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.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
Note: Originally scheduled opening act of Dennison & Donahue has been replaced by Andrew Dunn & Todd Dennison
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.
Andrew Dunn & Todd Dennison are standout musicians – high achievers in the arts of singing, songwriting, and creative friendship. Andrew’s soulful tenor delivers heart-piercing stories from his creative mind and deeply compassionate soul. Todd’s exquisite guitar arrangements and soaring harmonies bring a depth of complexity and meaning to the rich narratives that Andrew composes. Andrew has been a finalist in the prestigious Kerrville Grassy Hill Songwriter’s Competition and in the Great American Song Contest. Todd is well-known as a professional touring musician, record producer, chairman of The Folk Project Open Stage, and as an exquisite guitarist, breaking new ground by blending the language of folk with the artistry of classical and jazz.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
Affectionately known as “a band in a body,” Zoë Lewis plays folk, vintage jazz and world beat grooves on anything from the piano to the spoons. This troubadour extraordinaire has traveled to over 70 countries, picking up songs and stories along the way, released ten albums of original material, toured with the Indigo Girls, Judy Collins, Richie Havens, Nanci Griffith and has even opened for Pat Benatar on the ukulele. Her songs have won numerous awards, appeared in films, on Broadway, in commercials, on cruise ships, and on Netflix. She’s written three musicals, leads a 1920’s Speakeasy show, and is about to perform an upbeat and joyous show!
Jenny Glenn sings a lively variety of roots, Bluegrass and swinging Blues on guitar and mandolin. Joel Glassman has played a wide variety of music on fiddle with professional groups. He has been associated with the Folk Project for 45 years. Jenny has performed throughout the tri-state area at house concerts, cafes and farmers markets with Moggy Hill and Sequoia Sun Band, also playing the Folk Project Spring Getaway with Joel and Frank Sole.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Hayley Reardon is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and a storyteller in the truest sense of the word. Her songs serve as postcards from an artist brave enough to take the road less traveled. With more than 85 original songs released to date, Reardon’s music has been featured on multiple Spotify and Apple Music editorial playlists, boasting more than 7 million streams on Apple Music alone. She has shared the stage with enowned artists including Lori McKenna, Rodney Crowell, Dar Williams, and Anaïs Mitchell, among others. Her ever-deepening music carries a lyrical and melodic weight beyond her years.
Ken Galipeau is a collector of stories, songs, and poems that touch our hearts and funny bone. The stories and songs in Ken’s eclectic repertoire celebrate the wonder, absurdity, pain and joy of life, imagination, and the soul. He presents them with energy, enthusiasm, and a sincerity
that makes you tingle through and through–the feeling you have after a belly laugh or a chill in the bones from a unsettling ghost story. Ken’s stories and songs are drawn from contemporary and traditional sources and sung as if they were his own.
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.***
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!”
In-person Tickets Live Webcast ($20)
3 International Guitar Masters
leading workshops all day for all levels, beginner through advanced,
culminating in a fabulous evening concert for everyone
Workshops for guitarists with concert and meals – 10:00 AM to 10:30 PM ($138 advance registration only)
Three masters of the acoustic guitar, Beppe, Chris and Jon, give a full day of instruction, including lunch, dinner, snacks and evening concert — a complete program for all levels, dedicated to the proposition that everyone goes home a better player.
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Beppe Gambetta brings American and European Roots together in a blend of energetic grooves and passionate melodies, giving new life to wide range international and American musical sources. He is songwriter of great depth and maturity, whose original songs seamlessly blend contemporary influences with traditional roots. His flatpicking styles range from Doc Watson to Moravian folk music to everything in between and beyond. and are characterized by flashy licks, intricate cross-picking patterns, open tunings, and fluid slides up and down the neck of the guitar.
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Born in Genoa, Italy, he is known worldwide as a bluegrass ambassador, having performed with such luminaries as Norman Blake, Mike Marshall, David Grisman, Charles Sawtelle, John Jorgenson, David Grier, Tony Trischka, Dan Crary, Gene Parsons of the Byrds, and more.
