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8.16.2012
Not much going on at the Folklore camp lately, but we should be playing
some more shows this Fall. In the meantime, I've been teaching
music at a local preschool and have been loving the opportunity to work
with these kids. We've even been learning some of my old favorites
like CCR "Looking Out My Back Door", Flaming Lips "She Don't Use Jelly",
and The Beach Boys "Vegetables". I also stumbled upon another
review of Folkore's Home Church Road recently in The Big
Takeover while flipping through magazines at the bookstore.
You can read the review
here or check out the
PRESS page. All three
Folklore albums are now available for free listens and reasonably priced
downloads at
Folklore's Bandcamp so head on over
there to check out some tunes.
Thanks for
listening,
Jimmy &
Folklore
5.19.2012
We made a music video for the song
The Deer off the new album.
You can watch it
here. We had a lot of fun
making it, so hopefully we'll shoot some more of them to you share with
you. We're also going to start recording the next album soon and
we'll keep you posted.
A nice review
was written
here of our last live show at the
Cake Shop in New York City. Our
next live show in Philly will be a good one... we're playing Saturday
June 23rd at
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens at 1020
South Street. We will be playing amidst the beautiful mosaic
scenery in the art gardens, and we will be joined by
Buffalo Stance and
Laser Background. Show is at 7pm
sharp and ALL AGES, but those who are of age may BYOB.
Ta ta for now,
Jimmy &
Folklore
3.26.2012
Folklore tour dates have been announced for our April 2012 East Coast
Tour. Here's the upcoming shows:
Friday
April 6
- Asheville, NC @
Craggie Brewing Company
Saturday April 7
- Athens, GA @
The 40 Watt Club
w/
Real Estate + Twerps
Sunday April 8
- Chapel Hill, NC @
The Cave
w/ Clinton Johnson + Jphono1
Monday April 9
- Arlington, VA @
The Galaxy Hut
w/ Deleted Scenes (solo)
Friday
April 27
- New Paltz, NY @
The New Paltz Town Library
w/ Breakfast In Fur
Saturday April 28 -
New York, NY @
The Cake Shop
w/
Overlord +The Hairs + Pale Lights
Sunday April 29 - Philadelphia, PA @
Kung Fu Necktie
w/
Kind Of Like Spitting + Little Big League
Also, I just
made the new Folklore album (as well as the 2 older out-of-print albums)
available for the first time digitally via
Bandcamp. If you'd like to help
us put gas in our car for our upcoming tour then please consider
donating in exchange for a download of the album. Every little bit
helps and you can buy single tracks for $0.50 each or whole albums for
$5.00. All orders are safe and secure via PayPal and you
can also listen to the whole album for free at this site:
CLICK HERE
to order digital albums / tracks.
You can also
order the album on CD or Vinyl LP using PayPal right here by
clicking the
STORE button on the left. Thanks for your support.
Keep On
Chooglin',
Jimmy &
Folklore
12.5.2011
Folklore store is now open. Click on the
STORE link on the left to
order Folklore CD's, Vinyl Records, and T-Shirts. All orders made
through this site will help us get out on the road to play rock shows for
you the fans, so thanks for your support.
We also have a
couple Philadelphia shows coming up... an All Ages show at
Little Berlin on Saturday December 17 with our friends
Quiet Hooves from Athens, GA and then our first show of the New Year
will be Thursday January 26 at Kung Fu Necktie with
Dare Dukes and On The Water. Come out and party with us
if you can.
Happy
Holidays,
Jimmy &
Folklore
10.13.2011
Folklore will be playing at the North Star Bar in Philadelphia on
Friday October 21 opening for Kevin Devine. I hear
that the show is well on the way to selling out in pre-sale so if you
plan to come to the show you might want to consider getting your tickets
in advance. Folklore plays first and the show is All Ages
so everyone is welcome. Thanks to Kevin for asking us to play.
We are very excited about it.
I also added a
Storybook section to this website
with lyrics, backstory, and lovely illustrations by Hannah Campbell so
now you can read / sing along to the Home Church Road concept
album while you listen. Think about it as a dark children's book
where the main characters are mythological animals and everyone is
doomed. Enjoy!
All stages for
all ages,
Jimmy &
Folklore
9.11.2011
While on our last tour, Folklore recorded a live studio session with our
friends at the always impressive, ever expanding
DayTrotter.com and the session was
posted today for all to hear streaming or to download for free.
