The Troubadour Acoustic Concert Series™
Time: 7:30 PM unless otherwise noted. 2nd Fridays are usually Open Stage/audition night. (Check the schedule for rare exceptions.)
Location: Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown, NJ, a smoke & alcohol free environment. DIRECTIONS
Admission: Unless otherwise noted, $10 on your way in plus the balance of what you think the show was really worth on your way out. All exit donations go directly to the Headline Act. Vaccinated children 12 and under may attend free, but must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Until such time that children under 5 may be safely vaccinated, alas they will not be admitted.
Streaming: All Troubadour concerts may be viewed in person or live-streamed, except as noted.
For More Information: Email troubadour@folkproject.org or call 973-335-9489.
Buy Troubadour tickets online: You may purchase tickets in advance for Troubadour Acoustic Concert Series shows by clicking on the In-person Tickets link in the show listing below. Online sales cease a bit before midnight on the day before the event. Tickets will still be available at the door on the day of the show unless the event is completely sold out, in which case there will be a prominent notice posted on this website. Some events accept admissions payment only at the door, with no advance sales.
$12 in-person admission includes birthday cake.
The Troubadour celebrates the 49th anniversary of its inaugural performance on July 25, 1975 with a show unique to the Folk Project, and one that only an organization such as ours could present. The Project includes dozens of musicians and singers in its membership, we draw upon our own to comprise the performers in this show. One month ago, all the members who wished to be in the show put their names into a common pool, and were combined into randomly selected duos and trios. Each of those groups has worked up and will present one song on stage for the show. It’s a celebration not only of our first show, but of our member performers, and our creed that everyone’s music is of value. It’s our party, and you’re invited. $12 admission includes birthday cake.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
No opening act this week.
Dead to the Core is a collective of singer-songwriters and acoustic musicians, led by musician/author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, celebrating the Grateful Dead—with creative arrangements featuring unexpected instruments (clarinet, flute, Strumstick, accordion) and lush vocal harmonies. Interspersed with the music are clips from Rodgers’ own interviews with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, in which they reflect on the roots and evolution of the music.
A Dead to the Core show is an experience unlike any other Grateful Dead tribute: a night of deeply personal performances that illuminate the masterful song craft of one of America’s most original bands. Grateful Dead music right down to the core.
The band:
Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers is a grand prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, founding editor of Acoustic Guitar magazine, and author of a best-selling video series teaching his acoustic arrangements of classic Grateful Dead songs.
Jefferson Hamer is an internationally touring songwriter, guitarist, and traditional musician based in Brooklyn. He performs with the Murphy Beds and Session Americana, and his guitar work and vocals are featured on Sarah Jarosz’s Grammy-nominated Blue Heron Suite. Hamer’s Child Ballads album with Anaïs Mitchell earned a BBC2 Folk Award and was named one of NPR’s top-ten folk releases of the year.
Wendy Sassafras Ramsay, Rodgers’ bandmate and duo partner (as Pepper and Sassafras), is a singer-songwriter and versatile multi-instrumentalist on clarinet, flute, accordion, and guitar. She also plays in the alternative rock band Starting Off Red.
Brendan Gosson is a fiddler and flatpick guitarist based in Buffalo. He currently plays with the roots band Folkfaces, Sean Peters Band, and Brian Thomas and the Strikes.
NJ Uke Night
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Au Fromage is a spectacle the likes of which can only be compared to the birth of a solar system. This hard-hitting swing duo will rip your socks off with their incredible talents and showmanship. Valentin Prince will dazzle you with his fast fingers and good looks, whilst Stu Kindle and his ukulele will seduce your ears into a vivacious dance. You do not want to miss Richmond’s hottest duo–Au Fromage.
What could be more fun than a uke? Three ukes! Make that three FLukes. Beth Bachmann, Bob Kammer, and Kevin Coughlin wring maximum joy from that minimal instrument. The FLukes capitalize the “F” and the “L” – you can fill in the blanks. They promise to keep their G strings attached. Beyond that, all bets are off.
Jack Williams comes to us from a rock background. It shows in the drive of his guitar work, which is clean, exciting, and endlessly full of beautiful and appropriate licks. His songwriting has an unprepossessing understated poetry to it, kind of like a South Carolina version of an acoustic Bruce Springsteen with Jerry Garcia on acoustic lead guitar. And if he holds true to form, catch his astonishing finale of a 15-minute free-association medley of every song from every genre ever written, and never the same as previously.