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Chris Newman is a renowned Celtic guitarist, famed internationally as a member of The Boys of the Loch, for his duet work with Máire Ní Chathasaigh, and, of course, for his stunningly brilliant arrangements on guitar.
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Acoustic Guitar Magazine calls his abilities “Dazzling.” Dirty Linen says it is “nothing short of brilliant.” The Sunday Tribune of Ireland called his playing “Terrific: brilliant, beautiful, rich, virtuosic, delightful, classic, perfect!”
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Jon Shain is a veteran singer-songwriter and recording artist, who’s been turning heads with his lyrics, fiery acoustic guitar work, and his evolved musical style – combining improvised piedmont blues with bluegrass, swing, and ragtime.
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A noted author of several celebrated guitar instruction books, Jon has won the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee and his band has performed with David Grisman, Tony Rice Unit, Hot Tuna, and the Dixie Dregs. He has headlined as a solo and with duo partner FJ Ventre throughout the USA and Europe, opening shows for John Hiatt, Keb’ Mo’, Little Feat, and many other roots legends
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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. ***
No opening act this week.
Conjuring up echoes of the late lamented Canadian group “Finest Kind”, Windborne is a harmony-driven quartet of 30-somethings who revel in the vocal traditions of the British Isles and early American folk song. To this they add vocal harmony traditions around the world from the Balkans to South Africa. They sing either acapella, or with spare accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, and percussion.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
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.
The soaring vocal power of Marry The Sea delivers timeless messages of love and empowerment from the landscape of our modern world. Marry the Sea is Kat De Bari and Rebecca Farnham. Their original compositions and pitch-perfect harmonies transform listeners and inspire souls with music that is enlightening and transcendent.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
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.
With his newest release, award-winning singer-songwriter Dave Murphy—dubbed a “musical Raymond Carver”—carries his audiences on a fearless, heartfelt journey towards surrender and redemption. A migration through seasons of loss and gain, joy and sorrow makes his seventh studio album, A Heart So Rare, his most honest, and compelling collection yet. It features guest appearances by James Maddock and Mark Erelli. Based in New Jersey, Murphy is an accomplished performer who has toured four countries, received international radio airplay, and shared stages with artists such as Steve Forbert, Suzanne Vega, Alejandro Escovedo, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
Note: Originally scheduled opening act of Dennison & Donahue has been replaced by Andrew Dunn & Todd Dennison
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.
Andrew Dunn & Todd Dennison are standout musicians – high achievers in the arts of singing, songwriting, and creative friendship. Andrew’s soulful tenor delivers heart-piercing stories from his creative mind and deeply compassionate soul. Todd’s exquisite guitar arrangements and soaring harmonies bring a depth of complexity and meaning to the rich narratives that Andrew composes. Andrew has been a finalist in the prestigious Kerrville Grassy Hill Songwriter’s Competition and in the Great American Song Contest. Todd is well-known as a professional touring musician, record producer, chairman of The Folk Project Open Stage, and as an exquisite guitarist, breaking new ground by blending the language of folk with the artistry of classical and jazz.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
Affectionately known as “a band in a body,” Zoë Lewis plays folk, vintage jazz and world beat grooves on anything from the piano to the spoons. This troubadour extraordinaire has traveled to over 70 countries, picking up songs and stories along the way, released ten albums of original material, toured with the Indigo Girls, Judy Collins, Richie Havens, Nanci Griffith and has even opened for Pat Benatar on the ukulele. Her songs have won numerous awards, appeared in films, on Broadway, in commercials, on cruise ships, and on Netflix. She’s written three musicals, leads a 1920’s Speakeasy show, and is about to perform an upbeat and joyous show!
