December is too busy, with too many committments, too many things to do, and not enough time to just sit and relax and enjoy some music. We like to change all that. December's Nanaimo Folk Connection is a time for us to be together, to get to know each other a little better, to relax with each other. Come as you are, in your most comfortable clothes.
We invite you to bring any instruments you have a home that you can play, including rhythm ones. We will set up the chairs in a circle, and conduct what is known in the folk world as a song circle. We will proceed around the circle one person at a time. At your turn you may perform something for us all, invite everyone to join you in a carol (we will provide carol song books), tell a story or a joke, make a song request of someone, or simply pass to the next person. 
We'll provide the beverages as usual, and set up a table for pot-luck finger foods. At this event each year we ask you to contribute something for the pot luck table, a cash or dry goods donation for the food bank (will bring a couple of boxes), and a toonie so that we can cover the rent for the hall.
Nanaimo Folk Connection Gatherings are held on the third Friday of each month, at 7:30pm at Hope Lutheran Church, 2174 Departure Bay Road, Nanaimo. Admission $5. Refreshments available. Wheelchair accessible. For more information email me at the link below. You can also phone 754-1321 or 753-1187.