Repeating Events in New Jersey

Please note: While we try to keep this list up to date, things do change and many places close for the summer. Please check with the venue before making plans.
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Other links: www.newjerseybluegrass.com and the Folk Project
A nationwide Acoustic Jam listing (you specify location): www.folkjam.org

Bluegrass & Old Time Music Assn; cncrts 3rd Sun Sept-May, 11-7, M & M Hall, Texas Rd, Old Bridge; 201-583-1602
Coffee & Jam, Grace Church, 2nd & Erie Sts, Jersey City; $5, 1st Fri (??) open mic 7-8, music & poetry 8PM; 201-659-2211
Coffee With Conscience, Springfield Emanuel United Methodist Church, 40 Church Mall, Springfield, NJ; Sat, every other month; $10; 973-376-1695
Common Ground Coffeehouse; First Methodist Ch, 111 Ryerson Ave, Newton (just down past Newton H.S.); 8pm 3rd Sat ea. mo, $8; 973-383-2823
East Brunswick Folk Music Club, sings 3rd Tue; 7:45pm East Brunswick Library; info Ryders Lane (201) 257-5035.
Grasshopper Also, 645 Washington Av, Carlstadt, 201-460-7771; Irish Session Sun 9 or 10pm
Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Coffeehouse: Fairlawn Community Center, 10-10 Kipp St, Fairlawn; info: 201-384-1325, adv. tickets 201-791-2225; concerts first Sat, 8pm, through May. run by Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club %; email
Lil's Song Circle: 8pm on 2nd Friday at various locations in NY & northern NJ. info: Jerry Epstein, 201-384-8465.
Maxwell's, 1039 Washington St., Hoboken 201-507-8900/212-307-7171; 3rd Tues NJ Songwriters in the Round
Mexicali Blues, 1409 Queen Anne Rd., Teaneck; 201-833-0011; Tues - Open Blues Jam; various performers weekends and other days
Mine St. Coffeehouse; First Reformed Church, Neilson & Bayard St, New Brunswick; Sat 8:30; info: 732-249-7877 (Closed July/August)
Minstrel Coffeehouse; Fridays, 8:30pm, $7 (2nd Fri, open stage); Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Rd, Morristown, NJ. (Run by Folk Project %, POB 41, Mendham 07945; 973-335-9489; Sat concert info: 973-335-9489
Montclair Friends Meetinghouse, 289 Park St, Upper Montclair: Sacred Harp singing 4th Sun ea month 2-5:30pm; free; 973-746-0940
Music at the Mission: West Milford Psby Church, 1452 Union Valley Road; Sat's 8pm (open mic first Sat); $15; 973-728-4201, <info@MusicAtTheMission.org>
Nassau Inn tap room, Palmer Square, Princeton; Open Stage; Tues; 609-921-3857
Pinelands Cultural Soc.; Albert Hall, rte 9, Waretown; Sat's 8pm; $3; contact Jeanette Lobb, RFD 1, Bx 447, Waretown 08758; 609-693-4188
Princeton Folk Music Soc. %(POB 427, Princeton 08540); usually cncrts 3rd Fri. at Christ Congregation Church, 55 Walnut Lane (across from Princeton HS), Princeton; $15 ($10 NYPFMC memb); info: Justin Kodner, 609-799-0944; <info@princetonfolk.org>
The Sanctuary Concerts, 240 Southern Boulevard, Chatham, NJ; folk concerts twice monthly September-May; info:973-376-4946, boxoffice@sanctuaryconcerts.org;
Stony Brook Friends of Old-Time Music; Mannion's Pub & Restaurant, 150 West Main Street, Somerville, NJ. Open jam 1st & 3rd Tuesday at 7:45pm <jim@mazotas.com>;
Strings & Sings of Bergen Co (c/o Laura Munzer, 504 Broadway, Passaic, NJ 07055; 973-773-9606; email; monthly meetings in private homes
Tommy Fox's Public House, 32 So. Washington Ave, Bergenfield, 201-384-0900; Irish Show Bands every Sun 5pm on.

Last modified on 8/13/2009; broken links, questions, comments, email Don Wade