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Do you wish you
could sing around a campfire with Pete Seeger?
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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
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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
- 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.
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