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Note: Many of these listings are quite old... always check the location before travelling or making plans!!!

Rhode Island* Music

*and Southeastern New England
Blackstone River Theatre  Interesting concerts, dance series of Contra and French Canadian dance... community and family events, just a few minutes north of Providence in Cumberland, RI.
Beal House -- Kingston MA South Shore Folk Music Club Kingston MA

Brooklyn Coffee and Tea House

(of Providence)

 Various music including open mic and some folk/Irish music events. On Douglas Avenue in Providence, owned by Providence Artist Anthony Demings
Stone Soup Coffeehouse Providence's long time coffeehouse
Tryworks Coffeehouse so long Tryworks... out of business after 35 years! R.I.P.
Cafe La'france Open mic Tuesdays and Fridays, 7:30p.m.-10:30p.m. Cafe LaFrance 483 Hope St. Bristol, RI 401-253-0360.
Off the Common Coffeehouse Off The Common Coffeehouse at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church 50 School Street Bridgewater, Massachusetts 7/2003
Music By the Bay House Concerts - Assonet Mass long-running house concert series 25 miles east of Providence
Common Fence Music music series on Aquidneck Island (Portsmouth, south of Fall River) site includes directions for travelers and schedule of events. Recent concerts had great performers like Jim Kweskin, Mike Seeger, Del Ray.
Church of the Mediator Providence. This is a church (or something similar), that often is rented by performers for local concerts. It is a very friendly and welcoming group/site and has hosted numerous good music sessions, but somewhat irregularly and with -- in my experience -- really almost nonexistent PR or publicity. Hey, everyone isn't good at everything! :-) Try to check it out and see if you can catch Hatfield-McCoy playing gospel/jazz/old timey or some of the other great acts...  The Mediator is at 50 Rounds St... that's just a short distance north up Reservoir Ave from Route 10 in Providence.  (get a map  MapQuest )

Woods Hole

Woods Hole Folk Music Club a nice concert series, and a dance with the Woods Hole Folk Orchestra every month

Greater Boston connect to many more links at Music for Robin including lists of links to jam sessions
Peeptoad Coffeehouse (Foster, RI) Home of the RI Folk Festival
New Song Folk Club NEW SONG FOLK CLUB & CULTURAL CENTER EVENTS 1047 FRONT ST. S. WEYMOUTH, MA 781-335-0249 - website seemed to be pop-up intensive when we visited, so I haven't linked it.
Narrows Center for the Arts (Renaissance Center Bluegrass Jam) Fall River
   
Tinker's Nest Irish pub in Warren RI, frequent music
  Boston Coffee House Association

 Rhode Island  and Massachusetts  concert listings at Dirty Linen, and for music in Connecticut see Walter Olson's Connecticut Music Links

Miscellaneous Happenings

Sacred Harp Providence -- Shape Note -- sight-reading (with a lot of help) singing of American hymns and anthems from the 150 year old Sacred Harp hymnal (more fun than that sounds! if you sang in high school or church choir and like singing, this is a great way to keep in voice!) - The session on Sept 23 had about 17 people taking part -- Fourth Sundays - 3 - 6 PM -- in the annex behind Beneficent "Roundtop" Church, corner of Weybosset St and Pine St. in downtown Providence, (just a few steps from the PPAC, and next door to Johnson & Wales "White Center") for information call : Kelly House at 751 7343. There are numerous other SH sings in New England as well, see the many links page or email Providence Sacred Harp call : Kelly House at 751 7343  or email Providence SH Person Also see Fasola Page and Sacred Harp Page or Sacred Harp in Boston
West Gallery Music Sundays, Newton, MA  "West Gallery" is an English traditional sacred music very similar to Shape-Note or "Sacred Harp" but accompanied by fiddle, cello, flute, serpent or other melody instruments of the period.   See more information at West Gallery Music in Boston or at the International West Gallery Music Association or contact either contact Bruce Randall 978-373-5852 or Laura mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Irish Language Lessons  

Beginners Irish Language Class. 10 weeks, $140 meets Tuesdays starting 9/29/2009 at 21 George St Crandston RI 02905 taught by Sheila Hogg,   Sheila_Hogg@Brown.edu 401 954 3365

RADIO and WEB Radio

Folk Music on WSMU at Scott MacKinnon's site...

WUMB radio FM 91.9 in Boston, including Boston Folk Festival:

"Hillbilly at Harvard" Saturdays 9am-1pm  Cambridge, MA  WHRB 95.3 FM with Ol’ Sinc and Cousin Lynn 617 495-4818, Harvard University also 'webcast' through their website: http://www.whrb.org/

"Sunday Morning Country" Sundays 10am-2pm  Newton, MA  WZBC 90.3 FM with George Hauenstein 617 552-4686, Boston College also 'webcast' through their website: http://www.wzbc.org/

"Traditional Folk" Sunday 1pm-4pm WUMB with Sandy Sheehan 617 287-6919, University of Mass, Boston,  Worcester, & Falmouth MA 91.9 FM; Orleans, MA 1170 AM also 'webcast' through their website: http://www.wumb.org/

Cowboy Joe Paul Aaron of WKCR FM, WBAI, and National Public Radio

Other radio listings and station URLs   http://www.bbu.org/radio.html

Performers and Neighborshttp:

Festivals/Organizations in New England, and notable groups outside New England

Boston Bluegrass Union  

CDSS/CDS The International Country Dance and Song Society and Country Dance Society, Boston Centre

The Folk Song Society of Greater Boston FSSGB

The New England Folk Festival Association NEFFA

AND

Always on Sunday International Dancers (CT)

Branford Folk Music Society (CT)

Country Dance * New York

The Dance Gypsy

Festival Finders

Folk Arts Center of New England

The Folk Book

The Folk Project (NJ)

Folklore Society of Greater Washington

Hartford Country Dance (CT)

LITMA - Long Island Traditional Music Association

MIT Folk Dance Club (MA)

Pinewoods Folk Music Club (NY)

Round Hill Country Dancers (CT)

SW Connecticut Traditional Music and Dance

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