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

presents Fri Jun 5th 2009 at 7:30pm

Sam Lee

Listen to Sam sing It Happened On A Day!

“You will be dumbfounded by Sam Lee with duck-egg eyes, a horseshoe smile and an honest, confiding baritone” The Guardian

“I think what put shivers down my back when I heard Sam sing was his attention to the detail of decoration and the style of all those old singers. It was like hearing the past and the future of traditional song all rolled into one voice” Ali Burns

Sam is a singer, promoter, teacher, researcher and confessed die-hard enthusiast of the folk arts. Swapping his many careers including visual artist, teacher of wilderness survival and performer on the burlesque cabaret circuit to work in folk music, he has become one of the current leading lights of the folk revival taking traditional song into a new direction and onto new platforms. Not just a singer, Sam is also the creative force behind The Magpie’s Nest, which has been hailed as “the torch bearing folk club for the new generation”. He works part-time for the English Folk Dance and Song Society as the London Links officer at Cecil Sharp house. Sam is apprenticed to the legendary Scottish Traveller singer and storyteller Stanley Robertson, who is passing onto Sam his vast and unique repertoire of ballads and songs. He teaches song across the country including The Royal College of Music and is a tutor on the Newcastle Traditional Music Degree.

www.themagpiesnest.co.uk/about-magpies-nest

Many moons ago Focal Point's Judy Stein  introduced  a nascent LRFC to Pete Morton, who remains a club favorite and continues to be a periodic visitor to our fair town...  This is the first of a number of extremely rare musical offerings that LRFC is pleased to make...  and all without any stimulus bail out financial support :-) Please come and share this extremely rare opportunity to hear this truly fine artist who will delight you.

Tickets: $10, accompanied children 12 and under free, 50% student discount with ID.

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

Driving directions to UUC-LR from your house! 

coming soon:

Jun 5th:Sam Lee 

 

 


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Sam Lee

 

 

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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 and now available as a small (<29MB) downloadable MP3 here...
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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 Lorna Brooks

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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