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

Folk Links — in no par­tic­u­lar order

• The Beach Cities Folk Club meets the 3rd Tues­day in Man­hat­tan Beach @ a pri­vate home
• Song­mak­ers – “Keep­ing home­made music alive since 1953”, Song­mak­ers hosts a robust cal­en­dar of events around town 
• Folk­Works – Check out this FABULOUS site for Folk Music and Dance events in the greater Los Ange­les area
• Folk Alliance — The North Amer­i­can Folk Music and Dance Alliance–”one strong voice”
• The Topan­ga Ban­jo & Fid­dle Con­test & Folk Festival
• Cal­i­for­nia Tra­di­tion­al Music Society
• Sing Out! Magazine
• Sing Out’s song books ~ espe­cial­ly Rise Up Singing and Rise Again ~ are well worth purchasing.
• Song­mak­ers–They spon­sor week­ly hoots in pri­vate homes, week­end get-aways and spe­cial events. Check out their links to oth­er folk clubs.
• The Liv­ing Tra­di­tion–they spon­sor con­tra dances, folk music con­certs and folk music jams. They have a great newslet­ter, too.
• The San Fran­cis­co Folk Music Club our club was inspired by the SFFMC
• FolkScene is a pro­gram of tra­di­tion­al and con­tem­po­rary music fea­tur­ing live music, inter­views, and recordings
• Dick Hold­stock and wife, Car­ol, long-time friends of our club, per­form won­der­ful songs of the sea and more with Allan Macleod
• Ross Alt­man, folksinger /songfighter and song­writer extra­or­di­naire is the Pres­i­dent Emer­i­tus of the San­ta Mon­i­ca Tra­di­tion­al Folk Music Club…click on his name for YouTube’s col­lec­tion of his songs.
• AcousticMusicScene.com–a site designed to pro­mote qual­i­ty acoustic music by pro­vid­ing news, com­men­tary, advance notice and cov­er­age of awards and con­tests, con­fer­ences of note and music fes­ti­vals, U.S. nation­al and North­east region­al news, a pho­to gallery, region­al live music cal­en­dars, etc.