We are proud to present the Old-Time String Band Weekend from the Tiki Parlour! A weekend with three masters of fiddle and banjo hailing from Tennessee and Virginia! …Read more

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Join us for a special Fiddle & Banjo Workshop at the Tiki Parlour by two of today’s old-time masters. SOLD OUT!  …Read more

 

The Old Time Tiki Parlour and 3rd Saturday Square Dance team up for a
St. Paddys Day “Old-Timey” Leprechaun-Palooza
with Evie Ladin & Keith Terry, Sausage Grinder and Echo Mountain.

On Saturday March 17th, there will be Fiddles, Banjos, Singing, Guitars, Mandolins, Square Dancin’ and a Bar!

7:30pm: Concert with Evie Ladin & Keith Terry

8:30pm-11pm: Jamming–Bring your fiddles, banjos, mandolins, guitars and join the old-time jam!

9pm – 11pm: Square Dance and Jamming! Tunes played by a mashup of Sausage Grinder and Echo Mountain. Calling by Evie Ladin & LAs awesome Rookie Callers Club!

ALSO,
5:30pm-7:00pm-Evie Ladin will also be teaching an Old-Time Harmony Singing Workshop before the concert! Seats are limited.

BUY TICKETS HERE

Innovative musicians/dancers with a quirky neo-trad soul, Oakland, California-based Evie Ladin & Keith Terry throw down original folk songs and deep interpretations of old songs, with the kinetic thrill of percussive dance. Ladin sings and plays infectious clawhammer banjo, while Terry is a master percussionist. It was Appalachian string band music pared to the absolute minimum of accompaniment, but packed with an orchestras worth of rhythm.  Music City Roots, Nashville

Sausage Grinder, Los Angeles classic old-time and country blues string band, combines the traditional sounds of fiddle and banjo breakdowns with the low-down sound of country blues, topped off with a touch of ragtime and hillbilly jazz. The versatile acoustic ensemble features fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, jug, washboard, and a few odds and ends.

Echo Mountain is an old-time string band based out of Los Angeles.Together they play square dances and farmers markets in the LA area and have been featured performers at the Watkins Family Hour. The collective vision of Echo Mountain is to build a repertoire that reflects the whole spectrum of the old-time tradition, playing each fiddle tune and mountain ballad with new energy while remaining true to traditional style and form.

Come celebrate the release of David Bragger & Susan Platz’s CD: King’s Lament–Old-Time Fiddle Duets at the annual Tiki Parlour Holiday Party!

There will be tons of jamming, an epic potluck and our legendary “Brown Elephant” gift exchange!

It begins at 5:00 on Saturday, December 9th!

THIS MAGICAL OLD-TIME FIESTA IS FREE BUT YOU MUST RSVP.

Clawhammer/Minstrel/Classic Banjo master Clarke Buehling will be presenting a unique banjo workshop in the Early Banjo style!

“The hip new thing on the banjo starting in the 1880s was thumb and two-finger picking, called “Guitar Style’ at the time. I will teach patterns that were used on five-string banjo for accompanying country dances. You too can sound like Charlie Poole!” –Clarke Buehling

WHERE? Los Angeles hosted by The Old-Time Tiki Parlour

WHEN? October 9th at 6:30PM

HOW MUCH? SOLD OUT

This workshop has very limited seats. It will sell out.  For workshop registration and/or questions, contact: .

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Foghorn is returning to the Tiki Parlour! Tickets are on SOLD OUT!

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We are proud to present an evening with this smoking, barn bustin’ old-time superforce that redefined modern old-time string band music!

The Foghorn Stringband is the present day shining gold standard for American string band music, with eight albums, thousands of shows, over a decade of touring under their belts, and an entirely new generation of old-time musicians following their lead. They’ve been steadily proving that American roots music is a never-ending well of inspiration.

The music of The Foghorn Stringband revolves around four master musicians: Portland, Oregon-based Caleb Klauder (vocals, mandolin, fiddle) and Reeb Willms (vocals, guitar), and Yukon-based Nadine Landry (vocals, upright bass) and Stephen ‘Sammy’ Lind (vocals, fiddle, banjo). Each member of The Foghorn Stringband comes not only from a different part of the American roots music spectrum, but leads the pack in their field as well. Caleb Klauder’s wistful, keening vocals and rapid-fire mandolin picking are as influenced by Southern roots music as much as by his upbringing in Washington State. Also from Washington, Reeb Willms grew up in the state’s Eastern farmlands singing hard-bitten honky-tonk with her family. Nadine Landry’s roots lie in the rural backroads of Acadian Québec, but she cut her teeth as one of the best bluegrass bassists in Western Canada. Minnesotan Stephen ‘Sammy’ Lind, simply put, is one of the best old-time fiddlers of his generation and has a voice that sounds like it’s coming from an old 78.

Onstage, The Foghorn Stringband gather around one microphone, balancing their music on the fly, and playing with an intense, fiery abandon.

To Foghorn, this music is as relevant today as it was a century ago. They see themselves not as revivalists, but as curators and ardent fans, and their music is a celebration of these roots. From their origins in Portland Oregon’s underground roots music scene in the late 90s and early 00s, when members of today’s hot bands like The Decemberists and Blind Pilot were gathering to explore the roots of American folk music, The Foghorn Stringband have spread the old-time string band gospel all over the world. Along the way, they’ve brought in influences and inspirations from their many travels and late-night jam sessions. Old-time square dance tunes now rub shoulders with Cajun waltzes, vintage honky-tonk songs, and pre-bluegrass picking. This is the kind of bubbling musical brew which first intoxicated the American mainstream in the day.

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology
presents

Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2017

“Old-Time String Band Ensemble and Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble Concert”

Old-Time String Band Ensemble
David Bragger, director

Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble
Steve Loza and Otto Stuparitz, co-directors

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Friday, June 2, 2017 at 7:00pm (Doors at 6:30pm)
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA

Admission is FREE

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The Old-Time String Band Ensemble performs traditional music of rural America. This ensemble delves into the exciting old-time sub-genres of Appalachian fiddle and banjo music, Mid-West fiddle tunes, North Carolina and Georgia string band music, Cajun/Creole fiddle, traditional bluegrass, country blues, and jug band music, to name a few. This is the early country music of America in its crooked, colorful, droney, funky, lonesome, soulful, danceable, and back porch glory.

The Intercultural Improvisation Ensemble experiments with different world music styles and traditions.Musical arrangements will blend different musical instruments representing such diverse world areas, and the elements of improvisation will play an essential role in the creation of new and/or traditional pieces of music.

An evening of Old-Time Music & Traditional Jazz and great Beer!  Also, FREE! The music, not the beer 🙂

Old-Time musicians David Bragger & Susan Platz will be debuting their new duo Bragger & Platz, aka Bratz, aka Doctor Ding Dong’s Grandiose Animal Orchestra at Pocock Brewery on Saturday, April 29th at 7:00. Also performing is the SWING RIOTS QUIRKTETTE: Purveyors of Creole, Carpathian & Romany “Gypsy” Jazz.

Pocock Brewing Company–24907 Avenue Tibbitts, Ste B, Santa Clarita, California 91355