The Valentines Day Extravaganza is our grand public display of affection, where Folk Project members take the stage and dedicate two dozen songs of love, lust, and loss, with major contributions by our 10-piece Loving Hearts Club Boogie Band, The Folk Project Jazz Trio Plus, and Project performers in groups or solo.  Audience members participate by writing passionate, amorous, and funny Messages from the Heart, which are read by this year’s MC couple, Ken Galipeau and Christine DeLeon.  And the romantic mid-show break, catered by our own Chef Bob, promises to be as enticing as romance.

A special note to friends new to our music community: Meet us at the Valentines Day Extravaganza. It’s one of our social nights, where we enjoy the company and talent of those who applaud with us the rest of the year.

The Folk Project Open Stage, North Jersey’s premier open stage, is back live on the second Friday of every month. The Main Stage features two-song (or ten minutes, whichever is shorter) sign-up slots for our audience. To sign up to perform email Chairman Todd at [email protected].

Admission: $7 at the door only (tickets for the live show not available online.)  Children 12 and under free but must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

M.S.G. Acoustic Blues Trio performs traditional Piedmont blues. Their style of music has been influenced by the likes of Archie Edwards, Etta Baker, and Cephas & Wiggins. This band can raise the roof with some old-fashioned house party tunes, make you laugh with their witty originals and then make you weep with blues ballads! M.S.G. Acoustic Blues Trio performs traditional Piedmont blues. Their style of music has been influenced by the likes of Archie Edwards, Etta Baker, and Cephas & Wiggins.

An Evening with Steve Gibb’s Jolly Beggars is Troubadour’s star-studded celebration of Celtic culture, combining the pleasures of a Robert Burns Night with the rousing joys of a St. Patrick’s Day. These Jolly Beggars are an international Celtic supergroup that brings together world-class musicians with a rich, diverse history in traditional and contemporary music. In addition to touring the country over the years and playing for thousands of fans, these four friends are at the peak of musical accomplishment, and we’re honored that they kick off their national big-theater tour with a visit to “Morristown’s Listening Room.”

Steve Gibb’s virtuosic guitar playing is renowned everywhere, from the London Symphony to lead onstage guitarist for Broadway’s “Jersey Boys,” and to the Project’s own Summer Songs Classic Rock Party.

Lead by stunning Irish-American vocalist Madelyn Monaghan, whose collaborations with global stars like Ben Gold and Armin van Buuren have reshaped modern Celtic music, the Beggars take old traditions to thrilling new heights.

All-Ireland Fiddle Champion Caitlin Warbelow’s fiery fiddling helped win a Tony Award and Grammy nomination for Broadway’s Come From Away.

The dynamic piano and energetic button accordion mastery of Chris Ranney has graced stages from Broadway to China.

Award-winning and globetrotting piper Cameron Macdougall is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and performed with Feis Rois in Australia, at Celtic Connections in Glasgow, and the Interceltique Festival de Lorient, France. He has led ensembles in competition at the World Pipe Band Championships and now promotes the craic through music, whisky, and golf.”

The Unlawful Assembly is a harmonious mix of race, repertoire and result. Old-school spirituals, gospel, blues, swamp hollers, shaped-note European hymns, work chants are all presented in a swampy style that borrows from the blues, southern rock and gospel and that occasionally rests upon modern electronic loops. Reimagined covers and traditionals include: “Wade in the Water”, “Follow The Drinking Gourd”, “Down By The Riverside”, “Steal Away”, “Old Blind Barnabus”, “Amazing Grace”, “Higher Ground” and “Early In The Mornin’”.  Walter contributes “Georgia Rice” and a co-write “Shoulder It” with Stan Lynch (Tom Petty/Heartbreakers).

The Folk Project Open Stage, North Jersey’s premier open stage, is back live on the second Friday of every month. The Main Stage features two-song (or ten minutes, whichever is shorter) sign-up slots for our audience. To sign up to perform email Chairman Todd at [email protected].

Admission: $7 at the door only (tickets for the live show not available online.)  Children 12 and under free but must be accompanied by parent or guardian.

Spotlight Night at the Troubadour features four sets of stage-worthy artists from the Project’s roster of performing professionals, preceded by an hour (6:30 to 7:30) of exquisite hors d’oeuvres so our community can socialize with new friends and old. This is our Generations edition, pairing four fathers who raised their daughters in each family’s musical tradition.

It’s a night guaranteed to pull on your heart strings, tickle your ears, fill your belly, and grow your community.

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Alan LeBoeuf and Elizabeth LeBoeuf

Alan LeBoeuf, as a member of RCA records trio ‘Baillie and the Boys’ had 6 top ten hits on the country charts, sang background vocals for Randy Travis, Marie Osmond, Marty Stewart, the Ramones, and many others. Alan portrayed ‘Paul McCartney’ more than 1000 times on Broadway in ‘Beatlemania’ (‘77-‘79) and ‘Rain’ (2010).

Elizabeth LeBoeuf is studying for her Masters degree in creative music technology at Ramapo College, in Mahwah, NJ, where she also studies, engineering, producing, and live performance.”

