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2.4.2022
Folklore released some new music today. You can listen / download Constellations Form And Fall Apart: Dadurday Light Soundtrack, Vol.1 at
Folklore's Official Bandcamp.
From January to June 2021, while working on our next album, Folklore was also working on a project creating sometimes funny, always absurd, video shorts with contributions from friends from all across the country. We created one episode per week for 16 weeks straight, and when original music was needed for a video, Jimmy and Steve of Folklore created jingles and theme songs within our weekly deadline. The results were some strange off-brand songs and several instrumental tracks (all credited under various pseudonyms) that we felt were worth sharing, if not for your enjoyment, then just to let you know what we were up to for the past year as a band. We are also working on a proper album that will be out later this year. In the meantime, please enjoy Constellations Form And Fall Apart: Dadurday Light Soundtrack, Vol.1 as an encouraged free-listen.
Stay tuned and see ya soon,
Jimmy &
Folklore
1.8.2021
Our new album
The Curse is out now. You can listen / download it at
Folklore's Official Bandcamp.
We will
celebrate the release by performing as the special musical guest on the
online improv show Dadurday Night Live 9pm EST Saturday
January 9th (presented by My 4 Dads). You can watch the live
stream at
My 4 Dads Youtube or
Facebook, or you can Zoom in to be
a part of the "live audience" (Zoom details at
My 4 Dads Facebook).
Good to be
back,
Jimmy &
Folklore
12.5.2020
Some exciting news! It's been almost ten years since we released our last album, but we have just finished mastering a new album titled The Curse which we are looking to release in early 2021. The players on this album are Steve Fitzpatrick, Jason Henn, David Specht, Che-Na Stephenson, Raoul De La Cruz, Scott Churchman, and Rob Fields, and I am endlessly thankful to them for helping me make this album wonderful. I will be updating all my social media (slowly)
including our bandcamp page which now officially resides at
folklore.bandcamp.com.
Also, I will be playing live for an online improv comedy show called Dadurday Night Live on Saturday
January 9th. I will be the musical guest for their show (possibly joined by other Folklore members) and will
perform two songs during the show between comedy bits. You will be able to stream the show on Facebook or join as part of the live audience on Zoom if you prefer.
Stay tuned for more soon,
Jimmy &
Folklore
2.1.2020
Thanks to our good friends from Georgia in the band Je Suis France and the fine folks trhowing classy basement shows at Free Candy, Folklore has once again been extracted from obscurity to play a live show. The show is Friday February 14, and the bill is Je Suis France, Honey Radar, Folklore and Elison Jackson. I will be playing solo but since members of Folklore also play in Je Suis France and Honey Radar, Jon from Je Suis France and Jason and Jordan from Honey Radar will be joining me for a few songs.
Hope you can join us,
Jimmy &
Folklore
6.9.2019
We've been locked in the basement for almost 6 years, but through a coincidental chain of events, we have been freed and will be playing another show this Saturday June 15th at The Barbary in Philadelphia along with Kevin Hairs, Nicole Yun, and Thrills. Please come join us if you're around. We will be playing old favorites and a few new tunes.
See ya Saturday,
Jimmy &
Folklore
9.29.2013
Although we did play a couple of parties over the past year, Folklore
has been more or less on hiatus with live shows, but we're coming out of
hiding to play a show with our old friends
Elf Powerat the newly reopened
Boot & Saddle. The show is
Sunday October 6 and also playing with Folklore and Elf Power is a
great Philly band
Avery Rosewater.
See ya in
South Philly next Sunday,
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
Keep On
Chooglin',
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
8.23.2010
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
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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