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

 

2008 THEMES

 

                             Happy 3rd Birthday, BCFC!

January 17       birthdays, new start (our 3rd birthday!); hope

February 21      hard times; money; hope

March 20           zombies; citizen actions (John & Yoko's Bed-In for Peace '69); hope

April 17             geography; plants (Int'l Plant Appreciation Day); hope

May 15               questions; cattle & cowboys (Beef Empire Days in KS); hope

June 19               This month's meeting will be at a different venue.

                              strangers; rescues (Berlin Airlift '48); hope

July 17                forgetting & remembering; horses (Celebration of the Horse, TX); hope

August 21            jail (Nelson Mandela arrested '62); sailing (Herman Melville's bday);  hope

September 18     California  (California Admission Day); dreams; hope

October 16            sports; things we weren't meant to hear; hope

November 20        food; animals (Animal Shelter Appreciation Week); hope

December 18        the alphabet; good works (Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony); hope

 

 

 

 

                            Folk Links—in no particular order