| FOLK CLUB OF SOUTH FLORIDA | The folk scene´s Fairy Godmother of promotion & devotion. |
SOUTH FLORIDA BLUEGRASS ASSOC |
Events 2nd Fridays & 1st Sundays at 1 pm. Ives Estates Optimist Club 1511 NE 207th St — North Miami Beach |
HOT HOUSE |
Your free monthly guide for the hot jazz, latin and blues scene in South Florida. |
| FRIENDS OF FLORIDA FOLK | To identify, protect, preserve, encourage and promote folk arts, crafts, dance and music. |
| GOTFOLK.ORG | Comprehensive music calendar & local musicians´ web hosting. |
| FLORIDAMUSIC.ORG | Monthly online newsletter. |
| BROWARD FOLK CLUB  |
Info on folk music in Broward County as well as the South Florida Folk Festival. |
| WLRN 91.3 FM | Catch Michael Stock´s "Folk & Acoustic Music" show on Sundays from 2 to 5 pm. |
| MIAMI NEW TIMES | Stories, columns, reviews & events listings. |
| CITY LINK | Weekly focuses on arts & entertainment in Broward & Palm Beach County. "Music, Movies, Clubs, Sex, News." |
| BROWARD-PALM BEACH NEW TIMES | Stories, columns, reviews & events listings. |
| MIAMI SUNPOST | Weekly with neighborhood focus on the arts. |
| BISCAYNE TIMES | Serves the Biscayne Blvd Corridor: Bayside, Omni, Belle Meade, Design District, El Portal, Edgewater, Miami Shores, Wynwood, Little River, Morningside & North Miami. |
NONFICTION IMAGEWORKS |
Web design & animations by Michael Gelfand. |
2 BOTTLE SUNDAY |
An organically-grown acoustic folk group, Jamie, Matthew and Danica woo audiences with their creative lyrics and unexpected harmonies. They also love salvaging great songs from near-oblivion, and reverting well-known tunes to down-home acoustic styles. |
ANA KANPA |
Hypnotic jams, haunted songs of Spirit and Earth, and compelling spoken word poetry. From melodic rock to heavy blues. Their name means "Spirits of the Earth," from an ancient Sumerian prayer calling for the Earth Spirits to rise up and reclaim their land. |
| BEN PRESTAGE | Mississippi Country Blues mixed with his own brand of Florida Swamp Blues. A muddy-water-meets-black-water stew. |
| BOB LIND | The same Bob Lind who wrote & recorded "Elusive Butterfly" back in 1966? Yes indeed! |
BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL |
The muddy sound of the Mississippi Delta, the big-shouldered roar of Chicago, and the chicken-fried twang of Texas. From the sweaty muscular growl and moan of being done wrong and wanting her back anyway, to the transcendent traveling tent ecstasy that will leave you revived and resurrected enough to do another day. |
BROTHER LOU |
Brother Lou is the host of Lou’s Music Jam, held every Tuesday from 5 pm to 8 pm. He also hosts the twice-monthly Luna Star Open Mic, held every 2nd & 4th Saturday. |
DIANE WARD |
"...the power of Melissa Etheridge's voice with the beauty of k.d. lang's..." (Skott Freedman, BiMagazine, 4/20/07). "Ward pens tunes that are so damn hummable you'll find yourself whistling the choruses while standing in line at Publix. The politics of love is ... described in 'This Love Is Hard': 'We held it out in the wide open, and it blazed a path to ruin/Now, your best friend is a song on the radio, and I'm holding hands with my lover the moon.'" (CityLink "Best Songwriter 2006," 10/16/06). |
GRANT LIVINGSTON |
"...mixes ragtime, blues, and swing with unusual topics, combining observational humor with the scratchy Victrola style of the Squirrel Nut Zippers." (Creative Loafing, Atlanta). Miami New Times "Best Acoustic Performer 2003." |
| HOPE LITTWIN | Angelic young singer, guitarist & poet, she has been laying low in Miami to write a proper debut album. She published her first book of poetry, "In The Quiet Cages of Euphoria," in 2005. |
JIM GREGORY |
Jim grew up in Monteagle (E. Tenn.) listening to drummers (salesmen) and local mountain folk gather round the cracker barrel at “Uncle” Jim Francis’ general store and swap lies. A professional storyteller for 15 years, Jim has appeared at festivals as well as aboard cruises (Alaska & Northern Baltic). He is the president of the Miami Story-tellers Guild and was a featured writer and storyteller for WLRN’s Pandemonium Midnight Uprising. |
JONATHAN NEWELL |
Vocalist & keyboard player for country band Snake Church and blues band Mighty Lester. "I've played music everywhere from house parties and hotels to roadhouses and prisons, in the city and in the middle of nowhere. "The only thing I've ever wanted to do is to play in a band, and I'm going to do it until I drop. Then I'm going to get up again." |
KARMA |
Alt-folk-rock band with a "kind, genuine demeanor." South African songstress Karma-Ann Swanepoel: "The reason I sound funny is that I’m not from America. I’m from a whole different country." Christiaan Wood, guitar. Stephen Calderalo, bass. Jay Lang, drums. |
| KEITH HOPE | This sixth-generation Floridian's album of original songs about Florida is entitled "Key Biscayne Cowboy." |
MALCOLM HOLCOMBE |