Andrew Dunn and Hannah Dunn

Andrew Dunn has been writing his own music for over 35 years. He discovered the Folk Project when he was 17 years old, and it shaped who he is. It’s only fitting that he would eventually introduce his family to the Folk Project as well.

And it obviously worked on Hannah. She started writing during the pandemic and has been steadily making a name for herself.

Dad just wants to drive her tour bus.

Sam Edelston and Teddy Parker

Sam Edelston grew up in the Folk Project, evolving from a young songwriter/fingerstyle guitarist to a prominent mountain dulcimer performer, teacher, and innovator. He plays anything from folk music to Tin Pan Alley to hard rock, around the country and online. He’s gone viral twice, with electric dulcimer covers of “Whole Lotta Love” and “I Wanna Be Sedated.” Sam was a Presenters Showcase artist at NERFA 2025. His groundbreaking 2024 CD, “MAKING WAVES,” is the first studio album to feature a mountain dulcimer fronting a Classic Rock band. He’s performed at Troubadour or Getaway in every decade since the ‘70s.

Teddy Parker is an even better musician than their father, but is still building their resume. Teddy is a lifelong Folk Project member and frequent Troubadour performer. They’re an award-winning songwriter who, along with piano, also plays mandolin, violin, and bass. Since graduating from Berklee College of Music, they’ve been living in NYC, performing solo and with their theatrical pop rock band Teddy Hold On, teaching private music lessons, and songwriting professionally. They co-wrote 17 songs that appear in the popular PC video game “Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria.” Teddy Hold On has released one EP, “Crying in Public.” ”

John Hone and Molly Hone

John Hone has been a member of the Folk Project for over ten years and is grateful for the friendships he’s made in this wonderful musical community. He performs solo and with fellow Folk Project member Diane Polledri in their Aloft Trio. John writes and performs original compositions as well and is working on his first CD.

Molly Hone has been playing music since her dad, John, gave her her first guitar for her sixteenth birthday. She has been writing her own songs for nearly as long.

John and Molly have performed together many times over the past 15 years.

James Keelaghan, hailed by leading critics as Canada’s finest singer-songwriter, is a defining voice in folk and roots music. For nearly 25 years, he has crafted songs with passion, precision, and curiosity, earning a reputation as a poet laureate of the genre. Known for his distinctive craftsmanship and narrative depth, Keelaghan blends historical storytelling with deeply personal reflections on human experience. His nine recordings have captivated audiences worldwide, from Australia to Scandinavia, garnering awards and acclaim. A disciplined visionary with a love of language, history, and melody, Keelaghan connects powerfully with listeners through masterful storytelling and compelling live performances.

David Woodhead is a versatile musician deeply rooted in independent music, known for a distinctive melodic and textural style adaptable to many settings. With credits on nearly 300 recordings, he has collaborated with influential artists including Stan Rogers, Gil Scott-Heron, David Sanborn, and James Keelaghan, touring internationally and performing with ensembles ranging from jazz and classical-folk to global and improvisational projects. An experienced educator and Banff Centre resident artist, Woodhead’s own music blends folk intimacy, jazz harmony, and classical precision with space for improvisation. His projects range from the adventurous Confabulation ensemble to the folk-jazz chamber-focused Oriana Quartet.

Mike Block Trio, featuring Joe K. Walsh (mandolin/vocals) and Zachariah Hickman (bass/vocals), is led by cello player, singer, and composer, Mike Block, who has been hailed as “one of the bravest, most intriguing musicians on the American fusion scene” by Gramophone Magazine. The trio fertilizes American roots music with contemporary and international influences, bringing an exciting and personal perspective to the acoustic music scene.

“Extraordinary English acoustic guitar virtuoso Chris Newman and legendary Irish harpist and tradition-bearer, Máire Ní Chathasaigh, are internationally celebrated icons of Celtic folk music. Expect a breathtaking blend of traditional Irish music, hot jazz, bluegrass and baroque, played with dazzling virtuosity and spellbinding lyricism.

Chris has toured with many luminaries of the folk and jazz worlds and his recent groundbreaking solo album, ‘Breaking Bach’, was “Dazzling… utterly breathtaking… a triumph” * * * * * FOLK WALES Máire is “an absolute legend” THE IRISH ECHO and a recipient of Irish traditional music’s most prestigious award, Musician of the Year (Gradam Ceoil TG4).

Richard Shindell lives as both an immigrant and emigrant, crossing thresholds, that informs his illumination of the human experience through narrative song. Shindell has inhabited a Zen Buddhist monastery and busked in the streets of Paris.

Originally from New York, now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be. Meticulously recorded over three years in New York and Buenos Aires, his most recent release, Careless, offered an ambitious, luxurious, full- length statement. Shindell immersed himself in the studio, allowing the time and latitude to explore, experiment, take risks—to play as each of these eleven songs was given form and substance. While his signature acoustic guitar style is used to good effect, Careless also found Shindell plugging in more.

“The wider sonic and dynamic range of the electric has been a real inspiration.

Rejuvenating.””