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Welcome to the Santa Monica
Traditional Folk Music Club!

Going strong since 1978.
2025— our 47th year!

Great News! New Location!

Join us on April 4th for one last meeting at the church in Ocean Park

Come to our last meet­ing at the Church in Ocean Park.

We are beyond grate­ful to the Church in Ocean Park for host­ing us, for their beau­ti­ful main room and its fan­tas­tic acoustics…and grate­ful, too, for Nate, the church’s ter­rif­ic tech­nol­o­gy guy.

The Church in Ocean Park
235 Hill St, San­ta Mon­i­ca, CA 90405
(The cor­ner of 2nd Street and Hill Street.)

Note: We meet in the main room of the church, which can be reached via stairs or an elevator.

New Location for May 2!

We’ve found a new venue that we can afford for a loooooong time, even with our rapid­ly shrink­ing bank account.

Check back here before the May meet­ing for the address and all the details. If you’re on our email list, you’ll get the details before that meeting.

And yes! We’ll be able to Zoom mem­bers of the club in the new venue.

A Monthly Gathering

The San­ta Mon­i­ca Tra­di­tion­al Folk Music Club invites you to join us
on the first Sat­ur­day of each month from 7–10pm for a sing-along/a hoot/a jam!

On the first Sat­ur­day of each month,
some­where between 10 and 25
folk musi­cians and singers gath­er in a cir­cle
to make that mag­ic com­bi­na­tion of music and words —
tra­di­tion­al folk music.

$5 at the door, if you can afford it.

Bring
a song,
a friend,
an instru­ment,
or join in the chorus!

~ Chil­dren welcome ~
May the cir­cle be unbroken.

2025 is is Our 47th Year!

Banjo Cake

Cost of Admission

Our rent has gone up, but we still charge just $5 (if you can afford it) for a one-time admis­sion, or $50 for the year.

  • Cash or checks when you come in person
  • Checks to: SMTFMC, mailed to SMTFMC 1097 Avi­a­tion Blvd, Her­mosa Beach CA 90254
  • Pay­pal: @AprilWayland (write SMTFMC in com­ment sec­tion and if your name isn’t ful­ly spelled out on your Pay­pal account, write your full name in the com­ments, too)
  • Ven­mo: @April-Wayland‑1 (write SMTFMC in com­ment sec­tion and if your name isn’t ful­ly spelled out on your Ven­mo account, write your full name in the com­ments, too)
  • We are a 501c3 non-prof­it; con­tri­bu­tions are tax deductible. Yay!

Will it be on Zoom, too? Only for SMTFMC members for now.

Monthly Themes

Many thanks to Janet Corn­well for this list of themes.

The fol­low­ing song themes are sug­ges­tions only to get your musi­cal juices flowing …

Themes for 2025

Jan­u­ary 2025

 

We’re def­i­nite­ly meet­ing in January!

Promis­es & res­o­lu­tions,
Hats,
Joy
Feb­ru­ary 2025 Num­bers,
Socks & Under­wear,
Togeth­er­ness
March 2025

OUR 47th BIRTHDAY! 

Cups & glass­es,
Pants,
Hunger
April 2025

Jokes, Gig­gles & Silli­ness,
Paja­mas & Night­gowns,
Frus­tra­tion
And Good-bye songs, in appre­ci­a­tion of the Church in Ocean Park
May 2025 Per­fume & Nice Scents,
Uni­forms,
Cer­tain­ty & Reliability
June 2025 Rings & Jew­el­ry,
Shirts,
Loneliness,& Long­ing
July 2025 Dis­tance,
Sports­wear,
Dreams
August 2025 Games,
No Clothes (at all!)
Wish­es
Sep­tem­ber 2025 Mea­sure­ments,
Dress­es & Gowns,
Luck
Octo­ber 2025 Bot­tles, Flasks, etc.,
Cos­tumes & Masks,
Ill­ness
Novem­ber 2025 Box­es & Car­tons,
Boots & Shoes,
Loss
Decem­ber 2025 Sug­ar & Spice,
Coats & Sweaters, Determination

Further Information

Come bring a song or play along!

Click here for a snap­shot of who we are, our mis­sion, and our mem­ber­ship appli­ca­tion. 
(We encour­age you to attend a meet­ing or two before becom­ing a member)

TO ALL BOOKING AGENTS AND PERFORMERS:
Please note that we are a group of friends who come togeth­er to make music. We do not put on con­certs as a result of agent or per­former solicitations.

If you’d like to join us in music and song on the first Sat­ur­day of the month, please come! But if you are con­tact­ing us in the hopes that we will put on a con­cert, please don’t.

The Beach Cities Folk Music Club (lit­tle sis­ter to the SMTFMC) is just down the freeway–we get togeth­er on the third Tues­day of each month at a pri­vate home in Man­hat­tan Beach.

So–if you’re in the L.A. area, join us on both the first Sat­ur­day or the third Tues­day of any month!

“When peo­ple ask, ‘What­ev­er hap­pened to folk music? Do you think it will become pop­u­lar again?’ I look at them dumb­found­ed­ly and then I invite them to the Folk Club. I take great pride in being able to show them a place where tra­di­tion­al folk music lives in the hearts of ordi­nary people–strumming away and singing along.” ~ Ross Alt­man, full-time Folksinger/Songfighter; for­mer Pres­i­dent of the San­ta Mon­i­ca Tra­di­tion­al Folk Music Club

Please let us know if any of the links above are bro­ken.
For more infor­ma­tion:
april­spen­cil [at] G Mail [dot] com (founder & folk club Mom, April Hal­prin Way­land)

San­ta Mon­i­ca Tra­di­tion­al Folk Music Club

Our busi­ness address (NOT meet­ing place):
1097 Avi­a­tion Boule­vard
Her­mosa Beach, CA 90254

The San­ta Mon­i­ca Tra­di­tion­al Folk Music Club is a 501c3 non-prof­it # 33–0335698

Folk Music Links

In no par­tic­u­lar order:

Please let us know if any of the links above are bro­ken.
For more infor­ma­tion:
april­spen­cil [at] G Mail [dot] com (founder & folk club Mom, April Hal­prin Way­land)

San­ta Mon­i­ca Tra­di­tion­al Folk Music Club

Our busi­ness address (NOT meet­ing place):
1097 Avi­a­tion Boule­vard
Her­mosa Beach, CA 90254

The San­ta Mon­i­ca Tra­di­tion­al Folk Music Club is a 501c3 non-prof­it # 33–0335698