Americana singer-songwriter Stacia Thiel captivates audiences with a voice that is powerful and achingly beautiful; her songwriting revelatory and impassioned. As a formally-trained opera singer, she was born into a musical family in rural Wisconsin, and raised on an eclectic mix of styles, from her family’s barbershop quartet, to old-time country and ’60s folk. She has been performing and writing songs since childhood. Stacia was selected as one of John Platt’s emerging artists. Her album Straight to the Middle entered the Top 20 of the Roots Americana Chart, and her single Sunny Days entered the Top 10
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist, who shares his love and knowledge of old-time American music with the world. He has delved deeply into his Southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through country blues, ragtime, fiddle and banjo, and traditional jazz. Hubby was an integral part of the Grammy award winning Carolina Chocolate Drops from 2010 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018 he was active in touring and recording member in the Rhiannon Giddens Band. Today he focuses on his solo performances, enlightening and entertaining audiences around the world.
Folk Project favorites Dennison & Donahue are the artistic merging of Annie Donahue, an outstanding singer/songwriter with a beautiful voice, and Todd Dennison, an exquisitely tasteful and intelligent guitarist. They combine traditional folk music and gospel with jazz influences to create a unique framework for Annie’s gorgeous melodies and soul-baring lyrics. Their performances touch audiences with introspection, joy, and an almost meditative flight to where meaning, feelings, and sound meet. Annie has a natural gift for conveying complex emotions with her simple, direct-to-the-heart vocal purity. Todd is a sensitive craftsman, whose complex arrangements provide a lush, but simple soundscape for Annie’s voice.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
Muriel Anderson is a guitarist and harp-guitarist who embraces music from all over the world with grace, joy and gentle humor. She is the first woman to have won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship. Her CD “Nightlight Daylight”, was chosen as one of the top 10 CDs of the decade by Guitar Player Magazine. Muriel’s facility across the genres of folk, classical, bluegrass, popular and international music is revered by guitarists worldwide. Among those she has performed or recorded with are Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Victor Wooten and Tommy Emmanuel. Her live performance is enhanced by a projected multi-media display of images and video clips on a screen behind her.
Alex Prezzano is a premier acoustic guitarist, songwriter, and composer. His range is extraordinary, his playing precise, and his arrangements inspiring. His repertoire ranges from the American Songbook classics like “Over the Rainbow” to a sparkling rendition of the Beatles “Ticket to Ride,” a longing version of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time,” a flashy piece from the Renaissance like “Canarios,” and a slew of wonderful originals. Alex is based in NYC and has performed in Broadway shows, and at beloved venues throughout NYC and North America. And he’s quite the singer, too. “All we can say is wow!”
Folk Project Members dress up funny and sing spooky songs.
Details to follow.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
Buskin & Batteau run the gamut from topical irony to terminal silliness and their instrumental virtuosity, soaring vocal harmonies and unparalleled lyric-writing prompts standing ovations and rhapsodic reviews.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
While Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues, his performances blend roots, blues, folk, rock, rap, spoken word, and world to address the frustrations of social injustice, touching on historical events, and common life struggles. His storytelling is sometimes painful, deep, and real, underlined by gentle tones from his guitar or banjo fingerpicking.
Longtime Troubadour attendees will fondly remember April Verch. She’s been packing the place for 20 years. She’s now performing with world-renowned Ozarks banjo player, guitarist and songwriter Joe Newberry as Newberry & Verch. Joe Newberry comes from a family of singers and dancers. He took up the guitar and banjo as a boy and learned fiddle tunes from great Missouri fiddlers. April Verch grew up listening to her Dad’s country band play for dances in the Ottawa Valley, Ontario. She started step dancing at age three and fiddling at age six. Together, they display the roots of their music, their love of performing, and their strong musical connection. Original songs join timeless classics. Lively fiddle and banjo numbers combine with traditional dance steps to illustrate happy times when people made their own fun.
Award-winning fiddler – singer – stepdancer from Canada teams up with venerable banjo player – guitarist – songwriter from the Ozarks
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
$12 in-person admission includes birthday cake.
The Troubadour celebrates the 49th anniversary of its inaugural performance on July 25, 1975 with a show unique to the Folk Project, and one that only an organization such as ours could present. The Project includes dozens of musicians and singers in its membership, we draw upon our own to comprise the performers in this show. One month ago, all the members who wished to be in the show put their names into a common pool, and were combined into randomly selected duos and trios. Each of those groups has worked up and will present one song on stage for the show. It’s a celebration not only of our first show, but of our member performers, and our creed that everyone’s music is of value. It’s our party, and you’re invited. $12 admission includes birthday cake.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
No opening act this week.
Dead to the Core is a collective of singer-songwriters and acoustic musicians, led by musician/author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, celebrating the Grateful Dead—with creative arrangements featuring unexpected instruments (clarinet, flute, Strumstick, accordion) and lush vocal harmonies. Interspersed with the music are clips from Rodgers’ own interviews with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, in which they reflect on the roots and evolution of the music.