Jenny Glenn sings a lively variety of roots, Bluegrass and swinging Blues on guitar and mandolin. Joel Glassman has played a wide variety of music on fiddle with professional groups. He has been associated with the Folk Project for 45 years. Jenny has performed throughout the tri-state area at house concerts, cafes and farmers markets with Moggy Hill and Sequoia Sun Band, also playing the Folk Project Spring Getaway with Joel and Frank Sole.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Hayley Reardon is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and a storyteller in the truest sense of the word. Her songs serve as postcards from an artist brave enough to take the road less traveled. With more than 85 original songs released to date, Reardon’s music has been featured on multiple Spotify and Apple Music editorial playlists, boasting more than 7 million streams on Apple Music alone. She has shared the stage with enowned artists including Lori McKenna, Rodney Crowell, Dar Williams, and Anaïs Mitchell, among others. Her ever-deepening music carries a lyrical and melodic weight beyond her years.
Ken Galipeau is a collector of stories, songs, and poems that touch our hearts and funny bone. The stories and songs in Ken’s eclectic repertoire celebrate the wonder, absurdity, pain and joy of life, imagination, and the soul. He presents them with energy, enthusiasm, and a sincerity
that makes you tingle through and through–the feeling you have after a belly laugh or a chill in the bones from a unsettling ghost story. Ken’s stories and songs are drawn from contemporary and traditional sources and sung as if they were his own.
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.***
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!”
In-person Tickets Live Webcast ($20)
3 International Guitar Masters
leading workshops all day for all levels, beginner through advanced,
culminating in a fabulous evening concert for everyone
Workshops for guitarists with concert and meals – 10:00 AM to 10:30 PM ($138 advance registration only)
Three masters of the acoustic guitar, Beppe, Chris and Jon, give a full day of instruction, including lunch, dinner, snacks and evening concert — a complete program for all levels, dedicated to the proposition that everyone goes home a better player.
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Beppe Gambetta brings American and European Roots together in a blend of energetic grooves and passionate melodies, giving new life to wide range international and American musical sources. He is songwriter of great depth and maturity, whose original songs seamlessly blend contemporary influences with traditional roots. His flatpicking styles range from Doc Watson to Moravian folk music to everything in between and beyond. and are characterized by flashy licks, intricate cross-picking patterns, open tunings, and fluid slides up and down the neck of the guitar.
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Born in Genoa, Italy, he is known worldwide as a bluegrass ambassador, having performed with such luminaries as Norman Blake, Mike Marshall, David Grisman, Charles Sawtelle, John Jorgenson, David Grier, Tony Trischka, Dan Crary, Gene Parsons of the Byrds, and more.
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Chris Newman is a renowned Celtic guitarist, famed internationally as a member of The Boys of the Loch, for his duet work with Máire Ní Chathasaigh, and, of course, for his stunningly brilliant arrangements on guitar.
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Acoustic Guitar Magazine calls his abilities “Dazzling.” Dirty Linen says it is “nothing short of brilliant.” The Sunday Tribune of Ireland called his playing “Terrific: brilliant, beautiful, rich, virtuosic, delightful, classic, perfect!”
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Jon Shain is a veteran singer-songwriter and recording artist, who’s been turning heads with his lyrics, fiery acoustic guitar work, and his evolved musical style – combining improvised piedmont blues with bluegrass, swing, and ragtime.
1
A noted author of several celebrated guitar instruction books, Jon has won the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee and his band has performed with David Grisman, Tony Rice Unit, Hot Tuna, and the Dixie Dregs. He has headlined as a solo and with duo partner FJ Ventre throughout the USA and Europe, opening shows for John Hiatt, Keb’ Mo’, Little Feat, and many other roots legends
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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. ***
No opening act this week.
Conjuring up echoes of the late lamented Canadian group “Finest Kind”, Windborne is a harmony-driven quartet of 30-somethings who revel in the vocal traditions of the British Isles and early American folk song. To this they add vocal harmony traditions around the world from the Balkans to South Africa. They sing either acapella, or with spare accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, and percussion.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
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.
