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  • 2018 Festival Logo Wide
    TICKETS & INFO, click here:

    2019 FolkWorks Folk/Roots Festival


    Tickets available at entrance!!

    STUDENT RUSH TICKETS: $20 (DAYTIME ONLY)


    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IyeqT-E7mA)

    Read more: 2019 Folk/Roots Festival website

    COLUMN OF THE WEEK

    Wall Scrawls

    March-April 2019

    The Answer Is Blowin’ In The Cloud

    A discussion of the future of media

    By Art Podell

    Bunch of CDs“…The shiny compact disc, once as essential to every living-room music system as a copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller album, is quickly going the way of the eight-track and cassette tape…The rise of streaming music services such as Apple Music, Spotify and Pandora, as well as the availability of digitally downloadable tracks and albums, are making the CD extinct…” – USA Today February 2018

    “…24 percent of new cars sold in 2015 did not have CD players, and by 2021, some 46 percent won't have them at all. Compare that to 2014 when 83 percent had them...” – Autoweek July 30, 2018

    Read more: THE ANSWER IS BLOWIN’ IN THE CLOUD

    CD REVIEW

    TITLE: Empathy Moves The Water

    ARTIST: The Crooked Jades

    LABEL: Jade Note Music

    RELEASE DATE: November 13, 2018 

    By Art Podell

    Crooked JadesFans of The Crooked Jades won’t be disappointed by the latest issue from this remarkable group of musicians and I’m convinced that their newest CD, Empathy Moves The Water will quickly be added to existing collections of their music. Empathy Moves The Water will be the ninth album from the group since their debut album in 2000, and true to form, The Crooked Jades are alive and thriving and they just may have produced one of the best Americana albums of 2018.

    Read more: THE CROOKED JADES - EMPATHY MOVES THE WATER

    CONCERT REVIEW

    GORDON LIGHTFOOT: 80 YEARS STRONG TOUR

    AT THE SABAN THEATRE IN BEVERLY HILLS - MARCH 9. 2019, 8pm

    A PAINTER PASSING THROUGH

    By Ross Altman, PhD

    Gordon Lightfoot“The folk revival lasted from 1960,” said Gordon Lightfoot in a whimsical moment,

    “to 1963—from Bob Dylan and Joan Baez to Phil Ochs to Ramblin’ Jack Elliot.” And here we are, forty-five years later, and we’re still playing their songs—Early Morning Rain, If You Could Read My Mind, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Ribbon of Darkness. But we’re not playing them all—more like a Reader’s Digest Version. Gone is the epic Canadian Railroad Trilogy—gone is the second set from two years ago—it’s now a lean, clean, well-oiled 90 minute machine, with a few pauses for emphasis, but you’d never know it from the rousing reception Lightfoot receives from beginning to end. It turns out that less is more—and small is Beautiful.

    Read more: GORDON LIGHTFOOT: 80 YEARS STRONG TOUR

    everything but ...

    Featured at the Folk/Roots Festival

    Willy Souly will be leading an African Dance Workshop

    and featured in the Evening Concert


    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD38ZgFye8I)

    Read more: Willy Souly

    FULL CALENDAR

    MUSIC       DANCE

    TODAY'S CALENDAR 1/24/21


    MUSIC


    NO EVENTS TODAY



    DANCE


    NO EVENTS TODAY


    RECURRING EVENTS


    MUSIC


    1:30pm - 4:30pm SAN DIEGO FOLK SONG SOCIETY

    fourth Sunday

    Serra Mesa-Kearny Mesa Branch Library

    9005 Aero Dr, San Diego, CA


    3:00pm - 8:30pm COSTA MESA TRADITIONAL SONG CIRCLE AND JAM (SONGMAKERS)

    fourth Sunday

    Debby and Terry Koken's house

    1778 Kenwood Pl., Costa Mesa, CA 92627

    dkoken@hmausa.com

    Debby and Terry Koken 949-574-0333 dkoken@hmausa.com


    3:30pm - 5:00pm CHATWORTH FAMILY FIDDLE JAM

    fourth Sunday

    Chatsworth Park North

    22300 Chatsworth St., Chatsworth, CA

    Shanon Garcia shanonmichelle@gmail.com


    4:00pm - 7:00pm ACOUSTIC FOLK MUSIC (OPEN SESSION)

    fourth Sunday

    Black Watch Pub

    492 N. Central Ave. #B, Upland, CA

    909-981-6069


    4:30pm - 7:00pm IRISH JAM SESSION

    every Sunday

    Dargan's Irish Pub & Restaurant

    18 E Ortega St, Santa Barbara, CA

    805-568-0702


    5:00pm - 9:00pm WEST L.A. HOOT & POTLUCK (SONGMAKERS)

    fourth Sunday

    West L.A. (Contact via email or website)

    www.songmakers.org, West L.A. , CA 90025

    WestLAHoot@Songmakers.org

    Louise Dobbs WestLaHoot@songmakers.org


    DANCE


    7:00pm - 11:30pm NEWPORT BEACH ISRAELI DANCING

    every Sunday

    Avant Garde Ballroom

    4220 Scott Dr., Newport Beach, CA

    Yoni Carr 760-631-0802 yonic@cox.net


    FEATURED VIDEO


    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3IfU1b-kmY)

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