Folk Music Concerts
A Message from The Living Tradition Board Regarding
Reopening our Concerts, Jams, and Contra Dances in 2022
We have certainly missed seeing all of you at our events. We have restarted our jams (but need to skip the June 2022 jam) and hope that we can host concerts and contra dances later in 2022, assuming that the rate of COVID breakthrough cases remains low and that there is no holiday surge in new breakthrough cases.
We will monitor the rate of breakthrough COVID cases from both the Los Angeles County and Orange County Departments of Health before making a final decision on when to resume our activities. We hope this will be sooner rather than later, but we want to do our best to provide a safe environment for our performers, volunteers, and audience. Thank you for your understanding and patience.
COVID Data Sources
Here are links to both LA and Orange counties’ data tables and graphs for COVID infections. This data is updated weekly or biweekly.
For Orange County data, click on the following link, scroll down to County and Statewide Data, type Orange in the Get County Data box, and then click Get County Data.
For Los Angeles County data, the California Dance Co-Operative takes the LA County Public Health statistics and converts them to an easy-to-read format. To view this data on a Cal Dance Co-Op webpage, click the following link:
Event Volunteers Needed
To borrow a phrase, it takes a village to put on our events. We must be certain that we have enough vaccinated volunteers to staff our events before we are able to reopen.
If you are fully vaccinated and interested in volunteering to help with either concerts or dances, please contact Ron Bloom at themacmammals@yahoo.com for concerts, and Patty McCollom at pattymccollom96@gmail.com for dances. Additionally, we need an EXPERIENCED sound technician and volunteers willing to help with event security.
We are looking forward to seeing you in 2022!
All the best,
The Living Tradition Board
The following folk music concerts are presented by The Living Tradition. These concerts feature international and local artisans of contemporary folk music and traditional folk music.
To view a list of artists who have performed
in The Living Tradition concert series, click
Concert History, or scroll to the bottom of this
page. These events are partially funded by a grant from
the Anaheim Arts Council.
Location & Time
All concerts are held on the 3rd Saturday of most months at the Anaheim Downtown Community Center, 250 E. Center St., in Anaheim (in the heart of Orange County). Free parking.
Concerts start at 7:30 PM, unless otherwise noted.
Recommended Donations
Unless otherwise noted:
- Advance Reservations: $20 per person ($17 with Living Tradition membership discount; $17 Students). Children under 18 FREE with paid adult.
- Day of Show: $23 per person ($20 with Living Tradition membership discount; $20 Students). Children under 18 FREE with paid adult.
- Cash or check only at the door.
Why reserve in advance?
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The community center staff will know how many seats to set up.
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We can better plan for adequate snacks and refreshments.
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It helps the artists know they will have an audience.
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You will be placed in a drawing for “free stuff.”
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Admission is less expensive.
Schedule
2022
Possible concerts later this year. Check back for details.
Additional details about 2022 concerts will be added as information becomes available.
The schedule is subject to change.
Attention Artists:
If you are an artist who wishes to be considered for an
appearance at The Living Tradition concert series,
please first review the Concert History below.
Does your music fit in with this diverse group of artists?
The following artists have performed in The Living Tradition Concert Series (since 1999) or are booked for upcoming shows:
Chris Berry
Blue Mama
The Brilliant Gypsies
The Browne Sisters & George Cavanaugh
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
Ciunas
Colerick-Corbett Band
Conjunto los Pochos
Tom Corbett
Chuck E. Costa
Aengus Finnan
The Flaw
Dan Frechette & Laurel Thomsen
Freebo & Photoglo
Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen
Jim Goodin
Ken & Phee Graydon
Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines
Melanie Hersch
Houston Jones
James Hurley
Cindy Kalmenson
Richard Lappin
Richard Lappin & Rob Balmuth
Tom Lee
Tom Long
Kate MacLeod and Kat Eggleston
Amy Martin
Terence Martin
Cathy-Anne McClintock
Steven McClintock
Andrew McKnight
Pete Morton
Murphy Family Band
Murphy’s Flaw
The Muses
Nathan & Jesse
Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements
Lisa O'Kane
One Foot In
Dan Oved
The Palm Wine Boys
Robin Pearl
Brian Peters
Alan Reid
Jenny Richards
Rusty Richards
Andy Robinson
David Roth
Claudia Russell & Bruce Kaplan
The Salty Suites
Tanya Savory
Secondhand Smoke
Rick Shea (solo)
Sally Shuffield
Sion & Anderson
Chris Stuart & Backcountry
Jack Tempchin
Tintangel
Alice Wallace
When Pigs Fly!
Jon Wilcox
Jenny Yates