The soaring vocal power of Marry The Sea delivers timeless messages of love and empowerment from the landscape of our modern world. Marry the Sea is Kat De Bari and Rebecca Farnham. Their original compositions and pitch-perfect harmonies transform listeners and inspire souls with music that is enlightening and transcendent.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
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.
With his newest release, award-winning singer-songwriter Dave Murphy—dubbed a “musical Raymond Carver”—carries his audiences on a fearless, heartfelt journey towards surrender and redemption. A migration through seasons of loss and gain, joy and sorrow makes his seventh studio album, A Heart So Rare, his most honest, and compelling collection yet. It features guest appearances by James Maddock and Mark Erelli. Based in New Jersey, Murphy is an accomplished performer who has toured four countries, received international radio airplay, and shared stages with artists such as Steve Forbert, Suzanne Vega, Alejandro Escovedo, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
Note: Originally scheduled opening act of Dennison & Donahue has been replaced by Andrew Dunn & Todd Dennison
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.
Andrew Dunn & Todd Dennison are standout musicians – high achievers in the arts of singing, songwriting, and creative friendship. Andrew’s soulful tenor delivers heart-piercing stories from his creative mind and deeply compassionate soul. Todd’s exquisite guitar arrangements and soaring harmonies bring a depth of complexity and meaning to the rich narratives that Andrew composes. Andrew has been a finalist in the prestigious Kerrville Grassy Hill Songwriter’s Competition and in the Great American Song Contest. Todd is well-known as a professional touring musician, record producer, chairman of The Folk Project Open Stage, and as an exquisite guitarist, breaking new ground by blending the language of folk with the artistry of classical and jazz.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
Affectionately known as “a band in a body,” Zoë Lewis plays folk, vintage jazz and world beat grooves on anything from the piano to the spoons. This troubadour extraordinaire has traveled to over 70 countries, picking up songs and stories along the way, released ten albums of original material, toured with the Indigo Girls, Judy Collins, Richie Havens, Nanci Griffith and has even opened for Pat Benatar on the ukulele. Her songs have won numerous awards, appeared in films, on Broadway, in commercials, on cruise ships, and on Netflix. She’s written three musicals, leads a 1920’s Speakeasy show, and is about to perform an upbeat and joyous show!
Jenny Glenn sings a lively variety of roots, Bluegrass and swinging Blues on guitar and mandolin. Joel Glassman has played a wide variety of music on fiddle with professional groups. He has been associated with the Folk Project for 45 years. Jenny has performed throughout the tri-state area at house concerts, cafes and farmers markets with Moggy Hill and Sequoia Sun Band, also playing the Folk Project Spring Getaway with Joel and Frank Sole.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Hayley Reardon is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and a storyteller in the truest sense of the word. Her songs serve as postcards from an artist brave enough to take the road less traveled. With more than 85 original songs released to date, Reardon’s music has been featured on multiple Spotify and Apple Music editorial playlists, boasting more than 7 million streams on Apple Music alone. She has shared the stage with enowned artists including Lori McKenna, Rodney Crowell, Dar Williams, and Anaïs Mitchell, among others. Her ever-deepening music carries a lyrical and melodic weight beyond her years.
Ken Galipeau is a collector of stories, songs, and poems that touch our hearts and funny bone. The stories and songs in Ken’s eclectic repertoire celebrate the wonder, absurdity, pain and joy of life, imagination, and the soul. He presents them with energy, enthusiasm, and a sincerity
that makes you tingle through and through–the feeling you have after a belly laugh or a chill in the bones from a unsettling ghost story. Ken’s stories and songs are drawn from contemporary and traditional sources and sung as if they were his own.
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.***
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!”
