Ken Perlman's Performance Highlights
Updated Aug. '05
International
AUSTRALIA:
Harrietville Folk Festival (Victoria)
Illawarra Folk Club (New South Wales)
Imbil Folk Festival (Queensland)
Meleny Folk Festival (Queensland)
Scarboro Hotel (New South Wales)
Sutherland Folk Club (New South Wales)
Tamworth Folk Festival (New South Wales)
Woodford Folk Festival (Queensland)
CANADA:
Acoustic Harvest Folk Club (Scarborough, Ont.)
Blue Skies Festival (Clarendon, Ont.)
Benevolent Irish Society (Charlottetown, PEI
Celtic Roots Concert Series (Goderich, Ont.)
Celtic Roots Festival(Goderich, Ont.)
Conception Bay Folk Festival (Carbonear, Nfld)
Green Room (Montreal, Quebec)
Harbor Folk Club (Halifax, NS)
Islands Folk Festival (Duncan BC)
La Miellerie (St. Agapit, PQ)
Leyander's Tea Room, (Elora , Ont.)
Lunenberg Folk Festival (Lunenberg, Nova Scotia)
Maberly Hall (Ontario)
Ottawa (Ontario) Folklore Center
Rasputin's (Ottawa, Ont)
Rollo Bay Scottish Fiddle Festival (Prince Edward Island)
Stan Rogers Festival (Canso, NS)
Summerfolk Festival (Owen Sound, Ont.)
Stan Rogers Festival (Canso, NS)
Tostal Coffee House (London, Ont.)
Tranzac Club (Toronto, Ont.)
Victoria (BC) Folklore Society
Winnipeg (Manitoba) Folk Festival
Woods Festival (Lake Rosseau, Ont.)
Wye Marsh Folk Festival (Ontario)
Yellow Door (Montreal)
IRELAND:
John Keenan Banjo Festival (Longford)
The Lobby Club (Cork)
Northern Lights Folk Festal (Ballycastle, No. Ireland)
NETHERLANDS:
Heerde Folk Club (Sponsored by Van de Weg Banjo Shoppe)
Cafe Alassio (Middelburg)
Big Bear Festival (Zuidleran)
Switzerland
The Sonneberg (Stettfurt: Sponsored by Blue Moon Banjos)
UNITED KINGDOM:
A1 Festival (Peterborough)
Ailean Chraggean Pub (Aberfeldy, Scotland)
Allington Village Hall (Lincolnshire)
Balham Folk Club (London)
Bath Banjo Festival
Betty Nicols Folk Club (Kirkaldy, Fife, Scotland)
Bishopton Bluegrass Club (Yarm on Tees)
Blue Star Acoustic Club (Leicester)
Both Sides of the Tweed Festival (Selkirk)
Brampton Live Festival (Carlisle area)
Brown Cow Club (Mansfield)
The Bute Bash (Isle of Bute, Scotland)
The Cannon Live (Milton Keynes)
Carlisle Folk Club
Carrington Triangle Club (Nottingham)
Castle Menzies (Aberfeldy, Scotland)
Cockermouth Folk Club (Cumbria)
Croydon (London) Folk Club
Cutty Wren Folk Club (Redcar)
Dog & Partridge Folk Club (Bollington, Cheshire)
Dunfermline (Scotland) Folk Club
The Floor, (Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire)
Folk on the Moor (Plymouth)
Garland Ox Folk Club (Padstow, Cornwall)
Gateway Folk Club (East Didsbury, Manchester area)
Glasgow (Scotland), Mayfest
Glenfarg (Scotland) Folk Club
Grapes Hotel (Longnor, Buxton)
Green Park Tavern (Bath)
Half Penny Folk Club (Llanrhidian, Swansea, Wales)
Hearts of England Bluegrass Club (Kenilworth)
Hemmingford Arms (London)
Hermit Folk Club (Brantwood, Essex)
Highfield HOtel (Sheffield)
Horns Folk Club (Gnowsall, near Birmingham)
Irvine (Scotland) Folk Club
Islington Folk Club
Keyworth Folk Club, (Nottingham)
King & Queen Pub (London)
Leeds Bluegrass Club
The Lemon Tree, (Aberdeen)
Leith Folk Club (Edinburgh)
Lewes (Sussex) Bluegrass Club
Living Tradition Magazine Summer School (Ayrshire, Sc.)
