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The Lansdowne Folk Club is a 501(c) (3) all volunteer non-profit corporation dedicated to presenting, promoting and preserving folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

, acoustic

Acoustic music

Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...

and blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

music in the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan area. It was founded in 1992.

History

The Lansdowne Folk Club, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania

Lansdowne, Pennsylvania

Lansdowne is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States located southwest of downtown Philadelphia. It was named for the Marquess of Lansdowne. The borough grew quickly in the early part of the twentieth century when a railroad stop was established near the intersection of...

, was founded in October 1992 by Lee and Flossie Jones, Mike Joyce and John and Kate Hetherington. During this period the founders began working on a name for the club, purpose, a "vibe," building a portable stage, designing a logo and having a stage back drop made that we still use today. After looking at several possibilities for a venue to hold the concerts, the Twentieth Century Club was chosen for its elegant look and great acoustics. The founders planned a four show concert series beginning in March and ending in June.

The first concert was held on Thursday, March 23, 1993 featuring Robin Greenstein with Jim Strait opening. Since then the Lansdowne Folk Club has become a staple of the folk music community in the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan area. Staffed entirely by volunteers, the club has hosted over 200 performances since its inception. Performers Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk was an American folk singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and was eventually nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street" ....

, Walter Hyatt

Walter Hyatt

Walter Hyatt American singer and songwriter. His band, known as Uncle Walt's Band, was involved in the alternative music scene in Austin, Texas, from its inception and is credited by many with being the Godfather of Americana Music or the Original Americana Artist, never easily pegged into any one...

, John Renbourn

John Renbourn

John Renbourn is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is possibly best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle, although he maintained a solo career before, during and after that band's existence .While most commonly labelled a...

, Jenny Availa, Bill Staines

Bill Staines

Bill Staines is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter from New England, who writes and performs in a traditional vein. He has also written and recorded children's songs....

, Roy Book Binder

Roy Book Binder

Roy Book Binder is an American blues guitarist. A student and friend of the Rev. Gary Davis, he is equally at home with blues and ragtime, he is known to shift from open tunings to slide arrangements to original compositions, with both traditional and self-styled licks...

, The Kennedys

The Kennedys

The Kennedys may refer to:*The Kennedy family, an American political family*The Kennedys , a German museum about the Kennedy family*The Kennedys , an American folk rock band...

, Ben Arnold, 5-3 Woodland, and Fitzgerald and Beach have all graced the stage of the Lansdowne Folk Club.

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