In-person Tickets Live Webcast ($20)
3 International Guitar Masters
leading workshops all day for all levels, beginner through advanced,
culminating in a fabulous evening concert for everyone
Workshops for guitarists with concert and meals – 10:00 AM to 10:30 PM ($138 advance registration only)
Three masters of the acoustic guitar, Beppe, Chris and Jon, give a full day of instruction, including lunch, dinner, snacks and evening concert — a complete program for all levels, dedicated to the proposition that everyone goes home a better player.
|
|
Beppe Gambetta brings American and European Roots together in a blend of energetic grooves and passionate melodies, giving new life to wide range international and American musical sources. He is songwriter of great depth and maturity, whose original songs seamlessly blend contemporary influences with traditional roots. His flatpicking styles range from Doc Watson to Moravian folk music to everything in between and beyond. and are characterized by flashy licks, intricate cross-picking patterns, open tunings, and fluid slides up and down the neck of the guitar.
1
Born in Genoa, Italy, he is known worldwide as a bluegrass ambassador, having performed with such luminaries as Norman Blake, Mike Marshall, David Grisman, Charles Sawtelle, John Jorgenson, David Grier, Tony Trischka, Dan Crary, Gene Parsons of the Byrds, and more.
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Chris Newman is a renowned Celtic guitarist, famed internationally as a member of The Boys of the Loch, for his duet work with Máire Ní Chathasaigh, and, of course, for his stunningly brilliant arrangements on guitar.
1
Acoustic Guitar Magazine calls his abilities “Dazzling.” Dirty Linen says it is “nothing short of brilliant.” The Sunday Tribune of Ireland called his playing “Terrific: brilliant, beautiful, rich, virtuosic, delightful, classic, perfect!”
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Jon Shain is a veteran singer-songwriter and recording artist, who’s been turning heads with his lyrics, fiery acoustic guitar work, and his evolved musical style – combining improvised piedmont blues with bluegrass, swing, and ragtime.
1
A noted author of several celebrated guitar instruction books, Jon has won the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee and his band has performed with David Grisman, Tony Rice Unit, Hot Tuna, and the Dixie Dregs. He has headlined as a solo and with duo partner FJ Ventre throughout the USA and Europe, opening shows for John Hiatt, Keb’ Mo’, Little Feat, and many other roots legends
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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. ***
No opening act this week.
Conjuring up echoes of the late lamented Canadian group “Finest Kind”, Windborne is a harmony-driven quartet of 30-somethings who revel in the vocal traditions of the British Isles and early American folk song. To this they add vocal harmony traditions around the world from the Balkans to South Africa. They sing either acapella, or with spare accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, and percussion.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
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.
The soaring vocal power of Marry The Sea delivers timeless messages of love and empowerment from the landscape of our modern world. Marry the Sea is Kat De Bari and Rebecca Farnham. Their original compositions and pitch-perfect harmonies transform listeners and inspire souls with music that is enlightening and transcendent.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
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.
With his newest release, award-winning singer-songwriter Dave Murphy—dubbed a “musical Raymond Carver”—carries his audiences on a fearless, heartfelt journey towards surrender and redemption. A migration through seasons of loss and gain, joy and sorrow makes his seventh studio album, A Heart So Rare, his most honest, and compelling collection yet. It features guest appearances by James Maddock and Mark Erelli. Based in New Jersey, Murphy is an accomplished performer who has toured four countries, received international radio airplay, and shared stages with artists such as Steve Forbert, Suzanne Vega, Alejandro Escovedo, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
Note: Originally scheduled opening act of Dennison & Donahue has been replaced by Andrew Dunn & Todd Dennison
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.
Andrew Dunn & Todd Dennison are standout musicians – high achievers in the arts of singing, songwriting, and creative friendship. Andrew’s soulful tenor delivers heart-piercing stories from his creative mind and deeply compassionate soul. Todd’s exquisite guitar arrangements and soaring harmonies bring a depth of complexity and meaning to the rich narratives that Andrew composes. Andrew has been a finalist in the prestigious Kerrville Grassy Hill Songwriter’s Competition and in the Great American Song Contest. Todd is well-known as a professional touring musician, record producer, chairman of The Folk Project Open Stage, and as an exquisite guitarist, breaking new ground by blending the language of folk with the artistry of classical and jazz.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
Affectionately known as “a band in a body,” Zoë Lewis plays folk, vintage jazz and world beat grooves on anything from the piano to the spoons. This troubadour extraordinaire has traveled to over 70 countries, picking up songs and stories along the way, released ten albums of original material, toured with the Indigo Girls, Judy Collins, Richie Havens, Nanci Griffith and has even opened for Pat Benatar on the ukulele. Her songs have won numerous awards, appeared in films, on Broadway, in commercials, on cruise ships, and on Netflix. She’s written three musicals, leads a 1920’s Speakeasy show, and is about to perform an upbeat and joyous show!