"Holcombe's voice — howlin', rattlin', mumblin', stranglin' — galvanizes stomping, darting bluegrass ("Baby Doll") and rocking blues with a chain-gang lash ("Yesterday's Clothes"). Genuinely sorrowful and joyful, without a shred of sentimentality, "Not Forgotten" embodies his go-for-broke philosophy: "If you're going to dig a hole, dig it deep. If you're going to smoke a cigarette, smoke it down to the filter." (Geoff Gehman, The Morning Call, 10/14/06). "Lyrically, Holcombe continues to mystify and leave interpretation up to the listener. Rather than painting complete pictures, Holcombe howls and whispers his mountain poetry in short phrases that draw from personal experiences but are abstract enough to be applied to others." (David Brewer, High Country Press, 11/9/06). |
| MATTHEW SABATELLA & THE RAMBLING STRING BAND  |
With vocals, guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass fiddle, mountain dulcimer, and a wealth of traditional folk songs, Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band bring the story of the United States vividly to life. The journey begins in Colonial America and follows the paths of the pioneers, sailors, lumberjacks, immigrants, ‘49ers, farmers, slaves, soldiers, cowboys, and railroaders who moved the country across the continent and into the 20th century. |
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Sabatella was named "Best Acoustic Performer 2005” by Broward/Palm Beach New Times. "It’s the kind of thing that will appeal to just about anybody," Sabatella says of the songs on Ballad of America Volume 1 (the CD), most of which date back to the early 1800s. The crowd at the Bamboo Room reflected that sentiment, as moms, grandmoms, longhairs, blue collars, and a gaggle of wine-sipping, Virginia Slims-puffing ladies all clapped along and sang like ornery lumberjacks to lines like ‘And we'll range the wild woods over, and once more a-lumbering go!’" (Jonathan Zwickel, Broward/Palm Beach New Times). |
NICHOLAS THE STORYTELLER |
Have you seen a van with a sign on the back that asks, "HOW'S MY STORYTELLING?" It belongs to a 484-year-old wizard who will magically materialize from the Renaissance and tell tales of ancient castles, knights, and dragons to please and entertain. Nicholas's 200+ stories are not read or recited. They are performed. He has appeared at festivals, schools, libraries, and on both national and local television. One of the stories he wrote was presented as a ballet. |
| PANAMA RED | Singer-songwriter, former guitarist with Kinky Friedman's Texas Jewboys. |
RAIFORD STARKE |
Blues, country, folk, surf music & good old rock and roll. Stunning repertoire. "His voice is part Johnny Cash, part Bill Haley, with some Eric Clapton and Gary Moore sneaking in on his bluesier numbers....During one bring-the-house-down song, Starke climbs up on the bar to play, lies down and opens the beer tap into his mouth — without missing a lick on his guitar — and finally jumps down behind the bar, his fingers still flying, bartender Tara dancing along with him wildly as she mixes drinks." (Tiffany Yates, Naples Daily News, 6/8/06. |
SARAH |
Cherished British import singer-songwriter. Philosophy, poetry and politics given voice: "Words. They can wake you up. Put you to sleep. Effect change. Make a difference. They sing. Whisper. Shout. And sometimes they are like the roar of silence." |
SNAKECHURCH |
They play a mix of old country tunes as well as various cover songs. They congregate
most every Saturday from 5 to 7 pm. Come as you are to Snakechurch. Lou Domingez (piano, guitar, vocal), Greg Blanton (guitar, vocal), Kevin Koester (guitar, harmonica, vocal), Keith Rouse (stand-up bass, vocal). |
| SPIDER JOHN KOERNER | "American folk and country blues ... spare and funky, with lots of open spaces between oddly placed notes, all of it held together with his impeccable timing."(Blueswire). "With my newly learned repertoire, I then went further up the street and dropped into the Ten O'Clock Scholar, a Beat coffeehouse. I was looking for players with kindred spirits. The first guy I met in Minneapolis like me was sitting around in there. It was John Koerner and he also had an accoustic guitar with him. Koerner was tall and thin with a look of perpetual amusement on his face. We hit it off right away.... When he spoke he was soft spoken, but when he sang he became a field holler shouter. Koerner was an exciting singer, and we began playing a lot together." (Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One). |
STEVEN FRANZ |
He is currently in the studio working on his second CD, tentatively titled "Skins & Shirts." Several of the songs deal with gay marriage, as Franz and his partner were one of the first same-sex couples to marry in Massachusetts in 2004. Outmusic Awards Nominee 2004. |
STONE SOUP |
Jammy, funky, bluesy, genre-bending band from Sarasota. Extremely eclectic, slightly eccentric, and sometimes electric. Their audiences report sore feet, tired bodies, and huge smiles. "'Dancin’ Shoes’ is one of those albums just ripe with a vibe perfectly suitable for lazy hot summer days." (Untidy Mind, Planet of Sound, 7/17/05).
