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 Tuesday 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 Tuesday 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
2010-2011 THEMES
Happy 6th Birthday, 2011 BCFC!
~ We meet the third Tuesday of each month, 7-10 pm ~
Many thanks for some of the theme suggestions to: Jeff Dykzeul
| January 2012 | food; time passing; hope | |
| February 2012 | lost and/or found love; trains; hope | |
| March 2012 | geography; the military; hope | |
| April 2012 | water; dogs; hope | |
| May 2012 | flora; colors; hope | |
| June 2012 | despair; doctors/drugs; hope | |
| July 2012 | fire; oceans; hope | |
| August 2012 | planes and cars; hunger; hope | |
| Sept 2012 | organizing songs; rounds; hope | |
| October 2012 | judges and judgment; farming and harvest; hope | |
| November 2012 | hard times; angels; hope | |
| December 2012 | monsters; happy endings; hope |
Folk Links—in no particular order
- Santa Monica Traditional Folk Music Club our club is the baby sister of this club; both were founded by the same person
- 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
- Ross Altman, folksinger/songfighter…songwriter extraordinaire and longtime president of the Santa Monica Traditional Folk Music Club
- 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.