Jenny Glenn sings a lively variety of roots, Bluegrass and swinging Blues on guitar and mandolin. Joel Glassman has played a wide variety of music on fiddle with professional groups. He has been associated with the Folk Project for 45 years. Jenny has performed throughout the tri-state area at house concerts, cafes and farmers markets with Moggy Hill and Sequoia Sun Band, also playing the Folk Project Spring Getaway with Joel and Frank Sole.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Hayley Reardon is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and a storyteller in the truest sense of the word. Her songs serve as postcards from an artist brave enough to take the road less traveled. With more than 85 original songs released to date, Reardon’s music has been featured on multiple Spotify and Apple Music editorial playlists, boasting more than 7 million streams on Apple Music alone. She has shared the stage with enowned artists including Lori McKenna, Rodney Crowell, Dar Williams, and Anaïs Mitchell, among others. Her ever-deepening music carries a lyrical and melodic weight beyond her years.
Ken Galipeau is a collector of stories, songs, and poems that touch our hearts and funny bone. The stories and songs in Ken’s eclectic repertoire celebrate the wonder, absurdity, pain and joy of life, imagination, and the soul. He presents them with energy, enthusiasm, and a sincerity
that makes you tingle through and through–the feeling you have after a belly laugh or a chill in the bones from a unsettling ghost story. Ken’s stories and songs are drawn from contemporary and traditional sources and sung as if they were his own.
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.***
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!”
In-person Tickets Live Webcast ($20)
3 International Guitar Masters
leading workshops all day for all levels, beginner through advanced,
culminating in a fabulous evening concert for everyone
Workshops for guitarists with concert and meals – 10:00 AM to 10:30 PM ($138 advance registration only)
Three masters of the acoustic guitar, Beppe, Chris and Jon, give a full day of instruction, including lunch, dinner, snacks and evening concert — a complete program for all levels, dedicated to the proposition that everyone goes home a better player.
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Beppe Gambetta brings American and European Roots together in a blend of energetic grooves and passionate melodies, giving new life to wide range international and American musical sources. He is songwriter of great depth and maturity, whose original songs seamlessly blend contemporary influences with traditional roots. His flatpicking styles range from Doc Watson to Moravian folk music to everything in between and beyond. and are characterized by flashy licks, intricate cross-picking patterns, open tunings, and fluid slides up and down the neck of the guitar.
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Born in Genoa, Italy, he is known worldwide as a bluegrass ambassador, having performed with such luminaries as Norman Blake, Mike Marshall, David Grisman, Charles Sawtelle, John Jorgenson, David Grier, Tony Trischka, Dan Crary, Gene Parsons of the Byrds, and more.
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Chris Newman is a renowned Celtic guitarist, famed internationally as a member of The Boys of the Loch, for his duet work with Máire Ní Chathasaigh, and, of course, for his stunningly brilliant arrangements on guitar.
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Acoustic Guitar Magazine calls his abilities “Dazzling.” Dirty Linen says it is “nothing short of brilliant.” The Sunday Tribune of Ireland called his playing “Terrific: brilliant, beautiful, rich, virtuosic, delightful, classic, perfect!”
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Jon Shain is a veteran singer-songwriter and recording artist, who’s been turning heads with his lyrics, fiery acoustic guitar work, and his evolved musical style – combining improvised piedmont blues with bluegrass, swing, and ragtime.
