If you love listening to, playing
and creating folk music, Artichoke Community Music is the place to be! We
sponsor a wide variety of low-cost concerts, workshops and events for your
listening and performance pleasure. For example:
Backgate Stage Concerts
We
offer concerts by some of the best local and national performers in folk
music on our own wonderful, intimate Backgate Stage.
Over the years, guests have
included such luminaries as Odetta, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Paxton and Kevin
Burke, as well as local heroes such as Steve Einhorn and Kate Power.
The tradition of wonderful music
performances continues today! Be sure to sign up for our newsletter and to
check the calendar listings regularly so you don't miss anything!
Time: Varies (check
calendar listings)
Cost: Varies (check calendar
listings)
Friday Night
Coffee House
Join
us every Friday night for an evening of live, eclectic music. Our treasure
trove of local talent brings you music from the folk and world music
traditions.
Coffee House provides an opportunity to play for
musicians of many different levels of expertise. Whether you are already
a professional or you are performing on stage for the first time, it gives
you a wonderful opportunity to get experience and try out new material
before a live and supportive audience.
Community is at the heart of our
Friday night coffee houses. This is the place to be whether you are on stage
or in the audience. Expect home baked treats, coffee, tea and an evening
that is always fun and entertaining―and sometimes full
of surprises, too!
Time: Friday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to
10:00 p.m.
Cost: $5.00
Saturday Song
Circle with Richard Colombo
Whether
you are new to music performance or an old hand, you are warmly invited to
bring your instrument and your voice and join us in the weekly Song Circle!
Song Circle is a wonderful venue
in which to develop your musicality, work on your improvisational skills,
sing a bunch of great songs, and make beautiful harmony with new and old
friends.
Using our own binder of songs and
the Rise Up Singing songbook, we go around the circle, giving each
person the opportunity to choose a song (if they want to) for all of us to
sing and play together.
Song Circle is a wonderful way to
energize your heart and body, make new friends, and have a rousing good
time! We guarantee you will leave with a smile on your face.
Time: Every Saturday from 2:00 p.m. to
4:00 p.m.
Cost: $5.00
