July 18, 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. I am the host of "The Real Folk" streaming at KBCS.FM. The show airs every Sunday 6-8pm. You can also stream archived shows for up to two weeks after air date. The Real Folk is also available as a podcast from MixCloud. 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?[>
Venues: Birdy's (2), Pappy (2) |
DISCOVER: JAMES MCMURTRYweb | Spotify | Instagram | Facebook A Lone Star sheriff hunts quail on horseback while keeping a secret second family. A mechanic lies among spare parts on the floor of his garage, wondering if he can afford to keep his girlfriend. A troubled man sees hallucinations of a black dog and a wandering boy, humming “Weird Al” songs in his head.These are some of the strange and richly drawn characters who inhabit James McMurtry’s eleventh album, The Black Dog & the Wandering Boy. A supremely insightful and inventive storyteller, McMurtry teases vivid worlds out of small details, setting them to arrangements that draw from Americana—rolling guitars, barroom harmonies, and traces of banjo and harmonica—yet feel sharper and more distinctive than the genre suggests...
Top FolkDJ-L artist 20259:30PM
Live Music – Pappy and Harriets
Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneertown Rd, Pioneertown
Music for sleeping and waking, walking and driving, hunting and fishing, for loitering outside a roadhouse on the haunted tundra. Okay in elevators, not great for dinner. On Caveman Wakes Up Friendship’s new album and second for Merge Records, the band’s historically capacious definition of country music grows wider still. Shambolic guitars are offset by flute pads, bleary poetry is set against a Motown rhythm section, a song about Jerry Garcia and First Lady Betty Ford fades out with a drum solo, like if Talk Talk came from a dingy Philadelphia basement, and was fronted by James Tate...
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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
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
Total Concerts in the Calendar: 4
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