Linlithgow (Scotland) Folk Club
Macclesfield (Cheshire) Folk Club
Mad Nanny Folk Club (Letchworth)
Maidenhead Folk Club (Reading)
Maghull (Lancashire) Folk Club
Muthill Village Inn (Scotland)
Narrowboat Folk Club (Nottingham)
Nettlebed Acoustic Music Club
North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (Aberdeen)
Northwich (Cheshire) Folk Club
The Oast (Rainham, Kent)
Open Door Folk Club (Manchester)
Oxford Folk Club
Paisley (Scotland) Folk Club
Perth (Scotland) Folk Club
Prince of Wales Pub (Stafford)
Rainford Bluegrass Club (near Liverpool)
Ram Club (Claygate, Surrey)
Reading Banjo Festival
Reading Folk Club
Red Admiral Folk Club (Dunton Bassett, Leicester)
Redcar Folk Festival
Roots Folk Club (Rainham, Kent)
Rowantree Inn (Uddington, Glasgow)
Royal Oak Folk Club (Lewes)
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Ryburn Folk Club (Ripponden)
Sage Folk Club (Gateshead)
St Neot's Folk Club (Cambridgeshire)
Sandbach Unplugged (near Manchester)
Scottish Bluegrass Union (Edinburgh)
Sharpe's Folk Club (London)
Stanchester Old Time and Bluegrass Festival (Stoke sub Hamden)
Stockport Folk Club (Manchester)
Stranraer Folk Club (Wigtownshire, Scotland)
Sussex Bluegrass Club
Swan in the Rushes (Loughborough)
3 Step Folk Club, (Rishworth, Ripponden, Halifax)
Totnes (Devon) Folk Club
Trinity Arts Center (Gainesborough, Lincolnshire)
Unicorn Folk Club (Manchester)
Uppermill Folk Club (Manchester area)
Watermill Inn (Dorking, Surrey)
Whitehouse Acoustic Club (Scraptoft, Leicester)
Whiting Bay Hall (Isle of Arran, Scotland)
Windmill Acoustic Club(Ewshotte, Hampshire)
Wynd Theatre (Melrose, Scottish Borders)
Ye Olde Rose & Crowne - Formerly the Hale End Folk Club- (Walthamstow, London)
UNITED STATES:
Alabama
Bare Hands Gallery (Birmingham)
Alaska
Anchorage Folk Festival
Arkansas
Ozark Folk Festival (Eureka Springs)
Arizona:
Bean Tree Barn (Prescott)
Coconino Center for the Arts (Flagstaff)
Fiddler's Dream (Phoenix)
Sharlot Hall (Prescott Arizona)
The The@ter (Flagstaff)
Tucson Friends of Folk Music (Tucson)
California:
Blue Bird Cafe (Santa Barbara)
Boulevard Music (Culver City)
California Inst. of Tech. (Pasadena)
California Traditional Music Society Solstice Festival
(Calabassas)
Fiddling Cricket (San Jose)
Freight and Salvage (Oakland)
Gryphon Strings (Palo Alto)
Henslings' (Santa Cruz)
Julian Bluegrass Festival
Lark in the Morning Music Camp (Mendocino)
Linnea's (St. Luis Obispo)
McCabe's (Santa Monica)
San Diego Folk Heritage)
Shade Tree Music (Laguna Niguel)
Sonoma Folklore Society (Forrestville)
Sylvan Music (Santa Cruz)
Topanga Fiddle & Banjo Contest (Malibu)
Colorado:
Acoustic Coffee House (Nederland)
Acoustic Music Revival (Denver)
Colorado Scottish Festival
Fort Restaurant, (Denver area)
Colorado University at Denver
Durango Soc.for the Performing Arts)
Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp (near Colorado Springs)
Swallow Hill (Denver)
Connecticut:
Carriage Barn (New Canaan)
Common Ground (Bristol)
Great Tree Coffee House (Stamford)
Holland Brook Nature Cntr (Glastonbury)
Meriden Public Library
New Harmony Coffee House (Canton)
Puppet House Theatre (Stoney Creek)
Russell Public Library (Middletown)
