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NEWS ~ 6/10/2009 ~ FOLKLORE SHOWS SUMMER 2009 Hey friends and fans... Folklore is playing this Saturday at the Green Line Cafe in West Philly with some good bands from Portland OR. We'll also be playing on July 8th at the North Star Bar in Phila with my good friends from Athens Ga... Madeline and The Ginger Envelope (for those of you who don't know these guys that's two bands not one). We're also going to try to do some touring soon... maybe September... for those of you who are out of town. Also we should have a new album around then. I will keep you posted. More Philly shows coming in August too so stay tuned. Tell me a story, jimmy & Folklore NEWS ~ 2/14/2009 ~ FOLKLORE SHOW IN PHILADELPHIA FEB 25th + MINI TOUR IN APRIL W/ STILL FLYIN’ Folklore will be doing a mini-tour in April hitting NYC, Boston, and Philadelphia with our good friends from San Francisco in the band Still Flyin’... this is just a heads-up… I am sure I will mention it again when the dates are closer. The dates are posted now at the myspace site and also on the shows page of this site, so save the date if we’re coming to your town! That’s about all for now. Please check back soon for more updates as it seems that a lot is going on lately in the world of Folklore. love, jimmy & Folklore NEWS ~ 1/17/2009 ~ FOLKLORE SHOW IN PHILLY THIS WEEK + MORE DATES + BEAVERMAN RELEASED IN IRELAND Happy New Year! We’re all very excited… our first show is next week: Sunday January 25th at the North Star Bar… if you want to see us in Philly be there at 8:30pm on the dot (we’re the opener for Elf Power and Vic Chesnutt) We are currently working on a little mini-tour of our own… in April 2009 we will be doing select dates in the North East along with our friends Still Flyin’ (from San Francisco). They will be out here touring to support the release of their first full-length for the Ernest Jenning Record Company. We’ll be playing NYC, Boston, DC, and Philadelphia. Those dates are being worked on now and we will post them here as soon as we get them in. Also, 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 NEWS ~ 12/18/2008 ~ A NEW VERSION OF THE BAND FORMS IN PHILA, NEW REVIEWS, NEW PAGES, AND NEW 7” 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 Phila 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. We are all really excited about it. 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. In other news, a new Philadelphia vinyl-only label called Slipshod Mucus Kiss is going to be releasing a split 7” featuring Folklore and Hermit Thrushes that we are now working on collaboratively. This is scheduled to be a 7” / DVD release, and we are currently talking to an animator who is interested in working on the visual aspects of our music. I will let you know more about this project as it develops, but for now, it is in the works and needless to say, we are all very excited about it. And lastly, for those of you who have been asking, I have added an actual Lyrics page to this website that now has all of the lyrics posted for The Ghost Of H.W. Beaverman and Carpenter’s Falls. Enjoy! Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year, jimmy & Folklore NEWS ~ 9/10/2008 ~ A NEW MOVE AND BUMBLEBEAR TO RELEASE “CARPENTER’S FALLS” Sorry it’s been awhile since the last update. A lot has been going on. For one thing, I have moved to Philadelphia, but fear not. Contrary to rumors, Folklore will still exist beyond this move. All the rest of the band members still live in Athens and I live in Philadelphia so we’ll get together and play shows whenever we can. I also might jam with some new people in Philadelphia if the right people come along. In the meantime, I am going to spend the next couple of months mixing our 3rd full-length which we’ve nearly finished recording (slated to be titled “Home Church Road”) and in October, bumbleBEAR records is officially releasing our 2nd full-length “Carpenter’s Falls”. So even though we are on a live-show-hiatus, there are some exciting things in the works… so please stay tuned and thanks for your support. love, jimmy & Folklore NEWS ~ 6/17/2008 ~ FOLKLORE FEATURED INTEREVIEW in HYBRID MAGAZINE Just a quick note to let you know that there is a feature on Folklore today at www.hybridmagazine.com… it is an interview with me and it cover a good scope of what the band is all about and where some of these songs come from. The direct link to the interview is here www.hybridmagazine.com/music/0608/folklore.shtml if you want to have a little read. jimmy & Folklore NEWS ~ 6/14/2008 ~ FOLKLORE PLAYS LAST TWO SHOWS (FOR AWHILE) AT ATHFEST THIS WEEK 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 NEWS ~ 3/24/2008 ~ FOLKLORE ON HIATUS FOR APRIL Just back from Folklore tour and SXSW and everything went great. Thanks to everyone who came to see us on the road. Folklore will be on hiatus for April since I will be on tour with Elf Power and Aaron will be on tour with Dark Meat. If anyone wants to come say hi to us on the road we will both be all over the country east and west for the next month or so. Elf Power dates at www.elfpower.com and Dark Meat dates