A Dead to the Core show is an experience unlike any other Grateful Dead tribute: a night of deeply personal performances that illuminate the masterful song craft of one of America’s most original bands. Grateful Dead music right down to the core.
The band:
Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers is a grand prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, founding editor of Acoustic Guitar magazine, and author of a best-selling video series teaching his acoustic arrangements of classic Grateful Dead songs.
Jefferson Hamer is an internationally touring songwriter, guitarist, and traditional musician based in Brooklyn. He performs with the Murphy Beds and Session Americana, and his guitar work and vocals are featured on Sarah Jarosz’s Grammy-nominated Blue Heron Suite. Hamer’s Child Ballads album with Anaïs Mitchell earned a BBC2 Folk Award and was named one of NPR’s top-ten folk releases of the year.
Wendy Sassafras Ramsay, Rodgers’ bandmate and duo partner (as Pepper and Sassafras), is a singer-songwriter and versatile multi-instrumentalist on clarinet, flute, accordion, and guitar. She also plays in the alternative rock band Starting Off Red.
Brendan Gosson is a fiddler and flatpick guitarist based in Buffalo. He currently plays with the roots band Folkfaces, Sean Peters Band, and Brian Thomas and the Strikes.
NJ Uke Night
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Au Fromage is a spectacle the likes of which can only be compared to the birth of a solar system. This hard-hitting swing duo will rip your socks off with their incredible talents and showmanship. Valentin Prince will dazzle you with his fast fingers and good looks, whilst Stu Kindle and his ukulele will seduce your ears into a vivacious dance. You do not want to miss Richmond’s hottest duo–Au Fromage.
What could be more fun than a uke? Three ukes! Make that three FLukes. Beth Bachmann, Bob Kammer, and Kevin Coughlin wring maximum joy from that minimal instrument. The FLukes capitalize the “F” and the “L” – you can fill in the blanks. They promise to keep their G strings attached. Beyond that, all bets are off.
Jack Williams comes to us from a rock background. It shows in the drive of his guitar work, which is clean, exciting, and endlessly full of beautiful and appropriate licks. His songwriting has an unprepossessing understated poetry to it, kind of like a South Carolina version of an acoustic Bruce Springsteen with Jerry Garcia on acoustic lead guitar. And if he holds true to form, catch his astonishing finale of a 15-minute free-association medley of every song from every genre ever written, and never the same as previously.
Americana singer-songwriter Stacia Thiel captivates audiences with a voice that is powerful and achingly beautiful; her songwriting revelatory and impassioned. As a formally-trained opera singer, she was born into a musical family in rural Wisconsin, and raised on an eclectic mix of styles, from her family’s barbershop quartet, to old-time country and ’60s folk. She has been performing and writing songs since childhood. Stacia was selected as one of John Platt’s emerging artists. Her album Straight to the Middle entered the Top 20 of the Roots Americana Chart, and her single Sunny Days entered the Top 10
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist, who shares his love and knowledge of old-time American music with the world. He has delved deeply into his Southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through country blues, ragtime, fiddle and banjo, and traditional jazz. Hubby was an integral part of the Grammy award winning Carolina Chocolate Drops from 2010 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018 he was active in touring and recording member in the Rhiannon Giddens Band. Today he focuses on his solo performances, enlightening and entertaining audiences around the world.
Folk Project favorites Dennison & Donahue are the artistic merging of Annie Donahue, an outstanding singer/songwriter with a beautiful voice, and Todd Dennison, an exquisitely tasteful and intelligent guitarist. They combine traditional folk music and gospel with jazz influences to create a unique framework for Annie’s gorgeous melodies and soul-baring lyrics. Their performances touch audiences with introspection, joy, and an almost meditative flight to where meaning, feelings, and sound meet. Annie has a natural gift for conveying complex emotions with her simple, direct-to-the-heart vocal purity. Todd is a sensitive craftsman, whose complex arrangements provide a lush, but simple soundscape for Annie’s voice.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
Muriel Anderson is a guitarist and harp-guitarist who embraces music from all over the world with grace, joy and gentle humor. She is the first woman to have won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship. Her CD “Nightlight Daylight”, was chosen as one of the top 10 CDs of the decade by Guitar Player Magazine. Muriel’s facility across the genres of folk, classical, bluegrass, popular and international music is revered by guitarists worldwide. Among those she has performed or recorded with are Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Victor Wooten and Tommy Emmanuel. Her live performance is enhanced by a projected multi-media display of images and video clips on a screen behind her.
Alex Prezzano is a premier acoustic guitarist, songwriter, and composer. His range is extraordinary, his playing precise, and his arrangements inspiring. His repertoire ranges from the American Songbook classics like “Over the Rainbow” to a sparkling rendition of the Beatles “Ticket to Ride,” a longing version of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time,” a flashy piece from the Renaissance like “Canarios,” and a slew of wonderful originals. Alex is based in NYC and has performed in Broadway shows, and at beloved venues throughout NYC and North America. And he’s quite the singer, too. “All we can say is wow!”
