2024-2025 50th Season Flyer

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Help keep the Lansing area music and dance community thriving! Consider making a tax deductible donation to the Lansing Area Folksong Society.

All donations help the Ten Pound Fiddle underwrite the folk music radio show, "Folk with Matt Watroba," heard Sundays from 6-9pm, and Saturdays from 6-8pm on WKAR radio, 90.5 FM and streamed via WKAR.ORG

PURCHASE OR RENEW MEMBERSHIP

Membership to the Lansing Area Folksong Society is available to anyone who would like to join.

Members receive $2-5 off every concert and dance ticket, and the Ten Pound Fiddle community's highest level of gratitude.

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Upcoming Events:

Saturday, Sep 21 @ 7:00 pm

Caller: River Abel
Band: Tana and the Tall Boys

Central United Methodist Church, 215 N. Capitol Ave
Lansing, MI 48933 United States
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Sunday, Sep 22 @ 7:30 pm

Author of familiar songs "Christmas in the Trenches," "Calling All the Children Home," "Cut the Cake," and "The Night That John Prine Died," and interpreter of many more songs by Si Kahn, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and many others, folk music's renaissance man John McCutcheon will visit the Fiddle for a very special SUNDAY NIGHT concert at our new location.

University Lutheran Church (ULC), 1020 S Harrison Rd
East Lansing, MI 48823 United States
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Wednesday, Oct 2 @ 7:30 pm

On his way to the Great Lakes Music Camp (greatlakesmusic.org), Bruce makes a stop at Lansing's Robin Theatre for an intimate night of songs and tunes on the banjo, guitar and fiddle. An instructor at Boston's Berklee College of Music, Bruce travels all around the world almost every day school is not in session. This Fiddle production is an opportunity to hear from one of Old Time Music's finest working musicians.

The Robin Theatre, 1105 Washington Ave
Lansing, MI 48901 United States
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Friday, Oct 4 @ 7:30 pm

"Last Thing On My MInd," "Marvelous Toy," "Rambling Boy," "Whose Garden Is This?," "Home To Me (Is Anywhere You Are), "Peace Will Come," "God Bless The Grass," "Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound," "Bottle of Wine," are only a fraction of Tom Paxton's countless additions to the Great American Songbook. Traveling with Tom are the DonJuans, providing musical back-up and a few great songs of their own.

University Lutheran Church (ULC), 1020 S Harrison Rd
East Lansing, MI 48823 United States
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Saturday, Oct 5 @ 7:00 pm

Caller: Carol Steiner
Band: Banjo Tramps

Central United Methodist Church, 215 N. Capitol Ave
Lansing, MI 48933 United States
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Friday, Oct 11 @ 7:30 pm

Two performers with deep Michigan roots combine to share songs and stories, and to celebrate the Ten Pound Fiddle's 50th season! Claudia has given over twenty Fiddle shows, as a soloist, with Sally Rogers for over ten Mother's Day weekend concerts, and as a song leader at the Mid-Winter Singing Festival. Rachael is right behind, either performing solo, as one third of the Sweet Water Warblers, or as part of the Mid-Winter Singing Festival. The Fiddle is billing this show: Two Voices: One Terrific Night of Music

University Lutheran Church (ULC), 1020 S Harrison Rd
East Lansing, MI 48823 United States
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About the Fiddle

We like to joke that the Ten Pound Fiddle is more a “state of mind” than it is a “place.”

However, The Fiddle is best described as an organization of volunteers that has presented concerts and dances in a variety of  Lansing/East Lansing area venues since our inception in 1975.  Click here for more info about our venues. For more about our formative years, take a look at Bob Blackman’s A Brief History of the Ten Pound Fiddle.

If you think bringing this wide range of music and dance to the community is important or would enjoy seeing how it happens “behind the scenes” – please consider joining us! Volunteers are always welcome. Learn more.

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