Welcome to the
Beach Cities
Folk Music Club
Do you wish you
could sing around a campfire with Pete Seeger?
Do you secretly sing Woody Guthrie songs
in the car?
Did you dream you
saw Joe Hill last night?
Then you’re in luck!
The Beach Cities
Folk Music Club
is here!
On the third Thursday of each month,
from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m,
banjo players, fiddlers, guitar players and singers gather
in a warm circle in April & Gary & Jeff’s Manhattan Beach living room
to create that magic combination of music and words
—-traditional folk music. May the circle be unbroken!
join us
for a Sing-along/Hoot/Jam!
Bring a friend!
Bring a song!
Bring an instrument!
Song circle!
Where? The Wayland home (click on address for map)
1642 Voorhees Avenue, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
1 1/2 blocks west of Aviation, 4 blocks north of Artesia.
Please bring yummy snacks, drinks to share.
Since we meet on a weeknight,
we ask that you skeedaddle at 10 pm.
Come play along and bring a song!
TO ALL BOOKING AGENTS AND PERFORMERS:
Please note that we are a group of friends who come together to make music. We do not put on concerts as a result of agent or performer solicitations. If you’d like to join us in music and song on the third Thursday of the month, please contact us. But if you are contacting us in the hopes that we will put on a concert, please don’t.
For more information:
aprilstory@aol.com (founder April Halprin Wayland)
(please put Beach Cities Folk Club in the subject line)
snail mail:
Beach Cities Folk Music Club
1097 Aviation Boulevard
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
FAX: (24 hours) (310) 379-4523
2010 THEMES
Happy 5th Birthday, BCFC!
~ We meet the third Thursday of each month, 7-10 pm ~
| January 21, 2010 | fashion(or passion), aging (our 5th birthday!); hope | |
| February 18, 2010 | farmers; love; hope | |
| March 18, 2010 | hypocrisy; pirates; hope | |
| April 15, 2010 | silly songs; birds; hope | |
| May 20, 2010 | colors; mean people; hope | |
| June 17, 2010 | summer; hard times; hope | |
| July 15, 2010 | animals;money; hope | |
| August 19, 2010 | presidents;water; hope | |
| September 16, 2010 | children; wilderness; hope | |
| October 21, 2010 | rounds;witches; hope | |
| November 18, 2010 | songs about writing (are there any?); gratitude; hope | |
| December 16, 2010 | alphabet; good works (Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony); hope |
Folk Links—in no particular order
- Santa Monica Traditional Folk Music Club our club was inspired by the SMTFMC
- FolkWorks - Check out this FABULOUS, FREE newspaper’s site for Folk Music and Dance events in the greater Los Angeles area
- Folk Alliance The North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance–”one strong voice”
- The Topanga Banjo & Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival
- California Traditional Music Society
- Jim Savarino–one of our own!
- Mudcat Cafe
- Sing Out! Magazine
- Songmakers–They sponsor weekly hoots in private homes, weekend get-aways and special events. Check out their links to other folk clubs.
- The Living Tradition–they sponsor contra dances, folk music concerts and folk music jams. They have a great newsletter, too.
- The San Francisco Folk Music Club our club was inspired by the SFFMC, too.
- FolkScene is a program of traditional and contemporary music featuring live music, interviews, and recordings hosted and produced by Roz and Howard Larman
- Dick Holdstock and wife, Carol, long-time friends of our club, perform wonderful songs of the sea and more with Allan Macleod
- Southern California Dulcimer Heritage–lots of dulcimer-related events, links, instruments for sale
- Beach Cities’ own Terry Scott--singer, songwriter and activist all in one beautiful package
- April Halprin Wayland’s award-winning CD of stories, poems, classical piano interludes performed by her mother, Saralee Halprin), and a fiddle tune.
- Acoustic Music Scene.com–a site designed to promote quality acoustic music by providing news, commentary, advance notice and coverage of awards and contests, conferences of note and music festivals, U.S. nation and Northeast regional news, a photo gallery, regional live music calendars, etc.