Ordinary Folk $5 at the door 7:30 – Fri Oct 3rd – BoDiddley’s 25th Ave Ordinary Folk’s music brings to mind the days when people made their own music for entertainment. You’ll hear instrumental songs and dance tunes played on a variety of folk instruments: Hammered Dulcimer, Guitar, Fiddle, Banjo, Mountain Dulcimer, Mandolin and Bowed
Kevin Higgins & Barbara Matleze $10 at the door Fri Sept 26th 7:30 – BoDiddley’s 25th Ave We are Ghosts of the American Road Singer-songwriter-guitarist Kevin Higgins and singer-keyboardist Barbara Malteze are “Ghosts of the American Road,” performing a kind of Americana they characterize as “Jimmy Webb
Claude Bourbon $10 at the door 7:30 Friday Sept 19th -BoDiddley’s 25th Ave French-born, Swiss-raised, UK-resident guitarist Claude Bourbon calls his music “Spanish and medieval blues.” So it’s no surprise that his fingerstyle playing is an international cultural-musical mix strongly reminiscent of John Renbourn, Pierre Bensusan, or Tim Sparks. Expect an evening of adroit, surprising
An Evening with Judy Collins $25/$35 tickets GET TICKETS May 19th 7:30-Paramount-St. Cloud MN Judy Collins has inspired audiences with sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal life triumphs, and a firm commitment to social activism. In the 1960s, she evoked both the idealism and steely determination of a generation united against social and environmental
We are sad to report that our main GCFS performance venue, BoDiddley’s Downtown, will be closing on April 11. This will clip a month off our 2013-2014 performance season. We are happy, however, to report that it is likely that BoDiddley’s on 25th will be expanding this summer and that we
Cara Luft NOW $7 Ticket (was $14) **note- a $1.24 per ticket service fee is added to tickets purchased on-line. Sat April 5th 7:30-BoDiddley’s-St. Cloud MN Folk heroine Cara Luft deserves her solid reputation as one of Canada’s finest live performers whose engaging, down-home style comes wrapped in a warm and delicious sense of humour.
Paul Imholte $10 at the door 7:30 Friday April 4th at BoDiddley’s Paul Imholte is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and singer. He is best known as a hammered dulcimer player, but he is also on a first-name basis with the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo, and has been seen in the company of the viola, cello,
Cliff Eberhardt with opening by Tim Fast $8.00 TICKETS (was $16) Fri March 28th 2014 7:30-BoDiddley’s-St. Cloud MN Singer-songwriter Cliff Eberhardt’s work covers a pretty big range, as indicated by an album of acoustic Doors tunes and another of songs composed and performed for a Folger Shakespeare Theatre production of The Taming of the Shrew,
Mark Stuart $10 at the door Fri March 21st 7:30-BoDiddley’s-St. Cloud MN Mark Stuart is a veteran sideman, having worked with Freddie Fender, Steve Forbert, Joan Baez, his wife Stacey Earle, and brother-in-law Steve Earle. We’ll have him all to ourselves in a solo setting–hot picking and a wide swathe of folk-country-blues-rock influences. “Stuart is
Matthew Cochran $5 at the door Friday March 7th 7:30-BoDiddley’s-St. Cloud MN Matthew Cochran says, “I write, I sing, I play guitar. My music is a mixture of folksong, bluegrass, singer-songwriter, film score, all jumbled up and filtered through classical conservatory training.” He also reports that he’s as likely to play Bach as Paul Westerberg,