are at www.myspace.com/darkmeats. Please come see us on the road and Folklore will be back in action and playing some shows in the southeast in May and June. In the meantime, people have been writing some really nice things about our album The Ghost Of H.W. Beaverman lately. I just posted a bunch of new reviews in the media section of this site. Have a look and see what people are saying about us. Hope to see you soon, jimmy & Folklore NEWS ~ 1/23/2008 ~ FOLKLORE TOUR SET FOR FEBRUARY / MARCH 2008 Thanks to everyone who came to our CD release show last week at The Georgia Theatre. The show was a huge success and we were really glad to see so many people show up. We had an amazing time, thanks to all in attendance for making it happen. Our next show is February 6th and it’s FREE at Farm 255… if it’s warm enough then hopefully we’ll be playing on the outdoor stage. Hope to see you there if you’re in Athens. Here’s a nice write-up regarding our last show in case anyone want to read about it: Flagpole writes about Folklore If you’re not in Athens, then we’re hitting the road February 28 through March 8 so if we’re coming to a town near you then please come out and say hi. I have posted the confirmed shows thus far. You can also find out about updated tour information at Fat Man Touring. I miss you and love you, jimmy & Folklore NEWS ~ 1/6/2008 ~ FOLKLORE CD RELEASE AT GEORGIA THEATRE JANUARY 19TH + TOUR PLANS FOR 2008 Happy New Year to all! Folklore is starting off the new year with a bang… bumbleBEAR records is officially releasing our first CD The Ghost Of H.W. Beaverman and in the meantime we’re jumping right into the new year with a whole NEW RECORD entitled Carpenter’s Falls, a full-length CD expanding on the 2006 EP of the same title. This 12 song CD will be available at our CD Release show at the Georgia Theatre in Athens (a 5 band bill put together by Fat Man Touring and featuring Dark Meat, Madeline, Quiet Hooves, Venice Is Sinking, and of course Folklore). This show is SATURDAY JANUARY 19TH and it’s going to be a blast so I hope folks can make it out. We’ll be playing all songs from the new record so it will be a new mix of Folklore jams. See our myspace page to view the poster for this show (I also posted some of the new album songs there) and see the Georgia Theatre website for more info and how to buy advanced tickets. And in other news, we’ll be hitting the road again for a short spell in early March (Feb 28—March 8)… heading to Chicago and back. I just updated the SHOWS page with a few new dates and will update it with more tour dates as they come. Of course, we will have both of our records with us for sale on this tour, but if you’re not in the towns we’re going to and want to order one, you can email me for ordering details (see our SHOP page for more details). Thanks for reading and for listening. love, jimmy & Folklore NEWS ~ 9/11/2007 ~ FOLKLORE PLAYS AT THE 40 WATT THIS WEEK We’re playing at the 40 Watt in Athens this upcoming week… Tuesday 9/18 with our good friends from Cleveland called Machine Go Boom. Also playing are Nana Grizol and The New Sound Of Numbers. I also just posted a link to a recording of our live set from Athens Popfest… my friend Chris recorded and posted it. There’s a link to it in the MEDIA section. Check it out and let me know what you think. love, jimmy & Folklore NEWS ~ 8/2/2007 ~ FOLKLORE PLAYS ATHENS POPFEST THIS WEEK FREE SHOW Tuesday 8/7 at Transmet in Athens… it’s a kick-off party for the awesome Athens Popfest www.hhbtm.com/popfest … come on out to the party… Popfest looks pretty amazing this year! Also, just posted some new dates on the shows page, and there is a link to an interview I did with www.opticalatlas.com. You can also link to it at our myspace page. Thanks for reading. love, jimmy & Folklore NEWS ~ 5/18/2007 ~ FOLKLORE IS BACK AND PLAYING MORE SHOWS Hello to anyone who reads this… just a quick update to let you know that Folklore is back in action and playing a bunch of shows in Athens and in the surrounding areas during the upcoming summer months. Check out the SHOWS page for updates… there’s several new shows posted there now and I will be adding more as they come. That being said, if you live in the North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida area and want us to play a show in your town then let us know and we’ll try our best to set something up. We’re also currently working on some new live material and a bunch of new recorded material as well… but I will keep you posted on that stuff as it develops. Uh huh! love, jimmy & Folklore NEWS ~ 4/5/2007 ~ FOLKLORE ON HIATUS UNTIL MAY Folklore won’t be playing any more shows until the end of May since I will be out on tour playing guitar with Elf Power. If you are living in the mid-West or West Coast United States then please come out to see some Elf Power shows as we are hitting a lot of cities… you can see the dates at www.myspace.com/elfpowerband. Folklore will be back in action at the end of May with shows in Athens and Asheville and then hopefully we can pull off another East Coast tour this summer… we’re working on it now. See you all soon. love, jimmy & Folklore |