August 7, 2026
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Folk music concerts in Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indio, Pioneertown and nearby cities in or near the Coachella Valley. What is folk music? To me, it's acoustic music with an emphasis on traditional music, songwriting and storytelling, plus music from various cultures. Genres include contemporary singer/songwriter, bluegrass, old-time, Celtic, blues, roots, Americana, and more. This calendar is scraped from the websites of local presenters and venues. Calendar entries cannot be submitted directly, only by the presenters and venues themselves when they post them on their calendars. Some venues don't have online calendars, or have ones that are too difficult to scrape. I include as many as I can. Comments?[>
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Live Music Nights in The Pink Room: Pedro Cortes & Lorie Loftis (1)
Local artists UPCOMING EVENTS | Shadow Mountain
Birdy's at Shadow Mountain Golf Club, 73-800 Ironwood St, Palm Desert
If Briscoe's debut album was a coming-of-age soundtrack set against the backdrop of the Texas Hill Country, then its follow-up, Heat of July, is the sound of a fully-formed duo chasing down a broader horizon. Inspired by marriage, landscapes, and the cross-country tours that took the band across America, these new songs were written on the road, as eclectic and evocative as the terrain that unfolded just outside the van's windshield. Once again, Briscoe teamed up with Grammy-nominated producer Brad Cook to bring the songs to life, collaboratively creating a record that expands Briscoe's folk-rock sound in all directions. There are bigger arrangements, sharper vocal harmonies, and enough top-tier guest musicians — including members of Houndmouth, Hiss Golden Messenger, Bon Iver, Mipso, and Watchhouse — to form their own supergroup...
9:00PM
Live Music – Pappy and Harriets
Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneertown Rd, Pioneertown
Live Music Nights in The Pink Room: Pedro Cortes & Lorie Loftis
Local artists UPCOMING EVENTS | Shadow Mountain
Birdy's at Shadow Mountain Golf Club, 73-800 Ironwood St, Palm Desert
A wise wizard once said: “When in doubt, always follow your nose.”The last album from Penny and Sparrow, Olly Olly, was a work of revelation and liberation — a search for and embrace of the self. It left behind a natural question: well, shit. Where do you go from there?Fortunately, they listened to the wizard and followed their noses backward to find their way forward.Aiming to strip away pretense and invite experimentation, they commandeered a friend’s garden shed and retrofitted it into a recording space to create a twenty-track album that is vast, weird, and wholly unexpected.If Lefty is anything, it is the journal of Penny and Sparrow’s inner child — dog-eared, lock busted open. Across its pages, sketches of dreams, nightmares, erotica, and literary fan fiction graffiti the margins of poetry, elegies, and love letters in wild colors of saxophone blue, electronic pink, and blood-harmony red.Beautifully varied and richly rendered, the album wanders from theme to theme and style to style — from exultation to tragedy — yet it never feels lost...
Local artists9:00PM
Live Music – Pappy and Harriets
Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneertown Rd, Pioneertown
Live Music Nights in The Pink Room: Pedro Cortes & Lorie Loftis
Local artists UPCOMING EVENTS | Shadow Mountain
Birdy's at Shadow Mountain Golf Club, 73-800 Ironwood St, Palm Desert
Carsie Blanton is a songwriter with hooks, chutzpah, and revolutionary optimism. A radical folk artist in the tradition of Woody Guthrie, her infectious melodies and lyrical wit keep listeners rapt while she conjures spirits of vaudeville, campfire singalongs, and punk rock. Blanton and her road-tested band deploy humor, camaraderie, and considerable musical muscle to enroll each audience in a rare vision of hope and solidarity.In addition to writing and performing music, Carsie works as a political organizer and activist. In fall of 2025, she participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla, a direct action to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sailboat...
9:00PM
Live Music – Pappy and Harriets
Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneertown Rd, Pioneertown
Total Concerts in the Calendar: 6
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