Celebrating 40 Years of Making Music Together!
Celebrating our 40th Anniversary in 2025! The Folk Club is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to the appreciation of music and the preservation of folk traditions. Each Tuesday we host an open mic and/or special monthly events, including concerts and member showcases. Come join us any Tuesday. Whether you choose to listen, perform or both, you’ll find the Folk Club to be a friendly and enjoyable experience you’ll want to repeat.
Every Tuesday at 7:15 pm, Amphora Diner Deluxe, 1151 Elden St, Herndon, Virginia 20170
News, Notes & Quotes
Important Dates at a Glance
February 15-16: Winter Jamboree Lite at the Berry Patch
February 17: Virtual Open-Mic on Zoom
February 18: Theme Night – “Love Songs”
March 11: Showcase Night featuring Larry Rice!
March 18: Concert Night featuring Beppe Gambetta! This will be a sellout so get tickets early!
Tuesday, February 18th is a Theme Night
This month we celebrate that thing that inspires more music than almost anything else – LOVE!
So, bring your songs of hopeful love, lost love, love gone wrong, love of music, love of food, love of the world around us! We promise to love whatever you present.
Tuesday, March 11th:
March Showcase featuring:
Larry Rice!
Born the same year as the discovery of the DNA molecular structure and Pat Benatar (1953), music has been a big part of Larry Rice’s life. He started playing bass in a band with his brother Steve and still best friend Dave when he was 12. They called themselves The Testaments of Time. Even though his knees were truly knocking, their best gig was entertaining Army NCO’s. They added black schoolmate and singer Ray, and Motown tunes to their set list, so the band became Salt and Pepper.
He was in a rock power trio Andromeda his last two years of highschool and learned guitar and banjo before he went to college. Boredduring his last semester in the senior year he helped found Flatbush, co-writing, singing, playing bass and fiddle from 1974-1981. Great regional success brought two top ten original singles on Cleveland’s WMMS, and opening act gigs for New Riders, Little Feat, and others. Flatbush is in the History of Rock in Cleveland exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Fast forward to two adult daughters, Larry, Lea, and Shannon started playing together as The Big Cheese Band at a Ron Goad event in 2007, the same year he released a solo CD, Little House. Through fifteen years TBCB released 3 LP’s, an EP, and a single. 3 original songs charted – “Life on the River” (#1 AAA 2015), “The Christmas Crocodile” (#17 AC 2015), and “Everything” (#15 Relix Jam Bands 2022). Lea and Larry still have fun playing music and will resurrect TBCB later this year, playing super traditional music.
Larry was a member of the Gideon’s Trumpet choir at The Falls Church Episcopal from 2018 to 2022. During this time, he wrote four of the five gospel songs on his 2024 solo release, Gospel Gifts. Three songs off of this EP made it into the AAA radio top 20 folk chart, and the EP itself made it to #8, sharing the top 10 with Mark Knopfler, Sarah Jarosz, The Secret Sisters, and the Avett Brothers.
Luckily for Larry he met Ann Granger in 2019. With so many things in common, they must be cousins. Always in danger of bursting into a song or riffing a parody of a song, they started playing as The Two Peas in 2021. They love harmony. They’ve ventured into songwriting and are in the studio this month to record an EP.
For the showcase, Larry plans on taking the audience on a tour of all the music he’s performed in his life.
Tuesday, March 18th, 7:15 PM:
Terra Madre – Beppe Gambetta in Concert
Beppe Gambetta is a guitarist, vocalist, researcher and composer born in Genova, Italy in 1955 who developed a style of concert presentation that brings American and European Roots to speak together with one voice. In his unique approach, Gambetta blends energetic grooves with passionate melodies, giving new life to sources from different times, periods and places. In addition, the original music he
composes gives contemporary influences to traditional roots music.
The 2024 new release Terra Madre (Mother Earth) is a musical key to open a world of tales and dreams related to the motherlands of infinite possible itineraries, and to the cries of pain and hope that rise from them. The record weaves together the experience and wisdoms of a fifty-year career, and the work is further enriched by the participation of internationally-renowned guests from different musical genres. “Fathers” of acoustic music such as American mandolin icon David Grisman, acoustic guitar pioneer Dan Crary, and celebrated bluegrass and Americana singer-songwriter Tim O’Brien lend their talents to the project. Different dimensions are added by the presence of New York avant-garde drummer/percussionist Joe Bonadio, the versatile acoustic jazz harmonica player Howard Levy, and
from the world of “Newgrass” Jam Bands, the hugely popular bassist, Travis Book.
Donation – Members: 19.00 Non-members: 20.00
See Connee Chandler any Tuesday Night for tickets or contact Folk Club Treasurer Jennifer Katt at treasurer.jk.folkclub@gmail.com
