandoah Recorder Society (Palmyra)
Margaret B. Newcomb 434/591-0762

Tidewater Recorder Society
Vicki Hamilton Hall, 757/565-2773
http://tidewaterecorder.org/

Columbia Basin Recorder Society (Pasco)
Phyllis Brandt 509/545-1417 

Moss Bay
Winifred Jaeger, 425/822-4933
Sept.-Nov. & Jan.-May, third Saturday, 2 p.m.
No regular venue.

Seattle
Carolyn Wallace, 206/782-6898
http://www.seattle-recorder.org

Winds of Southern Wisconsin: 
Marilyn Oberst, 608/836-0269

*The Recorders of Merrywoode (Kenosha)
Thomas E. Van Dahm 414/694-0378

QUEBEC

Montreal Recorder Society
Giles Brissette, 450/651-1355
http://www.fluteabecmtl.ca