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A noted author of several celebrated guitar instruction books, Jon has won the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee and his band has performed with David Grisman, Tony Rice Unit, Hot Tuna, and the Dixie Dregs. He has headlined as a solo and with duo partner FJ Ventre throughout the USA and Europe, opening shows for John Hiatt, Keb’ Mo’, Little Feat, and many other roots legends
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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. ***
No opening act this week.
Conjuring up echoes of the late lamented Canadian group “Finest Kind”, Windborne is a harmony-driven quartet of 30-somethings who revel in the vocal traditions of the British Isles and early American folk song. To this they add vocal harmony traditions around the world from the Balkans to South Africa. They sing either acapella, or with spare accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, and percussion.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
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.
The soaring vocal power of Marry The Sea delivers timeless messages of love and empowerment from the landscape of our modern world. Marry the Sea is Kat De Bari and Rebecca Farnham. Their original compositions and pitch-perfect harmonies transform listeners and inspire souls with music that is enlightening and transcendent.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
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.
With his newest release, award-winning singer-songwriter Dave Murphy—dubbed a “musical Raymond Carver”—carries his audiences on a fearless, heartfelt journey towards surrender and redemption. A migration through seasons of loss and gain, joy and sorrow makes his seventh studio album, A Heart So Rare, his most honest, and compelling collection yet. It features guest appearances by James Maddock and Mark Erelli. Based in New Jersey, Murphy is an accomplished performer who has toured four countries, received international radio airplay, and shared stages with artists such as Steve Forbert, Suzanne Vega, Alejandro Escovedo, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
Note: Originally scheduled opening act of Dennison & Donahue has been replaced by Andrew Dunn & Todd Dennison
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.
Andrew Dunn & Todd Dennison are standout musicians – high achievers in the arts of singing, songwriting, and creative friendship. Andrew’s soulful tenor delivers heart-piercing stories from his creative mind and deeply compassionate soul. Todd’s exquisite guitar arrangements and soaring harmonies bring a depth of complexity and meaning to the rich narratives that Andrew composes. Andrew has been a finalist in the prestigious Kerrville Grassy Hill Songwriter’s Competition and in the Great American Song Contest. Todd is well-known as a professional touring musician, record producer, chairman of The Folk Project Open Stage, and as an exquisite guitarist, breaking new ground by blending the language of folk with the artistry of classical and jazz.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
Affectionately known as “a band in a body,” Zoë Lewis plays folk, vintage jazz and world beat grooves on anything from the piano to the spoons. This troubadour extraordinaire has traveled to over 70 countries, picking up songs and stories along the way, released ten albums of original material, toured with the Indigo Girls, Judy Collins, Richie Havens, Nanci Griffith and has even opened for Pat Benatar on the ukulele. Her songs have won numerous awards, appeared in films, on Broadway, in commercials, on cruise ships, and on Netflix. She’s written three musicals, leads a 1920’s Speakeasy show, and is about to perform an upbeat and joyous show!
Jenny Glenn sings a lively variety of roots, Bluegrass and swinging Blues on guitar and mandolin. Joel Glassman has played a wide variety of music on fiddle with professional groups. He has been associated with the Folk Project for 45 years. Jenny has performed throughout the tri-state area at house concerts, cafes and farmers markets with Moggy Hill and Sequoia Sun Band, also playing the Folk Project Spring Getaway with Joel and Frank Sole.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult. Tips not required (no Creel.) ***
Hayley Reardon is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and a storyteller in the truest sense of the word. Her songs serve as postcards from an artist brave enough to take the road less traveled. With more than 85 original songs released to date, Reardon’s music has been featured on multiple Spotify and Apple Music editorial playlists, boasting more than 7 million streams on Apple Music alone. She has shared the stage with enowned artists including Lori McKenna, Rodney Crowell, Dar Williams, and Anaïs Mitchell, among others. Her ever-deepening music carries a lyrical and melodic weight beyond her years.
