Little Rock Folk Club is dedicated to preserving the link
between the musical traditions of the old and new worlds.


Little Rock Folk Club was started in 1989 by several diehard fans of U.K. and Irish music in the Little Rock area and is Little Rock's oldest 'bridge' between the Old and New World musical traditions. During the intervening years we have produced numerous concerts by some of the best and most enduring musicians in that genre.  This includes strictly traditional artists and songwriters/composers working in that genre.  LRFC is a 501(c)(3) organization. We actively seek sponsorship, donations and input from others sharing our interests.

 

Little Rock Folk Club

proudly presents

 Sat Jun 7th 2008 @ 7:30pm

Claude Bourbon

Making a welcomed return visit to LRFC, it's been a couple of years or more since French guitarist/singer songwriter Claude Bourbon performed his acoustic guitar magic for a LRFC audience that left everybody in the room spell-bound, all except for the guitar pickers of course... they simply sat there with jaws dropped! Another triumph for LRFC :-)  Yet one more musician with no local name recognition whatsoever who came and enthralled the audience from the first note to the last!

 His musical palette is broad but the basic scaffolding is blues from a French perspective - to which he adds tinctures and suggestions from jazz, classical and Eastern music - in a potpourri of music that is best described as "Claude music"; here's a link to Bolero  where you can see and hear "Claude music" in action.

Here's the word from the street:

"Acoustic Blues guitar playing doesn't come much better than this" Blues Matters(UK)

"One of the most accomplished and virtuosic acoustic players around" Blues in Britain

He may live in England these days but his soul lives in Europe! Please join us for an evening of fingerpicking heaven from a French master of the genre. Come early and say "Bon soir"!

Thomson Hall
U U C-L R
1818 Reservoir Rd 
Little Rock 

Admission: $12/students $6 (accompanied children 12 and under free)



All
LRFC concerts are Non-Smoking events. Ample off street parking. ADA compliant

Driving directions to UUC-LR from your house! 

Coming Attractions!

Jan 08: Greenwillis

Mar 1st 08: Andy White

Mar 14th 08: Sara Grey & Kieron Means

Apr 5th 2008: David Llewellyn 

Apr 18th 08: Jimmy Crowley & Mairtin de Cogain

May 3rd 08: Sparky & Rhonda Rucker

June 7th 08: Claude Bourbon

June 14th 08: Pete Morton

 

 


Help LRFC spread the word!  Please download and display a poster of the following upcoming concerts in user-friendly PDF format    

Jimmy Crowley & Mairtin de Cogain 

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker

 

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Arkansas Links
Acoustic Sounds Cafe (Second Presbyterian Church)
Vinos, our favorite brew-pub in Little Rock
Nightflying Magazine: Arkansas music scene
Arkansas Country Dance Society
Rackensack Folklore Society (Pulaski County)
Eureka Springs
Ozark Folk Festival  
                       Arkansas Acoustic Festival
Little Rock's Irish music session(ACMS)

Free cell phone ring tones of Scottish music from Footstompin' Music


Video of
Black Swan Rapper's amazing Firedance from Sidmouth 2003 festival in the UK - you thought you knew Morris dancing...c'mon...we're folkies we wouldn't lie to you! This is 13.3mb (hi-res)  but well worth the download...
Arkansas Folk Radio
From Albion And Beyond  on KUAR FM89 produced and hosted by LRFC's Len Holton and now streaming live worldwide on the Internet Wed 8pm CMT (Thu 0200h GMT)  - Brand new releases, US and NA radio debuts, vintage vinyl, classic folk rock, revival, and source singers...simply  beautiful music from the United Kingdom and beyond... only on FM89!

 

Artists we've presented since 1989...
Fairport Convention Steeleye Span Solas      Old Blind Dogs  Anam  Beginish La Musgaña   Susan McKeown/Chanting House Pat Kilbride Sean Tyrrell Andy Irvine Ivan Drever
Ad Vielle Que Pourra  Stockton's Wing  Swåp Martin Simpson
  Johnny Cunningham 
Craobh Rua   Eric Bogle  Waterson-Carthy  Brian McNeill   Colin Reid  Dick Gaughan
Jez Lowe & the Bad Pennies  Tempest       Iain Matthews Pete Morton bohola   Tannahill Weavers Tommy Sands 
 Windbags 
  Steve Tilston & Maggie Boyle  Alan Kelly Chulrua Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick 
Chris Newman &  Maire Ni Chathasaigh        The House Band James Keelaghan  
Martyn Wyndham-Read  The Watersons
Richard Thompson   (founder's day!)
Damien Barber  Clive Gregson  Ed Miller

Leon Rosselson & Frankie Armstrong
Brian Peters  Roger Sutcliffe Tom Paxton  
Coulter/Phillips Ensemble Brooks Williams
Cherish the Ladies  Bob Franke 
Sara Grey Tony McManus Clandestine John McCormick    Men of Worth  4 Shillings Short               Gerry O'Beirne   Les Barker  Rory McLeod Norman and Nancy Blake John McCormick Scartaglen Christine Kydd&Janet Russell  Phil Cunningham Bob Fox Lynn Miles téada Artisan Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen Aengus Finnan Paddy Keenan Debra Cowan Julian Dawson Cairde Legacy Isla          David Jacobs-Strain Andrew Calhoun      Lark In The Morning David Llewellyn        April Verch Band Beppe Gambetta       Brendan Nolan St Vitus Dance Band Meshugga Klezmer Band Iain Campbell Smith Spencer Bohren Jimmy Crowley Mairtin de Cogain Boulder Acoustic Society Michelle Shocked  Claude Bourbon Twilight Hotel Sparky & Rhonda Rucker Greenwillis Sara Grey & Kieron Means Andy White

Local Artists
Celtic Knotwork
Crow Johnson & Friends

Elsewhere
Join the ultimate Irish session - play along with John McCusker, Ian Carr, Michael McGoldrick, Karen Tweed & Tomai Taylor

Radio Britfolk - programs by professional folk musicians... tune in!                     Memphis Acoustic Music Association (MAMA)
American Folklife Center
North American Festival Information
Dance Instruction Manuals, Ca.1600-1920
Sound Recordings- Lib. of Congress
Folk Music, An Index to Recorded Resources
fRoots magazine
North Alabama Country Dance Society
Folk Music Home Page
Scottish Music Web Index
WWW Music Database
Instrument Encyclopedia
Links to Folk/Acoustic Sites
Penny Whistle Heaven
The Living Tradition magazine
abc Morris tunes library
selected English folk singers
UK folk venues Simon Mayor's Mandolin Heaven Children's Folk Music UK           Freds Folks Morris/Dance music files  Scottish Guitar Heaven    
Village Music Project - Salford University's manuscript preservation site from 1650 onwards

 

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