Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Lionel Hampton, Tommy Emmanuel, John Lewis, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his “Five Most Admired Guitarists List” for the Wall Street Journal. Frank is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His virtuosity is stunning.

Vinny Raniolo is a touring performer and educator known for his dynamic playing across diverse musical settings. His career has taken him to 18 countries and led to collaborations with Frank Vignola, Tommy Emmanuel, Bucky Pizzarelli, Vince Giordano, and Deana Martin. Vinny has appeared on three PBS programs, including Tommy Emmanuel and Friends, and in Frank Vignola’s Four Generations of Guitar as the youngest player alongside Bucky Pizzarelli, as well as the Music Gone Public series. His film and recording work includes contributions to HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Prime’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Woody Allen’s Café Society,  and Martin Scoreses’s The Irishman, and Killers of the Flower Moon.

This year’s Troubadour Holiday Concert features Sam Robbins and Hailey Neal singing everyone’s favorite holiday classics, as well as some future classics they themselves have written. Sam is a nationally-touring featured artist, recognized for his exquisite tenor, insightful songwriting, and engaging guitar playing. He’s a fan of the Project and the Project’s a Sam fan, too. Sam has headlined at the Troubadour, the Acoustic Getaway, and at our newest summer classic, Campfire Night. Halley is an award-winning singer-songwriter whose soaring vocals and bluegrass-inspired guitar playing express her enduring passion for positivity and peace.

Together, Sam and Hailey have released two Christmas albums. Their current release, “You and Me on Christmas Eve,” focuses on their beautiful duet renditions of ten classic and five original songs for the season. Join us for a night holiday music.

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.

A Stephen Kellogg performance is like watching Ted Lasso live. Whether he’s playing music or doing stand-up, his shows leave people inspired and restored. For more than two decades, this wordsmith, TEDx speaker, stand-up comic, author and troubadour, has delighted audiences around the world. Planet Bluegrass calls him “a first-class songwriter with a poet’s gift for fresh imagery,” and Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz says of Kellogg, “there are few people in rock n’ roll who are just so great.” He has received the Armed Forces Entertainer of the Year award and has had his work nominated for a Grammy. Rolling Stone magazine describes his sound as “John Prine fronting the Heartbreakers.” The recent “Sit Down & Stand Up” Tour was a one man show that opened to rave reviews from fans and critics alike. A mix of music, humor and storytelling, each performance paints a unique canvas that covers the full spectrum of human emotions. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll go home with a full heart.

The Joe Cirotti Trio, a seasoned string band from Northwest New Jersey’s Appalachian ridge, blends American folk, jazz, country, and bluegrass with modern flair. Formed in 2015, the trio—Joe Cirotti (guitar), Pete Lister (upright bass), and Timmy Coyle (mandolin, guitar)—crafts a sound rooted in tradition and blue-collar passion. Often joined by founding member Mike Alexander and others on banjo, fiddle, or percussion, they’re a fixture at top regional venues. Influenced by artists from Doc Watson to Django Reinhardt and Pink Floyd, their debut album Joe Cirotti Trio (2023) showcases their unique fusion of Americana, bluegrass, and gypsy jazz.

When charismatic duo Eleanor Dubinsky (USA) and Dario Acosta Teich (ARG) perform together, they connect – to each other, to audiences, to diverse traditions that become surprisingly familiar, and the deeper reaches of human emotion. Their concerts in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese invite audiences to travel the world while discovering underground tributaries that connect us in shared human experience. Join us to celebrate their new album Just The Three Of Us, a collection of lovingly arranged and recorded songs by Simon and Garfunkel, Jobim, Pink Martini, Bob Dylan and more. Together with cello, classical guitar, and percussion, Eleanor & Dario will take you on a joyful, multilingual, multicultural journey. They will also perform new original music.

Called “a keyboard wizard” by The New Yorker, Bob Malone has amassed a loyal international fan-base through nearly 30 years of touring and nine critically acclaimed album releases. He played keyboards with John Fogerty for 12 years and has been a session player for Ringo Starr and Avril Lavigne. His recording of “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” was the theme in the Illumination/ Universal movie trailers for “The Grinch,” heard by millions. Bob combines unforgettable songwriting with an eclectic hybrid of high-energy rock, uptown blues, melodic piano pop, New Orleans R&B, jazz chops and a voice all his own.