Stamford Museum and Nature Center
Vanilla Bean Cafe (Pomfret)
Westport Library
Delaware
Brandywine Friends of Folk Music
Florida
Advent Christian Village (Dowling Park)
Banjo Symposium & Concert, University of North Florida (Jacksonville)
Folk Club of So. Florida (Miami)
Folk Music in the Garden (South Miami)
Florida Folk Festival (White Springs)
June Park Baptist Church (Melbourne)
MacIntosh Cafe (Gainesville)
Sally's Lakeside House Concerts (Winter Haven)
Suwannee Banjo Camp (White Springs)
Unitarian Universalist Church (Tampa)
Georgia:
Athens Folk Music & Dance Society
Illinois:
Fox Valley Folk Festival (Aurora)
Fox Valley Folklore Society (Aurora)
Great Lakes Music (Mundeline)
Hogeye Folk Arts (Evanston)
Holstein's (Chicago)
Old Town School of Folk Music (Chicago)
WBEZ Fleamarket Show (Chicago)
Indiana
The Front Porch (Valparaiso)
Iowa
CSPS (Cedar Rapids)
Kansas
Cross Currents Folk Club (Kansas City)
Iron Horse Folk Club(Eldorado)
Maine:
Bates College (Lewiston)
Bath-Brunswick Folk Club
Belfast Arts Council
Bowdoin College
Camden Harbor Inn
Coastal Concerts (Rockland)
Left Bank Cafe (Blue Hill)
Second Read (Rockland)
Unity College (Unity)
Maryland:
American Music and Arts Festival (Westminster)
Common Ground on the Hill Teaching Festival (Westminster)
Folklore Society of Greater Washington
Globe Theatre (Berlin)
House of Musical Traditions (Takoma Park)
Maryland Banjo Academy (Frederick)
University of Maryland (College Park)
Massachusetts:
Banjo Camp North
Boston College (Chestnut HIll)
Black Sheep Cafe (Amherst)
Blacksmith House (Cambridge)
The Catacombs, at Boston Coll. (Newton)
Coffee House off the Square (Hingham)
Coffee Kingdom (Worcester)
Crossroads Coffee House (Andover)
Eistedfodd Folk Festival (North Dartmouth)
El Tremedal Coffee House (Watertown)
First Night, Beverly
First Night, Brockton
5-String Banjo Extravaganza (Lexington)
Gloucester Folklife Festival
Green Room Coffee House (Middleborough)
Green Rooster Coffee House (Worcester)
Homegrown Coffee House (Needham)
Iron Horse (Northampton)
John Henry's Hammer (Worcester)
Johnny D's (Somerville)
Liberty Coffee House (Marston Mills)
Linden Tree Coffee House (Wakefield)
Little Comfort Coffee House (Whitman)
Live at the Luthier's (Waltham)
Museum of Our National Heritage (Lexington)
Nantucket Arts Council
New Moon Coffee House (Haverhill)
Northern Berkshire Council on the Arts
Orchard Coffee House (Stow)
Passim's (Cambridge)
Quinnebaug Valley Council on the Arts (Southbridge)
Rosegarden Coffee House (Haverhill)
Rug Room Coffee House (Attleboro)
Saint Gabriel's Coffee House (Newburyport)
Saturday Night in Marblehead
Second Friday Coffee House (Belmont)
Simon's Rock of Bard College (Great Barrington)
Sit 'n' Bull Tavern (Maynard)
South Acton Coffee House
Southeastern Massachusetts University (North Dartmouth)
South
Shore Folk Music Club (Kingston)
Stained Glass Coffee House (Chicopee)
Tatnunck Booksellers (Worcester)
Thayer Public Library (Braintree)
Watch City Coffee House (Waltham)
Wintertide Coffee House (Vinyard Haven)
Woods Hole Folk Music Society, Woods Hole, Mass.
Yankee Homecoming (Newburyport)
Michigan:
Celery City Music Hall (Kalamazoo)
Elderly Instruments (Lansing)
Flint Folk Music Soc.