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| TERRY ALICE | Local musician, visual artist & activist. |
| TONY THOMAS | Local professor, writer & blues musician. |
VALERIE C. WISECRACKER |
"Hurricane Val, Florida in all its funk and glory." (Charles Flowers, Miami Herald). "For unadulterated protest, there is Valerie C. Wisecracker of Miami." (Bill Bair, The Ledger of Winter Haven). "...the number one Americana artist in the state of Florida. Her live show is so good, it should be examined as a course of study at any major university." (Pete Gallagher, WMNF-Radio Tampa) |
STEVE WILDEY |
2005 Fingerstyle Champion, he conducts workshops in fingerstyle guitar and presents guitar demos for various custom builders. "All I was missing was a glass of wine. Listening to Steve play reminded me of some of the most comfortable things I can think of." (Ann Cox, owner of "Heavenly Temptations," Boonton NJ. |
REPPERTOIRE CLAYWORKS |
Steve Reppert, artist-in-residence, has been creating what he calls 'utilitarian art' since 1991. "I love the idea that I can add art to an everyday experience, whether it be with my Japanese style tea bowls, a coffee mug, or one of my ceramic wall pieces." North Miami, Florida 305.868.6498 | sns@reppertoire.com |
GLADES GUITARS |
Steve Wildey offers Bourgeois, Goodall, Santa Cruz, Avalon, Seagull, Osthoff, Blanchard, and other custom-built acoustic guitars. Extensive consignment department with a host of high quality acoustic and electric guitars. 6754 Pines Blvd Suite A Pembroke Pines, FL 33024 | 954·983·2510 |
KAYAK JEFF |
Canoes, fishing kayaks, recreational kayaks, sea kayaks, paddles & gear. Certified ACA & BCU Instructors (English & Spanish). Adventure is closer than you think! 354 E Dania Beach Blvd Dania Beach, FL 33004 | 954·926·5766 |
| BEES-N-THE-KEYS HONEY | Owned by the parents of our beloved Autumn. 1031 Gibralter Road Key Largo, FL 33037 | 305·453·0115 |
EDEN ORGANIC NURSERY SERVICES |
Open-pollinated, heirloom, organic & hybrid seeds. Medicinal plants. Garden supplies. Safe pest control. Pure plant extracts. P.O. Box 4604 Hallandale, FL 33008 | 954·455·0229 |
| WILD ANIMAL WORLD | Garrett, Cory, Shelly and Kate offer wildlife shows for parties, special events, schools and summer camp programs. 10495 SW 60th Street Miami, FL 33173 | 305·385·8300 |
| MIAMI-VACATION-HOTELS | Find lowest rates on hotels, rentals, travel deals, & the best vacation ideas. |
CHURCHILL'S PUB |
Long-standing English pub in Little Haiti which books punk, live indie music & jazz. 501 NE 2nd Ave Miami | 305·757·1807 |
MICHAEL STOCK |
Host of WLRN´s "Folk & Acoustic Music" show on 91.3-FM Sundays from 2 to 5 pm. "The reason I love folk music is because I understand it. It includes a wide variety of music (just about everything except 'pop'), but what I like most about it are the political songs. Songs that open up your mind, encourage you to looks at new perspectives and might even challenge your way of thinking." |
KARLA PIERCE |
"I worked at Luna Star 2002-2005, then moved to Jacksonville (against Alexis' advice) to go to school. I now have an MA in Practical Philosophy & Applied Ethics. Huh?! What will I do with my degree? Bartend, probably. Or play my guitar on the side of the road. I miss all my Neanderthals & Neanderthalinas at Luna!" (Online journal: hospitalityethics.com). |
SCOTT GALVIN |
Our dedicated and beloved North Miami city councilman. |
| OL' FOLKIE JIM | Promotes and books Spider John Koerner and Ben Prestage. |
| BOB SINGER FOLK MUSIC  |
Bob Singer has been bringing some of the best folk singer songwriters in the
country to the South Florida area for years. Check out his website for the most recent calendar of events. Bob is also a major player in the Broward Folk Club. Referring to his series of house concerts: "'We do major food,' Bob says proudly .... Each concert has a culinary theme. In honor of Jack Williams's Southern heritage, Cajun deep-fried turkey and accompaniments were served." (Nina Korman, Miami New Times) |
AL CRESPO |
Renowned photojournalist whose protest photos you have seen on our walls. His book, Protest In The Land Of Plenty, has garnered critical acclaim. As a Southern regionalist landscape and wildlife artist, his work is in public and private collections both in the U.S. and in Europe. |