Folk Project Members dress up funny and sing spooky songs.
Details to follow.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
Buskin & Batteau run the gamut from topical irony to terminal silliness and their instrumental virtuosity, soaring vocal harmonies and unparalleled lyric-writing prompts standing ovations and rhapsodic reviews.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
While Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues, his performances blend roots, blues, folk, rock, rap, spoken word, and world to address the frustrations of social injustice, touching on historical events, and common life struggles. His storytelling is sometimes painful, deep, and real, underlined by gentle tones from his guitar or banjo fingerpicking.
Longtime Troubadour attendees will fondly remember April Verch. She’s been packing the place for 20 years. She’s now performing with world-renowned Ozarks banjo player, guitarist and songwriter Joe Newberry as Newberry & Verch. Joe Newberry comes from a family of singers and dancers. He took up the guitar and banjo as a boy and learned fiddle tunes from great Missouri fiddlers. April Verch grew up listening to her Dad’s country band play for dances in the Ottawa Valley, Ontario. She started step dancing at age three and fiddling at age six. Together, they display the roots of their music, their love of performing, and their strong musical connection. Original songs join timeless classics. Lively fiddle and banjo numbers combine with traditional dance steps to illustrate happy times when people made their own fun.
Award-winning fiddler – singer – stepdancer from Canada teams up with venerable banjo player – guitarist – songwriter from the Ozarks
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
$12 in-person admission includes birthday cake.
The Troubadour celebrates the 49th anniversary of its inaugural performance on July 25, 1975 with a show unique to the Folk Project, and one that only an organization such as ours could present. The Project includes dozens of musicians and singers in its membership, we draw upon our own to comprise the performers in this show. One month ago, all the members who wished to be in the show put their names into a common pool, and were combined into randomly selected duos and trios. Each of those groups has worked up and will present one song on stage for the show. It’s a celebration not only of our first show, but of our member performers, and our creed that everyone’s music is of value. It’s our party, and you’re invited. $12 admission includes birthday cake.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
No opening act this week.
Dead to the Core is a collective of singer-songwriters and acoustic musicians, led by musician/author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, celebrating the Grateful Dead—with creative arrangements featuring unexpected instruments (clarinet, flute, Strumstick, accordion) and lush vocal harmonies. Interspersed with the music are clips from Rodgers’ own interviews with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, in which they reflect on the roots and evolution of the music.
A Dead to the Core show is an experience unlike any other Grateful Dead tribute: a night of deeply personal performances that illuminate the masterful song craft of one of America’s most original bands. Grateful Dead music right down to the core.
The band:
Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers is a grand prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, founding editor of Acoustic Guitar magazine, and author of a best-selling video series teaching his acoustic arrangements of classic Grateful Dead songs.
Jefferson Hamer is an internationally touring songwriter, guitarist, and traditional musician based in Brooklyn. He performs with the Murphy Beds and Session Americana, and his guitar work and vocals are featured on Sarah Jarosz’s Grammy-nominated Blue Heron Suite. Hamer’s Child Ballads album with Anaïs Mitchell earned a BBC2 Folk Award and was named one of NPR’s top-ten folk releases of the year.
Wendy Sassafras Ramsay, Rodgers’ bandmate and duo partner (as Pepper and Sassafras), is a singer-songwriter and versatile multi-instrumentalist on clarinet, flute, accordion, and guitar. She also plays in the alternative rock band Starting Off Red.
Brendan Gosson is a fiddler and flatpick guitarist based in Buffalo. He currently plays with the roots band Folkfaces, Sean Peters Band, and Brian Thomas and the Strikes.
NJ Uke Night
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Au Fromage is a spectacle the likes of which can only be compared to the birth of a solar system. This hard-hitting swing duo will rip your socks off with their incredible talents and showmanship. Valentin Prince will dazzle you with his fast fingers and good looks, whilst Stu Kindle and his ukulele will seduce your ears into a vivacious dance. You do not want to miss Richmond’s hottest duo–Au Fromage.
What could be more fun than a uke? Three ukes! Make that three FLukes. Beth Bachmann, Bob Kammer, and Kevin Coughlin wring maximum joy from that minimal instrument. The FLukes capitalize the “F” and the “L” – you can fill in the blanks. They promise to keep their G strings attached. Beyond that, all bets are off.
Jack Williams comes to us from a rock background. It shows in the drive of his guitar work, which is clean, exciting, and endlessly full of beautiful and appropriate licks. His songwriting has an unprepossessing understated poetry to it, kind of like a South Carolina version of an acoustic Bruce Springsteen with Jerry Garcia on acoustic lead guitar. And if he holds true to form, catch his astonishing finale of a 15-minute free-association medley of every song from every genre ever written, and never the same as previously.
