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    

2008--our 30th 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,

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 2008

Our 30th Year!!!

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

Come play along and bring a song!

January 2008

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

February 2008

  • New York (New Amsterdam incorporated)
  • River Boats and the Mississippi (Samuel Clemens takes nom de plume, Mark Twain)
  • Irish (James Joyce's birthday)

March-2008-Our 30th Anniversary meeting!!!

  • Snow (1888 blizzard started to roar along the Atlantic Coast)
  • Make New Friends (The Girl Scouts was founded)
  • Bridges (Rensselaer School in Troy, NY incorporated--1st engineering school in US)

April 2008

  • Train Wrecks (Engineer Casey Jones was killed)
  • Defiance (Mahatma Ghandi makes salt)
  • Dance (Arthur Murray was born)

May 2008

  • Senseless Death (Kent State students killed by National Guard)
  • Prison (Al Capone enters prison)

  • World Travel (Nellie Bly was born)

June 2008

  • Liquor, Bars & Pubs (1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears)
  • Big Nature (1st US earthquake recorded in Plymouth, MA)
  • Ships & Sea Journeys (Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto, "Don't give up the ship")

July 2007

  • Marriage
  • Displaced
  • Shipwrecks

August 2007

  • Gathering the harvest
  • Musical Instruments
  • Executions

September 2007

  • Names (Engelbert Humperdinck born; his name borrowed by singer Arnold Dorsey)
  • Ramblin' and Roamin'  (Boxcar Willie--Lecil Martin--born)
  • Texas (Ann Richards born)

October 2007

  • Heartache ("Heartache Tonight" released by the Eagles)
  • English Songs (Prince Charles & Princess Diana attend Barry Manilow concert at Royal Albert Hall in London)
  • Getting There (Christopher Columbus sights land)

November 2007

  • Race Horses (First race track in California)
  • Food (Frozen bread offered for the first time)
  • Mornings ("Good Morning America" premiered on ABC-TV)

December 2007

  • Tall Tales (Hans Christian Anderson published first book of fairy tales)
  • Crossing Boundaries (British and French met under the English Channel)
  • Liars and Cheaters (President Reagan welcomes Iran-Contra investigation)

 

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 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 folk singer / songfighter                                                           & president of the Santa Monica Traditional Folk Music Club

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