Grand River Folk Arts Society (Grand Rapids)
Old Time String Band Festival (Grand Ledge, MI)
Ten Pound Fiddle (East Lansing)
Minnesota:
Homestead Pickin' Parlor (Minneapolis)
North Shore Music Association Banjo Weekend (Lutsen)
Mississippi
Vicksburg Banjo Club
Missouri
Music Folk (St. Louis)
New Hampshire:
Del Rossi's (Dublin)
Even Fridays Coffee House (Jaffrey)
Fiddler's Choice (Jaffrey)
First Sunday Coffee House (Weare)
The Folkway (Peterborough)
Grey Goose Village Shops (Londonderry)
House and Porch Coffee House (Loudon)
Monadnock Folk Music Society (Nelson)
Pressroom (Portsmouth)
Suzanne's Kitchen (Plymouth)
New Jersey:
Circlewood Coffee House (Cherry Hill)
Fiddlers' Meadow (Hackensack)
Folk Song Society of Northern New Jersey (Roseland)
Hunterdon Library (Flemington)
Hurdy Gurdy Coffee House (Fair Lawn)
Mine St. Coffee House (New Brunswick)
Minstrel Show (Mendham)
William Paterson College (Wayne)
New Mexico
New Mexico Folk Music & Dance Society (Albuquerque)
New York State:
Adirondack Lakes Center For the Arts (Blue Mountain Lakes)
Alternative Museum (New York City)
Autumn Cafe (Oneonta)
Beekman General Store (Hopewell Junction)
Buffalo Friends of Folk Music
Caffe Lena (Saratoga)
Colony Cafe (Woodstock)
Cranberry Coffee House (Binghamton)
Dance Flurry (Guilderland)
Eagle Tavern (New York City)
Eighth Step Coffee House (Albany)
Erie Community College (Orchard Park)
Farmer's Museum (Cooperstown)
Folk City (New York City)
Gallery 53 (Cooperstown)
Golden Link Folk Club (Rochester)
Good Coffee House (Brooklyn)
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival (Ancramdale)
High Peaks Base Camp (Upper Jay)
Huntington Friends of Folk Music
Irish Arts Center (New York City)
Long Island Traditional Music Association (Port Jefferson)
Morrisville Agricultural and Technical College
Music Hall (Oswego)
Mother's Wine Emporium (Troy)
Night Eagle (Oxford)
Old Forge Arts Center
Old Songs Festival (Altamont)
Open Circle Coffee House (Schenectady)
Our Times Coffee House (Garden City)
Palmer St. Coffee House (Plattsburgh)
Paul Smiths College (Paul Smiths)
Peopleart Gallery (Buffalo)
Richmondtown Restoration (Staten Island)
Rodrigue's Coffee House at Fordham University (Bronx)
Salt City Folk Festival (Syracuse)
Speak Easy (New York City)
Stamfordville Music and Dance Festival
State University at Purchase
Syracuse Friends of the Traditional Arts
Town Crier (Hopewell Junction)
Valley Folk Club (Elmira)
Wee Folk Productions (Syracuse)
WVBR Bound for Glory Show (Ithaca)
North Carolina:
Appalachian State College (Boone)
Campbell Folk School(Brasstown)
Celestial Mountain Music (Brevard)
Charlotte Folk Music Society
Cook Shack (Union Grove)
Fiddler's Grove (UNion Grove)
Mountain Heritage Center (Cullowhee)
Stechoah Arts Center (Robbinsville)
Ohio:
Arabica Coffee House (Cleveland)
Folknet (Cleveland)
Oregon:
Artichoke Music (Portland)
Corvallis (Oregon) Folk Society
Corvallis Unplugged
Fingerboard Extension (Corvallis)
Ginny's Coffee House (Salem)
Portland Folk Society
Pennsylvania:
Bald Eagle Folk Collective (Lockhaven)
Bothy Club (Philadelphia)
Calliope House Folk Club (Pittsburgh)
Cherry Tree Folk Club (Philadelphia)
Clarion Folk College (Huntingdon)
Folk Soup (New Hope)
Gettysburg Folklore Society
Godfrey Daniels (Bethlehem)
Lancaster Folk Music and Fiddlers' Society
Luke's Place (North Wales)
Painted Bride (Philadelphia)
Pennsylvania Folk Festival (Chambersburg)
Philadelphia Folk Festival
Temple University (Philadelphia)
Troubador Coffee House (Churchville)
Williamsport Community College
Rhode Island:
Norman Bird Sanctuary (Middletown)
Post and Beam Coffee House (Kingston)
Providence Bookstore Cafe
Providence College Coffee House
Stone Soup Coffee House (Providence)
Waterfront Festival (Providence)
World Voices, World Visions Teaching Festival (Kings Town)
Tennessee:
Down Home Guitar
Handy's Blues Hall (Memphis)
Memphis Acoustic Music Association
Smokey Mountain Banjo Academy (Gatlinburg)