Americana singer-songwriter Stacia Thiel captivates audiences with a voice that is powerful and achingly beautiful; her songwriting revelatory and impassioned. As a formally-trained opera singer, she was born into a musical family in rural Wisconsin, and raised on an eclectic mix of styles, from her family’s barbershop quartet, to old-time country and ’60s folk. She has been performing and writing songs since childhood. Stacia was selected as one of John Platt’s emerging artists. Her album Straight to the Middle entered the Top 20 of the Roots Americana Chart, and her single Sunny Days entered the Top 10
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist, who shares his love and knowledge of old-time American music with the world. He has delved deeply into his Southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through country blues, ragtime, fiddle and banjo, and traditional jazz. Hubby was an integral part of the Grammy award winning Carolina Chocolate Drops from 2010 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018 he was active in touring and recording member in the Rhiannon Giddens Band. Today he focuses on his solo performances, enlightening and entertaining audiences around the world.
Folk Project favorites Dennison & Donahue are the artistic merging of Annie Donahue, an outstanding singer/songwriter with a beautiful voice, and Todd Dennison, an exquisitely tasteful and intelligent guitarist. They combine traditional folk music and gospel with jazz influences to create a unique framework for Annie’s gorgeous melodies and soul-baring lyrics. Their performances touch audiences with introspection, joy, and an almost meditative flight to where meaning, feelings, and sound meet. Annie has a natural gift for conveying complex emotions with her simple, direct-to-the-heart vocal purity. Todd is a sensitive craftsman, whose complex arrangements provide a lush, but simple soundscape for Annie’s voice.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
Muriel Anderson is a guitarist and harp-guitarist who embraces music from all over the world with grace, joy and gentle humor. She is the first woman to have won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship. Her CD “Nightlight Daylight”, was chosen as one of the top 10 CDs of the decade by Guitar Player Magazine. Muriel’s facility across the genres of folk, classical, bluegrass, popular and international music is revered by guitarists worldwide. Among those she has performed or recorded with are Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Victor Wooten and Tommy Emmanuel. Her live performance is enhanced by a projected multi-media display of images and video clips on a screen behind her.
Alex Prezzano is a premier acoustic guitarist, songwriter, and composer. His range is extraordinary, his playing precise, and his arrangements inspiring. His repertoire ranges from the American Songbook classics like “Over the Rainbow” to a sparkling rendition of the Beatles “Ticket to Ride,” a longing version of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time,” a flashy piece from the Renaissance like “Canarios,” and a slew of wonderful originals. Alex is based in NYC and has performed in Broadway shows, and at beloved venues throughout NYC and North America. And he’s quite the singer, too. “All we can say is wow!”
Folk Project Members dress up funny and sing spooky songs.
Details to follow.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
Buskin & Batteau run the gamut from topical irony to terminal silliness and their instrumental virtuosity, soaring vocal harmonies and unparalleled lyric-writing prompts standing ovations and rhapsodic reviews.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
While Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues, his performances blend roots, blues, folk, rock, rap, spoken word, and world to address the frustrations of social injustice, touching on historical events, and common life struggles. His storytelling is sometimes painful, deep, and real, underlined by gentle tones from his guitar or banjo fingerpicking.
Longtime Troubadour attendees will fondly remember April Verch. She’s been packing the place for 20 years. She’s now performing with world-renowned Ozarks banjo player, guitarist and songwriter Joe Newberry as Newberry & Verch. Joe Newberry comes from a family of singers and dancers. He took up the guitar and banjo as a boy and learned fiddle tunes from great Missouri fiddlers. April Verch grew up listening to her Dad’s country band play for dances in the Ottawa Valley, Ontario. She started step dancing at age three and fiddling at age six. Together, they display the roots of their music, their love of performing, and their strong musical connection. Original songs join timeless classics. Lively fiddle and banjo numbers combine with traditional dance steps to illustrate happy times when people made their own fun.
Award-winning fiddler – singer – stepdancer from Canada teams up with venerable banjo player – guitarist – songwriter from the Ozarks
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
$12 in-person admission includes birthday cake.
The Troubadour celebrates the 49th anniversary of its inaugural performance on July 25, 1975 with a show unique to the Folk Project, and one that only an organization such as ours could present. The Project includes dozens of musicians and singers in its membership, we draw upon our own to comprise the performers in this show. One month ago, all the members who wished to be in the show put their names into a common pool, and were combined into randomly selected duos and trios. Each of those groups has worked up and will present one song on stage for the show. It’s a celebration not only of our first show, but of our member performers, and our creed that everyone’s music is of value. It’s our party, and you’re invited. $12 admission includes birthday cake.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
No opening act this week.
