Welcome to the
Santa Monica
Traditional
Folk Music Club!

On the first Saturday of each month, somewhere between 20 and 70 or more folk musicians and singers gather in a circle at our club to make that magic combination of music and words —-traditional folk music.  May the circle be unbroken.

Going strong since 1978

2012–our 34th Year!!

the Folk Music Club invites you

to join us

for a Sing-along/Hoot/Jam!!

Bring a friend!

Bring a song!

Bring an instrument!

Song circle!

Children welcome!

$5.00 donation at the door, or admission with membership.

The SANTA MONICA TRADITIONAL FOLK MUSIC CLUB

meets the first Saturday of each month,

6:30 pm to 11:00 pm
 (note different time and location below for February only)
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at Sha’Arei Am (Santa Monica Synagogue),

1448 18th Street (corner of Broadway and 18th Street),

Santa Monica, California, 90404 (click here for map)

The temple is on the corner of 18th and Broadway at 1448 18th Street, SM.

It doesn’t look like a temple–just a small, nondescript building.

There’s a big parking lot in back. Park there and enter through that back entrance.

$5 at the door, if you can afford it.

Meeting time and place changed for February only.
Time: 5:30-9:30 p.m. Place: The Friends Meeting House in Santa Monica:
1440 Harvard Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404
note that parking can be tight–some spaces in lot through driveway;
read posted street parking signs carefully

MONTHLY THEMES FOR 2012

Our 34th Year!!!

~ the following song themes are only suggestions to get your musical juices flowing ~

Come play along and bring a song!
Many thanks for this year’s themes to:  Janet Cornwell

January 2012

  • Ice, snow, and cold weather
  • Promises
  • Boats

February 2012 Meeting time and place changed for February only.
Time: 5:30-9:30 p.m. Place: The Friends Meeting House in Santa Monica:
1440 Harvard Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404
note that parking can be tight–some spaces in lot through driveway;
read posted street parking signs carefully

  • Songbirds, wild birds
  • Wind and rain
  • Old American songs/tunes


March 2012
Our 34th Anniversary meeting!!!

  • Birthdays, of course
  • Girls names
  • Marches (!) and hiking
  • Farms and farming


April 2012

  • Silly / nonsense songs
  • Hills and mountains
  • Dogs

May 2012
Our annual White Elephant Sale & hoot–(possibly–ask us)

  • Flowers and plants
  • Guys names
  • Peace
  • Bonus: Celebrate Pete Seeger

June 2012

  • Weddings
  • Frontier and exploration
  • Soldiers
  • Bonus: Celebrate Burl Ives

July 2012

  • Sailor and fishing songs
  • Moon and stars
  • Houses
  • Bonus: celebrate Woody Guthrie

August 2012

  • Chickens, ducks and geese
  • Hot weather
  • The color red

September 2012

  • Children and babies (and their songs)
  • Barnyard animals
  • Work songs, unions

October 2012

  • Drunks, drinking and drunkeness
  • Ghosts and the supernatural
  • Trees

November 2012

  • Murder and mayhem
  • Food and feasting
  • Cats
  • bonus theme: happy 90th birthday to Saralee Halprin (Nov. 17, 1922)

December 2012

  • Articles of clothing
  • Trains
  • Dancing


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 first Saturday 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.

You might try contacting Barbara Greenspan’s Noble House Concert series to arrange a concert.

The Beach Cities Folk Music Club is just down the freeway–we get together on the third Tuesday of each month at a private home in Manhattan Beach. So–if you’re in the L.A. area and are free to sing and jam either the first Saturday or the third Thursday of any month, please join us!

For more information:
aprilstory@aol.com (founder & folk club Mom, April Halprin Wayland)

snail mail:

Santa Monica Folk Music Club
1097 Aviation Boulevard
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
FAX: (24 hours) (310) 379-4523

“When people ask,
“Whatever happened to folk music?
Do you think it will become popular again?”

I look at them dumbfoundedly
and then I invite them to the Folk Club.

I take great pride in being able to show them a place
where traditional folk music lives
in the hearts of ordinary people –
strumming away
and singing
along.”

~Ross Altman, full-time Folksinger/ Songfighter
& President of the Santa Monica Traditional Folk Music Club

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