THE FOLK MUSIC CENTER CONCERT SERIES

All events held at the Folk Music Center, 220 Yale Ave, Claremont, Ca. Call (909) 624-2928 for tickets and info.

Open Mic Night! Feb 26th, March 5th *Always The Last Sunday Of The Month. 6:30pm (Doors open and Sign-up @ 6pm) $1

 February 25th

John Bilezikjian

February 25th 7:30pm (doors@7) $12

Mr. Bilezikjian is “America’s Oud master who has elevated the oud to the concert stage and also continues to perform as a folk musician”. He has performed for some 51 years on this ancient eleven stringed Persian fretless instrument that dates back some 2,000 years. John Bilezikjian’s virtuosity and versatility as a performer and composer can be heard on such motion picture soundtracks as the academy award winning Schindler’s List, and on recordings by Robert Palmer, Leonard Cohen, Ofra Haza, and countless others.

April 7

Larry Hanks & Deborah Robins 

Saturday, April 7, 2012, 7:30pm (doors 7)  $12

American Songster: Larry Hanks, is known as a “folksingers’ folksinger”, longtime favorite folksinger of heroes like Michael Cooney, Art Thieme,and the late Sam Hinton. He has been delighting audiences for over 50 years with his deep bass voice, sparse acoustic guitar accompaniments, and acclaimed Jew’s Harp playing.  Hanks is probably best known for his classic “folk” song, “Apple Picker’s Reel”.

Larry can be heard on recordings of David Grisman, Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin, Mike Seeger, and many others; and has performed with Utah Phillips, Gordon Bok, Fred Holstein, Martyn Wyndham-Read, Elizabeth Cotten, Malvina Reynolds, Geoff Muldaur, and on and on…

Now performing with wife and musical partner, Deborah Robins, the two are becoming even more beloved for an eclectic repertoire of American traditional, work, blues, and political songs; the music of Utah Phillips, Larry Penn, Leadbelly, Sam Hinton, Stephen Foster; and others in the pantheon of American vernacular/working people’s music.