Dead to the Core is a collective of singer-songwriters and acoustic musicians, led by musician/author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, celebrating the Grateful Dead—with creative arrangements featuring unexpected instruments (clarinet, flute, Strumstick, accordion) and lush vocal harmonies. Interspersed with the music are clips from Rodgers’ own interviews with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, in which they reflect on the roots and evolution of the music.
A Dead to the Core show is an experience unlike any other Grateful Dead tribute: a night of deeply personal performances that illuminate the masterful song craft of one of America’s most original bands. Grateful Dead music right down to the core.
The band:
Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers is a grand prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, founding editor of Acoustic Guitar magazine, and author of a best-selling video series teaching his acoustic arrangements of classic Grateful Dead songs.
Jefferson Hamer is an internationally touring songwriter, guitarist, and traditional musician based in Brooklyn. He performs with the Murphy Beds and Session Americana, and his guitar work and vocals are featured on Sarah Jarosz’s Grammy-nominated Blue Heron Suite. Hamer’s Child Ballads album with Anaïs Mitchell earned a BBC2 Folk Award and was named one of NPR’s top-ten folk releases of the year.
Wendy Sassafras Ramsay, Rodgers’ bandmate and duo partner (as Pepper and Sassafras), is a singer-songwriter and versatile multi-instrumentalist on clarinet, flute, accordion, and guitar. She also plays in the alternative rock band Starting Off Red.
Brendan Gosson is a fiddler and flatpick guitarist based in Buffalo. He currently plays with the roots band Folkfaces, Sean Peters Band, and Brian Thomas and the Strikes.
NJ Uke Night
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Au Fromage is a spectacle the likes of which can only be compared to the birth of a solar system. This hard-hitting swing duo will rip your socks off with their incredible talents and showmanship. Valentin Prince will dazzle you with his fast fingers and good looks, whilst Stu Kindle and his ukulele will seduce your ears into a vivacious dance. You do not want to miss Richmond’s hottest duo–Au Fromage.
What could be more fun than a uke? Three ukes! Make that three FLukes. Beth Bachmann, Bob Kammer, and Kevin Coughlin wring maximum joy from that minimal instrument. The FLukes capitalize the “F” and the “L” – you can fill in the blanks. They promise to keep their G strings attached. Beyond that, all bets are off.
Jack Williams comes to us from a rock background. It shows in the drive of his guitar work, which is clean, exciting, and endlessly full of beautiful and appropriate licks. His songwriting has an unprepossessing understated poetry to it, kind of like a South Carolina version of an acoustic Bruce Springsteen with Jerry Garcia on acoustic lead guitar. And if he holds true to form, catch his astonishing finale of a 15-minute free-association medley of every song from every genre ever written, and never the same as previously.
Americana singer-songwriter Stacia Thiel captivates audiences with a voice that is powerful and achingly beautiful; her songwriting revelatory and impassioned. As a formally-trained opera singer, she was born into a musical family in rural Wisconsin, and raised on an eclectic mix of styles, from her family’s barbershop quartet, to old-time country and ’60s folk. She has been performing and writing songs since childhood. Stacia was selected as one of John Platt’s emerging artists. Her album Straight to the Middle entered the Top 20 of the Roots Americana Chart, and her single Sunny Days entered the Top 10
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist, who shares his love and knowledge of old-time American music with the world. He has delved deeply into his Southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through country blues, ragtime, fiddle and banjo, and traditional jazz. Hubby was an integral part of the Grammy award winning Carolina Chocolate Drops from 2010 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018 he was active in touring and recording member in the Rhiannon Giddens Band. Today he focuses on his solo performances, enlightening and entertaining audiences around the world.
Folk Project favorites Dennison & Donahue are the artistic merging of Annie Donahue, an outstanding singer/songwriter with a beautiful voice, and Todd Dennison, an exquisitely tasteful and intelligent guitarist. They combine traditional folk music and gospel with jazz influences to create a unique framework for Annie’s gorgeous melodies and soul-baring lyrics. Their performances touch audiences with introspection, joy, and an almost meditative flight to where meaning, feelings, and sound meet. Annie has a natural gift for conveying complex emotions with her simple, direct-to-the-heart vocal purity. Todd is a sensitive craftsman, whose complex arrangements provide a lush, but simple soundscape for Annie’s voice.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
Muriel Anderson is a guitarist and harp-guitarist who embraces music from all over the world with grace, joy and gentle humor. She is the first woman to have won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship. Her CD “Nightlight Daylight”, was chosen as one of the top 10 CDs of the decade by Guitar Player Magazine. Muriel’s facility across the genres of folk, classical, bluegrass, popular and international music is revered by guitarists worldwide. Among those she has performed or recorded with are Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Victor Wooten and Tommy Emmanuel. Her live performance is enhanced by a projected multi-media display of images and video clips on a screen behind her.
