Please note: While we try to
keep this list up to date, things do change (particularly
in the summer). Please check with the
venue before making plans. Some of the venues
below also have their specific events listed in
our newsletter.
(last modified on 10/5/2019)
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Hudson
Valley Bluegrass Association %, e-mail;
845-462-8871, 1st and 3rd Wed bluegrass jam at Dubliner
Irish Pub, 796 Main Street, Poughkeepsie 12603;
other concerts & programs at Christ Church, 20 Carroll
Street, Poughkeepsie 12601
Old Songs, Inc,
Old Songs, Inc, PO Box 466, Voorheesville 12186; 518-765-2815;
Festival last full weekend of June, average of 2 concerts a
month late Sept-May; family/community dance on the 1st Sat,
zydeco/Cajun dance on the last Sat of the month. Drum circle
3rd Monday; 1st Wed- Open Mic, 2nd Wed- Contra Dance Tunes;
3rd Wed, Traditional Irish Slow Session; 4th Wed, Aussie Bush
Band Jam; Old Songs also hosts 6-week instrument classes on
Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday. Old Songs Community
Arts Center, 37 South Main St, Voorheesville
Parting
Glass, 40-42 Lake Av, Saratoga Springs,
Celtic sessions Wednesdays and Thursdays plus concerts
Fridays and Saturdays; 518-583-1916
Pickin'
& Singn' Gathern', Inc %, 2137 Pangburn
Rd, Duanesburg, NY 12056 ; Singaround meetings on 2nd
Sunday, Sept.-May, at Community arts Center, 37 South
Main St, Voorheesville; also Gottagetgon (Memorial Day) and
Last Gasp (Labor Day) weekends; 518-961-6708
Borderline
Folk Music Folk Music Club, house concerts
usually Sunday at 2pm at New City Volunteer Ambulance Corps,
200 Congers Road, New City (Rockland County);
845-354-4586; solz1@optonline.net;
$20
plus a pot-luck to share; 845-354-4586
Burnt Hills Coffeehouse; Burnt Hills United
Methodist Church Route 50, Burnt Hills, NY ; 518-882-6427; Saturday;
monthly;
CasaJava Coffee House; 291 Main St.
Cornwall (845) 534-6874; Open Mic 8pm,. First Saturday,
Signup 7:00 to 7:45; $3.00 cover charge. Host: Little Bobby
Bartonl
Circle of Friends
Coffeehouse; St. John’s Hall , 8 Sunnyside
(& Bedford) Pleasantville; 8pm ; Pleasentville Folk
Circle, concerts
Colonial Inn, 701 N. Franklin St., Watkins
Glen; Pub Sings (unaccompanied singing with rousing choruses)
7-10pm on the third Friday of each month; Valley Folk Music; www.valleyfolk.org
Common
Ground CoffeeHouse, 25 Old Jackson Ave.
Hastings-on-Hudson; 914 478-2710; one Saturday
a month.
Cranberry
Coffeehouse, Unitarian Universalist Congregation
of Binghamton, 183 Riverside Drive, Binghamton, New York
13905; third Saturday, 7:30pm; $5; featured performers
plus open mic. e-mail;
phone: Chris, 607-754-9437
Gunks Mountain Road House Concert Series;
usually one Sunday a month at 2 or 3pm; 100
South Mountain Road, Wallkill, New York 12589; http://www.folkmusic8760.com
Hudson Valley
Bluegrass Association; %; 845-462-8871;
1st and 3rd Wed bluegrass jam, 6:30pm at the Manor
at Woodside 168 Academy Street, Poughkeepsie, NY. other
concerts & programs at various locations
Hudson
Valley Folk Guild, % concerts and open stage
coffeehouses, (except July and August), P.O. Box
F, Poughkeepsie 12602; 845-229-0170
Poughkeepsie Coffehouse: Third Saturday, 7:30pm
Unitarian Fellowship Hall at 67 South Randolph Avenue,
Poughkeepsie, 845-849-1775; $5
Friends of Fiddler's Green concerts: various
Fridays, Hyde Park United Methodist
Church, Rte. 9 and Church St., 845-483-0650; $8
Lil's Song Circle: 8pm on 2nd
Friday at various locations in NY & northern
NJ. info: Jerry Epstein, 201-384-8465.
Lorien Coffeehouse; Grafton Inn, Grafton,
NY; 518-658-3422 (12 miles west of Troy)
North Salem Folk Circle:
St. James Parish Hall, rt 116 & June Rd; hoot
first Friday, 8 pm; 845-279-2504, or 845-373-7831
St Lukes Church, RT 100 and 202, Somers,
N.Y.; Bluegrass jam first Friday at 8pm; Mike Burns,
845-276-2239 e-mail
St. Johns Folk;
St. John’s Hall , 8 Sunnyside (& Bedford) Pleasantville;
Folk Circle 2nd Fri + and open mic 2nd Sat.
Walkabout
Clearwater Coffeehouse; 7:30PM, Memorial
United Methodist Church, 250 Bryant Ave, White Plains; (914)
242-0374; second Saturday Oct-May
Westchester Bluegrass Club Monthly Saturday
meeting hosted by Mike Burns and Ben Freed: 7 pm: Jam session;
8pm OPEN MIC; 9pm band (914)276-2239. Lake Purdys Clubhouse,
33 Lake Way, Purdys NY
Westchester Sing: once a month meeting in
homes. Info: Joan L Goldstein, 914-633-7110
Cubbyhole
Coffeehouse, 44 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie
(Near Vassar College); 845-483-7584; Acoustic Open Mic
Tue; 8:30pm
Fiddlers' Tour;
Capital District (Albany-Saratoga, NY); an open,
acoustic, traditional fiddle tune jam, all ages, all
abilities. every Tues 7:30pm. Location varies each month.
(518) 384-3275.
Rosendale
Cafe, 434 Main St, Rosendale; 845-658-9048;
Singer-Songwriter Tuesdays once a month; cover & min
Dunne's Pub, 15 Shapham Pl (nr Mamaroneck
Ave, White Plains, 914-421-1451; Wed session 7pm w/ Brian
Conway
Old Songs, Inc,
PO Box 466, Voorheesville 12186; 518-765-2815; 1st Wed- Open
Mic, 2nd Wed- Contra Dance Tunes; 3rd Wed, Traditional Irish
Slow Session; 4th Wed, Aussie Bush Band Jam at the Community
Arts Center, 37 South Main St, Voorheesville
Weekly Fiddle N' Folk Jam; noon-1pm Senate
House, Kingston NY for the winter In the summer, or when the
weather is good on the lawn of the Senate House in Kingston,
NY, free, info, 845-338-2786, <BobLusk@hvc.rr.com >
Parting Glass, 40-42 Lake Av, Saratoga Springs,
Celtic sessions Wed & Thurs 518-583-1916; www.partingglasspub.com