Tennessee Banjo Institute (Lebanon)
Texas:
Austin Folk Song Society
Hops House (Houston)
South Plains College (Levelland)
Vermont:
Cambridge Arts Council (Jeffersonville)
Champlain Valley Folk Fest.(Burlington)
First Annual Music Box Pickin' Academy (Craftsbury)
Music Box (Craftsbury)
Muskeg Music Festival (Norwich)
People's Academy sponsored by River Arts (Morrisville)
Unitarian Church (MOntpelier)
Virginia:
A&E Music
Herndon (VA) Festival
Old Dominion Folk Festival (Norfolk)
Outlands Celtic Festival (Leesburg)
Prism Coffee House (Charlottesville)
Ramblin' Conrad's (Norfolk)
The Theatre (Washington, Virginia)
Tidewater Friends of Folk Music(Virginia Beach)
Washington:
American Banjo Camp (Fort Flagler)
American Festival of Fiddle Tunes (Port Townsend)
Bellingham House Concerts
Cafe Luna (Vashon Island)
Eagles Dance (Seattle)
Evergreen College (Olympia)
Greatful Bread Bakery (Seattle)
Ohop Bakery (Eatonville)
Puget Sound Guitar Workshop
Seattle Folk Song Society
West Virginia:
Concord College (Athens)
North South Clawhammer Banjo Camp
Wisconsin:
String Along Weekend (East Troy, WI)
Festivals and Music "Camps"
Teaching Events are Starred
AUSTRALIA:
Harrietville Folk Festival (Victoria)**
Imbil Folk Festival (Queensland)**
Meleny Folk Festival (Queensland)
Tamworth Folk Festival (New South Wales)
Woodford Fold Festival (Queensland)
CANADA:
Blue Skies Festival (Clarendon, Ont)
Conception Bay Folk Fest. (Carbonear, Nfld)
Celtic Roots Fest.**(Goderich, Ont.)
Islands Folk Festival (Duncan BC)
Lunenberg Folk Festival (Lunenberg NS)
Rollo Bay Scottish Fiddle Festival (Prince Edward Island)
Stan Rogers Festival (Canso, NS)
Summerfolk Festival (Owen Sound, Ont.)
Winnipeg (Manitoba) Folk Festival
Woods Festival **(Lake Rosseau, Ont.)
Wye Marsh Folk Festival (Ontario)
IRELAND:
Johnny Keenan Folk Festival (Longford)
Northern Lights Folk Festal** (Ballycastle, No. Ireland)
NETHERLANDS:
Big Bear Festival (Zuidleran)
UNITED KINGDOM:
A1 Festival
Bath Banjo Festival**
Brampton Live Festival (Carlisle area)
The Bute Bash (Isle of Bute, Scotland)
Living Tradition Magazine Summer School** (Ayrshire, Sc.)
Reading Banjo Festival
Redcar Folk Festival
Stanchester Festival (near Taunton)**
UNITED STATES:
MID-ATLANTIC STATES
Maryland:
American Music and Arts Festival (Westminster, Maryland)
Common Ground on the Hill (Westminster Maryland) **
Maryland Banjo Academy (Frederick)**
Pennsylvania:
Clarion Folk College (Huntingdon)
Pennsylvania Folk Festival (Chambersburg)
Philadelphia Folk Festival
New York State:
Dance Flurry (Guilderland)
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival (Ancramdale)
**
Old Songs Festival (Altamont)
Salt City Folk Festival (Syracuse)
Stamfordville Music and Dance Festival
MID-WESTERN STATES
Minnesota:
North Shore Music Association Banjo Weekend** (Lutsen)
Wisconsin:
String Along Weekend** (East Troy, WI)
NEW ENGLAND
Massachusetts:
Banjo Camp North (Groton) **
Eistedfodd Folk Festival (North Dartmouth)
First Night, Beverly
First Night, Brockton
Gloucester Folklife Festival
Yankee Homecoming (Newburyport)
Rhode Island:
Norman Bird Sanctuary Harvest Festival(Middletown)
Waterfront Festival (Providence)
World Voices, World Visions **
Vermont:
Champlain Valley Folk Festival (Burlington)
Muskeg Music Festival (Norwich)
SOUTHEASTERN STATES:
North Carolina
Campbell Folk School, Brasstown
Tennessee:
Tennessee Banjo Institute** (Lebanon)
Virginia:
Herndon Festival
Old Dominion Folk Festival (Norfolk)
Outlands Celtic Festival (Leesburg)
West Virginia
North South Clawhammer Banjo Camp**
WESTERN & MOUNTAIN STATES:
California:
California Traditional Music Society Solstice Festival (Calabassas)
**
Lark in the Morning Festival (Mendocino)**
President's Day Bluegrass Festival (Sebastopol)
Colorado
Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp **
Washington:
American Banjo Camp
**
American Festival of Fiddle Tunes**
Puget Sound Guitar Workshop**
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