Alex Prezzano is a premier acoustic guitarist, songwriter, and composer. His range is extraordinary, his playing precise, and his arrangements inspiring. His repertoire ranges from the American Songbook classics like “Over the Rainbow” to a sparkling rendition of the Beatles “Ticket to Ride,” a longing version of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time,” a flashy piece from the Renaissance like “Canarios,” and a slew of wonderful originals. Alex is based in NYC and has performed in Broadway shows, and at beloved venues throughout NYC and North America. And he’s quite the singer, too. “All we can say is wow!”
Folk Project Members dress up funny and sing spooky songs.
Details to follow.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
Buskin & Batteau run the gamut from topical irony to terminal silliness and their instrumental virtuosity, soaring vocal harmonies and unparalleled lyric-writing prompts standing ovations and rhapsodic reviews.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
While Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues, his performances blend roots, blues, folk, rock, rap, spoken word, and world to address the frustrations of social injustice, touching on historical events, and common life struggles. His storytelling is sometimes painful, deep, and real, underlined by gentle tones from his guitar or banjo fingerpicking.
Longtime Troubadour attendees will fondly remember April Verch. She’s been packing the place for 20 years. She’s now performing with world-renowned Ozarks banjo player, guitarist and songwriter Joe Newberry as Newberry & Verch. Joe Newberry comes from a family of singers and dancers. He took up the guitar and banjo as a boy and learned fiddle tunes from great Missouri fiddlers. April Verch grew up listening to her Dad’s country band play for dances in the Ottawa Valley, Ontario. She started step dancing at age three and fiddling at age six. Together, they display the roots of their music, their love of performing, and their strong musical connection. Original songs join timeless classics. Lively fiddle and banjo numbers combine with traditional dance steps to illustrate happy times when people made their own fun.
Award-winning fiddler – singer – stepdancer from Canada teams up with venerable banjo player – guitarist – songwriter from the Ozarks
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
$12 in-person admission includes birthday cake.
The Troubadour celebrates the 49th anniversary of its inaugural performance on July 25, 1975 with a show unique to the Folk Project, and one that only an organization such as ours could present. The Project includes dozens of musicians and singers in its membership, we draw upon our own to comprise the performers in this show. One month ago, all the members who wished to be in the show put their names into a common pool, and were combined into randomly selected duos and trios. Each of those groups has worked up and will present one song on stage for the show. It’s a celebration not only of our first show, but of our member performers, and our creed that everyone’s music is of value. It’s our party, and you’re invited. $12 admission includes birthday cake.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
No opening act this week.
Dead to the Core is a collective of singer-songwriters and acoustic musicians, led by musician/author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, celebrating the Grateful Dead—with creative arrangements featuring unexpected instruments (clarinet, flute, Strumstick, accordion) and lush vocal harmonies. Interspersed with the music are clips from Rodgers’ own interviews with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, in which they reflect on the roots and evolution of the music.
A Dead to the Core show is an experience unlike any other Grateful Dead tribute: a night of deeply personal performances that illuminate the masterful song craft of one of America’s most original bands. Grateful Dead music right down to the core.
The band:
Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers is a grand prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, founding editor of Acoustic Guitar magazine, and author of a best-selling video series teaching his acoustic arrangements of classic Grateful Dead songs.
Jefferson Hamer is an internationally touring songwriter, guitarist, and traditional musician based in Brooklyn. He performs with the Murphy Beds and Session Americana, and his guitar work and vocals are featured on Sarah Jarosz’s Grammy-nominated Blue Heron Suite. Hamer’s Child Ballads album with Anaïs Mitchell earned a BBC2 Folk Award and was named one of NPR’s top-ten folk releases of the year.
Wendy Sassafras Ramsay, Rodgers’ bandmate and duo partner (as Pepper and Sassafras), is a singer-songwriter and versatile multi-instrumentalist on clarinet, flute, accordion, and guitar. She also plays in the alternative rock band Starting Off Red.
Brendan Gosson is a fiddler and flatpick guitarist based in Buffalo. He currently plays with the roots band Folkfaces, Sean Peters Band, and Brian Thomas and the Strikes.
NJ Uke Night
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Au Fromage is a spectacle the likes of which can only be compared to the birth of a solar system. This hard-hitting swing duo will rip your socks off with their incredible talents and showmanship. Valentin Prince will dazzle you with his fast fingers and good looks, whilst Stu Kindle and his ukulele will seduce your ears into a vivacious dance. You do not want to miss Richmond’s hottest duo–Au Fromage.
