August 10, 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?[>
Venues: Birdy's (3), Pappy (4) |
WWW.FOLKYEAH.COMDISCOVER: ALELA DIANEweb | Spotify | Instagram | Facebook More than a decade into one of contemporary folk’s most quietly extraordinary careers, Alela Diane returns with Who's Keeping Time? on May 22 via Fluff & Gravy / Loose Music. The Portland songwriter’s seventh full-length came as the consequence of intuition, coincidence, and community. “I came to the end of a season last year,” Alela shares. “My daughters had grown a bit...
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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
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...
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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 (1)
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...
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Live Music – Pappy and Harriets
Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneertown Rd, Pioneertown
The third album from Bella White, A Sign In The Weather is a body of work steeped in the life-altering magic of its origins. While touring in support of her widely lauded sophomore LP Among Other Things (and sharing bills with the likes of Dierks Bentley, Tyler Childers, and The Red Clay Strays), the Calgary-born singer/songwriter left her home on Vancouver Island and moved to New Orleans, where she soon became happily enmeshed in the city’s vibrant indie-rock scene. As she immersed herself in the unfettered and open-hearted creativity of her newfound musical community, the 25-year-old lifelong musician began assembling a suite of songs that stretch far beyond her bluegrass roots and arrive at a moodier and more audacious breed of folk/Americana. Made with her close-knit circle of collaborators, A Sign In The Weather both echoes the homespun nature of its creation and signals a powerful evolution in her one-of-a-kind artistry.Co-produced by White and Ross Farbe (a New Orleans-based producer/songwriter/musician who’s also worked with Esther Rose and Drugdealer), A Sign In The Weather marks a departure from the more lavish scale of Among Other Things—a 2023 release produced by Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty) and recorded with esteemed musicians like Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek...
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Live Music – Pappy and Harriets
Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneertown Rd, Pioneertown
Total Concerts in the Calendar: 7
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