Ken Galipeau is a collector of stories, songs, and poems that touch our hearts and funny bone. The stories and songs in Ken’s eclectic repertoire celebrate the wonder, absurdity, pain and joy of life, imagination, and the soul. He presents them with energy, enthusiasm, and a sincerity
that makes you tingle through and through–the feeling you have after a belly laugh or a chill in the bones from a unsettling ghost story. Ken’s stories and songs are drawn from contemporary and traditional sources and sung as if they were his own.
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.***
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!”
In-person Tickets Live Webcast ($20)
3 International Guitar Masters
leading workshops all day for all levels, beginner through advanced,
culminating in a fabulous evening concert for everyone
Workshops for guitarists with concert and meals – 10:00 AM to 10:30 PM ($138 advance registration only)
Three masters of the acoustic guitar, Beppe, Chris and Jon, give a full day of instruction, including lunch, dinner, snacks and evening concert — a complete program for all levels, dedicated to the proposition that everyone goes home a better player.
|
|
Beppe Gambetta brings American and European Roots together in a blend of energetic grooves and passionate melodies, giving new life to wide range international and American musical sources. He is songwriter of great depth and maturity, whose original songs seamlessly blend contemporary influences with traditional roots. His flatpicking styles range from Doc Watson to Moravian folk music to everything in between and beyond. and are characterized by flashy licks, intricate cross-picking patterns, open tunings, and fluid slides up and down the neck of the guitar.
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Born in Genoa, Italy, he is known worldwide as a bluegrass ambassador, having performed with such luminaries as Norman Blake, Mike Marshall, David Grisman, Charles Sawtelle, John Jorgenson, David Grier, Tony Trischka, Dan Crary, Gene Parsons of the Byrds, and more.
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Chris Newman is a renowned Celtic guitarist, famed internationally as a member of The Boys of the Loch, for his duet work with Máire Ní Chathasaigh, and, of course, for his stunningly brilliant arrangements on guitar.
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Acoustic Guitar Magazine calls his abilities “Dazzling.” Dirty Linen says it is “nothing short of brilliant.” The Sunday Tribune of Ireland called his playing “Terrific: brilliant, beautiful, rich, virtuosic, delightful, classic, perfect!”
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Jon Shain is a veteran singer-songwriter and recording artist, who’s been turning heads with his lyrics, fiery acoustic guitar work, and his evolved musical style – combining improvised piedmont blues with bluegrass, swing, and ragtime.
1
A noted author of several celebrated guitar instruction books, Jon has won the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee and his band has performed with David Grisman, Tony Rice Unit, Hot Tuna, and the Dixie Dregs. He has headlined as a solo and with duo partner FJ Ventre throughout the USA and Europe, opening shows for John Hiatt, Keb’ Mo’, Little Feat, and many other roots legends
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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. ***
No opening act this week.
Conjuring up echoes of the late lamented Canadian group “Finest Kind”, Windborne is a harmony-driven quartet of 30-somethings who revel in the vocal traditions of the British Isles and early American folk song. To this they add vocal harmony traditions around the world from the Balkans to South Africa. They sing either acapella, or with spare accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, and percussion.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
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.
The soaring vocal power of Marry The Sea delivers timeless messages of love and empowerment from the landscape of our modern world. Marry the Sea is Kat De Bari and Rebecca Farnham. Their original compositions and pitch-perfect harmonies transform listeners and inspire souls with music that is enlightening and transcendent.
*** Admission: $20/$15 (FP members); 12 and under free with adult.***
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.
With his newest release, award-winning singer-songwriter Dave Murphy—dubbed a “musical Raymond Carver”—carries his audiences on a fearless, heartfelt journey towards surrender and redemption. A migration through seasons of loss and gain, joy and sorrow makes his seventh studio album, A Heart So Rare, his most honest, and compelling collection yet. It features guest appearances by James Maddock and Mark Erelli. Based in New Jersey, Murphy is an accomplished performer who has toured four countries, received international radio airplay, and shared stages with artists such as Steve Forbert, Suzanne Vega, Alejandro Escovedo, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.