What could be more fun than a uke? Three ukes! Make that three FLukes. Beth Bachmann, Bob Kammer, and Kevin Coughlin wring maximum joy from that minimal instrument. The FLukes capitalize the “F” and the “L” – you can fill in the blanks. They promise to keep their G strings attached. Beyond that, all bets are off.
Jack Williams comes to us from a rock background. It shows in the drive of his guitar work, which is clean, exciting, and endlessly full of beautiful and appropriate licks. His songwriting has an unprepossessing understated poetry to it, kind of like a South Carolina version of an acoustic Bruce Springsteen with Jerry Garcia on acoustic lead guitar. And if he holds true to form, catch his astonishing finale of a 15-minute free-association medley of every song from every genre ever written, and never the same as previously.
Americana singer-songwriter Stacia Thiel captivates audiences with a voice that is powerful and achingly beautiful; her songwriting revelatory and impassioned. As a formally-trained opera singer, she was born into a musical family in rural Wisconsin, and raised on an eclectic mix of styles, from her family’s barbershop quartet, to old-time country and ’60s folk. She has been performing and writing songs since childhood. Stacia was selected as one of John Platt’s emerging artists. Her album Straight to the Middle entered the Top 20 of the Roots Americana Chart, and her single Sunny Days entered the Top 10
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist, who shares his love and knowledge of old-time American music with the world. He has delved deeply into his Southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through country blues, ragtime, fiddle and banjo, and traditional jazz. Hubby was an integral part of the Grammy award winning Carolina Chocolate Drops from 2010 to 2014. From 2015 to 2018 he was active in touring and recording member in the Rhiannon Giddens Band. Today he focuses on his solo performances, enlightening and entertaining audiences around the world.
Folk Project favorites Dennison & Donahue are the artistic merging of Annie Donahue, an outstanding singer/songwriter with a beautiful voice, and Todd Dennison, an exquisitely tasteful and intelligent guitarist. They combine traditional folk music and gospel with jazz influences to create a unique framework for Annie’s gorgeous melodies and soul-baring lyrics. Their performances touch audiences with introspection, joy, and an almost meditative flight to where meaning, feelings, and sound meet. Annie has a natural gift for conveying complex emotions with her simple, direct-to-the-heart vocal purity. Todd is a sensitive craftsman, whose complex arrangements provide a lush, but simple soundscape for Annie’s voice.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
Muriel Anderson is a guitarist and harp-guitarist who embraces music from all over the world with grace, joy and gentle humor. She is the first woman to have won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship. Her CD “Nightlight Daylight”, was chosen as one of the top 10 CDs of the decade by Guitar Player Magazine. Muriel’s facility across the genres of folk, classical, bluegrass, popular and international music is revered by guitarists worldwide. Among those she has performed or recorded with are Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Victor Wooten and Tommy Emmanuel. Her live performance is enhanced by a projected multi-media display of images and video clips on a screen behind her.
Alex Prezzano is a premier acoustic guitarist, songwriter, and composer. His range is extraordinary, his playing precise, and his arrangements inspiring. His repertoire ranges from the American Songbook classics like “Over the Rainbow” to a sparkling rendition of the Beatles “Ticket to Ride,” a longing version of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time,” a flashy piece from the Renaissance like “Canarios,” and a slew of wonderful originals. Alex is based in NYC and has performed in Broadway shows, and at beloved venues throughout NYC and North America. And he’s quite the singer, too. “All we can say is wow!”
Folk Project Members dress up funny and sing spooky songs.
Details to follow.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
Buskin & Batteau run the gamut from topical irony to terminal silliness and their instrumental virtuosity, soaring vocal harmonies and unparalleled lyric-writing prompts standing ovations and rhapsodic reviews.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
While Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues, his performances blend roots, blues, folk, rock, rap, spoken word, and world to address the frustrations of social injustice, touching on historical events, and common life struggles. His storytelling is sometimes painful, deep, and real, underlined by gentle tones from his guitar or banjo fingerpicking.
Longtime Troubadour attendees will fondly remember April Verch. She’s been packing the place for 20 years. She’s now performing with world-renowned Ozarks banjo player, guitarist and songwriter Joe Newberry as Newberry & Verch. Joe Newberry comes from a family of singers and dancers. He took up the guitar and banjo as a boy and learned fiddle tunes from great Missouri fiddlers. April Verch grew up listening to her Dad’s country band play for dances in the Ottawa Valley, Ontario. She started step dancing at age three and fiddling at age six. Together, they display the roots of their music, their love of performing, and their strong musical connection. Original songs join timeless classics. Lively fiddle and banjo numbers combine with traditional dance steps to illustrate happy times when people made their own fun.
Award-winning fiddler – singer – stepdancer from Canada teams up with venerable banjo player – guitarist – songwriter from the Ozarks
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.
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 openstage@folkproject.org.
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.