We played 3 songs from the new album that just came out, Home Church
Road, plus we played one from Carpenter's Falls with my
college buddy Adam Spiegler sitting in on didgeridoo. The other
players on this session were: me, Jon Croxton (Athens), Jason Henn
(Philly), Avalon Clare (Philly), and Jordan Burgis (Philly). It
was a fun tour with lots of memories, and here's a good way for you to
get a little glimpse of Folklore's live show if you can't catch it in
the flesh:
Folklore
Daytrotter Session Sept 11, 2011
Holler from
the hilltops,
Jimmy &
Folklore
8.9.2011
Some nice reviews are up now for the new album and more to come. I
am also booking shows now for the Fall so if you want Folklore to come
play in your town then get in touch with me now. In the meantime,
check out these reviews at Delusions
Of Adequacy,
WXPN: The Key,
Three Imaginary Girls,
Fense Post,
Origivation Magazine, and
Flagpole Magazine to find out what
people are saying about Folklore's new album Home Church Road.
Also, I am working on getting a store set up here so folks can order the
album easily and directly from us. That should be up soon, but for
now you can always order it from
Single Girl Married Girl Records.
How 'bout some
cheese please?
Jimmy &
Folklore
8.23.2010
Folklore will be supporting a couple of
dates on the Elf Power 2010 tour. Folklore crew please represent in NYC
and Philly if you can. Here’s where we will be:
Sept 17, 2010 - Brooklyn, NY @ The
Rock Shop
w/ Elf Power
Sept 23, 2010 - Philadelphia, PA @
Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens w/ Elf Power
Hope to see you on the road,
Jimmy & Folklore
8.5.2009
My
friend Philip Ryan took some lovely photos of us playing live at the
Cake Shop on April 5th 2009. You can see them all
here.
Also, we have completed a video for the
song
The Beginning
off
the
Carpenter’s Falls album. You
can watch it
here.
see you on the corner,
Jimmy
& Folklore
1.17.2009
January 11th saw the re-release of our
first album
The Ghost Of HW
Beaverman on the Irish label
Indiecater
Records.
They are currently promoting this record in Ireland/UK and anywhere with
the internet. To read more about this re-release visit:
Folklore on Indiecater Records.
I have also started a
Folklore Fan Page on
Facebook.
If you find yourself facebookin’ a lot these days then come be a
Folklore fan on Facebook.
So dear to my heart,
Jimmy
& Folklore
12.18.2008
The big news here is that somehow Folklore
has already reformed in Philadelphia (where I live now). We are now an
11 piece band and the group is a bunch of really fun people and great
musicians. After several practices, we’re really excited to play out
and we will get our chance to here in Philly opening for Elf Power and
Vic Chesnutt on
Sunday January
25th at the North Star Bar.
This will be our first show since my move to Philadelphia and the first
show with the new band. Please
come out early (8:30 on the dot) to see our set consisting of some all
new material and 4 or 5 from our last two albums… this show will also be
somewhat of a CD release party for our new-ish CD
Carpenter’s Falls
which came out on
bumbleBEAR records
back in October,
but I was in the middle of the move and also on an Elf Power tour when
the album came out, so we didn’t have an official release show. But the
album is now out and you can order it on CD from me or from bumbleBEAR.
There is also a nice review of the album up now at
PopMatters.com.
Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year,
Jimmy
& Folklore
6.14.2008
I am moving to Philadelphia for a bit,
so these upcoming shows at Athfest are the last for awhile for
Folklore. One is at the
40 Watt Wednesday
June 18th and we will play our
last set of Folklore originals then… show two is
Friday June 20th
at the Georgia Theatre and at
that show we will be playing
The Kinks’ classic
“The Village Green Preservation Society”…
Wednesday’s show is FREE to all and
Friday’s show is FREE if you have an Athfest pass. Please come out and
party with us… we’ll be partying down as it might be my last couple of
jammers in Athens for awhile. Thanks for all the support and don’t
fear… we are still a band and will play together every chance we get…
plus, we have a new 14 track CD in the works, so late 2008 or early 2009
will see a
new Folklore album entitled “Home Church Road”…
I will keep you updated.
“God Save The Village Green!”
Jimmy & Folklore
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