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

2010–our 32ndYear!!

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,

7:30 to 11:30 p.m. 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.


MONTHLY THEMES FOR 2010

Our 32nd Year!!!

32cake

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

Come play along and bring a song!

January 2010

  • Any dang thing you want to sing (1st hootenanny at the White House)

February 2010

  • Anti-war songs (millions march in London)
  • Cold weather (ice floes appear in Gulf of Mexico)
  • Colors (100-billionth Crayon molded)


March 2010 Our 32nd Anniversary meeting!!!

  • Birthdays, of course
  • Lights (Wabash, Ind is first city to be lighted by electricity)
  • Deviltry (premier of opera, Faust)
  • Working (March is Employee Spirit Month)


April 2010

  • Fairs, Festivals (Montreal Expo opens)
  • Words, Knowledge (Oxford English Dictionary completed)
  • Wealth, Power (J.P.Morgan born)


May 2010 Our annual White Elephant Sale & hoot!!!

  • Danger at Sea (Waterspout off Australia)
  • Eager Geezers (Wife of 92-year-old Scot bears child)
  • Gardening (Gifts from the Garden Month)

June 2010

  • Cattle (National Steakhouse Month)
  • Fathers (First Father’s Day celebrated)
  • Liberty (Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC in 214 crates

July 2010

  • Gamblers (Charles Wells “breaks the bank” at Monte Carlo)
  • Prisons (Bastille stormed)
  • Highwaymen (”Black Bart” robs his first stagecoach)

August 2010

  • Small Boats (American Canoe Association formed)
  • Bucolic Bliss (Thoreau’s Walden published)
  • Tall Tales (Davey Crockett’s birthday)

September 2010

  • Executions (last use of the guillotine)
  • Oceans (Balboa first sees Pacific Ocean)
  • England (Queen Elizabeth born)

October 2010

  • Military Leaders (Ferdinand Foch born)
  • Questions and Riddles (first radio quiz show)
  • Fires (Great Chicago fire starts)

November 2010

  • Comic songs (”Harpo” Marx born)
  • Children (”Sesame Street” debuts)
  • Weather (U.S. Weather Service begins)

December 2010

  • Sailors (”Popeye” creator E.C. Segar born)
  • Mines and Miners (West Virgina coal mine explosion)
  • Temperance Movement (Carry Nation smashes Witchita bar)


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 Thursday 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.”

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

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