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.  Or email at concerts@folkmusiccenter.com.

 

Open Mic Night!  April 29th  *Always The Last Sunday Of The Month. 6:30pm (Doors open and Sign-up @ 6pm) $1

 

 

 

 

Gurf Morlix  Saturday, May 19th 7:30 (doors@7) $12

Gurf is an American multi-instrumentalist songwriter and record producer residing for many years in Austin, Texas. His most notable works include albums by Lucinda Williams, Robert Earl Keen, Mary Gauthier, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Slaid Cleaves. He plays guitar, bass, mandolin, mandocello, dobro, pedal steel, Weissenborn, banjo, harmonica, and drums. Gurf is a member of the Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame (2004) and the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame (2005), and is the Americana Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year for 2009.

www.gurfmorlix.com/

 

 

 

 

Joel Rafael Saturday, June 23rd 7:30pm (doors @ 7) $12

Joel Rafael is an award winning, internationally recognized songwriter from San Diego County, California.  He is considered to be one of the most natural interpreters of Woody Guthrie’s songs, and has been a featured performer at the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Woody’s hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma since it’s inception a decade ago.  He has toured the U.S. extensively over the last decade both as a solo artist and with the Joel Rafael Band. www.joelrafael.com/

 

Peter Case  Saturday, June 16th 7:30pm (doors@7) $15

After disbanding the Los Angeles new wave/power pop group the Plimsouls, Peter Case launched a career as an important American singer/songwriter specializing in the flat-pick guitar style and semi-autobiographical stories of drifters delivered in a narrative style. Born in the ’50s and growing up in upstate New York, Case was inspired, like any number of young men of his generation, by Elvis Presley and the Beatles. He was also a fan of the folk and blues of Mississippi John Hurt, Leadbelly, and Woody Guthrie.

 

 

 

 

John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats

Tuesday, July 3rd 7:30pm (doors @ 7) $20 www.mountain-goats.com/